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- NxtEvent
- v1.0
- Copyright (c) 1990, Jim Dailey
- DOOGER'S Place BBS
- Fido Net 202/309
-
-
- First the legal stuff. NxtEvent is guaranteed only to take up space on
- your disk. I have ran the program successfully on both of my PC's and
- have not experienced any problems. NxtEvent is not public domain, and
- remains my property. NxtEvent is SHAREWARE. If you find NxtEvent useful
- the fee is $30. Please take the $30 and step away from the computer,
- get your kids together and take them to dinner and a show. If you have
- no kids, then take the $30 and donate it to a youth organization. I
- personally do not need any renumeration.
-
- If you experience any problems, or have suggestions for improving
- NxtEvent, please netmail your comments to me at Fido Net<tm> node
- 202/309.
-
- Now, enough of the chit chat. I have been a member of Fido Net for 5
- years using mostly Opus<tm> software. With PCBoard<tm> 14.1 came
- support for front end mailers. I immediately purchased and converted to
- what, I think, is a superior BBS program. The only short coming is the
- inability for PCBoard to recognize events defined in the front end
- mailer. As an NC I have several forced events. My only problem was that
- I had no way to tell PCBoard of these events and, I often run them late.
- Thus the birth of NxtEvent.
-
- The samples I present here will be for BinkleyTerm as, that is what I
- use for my mailer.
-
- Prior to exiting on a human caller, Binkley creates a BBSBATCH.BAT file.
- This batch file invokes another batch file called SPAWNBBS.BAT. A sample
- SPAWNBBS call is as follows:
-
- SPAWNBBS 2400 1 231
-
- The 2400 is the callers baud rate, the 1 is the com port and the 231 is
- the number of minutes to Binkley's next event. In SPAWNBBS.BAT I have
- inserted the following line before starting PCBoard:
-
- NxtEvent PCBoard.Dat %3
-
- The %3 is replaced by the minutes parameter shown above. The minutes is
- added to the current time and stowed in PCBoard.Dat in record 113, which
- is the time of the PCBoard event. As I said previously, it works on my
- BBS and I have yet to miss and event.
-
- NxtEvent event requires 2 command line parameters. The first is the name
- of your PCBoard.Dat. If this resides in other than the current directory
- the path name is also required. The second parameter is the number of
- minutes til the next event. The maximum number for this parameter is
- 1440 minutes which is 24 hours.
-
- I hope you find and NxtEvent useful and enjoy that movie with the kids.
-