Signature Rotator v1.0 Copyright (C) 1995, by Cutting Edge Online All rights reserved. Programming and Documentation by John Marx Cutting Edge Online (318) 537-7089 Voice 6372-B Kucinski Street (318) 537-7746 BBS Fort Polk, LA 71459 Hayes Optima 28.8k U.S.A. FidoNet: 1:3817/9 Signature Rotator v1.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- System Requirements The requirements for using this PPE are as follows: a. PCBoard 15.21+ (This program was created with PPLC v3.0 and will not work with any version less than 15.21.) b. Enough space on your hard drive for installation of the program. c. It's not needed but placing this PPE and all your PPE's into different subdirectories is helpful. This allows you to more easily update or remove a PPE with it's accompanying files. Plus if you place more than one PPE in a directory you may run into the program trying to use a file it shouldn't. This is all that is needed to run this program. Signature Rotator v1.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Overview This program came about due to the fact of Team PCBoard. As such this program is being released as FREEWARE. No source code will be provided as this program, even though it's freeware, it's NOT public domain. This is part of the JM_ PowerPack PPE collection and as such support will be provided in the following order: þ Registered Customers þ Non-registered Customers The reason for this is there are to many people leaving me messages on my answering machine for my FREE programs and not paying for the others. This has cost me over $400 in the last two months. Not that I'm complaining. I'm glad that my programs are so popular, but the registrations didn't even make it so I could even break-even which the wife doesn't like! Now if you call and get me on the phone, on your own dime, I will be more than happy to talk to you. Now on with the show... This program is designed to provide you with as many signatures as you so desire. You may have upto 32,767 signatures in EACH signature file with an unlimited number of signature files. There is no multilingual support in this program as I have seen no reason to have ones signature, BBS name, etc in other languages. Am I wrong? Signature Rotator v1.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Installation To install this program you will need to do the following: 1. First unZIP the archive into its new subdirectory. 2. Goto the new subdirectory and create your configuration file. I've included a SAMPLE.DAT which is commented and gives an example of what the configuration file should look like. The configuration file must bee called SIG.DAT 3. Now for the fun part. Lets edit the files which we will need. I will demonstrate with just one file for each. ????????.DAT file a 0-9 b CEOLOCAL.SIG c CEOLOCAL.TAG d ; This is a comment Line What it means: a - Conference this is specific to. This may be in the following formats (0-9, 0;1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9, 0;1-9, etc) b - Associated signatures (see below) c - Associated taglines (see below) d - A comment line (Separator) - Repeat for as many signature files you want If a conference doesn't have a predetermined signature file then the first signature file is used as it's the default signature file. ????????.SIG file a 1 b 4 c John C. Marx d System Operator e Cutting Edge Online f 318-537-7746, 1200-28,800bps What it means: a - Number of signatures in this file b - Number of lines for this signature c - Signature line 1 d - Signature line 2 e - Signature line 3 f - Signature line 4 - Repeat for as many signatures as you have ????????.TAG file a 3 b I'm an OS/2 developer...I don't NEED c If at first you don't succeed, put i d "640K ought to be enough for anybody What it means: a - Number of taglines b - Tagline number 1 c - Tagline number 2 d - Tagline number 3 - Repeat for as many taglines as you have. One tagline per line is allowed. 4. Now Add the following line to one of your functions keys: [drive]:\[path]\sig.ppe That's all there is to it. Enjoy! Signature Rotator v1.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Possible Error Codes There are several reasons for error codes. The main reason is something went wrong in the program. Even though all efforts have been made to remove any and all possible errors there still may be some configuration we haven't thought of. As such we've included extensive error checking in all of our programs to eliminate any and all possible errors. Errors will be shown to the caller on the screen explaining what went wrong and why if the program can determine without a doubt what it was. All errors will be logged to the callers log! This allows you to correct any problems that your users might not tell you. A lot of times when an error occurs the users like "that's nice." We feel that even as nice as it would be for the user to explain to the SysOp what they were doing when such errors occur, we know not to expect it so we've added this to the code as well. When it logs this information to the callers log it also logs the exact saying that it gave to the user. This gives you the most complete information we can. You may also wish to check out the "Frequently Asked Questions" at the end of this document for it may cover a question you are currently having about PCBoard and PPE's. Signature Rotator v1.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contacting the Author I can be reached on either my BBS or through my home phone number at any time. If I'm not home and you receive the answering machine just leave your name and number with a short explanation, if you can, of the problem. I WILL call you back as soon as I can and if you gave me a description of your problem will more than likely have an answer for you when I do call you back. When you do call us with information about a bug in the program please give us the following information. This information will help us determine what the problem is: 1. Program name and version number. 2. Type and brand of computer, hard disk, plus any peripherals. 3. Version of DOS plus any TSRs or device drivers in use. 4. Explanation of your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files. 5. Description of what is in memory from the MEM command (DOS 4 and above users only) or a similar utility. 6. The exact problem you are having. Please be as specific as possible. Having a printout of the screen and/or being at your computer will be helpful. The Cutting Edge Online BBS operates 24 hours a day, is using a Hayes Optima 28.8k modem, PCBoard 15.2/10 and the number is (318) 537-7746. You will be able to download if you wish on the first call. There are no callback doors. We do use CALLER-ID for just this purpose. I personally don't like callback doors and am sure many others feel the same. We've recently upgraded the system bringing the system to 13.2 Gigs online with 5 CD-ROMs. I'm available also on the PCBoard Support BBS, Salt Air. I only call once a week, normally on Saturday so the replies won't be as quick as you may like. I'm also in the FidoNet PCBoard, PCB-Net conferences. Our FidoNet address is 1:3817/9. If you have a problem, suggestion, comment, download or just wish to talk please call and we will be more than glad to serve you. We're not happy until YOU are happy so let us know if we're doing something wrong. If we're doing it right tell your fellow PCBoard SysOps, if not tell US!