Telegard Bulletin Board Software, v3.10
Service Pack 3 README Documentation
Copyright (C) 1998 by Tim Strike
All Rights Reserved.
INTRODUCTION
This is the third service pack for Telegard 3.09 gamma series.
Service pack 3 is intended to be applied to Telegard 3.09.g2
binary code and other system files. You must have 3.09.g2
installed before this service pack can be of any use to you.
Service pack 3 resets the timeout for 3.09.g2 to 120 days.
OS/2 INSTALLATION
The OS/2 installation is identical, except that you will be using
TG2.DIF instead of TELEGARD.DIF. Note that BUPDATE is a DOS
utility and will spawn an DOS window in order to complete--if you
need to see errors from this window, it is probably best that you
actually open and DOS window and run BUPDATE from there.
GENERAL INSTALLATION
1) Make a backup of your BBS configuration/data files (your data,
language, menu and text folders, your file section data files,
and your message area data files), and your Telegard
executables. A thorough backup is your best defense.
2) Copy TELEGARD.DIF (TG2.DIF) into your bbs directory. Copy
BUPDATE.EXE into your bbs directory too.
3) Run "BUPDATE TELEGARD.DIF" (TG2.DIF) from your bbs directory.
If BUPDATE fails, the .EXE/.OVR files have been modified or time
stamped differently than the 3.09.g2 release -- unpack the
original files, and ensure their dates are 07/05/98 and try again.
4) Create a folder (directory) off your main BBS directory called
/sp3/. After the installation, you can remove this directory
at your leisure.
5) UNZIP the __update.zip file into this /sp3/ folder. You can do
this with "PKUNZIP __update.zip /bbs/sp3". This will unpack
the supplementary file updates. Copy or move the files into
their appropriate locations as necessary (the language and text
updates are not mandatory if you have modified those files).
/bbs/ folder
cmprlang.exe - update to include colour matching only
/bbs/docs/ folder { update all files }
*.ref
language.sp3
whatsnew.g2
/bbs/data/ folder { update all files }
*.dat
tg_beta.bbs
/bbs/language/ folder
english.txt - update if using default language file
(i.e. unmodified)
/bbs/text/ folder
logon.scr - minor update: changed tgnews parameters
closed.msg - minor update: added usage instructions
duptel.txt - minor update: added type column & info
6) Completely review /docs/WHATSNEW.G2 for all changes in the sp3
service pack, and then return to these installation instructions.
7) Review /docs/LANGUAGE.SP3 for instructions on updating your
language files. Remember to update -all- your languages. If
you replaced your language with the default ENGLISH.TXT in step
5 and you only use ENGLISH, you are already done.
8) From your main bbs directory run "MAKELANG .\LANGUAGE\ENGLISH"
to compile your new language file (Note: Replace \LANGUAGE\ with
your correct language path). Repeat as neccessary for each of
your remaining languages.
9) You may delete /sp3/*.* at your leisure.
CREDITS
Thanks to my entirely deserving beta team (past and present), and
especially to Kevin Watkins and Don Johnson for keeping the team
running smoothly. Thanks also to everyone who submitted bug
reports and encouragement. Best of luck to Don as he takes his
retirement from the BBS & Telegard scene.
Also, thanks again for all your patience. We hope you enjoy this
Telegard release.
Regards, Tim Strike
CONTACT INFORMATION
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Internet tim@telegard.net
WWW http://www.interlog.com/~strike
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