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- USER'S BIRTHDAY DOOR
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- SYSOP's DOCUMENTATION
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- January 3, 1990
- By
- Larry Reeves & Kirk Lewellen
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- COPYRIGHT/LICENSE INFORMATION
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- This program, the manual, and all information regarding
- them are the property of HOT Programers. This program,
- the manual, and all information regarding them MAY BE be
- copied or distributed by any entity, private or public,
- without the permission of HOT Programers Authors provided
- no fees are received or transferred. This application is
- distributed through the share ware concept.
-
-
- COPYRIGHTS and TRADEMARKS
-
- HOT Doors (R) is a registered trademark of HOT COM
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- Quick basic (R) is a registered trademark of Micro soft Corporation
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- PCBoard (R) is a registered trademark of Clark Development Company (CDC)
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- MS-DOS (R) is a registered trademark of MICRO SOFT Corporation
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- DSZ is copyrighted Omen Technology Inc.
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- Door Source is Copyrighted Computer City, USA 1988, 1989, 1990
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- DISTRIBUTION
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- You may make copies of the program files for USERBD door and the
- documentation (Not to include the USERBD.EXE registered) files together
- and distribute them to others, upload to bulletin boards etc. for
- non-commercial purposes. The program files should not be distributed
- with the USERBD.EXE registered file. None of the files should be
- modified in any way.
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-
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- NOTICE
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- This program, and all supporting programs and documentation are
- provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed
- or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties
- of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no
- event will HOT Programers, HOT COM or The HOT BBS be liable to
- you for any damages arising out of the use or inability to use
- this program and/or all supporting programs and documentation.
-
- All prices and other information are
- subject to change without notice.
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- DOOR Setup
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- Make a batch file to run the DOOR as described in your PCBoard
- (R) documentation.
- Create a sub directory to place all the files into.
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- Example:
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- CD \DOORS\USERBD
- USERBD UBD.cfg <== Runs USERBD.EXE passing a parameter
- of UBD.CFG
- CD \PCB an example of this file is below.
- BOARD
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- Example xxxxxxxx.CFG file:
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- Configuration File
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- The configuration file's first four lines is setup up exactly like
- most other doors. It should be:
- Multi Node systems require a .CFG file for each node.
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- Full Drive\Path\and name of PCBOARD.SYS
- BBS'S name
- Sysop's First name
- Sysop's Last name
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- A example of this when filled out would be:
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- C:\PCB\PCBOARD.SYS
- The HOT BBS Local
- Larry
- Reeves
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- The example file UBD.CFG and the demo PCBOARD.SYS may be used
- to test or run the program from the DOS command line.
- AS: USERS UBD.CFG <ENTER>
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- The versions of PCBoard are 11.8 and up, including support for 14.0
- and up! The default bbs type is PCBoard 14.x. If you wish to change
- that, simply put this into your environment table by using the DOS
- command, SET.
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- SET DORSRC=PCB14 - Door Source will run PCBoard 14.x (DEFAULT)
- SET DORSRC=PCB121 - Door Source will run PCBoard 11.8+ with COM1
- SET DORSRC=PCB122 - Door Source will run PCBoard 11.8+ with COM2
-
- Another way to change the setting for the bbs type is on the command
- line, simply put PCB121 on the command line for PCBoard 11.8+ on
- COM1 and PCB122 on the command line for PCBoard 11.8+ on COM2, like
- this :
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- USERBD UBD.CFG PCB121
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- DOOR Operation
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- User's Birthday Door in Operation will have the status line on the bottom
- of the screen on line 24 and line 25. It will show these things:
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- 1. The caller's baud rate
- 2. The caller's name
- 3. Time left in the door in minutes.
- 4. The name of your door and release version number.
- 5. Door Source 3.0
- 6. The time the door was entered, current time and flags if any.
- 7. Graphics mode (GR) or (NGR)
- 8. Bell/Caller alarm toggle status
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- The function keys open for the sysop to use are the following:
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- (F4) Page Bell Toggle
- (F7) Caller Alarm Toggle
- (F8) Return the user to the bbs
- (F10) Start chat with user
- (ESC) End chat with user
- (ALT-X) Exit to DOS after sign-off toggle
- (ALT-N) Sysop on next toggle
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- UBDM.EXE is the Maintenance File and can be used from your
- nightly event as:
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- C:
- CD\DOOR\USERBD
- UBDM
- COPY C:\PCB\GEN\WELL + BDAYS T:\PCB\GEN\WELCOME
- COPY C:\PCB\GEN\WELLg + BDAYS T:\PCB\GEN\WELCOMEg
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- Once you have changed into the Birthday Door's Directory
- then we run the Maintenance program which creates the BDAYS File.
- This file will have the current Users with a birthday today.
- You may then use severy means to merge this file to your Welcome
- screen or Logoff etc. Here we have our welcome screens labeled as
- WELL & WELLG, then we merge them with the BDAYS file to WELCOME &
- WELCOMEG.
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- If the UBDM has a number placed after it, from 1 to 99 it will
- create a AGE file. Such as you might want to know all the users
- over 18 for your adult conference or all users over 65 for Free
- access. UBDM 18 will create a file called AGE18.DAT, in this
- file will be the names of all the users over 18 to the day. If
- no number between 1 to 99 is used then the UBDM file will only
- create the BDAYS file. This will be the file with todays Birthdays.
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- REGISTER
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- Call The HOT (Heart Of Tennessee) BBS to register your program.
- This DOOR is FREE, if left unchanged and unregistered. If you
- would like to register this Door program with us, either $5 and
- download it (Password for registered file required). For $10 we
- Will call your BBS and upload it to you or mail it to you on a
- disk. Please specify Disk Size.
-
- The HOT (Heart Of Tennessee) BBS Node #1 --> (615) 890-8715
- or :
- The HOT BBS / USERBD
- Larry Reeves
- 3235 Windsor Green Dr.
- Murfreesboro, Tn. 37129
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- Thank You for Using our Door!
-
- Upcoming Programs to include:
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- File Display Door. This program is great for a HELP DOOR,
- TECH HELP DOOR, ANSII File View DOOR, NEWS DOOR, STORES DOOR
- and can be set to play music for a MUSIC DOOR. Sysop
- configurable options to suspend time while in a door.
-
- THE LOTTO DOOR. This short game allows the users to gain
- a bit more time while on the BBS.
-
- BBS Review DOOR. Not just another BBS listings door. This
- one add features not seen yet.
-
- BBS Sysop Door. This is a game door that is close to real
- life operations as a PCBoard Sysop. May solve the age old
- problem of users wanting to start their own BBS. Gives them
- a chance to see what it's like. The perils of maintaning a
- BBS. More to come in this game door for would be Sysops.
-
- FREQ Radio Frequency Door allows you to list and download
- scanner and Ham Radio Frequencies. Current version is 2.1.
-
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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- We would like to thank the following persons for their part
- in assisting and or encouraging the writing of this door.
- Bill White and Neal McClain in their help with the sort routine.
- The Lebonan Link BBS for beta testing this
- door.
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