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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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