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    °±²ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ²±°³ [PWA] Boards List [PPE] ³°±²ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ²±°
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                   Boards List v1.0 [PPE for PCB 15.2+]
                              Coded by Drake

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     As you have gathered, this is a bulletin board lister. I have seen
 many PPE's out there that accomplish this task, but all of them seem to
 lack one thing or another. I have thrown together a list of features to
 give you an idea of what exactly this PPE does.

  -* Dbase III+        This allows fast and efficient storage/retrieval of
                       data, rather than just dumping to a text file.
  -* Configurability   99% of the text, prompts, and colors can be changed.
  -* Interface         Lightbar/hotkey interface allow editing with ease.
  -* Manipulation      Entries can be added, removed, deleted, edited,
                       or packed by date.
  -* Identification    Each entry records who added it so that the person 
                       who added the entry or people with 'edit access' can
                       modify that entry.
  -* Transferal        The list may be output to an ascii text file and
                       then downloaded from the program.
  -* Dates             When an entry is added or edited, a date stamp is
                       embedded in that entry so that records older than
                       mm/dd/yy can be deleted in one command.

     I encourage you to take a look at this yourself, and perhaps use it.
 I would also appreciate any ideas or suggestions you have for making this
 PPE even more awesome than it already is ;) Installation is easy, so try
 it and see how you like it.
  
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  °±²Û²±°³ INSTALLATION ³°±²ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ²±°
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     Simply add the path and name of the PPE in your CMD.LST (found within
 PCBSetup), and you should be set. Edit the bbslist.col file to change the
 color scheme around, bbslist.cfg to set access levels and prompts, and
 bbslist.pcb to change the main menu backround.

     All of the default values work great, however you may wish to change
 the default security level for edit and delete access. The user who adds
 an entry will always be able to modify or delete it. And regardless of
 the value you define, users who have full sysop access will be able to
 edit or remove any entry.

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  °±²Û²±°³ LAST WORDS ³°±²ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ²±°
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     I just want to make a comment about this program and dbase routines.
 If you havent already, and are a coder, take a look at the DBase routines
 that were introduced in PPL 3.0. They offer a lot of flexibility and
 efficiency with file and data manipulation, and I found it was not very
 hard at all to integrate DBase routines into my programs. There is a 
 great DBase for PPL introduction file that was included with PCBoard, 
 called howtodbf.txt. I would be more than happy to share my source with
 people who wish to learn more about DBase or PPL coding in general.

     I encourage any suggestions or criticisms you may have about this
 program. You can reach me on my board, Nuclear Insemination, and I'll
 be more than willing to answer any questions or listen to any critiques
 you may have. Otherwise, you can catch me on IRC as '_Drake_'.  Lates.

     Personal greetings to Drew, The Blue Adept, Dupree, Bleeding, Warmaster,
 Marlenus, Steelflight, Acidburn, Phrozen Ghost, Xystus, Spectrum, Diabl0, 
 Dante, Cyber Angel, Sir Jay, Primus, Proximity, and Demon Lord.

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