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BRB(BeRightBack), v1.70 & Handle Bars, v1.70 README Files by Dotoran!
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What are they?
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BRB - A command your users can use to let you and other users know that
they're around, but temporarily away from the computer.
Handle_Bars - Creates a BAR GRAPH using the users HANDLE as its data
source. No two handles will generate the same Graph.
How do I install them?
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BRB - Add this line to your "Available Everywhere" menu in BBSMENU:
BRB, Be Right Back `1- | {#0 pfiles:BRB}
^ ^
Access Groups -------' `--- Control-Q character
The `1- represents Access Levels that can USE the BRB command.
You will need to reload your BBSTEXT, using RAMIGA-T, before
the BRB command is activated.
Move the BRB file into your PFILES: directory.
Handle_Bars - Add this line somewhere in your Logon, like "sys.welcome":
{#0 pfiles:Handle_Bars}
^
`--- Control-Q character
Move the Handle_Bars file into your PFILES: directory.
What do they really do?
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BRB - Upon typing "BRB" from any prompt, the user will be presented with
a line of text telling them to press their RETURN key when they
get back.
To ALL OTHER USERS, including the SysOp, they will be told that
this user will "Be Right Back!" when they do a WHO, or when the
SysOp views either the Status Window, or the Control Window.
v1.5 Enhancements:
- The user will now be asked WHERE they are going, and this info
will be used temporarily for that user's WHO Banner.
- If the user presses RETURN/ENTER, instead of entering WHERE they
are going, one of ten built in "WHERE"'s will be used.
- The user will then be shown a WHO display, THEN the "Press RETURN
When You Get Back..." Message.
- When the user DOES press RETURN, they will be shown an updated
WHO display, then be taken back into the system.
- The WHO Displays were added mainly so the USER could see what the
BRB display looks like, as well as everybody else.
- Upon leaving BRB, the user's WHO Banner is restored to it's
previous contents. NOTE, however, that if the user loses carrier,
the temporary WHO Banner will become their REAL WHO Banner.
- It is possible to edit, add, or delete random WHERE sayings within
the program itself. You should be able to figure out how things
are set up just by looking at the code. Max length for each saying
is 37 characters, and if you add or delete sayings, make sure you
update the "tot" variable to tell the program that!
v1.70 Enhancements:
- Two new variables were added that allow the Sysop to specify which
WHO command they wish to be displayed when a user initially leaves
as well as which one they wish displayed when the user comes back.
I added this mainly for users of my CNet Who Replacement package,
so you might wish to show the SHORT who on their way OUT, but the
LONG who on their way back in, etc.
Handle_Bars - Upon entering the "Handle_Bars" program, the user will be
shown a graphic representation of their own Handle. Depending
on how many letters, which letters, etc. will determine how
long each horizontal bar will be and which color each bar
will be. Same letters produce same bar results. Spaces within
handles are treated as dead space and will be shown as a gap
in the graph.
v.15 Enhancements:
- The "Press ENTER to quit..." prompt was replaced with a Line Menu:
(H)andle, (T)ext, or [Q]uit:
- Handle will ask the user for the ID Number of another account, and
will use THAT Accounts Handle for it's data. This way, the users
can see what their buddies handle looks like, etc.
- Text will ask for a 16 character text string and use IT for the
data. Most punctuation SHOULD be stripped, and any that's NOT will
be acted upon the same as a space(dead space; gap). This way, the
user could try other words, perhaps real names, places, etc.
- You can edit the "shape" variable near the beginning of the code
to change the shape that's used to generate the actual BARS inside
the graph.
v1.70 Enhancements:
- Only change made here was to convert the TEXT string entered by
the user into UPPER case, as I found that lowercase letters would
come up looking like spaces(gaps) in the graph output.
Acknowledgements:
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No actual names(as I can't recall them), but these changes were added
from suggestions I had either been given from other SysOps, or changes I
had seen in utilizations on other boards, or things I wanted to add to the
first versions, yet missed(like the Line Menu in Handle Bars)! Hope these
files will help add some flair to your bbs'!
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Just Two Quickies To Add To Your BBS's "Uniqueness"! - Dotoran
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