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- IMPORTANT!!! The QBBS support is not tested until now! It's hard to find
- a good betatesting board here in holland. So if you try and have problems,
- please write them to me. Don't worry, NEWS only reads files, the only files
- written are the LastRead file and the ExitInfo.bbs on return.
-
- --- But, to be sure.. make a backup of your messagebase! ---
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- Ok, here is some extra info for QBBS v2.75 sysops.
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- Since I don't have a running QBBS myself the testing on the support for
- QBBS is done only local. Not that that should be much of a problem since
- the only thing that's changed in the door is the detection and reading
- of QBBS specific files.. The rest is unchanged and does run very well
- under RA.
-
- Here are some points especialy for QBBS usage:
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- - You should put the variable BBS=QBBS in your environment.
- (Set BBS=QBBS)
- As I didn't find a decent way yet to recognice the BBS which
- is running the door. (Ra sysops can also use BBS=RA, but since
- I'm an RA sysop myself thatone is the default..)
-
- - Since AVATAR isn't supported by QBBS it cannot be selected while
- running QBBS. All the other functions are supported though.
-
- - If you want an other language then english, use the -L: parameter.
- It works like this:
-
- Default NEWS uses the NEWS.ENG language file. Since QBBS itself
- doesn't provide multilanguage capabilities at the moment, the
- only way to change language is through a commandline parameter.
- The -L: parameter. The EXTENTION of the language file is what I
- call the language ID. For english it's ENG for dutch it's HOL
- (These ID's are defined in the DEF files.) If you want to use
- an other language then the default english (f.e. dutch) use
- -L:HOL on the commandline and NEWS will look for the NEWS.HOL
- file. (and, not used in this door, also the HI_HOL.ANS/AVT/ASC
- etc.)
- If the NEWS.HOL isn't found, NEWS.ENG is used anyhow.
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-
- - The birthday isn't shown yet in the sysopline. I don't know yet
- how it's calculated..
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- On the other side, all the DesqView and multiline functions should work.
- To detect Multiline I check the configfile for the number of nodes.
- If the number is >1, multiline is turned on and share is supposed to be
- there.
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