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N E W M E S S
for
T r i T e l B B S ' s
Copyright (c) 1991 By Jerry Halstead
NewMess is a quick little program that I created for my TriTel
BBS which does one thing and one thing only: displays new message counts.
Basically it will tell you how many new messages you've received in ALL of
your conferences broken down into individual conference numbers. Like so:
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Message Today's │
│ Conference New Messages │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Main 1 │
│ TriTel Suggestions 2 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
**** WARNING **** WARNING **** WARNING **** WARNING ****
I cannot be held responisible for any problems or damage incurred
from using this program. You alone are responsible for reading the
documentation and understanding the setup and configurations for this
program and how they pertain to your own BBS setup. No guarantees,
written or assumed, are given with NewMess and it is not considered
a part of the TriTel BBS distributed and written by Mark Goodwin.
If you do not agree with any of the above or do not understand
any portion of the documentation you are urged not to run NewMess.
**** WARNING **** WARNING **** WARNING **** WARNING ****
NewMess is a Public Domain TriTel program. If you find this
program to be a valuable addition to your TriTel BBS, that's great.
I created it to fill a need on my BBS and would love to hear if it helped
someone else out. The latest version of this and any of my other TriTel
utilities are on my BBS, Guru Mountain, at (603) 448-0198 (USR DS 9600baud).
SETUP
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You should have recieved the following files in your TriLevel
package:
NEWMESS.EXE....The main program.
NEWMESS.DOC....This file.
*************************************
Copy all of the files into their own directory. The files do not
have to be in any of the TriTel directories.
The syntax for running NewMess is:
NewMess C:\TRITEL SET >i:\tritel\display\logon3.bbs <--where you want report
^ ^
| \
| (Used only at beginning of day)
|
\
The directory with Tritel in it.
NewMess looks for MCONF.DAT in the WORK directory
NewMess has two suggested phases:
1) Setting the beginning of the day.
2) Comparing the present messages with the preset numbers.
Basically you run NewMess at midnight using the SET option which creates a
very small file in the directory you run it from (called message.set) that
is used as a "starting point". Then whenever you choose, say between callers,
you can run NewMess in report mode:
NewMess C:\TRITEL >c:\tritel\display\logon3.bbs
This compares your present message count with what was saved in message.set
and outputs a quick little report to the screen. Since it's to the screen
you need the DOS redirection (">") to send it to whatever file you choose.
------------
Here's the way I run NewMess: At midnight I invoke a TriTel event with
the following lines.
NewMess (TriTel EVENT Batch file example)
---------
cd \events\NewMess
NEWMESS.EXE C:\TRITEL SET >C:\TRITEL\DISPLAY\LOGON3.BBS
cd \tritel
board
The NewMess batch file is relatively straight forward. First it
switches to the directory with all of the NewMess files and then it
calls NewMess WITH the path to your TriTel files and the SET command. All
output (including error messages if you give it the wrong parameters) will
be put in a files called logon3.bbs in your TriTel display directory.
Then I put a line in my BETWEEN.BAT file that calls NewMess. NewMess
is amazingly quick so don't worry about running it too much.
BETWEEN.BAT
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cd\events\NewMess
NewMess c:\tritel >c:\tritel\display\logon3.bbs
cd\tritel
BETWEEN.BAT runs between every call you get on the BBS.
SUPPORT:
NewMess is supported on my TriTel BBS at (603) 448-0198 and the
newest version is available for download in the TriTel files area.
--=--=-- No refunds or guarantees. --=--=--