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From: ajy2208@ultb.UUCP (A.J. Yarusso )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: SpartaDOS X cartridge
Summary: Carina II Modifications
Keywords: CarinaII Mods Modifications
Message-ID: <252@ultb.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 88 14:41:12 GMT
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Reply-To: ajy2208@ultb.UUCP (A.J. Yarusso (713ICS))
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Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology (Info Systems)
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I have done a tremendous amount of work on Carina II in the way of
modifications.  Jerry and I came very close to releasing a utility disk
for CII but once I got to school, my MIO broke and I haven't yet
received it back from ICD.  Once I do, and get my board back running, I
will be working full speed on the utility disk.  here are some of the
programs I have written already that will be on it:

o A program to automatically delete accounts by their age, in either
  days (say, accounts 60 days and older), or older than a certain date.
  Carina 2.2 (just released by Jerry) already has a few mods I have
  done, including the [M]ark Permanent feature that prevents anyone
  a SysOp marks Permanent from being deleted.  What makes this 
  program useful is that it can be run from the BACKUP.BAT file
  as well as interactively.

o A program to print that prints the password file to the printer in
  a very nice formatted ouput.  I went all out on this program, and 
  in addition to the many options you can change, it also prints
  two pages of BBS Statistics after printing the users (or, you can
  simply print the Stats by themselves if that is all you want).

o After seeing a couple of 'Top 10' programs come out, I wrote one
  of my own.  Again, I may have added TOO many features, but just use
  the ones you want!  You can have from the Top 5 to 30, toggle which
  areas it collects stats for (Posts, uploads, downloads, and Calls),
  and also have it print all sorts of BBS Stats.  I wrote some ML
  routines for this program to make it as fast as the other Top 10
  programs  (Mine does a heckuva lot more!).  This program can also
  be run from the BACKUP.BAT file.

o Ever want to add or delete keywords in a file area?  I wrote a 
  program that allows editing of any file area's keywords, including
  those areas that do not even have key words.  A SysOp can change
  the keywords on the entire BBS, but a SigOp can change them just
  in his/her section.

o Ever want to delete certain voting polls?  That is possible now also.
  It works similiar to the keyword program in that a SysOp can view
  the polls on the entire BBS, while a SigOp running the program in
  his section can only see the polls in that section.  This has been
  implemented into the MAKEVOTE module.

o I modified the FILEVAL program so files (before they are validated)
  can be Moved (or copied) to another file sections.  Often times,
  someone will upload a file to the wrong area, so this is useful.
  In addition, the description can be edited before the file is
  validated.

o I wrote a SysMenu program which is now implemented in version
  2.2 of Carina.  This is a VERY flexible menu program that allows
  you to run any other BASIC program.  It has a built in editor, and
  for each Basic program you set the description (as appears in the
  menu) and the filename (including path).  SYSMOD has been modified
  slightly with an added keypress (M) that runs this program.

o For USEREDIT I added two new features.  One, the [M]ake Permanent,
  I mentioned before.  The second is a feature that allows you to
  [S]earch for new users.  This is VERY useful (and fast) because
  New Users can occupy deleted records as well as being appended
  to the end of the password file and previously either the SysOp
  would have to keep track of which records he deleted, or go
  through the entire password file every once in a while to see
  if any new users slipped into deleted slots.

I know there are other mods, but it is too early in the morning to
remember the rest of them.  I used to run a Carina I BBS, Phantasmal
Alchemy, in Connecticut.  I had a tremendous amount of mods implemented
into the BBS and available for SysOps to download.  I felt kind of sad
going over to Carina II and losing all that work, but I've made up for
it with what I've done (so far) with CII.  I intend to do more!  I would
guess that the utility disk will be out in late January, early February.

Oh yes, I mentioned that Version 2.2 is out.  You can download that from
Jerry Horanoff's board (Carina Headquarters) if you have access to his
Carina II SIG.  If you're a registered owner, tell Jerry and he'll give
you access.  The phone # is 815-874-1836.  I talked to him for a while
the other day (almost 2 hours Long distance! Ack!) and version 2.2 fully
supports the XEP80..  If one has a TV and a monitor, you can have two
different displays.  One will be the Full Page user edit window, and the
other will be the BBS.  The Full page screen still uses 40 columns
(because it uses display lists) and the other screen (what the users
see) is in 80.  Very impressive!  (Almost looks like true multitasking)

Enough for now, I hope no one's fallen asleep.

Albert Yarusso

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