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- ║ The Quote of The Day Version 4.65 ║
- ║ Copyright (c) 1990-1992 by Cal Gardner ║
- ║ All Rights Reserved ║
- ╟─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
- ║ Released: Wednesday, August 18th, 1992. Number of Quotes Avail: 4290 ║
- ║ **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 provided on an "as is" basis, without any warranty of any kind.
- I, Cal Gardner, do not warrant, guarentee or make any representations
- regarding the use of, or the results of TQOTD. I am also, in no way
- possible, responsible for any damages sustained either directly, or
- indirectly from the use 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 concept. Registration is only $5.00 so I am not
- asking alot. It has been many late nights writing TQOTD and this way I
- know my program is being appreciated.
-
- Please remember to include your PreRegistration number with your money when
- registering TQOTD. Without this number, I am unable to send you a key.
-
- ╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
- ║ 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, ASCII and AVATAR 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 3000
- quotes with more available for download/file requesting..
-
- ╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
- ║ Upgrading from TQOTD v4.60 ║
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-
- If you were running TQOTD v4.60, you MUST run 460TO465.EXE to convert your
- version 4.60 configuration files to 4.65's.
-
- ╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
- ║ Configuration File for TQOTD ║
- ╙─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╜
-
- To configure TQOTD, type TQOTDCFG in your TQOTD directory.
- The following is an explanation of what each option in TQOTDCFG does:
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- A) ANSI FileName - This is the path and filename you want
- TQOTD to create for the ANSI Bulletin.
- B) ASCII FileName - This is the path and filename you want
- TQOTD to create for the ASCII Bulletin.
- C) Avatar FileName - This is the path and filename you want
- TQOTD to create for the Avatar Bulletin.
- D) QuotePath - This is the PATH to TQOTD.BBS
- (ONLY the Path)
- E) Random Quote Mode - Read quotes in at Random or in Sequential
- mode.
- F) Use a SBBS Pause Code - If Yes, this will place a ASCII value 1
- at the end of the Enter Prompt. This
- is for SBBS/QBBS and RABBS systems.
- G) Prompt - This is the prompt displayed to the
- user after displaying the quote.
- H) Prompt Position - This is how you want the quote displayed.
- To the Left/Right of the screen or
- centered.
- I) Line Colour - The Colour of the line seperating the
- Quote and the Enter Prompt.
- J) Prompt Colour - The Colour of the Enter Prompt.
- K) Quote Colour - The Colour of the Quote Text;
- L) Fancy Screen Displays - By answering YES, TQOTD will use the
- colour window screen for output. By
- answering NO, TQOTD will use straight
- ASCII Text with no fancy output.
- Q) Quit and Save - Exits TQOTDCFG and creates/updates
- TQOTD.CFG
- R) Rescan TQOTD.BBS - This scans TQOTD.BBS and places the
- total number of quotes for when
- TQOTD runs.
-
- THIS IS NESSECARY WHEN RUNNING
- TQOTDCFG FOR THE FIRST TIME!
- X) Quit - Exit TQOTDCFG without saving TQOTD.CFG
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- ╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
- ║ Running TQOTD On your BBS System ║
- ╙─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╜
-
- 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 on ANY BBS system known. It just requires a bit of playing
- and you've got the greatest Quote generator working on your BBS.
-
- TQOTD has been tested once again. On my 386/20 MHz machine, it could
- read quote 8000 and be finished in less than 8 seconds. Pretty fast eh?
-
- ╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
- ║ Additional Quotes available!!! ║
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-
- Yes! Some new quotes have been brought in courtesy of a few SysOps in
- Canada and the US. The files can be freqed from me. So far none of the
- systems have these files (I am sure they will before long):
-
- Filename Description Size Quotes
- ------------ ---------------------------------- ------- ------
- STQUOTES.ARJ Quotes from Star Trek 23,115 0401
- T_QUOTES.ARJ More quotes, and I mean MORE! 100,156 2414
-
- ╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
- ║ Other Information and the History of TQOTD ║
- ╙─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╜
-
- If you have any questions pertaining to TQOTD or any other inquiries, you
- may contact me via the following:
-
- BBS:
- Air Waves SuperBBS HST
- 1200-9600 Bps/HST/MNP
- (416) 984-4076
- FidoNet: 1:247/117
- SIGnet: 34:4416/0
-
- SnailMAIL:
- Cal Gardner
- 92 Green Maple Drive
- ST. CATHARINES, Ontario
- Canada, L2P 3P5
-
- Special thanks goes to Clayton Mattatall of Clayton & Associates for
- helping me with some Excellent screen routines and with other major
- parts of this code.
