Professional Join conference replacement
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!!!! Freeware Conference PPE !!!!

Well, I have decided to make this Freeware to all, and hopefully help out
those sysops who struggle with coming up with more money to keep their
BBS running..:)  

Anyway, all I ask is if you like the PPE vote for me in the upcoming
contests and such, I will be enhancing it as requests come in.

Also, you can telnet into my BBS to leave me a note if you'd like at
206.153.89.33, just say thanks or whatever...:)

Again, if anyone has any suggestions, please telnet into my BBS and
leave me a comment, thanks again.. Enjoy...

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Welcome to the Professional Conference replacement for PC-Boards J command.
Note: (Place this ppe in your conference display file like this):
        !c:\pcb\ppe\conf\conf.ppe  or wherever you decide to put it

This ppe will do many things for you and allow you to customize it to meet
your needs as a sysop, as we all know they are all different:)

Now on to the good stuff:

The first thing your going to want to do is place this PPE in a path such as
c:\pcb\ppe\conf, I would recommend it's own path.  Then you will need to
decide whether or not you want to divide your conferences into groups, i.e.
Local Areas, Fido Areas, Intelect Net, Internet Usenet news, etc..  If you
do want to have groups, edit the conf.cfg file to meet your needs, it will
explain the layout for that file inside itself at the bottom.  If you do
NOT want gorups, then just rename the GRP file included to something
else such as _group.hdr, that way it will automatically show all the
available conferences to your users.

If you DO want groups and you've editted the conf.cfg file to meet your needs
you can now edit the GRP files to also meet your needs as well, these
files will be displayed just before the groups you've defined in the conf.cfg
file.  Also, edit the QWKH and QWKF files to meet your needs.
 
Technical Aspects of this PPE:
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<>  Only will run on PC-Board 15.22+ OS/2 & Dos Version
<>  Groups are limited to 50, I think that is enough :)
<>  Number of conferences is limited to 16,200 for right now
<>  Lightbar support included in interactive mode
<>  Cursor keys and pagedown, pageup are implemented
<>  Ability to select conferences for QWK download etc, right from the PPE
<>  Lets the user reset or redefine their last message read pointers
<>  Built in QWK Upload/Download Support 
<>  Ability to Join a conference within the listing 
<>  OS/2 aware and Desqview aware, i.e., gives up time slices
<*>  Gives the user ability to still use PC-Boards Internal Select Function 
<*>  Can read in group, qwk headers and footer files by security level
     and by graphics mode i.e., (ANSI, ASCII)
<*>  Choose whether or not to enable QWK Download/Upload from the group menu
<*>  Say what you want to say for each prompt at the group menu
     and title each group name the way you want to

* = Sysop defineable, BY YOU...

Note: If you delete the QWKH and QWKF files, this PPE will use the identical
files built in internally to display to the user..


                        IMPORTANT !!!!!!!
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**Note: Also, make sure you have the QWK PSA installed in PCB from PCBSM...**
        this will be under User Info File Maintenance, then option "C"....
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If you have any questions or comments about this PPE you can reach me in one
of the following fashions:
 
Internet: jesse.godsey@microassets.com
Fido:  1:239/300
BBS: (517)356-3478 28.8