DCT Tagline Appender v0.04á
                             By Dan Traczynski
                             December 23, 1995


1.0 - Installation

   This door will select ten random taglines from a tagline file and prompt
the user on which one to append to his message.  He can also add his own
tagline, or abort without any changes to his message.  The program will
work with any BBS program that uses the MSGTMP file format (RA, SuperBBS,
Concord[?], etc.).  The installation has two steps; both easy to do.

   First you must edit the DCTTAG.CFG file, then copy DCTTAG.EXE, DCTTAG.CFG,
and DCTTAG.TAG into your BBS directory.  Please note that the only supported
drop file at this time is the DOOR.SYS file.  The second step is to make the
BBS run the door.  The following is sample batch file to use with IceEdit
(change C:\BBS to your BBS directory).

        ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
         @echo off
         cd\bbs\doors\iceedit
         iceedit /d:c:\bbs
         cd\bbs
         if exist msgtmp dcttag
        ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ

   The "IF EXIST MSGTMP" is added to the fifth line so that the program is
not executed if the user aborts the message.  DCTTAG.EXE still checks to make
sure that MSGTMP exists, and will terminate if it doesn't, but you can save
time by not executing DCTTag in the first place.

   To run the batch file from the BBS, simply change the command line of the
external editor to the batch file name.  For example, if you are using RA or
Concord and the batch file is MSG.BAT, you would enter "*C /C MSG.BAT *M" on
the command line.  For SuperBBS, you would use "C:\COMMAND.COM /C MSG.BAT".

   One last thing - any taglines that users enter are saved into the file
DCTTAG.NEW, so that you can "adopt" these new tags to DCTTAG.TAG if you want.


1.1 - Making your own taglines

   To edit the taglines in the tagbase, simply run COMPILE.EXE with the "/D"
parameter to create a text file version of the database.  Then edit the
created file to whatever you want it to be.  Once finished, simply re-compile
the text file back to DCTTAG.TAG.  Please note that the maximum length each
tagline can be is 72 characters.

1.2 - Sysop keys

    F1 - Shows the Sysop keys on the status bar.
    F2 - Invokes the chat mode (with line wrapping :).
    F7 - Add 5 minutes to the user's time.
    F8 - Subtract 5 minutes from the user's time.
   F10 - Return the user back to the BBS.


1.3 - Upgrading

   If you are upgrading from a previous version, simply rename DCTTAG.TAG to
something else, then type "COMPILE <filename>", where <filename> is the name
that you renamed DCTTAG.TAG to.  That is the only change from previous
versions.

2.0 - Distribution & Disclaimer

   This program is FREEWARE.  That means that no fees are allowed to be
charged for the distribution of it.  The program is also to be distributed
in its original, unmodified form.  The archive should be named DCTTA004.EXE,
preferably in LHA's SFX (self-extracting) archive format.

   Because this program is free, the author, Daniel Traczynski, will take no
responsibility to anything that it may or may not do to your system.  It has
been tested thoroughly, and should not do anything that it is not supposed
to do.  Regardless of this, if anything should happen, the user is totally
responsible, and the author will be under no obligations whatsoever.


3.0 - Comments

   The following things are not yet supported, but should be added in a
future version.

      - File-locking (multinode support).  I'll probably add this in the
        next version.
      - More configuration (like how the main screen looks and stuff).
      - Perhaps a separate tagline file for each different message area?
      - Five-minute warning.
      - Anything else I can think of or what people suggest.


4.0 - Credits/Acknowledgments

Garfield (Neural Meltdown - 604-255-5198) for áeta testing my programs.

Cameron Braithwaite (Mega Messages - 604-929-0365) because I got many of the
taglines from the Fido taglines area on his board.

Justin Bourne for the idea of "Select a random tagline from the ten above."

Chronos (Rogue's Inn - 604-924-0783) cuz his BBS is kewl ;)

Steve Lorenz for his great DDPLUS package (even though it was full of bugs,
which I fixed {well I *hope* I got them all}...)


5.0 - History

v0.04á - December 23, 1995.

This is the first "public" release.  It is a *LOT* faster than the previous
versions, due to the changed format of the tagline file.

-The tagline file is now stored in binary format, so searching for taglines
 is a lot faster.
-Added COMPILE.EXE to convert the tagline file to the new format.
-The only supported drop file is now DOOR.SYS.
-A few cosmetic changes.
-Added another 83 taglines to the database, for a total of 1591 taglines :)

v0.03á - November 10, 1995.

-Added the "Select random tagline from 10 above."
-And some other stuff that I forgot about.

áeta 1 - October 14, 1995.

Well this was the very first version of DCTTag...nice start, but not quite
good enough for a v1.0 yet ;)



DCTTag is copyrighted 1995 by Dan Traczynski.

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