_. ______ _______:________ ____/ |______ ________ ________ ______ ._______. ._\____ V ______:\ ___/_\____ ____/_\______/_\ ___/____\___ \| | | \_/ ¬| \/ / |/ | | \/ /_¬\ \_ | |_______| |___ /____ |_____|___ /_\/_\_________| <----aC!-: |--¯\_______/---¯\________|--------¯\_______/ \/\/ :-TRE!----> presents BB-TopUl v0.6 beta code: BiLBo BaGGins/M!^RNX design: Shapechanger/DeZIGN date: 04-04-95 You now have the Betatester-Archive of the newest BB-TopUl version. There can be some bugs. If you find some, try to contact and tell me exactly where the bugs happend. Thanks. Information: ============ BB-TopUl shows the global TopUploader of all conferences. The aim was to make it fast and use only a view amount of memory. Speed depends very much on the speed of your harddrive, so it`s very good if you run a cache program like DynamiCache. The use of memory is very little. That is very important if you run a BBS with hundreds of users. If you have 500 users and want the Top 10 Uploaders, you only need 7100 Bytes for the datas of the user. And that`s only needed during displaying/writing it. During sorting, it only needs 4000 Bytes. You can use the program as a door or a util. It detects if you run it as a door from Tempest or from a Shell. If you run it as a util, it has some neat features that help you running it in the Text-Welcome file(s) together with other Bulletins. You can configure if you want screenclears, nonstop showing, pause a the end or want to have appended it to the exisiting Text-Welcome file(s) (no more need of joining). Everything is done with a Config-File. So it`s easy to handle. Installation: ============= Copy BB-TopUl(.cfg) to Doors: or where you want. Use as a door: -------------- Edit the Text-Welcome files(s): --------------------------> cut here <-------------------------- ~TD(Doors:BB-TopUl) --------------------------> cut here <-------------------------- Edit the Bulletins.opt file: --------------------------> cut here <-------------------------- [20-,*,*,*,*] =3 |T-DOOR|Tempest:Doors/BB-TopUl --------------------------> cut here <-------------------------- Use as a util: -------------- Edit the Logoff-x.bat files(s): --------------------------> cut here <-------------------------- Doors:BB-TopUl --------------------------> cut here <-------------------------- Edit the Bulletins.opt file: --------------------------> cut here <-------------------------- [20-,*,*,*,*] =3 |PRINT|Tempest:Bulletins/TopUploader.txt --------------------------> cut here <-------------------------- Edit the BB-TopUl.cfg file: --------------------------- Example with defaults: --------------------------> cut here <-------------------------- 10 // Number of entries to be displayed 1 // Output (1 <= output >= 2 ) 1 // Design (1 <= design >= 3 ) 0 // Screenclear at start (0=Yes, 1=No) 0 // Pause at end (0=Yes, 1=No) 0 // Show nonstop (0=Yes, 1=No) (only Util) 0 // File 0=New 1=Append (only Util) Tempest:Accounts.data // Name of the Accounts.data (only Util) T:Text.txt // Name of the outputfile (only Util) --------------------------> cut here <-------------------------- 1.line: The number of users you want to have displayed 2.line: The output you want to have. 1 for displaying it in 1 row 2 for displaying it in 2 rows 3.line: The Design you want to have. 0 for a random design 1 for a design by my own (looks like the Boss utils on /X) 2 for a design by my own (looks like the Pot-Noodle utils on /X) 3 for a design by Shapechanger/dEZIGN 4 will come soon as a design by Treach!/ArtCore 4.line: If you want a screenclear before displaying 0 for Yes 1 for No 5.line: If you want to have a Pause-Prompt after displaying 0 for Yes 1 for No 6.line: If you want to have it shown nonstop (ONLY UTIL) 0 for Yes 1 for No That is very important if you join some Bulletins to one. As the Nonstop command is a Toggle, you would turn it on/off everytime. 7.line: If you want to append it to an existing file (ONLY UTIL) 0 for creating a new file 1 for appending it to an existing file. With that you can join it to an existing file. For example you first create a Lastcaller Bulletin as Text-Welcome, you can than easy append the TopUploaders to it. 8.line: Path and Name of the Accounts.data (ONLY UTIL) 9.line: Path and Name of the outputfile (ONLY UTIL) Add a Banner in front: ---------------------- Just put it in the same dir as BB-TopUl and name it BB-TopUl.banner. Try to contact me for whatever on: ================================== Germany: Deep Space Nine, Sado City or Metal Decade USA: Dawn of Eternity Sweden: Interchange Switzerland: Dial Hard Changes: ======== 04-04-95: - some optimizing 04-03-95: - fixed displayroutine for showing banners 04-02-95: - config-file scurity checks added - some routines optimized - fixed lines for Userlength showing in Design 2 30-03-95: - bug in design fixed. - some optimizing. - made option to add Banner in front. - some minor bugs fixed 28-03-95 First release of v0.6 beta. - some optimzing - 3 choiceable designs. - new configfile. - door/util in one program. - configurable features like screenclear, pause prompt, nonstop