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Online Trading Door Version 1.40 Documentation.
This Documentation Along With This Program Are
Copyright (C) 1998, TLNSoft, All Rights Reserved.
This Program is a simple, easy to use, and easy to setup.
Configuration:
When you firstly get OTDOOR, run OTD140.EXE with no command line
paramitors.. This will activate the built-in configuration program.
To run OTDOOR a batch file listed below would do the trick. You can also
look at the example batch file included in this archive. It's filename is
OTD140.BAT.
----Start Of Batch File----
@Echo Off
C:
CD\RA\OTDOOR
OTD140.EXE C:\RA\NODE%1\DORINFO1.DEF
CD\RA\NODE%1
----End Of Batch File----
To run this batch file you should pass on the node number to the batch file.
For RemoteAccess/EzyCom this is how the command would look.
*C /C C:\RA\OTDOOR\OTDOOR.BAT *N *M
*N - Passes on the Node Number that the user is using.
*M - Makes more memory for the program to run by copying RA out of memory
and onto the hard disk.
*C & /C - *C invokes COMMAND.COM and /C tells it to do sumfin else..
_______________________________________________________________________________
Customising The User Interface To Suit Your BBS.
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Ansi Files:
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OTD-EXIT.ANS This file is displayed to the user just before OTD exit's back
to the BBS/DOS Prompt.
OTD-EXEC.ANS This file is displayed to the user just before the Mail Check
in On-Line Trading Door.
OTD-MENU.ANS This is the On-Line Trading Door's Main Menu ANSi file. You
may change this to suit your BBS's/Intranet's colour scheme
or theme.
OTD-ADD.ANS This is the little 3-Line banner at the top of the screen your
users will see when they go to Add An Advert. It's located
above the Advert Writer.
OTD-MSG.ANS This is the part of the Message Writer screen. It's the first
5 lines on the screen. Users will see then when they reply to
an advert or reply to mail in their message box.
OTD-MSG2.ANS This will be displayed to your users when they go to read mail
in their message box.
OTD-LINE.ANS This is used in only 2 parts of On-Line Trading Door. It's just
a simple line. On-Line Trading Door uses this where it needs
to just simply draw 1 line across the screen.
OTD-HELP.ANS This is the screen shown to the user when they press the help
button from the Main Menu. Feel free to edit this screen.
OTD-KILL.ANS This is the banner across the top of the screen the user will
see when they go to delete an advert from the Main Menu.
OTD-AREA.ANS This is a 3-Line banner accross the top of the screen the user
will see when they go to do an Area Change. This banner along
with most other banners should NEVER exceed 3 lines.
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A NOTE ON EDITING ANSI FILES:
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You are granted permission to edit any ANSi/ASCii file that the On-Line Trading
Door comes with. When you are editing these ANSi/ASCii files you should make
sure that you do not exceed the original length and width of the original
banner before it had been edited. Doing so may cause shocking results on the
users and SysOp's end, Mainly muddled up ANSi/ASCii Display.
___________________________
Other Files You Can Change:
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LOCKOUT.LST This file you can put users names and alias's into if they
abuse the On-Line Trading Door.
OTDAREAS.CFG This is a plan text file used for OTD so it can display which
areas the users can go into to read/write adverts. This will
currently only support 99 areas before the program may start
getting filenames confused and redirecting advert area 100 to
advert area 1.. This is easily fixed and fill be fixed in a
later version. I dont see the need to go over 99 areas though,
but if you need to, contact me and I'll make it support an
infinate amount of areas.
OTD-CONF.CFG On-Line Trading Door's configuration file. Change as you wish.
To make a brand new configuration file, just delete the old
one and run OTD140.EXE again.
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Contacting The Programmer:
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InterNet: Web Site: Http://www.express.bbs.net.au/TLNSOFT/index.htm
E-Mail..: roblo@express.bbs.net.au
BBS: Name....: The Late Night BBS.
Phone...: +61-3-9775-5092
Hours...: 24 Hours.
Days....: 7 Days Per Week.
Sysop...: Roblo
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.