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Hello, and welcome to Quip.
This is a Public Domain program, written in Amiga E, packed with
more features than any other fortune cookie program. What a waste of time
<grin>.
Quip has been carefully tested on a number of Amigas, and will not
work with anything lower than WB 2.04 (because of some of the routines I
use.. sorry WB 1.3 users... the older version of Quip may still be floating
around somewhere). This version of Quip tries to follow StyleGuide
conventions, so it has a version string, and it uses ReadArgs to parse CLI
options (it even has some extra help built into it, which you can get at
by typing 'Quip ?', then another '?' at the format stuff). Of course,
since I don't have the money to actually BUY the StyleGuide book, I'm only
guessing at the conventions, so...
Quip is a clean program.. it won't suck away any of your ram after
each execution. As far as I know, Quip is a pure program, too, although I
would be careful about running several different versions of it at the
same time if you are using scripts with SEQ list commands or SERIAL quips
(non-randomized selection from within a file), as Quip will be writing to
a file in such situations.
Quip can be invoked from CLI as well as from WB. From WB, you may
invoke Quip with either a project icon (which wouldn't specify a file..
Quip only looks at the tooltypes), or Quip's own Tool icon. The CLI
shortcuts will not work with the icons (sorry).
Quip was designed with any sysop in mind (through the redirection
of Quip's output), and will even create those 60 'banner', 'lonotice',
'notice', or 'nochat' files for Citadel sysops. With Quip's scripting
capabilities, maximum flexibility in how you manage your quips can now be
had. Quip even supports environment variables, so BBSes that express a
user's name with an environment variable may invoke Quip with the user's
name (this is, of course, a subtle suggestion to certain BBS authors out
there <nudge>).
Scripts may be included in Datafiles, to reduce the number of files
floating around. The moment a '@' is found, Quip will quit executing a script.
Normal users will like Quip, too, as it supports Nico François'
reqtools.library, using very nice looking requesters to display the quip
(if desired). However, those using Quip's stdio will be able to clip the
quip for use in, say, signature files or whatever.
To get to know the full potential of Quip, please read the
included .guide file. If you do not have Commodore's AmigaGuide utility,
you should be able to find it on wuarchive.wustl.edu somewhere in the
/systems/amiga/aminet directories. I strongly urge you to get this handy
utility... documentation was never made easier! I apologize for not
making an associated .doc file, but .guide files are much harder to
create, so I never bothered to re-organize it to a .doc file.
For those of you interested in knowing who 'Pioughd' is, he's a
friend of mine in Fayetteville, NC, who strongly desired this program.
Unfortunately, he doesn't own an Amiga, therefore, I'll have to write this
for MS-DOS somehow (not sure how I'll do this, as the languages are
totally different.. but I hate MS-DOS anyway). Piouhgd gave me plenty of
support during the first versions of Quip, and gave several useful
suggestions in use in this version of Quip.
For those of you interested in knowing who 'Hue, Jr.' is, he's the
fellow who programmed the MS-DOS version of Citadel-86 BBS. Citadel 68k
(the Amiga version of the other) is based largely on Hue, Jr.'s work. If
you can find Anthony Preston, you'll find the fellow whose done much of
the porting of the Amiga version of Citadel. Piouhgd and I liked to joke
about Hue, Jr. on occasion. We both think Citadel is one of the better
BBS programs around, although I personally haven't found a BBS program
that I'm satisfied with. Before you start raving about your own BBS
program, however, think about all the features in a program as frivolous
as this, then consider what I would demand out of a BBS <evil grin>.
As of this writing, I have a pair of e-mail addresses that should
get to me if you have a question, need help with, or want to report a bug
in Quip. Please try 'jvanriper@uncavx.unca.edu' first, as I must use that
account to get through to my other account... 'jvanripe@nyx.cs.du.edu'.
These addresses should be good until roughly January 1995, after which I
will very likely not be available <sigh>.
I have no idea what systems Quip have been tested on, although I
feel confident that Quip will work well with any system running AmigaDOS
2.04 or later.
But now this readme is too long. I hope this program is
satisfactory. And remember, I'm not only the author of Quip, but I'm also
a user.
- Trey