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- Program Request V1.1 by James Joyce
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-
- - A door for Max's BBS (all versions I think - have'nt had the chance to test
- on anything but 1.52 ) and it'll probably work on Paragon to - I have no idea.
- I've never even seen Paragon, let alone tried to use it. Anyway...
-
- - This door has one main purpose - to provide an easy way for users of a BBS
- to make requests to other users for certain files. All you do is hit the key
- connected with the door, and the options come up to either make a request,
- read all current requests, or quit the program. Thus you can see what others
- want, and upload for them if you can, or list something that you want and see
- if anybody else has it. Simple.
-
- - To set the door up, simply place it in one of the menus as function 34 (Door
- program option), and let it go. When someone tries to list all the requests,
- the program looks for a file called 'ProgReq.log', in the file area where you
- have Doors directory chosen as per the config in Maxs. It basically works with
- how the BBS comes set up in the 1.52 archive. If the file ain't there, it
- notifies the user, and continues. It creates the file when the first request
- is placed in it.
-
- - To remove requests, which the sysop should do regularly when he knows a file
- has been uploaded, you simply get a text editor, and delete that request from
- the file 'ProgReq.log' - it's saved as a normal text file, so editing it is
- easy. I couldn't be bothered to put in a 'remove request' option to the prog.,
- maybe in later versions (if any).
-
- - One new option for 1.1 - now if you want to have your own ansi screen for
- the options menu (ie q, l, and r) you can by calling it ProgReq.ANSI, and
- placing it in the directory where your doors are set to (ie the same place
- as where the program requests get saved to). It will look for this, load it
- if it's there, or just use the default options if it's not. I will make all
- the ansi lines user definable in the next version (I got exams etc. - time
- is not freely available). Only the options screen is definable at the moment.
-
- - The biggest reason I wrote this is because the mail system is no good for
- file requests - it's too wastelful and cumbersome. It is based on an idea I
- saw on an IBM BBS (yeah, sad I know).
-
- - My thanks go to Anthony Barrett - love your BBS. Shame you had to give it
- away for a life. I know of some guys looking at reviving the Max's BBS - hope
- that goes through!! Also thanks to whoever released the C code for accessing
- the BBS - just what I needed.
-
- James Joyce, 2223300493.
-
- - Future updates possibly include better ANSI coding (this is pretty poor, I
- know), deletable requests, configuration option and other stuff.
-
- - I have a BBS going online in June - Extreme Graffitti. Updates and other
- will be available there. The number will be (don't call till June) 4499621.
-
- History
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- 1.0 Initial release. Thought it had no probs...
-
- 1.1 Fixed bug with where it saved to - if directory BBS:logfiles didn't
- exist, it crashed the machine. Sorry. Also made it semi user definable
- for ansi screens.
-