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- PLEASE READ CAREFULLY!!! Setup is Painless.... :)
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- If you are running Wildcat! v5, DO NOT use this version. DOWNLOAD CTNWxx.ZIP
- from MSI (Catnews for Wildcat! v5). This version of Catnews is for
- V3 and v4. Your KEY code works with any version of Catnews!
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- Installation.
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- 1) PKUNZIP the Archive in the Main WC Home directory.
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- 2) EDIT the CATNEWS.CFG file, (If previously installed, Edit)
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- Line 1: Your BBS Name or Registration Name (No Alias's)
- Line 2: Your Complete Drive and Path the Newsletter (NEWSLTR.BBS)
- Line 3: Your Complete Drive and Path to the RIP newsletter (NEWSLTR.RIP)
- Line 4: 00000 (or Your Reg Code)
- Line 5: 3
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- EACH LINE MUST BE TERMINATED BY A CARRIAGE RETURN. MAKE SURE THEIR ARE
- NO SPACES AFTER EACH ENTRY.
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- Notes: Line 4 MUST NOT contain any letters, but a number.
- Line 5 of the Catnews.CFG is the AUTOTRIM function number.
- 0 means always delete the old news, 1 - means keep 1 newsletter,
- 2 - 2 newsltrs etc.. Up to 9999.
- I use 3 for the latest 3 newsletters.
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- 3) The Catnews.WCX and the wcCODE program.
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- Go into MakeMenu and add this CATNEWS.WCX to your SYSOP MENU.
- Pick a Letter or a number to run the Newsletter Creator.
- The Catnews! WCX will evoke the WILDCAT! Internal Editor and allow
- you to edit a newsletter up to 150 lines. When using the WCX
- the Newsletter will dynamically change in Size. You wont get a FULL
- screen Newsletter if you only put 6 lines of text in it. It will
- give a 6 line newsletter. The Catnews.WCX should work from REMOTE
- as well as local. I toyed with the idea of not clearing the screen
- after each newsletter because sometimes you may have a small amount
- of news and not many lines on the newsletter, but my Beta testers and
- some users thought it was annoying scrolling. Perhaps they were just
- used to the full screen look. If you want to keep the full screen look,
- just skip down to line 15 of the Full Screen Editor in CATNEWS.WCX then
- save it. It will be the same size you are always used to.
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- (Note! Wildcat! v4.01 Users, should RENAME the CATNEWS.401 to CATNEWS.WCX)
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- The Advantages of using the WCX interface program????
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- Well, the biggest and best is the ability for wcCODE to call the WC!
- internal Editor to edit the file. It gives ya the spell-check functions
- and word wrapping function of the full screen editor. The other big
- advantage is that it is a wcCODE program which means you can create the
- Newsletter from Remote if you needed too. CATNEWS! WCX Calls CATNEWS.EXE
- internally to create the Newsletter. CATNEWS! .EXE still creates the news
- and does all the work. The WCX is just an interface between WC! and my
- Newsletter Creator. If you dont' wish to be bothered with the WCX, you
- can still SHELL TO DOS from WC! and create your newsletter with the
- built-in editor inside of CATNEWS.EXE. Either way....your choice.
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- Registering??
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- The ORDER.FRM is used to register the Catnews
- This ORDER.FRM NOW TAKES more information than previous ones.
- If you plan to register, Please use the current form.
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