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- THE WALL Revision 4 - (c) 1996, Robert Thomson
-
- ====
- DISCLAIMER: I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything..
-
- ====
- DESCRIPTION: This is a MEX 'graffiti' wall that I made in a mere 6 hours
- (maybe more, maybe less. All I know is that my eyes are about to fall out of
- my head) Many walls that I've seen arrange the wall items in an awkward
- order, (right way up) but after a while people get sick of having to wade
- through several pages of old wall items just to see the new ones. So this
- wall is created in reverse order to make it easier. It will also store a
- user's real name in the display file, but it will only been shown to those
- with sysop access.
-
- The only things you have to do to get THEWALL up and running is edit the
- THEWALL.CFG file and place it in your maximus root (usually \max) directory.
- You also will need to edit the WALLHEAD.MEC so that the [link] down the bottom
- points to the correct WALLDISP file.
-
- ====
- If you like The Wall, and appreciate the effort I put into making a free
- program (but still under copyright laws) please leave me a netmail message at
- 3:622/422.2 as I need encouragement. :-)
-
- ====
- KNOWN BUGS: There is only one bug that I know of, and that's the LGREEN bug.
- STATUS: FIXED in release 3..
-
- Desc: The LGREEN bug makes any lightgreen when you read the wall, turn
- to lightmagenta when the next wall addition is made.
- Conclusion: The reason this happens is due to the READLN statement taking out
- linefeed's after it reads a line. COL_LGREEN's colour code
- contains a linefeed. This changes it into lightmagenta.
- Fix: This problem was fixed by using the .BBS code for lightgreen,
- which was "\x16\x01\x10\x8a". I defined COL_LIGHTGREEN as such.
- So instead of using COL_LGREEN to specify the colour use
- COL_LIGHTGREEN. The .BBS code was different to the standard
- avatar code in that it didn't contain any LF's which would be
- messed up by readln/writeln.
-
- ====
- MY PHILOSOPHY ON SOFTWARE:
- When I look at Maximus, I see a great piece of software, totally
- free. The author's don't expect money, even though they deserve it for the
- work they have put into it. I don't understand it when I see this little
- utility (hardly an application) that people are asking an unreasonable amount
- of money for. Some may call it reasonable, but $37 (Canadian) for a LIST
- program?! I sure don't think that's reasonable..When you stand it and
- software like Maximus side by side it's ridiculous..That's why I have decided
- to make all my utilities free to the world. I don't like having to pay for
- software that I don't think is worth it, so I don't, and I don't expect
- others to pay for it either. All I ask is if you like this program, to send
- me some netmail saying what you think of my programs.
-
- ====
- Thanks to Chris Austin and Ideasoft for the `x colour idea and his nifty
- little mex functions which we all admire. Chris, if you read this..Can you
- tell me one thing? How do you keep your code looking so neat? :-) It puts
- mine to shame..
-
- ====
- Keep an eye out for MECNEWS, my Maximus news generator.
-
- ====
- I hope you find this wall useful and enjoy using it..
-
- Regards,
- Robert Thomson Fidonet: (3:622/422.2)
- Email: (ourmth@net-unix.newcastle.edu.au)
-
-
- Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
- pub 1024/8D89BF15 1994/10/02 Robert Thomson <3:622/422.2>
- Robert Thomson <ourmth@net-unix.newcastle.edu.au>
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