BTEXT.EXE V1.0 - June 1997
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BTEXT.EXE is a little program to allow you to set the BPQ beacon text.
It is designed for WinPack users, but it may be of use with other
applications.

When BPQ support was first added to WinPack, support for specifying the
BPQ beacon text was not included, because at that time there was no
obvious way to do it. The Windows application support DLL supplied with
BPQ (BPQDLL.DLL) does not give you access to the BPQ function which
updates the text. The result is that if BTINTERVAL in BPQCFG.TXT is set
to a non-zero value, empty beacons are sent.

I have now worked round the problem of the function not being supported
in BPQDLL.DLL and the next release of WinPack will have a BTEXT command
available in the BPQ "TNC", but for now, BTEXT provides a reasonable
solution:-

BTEXT allows you to set some beacon text from AUTOEXEC.BAT. All you have
to do is to put a line in AUTOEXEC.BAT *after* the line which loads
BPQCODE, something like:-

C:\WINPACK\BTEXT.EXE This is my BPQ beacon text

(This assumes you have put BTEXT.EXE in C:\WINPACK).

BTEXT assumes that BPQ is using "HOSTINTERRUPT=127". If it is using a
different interrupt, then you must tell BTEXT which interrupt is being
used. For example, if you have "HOSTINTERRUPT=126" then use:-

C:\WINPACK\BTEXT.EXE -i126 This is my BPQ beacon text

You can also run BTEXT from a DOS window to change the text.

NB - in the above, don't confuse beacon text with IDMSG as specified in
BPQCFG.TXT - they aren't the same thing!


Roger Barker, G4IDE
roger@peaksys.demon.co.uk

