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PowerBBS v4.02b
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Please read ALL of this file!!!!!!!!!!!
Files
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powrbbs.rtp Patch for PowerBBS
file_id.diz Archive description
readme.txt This file.
Who can use this patch?
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This patch is for registered users of PowerBBS only. If you have
the shareware version of PowerBBS, you cannot use this patch. It won't work.
This patch will update PowerBBS 4.02a to PowerBBS 4.02b. Because of conflicts
with the Early Experience Program beta, versions 4.02a and 4.02b will display
as version 4.01 on the PowerBBS title bar.
This patch will only work on PowerBBS 4.02a. You must have used BBS402.zip and
BBS402A.zip to patch your registered PowerBBS 4.01 files up to 4.02b. If the
size of your powrbbs.exe file is 1,001,984, you have the correct version to
use this patch. If you don't have this version, use the above mentioned patches
first. If your copy of PowerBBS was mailed after May 16, 1995, then you don't
need to use this patch.
How to patch your powrbbs.exe
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Before running this patch, make sure the size of powrbbs.exe is 1,001,984.
1. Shut down ALL nodes of PowerBBS.
2. Exit to DOS.
3. Place POWRBBS.RTP in \powrbbs
4. Run PATCH POWRBBS.RTP
5. Upon a successful patch the size or powrbbs.exe will become 1,002,496.
5. Restart Windows
NOTE: You *must* restart Windows after patching PowerBBS. Though you can run
the patch from a DOS window, we recommend you do it from DOS since you have
to restart Windows anyway.
What does this patch do?
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This update fixes a very elusive bug in the PowerBBS protocol that took
us months to pin down because it was such an odd error that occured only
on a minority of systems. If your callers were reporting
Runtime Error 202 (usually at logon), then they will benefit most by
this update.
This update forces your callers to be use PowerAccess 1.06. Therefore, you
must be sure to pick up the patches P101-106.ZIP and P105-106.ZIP as well
as the full PACC106.zip archive.
Place the patches in your RESTRICT directory, usually \powrbbs\restrict. Place
the full archive wherever you want so long as you update each node in Config
under PowerAccess.
When a PA 1.01 or 1.05 caller logs on, he will have the choice of downloading
either the patch or the full archive to bring him up to 1.06. Callers will NOT
be able to log on to your BBS without PowerAccess 1.06 (unless, of course,
they are using ANSI).
Features
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No new features have been added to PowerAccess 1.06 or PowerBBS 4.02b. These
are merely maintenance updates that fix a few small bugs. You and your callers
may discover that some PowerAccess screens seem to have features that are
not enabled yet such as the Download Count on the File Description screen.
Those features will be enabled with PowerBBS 4.1. We chose to set up PowerAccess
to be able to use those features so that sysops running the PowerBBS 4.1 Early
Experience Program (EEP) will not need to have use different versions of
PowerAccess. If you are registered owner of the PowerSuite, contact Russell
Frey on the Support BBS (not Internet) for more information about the EEP).
PACC106.ZIP
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Please do NOT try to create your own PowerAccess 1.06 archive using your copy
of the patched Powracc.exe file. The whole install program has been rewritten
so that PowerAccess will fit on a single 3.5" HD floppy disk. Please download
the full archive and use that one on your system.
PowerBBS for Windows (c)1995 by Russell Frey