
                                 PD Modules
                         Written by Brian Veditz
                      donated to the public domain

   In the process of creating my system, I have written quite a few
modules to work towards the entertainment aspect of the system.  A
lot of the early addons that are out there don't seem to do things
the way I want them to, or do not exist at all, so I have been forced
to write them myself.  My system is not using the graphical interface,
so you are on your own if you wish to convert them to HTML, I have no
clue how that aspect of Wildcat 5 works at this time.

   You might notice the 'strange' themes of some of my modules.  For
instance... why is my grafitti wall called a guard shack?  The theme
of my board will be a 'medieval town,' so the typical red brick wall
with 'Grafitti Wall' written on the top (and some persons copyright)
just didn't fit in with my theme.  Feel free to alter any of the
modules to fit your theme.

   The modules available are meant more as a starting block to alter
towards your systems need, and not as 100% runable bugfree modules.  I
have little time to get everything running perfect and setting up cute
little setups and configuration files for something I am not trying
to make money from.  Most of my work needs to be spent getting as much
of my system done before it goes up, and I can't spend that time
supporting selection of modules... at least at this time.  However,
I do know how time consuming it is to have to re-write entire modules
because you don't like some of the features of the shareware programs
out there --- or, you just can't afford to buy every little program
that is available.  These modules are dedicated to the sysops out
there who are trying to get their boards as good as they can, without
having to treat it like a full time job (especially if you aren't
getting full time pay for your work).

   If you have any questions, you may leave me mail on MSI.  I do not plan
on releasing 'updates' to these modules, so any feature advancements will
have to be done by you or your programmer.  As with all the code in this
library, you are free to use it or alter it at your own descretion, I
however to not take any responsibility for whatever the software may or
may not do to your system.  If you make any bug fixes, code cleaning or
feature additions, I would appreciate seeing them.  In any case, please
let me know if you are making any use of the modules, at least I'll know
it wasn't a total waste of time packaging these up.  <grin>  

   Before most of these modules will work, you will have to change the
"D:\WC5" paths in your system...  unfortionatly I could not get a good
answer as to how to determine the wildcat path in most instances, so
you will need to change the directory locations to the ones that you
use or that you would prefer to use.

   If anyone wants to clean up the code, and make it so anyone can use
it without forcing my default paths - ie: configuration files, and
redistribute it, I'm sure a lot of people would be appreciative.  I
would appreciate if you gave the source with that as well, but it is
your own decision.

   The following routines are including in this archive:

Visitors Log    - a revolving, recent caller first visitors log.
Lookup          - (global?) module for looking up the spelling of a word.
Guard Shack     - A Graffitti Wall
Maintenance     - A limited dos shell.
Database        - A Database module, editable from remote, with editors
                  for certain areas, submenus, program execution, etc.


