HELLO: Hello and welcome to AUTOMGR v1.00á Before we go any further please read the following..... DISCLAIMER: The contents of this archive ( program(s) and text ) are provided with no warranty of any kind as to performance, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose. By using AUTOMGR you are expressly releasing Matthew Mower from any liability resulting from the use of this product. You use AUTOMGR entirely at your own risk. This is AUTOMGR v1.00á, the á-nature of this code means you should be careful with it. It has two inbuilt safety features 1. It keeps a safety copy of your ALLUSERS.DAT file, called ALLUSERS.SAV, it makes the copy before it changes anything. If there are any problems copy ALLUSERS.SAV back and you should be up and running again. THERE SHOULDN'T BE ANY PROBLEMS. 2. No changes will be made to the file unless you specify the '-c' command line option to commit changes to the database. Anything else will be a "dry run" and only generate reports. I repeat that there should not be any problems. However I have only been able to do limited tests. NOTICE: Under no circumstances is it legitimate for any user to modify or reverse engineer this product. If you want to know how it's done, mail me. If you want to throw in a virus, or change the copyright, get a life! FREEWARE: This product is copyrighted to the author, who reserves all rights regarding it. It is not public domain, but released as freeware, and us such you are not asked to pay for it. As new features are added to AUTOMGR (and they will be) I may make it shareware, anyone who I feel has contributed significantly to the development of this program will be likely to receive a free registered copy for their time and trouble. I consider beta-testers and idea's people in this category. I do value all comments and suggestions. WHAT DOES IT DO: At the moment AUTOMGR has only one function. It scans your system for new users and creates a report showing you some details about them which you can have it post to you auto- matically (however you will need POSTMASTER or AUTOMSG to make this feature work.) Also AUTOMGR will allow you to upgrade new users automatically, to a profile which you establish, and after a number of calls which you determine. This means that if you are away for any period of time, new users who are eager to call in can be given some reward by being upgraded to a better profile than "NEWUSER". This feature can be disabled it's up to you! OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS: You shouldn't have too many problems running AUTOMGR, just modify the AUTOMGR.INI file to fit your system and add it to an event (preferably one run every day.) You must ensure two things, 1. the WCHOME environment variable points correctly to the directory containg MAKEWILD.DAT 2. if you are using a post program such as POSTMASTER you must have everything set up correctly for it. AUTOMGR will make a copy of your ALLUSERS.DAT file under the name ALLUSERS.SAV, so that if anything goes the situation can be recovered gracefully. AUTOMGR.INI: There are three sections to this file, which should be familiar in nature to anyone who has played with Microsoft Windows. All the lines mentioned here must exist in some form or another or the results may be unpredictable. I will try to make it bullet-proof in later versions. If everything is present you should have "NO" problems at all. [AutoMgr] Contains the general options ProcessNewUsers=Y or N Should we produce a new user report at all. At the moment setting this to 'N' will disable the entire program. When other functions are added this will have some usefullness. AutoUpgrade=Y or N Should NEWUSERS who have called enough times be upgraded to your 'interim' profile. UkDates=Y or N If you want the "other" system of month.day.year in the dates choose 'N' here. [NewUsers] Options pertaining to the new user report ReportFile= This should be the COMPLETE path specification of the file which AUTOMGR is to put it's report in. MailToYou=Y or N If you want AUTOMGR to automatically mail its report to you using POSTMASTER then leave this as 'Y'. PostMaster= This should be the COMPLETE path specification of the mailing program you are using, e.g. POSTMASTER or AUTOMSG. [AutoUpgrade] Options pertaining to the upgrade of new users NewProfile=PROFILENAME The name of the profile to which NEWUSER callers will be upgraded. I suggest you create something with a little better access than NEWUSER, but without too much potential to run amok. That way eager newusers can get the best of your system almost immediately. Also make sure that the profile exists otherwise strange things may happen. CallsRequired= The number of calls a NEWUSER would have to make before AUTOMGR will consider them for upgrade. COMMAND-LINE PARAMETERS: Two command line parameters are provided at the moment, in addition to -? which displays help. -c Commit changes to database. Without this switch AUTOMGR will just create reports. NO changes will be made to your data. -d Debug. Displays a rough version of what's going into the report. Will contain more useful info in later versions. I CAN SEE THE FUTURE: I hope that AUTOMGR will grow into a trusted and friendly program which will take over most of the mundane tasks of managing users/files/message's etc. Also do some nice things as well, i.e. giving rewards to users who contribute to your system based on rules which you define. Analysing reports and logs from other popular 3rd party utilities and making decisions based on that data. E.g. if someone drops carrier repeatedly flag you with a message, or maybe chastise the user with a set of predefined message's. I have a whole heap of idea's, and I hope you have too. Try me! If you like this program, or think you might when It does more, watch out as it should be completely re-written and modified over the next month or so. Hopefully New versions will appear every month or so, until a stable set of features is achieved. DISTRIBUTION: The latest versions of this and all other products by the author will be available on The Development System BBS. They can be FREQ'd from there (see below for fido address). You can also find (hopefully upto-date versions ) on: The MSI headquarters BBS U.S.A. The Probation View BBS U.K. Under no circumstances may anyone make a charge for these programs without the express permission of the author, unless it be a fair charge for transmission or distribution. CONTACT: I can be contacted if you have any questions or comments by the following methods. internet email: matt.mower@tpv-online.infocom.co.uk fido netmail: 2:254/225 compuserve mail: 100116,134 ( mark as fao: matt mower ) Or on various WildNet, ILink or Fido conferences, particularly WildCat and Lan conferences. FINALY: PLEASE mail me with any comments and especially bug reports. I would like to support and improve ALL my programs. Thanks for trying AUTOMGR hope it works for you! Cheers, Matt. Date: 05.01.94