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Date: 09-25-92 (08:55)
From: DAVID LEBLANC
  To: ALL
Subj: ON-LINE TAGLINE MANAGEMENT
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Can't resist the urge to have taglines but really want to respond
to a message immediately while on-line?  If you have tried Tagline
Express and prefer it as a tagline manager over say JH3 then you
can now utilize it's database, search or compose tagline
functions while on-line!  I used a PD script to use on-line
taglines with JH3 while I was evaluating it as a tagline manager.
Along came Tagline Express and after a while I figured out how to
adapt the Qmodem script to use it with TLX while on-line.  Here it is with
my suggestion you configure a separate copy of TLX in say your
script directory, so as not to mess up anything already in place
for OFF-LINE tagline management.
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; RipOff, version 2.000
;
; Qmodem 5.01 script for adding taglines to messages written on-line,
; using Qmodem and the Tagline Express (TLX) program.
; Based on a similar script written by:
;  Written by Maurice Crouse, 29 March 1990.
;  Revision 0.02 written 2 April 1990.
;  Revision 0.03 written 12 April 1990.
;  Qmodem adaptation written 24 April 1990.
;
; See TLX documentation on how to use the off-line taglines features.
; Setup TLX in QM\SCRIPT dir and run config using GENERIC mail reader option
; leave TLX.TAG as tagline file and create it as ascii with at least 1
; tagline in it.  You can also use just this file and not create
; the TLX database file if you choose.

string logo tear enter space tlxdir qmdir tagline  ;define variables
assign logo " *RipOff_2.000* "       ;logo whatever you like here!!
assign tear "---"                    ;"tear" line
assign enter "^M"                    ;equate for Return
assign space " "                     ;equate for space character
assign tlxdir "c:\QM\script"         ;put your TLX directory here
assign qmdir "c:\qm"                 ;put your Qmodem directory here
chdir $tlxdir                        ;change to TLX directory
exist TLX.exe foundtlx               ;see if TLX is there,
displayln "Can't run TLX."           ;if not, admit error.
goto goterror
foundtlx:
dos "TLX -g c:\qm\script c:\qm\script\tlx.tag" ;run TLX NOTE ascii TLX.TAG
                                               ;needed for .REP file
exist TLX.TAG foundrep                      ;verify .REP file is there,
displayln "Can't find the tagline file."    ;if not, admit error.
goto goterror
foundrep:
openfile tlx.tag read                 ;open .REP file for reading
readfile tagline                      ;copy tagline to variable
                   ;at this point TLX will allow you to go to database, select
                   ; or edit the tagline enter a new one or exit.
closefile                             ;close .REP file
chdir $qmdir                          ;change back to Qmodem directory
send "$space"                         ;create a blank line
send "$enter"
send "$tear"                          ;send the "tear" line
send "$enter"
send "$logo"                          ;send the logo
send "$tagline"                       ;send the tagline
send "$enter"
exit
goterror:            ;if we end up here, an error was made
closefile                                   ;close .REP file
displayln "Sorry, can't add the tagline."   ;admit failure
chdir $qmdir                          ;change back to Qmodem directory
exit
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Note the "logo" Is ANY name you want to come up with.  I urge you
not to make it any bigger so as to conform to standard practice
and use the two *'s to conform to the FIDO readable logo.  Since
this is an ON-LINE script I have set up a hot key to run it in
Qmodem.  I type my reply or message on-line and before saving the
message to the BBS I hot key into the script, choose a tagline with TLX
and THEN save to the BBS.  Finally, some characters CANNOT be
transmitted INTO a message while on-line as the BBS software will
interpret them as commands.  What works fine in a zipped .QWK
file that is READ on-line WILL NOT necessarily work transmitted as
characters through the modem.  I suggest you restrict your ON-LINE
taglines to the normal keyboard characters, not the high or low
ASCII.

®David LeBlanc¯
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