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- RAUSERS Hints and Tips
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- Updated: 1 Sept 1995
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-
- - So your wondering why I have you tell the program which Users.BBS file
- to use for Dupe Checks?? Well if you run multinode or a network you can use
- a copy of the Users.BBS to process dupechecks on and allow the BBS or
- whatever to operate without a file always being open and read consecutivly
- which tends to slow down operations.
-
- - Remember that SETUP-->Paths/Filename-->Log Size is multiplied by 1000.
- IE: 50 = 50,000 bytes or 50K
-
- - If the file viewer does not operate then insure that SETUP-->Paths/Filename
- -->File View/Edit is a valid filename. Program will also check this one !
- If it beeps then it can not locate the file you have specified.
-
- - Although you can allow up to 20 users listed in the last call bulletin, 15
- users allows the screen to look good to your users.
-
- - If you ask for 10 or so callers in the Lastcall bulletin and it was working
- fine and then all of a sudden theres only about 3 then guess what happened?
- You purged or reduced the size of the ra.log file you specify in SETUP -->
- FILES/PATH -- > RA Log file. The program uses the log specified here to
- read and get the names and other info for the last call bulletin. If
- you are using a program like JAWS to reduce the size of your files or using
- AMU to archive them and then delete then your lastcall bulletin will be
- short after thie is done.
-
- - Make sure that the message board number is Valid
-
- - Make sure that you have SETUP-->GENERAL SETUP-->Direct Writes set to YES if
- you want fast screen writes.
-
- - If you think the program should write a message and it isn't then insure that
- SETUP-->GENERAL SETUP-->Write Msgs is set to YES. It must be set to YES for
- any messages to be sent.
-
- - If you ever have a problem moving thru a menu when using your arrow keys then
- this means that your system is low on memory so use the SpaceBar to move the
- menu choice bar. ( Usually only happens in Global and Query )
-
- - If you receive a Run Time Error of 003 after receiving the Overlay message
- you have probably not set the path correct for the log file. To fix this
- delete the RAusers.Cfg in the RA home directory and reconfigure.
-
- - To use the Proboard part of this program you must not have the RA environment
- variable set and you must have ran Convert Simul2 prior to running so that
- the config.ra file exist in your Proboard directory pointed to by your
- proboard environment variable.
-
- - You must also have setup in the SETUP > GENERAL SETUP > BBS TYPE set to
- Proboard for Proboard and RA for Remote Access
-
- - There are still alot of functions that do not function in Proboard yet.
-
- - Most runtime errors are caused by an incorrect path in your RAusers.Cfg
- file. To be sure that you have not set an invalid path, delete your
- RAUsers.Cfg file and re-setup the program.
-
- - If you receive a Run Time Error of 100 then RAUsers is trying to read past
- the end of the rausers.cfg file which means that you have an old version
- of the rausers.cfg file. Delete the config file and RAUsers will create
- a new correct size config file. NOTE: Check your path and RA environment.
-
- - If you are running a node from across a network and the base directory
- of the node is a different drive letter, make sure that you have set
- the RA environment to point to that directory and it must also have a
- config.ra with the remapped drive letters.
- IE: On server BBS is in D:\RA\LINE1, D:\RA\LINE2
- Line2 is a local node run from a workstation.
- to the workstation this is drive L. The config.ra must have it
- pointing to drive L or rausers will get lost looking for the stuff
- on a local drive.
-
- - Need to edit your ra *.ctl files ?? Then use the Dos File Mgr and select
- the .Ctl file you need to edit then edit it... :-)
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