Telegard Bulletin Board Software, v3.10
Service Pack 4 README Documentation
Copyright (C) 1999 by Tim Strike
All Rights Reserved.
INTRODUCTION
This is the fourth service pack for Telegard 3.09 gamma series.
Service pack 4 is intended to be applied to Telegard 3.09.g2.sp3
binary code and other system files. You must already be using
service pack 3 for Telegard 3.09.g2 before service pack 4 can be
successfully applied.
OS/2 INSTALLATION
The OS/2 installation is identical, except that you will be using
TG2.DIF instead of TELEGARD.DIF, and _UPDATE2.ZIP instead of
__UPDATE.ZIP.
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.
FOR DOS ONLY:
2D) Copy TELEGARD.EXE and TELEGARD.DIF into your bbs directory.
Copy BUPDATE.EXE into your bbs directory too.
3D) Run "BUPDATE TELEGARD.DIF" from your bbs directory. If BUPDATE
fails, the TELEGARD.OVR files has been modified or time stamped
differently than the 3.09.g2.sp3 release. Install 3.09.g2 in a
separate directory, and apply sp3 patches, and copy the
TELEGARD.OVR files into your main BBS directory. Apply sp4
again.
Continue with step 4.
FOR OS/2 ONLY:
2O) Copy TG2.DIF into your bbs directory. Copy BUPDATE.EXE into
your bbs directory too.
3O) Run "BUPDATE TG2.DIF" from your bbs directory. If BUPDATE
fails, the TG2.EXE file has been modified or time stamped
differently than the 3.09.g2.sp3 release. Install 3.09.g2 in a
separate directory, and apply sp3 patches, and copy the TG2.EXE
into your main BBS directory. Apply sp4 again.
Continue with step 4.
DOS and OS/2 INSTALLATIONS:
4) Run UPDATE.EXE and choose 3.09.g3-sp3 option
5) Create a folder (directory) off your main BBS directory called
/sp4/. After the installation, you can remove this directory
at your leisure.
6) UNZIP the __update.zip (_update2.zip) file into this /sp4/
folder. You can do this with "PKUNZIP __update.zip /bbs/sp4"
("PKUNZIP _update2.zip /bbs/sp4"). 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 { update all files }
*.exe
/bbs/docs/ folder { update all files }
*.ref
*.sp4
/bbs/data/ folder { update all files }
*.dat
*.adf
*.pdf
tg_beta.bbs
/bbs/language/ folder
english.txt - update if using default language file
(i.e. unmodified)
/bbs/text/ folder
*.txt - update as necessary, minor changes
/bbs/menus/ folder
*.mnu - update as necessary, minor changes
7) Completely review /docs/WHATSNEW.SP4 for all changes in the sp4
service pack, and then return to these installation instructions.
8) Review /docs/LANGUAGE.SP4 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.
9) 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.
10) You may delete /sp4/*.* 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
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