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                   Changes Since Previous Versions
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new in 3.00
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  This is a rewrite of the old Fake Bulletin.

  new features:
   - After the bulletin is displayed, it can now either prompt for the user
     to press a key or delay x number of seconds before exiting.
  feature changes/removals:
   - You can now specify both the ANSI & ASCII filenames instead of only
     one filename without the extension.
   - The Fake Bulletin copyright notice is now flashed before displaying
     the bulletin instead of afterwards. Users' eyes probably won't even be
     able to notice it casually, but I needed to have it in there.
  bug fixes:
   - No fixes known, but this is a total rewrite, so who knows...
  changes in documentation:
   - Just about everything.

   
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   - ĴNew in 2.0a -  (10/17/97)
      

 . Fake Bulletin will now keep a file named error.log to record info
    on abnormal program exits.
 . Well...<ahem>...the keyboard input timeout wasn't working *perfectly*.
    It was working, mind you, but it would be off by about half a minute
    most of the time. Remember I haven't been programming doors for very
    long, so please bear with me. :)
 . Changed the "more" prompt to a better-looking one. Maybe that's not
    worth mentioning, but I will anyway.


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   - ĴNew in 2.0 -  (9/21/97)
      

 . You may love me or hate me for this, but I got rid of the support
    to make a whole bulletin menu. There's no weird "Bulletin List File"
    anymore; there's now just ONE config file where you type in the
    filename of ONE bulletin to display. This program went way off
    from what I originally wanted it to be - An easy-to-setup little
    program that'll display an ANSI or ASCII to the user. That's all,
    and that's what it is now. I fear that the previously weird setup
    has already scared off a lot of sysops.
    If you really want to make a whole bulletin menu, there are many
    programs out there that will simulate a door menu, which you can
    run Fake Bulletin off of in each menu choice.
 . The keyboard input timeout STILL wasn't always working properly.
    It's fixed this time.
 . If the time rolled past midnight while a user was in the door it
    would give the user 24 hours of time left and disable the keyboard
    input timeout feature until the user pressed a key, therefore
    allowing the user to sit there doing nothing for eternity. Fixed.


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   - ĴNew in 1.2 -  (8/8/97)
      

 . The keyboard input timeout wasn't always working properly. Fixed.
 . The error handling has been improved. A mistyped command line
    will now result in an error screen explaining the correct syntax.
 . It was ignoring the user's time remaining set in the config file
    and instead only read it from the dropfile. It will now set the
    time remaining in the door to the value defined in the config
    file if it isn't 0 and if it's less than the time remaining in
    the dropfile.
 . I had forgotten to include the samples.zip file in version 1.0.
    It's now included. I apologize for the mishap.
