Magnum One/Magnum One (Mid-American Digital) (Disc Manufacturing).iso/d19/tudpcb14.arc/README

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TU-DOOR v1.1 Tutorial Presentation Door for PCBoard 14.0+

Mark Findlay    Sysop,
                Home Dba BBS  [phone]
                (DCWAS)

This program is a means for a SYSOP to easily setup colorful yet simple
presentations, tutorials, etc. The program began as a single tutorial
door for Zmodem file transfer protocol and has been enhanced to allow for
any number of additional tutorials.

NOTE: THIS VERSION OF TUDOOR WILL ONLY RUN WITH VERSION 14 AND GREATER
      OF PCBOARD!



TO RUN:

1) Make a subdirectory (called tdoor for instance)
2) Place all the files except 'tudoor' in the subdirectory.
3) Place the file 'tudoor' in your pcb subdirectory.
4) Change the 'tudoor' file in the pcb subdirectory to reflect your own
   tdoor subdirectory and your own pcb subdirectory.
5) Update your doors.dat file to reflect the new door.




TO INCLUDE YOUR OWN (OR SOMEONE ELSE'S) TUTORIAL SCREENS IN TU-DOOR:

   Use an ANSI screen generator to create as many screens as you wish your
   tutorial to contain. There is no limit as to the number...
   You must save each screen both in ANSI and in ASCII format so that all
   users can view them.
   You must use a naming convention for the screens that follows this
   format:
           xxxx#      where xxxx is a unique 4 letter identifier of the
                      tutorial series you are creating, and # is a number
                      starting at 1 and incrementing by 1 with each screen.
            and

           xxxx#g     where the xxxx and # are the same but the g is appended
                      to signify that this screen is the ANSI version of the
                      ASCII screen indicated by xxxx#.

   For instance, look at the tutorial included in this package. It is a Zmodem
   tutorial so I chose a 4 letter identifier - "zint". Since each screen of
   the tutorial must be saved in ASCII and ANSI, zint1 is the first ascii
   screen and zint1g is the ANSI equivalent of zint1. Since my Zmodem
   tutorial is comprised of 9 screens I have:

           zint1    - first screen in ascii
           zint1g   - first screen in ansi
           zint2    - second screen in ascii
           zint2g   - second screen in ansi
           .
           .
           .
           zint9    - ninth screen in ascii
           zint9g   - ninth screen in ansi


   Notice now that there are 2 lines in the tudoor.cnf file following the
   first entry. (leave that first entry "HANDSHAKE" alone....):

   ZINT
   Introduction to Zmodem  (from X to Z)  -Findlay  Home Dba BBS


   When TuDoor creates the menu to present to the user, it will first insure
   that there are files in the tudoor subdirectory that begin with ZINT
   and then it will present the second line "Introduction to Zmodem..." to
   the user and assign a number for the user to select the tutorial with.

   When you add subsequent tutorials, whether it be by your own hand or
   a series of tutorial screens made available for downloading fron Salt
   Air BBS or Home Dba BBS, all you need do is place all the tutorial screens
   in the tudoor subdirectory, and add 2 more lines to the tudoor.cnf file
   to indicate (in this order...) the 4 letter filename prefix of each of
   the new tutorial's screens (each tutorial must have a different 4 letter
   prefix from previous tutorials so that TuDoor knows what screens to
   show), and a description on the following line of the tutorial as you
   wish it to appear on the main menu.

   NOTE: EACH ANSI AND ASCII SCREEN SHOULD BE SAVED AT EXACTLY 21 LINES
         TO ACHIEVE BEST PRESENTATION FORMATING AND TO INSURE THAT
         THE "NEXT SCREEN" PROMPT DOES NOT PUSH THE TUTORIAL SCREEN OFF
         THE "EDGE".


   That's all there is to it. There's no limit on the number of tutorials
   you can have and no limit to the number of screens each tutorial can
   have.


This DOOR is FREEWARE and has no expiration date. I expect no remuneration
for this program. There are several reasons for this:

1) Most programs are not worth the author's registration fee.
2) Sam Smith did most of the work for this with his incredibly simple
   and efficient ProKit program.
3) It took me all of a couple days to write this.
4) No one's ever sent me anything for my programs anyway...<grin>.

I put this door together because it seemed that I was answering the
same questions over and over every other week from new users on the
merits and mechanics of Zmodem, Arcs, Caches, etc., etc...No one
ever seemed to read the bulletins I set up to answer these questions
but after putting them in a door, bingo, users seem much more anxious
to scroll through screens set up in this fashion.

I have written bulletins on my system explaining various items that
most new users are interested in and will be issuing them as small
additions to this door that can be easily inserted and subsequently
viewed by your users. Look for these additions both on the Salt Air
BBS and on my system, Home Dba [phone] (DCWAS).

If you have any comments or suggestions for the enhancement or
improvement of this program, please don't hesitate to leave them
to me on Home Dba. I am ALWAYS looking for ways to improve my
programs. Thanks!


Other programs from WallyWare available from Home Dba...

AnsiView - Interactive Ansi Viewing Door for PCBoard 12.0+ (and 14.0)
           Door that allows users to view ansi screen creations
           interactively without having to download them first.
           Comes with a starter set of ansi screens....

WallyBil - Calculates and maintains shared expenses among groups of
           people like roommates in college etc. Maintains individual
           entries, allows update of entries, calculates each person's
           debt to the other etc.

Assorted Tutorial Screens to support TUDOOR......<Call>.





AND LASTLY.....I will not be responsible for any damage to your
               system caused by this program or (blah blah blah..)....