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/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// TOPBLT - PCBoard Top User Statistics Bulletin Generator
// Copyright (c) 1992 by K. Anderson
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// History
//
// Sometime, early this year (Jan 1992).. lost the original source code..
//
// 02-25-92 - TOPBLT v0.5
//
// - Started over again from SCRATCH! (having lost the source
// tends to make you do that..)
//
// - Minor improvements in configurability - more to come..
//
// - Known bugs - Won't read USER files properly if more than 80
// users.
// - If ALL users are displayed in a bulletin, the
// last name is repeated (publicity stunt?).
// - /EXClude and Top UL/DL BYTES don't work properly
// at all. Expecting them to be working soon.. (ha)
// - There MAY be something wrong with the PCR blt.
//
// 02-26-92 - TOPBLT v0.6
//
// - Minor cosmetic changes.
//
// - 80 user problem - Fixed. (ya! and there was much rejoicing..)
//
// - Repeated last user problem - Fixed.
//
// 02-27-92 - TOPBLT v0.7
//
// - Source for the changes in v0.6 somehow got lost so all the
// changes I made in v0.6 (that I can remember) I made to the
// v0.5 source.
//
// - /TYPE: parameter shortened to /TYP: so all parameters are
// three letter options.
//
// - Known bugs - none.
//
// 03-01-92 - TOPBLT v0.8
//
// - Some minor cosmetics and optimizations.
//
// - Added 'Worst' user ability - ie: generate bulletins from lowest
// to highest stats. Enabled by adding :LOW to the type of
// bulletin. ie: /TYP:POSTS:LOW - show worst message posters.
//
// - Added /CLR option to allow user to specify the format of the
// colour codes (None, PCBoard @x ansi codes, or regular ANSI).
//
// - Added one more colour specification in the colour data file for
// the background/exiting colour so that background colours other
// than black should now work fine, and exit fine.
//
// - The /COL file format is revamped. Colour are now specified by
// number and converted to PCB Ansi or ANSI internally depending
// on the /CLR switch (PCB ansi is the default). See the sample
// TOPBLT.COL file for examples.
//
// - Added /STYle option to allow more display formats for the
// bulletin (giving sysops a bit more choice for uniqueness).
//
// - Expanded STYle choices from 3 options to 7 including ability
// to create bulletins of BOTH the BEST and WORST of the category
// in one bulletin, side by side.
//
// - Expecting to get /EXClude and /TYP:ULBYTES and /TYP:DLBYTES
// working in this version. Still problems with the BYTES bulletins.
// I have NO idea why they aren't reading in properly but the
// rest of the structures are! ARGH!
//
// - Made TOPBLT exit with different errorlevels depending on the
// nature of the program. Whether this is actually useful for this
// type of program.. who knows..
//
// - TOPBLT now searches the DOS path to make sure SORT.EXE is
// actually in the path before attempting to run.
//
// - Fixed problem when /COL:filename and /CLR:ANSI arguments were
// used together.
//
// - Known Bugs - There are still many parts of the code that can
// be optimized. This will come with time after the
// 'major' things work exactly as I want them to.
//
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////