AREUSURE.PPE - Prevents posting messages in incorrect conferences
                    Copyright (C) 1994 by Joe Eversole

LICENSE AGREEMENT
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   You are hereby issued an unrestricted license to use AREUSURE.PPE for
   your PCBoard Bulletin Board System free of charge provided that you do
   not modify the source in any way (via any decompilers). You are free
   to distribute this program provided all documentation is included.

REGISTRATION
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   AREUSURE is released as freeware. That means that I do not require
   any compensation for your usage of the software. I would appreciate
   it if you could leave me a message letting me know that you are using
   the software. My addresses are at the end of this document.

   However, if you do feel like you want to register the software, simply
   mail me some money. Mail it to:

   Joe Eversole
   C/O HearthStone BBS
   510 Hobson Drive
   Mooresville, IN 46158-8366

   Apon receipt, I will mail you a registered version of the software,
   which I will upload to your BBS or send it to you via RIME, Fidonet,
   or via the Internet UUENCODED. With your registration, please list
   what you want your version to do and I'll try my hardest to make it
   how you want it. Be nice with me, please! <Grin>

WARRANTY
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   Simply put, there isn't one. I, Joe Eversole, cannot and will not be
   responsible for any damages this program may cause due to mishaps,
   operator error, bugs, programmer's sick mind, et cetera. By
   installing and using this program you release me from any and all
   liabilities.

PURPOSE
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   The purpose of AREUSURE is simple. With all of the many conferences
   you have, you are bound to be somewhere where you don't want to be.
   You want to leave a question to your best friend, but you are
   currently in the For Sale Conference. Sometimes, users get into such
   a rush, they forget to abandon the conference before leaving that
   message to his friend. This helps prevent the moderator's blood
   pressure rising to dangerous levels. This program asks the user if
   he/she is sure he/she wants to post that in the current conference
   and gives them the ability to abort the message before they start. It
   also supports the new long conference names. The PPE prompts the user
   to ask if they want to abandon back to the main board from within the
   PPE. I scraped the logging "feature" that was in 1.xx, as it was
   totally useless. For a list of new features are contained in
   HISTORY.DOC.

INSTALLATION
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   Installation couldn't be much easier. Simply unzip the files into a
   directory (for our examples, the files are in C:\PCB\PPL). Go into
   PCBSetup and go to File Configuration (Option B) and then to
   Configuration Files (Option B). Go down to the Default CMD.LST blank
   and hit F2 to edit it. Hit ALT-I to insert a fresh location to stick
   the information in. Make the command E, the security the same to use
   the regular E command, and the next blank C:\PCB\PPL\AREUSURE.PPE
   (make sure you use your path in that blank). Fast, simple, and almost
   painless.

CONFIGURATION
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   Configuration is as easy as installation. Go to the directory you
   stuck the AREUSURE.PPE program, and make (or modify, since one is
   included in the ZIP file) a file called AREUSURE.CFG (Why others use
   .CNF, I don't know, but .CFG is easier to type and looks better, IMO).
   On the first line, a Y or N, do you want users to be able to abandon
   the conference from the PPE. Lines 2-6 are either for names and/or
   security levels (Any combination of the 2 are allowed) to bypass when
   a person matching that name or level hits E, it will operate just like
   it does in the Main Board. Line 7 is a special line. If line 7 has a
   security level in it (and it must be a security level), all users with
   security that is equal or greater than that value will be by-passed
   (Ideal for Co-SysOps and SysOps, instead of flooding lines 2-6 to the
   brim).

   Only line 1 is required. The rest can be blank.

USAGE
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   The PPE is now installed to run every time a user uses the E command.
   The PPE checks to make sure the current conference isn't the Main
   Board. If it is, it puts the user in the normal prompts for entering
   a message. If their name and\or security levels match the above
   criteria for by-passing, the PPE does just that, and sends them to
   the normal prompts. If they are in a different conference besides the
   Main Board, the PPE goes to work and displays the following prompt:

   AREUSURE Version 3.00 - Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 by Joe Eversole

   You are currently in the alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork Conference.
   Are you sure you want to post this message in this Conference? ( )

   (Yes, alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork IS a real Newsgroup <G>. It's
   about the chef from the Muppets, and how to speak with that accent.)
   The user then is allowed to answer Y or N. If the user answers yes or
   hits enter, the user is sent to the normal prompts. If the user
   answers no, the program then asks the user if he/she wants to abandon
   the current conference:

   Do you want to abandon to the Main Board? ( )

   If they answer yes, they are sent to the Main Board. If they answer no,
   they remain in the current conference. The exception to this is when
   you have the first line of the configuration file set with a N. Then,
   the program ends back to the current conference prompt.

BUGS
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   As with all software, there is bound to be a bug or two in the
   software, even though there isn't much that can go wrong. However, if
   something does go wrong on your system with my program, please leave
   me a comment via one of the following methods:

   RIME    : ->5293
   Fido    : 1:231/1400
   InterNet: jeversol@iquest.net

   Also, I can be reached on Salt Air as MOORESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL.

   Or, via my BBS, the HearthStone BBS at 317-831-9227. If you report a
   bug, you will get a free registered version of the software (oh, yea).

WHAT TO LOOK FORWARD TO
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   Is there anything left? If you want a feature added, leave me a
   message in one of the channels and I'll

THANKS
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   Thanks goes to Don Adams and Mooresville High School for letting me
   run their BBS system for them. Thanks also goes to Dave Spendley of
   Uncle "D"s Directory (415-364-3001) for beta testing.

   EXTRA special thanks goes to Arcangelo Lubrano and the Caracas BBS in
   Venezuela for being the first and currently only registered user of
   AREUSURE.