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- ║ The Quote of The Day Version 4.21 ║
- ║ Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 by Cal Gardner ║
- ║ All Rights Reserved ║
- ╟─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
- ║ Released: Sunday, November 24, 1991 Number of Quotes: 800 ║
- ║ **Please scan files for viruses before use! Just a safety precaution** ║
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- ║ TQOTD Disclaimer and Registration Information ║
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-
- TQOTD is supplied AS IS. I, Cal Gardner disclaim all warranties, implied
- or expressed. I also assume no liability for damages, direct or indirect
- which may occur due to the result of usage of TQOTD.
-
- A registration form is included in this package. You are required to
- register this after 31 days of use. This is a shareware product, but
- please support the shareware aspect.
-
- ╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
- ║ What is TQOTD you say? ║
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- TQOTD will pull quotes from a normal everyday ASCII text file and place
- them nice and neat in an ANSI and ASCII file. You do have the ability
- to add your own quotes, plus TQOTD will display the quotes in sequential
- or random order with great speed. We currently offer over 800 quotes with
- more coming.
-
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- ║ Configuration File for TQOTD ║
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-
- A sample configuration file has been included within the TQOTD archive for
- your viewings. TQOTD requires a configuration file by the name of
- TQOTD.CFG and will not run without this file. You can create this with
- MS-DOS's Edlin or any other ASCII Editor (Norton, PC-Tools, Etc). All
- lines will be described as to what they do after the example below:
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- Line #1: Your BBS Name eg: Air Waves SuperBBS HST
- Line #2: Your Name eg: Cal Gardner
- Line #3: Path+Name for Ansi File eg: D:\SUPERBBS\TEXT\TQOTD.ANS
- Line #4: Path+File for Ascii File eg: D:\SUPERBBS\TEXT\TQOTD.ASC
- Line #5: SBBS Pause at End? () eg. Y
- Line #6: Enter Prompt eg. Pound your enter button please!
- Line #7: Rotate Red and Blue eg. N
- Line #8: Reset to Quote 1 at Quote # eg. 694
- Line #9: Random Quoting eg. Y
-
- Your BBS Name: This is of course the name of your BBS or the name of the
- system that TQOTD is being set up on.
-
- Your Name: Your name or the name of the System Operator.
-
- Path+Name for Ansi/Ascii File: The name of the files you wish your
- quote to be displayed in. These files are readable at DOS.
-
- SBBS Pause at End: In SuperBBS, QuickBBS and other similar BBS systems,
- they use a , Ascii character #1 in the display files to tell the system
- to wait for the enter button to be pressed. If you are running a BBS
- that supports this, place Y here, if not N. If N, send me netmail as
- to what system you are running the the sequence to place a pause at the
- end of the quote.
-
- Enter Prompt: To be displayed centred on the screen after quote.
-
- Rotate Red and Blue: Rotate Red and Blue backgrounds behind quote.
-
- Reset to Quote 1 at Quote #: If you only want TQOTD to read up to a
- certain quote, say for instance quote 500. You would place 500 there and
- TQOTD would not read past there.
-
- Random Quoting: If Y, it will pick quotes randomly within the limit
- specified by Line #8. If N, TQOTD will keep an index file and read the
- quotes sequentially.
-
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- ║ Running TQOTD On your BBS System ║
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-
- An example batch file for SuperBBS/QuickBBS Systems:
-
- :Start
- BBS
-
- :AfterBBS
- If Errorlevel 90 goto CBV
- If Errorlevel 5 goto Packmail
- If Errorlevel 4 goto Packmail
- If Errorlevel 3 goto Packmail
- If Errorlevel 1 goto End
-
- :Tqotd
- Cd\BBS\Tqotd
- Tqotd
-
- Goto Start
- :End
-
- TQOTD can be run simply by typing TQOTD. TQOTD takes about 1-2 seconds
- to read up to 850 quotes, so there it is no time consuming progra,.
-
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- ║ Other Information and the History of TQOTD ║
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-
- If you have any questions pertaining to TQOTD or any other inquiries,
- you may contact me via the following:
-
- My BBS @ Air Waves SuperBBS HST, +1-416-984-4076
- US Robotics Courier HST
- FidoNet @ 1:247/117 or 1:247/99
- NaNET @ 41-62-07 ..or..
-
- Send me a letter to: Cal Gardner
- 92 Green Maple Drive
- ST. CATHARINES, Ontario
- CANADA, L2P 3P5
-
- * History:
-
- 1.00 - First ever version. Written in TP 3.0a
- 1.50 - Ansi Emulation added, touch up on speed
- 2.00 - Ansi bug fixed, buffered quote file, added top header
- 2.05 - More bugs fixed. Removed annoying 30 day trial key
- 3.00 - Major re-write. TP 5.0. Nice colours, better Monochrome support
- 3.25 - More features added. Random quoting, fixing of header
- 3.50 - Re-wrote the accessing of the quote file for slower XT systems
- 3.75 - Re-release of 3.50
- 3.76 - Re-release of 3.75
- 4.00 - Major re-write - Beatiful loadup screens
- 4.05 - Fixed bug where Tqotd will read quote file and write the ansi file
- until you ran out of hardrive space.
- 4.10 - Rewrote top header, removed all beeps, bells and whistles. Added
- 200 more quotes. Quote file now fully loaded into memory while
- being read. Registration optional. Removal of random quoting
- until 4.15 (If released). Removed other BBS Support until next
- version. More to come
- 4.15 - Added Option for Rotating Red/Blue lines
- Added option for Ctrl-A, enter at end of output files
- Speeded up quote reading, much faster now.
- No longer limited to 500 quotes. Accepts up to 1000.
- Configurable enter prompt.
- 4.20 - Added option to reset quote at sysop definable point.
- Fix up a very small bug in the quote file.
- Added the option for Random Quote selection as well as
- sequential quoting.
- Fixed a MAJOR bug in the reading of the quote file while it
- was searching for the quote. I left this out from version 4.00 for
- some reason. I was not searching for the end of the TQOTD.BBS file
- so it could reset counters. Instead when quote 609 was reached, it
- would only read nuls. It's fixed now. It will reset to quote 1
- if sequential reading is enabled, or will just read quote 1 when
- random quoting is enabled.
- 4.21 - Minor bug fix on EOF reading in 4.20. 200+ Quotes Added.
-
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- ║ TQOTD Support Systems ║
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-
- Air Waves SuperBBS HST St. Catharines, ON, Canada +1-416-984-4076
- USR 14.4 KBps, v42b @FidoNet.1:247/117
-
- Applegate South SuperBBS Applegate, Wisconsin, USA +1-414-733-3882
- USR 14.4 KBps, v42b @FidoNet.1:139/650
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- Maxwell's Argentum Hammer Brockville, ON, Canada +1-613-345-0486
- USR DS 14.4 KBps, v42b @FidoNet.1:249/306
-
- 2nd Class SuperBBS St. Catharines, ON, Canada +1-416-984-6647
- 2400 @FidoNet.1:247/120
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