*I  Files Ò BBS Options  e BBS Name  f Codes – g Date Format 9 h Time Format  i Send More Š j More Code £ Conference • n Conference Number " o Conference Name  p SysOp Name 2 q News Path  r News Format [ s File Name  Colors ã x Simple Format Ä °Text Color ¼ ±BBS Name Color - ²Sysop Name Color † ³Title Color Þ ´Date/Time Color D µSeparator Color ¹ y Print Paper Format < ºEdge Colors \ z Header Format   Create «  Edit €$  Export ï% Y Help Index k( X Simple %* W Printer Paper [+ V Header Í, U Program Information p. c Editing Keys D1 b Copyright 6 a Editor »: a Editor ÿÿÿÿ *B 1,Files The Files selection allows setup of configuration items that are needed by the program. Before doing anything else, you should go through each selection before attempting to use the other functions of the program. ^Help Index^ ^Conference^ ^BBS Options^ ^Colors^ *E *B 10,BBS Options This selection is used to set up BBS Options that will show up throughout the program. ^Help Index^ ^Conference^ ^BBS Options^ ^Colors^ ^Send More^ ^More Code^ *E *B 101,BBS Name Enter the Name of the BBS that the news files will be generated for this name will be placed into each news file entry. The entries in this field will be switched to mixed case--each word will be capitalized, and the following letters will be lower case. ^Help Index^ ^Date Format^ ^BBS Name^ ^Time Format^ ^Send More^ ^More Code^ *E *B 102,Codes Valid entries in this field are the letters A or P. Placing an A in this field will cause the program to generate 2 news files--one in plain ASCII format, the other with ANSI ^colors^. Entering a P will cause a single news file to be generated using PCBoard @X codes. ^Help Index^ ^Date Format^ ^BBS Name^ ^Time Format^ ^Send More^ ^More Code^ *E *B 103,Date Format The date of news file creation will be entered into the file based on the selection made here. There are six formats that can be used, they are: December 3, 1988 3 Dec 88 12-3-88 12/3/88 3/12/88 12/03/88 Select the format that suits your personal preference. ^Help Index^ ^Time Format^ ^BBS Name^ ^Send More^ ^Codes^ ^More Code^ *E *B 104,Time Format You may select one of six formats for the date of the news file creation: 16:30:57.89 16:30:57 4:30 PM 4:30p 4:30 04:30 The format that you use will be based solely on your personal preference. ^Help Index^ ^Date Format^ ^BBS Name^ ^Send More^ ^Codes^ ^More Code^ *E *B 105,Send More Send More determines if some kind of "More" or "Pause" prompt is sent as part of the news file. The code will only by put in the ANSI file produced. ^Help Index^ ^Date Format^ ^BBS Name^ ^More Code^ ^Codes^ *E *B 106,More Code This is the code used to cause a pause at the end of a news item. if it is left blank, nothing will be sent. ^Help Index^ ^Date Format^ ^BBS Name^ ^Send More^ ^Codes^ *E *B 11,Conference This selection will allow you to configure multiple conferences for news generation. Each conference is treated as a separate entity for news generation. The raw news files are kept separated by conference number, and actual files are generated based on information entered here. ^Help Index^ ^Conference^ ^BBS Options^ ^Colors^ *E *B 110,Conference Number Enter the number of the conference for which you wish to generate news files. ^Help Index^ ^News Path^ ^Conference Name^ ^News Format^ ^SysOp Name^ ^File Name^ *E *B 111,Conference Name Enter the name of the conference, i.e., Main Board or Science Fiction. Your entry will be converted to mixed case as you type. ^Help Index^ ^News Path^ ^Conference Number^ ^News Format^ ^SysOp Name^ ^File Name^ *E *B 112,SysOp Name Enter the name of the conference SysOp or host. If the name is the same as the BBS SysOp it may be left blank. This name will be entered in the news files as "from". If the name is the main BBS SysOp, the news will be "From Your SysOp", if a conference-specific name is used, it will be "From Your Host". ^Help Index^ ^News Path^ ^Conference Name^ ^News Format^ ^Conference Number^ ^File Name^ *E *B 113,News Path This is the path to the news file--it may be a complete drive/path specification, just a path, or if left blank, the news files will be created in the current directory. ^Help Index^ ^Conference Number^ ^Conference Name^ ^News Format^ ^SysOp Name^ ^File Name^ *E *B 114,News Format NewsRoom currently produces three separate formats for news files, they are: ^Simple^ ^Printer Paper^ ^Header^ (OK--Stupid name, but we didn't have anything else) Each conference may maintain news in a separate format. ^Help Index^ ^News Path^ ^Conference Name^ ^Conference Number^ ^SysOp Name^ ^File Name^ *E *B 115,File Name This is the name that will be used to generate the actual news file. If you have separate ASCII and ANSI files, enter the names used in the appropriate field. One note for PCBoard SysOps: If you use PCB @X color codes for your news, the name entered in the ASCII Name field will be used to generate the news file. ^Help Index^ ^News Path^ ^Conference Name^ ^News Format^ ^SysOp Name^ ^Conference Number^ *E *B 12,Colors Use this function to select the colors that will be used by the ANSI files. Colors may be different for each format of news files. ^Help Index^ ^Conference^ ^BBS Options^ *E *B 120,Simple Format Select the colors that will be used when generating news using the ^Simple^ format. The actual format style and colors will be displayed when using this function, and colors are updated as selections are made. *E *B 1200,Text Color This color will be used to generate any nonspecific text in the news file. *E *B 1201,BBS Name Color This color will be used to display the BBS Name. *E *B 1202,Sysop Name Color The Sysop's name will be displayed using this color. *E *B 1203,Title Color The title of the news file will be displayed using this color. *E *B 1204,Date/Time Color Both the date and time fields will be displayed with the color selected here. *E *B 1205,Separator Color If the format using a separator line between news items, it will be shown in this color. *E *B 121,Print Paper Format This function will allow selection of colors used when generating the news file in the ^Printer Paper^ format. A representation of the printer paper format will be shown in an adjacent window, and the colors will change in the window as selected. *E *B 1210,Edge Colors This color will be used on the edges of the printer paper format. *E *B 122,Header Format This is the