                     Digital Distortion File Lister
                              Version 1.0
                        Release date: 2009-07-13

                                  by

                             Eric Oulashin
                     Sysop of Digital Distortion BBS
                 BBS internet address: digdist.bbsindex.com
                     Email: eric.oulashin@gmail.com



This file describes the Digital Distortion File Lister.

Contents
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1. Introduction
2. Installation & Setup
3. Revision History

1. Introduction
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The Digital Distortion File Lister is a file list mod for Synchronet.
It replaces the prompt with a lightbar prompt that displays the file
list commands, with the additional sysop commands for sysops; also, a
custom header file is used for the file listing.  The lightbar prompt
and header file were modeled after WarezTag!, a file lister that was
written for RemoteAccess which was one of my favorite file lister
mods in the 1990s.

This script is written in Baja, based on Vanguard's spylister v2.0B.
The source is included.


2. Installation & Setup
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This package contains two Baja scripts (with source) and an .asc file
to be installed on your Synchronet BBS:
DDFL_HDR.bin: Compiled Baja script for displaying the header file
DDFL_HDR.src: The source code for the above script
DDFLIST.bin: Compiled Baja script for the lightbar prompt
DDFLIST.src: The source code for the above script
header.asc: The header file to be displayed above the file listing

To install this file lister, follow these steps:
1) Place the .bin and .src files in Synchronet's exec directory
2) Place header.asc in text\menu\digdist\DDFileLister (in the
   Synchronet directory tree) - You'll first have to create
   the directories digdist and digdist\DDFileLister underneath
   the text\menu directory.
3) Edit text.dat (in Synchronet's ctrl directory). Search for
   "660 BatchFlagPrompt" and "661 BatchFlagHeader" (without the quotes) -
   The text at the beginning of those lines will need to be changed.
   For the line with 660, change the text at the beginning to be as follows:
   "@EXEC:DDFLIST@"
   For the line with 661, change the text at the beginning to be as follows:
   "@EXEC:DDFL_HDR@"

   Those two lines in text.dat should appear as follows:
   "@EXEC:DDFLIST@"                                     660 BatchFlagPrompt
   "@EXEC:DDFL_HDR@"                                    661 BatchFlagHeader

   Basically, those two lines in text.dat will tell Synchronet to execute
   DDFLIST for its prompt # 660 (BatchFlagPrompt) and to execute DDFL_HDR
   for its prompt # 661 (BatchFlagHeader).


3. Revision History
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Version  Date         Description
-------  ----         -----------
1.00     2009-07-13   First public release