LUCKY.PPE  Version 3.1   Compiled 10-22-94  ž  Upon release of PPLC 3.0
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Documentation   THIS VERSION CAN ONLY BE RUN ON PCB15.2 OR HIGHER!
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Files In Archive:

LUCKY.DOC   (This File)
LUCKY.HIS   (For more details, and history)

LUCKY.PPE   (Original PPE)
LUCKY.CNF   (Instructions for this file found in there)
LUCKY.BUL   (Created for the bulletin to show users)
LUCKY.BYE   (Can be used instead of the internal goodbye)


**NOTE** For more _accurate_ information, please read the history
**NOTE** file!


  I created this file after installing Bill Marcy's RUS.PPE v1.0.
I wanted the ability of a bulletin being created, and changing
the message to receiver only as well.  Lucky also creates a pseudo
database of who was flashed with the lucky screen and question.
Lucky will only flash itself once for each individual user.  For
more complete information, please read the history file.

  I really loved the idea and material of what Bill was doing, and
I credit him for this release.  Without RUS.PPE, the LUCKY.PPE
could not have been possible.

  To install this, so each user has a fair shot, I put this in my
LOGON file.  When the PPE is activiated after a certain amount of
times (as per the CNF file), the PPE makes a bulletin called
LUCKY.BUL of who was 'lucky', and when.

  After the Sysop reads the message, a Return Receipt is issued
so that the User may know when his survey was viewed.  We owe
them that much..<g>

  Any questions...  You can contact me via:

          Paul Lauda (LUCKY.PPE Creator)
          Fidonet Netmail 1:266/56
          Revision Systems +609-896-3256


          Thank you to Lucky's Tester:
          Mario Pozzetti - Lisbon, Portugal.


   NOTE:
         This file was not meant to rival with Bill Marcy's,
         only I created this for myself, and then decided to
         share it with others.  I thank Bill Marcy for his
         imagination and creation....

  *FREEWARE*
  *PUBLIC DOMAIN*

This archive can be distributed in its ORIGINAL fashion, with
its OWN AV stamp.  Please do not change anything found within
the archive and distribute it, without first contacting the
author.

--DISCLAIMER--
I do not guarentee that this file shall do what its supposed
to do for you on your bbs.  However, is does work on my board.
If anything happens which is not supposed to occur, you have
installed the file incorrectly.  Mind you, the only part of
the USERS record I read or write to, is PSA NOTES LINE #5.
I also read how many times the user has logged on, but I do
not write anything there.  Which means, I disclaim anything
that this program is supposed to do.  You take it upon yourself
if anything wrong happens.
--DISCLAIMER--

************ THIS IS AN EXAMPLE LUCKY.CNF FILE ****************
SYSOP
56
Y
20
1000000
1

; Line #1: Sysop's Name (UPPER CASE)
; Line #2: The Random Number At Which Lucky Will Be Initiated
; Line #3: Give Users Extra Time (Y/N) (*UPPER CASE*)
; Line #4: How Much Time You Want To Give Them
; Line #5: Extra download bytes you want added to this one call's d/l
; Line #6: The Code To Decide When Lucky Is Started Using Line #2
;
; PLEASE DO NOT FOOL AROUND WITH LINE #6, AS YOUR RANDOMNESS MAY THEN CHANGE!
; However, whenever you change line #2, make sure your line #6 is set back
; to "1", being that there is an external counter involved.
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NOTE: Also make sure that the SYSOP name is the same you use on your
      BBS.  Because if a user *does* skip lucky, then the message will
      be from whoever is on that line.