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The Silicon Frog, Inc. │
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John Hancock 3.0 │
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The JH3AUTO Program │
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Version 1.0 │
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(c) 1988-92 The Silicon Frog, Inc.
All Rights Reserved
Table of Contents
Introduction...............................................1
How Duzzit Work?...........................................1
Installing the program.....................................2
Command-line Parameters....................................2
The /TAG= parameter....................................2
The /CF parameter......................................3
The /CY parameter......................................3
Conclusion and Best Wishes.................................4
JH3AUTO Page 1
Introduction
JH3AUTO was released approximately two months after JH3 in
response to a number of JH3 users who expressed the need for
an automated tagline selector program. As the program name
indicates, JH3AUTO is automatic. As with any good camera,
however, the program's automatic features can be selectively
defeated. But only up to a point.
JH3AUTO assumes that JH3 has been installed on your system;
it relies on the presence of JH3 configuration files. And,
if you're not a registered user, JH3AUTO will issue
reminders just like JH3, but with one major difference: you
are not charged for uses of JH3AUTO. Reminders issued by
JH3AUTO only reflect the level of use of JH3 itself. As a
result, if JH3AUTO is the only tagline selection program you
use, it will never issue reminder messages. Since JH3AUTO
doesn't do a heck of a lot to begin with, I thought that a
show of generosity might provide an even stronger incentive
to register JH3. I want your money, but I ain't gonna bash
you upside the head for it (although, with *some* folks,
head-bashing is the only thing that works when it comes to
registering shareware).
How Duzzit Work?
JH3AUTO is very easy to use. Unlike JH3, whose
configuration is customized via the JH3CFG program, JH3AUTO
is controlled entirely by command-line parameters.
Some people do not like command-line parameters. Others do
not like configuration programs. And there's a third group
out there that doesn't like programs that can't read their
minds. To make everybody happy, the next release of JH3AUTO
will be controlled by A) very large electrodes screwed
directly into your brain or B) very long probes you stick up
your nose. Since I had to develop and test the system
myself, you will have to be able to think backwards and in
French. Program bugs, if any, will manifest themselves as
massive electrical surges which may or may not result in
permanent damage to your cerebral cortex. Such is the price
of progress, folks. ßeta testers are encouraged to apply.
JH3AUTO's purpose is to select tagfiles and taglines
automatically. You may restrict the program to a single
tagfile, and you may also tell it program to *cycle* through
tagfiles, rather than to select taglines at random -- the
program's default M.O. Finally, you can tell the program
that you want to confirm the choice, or merely see the
tagline that was selected. In fully automatic mode, JH3AUTO
JH3AUTO Page 2
requires absolutely NO command-line parameters and produces
no displays whatsoever -- it picks a tagfile and a tagline
completely at random.
Installing the program
JH3AUTO must be defined to your reader in much the same way
as you defined JH3 itself -- of course, you must assign a
different activation key for JH3AUTO. In addition, you may
wish to use some of the program's command-line parameters if
you do not want JH3AUTO to operate in totally automatic
mode. These parameters are described next.
*How* you install JH3AUTO in your mail reader depends
entirely on your mail reader -- see the INSTALL.TXT file
distributed with JH3; and use the same installation
procedure for JH3AUTO as you would for JH3 itself. JH3AUTO
provides no inherent advantages to a mail reader which
already features a random or sequential tagline selection
method. Of course, if your reader does not have this
feature, then you need JH3AUTO.
Command-line Parameters
As with any other program, JH3AUTO's command-line parameters
follow the program's name in the reader's configuration
entry for the program:
JH3AUTO [/TAG=tagfile] [/CF] [/CY] [/NS]
Note that parameters can be specified in any order, but they
must be separated by at least one space. JH3AUTO's command-
line parameter are not case-sensitive (i.e., "/cf" is the
same as "/CF").
The /TAG= parameter
/TAG= lets you restrict JH3AUTO to a single tagfile. You
need not specify the .TAG extension. For example, to
restrict JH3AUTO to the JH.TAG file, you would use:
JH3AUTO /TAG=JH
If the /TAG= parameter is not used, JH3AUTO will pick a
tagfile at random.
JH3AUTO Page 3
The /CF parameter
/CF tells JH3AUTO to display a summary and confirmation
message before sending the tagfile to the reader program.
When this option is used, JH3AUTO display a summary screen
which includes the tagfile name, the tagline, its rank in
the tagfile, and a the following prompt:
<Enter>=Accept <Esc>=Cancel R=Try Again
Pressing <Enter> sends the tagline to the reader, while
<Esc> immediately terminates JH3AUTO without sending the
tagline to the reader. Pressing R tells JH3AUTO to select a
different tagline (the confirmation screen will be displayed
again, of course).
If you use the /CF parameter, you should also use the /NS
parameter.
If you have "questionable" taglines, or taglines which
contain metastrings, use the /CF option so have an
opportunity to reject the selected tagline and ask JH3AUTO
to select a different one. For example, if you are
messaging in the Feminism conference, you may wish to press
R when JH3AUTO picks:
"Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world"
Similarly, you may wish to skip the following in the Mach