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- *** Psycho Wall v1.0
- *** (C) 1993 Psycho Hut Software
-
- * STANDARD SHAREWARE DISCLAIMER *
-
- The author is NOT responsible for any damage occurring to your system as
- a result of running Psycho Wall. While I do not expect any damage to
- occur, you never know what may happen. This product is shareware and
- after a reasonable trial period (45 days or so) you are expected to
- register your copy with the author. Registration instructions will be
- presented at the end of this document.
-
-
- * ARCHIVE LIST *
-
- This archive should contain:
-
- FILE_ID.DIZ Description file
- PWBKG.ANS Background ANSI file
- PWCONFIG.EXE Configuration utility for Psycho Wall
- P_WALL.ANS ANSI title screen
- P_WALL.ASC ASCII title screen
- P_WALL.BAT Sample batch file for running Psycho Wall
- P_WALL.DOC This file
- P_WALL.EXE Psycho Wall door executable
-
- If any of these files are missing or corrupted please contact the author
- as you will be instructed for a complete archive.
-
-
- * DESCRIPTION *
-
- Psycho Wall is a graffitti door. You may be asking yourself, "Why did
- he bother? There must be hundreds of these out already." Well, I wrote
- it because I didn't want to use anybody else's, and I knew I could write
- one. It's also the first door I've written for release and I thought
- I'd start with something simple.
-
- Chances are you probably know what a graffitti door is, if so you can
- skip the rest of this paragraph. Psycho Wall allows users to enter
- their wisdom, lunacy, or stupidity online in a non-message base format.
- If you have no public message areas or if your system only handles echomail
- this will allow them to say whatever's on their mind. Actually, there's
- no practical purpose to a graffitti door, but if you were practical you
- wouldn't have become a sysop, right? (Nothing personal, I'm one too.)
-
- Psycho Wall runs with any DORINFOx.DEF or DOOR.SYS bbs. While I wrote
- it for use with RemoteAccess it should work with SuperBBS, or any other
- BBS that creates DOOR.SYS or DORINFOx.DEF. Psycho Wall does not read
- EXITINFO.BBS so you should not have any problem installing it on another
- QBBS-type board.
-
- * INSTALLATION *
-
- 1: Unarchive everything into its own directory.
- 2: Run PWCONFIG. This will ask you for some system information, your
- dropfile path (usually your main system directory), your sysop
- security level, the maximum number of entries that you will allow to
- exist on the wall (maximum of 255), and if you've got it, your
- registration code.
- 3: Test run P_WALL.EXE. If you've entered everything correctly, you
- should now be in the door.
- 4: Write a batch file or modify the one provided to run Psycho Wall on
- your system. If you are using DOOR.SYS then please provide the
- parameter '-DSYS' or '/DSYS' after the executable name.
- 5: Install it into a menu of your choice on your BBS. I recommend the
- door menu. In RemoteAccess this would be a Type 7 menu function,
- 'Execute Sub-Program'. Your 'optional data' line would look like this:
-
- *C /C P_WALL.BAT
-
- If you do not set your COMSPEC variable in your AUTOEXEC.BAT, then you
- should enter the following into your 'optional data' line, replacing
- <x:\DOS\COMMAND.COM> with your command interpreter path:
-
- <x:\DOS\COMMAND.COM> /C P_WALL.BAT
-
- 6: Test run it from a local log-on. If it doesn't work, repeat steps
- 2-5 until it does. It may take a few tries if you are new at this.
-
- Now you are running Psycho Wall!
-
- * FEATURES *
-
- Psycho Wall is fairly standard as far as graffitti doors go, except for
- a few features. If you choose (R) from the main menu, you will be
- asked if you want to read (A)ll entries or (S)earch for entries. You
- can search the entries on the wall by Date, Author, or you can search
- for Text in the entries themselves. It works, I have certified it
- bug-free. If your security level is equal to or higher than Sysop
- Security as defined in PWCONFIG then while reading the wall you have the
- option to (E)rase entries. There is no external maintenance required for
- Psycho Wall, it performs maintenance at the end of each user's session.
- This way the wall will always have ONLY the maximum number of entries.
-
- * REGISTRATION *
-
- If nothing else, Psycho Wall is cheap. The registration fee is $5 (US).
- Please print out the registration form (REGISTER.FRM) and mail it (along
- with your fee) to:
-
- Josh Whitt
- Rt. 2 Box 420K
- South Shore, KY 41175
-
- Your registration code will ONLY work for YOU. I will send your code
- promptly and will even pay for the stamp!
-
- * CONTACTING THE AUTHOR *
-
- If you have any problem setting up Psycho Wall or you have encountered a
- bug, please contact me at either the above mailing address or via
- netmail at Fido 1:2260/150. Bug reports may be worth free registrations
- so be sure to let me know.
-
- Also, if you want the latest version of any Psycho Hut Software product
- (including this one), the Psycho Hut BBS is online from Midnight to 8:00
- AM for anyone interested. First call downloads are allowed, but all I
- have is a 2400 modem right now. I apologize for the slowpoke modem, but
- I'm a full-time student and can't find a job. WAAAHH!!!
-
- * LEGALITIES *
-
- RemoteAccess is a copyright of Andrew Milner and Wantree Development
- SuperBBS is a copyright of Risto Virkkala and Aki Antman
-
- - Josh
-