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- N O D E L I S T B R O W S E R
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- COPYRIGHT: Armando Caceres
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- USES
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- Node Browser allows users to search through your existing Fido style
- nodelists. It doesn not create an index nor does it build any files
- whatsoever. The only space it will take on your hard disk is that of
- the program and the control file needed to make it work. Using your
- existing nodelist, that is all Node Browser needs to work. You have
- permission to use Nodelist for a period not to exceed 30 days. After
- that time period you must either register it or dispose of it and never
- use it again until registered (I hate typing words like this) or you
- will be violating both my copyright and my trust. If you are a
- shareware author I am extremely interested in swapping as I am extremely
- short of cash but love running my BBS :-).
-
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- HOW IT WORKS
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- Nodelist Browser is fully multi-node aware and will open your node list
- in a shared manner (make sure you have share loaded if you are running
- multinode or if more than one application will have the nodelist open at
- once.). Nodelist Browser will detect Desqview if you are running it and
- will give up timeslices appropriately. It has not been tested with any
- other multi-taskers so I can't tell you if it will detect them or not!
-
- Nodelist brower needs Dorinfo1.DEF to operate. From it it will detect
- if your user has ANSI enabled or not and create the screens
- appropriately.
-
- Nodelist browser uses a pretty fast searching method and you will find
- it faster than most of the competition (ha! a challenge.). You will not
- find any annoying delays while using the program (which is why I wrote
- it in the first place, I hate that kind of stuff) but there is a
- reminder when you exit Nodelist Browser (desqview users don't worry, it
- is doing nothing but giving up timeslices :-)).
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- THE CONFIGURATION FILE
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- Nodelist Browser needs a control file to know where the files it needs
- are located and to find out if you have registered it <EVIL GRIN>.
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- Line 1 should have your registeration number. I will netmail it to you
- as soon as you register it.
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- Line 2 should have the path to your nodelist file i.e.
- C:\FD\Nodelist
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- Line 3 should be the path to the help files (they must be named
- NB-HELP.ANS and NB-HLP.ASC).
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- Line 4 should have either "short" or "long." This will let nodelist
- browser in which mode it should default when first started
- (short descriptions or long descriptions).
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- Line 5 .... Line x are the names of your nodelist you want included.
- Note that you should enter only the filename and NOT the extension.
- Nodelist Browser will locate the most recent version based on the
- extension (it reads to see which one is the largest). Make sure to
- clear out your old nodelists at the beginning of the new year.
-
- Line x .... After the FIDO style named nodelists, enter the names of any
- custom named nodelists that have extensions other than
- the week number. Please note that the nodelist contents
- itself must follow the FIDO conventions. This feature is
- to allow the inclusion of nodelists that have a different
- naming convention. Also, please note also that you are still
- limited to 10 nodelists total (the regular nodelists plus
- the custom named nodelists cannot exceed 10 total).
-
- I have included a commented CTL file. Edit it to your system and then
- delete the comments for a little extra speed in reading it (you'll save
- about 50 nanoseconds).
-
- That should do it. If you have any comments or suggestions please let
- me know @ 1:3812/30 FIDO... (You can find me in Nodelist Browser, just
- enter my name, there is only one other Armando in the entire list. WoW!)
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- INSTALLATION
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- Nodelist Browser works great as a type 7 menu from RA and compatible
- BBS's. Simply change to the directory where you have it located and
- pass it the path to Dorinfo1.def file it should read and the name of the
- configuration file it should use. For Example:
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- MultiNode Batch File SingleNode Batch File
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- @Echo Off @Echo Off
- CD\DOORS\NBROWSE CD\DOORS\NBROWSE
- NBROWSE C:\RA\NODE%1 NBROWSE.CTL NBROWSE C:\RA NBROWSE.CTL
- CD\BBS\NODE%1 CD\RA
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- Then in your option data line...
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- *c /c \BAT\NBROWSE.BAT *N *M or *c /c \BAT\NBROWSE *M
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- The *M is to swap itself out of memory. Depending on how much memory
- you have, you may not need to do this. Nodelist Browser uses very
- little memory.
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- OTHER CRAZY QUILTS PROGRAMS
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- The following program are available from me at 1:3812/30 for your
- evaluation.
-
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- Magic Name Version Size Description
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- Profiler 1.08 38K Allows your users to enter their
- profiles. Nice way to meet people.
-
- ListGEN 1.5 13K Will create your allfiles.lst from
- your files.bbs list or anytype of
- file list, i.e. Files.TD, RA_Files.ASC
- etc... You can mix and match them and
- your can create multiple lists each
- going inits own directory you specify.
- FAST!
-
- FLSort 1.1 12K The fastest files.bbs sorter I have seen!
- Will sort any type of text file list.
-
- NBrowse .5 27K You know about this one already...
-
-
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- WARRANTY
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- Nodelist browser is warranted to do nothing more then take up disk
- space. I have tested it and found it to work flawlessly on my system.
- Crazy Quilts Software and Armando Caceres Jr. are not responsible for
- any damages incurred while using Nodelist Browser.
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- Armando Caceres