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- ¦ Forger ¦ 1.06
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-
- Enables you to select one of ten "signatures"
- for Voyager to append to the foot of your post.
-
- To be on the safe side, do not run this
- application until AFTER Voyager has been
- started up (otherwise it might not know where
- Voyager expects the signature to be found).
-
- Fuller details and instructions follow:
- please read !!
-
- How it works
- ============
- Inside the directory ‘!Voyager.User’ there can be a file called ‘Signature’,
- and !Voyager can automatically append that to the end of your news/mail posts.
-
- Inside the directory ‘!Forger’ there is a directory called ‘Signatures’
- which can contain up to ten different “signature” files.
-
- !Forger does not muck about with any program code inside !Voyager; it merely
- copies one of the files in ‘!Forger.Signatures.’ to ‘!Voyager.User.Signature’.
-
- Installation and setting-up
- ===========================
- First, go into ‘!Voyager.User’ and see if you already have a ‘Signature’ file:
- if you have, make a copy of it called ‘Signature0’ (to be on the safe side!)
-
- Copy the entire !Forger application to somewhere convenient where you can
- easily access it (if you have the VIX version, see the separate VIX notes).
-
- Double-click on the !Forger [Sign] icon to run it:
- it will install on the icon bar.
-
- Click (Select or Menu) on the icon-bar icon (once) to get its menu, and
- click on the ‘Open SigDir’ item.
- This will open the filer window of ‘!Forger.Signatures’.
-
- If this is the first time you have done this since installing !Forger,
- there will be just two files in it: ‘0None’ and ‘1Argonet’.
- ‘0None’ is a blank dummy file for when you don’t want a signature at all
- (and I recommend you keep this one).
- ‘1Argonet’ is an anonymous Argonaut signature included purely as an example;
- If you double-click on it, it will load into !Edit (or whatever you have set
- your default text editor to be) so you can see the idea -- you will probably
- discard this (delete it) in favour of a signature of your own creation.
-
- Adding/Creating signature files
- ===============================
- It is intended and recommended that the filename of each signature should
- start with a digit from 0 to 9 and be followed by up to nine letters to form
- a name which you will subsequently recognise.
-
- To start with, you will want your original signature to be available (the one
- already in ‘!Voyager.User’ now called ‘Signature0’: copy this into
- ‘!Forger.Signatures’ as ‘1Standard’ (or a similar name).
-
- Signature files are created in !Edit (or whatever you use/prefer instead);
- please note that:
-
- For Usenet (newsgroup postings), good “netiquette” recommends that the
- signature should be no longer than four lines;
-
- To ensure the signature “looks right”, do not use any top-bit-set characters
- (keep to the ordinary keyboard characters with ASCII codes less than 127).
-
- Running
- =======
- If the !Forger [Sign] icon is not already on the icon bar, double-click on
- its icon in the directory in which it lives (or single-click on its icon
- on !Voyager’s control panel if you have the VIX version).
-
- If/when the !Forger [Sign] icon is on the icon bar, click once, with Select
- or Menu, to open up its menu. Then click on the item you want.
-
- Please note that:
-
- You can change your signature at any time, but the most appropriate time
- is just before you “post” your item (by clicking on the “pillar-box” icon
- in the mail/news composition window), because the signature file that
- actually gets appended is the one which is current when you click on Post.
-
- If you have just edited the contents of a signature file, you must
- re-select it from !Forger’s menu (otherwise ‘!Voyager.User.Signature’
- will still be the old version)
-
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- John Alldred ZFC:B <protovale@argonet.co.uk> 15 Sept 1996
- http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/protovale/john.html
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