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╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
║ The Quote of The Day Version 4.21 ║
║ Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 by Cal Gardner ║
║ All Rights Reserved ║
╟─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ Released: Sunday, November 24, 1991 Number of Quotes: 800 ║
║ **Please scan files for viruses before use! Just a safety precaution** ║
╙─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╜
-=-=-=-
╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
║ TQOTD Disclaimer and Registration Information ║
╙─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╜
TQOTD is supplied AS IS. I, Cal Gardner disclaim all warranties, implied
or expressed. I also assume no liability for damages, direct or indirect
which may occur due to the result of usage of TQOTD.
A registration form is included in this package. You are required to
register this after 31 days of use. This is a shareware product, but
please support the shareware aspect.
╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
║ What is TQOTD you say? ║
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TQOTD will pull quotes from a normal everyday ASCII text file and place
them nice and neat in an ANSI and ASCII file. You do have the ability
to add your own quotes, plus TQOTD will display the quotes in sequential
or random order with great speed. We currently offer over 800 quotes with
more coming.
╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
║ Configuration File for TQOTD ║
╙─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╜
A sample configuration file has been included within the TQOTD archive for
your viewings. TQOTD requires a configuration file by the name of
TQOTD.CFG and will not run without this file. You can create this with
MS-DOS's Edlin or any other ASCII Editor (Norton, PC-Tools, Etc). All
lines will be described as to what they do after the example below:
Line #1: Your BBS Name eg: Air Waves SuperBBS HST
Line #2: Your Name eg: Cal Gardner
Line #3: Path+Name for Ansi File eg: D:\SUPERBBS\TEXT\TQOTD.ANS
Line #4: Path+File for Ascii File eg: D:\SUPERBBS\TEXT\TQOTD.ASC
Line #5: SBBS Pause at End? () eg. Y
Line #6: Enter Prompt eg. Pound your enter button please!
Line #7: Rotate Red and Blue eg. N
Line #8: Reset to Quote 1 at Quote # eg. 694
Line #9: Random Quoting eg. Y
Your BBS Name: This is of course the name of your BBS or the name of the
system that TQOTD is being set up on.
Your Name: Your name or the name of the System Operator.
Path+Name for Ansi/Ascii File: The name of the files you wish your
quote to be displayed in. These files are readable at DOS.
SBBS Pause at End: In SuperBBS, QuickBBS and other similar BBS systems,
they use a , Ascii character #1 in the display files to tell the system
to wait for the enter button to be pressed. If you are running a BBS
that supports this, place Y here, if not N. If N, send me netmail as
to what system you are running the the sequence to place a pause at the
end of the quote.
Enter Prompt: To be displayed centred on the screen after quote.
Rotate Red and Blue: Rotate Red and Blue backgrounds behind quote.
Reset to Quote 1 at Quote #: If you only want TQOTD to read up to a
certain quote, say for instance quote 500. You would place 500 there and
TQOTD would not read past there.
Random Quoting: If Y, it will pick quotes randomly within the limit
specified by Line #8. If N, TQOTD will keep an index file and read the
quotes sequentially.
╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
║ Running TQOTD On your BBS System ║
╙─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╜
An example batch file for SuperBBS/QuickBBS Systems:
:Start
BBS
:AfterBBS
If Errorlevel 90 goto CBV
If Errorlevel 5 goto Packmail
If Errorlevel 4 goto Packmail
If Errorlevel 3 goto Packmail
If Errorlevel 1 goto End
:Tqotd
Cd\BBS\Tqotd
Tqotd
Goto Start
:End
TQOTD can be run simply by typing TQOTD. TQOTD takes about 1-2 seconds
to read up to 850 quotes, so there it is no time consuming progra,.
╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
║ Other Information and the History of TQOTD ║
╙─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╜
If you have any questions pertaining to TQOTD or any other inquiries,
you may contact me via the following:
My BBS @ Air Waves SuperBBS HST, +1-416-984-4076
US Robotics Courier HST
FidoNet @ 1:247/117 or 1:247/99
NaNET @ 41-62-07 ..or..
Send me a letter to: Cal Gardner
92 Green Maple Drive
ST. CATHARINES, Ontario
CANADA, L2P 3P5
* History:
1.00 - First ever version. Written in TP 3.0a
1.50 - Ansi Emulation added, touch up on speed
2.00 - Ansi bug fixed, buffered quote file, added top header
2.05 - More bugs fixed. Removed annoying 30 day trial key
3.00 - Major re-write. TP 5.0. Nice colours, better Monochrome support
3.25 - More features added. Random quoting, fixing of header
3.50 - Re-wrote the accessing of the quote file for slower XT systems
3.75 - Re-release of 3.50
3.76 - Re-release of 3.75
4.00 - Major re-write - Beatiful loadup screens
4.05 - Fixed bug where Tqotd will read quote file and write the ansi file
until you ran out of hardrive space.
4.10 - Rewrote top header, removed all beeps, bells and whistles. Added
200 more quotes. Quote file now fully loaded into memory while
being read. Registration optional. Removal of random quoting
until 4.15 (If released). Removed other BBS Support until next
version. More to come
4.15 - Added Option for Rotating Red/Blue lines
Added option for Ctrl-A, enter at end of output files
Speeded up quote reading, much faster now.
No longer limited to 500 quotes. Accepts up to 1000.
Configurable enter prompt.
4.20 - Added option to reset quote at sysop definable point.
Fix up a very small bug in the quote file.
Added the option for Random Quote selection as well as
sequential quoting.
Fixed a MAJOR bug in the reading of the quote file while it
was searching for the quote. I left this out from version 4.00 for
some reason. I was not searching for the end of the TQOTD.BBS file
so it could reset counters. Instead when quote 609 was reached, it
would only read nuls. It's fixed now. It will reset to quote 1
if sequential reading is enabled, or will just read quote 1 when
random quoting is enabled.
4.21 - Minor bug fix on EOF reading in 4.20. 200+ Quotes Added.
╓─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
║ TQOTD Support Systems ║
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Air Waves SuperBBS HST St. Catharines, ON, Canada +1-416-984-4076
USR 14.4 KBps, v42b @FidoNet.1:247/117
Applegate South SuperBBS Applegate, Wisconsin, USA +1-414-733-3882
USR 14.4 KBps, v42b @FidoNet.1:139/650
Maxwell's Argentum Hammer Brockville, ON, Canada +1-613-345-0486
USR DS 14.4 KBps, v42b @FidoNet.1:249/306
2nd Class SuperBBS St. Catharines, ON, Canada +1-416-984-6647
2400 @FidoNet.1:247/120
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