-
- * 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.
- 4.25 - Added Monochrome support (Learned borders, backgrounds didn't
- appear like they should have). This can be enabled by adding a
- /M or /m to the command line. Added definable colour in the
- configuration file for the lines for the quote. Removed
- "Rotating Lines" option. Another minor Random Quote bug was
- Fixed.
- 4.26 - Fixed a major bug in reading of quote files. Read for ever and
- never displayed the quote for some configurations. Moved the
- header over 1 coloumn to allow quotes with lengths of 80 characters.
- 4.27 - Fixed a Boo-boo. The ASCII header was coming out with a few too
- many linefeeds at the end.
- 4.30 - Dah! Another boo-boo fixed. Enhanced speed with extended
- quote file buffering. Tqotd has also been compressed.
- 4.40 - Added in Avatar (+0) Support for those of you who can support
- and use it. A few cosmetic changes were I made some typos.
- 4.41 - Added a clear screen in the Avatar file. Update.
- 4.45 - Allowed configuration of the lines between the header and the
- quote and between the Enter Prompt the quote.
- 4.46 - This version is not compressed with LZE. Some strange things
- seems to occur when it was compressed. Fixed a buffer overflow
- bug.
- 4.50 - Removed the BBS advertising in the output files. A major redoing
- of the SysOp's end of the screen. Also cleaned up the code a bit.
- If the enter prompt line is blank, it will not default to a preset
- enter prompt. This was done for TAG systems.
- 4.51 - Forgot to take out the detecting for Registered SysOps for the
- Beta versions
- 4.55 - Really screwed up in 4.50. For unregistered sysops, the colour
- definitions were missing. The positioning of the text in the
- header was also off. This has been fixed. Added in code to
- disallow any HEX editing of TQOTD after finding a toyed with
- version on another BBS. Added in a delay for unregistered
- versions.
- 4.60 - You no longer require a /M if you a running on a Monochrome/
- Hercules graphics adapter. TQOTD now detects your video mode
- and displays all text to the proper memory locations.
-
- TQOTD now is accompanied by TQOTDCFG. TQOTD no longer uses
- a Text-based configuration file.
-
- YOU MUST DELETE TQOTD.CFG BEFORE RUNNING TQOTDCFG FOR THE FIRST TIME
-
- Added in faster screen writes. Also, added in an 8K buffer for
- reading in the Quote file. Re-Optimized the code. Runs faster
- and smoother.
-
- ATTENTION ALL REGISTERED USERS OF TQOTD! READ TQOTD.NEW
- 4.65 - ReAdded the function to use NO fancy screen output. (The
- equivalent to 4.25's added /M routine.
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- ║ TQOTD Support Systems ║
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-
- There is currently an Non-FidoNet backbone echo available for
- TQOTD. If you wish to receive this echo, send Netmail to one of the
- below support sites.
-
- Canada:
-
- Air Waves SuperBBS (*) 1-416-984-4076 [Canadian/US/Elsewhere Reg]
- FidoNet 1:247/117 St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
- USRobotics 14400 HST (HST/MNP5/V42B)
-
- United States:
-
- Lighthouse BBS (*) 1-219-464-2443
- FidoNet 1:230/20 Valparaiso, Indiana, USA
- USRobotics 14400 DSHST (HST/MNP5/V32B/V42B)
-
- Magicland SuperBBS 1-414-733-3882
- FidoNet 1:139/650 Applegate, Wisconsin, USA
- USRobotics 14400 HST (HST/MNP5/V42B)
-
- The Armadillo's Hole (*) 1-915-949-6496
- FidoNet 1:383/12 San Angelo, Texas, USA
- 2400 BPS (NONE)
-
- Australia:
-
- Cross Beat BBS 61-2-605-9483
- FidoNet 3:713/611 Macquarie Fields NSW, Australia
- 14400 BPS (V32B/V42B/PEP)
-
- United Kingdom:
-
- OCTOPUS BBS (*) 44-706-874802 [UK Registration Site]
- Fidonet 2:250/131 Bocup, UK
- 14400 BPS (V32B/V42B)
-
- A (*) beside the BBS name signifies that the BBS carries the
- TQOTD_SUPPORT echo. You may contact the SysOp of that BBS to
- pick up the TQOTD_SUPPORT echo. Eventually this echo will make
- it's way to the backbone.
-