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Lora Header version 1.10
- Introduction -
Lora Header is a small tool, written for LoraBBS-OS/2 (not for
the DOS version of LoraBBS), made to beautify your FILES.BBS
just the way you want them to be.
- Usage -
Lora Header is easy to use. But before you can start using Lora
Header, you need to create a file called LHEADER.BBS. An
example file is already in the distribution package, but
you're free to leave it for what it is, and create a
LHEADER.BBS file of your own. The size of the LHEADER.BBS file
might not be longer than 20 lines. If you create a LHEADER.BBS
file of more than 20 lines, Lora Header will act real strange!
In the LHEADER.BBS file there are nine pointers you can use.
These pointers are:
^FNAME^ Will be translated into the name of the current
file-area. The size of ^FNAME^ will always be 55
characters.
^FNUM^ Will be translated into the number that the file-area
has. The number generated will use up to 5 spaces,
and the number itself will be placed at the left side
of the start of ^FNUM^.
i.e. [^FNUM^] translates into [1 ]
^FGRP^ Will be translated into the number of the file-group
that the file-area is part of. The number generated
will use up to 2 spaces, and the number itself will be
places on the left side of the start of ^FGRP^.
i.e. [^FGRP^] translates into [2 ]
^SIZE^ Will be translated into the total size (in bytes,
without cumma's in it) of the files in the FILES.BBS.
^SIZE^ will take up to 9 spaces when subtituted.
Unlike ^FNUM^, ^SIZE^ will start with empty spaces,
and end with the total size of the files.
i.e. [^SIZE^] translates into [ 1024]
^FILES^ Will be translated into the total number of on-line
files (off-line files are not counted because they
don't have any value to the BBS). ^FILES^ will take
up to 4 spaces after it is subtituted, and just like
^SIZE^, ^FILES^ will start with spaces, followed by
the number of on-line files there are in the area.
i.e. [^FILES^] translates into [ 16]
^UPDATED^ Will be translated into the date you've run Lora
Header the last time. The date format will be in
European style (dd mmm yy), and therefor there is no
change in size after ^UPDATED^ is translated.
i.e. [^UPDATED^] translates into [26 Mar 95]
^ALVL^ Will be translated into the minimum level that is needed
to acces the file-area. The ^ALVL^ will be translated
just like LoraBBS writes down the levels. After the
translation, ^ALVL^ will be 9 characters long, spaces
included.
i.e. [^ALVL^] translates into [Extra ]
^DLVL^ Will be translated into the minimum level that is
needed for the user to download a file from the
current file-area. Just like ^ALVL^, ^DLVL^ will be 9
characters long after translation.
^FLD^ Will be tanslated into a simple YES or NO. The pointer
holds eigther a YES or NO regarding the FREE download
flag for the current file-area. ^FLD^ will always use
3 characters after translation.
i.e. [^FDL^] translates into [NO ]
^DCR^ Will be translated into a simple YES or NO. The
pointer holds eigther a YES or NO regarding the CD-ROM
flag as is written in LoraBBS for the current
file-area. Just like ^FDL^, ^CDR^ will use 3
characters after translation.
As you see, each pointer starts with a '^', and ends with a '^'.
I've taken this character, because it is not commonly used.
Once you start using Lora Header, you are not allowed to use the
'^' character in eighter the description of the file-area of in
the LHEADER.BBS file.
The pointers you use in the LHEADER.BBS file are not case
sensitive. This means that you can use eighter upper-case or
lower-case, or use mixed upper- and lower-case.
While Lora Header is running, all file-area's will be
processed, only the file-area's that have the 'Hidden' security
set for the access level.
After you've created your own LHEADER.BBS (or you've decided to
use the one that came with the distribution package). you've
got to place both the LHEADER.BBS and LHEADER.EXE files in the
LoraBBS home directory. This must be the directory where the
files CONFIG.DAT and SYSFILE.DAT resides.
When you run Lora Header from the LoraBBS home directory, there
is one optional parameter you can use. That is NOCD. This
parameter prevents Lora Header to process CD-ROM file-area's
every time it is run. After all, there won't change much on a
CD-ROM file-area <G>.
NOTE: In the unregistered version of Lora Header, every time
you use Lora Header, you need to press a key to continue. In
the registered version of Lora Header this little 'nag' is of
course removed...
- Registration -
Lora Header is almost given to you under the shareware concept.
This means that you're free to use Lora Header for a trial
period of 30 days, and after that you must decide to register
Lora Header, or to remove it from your system, and never use
Lora Header again.
The price for a registration is reasonable. Lora Header can be
used for only $7. The registration fee has to be payed once.
Future versions can be downloaded for free from the support BBS,
or can be send crash to your BBS for a reasonable price.
To register your version of Lora Header, you need to complete
the REGISTER.FRM file, print it, and send it to the address
written on it. Please do send cash only, and no bank-notes or
cheques. Most banks charge twice the registration to cash a
bank-note or cheque.
- Disclaimer -
Lora Header is profided 'as is'. This means that the software
has no warrenty at all, except that it should do what is
writting in this documentation. If Lora Header might crash your
harddisk, or does any other kind of harm to your computer, or
anything else that you have, too bad.
Remember. You're using Lora Header because of your free will,
and you didn't pay real much for it...
- Copyright -
Lora Header is Copyright 1995 by Alexander Erné. Alexander Erné
holds all rights on the program, the source code, this
documentation and all other files that came in the original
distribution package from Lora Header.
- Distribution -
You are free to share this program to anyone you like. There
may only be no charge for Lora Header, other than the cost that
was needed to share the program with one other.
Lora Header may also be placed on any public or non-public
Bulletin Board system, and Lora Header mayalso be placed on
CD-ROM's containing shareware, without the written permission of
Alexander Erné.
Lora Header may not be included as a 3rd party program in an
other package.
Distribution may only be done in the original package,containing
an Authentic Verification, using PKWare's PKZIP for DOS.
- Credits -
There are two persons I'd like to thank.
Maurice Elfert and Henk Dijksma, both for testing Lora Header
for those few days it was needed.
In this documentation I've talked about two other programs.
Here they are with the rights on them...
LoraBBS-OS/2, the maker of (what I personally think) the best
Bulletin Board System for OS/2 - Copyright by Marco Maccafferri.
OS/2 (Operating System/2) is copyright and TradeMark by IBM.
- History -
Version 1.10 [June 10, 1995]
*I seemed to have fixed the bug that caused the trashing of a
complete FILES.BBS listing. Maurice Elfert did the testing for
this, bacauseon his system, everytime he ran Lora Header, more
than 50% of hist FILES.BBS lisings were trashed.
Maurice Thanks for testing, and aslo thanks for showing real
friendship. If the problem overcame someone else, he/she would
probably have turned his back on my a long time ago...
*In addition of the previous mentioned bug, Lora Header makes now
a backup file of the FILES.BBS listing. CD-ROM area's are backed
up as FA<num>.BAK, where <num> representes the file-area number.
Lora Header doesn't create the file _TMPLST_.000 anymore. You can
erase it from the LoraBBS home directory.
*I've added a new keyword to Lora Header. ^FGRP^ that is. It stands
for the file-group a file-area is part of.
*I've added a new LHEADER.BBS in the distribution package. This one
uses Avatar color codes, and it will beautify your FILES.BBS even
more than version 1.00 did.
Version 1.00 [March 27, 1995]
*The very first release of Lora Header.