`----------------------------------------------------------------------' ____ __ _ _ ____ ____ __ ___ __ __ ____ ( _ \ /__\ ( \( )( _ \(_ _) /__\ / __) / ) / )(_ _) ) / /(__)\ ) ( )(_) ) )( /(__)\( (_-. )( )( _)(_ (_)\_)(__)(__)(_)\_)(____/ (__)(__)(__)\___/ (__)()(__)(____) .----------------------------------------------------------------------. INTRODUCTION: ------------ This program is for people who run offline mail readers that do not have a function to add taglines. I use it on Spot, this has such a function when you register it.. But I have not had the time to register it. But I MUST stress that I will as it is a great program. The trick this program uses is that it adds the tagline to the file to edit and then passes it onto the editor.. That way it can be used aas if it was the editor although I am sure it won't pass command options onto the editor. So to use it on CED you would have in the config file : EditorCommand "CED" if it is the command path, otherwise you would have to have the full path in there too! As far as I know it should work on ANY editor.. INSTALLATION: ------------ To install the program just : 1. Copy the randtag file to C: 2. Copy Randtag.cfg, Randtag.lan and maketagidx.lan to S: 3. Make a directory where your tagline files will be stored 4. copy the file Default into it 5. Change the line in the config file that reads : Default "tags:default" so that it points to the right directory And whenever your chosen software called an editor make it call randtag instead. USAGE: ----- To use randtag you can as shown above just use as a text editor. If you have registered with me you can make use of extra sets by adding an extra parameter before the filename which will be the set number to use I.E. : randtag MODE=1 ram:test Would call the editor with a tagline taked from tagline set 1. To define extra sets you simply change the line that reads : DEFS = "0" to read the amount of sets you will have and add one line per set in the format : SETn = "" where n is the set number. There should theoretically be no limit to the amount of taglines in a file but the speed of accessing them may be something to consider.. In a future release I may add some kind of index to them which would greatly improve access to the taglines. If you have any other problems then please feel free to netmail me at the stated address or phone the bulletin board.. Fido netmail : 2:254/264.0 (or .1) to Peter Kirby Internet Email : petekirby@aworld.demon.co.uk Also I must also stress that I will take no responsibility if the program causes any kind of damage whatsoever. 0.92 Update!! ----------- Since the rest of these docs were written I have changed a few things... The main thing you must know is that to speed up tag reads I have indexed the tagline files.. If you ever change them you simpy have to use the Makeidx command.. This rebuilds the indexes. There is now NO LIMIT to the amount of taglines and I have tested the makeidx program on the fidonet nodelist which is 3MB.. If you do find a problem then please let me know.. the only limit is filesize.. But this is so large you would be hard pushed to find a HD to fit it on, let alone the patience to wait for an index to be built! 0.94 Update ----------- Yup.. No 0.93 The changes were not enough to make a proper outgoing version for! Only major change here is the addition of the lottery number generator option. Controlled by the config command lottery. To add lottery numbers to your tags use : Lottery "YES" in your RandTag.cfg file! 0.96 Update ----------- Again no 0.95 due to few changes! Noteable changes for 0.96 is that Randtag will now show your name on each tag IE: ... Hey...there's somthing screwy going on around here. -E. Fudd .*. Go on, use these numbers Saturday : 02 13 21 23 25 42 !! .!. RT & Lottery 0.96b B00-001 Registered to Peter Kirby Because of some echo moderators I now have added the feature to show ONLY the tagline and nothing more. The command is TagOnly, to use it place in your configuration file : TagOnly "YES" This will over-ride the lottery setting. Command line usage has changed. Typing Randtag alone will give the output 7.Work:Blitz2> randtag Usage : RandTag [MODE=SETNUM] [(NO)LOTTERY] [(NO)ONLYTAG] Filename This will mean that if you used to run Randtag as : Randtag 2 tagname or something similar then you will have to use : Randtag MODE=2 tagname. This allows you to have lotterynumbers or tag only per area if your software supports it anyway! 1.0 Update ---------- Tested version of 0.96 Also removed registration.. Full features on downloadable version 1.1i ---------------------------- 1.1i has had all of the major text in the program put into a text file called randtag.lan which lives in the S: directory. This means anyone is free to translate this file and redistribute the archive in this state! Also the lottery number generator allows for different settings to allow for different countries/Or US state lotteries. This version is the first update to be made available on Aminet since 0.96! Also allows (Limited) Use of PGP direct.. IE: 'Randtag MODE=1 PGP ram:test' will call the command line marked as PGP in the config file after edting the file.. This is used to encrypt the outgoing text automatically.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================================== Peter Kirby -- The Alternative World BBS 0181 478-1296 ====================================================== petekirby@aworld.demon.co.uk