TNT Software's "TAG BBS Developer's Kit" by Joe McElmeel
Version 1.00 Standard
All routines may be freely distributed, modified, or stolen!
Introduction
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This small package is for Turbo Pascal programmers that wish to code utilities
for TAG BBS v2.7 or later.
The routines in this package come from a variety of different sources -- SWAG
snippets, the PASCAL and PASCAL_LESSONS backbone echos, myself, and even The
T.A.G. Team themselves (Victor Capton and Paul Williams).
Requirements
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- A basic knowledge of Turbo Pascal v7.0.
- A copy of TAG BBS to test your programs on.
- TAGR27.TPU from TAGR27.ZIP by The T.A.G. Team.
Where do you get all of the above?
Well, there are classes, books, and text files on how to program in Pascal, and
you can file request (FREQ) TAG BBS from my system (1:2410/480) as "TAG" and
TAGR27.ZIP comes in that.
Installation
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It is assumed that you know what a Unit is, how to implement one into your
program, and how to call the functions and procedures that are inside it for
use in your own program.
All you really need to do, is include the Unit in your USES clause at the top
of your program, and simply implement the functions and/or procedures that
you wish to use throughout your program. This should be very easy for you to
do if you have a basic knowledge of Turbo Pascal programming for DOS.
Disclaimers and Legal Stuff
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There are no disclaimers - all of these routines are PUBLIC DOMAIN. Which
also means USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. These routines are constantly being heavily
tested (in ALL of my programs) so it is not likely that they will damage your
system or program source codes (however, I am NOT responsible in case it does).
As for the legal mumbo-jumbo -- you can distribute, modify, give out, use,
erase, copy, eat, fondle, and do whatever else you want with these routines. It
is simply a collection of commonly-used routines that I've had for AGES and I
just now got around to releasing them to the public (in other words, my code
was so sloppy, I would have been embarrased to show it to the public). :-)
Documentation
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It's all in the source code (in comments). Check it out! Samples 'n all!
Support
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There is none. No, just kidding... You can reach me in any or all of the
following ways (bug reports, questions, comments, updates, etc):
US Mail
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TNT Software
c/o Joe McElmeel
18081 Koester
Riverview, MI 48192-7413
InterNet
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inferno@gatecom.com
EFNet IRC : "VX"
UnderNet IRC : "inferno"
FidoNet
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The Galaxy BBS (1:2410/480), (313)284-5455, V32B,V42B,CM,XA,V34,VFC,H16.
BBS
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Log on to the above BBS and leave an E-Mail message to "Sysop", "Joe McElmeel",
or user number one -- all will get to me one way or another.
Acknowledgements
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Well, there are simply WAY too many to list, but I know for a fact that The
T.A.G. Team has contributed to these in several ways. Paul Williams gave me
the routines for the time/date en/decoding, and Victor Capton gave me the
code for some of the time/date information stored in the "*.DIR" files.
-Joe McElmeel
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