Synchronet for Windows v3.16c UPGRADE
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August 15, 20015

You must have Synchronet v3.15 or v3.16 (development build) already installed
and working before applying this upgrade. If you are running v3.14 or before
you may have some quirks if you don't upgrade to at least v3.15 first.

As always, you should *backup* your Synchronet directory tree before applying
any upgrade (including this one), just in case something goes wrong.


Instructions
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Shutdown Synchronet (sbbs.exe, sbbsntsvcs.exe, and sbbsctrl.exe).

Copy the contents of the included "exec" directory to your Synchronet "exec"
directory, over-writing all files. If you have locally modified files, move
them to your "mods" directory first.

NOTE:
It is important that the files in the subdirectories (e.g. load, ircbots, 
etc.) are copied into the subdirectories of the target "exec" directory.
If you end up with files of the same name both in the "exec" directory
and the "exec/load" subdirectory, then something went wrong. You can try
and use the "jsexec update.js" command-line to remedy the situation, but
you may still have old files if your exec subdirectories which you
failed to update correctly.


Web Update Options
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If you wish to update the contents of your "web" directory, you may do so
by copying (recursively) the contents of the includedd "web" folder. If you
have locally modified files in the "web" folder, you may want to merge or
replace those files (from your backup) after you've updated.

The included web folder includes both the old Runemaster web interface
(web/root) and the latest echicken web interface (web/root/ecwebv3). You
can change between them by setting the "RootDirectory" key of the [Web]
section of your ctrl/sbbs.ini file to point to either of these 2 directories:

	RootDirectory=../web/root
or
	RootDirectory=../web/root/ecwebv3


Message Editor Options
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If you're still running any old 16-bit DOS message editors, you may want to
consider switching to the included FSEditor.js (by Deuce) or SlyEdit.js
(by Nightfox)
See http://wiki.synchro.net/module:fseditor 
or http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:editor:slyedit for details.


New JavaScript "doors" (mainly games)
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There are several new and impressive doors (mainly games) written specifically
for Synchronet v3 in JavaScript stored in the Synchronet CVS repository:
http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xtrn/

These doors aren't being included in the upgrade since I won't be installing
and configuring them for you (that's your job), but you should check them
out. Awesome work by mcmlxxix, Art, echicken, and Deuce.

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