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ANSIART ANSI Paint Door for Wildcat! BBS Systems (Release 2.30)
Written by: John A. Qualtrough (Q-Ware)
315 Linda Vista Rd
Las Cruces, NM 88005
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ANSIART is NOT freeware. ANSIART is a shareware software product. You may
copy and share ANSIART to include:
ANSIART.EXE
ANSIART.DOC
ANSIART.CFG
You MAY NOT charge for ANSIART or use ANSIART in or as a commercial product
or in or for a business without express permission and site license. You are
asked to try ANSIART on your BBS and after a reasonable trial period not to
exceed 1 month to register ANSIART for $15.00. For this you will receive a
fully registered version (latest) and one (1) free update. You may also
receive other doors or be ask to become a beta test site and as such, you
will receive any doors which you test free of charge. I believe that sysops
are honest and that the shareware concept can work with your help.
Thanks .... and enjoy!
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A N S I A R T
ANSIART is an on-line door which allows users to draw color pictures on thier
screen. There are 7 different colors and 4 shades available for each color.
Users move the "paint brush" using the cursor keys (NUMLOCK ON). Pressing
"P" toggles "Paint" mode on & off. Options allow changing colors (7 total)
and 4 different shades of each color by pressing "S" (shade). There are
different "brush" characters available by pressing "/", but 'S'hades are only
offered on the block style brush characters. Text may be entered by pressing
"T" and then typing in text at the cursor position. Users can clear the screen,
or save thier drawing(s) which will be loaded automatically the next time they
use the door. The user's name is saved at the bottom of the drawing kinda'
like signing it! Also included is the option to "Tour" the gallery of art
created by other users.
(See notes later in text about the SAVE option.)
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INVOKING ANSIART:
ANSIART takes only one command line parameter, this is the path and name of
the configuration file "ANSIART.CFG" A sample call would be similar to the
following:
C:\WILDCAT\> ANSIART ANSIART.CFG
Inside the .CFG file are 4 lines:
1 - BBS Name
2 - SYSOP Name
3 - Path and name of the CALLINFO.BBS file.
4 - Picture save option (NONE, SINGLE, MULTIPLE)
SAVE OPTION:
The picture save option lets the Sysop allow or disallow picture saving.
A "SINGLE" on this line will allow users to save thier pictures (1 per user). A
"NONE" will not allow a save. On systems with limited disk space, saving can
be disabled by this method. A "MULTIPLE" will allow a user to save as many as
they wish. The "MULTIPLE" files will be named by the month, day, hour, and
minute.
Example:
11201016.AAP
This is an ANSIART picture file created on NOV. 11th at 10:16 AM
The SINGLE files will be named using the user's name where blanks will be
filled with a "_" character. And that file will be loaded for the user
the next time they use the door.
Example:
User's name: John Smith
File name: HN_SMITH.AAP
Sample ANSIART.CFG file:
Waterfront West Wildcat!
Art Pike
C:\WILDCAT\CALLINFO.BBS
MULTIPLE
You may add more than four lines in this file as comments etc. but only
the first four will be used by ANSIART.
A sample door calling batch file for ANSIART might look something like this:
CD\AART
ANSIART ANSIART.CFG
CD\WILDCAT
CAT
Using this type of calling and keeping ANSIART files in a separate directory
(in this case AART) allows you to keep all the art files (.AAP) seperated
from your other files.
ERROR HANDLING:
Error handling was given special consideration since a "locked board"
is no fun! If an error occurs that is not within the expected types, the
error will be appended to a file called ANSIART.ERR which will include the
date, time, and type of error encountered. After the error is logged, ANSIART
will return control to DOS where Wildcat! will be executed.
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LOCAL MODE:
If the command line parameter is omitted, you can run ANSIART in the local
mode to make your own pictures. Instructions are printed on the screen, so
try it out!
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**NOTE** ANSIART requires that a driver like ANSI.SYS be installed
on the BBS system PC.
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Special thanks to the following sysops:
Jim Raridan of ART/ONLINE who suggested and beta tested this door,
Art Pike of Waterfront West Wildcat! who is my main Beta tester
for doors and just about everything else I write!
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Leave questions or comments for me on Waterfront West Wildcat!
3,12,24,9600 USR HST 24Hrs (505)-523-4528
Leave [M]essage for: John Qualtrough
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