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- CatLine 3.8 By THE Tracker -
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_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
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Yes, folks, I've decided to upgrade
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the good old 3.5 and now you have 3.8!
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You amy notice that the upgrade is lots
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smaller, but the program's MUCH better.
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Some added features are Ask For Name
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(AFN) and Cursor Control (CC). Also,
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I made the whole program in upper-case
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because it seems many haven't got lower
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case (those people who ride dinosaurs
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to work). Anyways, enjoy the program
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and get loose. Call me for any mods
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or suggestions at [206]584-6900 (my
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CatSend line operating under CatLine
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3.9!)... I may introduce the rolling
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cursor setup in a future revision- call
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and tell me what you think. Thanx, THE
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Tracker
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To operate the program, BLOAD the
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program CATSEND LINE, CATLINE or
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whatever you call it. This is NOT
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CatSend. After you BLOAD it, BRUN the
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update that I wrote. In other words,
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BLOAD CATSEND LINE
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BRUN CATLINE 3.8 UPDATE
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and there you have it.
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;;;; First BRUN ;;;;
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When the program comes up, you are
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asked which welcome message to run.
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What we are talking about is after the
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AFN (see above), CatLine will read a
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welcome message. In the old 3.0, it
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would read the file "CAT.HELLO". In
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my 3.8, you can have it read any of 9
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files, from "CAT.H1" to "CAT.H9". The
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program uses the "#" symbol to stand
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for the number you typed in. This is a
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handy feature I put for my own use but
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seems to be very popular. Have 2
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welcome messages- the first saying you
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aren't home or whatever and the second
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saying please page, I'm here. This way
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you can set it up and leave it alone.
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Also see the <P>age function below and
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the # function off of the main menu.
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After you enter a number, the
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screen will clear and ask you if you
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want to turn on or off the <P>age
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function. Press either Y or N. If you
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choose to have it on, when a user
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presses the "P" key it will say Paging
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and beep it's ass off. If you say not
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to turn it on, if they press "P" they
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will get a rolling cursor and a "Sysop
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not avaible- try later!" message.
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Whichever you choose, the program will
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either say "Pager on..." or "Pager
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off...".
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++ + MAIN MENU + ++
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Here at the main menu, you have 7
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options, plus a status line. All the
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status line tells you is: 1] number of
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callers and 2] if the pager is on or
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off. The seven options are covered
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below. Remember: at this menu, the
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program will accept either a keypress
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OR a telephone ring.
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-=-=-=-=-=-=- The Options -=-=-=-=-=-=-
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_#_ Change Welcome Message Number
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See above, in the first run
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section.
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_W_ Welcome Message re-write
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When a caller first calls, the
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first thing he/she/it sees is
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a message that normally says
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"WELCOME!". This feature lets
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you change that message to
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anything of equal length. The
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next version will have ANY
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length.
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_+_ Send Carrier over Phone Line
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Pressing the plus sign from the
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main menu will send a carrier
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over the phone line so the
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other end can connect up.
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_P_ Pager status (on/off)
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Also see above, the First BRUN
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section.
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_N_ New Cursor (the CC feature!)
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This is the CC feature talked
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about above. You can choose
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this option and change the
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cursor from that ugly inverse
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space to almost anything. You
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will be prompted to enter a
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two digit hex number and it
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will convert to ASCII. Some
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nice cursor characters are the
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slash (/), backslash (\), the
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period (.), and the dash (-).
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_C_ Change over the prompt
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Say you don't like the prompt,
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)>? Choose this option to make
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it anything you want.
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_B_ Boot Diskette in Drive 1
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Just what it says, doofy.
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Press B and slide the disk in.
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Press another key to boot. If
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you want to abort back to the
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main menu, press ESC.
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::: When the Call Start Rolling In :::
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(this section covers what the
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remote user sees.)
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Well, after someone calls, the
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first thing the caller will see in the
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"WELCOME!" message (or whatever you
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changed it to. See above in the menu
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section, under the W command.
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After the welcome message, the
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"AFN" feature kicks in. This will
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ask the caller for their alias and
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put it on the top line of the screen,
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with the prefix "NAME:". In other
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words, if I typed in "THE Tracker", it
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would put at the top "NAME:THE TRACKER"
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and continue on. After this, the
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program will read the selected welcome
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message, from CAT.H1 to CAT.H9. See
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above in the First BRUN section and in
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the menu section, under the "#" command
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there. After that, it operates as a
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normal CatLine. You can press CTRL-T
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to break in and chat with the user on-
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line, and you will know them too!
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(remember, the name on the top?) A
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very nice function, if I say so myself.
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=END=
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