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- Instructions for installing this cdrom into a wildcat BBS.
-
- - This will only work with version 3.5 - 3.9. Please. It MIGHT work for
- later versions, but i don't know that.
-
- - You must NOT be shelled to dos. Exit wildcat via alt-x, not f-10.
-
- - BACK UP your \wc30\makewild.dat, \wc30\filearea.dat, and
- \wc30\data\allfiles.* if you mess up, you can copy over the new
- mangled filearea.dat with the backup version.
-
- - Change directories to your default wildcat directory.
-
- - Type:
-
- COPY <your cdrom drive letter>\bbs\wildcat\ins.bat .
-
- - This copies the ins.bat to your default directory. You have to edit
- the batch file to tell it which cdrom drive letter you have. That's
- the first line -- you shouldn't need to edit anything else.
-
- Run the batch file by typing:
- ins
-
- This program will adjust the "number of file areas" in the makewild general
- configuration and install all the file areas and paths in makewild's file area
- configuration. It reads the file \_bbs\dirs.txt on the cdrom for area
- descriptions and paths. It then creates a batch file that you run. This batch
- file uses wildcat's 'wcfile' and installs the filenames and descriptions into
- wildcat's global file database.
-
- The install program asks several questions. The first is the drive letter of
- your cdrom drive. This is probably e: but might be any other letter.
-
- The install program also asks where you want this CDROM's directories installed
- in your directory list. The recommended place is several directories after the
- last directory you have specified in makewild. (You want to leave room for
- expansion.)
-
- For example, if you have 100 directories specified with makewild, the program
- will suggest you install the new directories starting with area 101. It will
- not allow you to overwrite directories you already have installed unless you
- give install the -f option.
-
- The -f option to the install program:
-
- install -f
-
- or the batch file:
-
- ins -f
-
- will allow you to overwrite existing file catagories that already exist in your
- filearea.dat database. If you are installing this disc over top of an existing
- disc of the same title, you might want to force the new descriptions over top
- of the existing ones. For this reason, I STRONGLY recommend you consider
- leaving some blank descriptions after a CDROM in case future versions have more
- directories than the current version.
-
- I'm curious about suggestions for upgrading from one version of the cdrom to
- another. How should I 'uninstall' the disc? How do I remove descriptions from
- the allfiles.dat file? (WCPRO allows you to remove areas and the files in them
- -- you might have to buy this add-on from Mustang software...) Since you can
- only have one file with the same name, you would HAVE to remove these to
- install another disc with similar names. ...as always, contributions from
- users are rewarded with free products.
-
- * * Note * *: You WILL also need to manually turn on permission for users to
- see these new file areas.
-
- ----------------------------------
-
- If you want to just have one super subdirectory with all the files, you can use
- the 'files.bbs' file that's in the \_bbs\wc30 directory. The file with all the
- file descriptions in it is called allfiles.dir. There's also a file in each
- subdirectory called 'wildcat.txt' that has the file descriptions in wildcat
- format.
-