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         The following is a readers comment to the editor that we
         wished to publish to see if anyone could or would offer
         assistance to this individual. Information for contacting
         him is provided at the end of this article.  If you respond
         we would be very interested in hearing from you for a
         possible article in a following issue. Thanks for your
         attention and assistance. Michael Gray - Publisher
         InterNational Online Magazine Bus. (501) 890-5150 (voice)
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         Dear Editor Michael Gray,

         I am a new sysop.  I am running Wildcat 3.9 (like
        yourself).  With version 3.9, I have RIP screens.  This is
        cool.  Very cool.  I bought the Telegraphix RIPAINT and I'm
        a decent graphic artist (mouse driven progs).

         HOWEVER, my problem is how much I don't know about both
        programing (Ripscrip) and exactly how Wildcat uses things
        (which I don't understand) like text variables and stuff
        like that.

         The manual that came with RIPAINT tells virtually
        everything except how to do things.  It has a wealth of
        technical information but now "how-to" info.  Also
        (understandably) it is not Wildcat!-specific.

         At this point, the only creation I can pull off without
        losing my mind are simple HELLO#.RIP screens!  Every once in
        awhile, I download a few RIP menus from MSI BBS, and they
        include a README.DOC.  These provide much better information
        (wildcat-specific) than anything else, but they are STILL
        too confusing.  I don't want the world.  All I want is to
        create custom DOORS.RIP, BULLETIN.RIP, QUESTION.RIP, etc.
        In my wildest imagination, I would like to create "dialog
        boxes" to come after the initial menu which would accept
        user commands (for instance a series of dialog boxes for a
        download sequence).  But for now, I would be happy to
        understand why I have to sacrifice the "plain vanilla"
        border around, say a door display, just because I have
        created a custom doors menu!

         I am not looking for any answers from you, per se, I would
        just like to know if anybody has (or might) publish some
        kind of text file that teaches RIP to INEXPERIENCED WILDCAT!
        sysops.  Maybye one of your talented writers could do an
        article.

         Your magazine and BBS has a reputation for being helpful to
        new sysops, I thought maybye you would know where this
        information could be found.

         Thanx and keep up the great work,

         Rob Walsh - THE BRIDGE BBS 201-656-4602

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