function to use to update the ^Header^ format news colors. The format will be displayed in a window, and the colors will be updated as selections are made to aid in finalizing your format. *E *B 2,Create Before using the Create function, you should set up BBS and Conference options in the ^Files^ function. When you select this function, you will be presented a window with the conferences you have set up listed in it. If you have set up more conferences than what are shown in the window, the window may be scrolled using the up/down arrow keys. Select the conference you want to generate news for. After selecting the conference, you will be presented with a window asking for the title of this news item. Enter anything that you wish. The contents of this field are not forced to mixed case. When you have entered a title, the program will ^Help Index^ *P open an ^editor^ window for you to enter your news item. Thee size of the news will be limited by available memory. After finishing in the editor, the edit file will be saved if you did a quit and save, or discarded if you do a simple quit. ^Help Index^ *E *B 3,Edit As with the ^Create^ function, you will be presented with a list of conferences to select from. After selecting, you will be shown all of the news file names pertaining to that conference. Select the name of the file you wish to edit, and that file will be put back in the news editor for you to make changes to. ^Help Index^ *E *B 4,Export Once again, as with ^Create^ and ^Edit^, you will be shown a list of conferences. Select the conference that you want to build a news file for. The program will locate each news file and display a window with the file name and the title of the news item. You will be asked if you want to A(dd) to the news file, D(elete) this item or I(gnore) it. The default action if you just depress enter is to A(dd). All of the items that you select to add will be added to the news file. The file will be deleted before starting, so this will completely build the file each time. ^Help Index^ *E *B 89,Help Index ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³ NewsRoom News Manager ³ ³ (C)opyright 1991 LMD Group ³ ³ BBS News Creation/Maintenance ³ ³ Version 1.00 ³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ ^Program Information^ ^Create^ ^Editing Keys^ ^Edit^ ^Files^ ^Export^ *E *B 88,Simple Bulletin Board News from: Your BBS Name Brought to you by your SysOp: nnnnnnnnnnnnnn Subject: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah Generated by NewsRoom news manager (C) 1991 LMD Group UNREGISTERED DEMO ============================================================ *E *B 87,Printer Paper ³ O | ³ O | August 24, 1991 21:33:10 ³ O | Bulletin Board News from: Your BBS Name ³ O | Brought to you by your SysOp: Your Name ³ O | ³ O | A whole new news manager ³ O | ³ O | blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah ³ O | ³ O | ---------------------------------------------- *E *B 86,Header ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ» ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ» ͹ mmmmmmmmm dd, yyyy ÌÍÍÍÍÍÍ͹ hh:mm:ss.tt ÌÍÍÍÍÍÍ ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ Bulletin Board News from: Your BBS Name Issued by: Your SysOp, Your Name Concerning: Subject of the news blah blah blah blah blah blah blah ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ *E *B 85,Program Information NewsRoom was written specifically for BBS SysOps. Since SysOps are, in our experience, more scrupulous about registering their shareware, we take a markedly different stance with programs aimed at the SysOp market than with other markets. NewsRoom is in no way crippled. Registering will take the "UNREGISTERED DEMO" line out of your news and replace it with a line indicating that it's registered, and do the same thing with the main menu screen. We don't ask you to trust us that the program will work after registration, and we don't put an expiration date on the program. Please propagate our trust in you by registering your copy of NewsRoom after you've tried it. *E *B 99,Editing Keys Cursor Movement --------------- Arrow keys - cursor movement Ctrl-LeftArrow - word left Ctrl-RightArrow - word right Home - beginning of field End - end of line/field Ctrl-Home - beginning of first field Ctrl-End - end of last field Tab - next field Shift-Tab - previous field *P Inserting and Deleting ---------------------- Ins - toggle insert mode Del - delete character at cursor BackSpace - delete character left Ctrl-BackSpace - delete word left Ctrl-T - delete word right Ctrl-U - delete to end of field Ctrl-Y - delete to end of form *P Other Editing Keys ------------------ Enter - process current field Ctrl-Enter - process all fields Ctrl-R - restore field Esc - abort data entry *E *B 98,Copyright This software is the property of the LMD Group. As such, users are granted a limited license for the use of this software. Basically, you are allowed to use the software the same as a book. You are allowed to make archive copies of the software to protect your investment. By saying "as a book", this means that any number of people may use the software, it my be moved from CPU to CPU, but it may not be used at more than one location or on more than a single computer at the same time unless a site license is negotiated. *P Along with that, goes a few other restrictions: You may not decompile or reverse engineer the software. You may not modify the program's operation in any way. The key file used by the software is non-transferrable. You may not sell or give away or in any other way transfer a key file to another person without express consent of LMD Group. DISCLAIMER: This software is not warranted to do anything but take up valuable space on your disk, and possibly make you regret you ever heard of it. Any loss of income or productivity is not our fault, although we will lend a sympathetic ear to such problems. *E *B 97,Editor The editor is an extremely simple text editor. It is brain damaged, and will allow entry of text, quitting the edit, and quitting and saving the edit. Please do not expect more. -----Editing Keys------ Home - Position cursor to column 1 End - Position cursor to last colum of current line Ins - toggle insert mode Ctrl K Ctrl K - End and save file Ctrl K Ctrl Q - End and do not save file Esc - End and do not save file *E