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TCB [Today's Callers Bulletin] v2.01 Robert Bingleman
Second (and final, God willing!) release version. February 21st, 1993
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Revision history, versions 1.00α ─ 2.01 ─ Catastrophe of '93.
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Version 1.00α [09/29/92] ≡≡≡ TCB debuts to worldwide acclaim on Sep. 29th,
≡≡≡ 1992. I had been working on it for just over
≡≡≡ a week, and it was tested for almost 2 days.
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Bugs:
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φ Parser choked on Ctrl-Z in CNF file, causing an unintelligible error for
anyone who used an editor that put a Ctrl-Z at the end of the file. Ugh!
φ Header colours were screwed up badly if colours were changed in the
SYSOPNAME or BBSNAME strings.
φ Spaces could not be used in border strings because the INSIDE and OUTSIDE
lines were not quote-enclosed type strings.
φ A couple of peculiar circumstances caused the parser to read log entries
that should have been skipped (invalid log-ins and so on), creating
especially uninformative entries in the bulletins.
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Version 2.01 [02/21/93] ≡≡≡ Quite a version leap. I see that there's
≡≡≡ a similar utility out there (LASTON, is it?)
≡≡≡ that's up to version 5-point-something. Sad!
≡≡≡ I hope he's getting paid for it! hahaha
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Fixes:
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φ All of the above bugs were fixed (or so I'd like to think).
Improvements (?):
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φ Added ANSICR and ASCIICR flags, so that a bulletin can be made a full 80
characters wide if your users don't have a problem with "wrapping".
φ Added TOTALC, HEADERC, and LABELC colour variables to set the colours of,
respectively, the "totals" line, header lines, and labels.
φ Added _BUFFER variable so that the sysop might play around with the size
of the file buffers that TCB allocates. The default is a (safe?) 5120
bytes/file, but can be reduced to accomodate low-memory or increased to
speed up file access.
φ Added $IGNORE block, where the sysop can define which users should be
excluded from the bulletin(s).
φ Modified ZEROC. Now, if the colour is 8x, the background of any zero-
value columns will remain as defined in the CONFIG line, while the
foreground will change to the 'x' colour.
φ Changed INSIDEC and OUTSIDEC to quote-enclosed strings (so that spaces
and colour codes could be used), added a bunch of other characters (to
accomodate wilder configuration options), and mixed the order around
(just for the hell of it).
φ Support for multiple logfiles (up to 16) and, thus, multi-node systems.
It doesn't work as fast as it might, for various reasons, but I think it
does work well enough.
φ Added MULTINODE flag to indicate whether multiple logfiles may be used.
φ Added CONFIG Field Type W to display the node that the call came in on.
φ Improved documentation, including a 132-column reference card.
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Black Monday 2 [03/21/93] ≡≡≡ No, no new version, but this is certainly
≡≡≡ a noteworthy day in the History of TCB; due
≡≡≡ to a ridiculously stupid mistake on my part,
≡≡≡ I just backed up a blank 3.5" disk onto my
≡≡≡ development drive. The most recent source I
≡≡≡ have is for a slightly mod'd v1.00!
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