Hello Vincent,

The DD-MM files are indeed in the manual. They're buried in a very bad spot but if you look under the "mbsebbs - The main BBS program" page:

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Here is the list of displayed screens:
mainlogo. Here you can put a logo or something.

welcome. This screen can contain information about the session the user has, his download limits, time left etc.

welcome1 is shown if the user has show bulletins set to true.
welcome2 is shown if the user has show bulletins set to true.
welcome3 is shown if the user has show bulletins set to true.
welcome4 is shown if the user has show bulletins set to true.
welcome5 is shown if the user has show bulletins set to true.
welcome6 is shown if the user has show bulletins set to true.
welcome7 is shown if the user has show bulletins set to true.
welcome8 is shown if the user has show bulletins set to true.
welcome9 is shown if the user has show bulletins set to true.

birthday is shown if the user logs in at his birthday and if he has show bullentins set to true.

dd-mm is shown if dd is the date of today and mm is the current month and if the user has show bulletins set to true.

sec20 is shown if the user has the security level in the filename, level 20 in this example. Als the display bulletins must be set to true.

news is shown if the user has the display bulletins set to true.

onceonly is shown only if the user has never seen this screen, the test is to compare the users last login date against the date of this file.
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-- Sean

... Qui trop embrasse mal entreint. (Grab much, gain little.)
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Hello Sean!

Sunday April 17 2022 19:22, you wrote to me:

Hello Vincent,

The DD-MM files are indeed in the manual. They're buried in a very
bad spot but if you look under the "mbsebbs - The main BBS program"
page:

===
Here is the list of displayed screens:
mainlogo. Here you can put a logo or something.

welcome. This screen can contain information about the session the
user has, his download limits, time left etc.

welcome1 is shown if the user has show bulletins set to true.
welcome2 is shown if the user has show bulletins set to true.
welcome3 is shown if the user has show bulletins set to true.
welcome4 is shown if the user has show bulletins set to true.
welcome5 is shown if the user has show bulletins set to true.
welcome6 is shown if the user has show bulletins set to true.
welcome7 is shown if the user has show bulletins set to true.
welcome8 is shown if the user has show bulletins set to true.
welcome9 is shown if the user has show bulletins set to true.

birthday is shown if the user logs in at his birthday and if he has
show bullentins set to true.

dd-mm is shown if dd is the date of today and mm is the current month
and if the user has show bulletins set to true.

sec20 is shown if the user has the security level in the filename,
level 20 in this example. Als the display bulletins must be set to
true.

news is shown if the user has the display bulletins set to true.

onceonly is shown only if the user has never seen this screen, the
test is to compare the users last login date against the date of this
file.
===

Most of those I am familiar with, well at least sec20, birthday and may be the odd welcome and onceonly.

Going to have a look to see where it is in the pdf file.

Needless to say it must be coming up to 20 years ago that I might have set them
up..

Waddaya want ? Me and good memory is these days a wee bit departing :

Bad enough looking at program code that I wrote a month or two ago and it is now real fun going through code that was started in the 60's, updated in the 70
& 80's with a system total refresh around 2011 and now I have to go through it to do system testing and update/write the manuals along with debugging any bad code or missing links between sub systems.

I have put the whole lot of the Accounting package on SF but the changes I made
pre 2016 which allows it to not only run using ISAM files but also with Mysql/mariadb has to have some deep testing, although I did do all the basic stuff as well as Functional testing sadly not full system and UAT.

I decided to take a break as I was on it every day for well over a year.

I had originally 3 - 4 programmers working on it with me just managing, now it's just me.

So sue me, it's been a year or few :)

and I do not really have a very good excuse to myself.


Vincent

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