The following is a list of Ammended documentation. This is a rough draft of the lastest changes to AmiExpress, If your revision date is shown on this list, then you have the listed features as well a previously dated features. Due to the quickness in which changes are made to the BBS we will be providing this file for your support. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 01-16-92 BBS now creates BBS:Screens/,BBS:Screens/BullBatch,BBS:Nodex/Screens, BBS:Nodex/Screens/BullBatch directories if they do not exist. Added The ability for AmiExpress to select Random Logons and Logoffs. You can now add Logon1.txt,etc.. to either the BBS:Nodex/Screens directory or the BBS:Screens directory. When Powering up AmiExpress it will check to see if there is Logons in BBS:Nodex/Screens, if not then it will check BBS:Screens for Logon1.txt, If not there then if will look for BBS:Nodex/Logon.txt to determine which Logons should be shown. AmiExpress has an AutoDetection routine which will check the number of Logons in either BBS:Nodex/Screens or BBS:Screens and Randomly pick a logon each time a user signs on. This works the same for logoff.txt as well. 01-16-92 Added BullBatch rountines to AmiExpress. This allows you to substitute a Bull.Batch file which contains a path to all the Bull.txt files you wish to show. We have made AmiExpress to automatically create BBS:Screens/BullBatch and BBS:Nodex/Screens/BullBatch directories for your convenience. 01-16-92 Modified the StripAnsi routines to use a larger Buffer so when using one Bitplane there is less of a chance of loosing screen output. NOTE: We strongly recommend using 1 bitplane now. The speed of the BBS increases dramatically. 01-16-92 Zoom now includes public messages between 2 other users. 01-18-92 Enhance the Messagebase to allow editing of the MessageBase headerfile. When reading a message, press 'EH' to edit the header. 01-19-92 Modified AmiExpress to use LZ instead of Lharc, so if you do not have LZ unselect the LZH option in the config file. LZ will also check the LHA files. 01-20-92 Hopefully fixed bug with RESERVE FOR A USER. Also Fixed prob with LZ checking LZH and LHA files... Also allowed for LZ to check LZA files. 01-21-92 Made a new commandline option '-l' to force AmiExpress into launching an Interlace Screen regardless of specified screen size. Doing this allows for a Sysop to view 2 nodes at a time. hehehe 01-21-92 Fixed Bug with LZ checks of LZH,LHA and LZA files, The version dated Jan 20 was not a good one., It caused all LZH,LHA, & LZA files to fail thier checks. (Sorry about this one). 01-23-92 Fixed bug with MsgBase, this bug existed for many revisions. When using the DeleteMsg command in the MsgBase, the routine wouldn't lock the MsgBase, which caused ovewrites to the MailStat files, This was probably not to noticeable with single node BBSs I believe this bug has been since version 1.1q. 01-28-92 Fix serial init routines. restored version 1.1t serial init sequence. V1.0v ----- 01-28-92 Changed the customcommands file format to include the access level at which you wish users to be able to access a door. *** IMPORTANT *** Users getting an update must edit their custom commands files and add a 3 digit access level after the door type. NO SPACES ALLOWED... If you do not do this nobody will be able to Access the doors. IE: WHO X050doors:who/who 01-28-92 Modified Randomization of logons and logoffs. 02-06-92 Fixed a bug in the upload routines, in which if a user inserted a description of a file and then aborted the upload prior to it starting, he would no longer be able to re-enter the description. Thanx to BAMBAM and Freddy Krueger for spotting this one. 02-06-92 Bull.Batch, bullbatch was released in an earlier update but was not explained very well. So here is the scoop. Conferences and Node directories allow a file called Bull.txt. This file is an ASCII file showing anything you wish the user to see when they enter the BBS or join a conference. There was a limitation to this. It would only allow one main bulletin per conference and one main bulletin for each node. Due to popular opinion, we added the capability for sysops to use as many bulletins as they wish. Instead of having a file called Bull.txt in your conference directory, you can now have a file Bull.batch. Bull.batch would only contain a paths and filenames of all the Bulletins you wish to show. Here is an example of our bull.batch file. Bull.batch -----------v BBS:Screens/BullBatch/1Bull BBS:Screens/BullBatch/2Bull50 This indicates that there are some bulletins that need to be shown in the BBS:Screens/BullBatch directory: 1Bull.txt and 2Bull50.txt, The 50 inidicates that a user must have an access level of 50 to view that particular bulletin. Hope this has cleared things up. 02-06-92 Added the ANSI ClearScreen to the AwaitLogon screen, I removed it in an earlier version. SPECIAL NOTE: Use the '-t' option on the commandline, there is a prob with use RAM: for some routines in AmiExpress, so till I solve this use the '-t' option. If you do not use this option you may experience GURU probs and also have to ColdBoot your system.