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This files contains information on the new features included in
version 2.01 of NETWORK QUOTABLES. Please read the full
documentation, QUOTES.DOC, for a full explaination of how each
new feature works.
Thanks to Pete Carstensen for his helpful suggestions and
comments and to all the other users who have contributed quotes.
New and Improved:
Command Line Parameters
/?, /H or ? - Displays help screen listing all of the
command line switches
/F - allows the user to bypass the date check of the
QUOTE.DBF file and force the program to load.
/T#S - where # is time specified in seconds, allows the user
to set the time that NETWORK QUOTABLES is active, assuming
the ESCape key is not pressed first. The default is 0,
which keeps the program active forever.
/S#M - where # is time specified in seconds, allows the
program to be loaded as a non-TSR screen saver. The screen
moves vertically every # seconds.
/R - generates a new random quote every time the program is
run. Ignores the fact that the quote may have been
displayed before. If this parameter is used, each network
user will see a different quote.
Parameters can be used in combination with each other. Do
not separate them with spaces or other delimiters.
EXAMPLES:
QUOTES /F
Will ignore the date stored in QUOTE.DBF and will
automatically load the program.
QUOTES /T300S
Keeps the program active for 300 seconds (5 minutes).
QUOTES /R
Picks a new quote each time the program is run.
QUOTES /S20M
Runs the program as a screen saver that moves every 20
seconds.
QUOTES /F/T60S/R
Forces the program to run, keeps the quote displayed for 60
seconds and picks a new random quote.
QUOTE.DBF File Location
A file location feature has been added so that the
administrator can determine where the QUOTE.DBF file is
located. ***Do not*** use the program directory as the
location of this file or set the drive to the program drive
and leave the directory blank. A file with the same name
is located in the program directory and conflicts will
arise.
User Added Quotes
A USERADD field has been added to the quotes database. When
a user adds a quote to the database, the field is filled
with a "T". This allows the user to distinguish the
supplied quotes from their own.
Browse
The Browse feature has had several options added to it. You
can now browse the database based on a search of up to seven
words using AND and OR logic. An Edit Box has been added so
that the quote can be seen as it will be displayed. A Quick
search feature has been added so that you can quickly find
quotes based on the first 15 characters.
Select Quotes
Select Quotes has been changed so that you have the option
to have the selection take effect immediately or tomorrow.
Printing
Printing has also been greatly enhanced. You can print all
quotes, quotes tagged as used, user added quotes, or by
search criteria. Support for LPT1, LPT2, LPT3 and printing
to file are now supported. Quotes can be printed in either
portrait or landscape. Portrait is designed to print on
most dot-matrix and laser printers. Landscape requires an
HP Laserjet compatible printer. The page length and the top
margin can now be changed.
General
Added single key deletion of administrator message.
Completely rewrote all network record and file locking,
error capture and recovery routines.
General cleanup. Cleaned up all of the scroll bar menus and
screens. Tried for consistency.
Optimized and cleaned up code.
Fixes:
When printing Quotes, sporadically did not print used flag.
The message database was created without placing a record in
it. This caused any message that was entered not to be
saved.
Packing the database corrupted the indexes.
Could not change the menu highlight color when editing the
screen colors.
A user has reported sporadic problems (it ran on some
machines and not others) running Network Quotables with QEMM
in Stealth mode. When stealth mode was removed everything
ran fine. I tested the program with QEMM and EMM386 on
several machines and have had no problems.
Notes:
Printing with Shift-F7 still can only print to LPT1.
Only one person should print to the Capture.prn file at a
time. The file is wiped out the next time a print to file
is performed.
If /T and /S are specified together, the screen saver will
take precedence.