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IMPORTANT NOTICE
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"Shareware" is a concept where you have an opportunity to try a software
program before you buy it. Shareware is comparable to commercial
software in quality, but not usually in price. Shareware is normally
much less expensive because the author has not spent the many thousands,
even millions, of dollars on advertising that commercial software
companies do. Thus, the overhead is much less and your cost reflects
this. If you use a shareware program for a reasonable period of time you
are required to register it. Please honor the author's registration fee
and register the programs you use. Many shareware programs on this cd
required hundred's of hours to develop. Many of the programs you will be
using were written by authors who fully depend on the support of honest
users to continue making software affordable. Your registration does
count! ...not only to the author and his/her family, but also when you
register there are usually many benefits that become available to you.
Cream of the Crop...
...has included 6 programs that will make it easy to access this disk:
1. CREAM.exe This is a view and retrieval program that will assist
you in viewing the files on this disk, along with their size, date, and
description . You can mark up to 50 files to copy at once from a single
area to a specific path on your hard drive. When you are viewing an
area you can press the first letter of the name of the files you want to
view and jump to that position in the listing immediately. To run this
program, simply type "Cream" and press enter. Cream.exe is NOT for use
for any purpose outside this cd. Do not place this program for download
on any bbs or even copy it from this cd.
If you run a Maximus, Remote Access, Quick BBS, or Spitfire BBS, one of
the following programs will automatically set up this disk for your bbs
file database structure in only a few minutes. ALL of these programs
will AUTOMATICALLY copy (and correctly format) the Files.bbs from this
cd to suit the structure of your bbs and increment the file names,
placing the "Files.<x>" into the directory you specify. Please backup
your file data base before you run any of these programs. For an extra
precaution, you can copy your file databases to a temporary directory
and use your temporary directory to set up this disk. These programs are
NOT to be used outside the scope of this cd rom disk. Do not place them
for download on any bbs. They will not run from your hard drive.
2. MX_Cream.exe This is the program to set up Maximus BBS. Actually
it builds your "Filearea.ctl" control file then you can run FB to
compile the changes. It is important that your Filearea.ctl be
correctly formatted so that the last area can be located to provide
accurate file naming when Files.bbs are reformatted and copied to your
fixed media path. "Area <X>" MUST begin on column #1 at least for the
last record.
3. SF_Cream.exe This is the program to set up Spitfire BBS. You will
need to know the path to your Sffarea.dat file and your display
directory where "Sffiles.<x>" will be placed, before you run this
program. If you would like to set up this cd without using the cd rom
option in Spitfire, there is a copy of Sffiles.bbs in every directory
in addition to the Files.bbs that most bbs's use.
A special note about Quick BBS and Remote Access:
The file database structures are "FIXED" at a 200 file area limit.
Every precaution has been taken to start with the correct record number,
but if you have blank records, for example if record #23 is described as
Printer Programs, and there is no description for record #24 but then
you use #25 for Programming Files, these records following the record
with the empty description will be overwritten. If you don't have an
empty record before #177 then you will be prompted with options because
this cd has 24 file areas and 177 + 24 will exceed the 200 fixed limit
of the file database structure. The search for an empty record
begins with area #20 because it is assumed that you will always need a
few file areas at the beginning to manage uploads from users to your
hard disk.
4. QB_Cream.exe This is the program to set up Quick BBS. You will
need to know the path to your Filecfg.dat and your "File list" path
directory before you run this program.
5. RA_Cream.exe This is the program to set up Remote Access. You will
need to know the path to your Files.ra and your "Alternative file list
path for read-only media" path before you run this program.
6. PC_Cream.exe This is a simple program to assist the setup of
PCboard BBS. PC_Cream will copy the Files.bbs file listings to the
directory of your choice on your hard drive * AND * increment the file
listing names, ie. Dir1, Dir2, Dir3 etc. A directory listing of the 24
file area descriptions is included (under the name DIR) in this directory.
An Extra Feature!
The files on this cd include the description inside the ARJ comment. You
can simply run ARJ L <filename> to read the description of any file.
A note from the distributor:
All risk involved with using the programs on this cd are assumed by you
alone. Some programs on this cd, especially those that manipulate the
data on your hard drive, (ie. optimizers and low level disk management)
can potentially cause loss of data. Be careful! Reading the docs and
taking serious the warnings is the only reasonable thing to do.
All efforts have been made to insure that this cd is 100% virus free.
Several weeks were invested to insure that no commercial software is
present either. If you detect a virus or a program that is not released
under the shareware concept, please report your finding to Terry Blount
at 205-824-2552.
There are a total of 5,019 files totaling 619,345,467 bytes. After
converting the files on this cd to the ARJ compression format, disk
space was reduced by 60 megs.
A Special Thanks
I would like to thank Robert and Susan Jung for granting permission to
use ARJ to compress the programs for this disk. I would also like to
mention that ARJ has an option to do a string search on the contents of
an archive. As far as I know, ARJ is the only compression utility that
has this time saving feature.
Thank you for purchasing Cream of the Crop.
Terry Blount
Voice - 205-824-2552
Data - 205-824-2611