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BDAY_MAX v1.1
Caller Birthday Program for Maximus
(c) 1994 by John Medland
PHOTO 334 BBS! Toronto Canada (416) 539-9591 1:250/840
DESCRIPTION
A program which asks for a birth date from each caller and records it
in a database to provide Security and Age Checking (with SysOp-definable
actions depending on the result), and a daily Caller Birthday Bulletin.
REQUIREMENTS
GET.EXE In a directory on your PATH
FDATE.EXE In a directory on your PATH
BDAY_MAX runs properly WITHOUT these programs, but will not handle
the date calculations required to find callers under 18, and callers
with current birthdays. You can install it now without these programs
and it will collect birth dates from your callers and provide optional
security checking.
Note: If you can't download these programs from a local BBS, they are
available from 1:250/840 at (416) 539-9591 as GET261.ZIP and FDATE80A.ZIP.
CREDIT
Included in this archive are two programs by Tim Middleton. ONPATH.EXE,
which allows BDAY_MAX to notify you if it can't locate the required
programs, and TEXTFIND.EXE which emulates DOS 6's FIND, allowing BDAY_MAX
to use versions of DOS which do not have FIND exiting with an errorlevel.
Thanks Tim!
FILES
You should have the following files in the BDAY_MAX archive:
BIRTHDAY BBS 5,477 06-25-95 3:34a
BIRTHDAY DOC 4,735 06-25-95 3:34a
BIRTHDAY MEC 8,637 06-25-95 3:34a
DATECHEK BAT 544 06-25-95 3:34a
F2 BBS 923 06-25-95 3:34a
F2 MEC 1,208 06-25-95 3:34a
FINDBDAY BAT 1,269 06-25-95 3:34a
FILE_ID DIZ 237 06-25-95 3:34a
FKEYBDAY BAT 721 06-25-95 3:34a
GREETING MEC 1,257 06-25-95 3:34a
GREETING BBS 439 06-25-95 3:34a
ONPATH EXE 9,632 06-25-95 3:34a
SECURITY BAT 485 06-25-95 3:34a
SETUP BBS 7,118 06-25-95 3:34a
SETUP MEC 11,526 06-25-95 3:34a
TEXTFIND EXE 11,488 06-25-95 3:34a
INSTALLATION
1) Create a directory from your MAX directory called \BDAY and copy
all the files to that directory.
2) Place the following line in a menu in MENUS.CTL and SILT MAX:
Display_File bday\setup Sysop "\Birthday Setup"
3) The following two lines should be placed in WELCOME.MEC. The first
line is for Date input and Security/Age checking and is best placed
at the beginning of the file so that it shows up immediately after
the logon password prompt. The second line is for the Caller Birthday
Bulletin which can be placed at any appropriate place in the file.
Place the following two lines in WELCOME.MEC, then MECCA the file:
[link]bday\birthday.bbs
[link]bday\greeting.bbs
4) Place the following line in your daily maintenance batch file:
call \max\bday\findbday.bat
5) OPTIONALLY, place F2.BBS in your \max\misc\ directory.
F2.BBS displays a caller's birth date to you while they are online.
It does INHIBIT remote operations for approx. 4 seconds, but displays
nothing remotely. Requires Oracle.exe.
This completes the basic installation so that the program will ask for
a birth date from callers not found in the database. A Caller Birthday
Bulletin, with names of callers having a birth date that matches your
system date, will be created when you run your maintenance batch file.
To ask for input on EACH call, and to set the results for callers who
enter incorrect dates, or to affect the settings of callers over/under 18,
you must run the setup program and select the type of checking you want
performed.
ENVIRONMENT SPACE
If GET.EXE displays an "Out of environment space" notice, refer to the
documentation supplied with GET.EXE, and make more environment space
available on your system.
WHAT'S NEW FOR VERSION 1.1
- Now supports multi-word callers names, up to four words.
- Today's Birthdays (setup menu only) now uses "COMMAND.COM /E:512"
to ensure that it has enough environment space to run properly.
- Added F2.BBS to display caller's birthday while they are online.
- The conflict with SHARE.EXE has been resolved.
- Now creates the DAT file on first call. (Woops!)
DISTRIBUTION
BDAY_MAX is FreeWare. Please distribute it only in its original form.
WARRANTY
None. By using this program, you agree to do so at your own risk.