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Bay Street Bulls Scoreboard Generator Version 3.5
Written by: Lance Williams September 28, 1991
Documentation for BSBSCORE.EXE
A Scoreboard Bulletin Maker for Bay Street Bulls Door
Written by: Lance W. Williams
SysOp of: Kadet PCBoard
P. O. Box 266
Camden, NY 13316
Operating at: 12/24/9.6/14.4
USR DS HST/V.32
Phone: (315) 245-3815
Hours: 24 hours/day, 7 days
BSBSCORE is really a great program I wrote to have a bulletin
showing the current rankings for the Bay Street Bulls game door from
Doug Peterson & System EX-10, Canada.
Over time, the scoreboard has evolved into a complete information
display for Bay Street Bulls without ever entering the door. The
bulletin now displays not only the net worth for the players, but also
several other important points of information for the door.
New Features in the scoreboard:
--> Display of 5 random stock prices to see what's of value.
--> Display of the top news story of the day
--> Display of the Bay Street Index (Dow Jones of the game) for
the past 5 days.
--> Now able to limit the number of lines displayed in the
bulletin in registered version. See the BSBSCORE.CFG file
setups.
--> New format for displaying the Net Worths:
Stock Exchange Last Date Today's Yesterday's Percent
Portfolio for Traded Net Worth Net Worth Change
══════════════ ═════════ ═════════ ═══════════ ═══════
Lance Williams 07-20-90 $253,395.00 $251,292.00 1.7%
The Values for Yesterday's Net Worth are stored in a file called
BSBSCORE.DAT which is updated the first time each day this program is
run.
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Bay Street Bulls Scoreboard Generator Version 3.5
Written by: Lance Williams September 28, 1991
To use the program properly, copy the program into your Doors
subdirectory. BSBSCORE.EXE has to be in the same directory as the Door
data files.
BSBSCORE generates two bulletin files, one monochrome and one
using ANSI graphics. The file names are sysop definable for the
complete path/filename you want the bulletins to be created in. The
file names are stored in the file BSBSCORE.CFG. See the sample
configuration file for details.
You will have to make the following modifications to your Batch
file that calls the Bay Street Bulls Door if you want the bulletin to
be updated when a user leaves the door:
Bay Street Bulls Door Batch File:
cls
cd c:\pcb\doors
bsbulls5 bsb.cfg
BSBSCORE <---- Runs the program (only line to add)
cd c:\pcb
board
The configuration file for the program is formatted as follows:
Kadet PCBoard <---- Name of the Bulletin Board for the Display
C:\PCB\GEN\BLT50 <---- Path/filename of the ASCII Bulletin
C:\PCB\GEN\BLT50G <---- Path/filename of the ANSI Bulletin
10 <---- Max # of scores to display (Reg. Versions)
Lance Williams <---- Name of Sysop (for registration purposes)
0 <---- Registration Number: 0 if UNREGISTERED
Nightly Maintenance Problem:
With the new displays, it is almost unnecessary for your users to
enter the door until they feel they need to do some trading. It will
free up your system and your users for other things.
There is one drawback to this, however. If no one enters the
door, the daily maintenance is never run. I have overcome this problem
by having Doug Peterson (door author), write a nightly maintenance
program called BSBMAINT.EXE and is included in archive. I suggest you
run this program in your nightly event. It works great for me. You
would have to add the following lines to your event batch file:
cd c:\pcb\doors\bsbulls
BSBMAINT
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Bay Street Bulls Scoreboard Generator Version 3.5
Written by: Lance Williams September 28, 1991
BSBSCORE
I hope some of you find this program useful. If you do find it
suits your needs, a small contribution of $10.00 would be appreciated.
New York State Residents: Please add your proper LOCAL Sales tax.
A contribution of at least $10.00 will get you your own
registration number for your version of the program. Just fill out the
form below and I'll send you your registration number by return mail
within 10 days.
The following lines are to be exactly as they are in the
BSBSCORE.CFG file. They will be used in determining your registration
number validity. These entries from your CFG file are CASE SENSITIVE,
so have them here EXACTLY as you have them in your CFG file.
BBS Name: _______________________________
Sysop Name: _____________________________
Where do I send the registration information?:
Name: _______________________________________
Address: _______________________________________
City/State/Zip: _______________________________________
New York Residents: Please add proper local sales tax
Send this form to:
Lance W. Williams
P. O. Box 266
Camden, NY 13316-0266
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