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 SDK for making your PEXs & EXEs DOING Compatible (C)1996 Fe-line Software 
 Written by Faye Pearson, Docs by Sarah Pearson        (10th October 1996) 


DOING comes with a C ".h" file to allow programmers to easily incorporate
DOING support into pexs and now EXEs.

All that needs to be done, is to #include "doing.h" after the
#include "pb_sdk.h" line.  

This is so that DOING.H can detect you are compiling a PEX and include the
relevant code, otherwise it will think it is an EXE and you will get errors.

Whenever you want to set the DOING description to something else, just
use SetDesc().

---> If you have compiled any PEXs or EXEs with doing support, then a simple
     recompile with the enclosed DOING.H will install the OS/2 Support.

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bool SetDesc(char*Description);

Description: The string you wish DOING to display.

Returns: TRUE if the file was successfully updated.
         FALSE if there was an error.


eg.

#include "pb_sdk.h"
#include "doing.h"

void main()
{
        SetDesc("In Demo Part 1");
        printf("\nPress ENTER to continue\n");
        WaitKey();
        SetDesc("In Demo Part 2");
        printf("Press ENTER to finish\n");
        SetDesc("");
}
---

YOU MUST REMEMBER:

Put a SetDesc("") in before your program ends otherwise it will continue to
display whatever you set until the next DOING compatible pex is used.

It is possible to display a DOING message when the node is idle, but you
must add "\xfe\xff" to the start of the doing string:

eg.

     SetDesc("\xfe\xffI'm having a nap.");

This is so that ordinary doing messages do not remain when the user hangs up
or logs off.

All we ask if you do use DOING.H is that in every archive containing a DOING
compatible PEX or EXE you include DOING.TXT.

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This DOING SDK PEX Kit is supplied "as is" and we will not be held responsible
for any damage caused by this SDK.  It works on our BBS ok, so that is the
only guarantee given :-)

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If you have any bugs, comments or suggestions then you can contact us by :

  Fe-line      +44-181-548-9620, V34/VFC
  2:254/278    FidoNet
  752:752/0    The Global ProBoard Network
  173:902/300  DqP
  sysops@fe-line.demon.co.uk

You can find the latest version of DOING and all our other ProBoard Software
on our WWW and FTP sites as well as on our BBS.

                    http://www.fe-line.demon.co.uk

Sarah and Faye
Home of Fe-line Software.
