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- DaB News-Maker v1.0
- Copyright (C) 1996 Darren Babitzke 1:134/294@fidonet
- Released March 20th 1996
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- - A easy to use News\Bulletin Maker for all BBS types!"
- - Choose from default headers and footers or make your own!
- (samples included)
- - Supports SysOp Name on bulletins.
- - Choose your own colors!.
- - Displays Subject and Date.
- - Supports ANSI & ASCII.
- - Lets you pick where the output files will go!
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- │ ▒▒▒▒ Introduction ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
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- DaB News Maker is a program that creates a News or Bulletin screen for
- your users. It produces a detailed ANSI & ASCII screen that includes
- Date, subject, your name, message and optional headers and footers.
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- │ ▒▒▒▒ Installation ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
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- Installation is straightforward. Just unzip the file DAB-NM10.ZIP
- to a directory of your chosing e.g. "C:\RA\NEWS". Then run NEWSCFG.EXE
- to create you own personal NEWS.CFG file. (NEWSCFG.EXE only needs to
- be run once unless you want to change something.) See 'Distribution'
- below for a list of files included in the archive.
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- │ ▒▒▒▒ Operation ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
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- Usage "NEWS".
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- Simply type "NEWS" without parameters to create your NEWS display screens.
-
- Ideally, NEWS can be run anytime you want to make a new bulletin. Edit the
- file MESSAGE.TXT with your favorite text edtor to change the message. Make
- sure the subject of your message is in the Top left hand corner of
- MESSAGE.TXT and is no longer then 35 characters in length. The main text
- part of your message can be 75 characters in lenth with any amount of lines
- you require.
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- │ ▒▒▒▒ Distribution ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
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- You are encouraged to copy this program and share it with others. If you
- can personally pass this program to another BBS I would be most grateful.
-
- Please ensure that the archive contains the following files:-
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- NEWS.EXE - The main program.
- NEWSCFG.EXE - Config program. <<-------Run this before NEWS.EXE
- NEWS.DOC - This documentation file.
- FILE_ID.DIZ - A description file.
- WHATNEW.100 - What new with this release!
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- │ ▒▒▒▒ Registration ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
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- Registration is cheap! Send $5.00 (Cdn) and your registration will be good
- for this release + all new releases for life. :)
- Registration removes credits from NEWS.ANS & NEWS.ASC display files.
-
- Send your registration fee to - Darren Babitzke
- 327 Falwood Way N.E.
- Calgary, Alberta
- Canada T3J 1A9
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- │ ▒▒▒▒ Support ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
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- Help is available by Netmail VIA Fidonet 1:134/294.
- Support and latest versions available from:
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- Split Personality BBS
- (403)280-2629
- Calgary, Alberta
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- │ ▒▒▒▒ Disclaimer ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
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- I am responsible for nothing! The program has been throughly tested and
- should present no problems when used as described.
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