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Screen Debut to GT Power Network Message Bases
by Willie Robinson
This document is intended to serve as a quick guideline for
creating ANSI screens and uploading them to GT Power BBS
message bases. It assumes that you have read the SD.DOC and
have some familiarity with Screen Debuts functions. This will
be as brief and painless as possible.
Creating and Uploading a Non-Animated screen:
1. Load Screen Debut.
2. Draw something simple like your name. Be careful not to go
beyond column 70 or below Row 20. Just for this time. You can
experiment later. Too wide of a screen will not work. Too
long of a screen will cause the screen to scroll.
3. Once finished with the drawing press "[ALT] A" to build the ANSI
code for the screen.
4. Set the Code Parameter window to this:
╓─────────────────────────────────────────╖
║ ║
║ Code Style Compact ║
║ Code Width ± 72 ║
║ Clear Screen Yes ║
║ BBS Control Code ^E ║
╟────────────────────┬────────────────────╢
║ Enter │ Esc ║
╙────────────────────┴────────────────────╜
5. Press "Enter" to continue and the program will build the ANSI
code.
5. Check the screens statistics by pressing "F2". The screen cannot
be longer than 70 lines.
5. Once the screen meets the 70 or less line requirement, save it
by selecting F1.
6. With your telecommunication program, call a GT Power BBS.
Enter one of the ANSI message bases and select E)nter. Follow
it through until you get to this point.
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Messages available are #37 to 85. You last read #85. │
│ Check Kill Nonstop Enter Reply Scan Thread Quit Msg# Msg Area+,-: e │
│ │
│ Message entry in #6 - OZ ANSI Art. │
│ │
│ From: Willie Robinson │
│ To: ALL │
│ Subject: TEST │
│ Security: Kill protect None? n │
│ │
│ Enter message, 70 lines max., empty line to end. │
│ [-------------------------------------------------------------] │
│ 1: ▄ │
│ ^ │
│ │ │
│ └───(The cursor is waiting here for your entry) │
│ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
7. Upload the file you have created using the ASCII upload protocol from
your telecommunications program. The ASCII protocol has no error
correction. It's possible that an error will occur during the
transfer. If this happens, abort the file and try again. Should
your computer lock up, then you've got other problems. You must then
refer to you telecommunications programs manual and read. If you've
got Telex your in luck. Refer to the setup reference at the end of
this document.
Here's a list of programs known to work. Undoubtly, there are others.
1) GT POWER
2) Telix
8. Once the file is up press enter. Then press "S" for S)ave. Remember
to always check the screen once you are done. It is poor etiquette
to let a bad screen go un-aborted!
Non-Animated Signature blocks:
1. Load Screen Debut
2. Draw your signature in the top left hand corner of the screen.
Like this....
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ╔═════════╗ │
│ ║│ │∙││∙┌─╜ │
│ ║│││││││├─ <══════════════════════════════════════════════ │
│ ║└┴┘└┴┴┘└─╖ │
│ ╚═════════╝ │
│ │
│ /║\ Screen Debut will automatically size the │
│ ║ Screen as the Arrows show. This saves on │
│ ║ the code length. │
│ ║ │
│ ║ │
│ ║ │
│ ║ │
│ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
The code produced will not be sensitive to up/down positioning on
the screen.
3. Build the code as you did before by pressing the "[ALT] A" Build ANSI
code function. Set the Code Parameter window as follows:
╓─────────────────────────────────────────╖
║ ║
║ Code Style Regular ║
║ Code Width ± 72 ║
║ Clear Screen No ║
║ BBS Control Code ^R ║
╟────────────────────┬────────────────────╢
║ Enter │ Esc ║
╙────────────────────┴────────────────────╜
Press enter to build code.
4. Save the code.
5. Follow the uploading procedures outlined above.
Animated Signature Blocks:
1. Draw your animated signature block at the bottom of the screen.
The Animator uses exact coordinates to locate the signature on
the screen. A good place to start is with the bottom of the
signature block resting on line 20.
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ ╔═════════╗ │
│ ║│ │∙││∙┌─╜ │
│ ║│││││││├─ │
│ ║└┴┘└┴┴┘└─╖ │
│ ╚═════════╝ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
2. The non-animated screen page should be blank.
3. Press [ALT] A to build the ANSI code. Set the code parameter window
like this:
╓─────────────────────────────────────────╖
║ ║
║ Code Style Regular ║
║ Code Width ± 72 ║
║ Clear Screen No ║
║ BBS Control Code ^R ║
╟────────────────────┬────────────────────╢
║ Enter │ Esc ║
╙────────────────────┴────────────────────╜
4. Load the screen in a text editor.
5. Enter your text message above the signature code. Do not go
wider than 72 columns.
6. Calculate the height of the signature and enter that number of
blank lines between the text and the signature code. This will
cause your text to be pushed up on the screen so that your
signature doesn't overwrite it. The first character of the ANSI
code will look like an arrow pointing up and down. This is the
^R. Move it to the begining of the blank lines. It must be in
column 1 to work. This will avoid the BBS "More Y/n?" prompt from
disturbing the blank lines that push your text up.
Full Page Animated Screens:
If you got this far you can do it! Go for it!
Telex Set Up:
╒══════════════════════════════════════╤════════════════════════════╕
│Terminal options │ASCII file transfer settings│
│ │A Strip high bit ..... Off │
│A Baud Parity None Data Len│B Remote abort char .. 0 │
│B │ │
│ │ Uploads │
│C Default terminal type ......... │C Local echo ......... Off │
│D Status line ................... │D Expand blank lines . On │
│E Local echo .................... Off │E Pace character ..... 0 │
│F Add Line Feeds after CRs ...... Off │F Line pacing ........ 3 │
│G Strip high bit (incoming data). Off │G Character pacing ... 0 │
│H Received Backspace destructive. On │H CR translation ..... None │
│I Backspace key sends ........... BS │I LF translation ..... Strip│
│J XON/XOFF software flow control. │ │
│K CTS/RTS hardware flow control . │ DownLoads │
│L DSR/DTR hardware flow control . │J CR translation ..... None │
│M Compuserve Quick B transfers .. Off │K LF translation ..... None │
│N Zmodem auto-downloads ......... On │ │
│O Answerback string (ENQ) ....... │ │
╘═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛
Note:
If Compuserve Quick B transfers is set to "On" Telix may lock up. In
any case it won't work properly.
Good Luck!!!!
Willie Robinson
2613 Louis Blvd
Hephzibah Ga. 30815
Trademarks:
Gt Power is a product of P&M software.
Telix is a product of Exis Inc. and Colin Sampaleanu.