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The Hottest Icon Manager / UpDater Around !!!
A real Manager and UpDater!
(c)1994 RAMSoftware.
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Digital Universe Online!
WildCat 3.9 w/ RIP graphics
HOME of the
IconUpDater!
Door
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┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ IconUpdater │
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│ Copyright (c) 1994 │
│ With the most Features available │
│ in an Icon/File Login updater. │
│ And Great RIP Graphics interface. │
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│ ICONUPD.EXE ver 2.70 │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Sorry the following is not correct until I get my NEW FIDO #.
You can file Freq this program and my other Doors from my BBS:
DUOnline BBS (513)-860-1191 FIDO : I am awaiting my new
fido address.
Magic name: Program:
Poll > ICONUPD - for IconUpDater
DLDOOR - for DUO's D/L Door Plus
BBSADS - for BBS-Ads Door
RIPSL - for RIP Slide Show
WCWWH - for WC Who Was Here
SDPF - StreamLine's Fossil transfer
protocol enegine! You will
need this if you are running
under a Fossil driver AND
running a DigiBoard.
|=======================================================================|
| DUOnline & RAMSoftware Distribution BBS Sites |
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| MIDWest: Digital Universe Online (Cincinnati) |
| 24 hours 7 days / 14,400 connections |
| (513)-860-1191 |
| |
| SouthWest: Conceptual CAD Design (Tempe, AZ) |
| 24 hours 7 days / 14,400 connections |
| (602)-820-7861 |
| |
| MIDSouth: GiddyUp Go Truckstop (Dallas, TX) |
| 24 hours 7 days / 14,400 connections |
| (214)-557-4401 |
| |
|=======================================================================|
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| IMPORTANT |
| You must create an ALLICONS.ZIP (or ARJ) file of all your |
| BBS's ICONS...you can call it what you like, but you have |
| to have one! |
| For ICMAINT you must specify a path to your |
| working Icons Directory (usually in RIPaint) |
| of JUST your BBS's ICONS! for ICMAINT to work! |
| *SEE ICMAINT.TXT for more information on this!!! |
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INTRODUCTION:
This door was designed to decrease maintenance time
for the sysop, while still offering other great options.
The NEW menu driven ICSETUP.EXE program will make using
IconUpDater easier than ever before. See the section
on "Config Files."
IconUpDater is a great program to use if you are one of
the many sysops who is trying to get their uses to switch
over to using RIPterm. IconUpDater runs for ANSI and RIP
callers. And if you set IconUpDater as Login1.bat or
Login2.bat then your ANSI callers will see IconUpDater
and they will have the option of downloading your
ALLICONS.ZIP file & a copy of RIPterm if you make it
available to them as Menu Option #1, 2 or 3.
Note: for all callers, especially 2400 baud, IconUpDater
keeps track of how much time they have used while running,
then when the user is finished, IconUpDater passes all
the time back to Wildcat, so that the user didn't use
any time at all. You can even force your ANSI callers
to download RIPterm and your Icons before they continue
to your BBS.
Note for sysop: IconUpDater has many, many, many features!
If you elect not to read all of the text files in ICMANUAL
then you may miss out on some of them. The section
"Main Menu" tells you most of them. The most recent one
I have added is "+"... if you or the callers hit the
plus sign (+) key he will be logged off. Same as select
Goodbye from wildcat.
DSZ & GSZ:
You also need to make sure you have DSZ or GSZ in your
DOS path or in the same directory as the IconUpDater
program!! A shareware version of DSZ is available on
DUOnline for download.
SUPPORTS:
This program supports COMs 1 - 4 and IRQs 1 thru 15.
I know there have been problems in the past with running
IconUpDater on Non-Standard setups. But starting with
this version I have started testing IconUpDater on a non-
standard com port on my on sysytem: COM 3 IRQ 5, and it
seem to work great. In the confgi file I specified "3E8"
for the Base (port) Address and "5" for the IRQ.
DIGIBoard Systems.... IconUpDater works on DigiBoard
systems BUT! GSZ & DSZ doesn't work on DigiBaords...so
therefore I guess we can say IconUpDater doesn't work on
Digi's. But if you like IconUpDater enough to give it a
try on your DigiBoard, give me a call voice and lets talk.
We maybe able to find a Transfer protocol other than DSZ
that may work on your DigiBoard system.
OTHER STUFF:
You can create your own screens and use the 20 @-codes
provided with IconUpDate... see section on
"Menu File Names"
It is also a good idea to setup another BAT file to run
IconUpDater off your doors menu so that after a users
is online they can still get to IconUpDater in case they
need to do another scan. This is simple: just copy
your LOGIN1.BAT to DOORxx.BAT.
/||New note: A limit has been found... IconUpDater can not
//||handle more than 425 Icons... at least on one BBS... I
/\\||still have not tried to max it out myself... mainly
| \||becuase I just do not have that many icons to test it with.
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|_____ I am proud to say that I have cracked this limit barrier!!!
ICFILE is now called ICFILER..and has been totally
rewritten form scratch! I have yet to hit a limit
on it. I added over 1100 Icons to the BBSICON.DAT
file with NO errors! ICMAINT.EXE also managed and
compiled the BBSICONS.DAT & OLDICONS.DAT with over
1100 icon files!
02/27/94
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RAMSoftware Ryan Andersen 513-860-9669