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DLCOUNT 1.00
Powerboard BBS Download Count Maintainer
(c) 1993 Scott Brown
NuIQ Software, Inc.
P.O. Box 832
Larchmont, New York 10538
Tel: (914) 833-3479
Fax: (914) 833-3623
BBS: (914) 833-1479 v32b / (914) 834-7830 hst
WARRANTY ----------------------------------------------------------------
There is no warranty on this software. Please use it at your own risk.
Backup your file area listings before you run this program.
INTRODUCTION ------------------------------------------------------------
DLCOUNT 1.00 is a utility made specifically for Powerboard BBS version
1.2 that will provide means for your callers to find out which files
are most popular. When most popular files are clearly marked, callers
will not have to try 10 different brands of the same type of program.
Instead, they can use the popularity count as a reference.
DLCOUNT will read in your download logs, then sort and count number of
times downloaded for each file, then re-write your file listings,
appending to the last description line for each file the number of
times downloaded.
INSTALLATION ------------------------------------------------------------
To install DLCOUNT, simply un-zip into your main BBS directory. After
backing up your file area, you can then proceede to run the program for
the first time by typing:
DLCOUNT DLCOUNT.CFG
and then pressing enter at the DOS prompt. The runtime for the program
will vary based on the number of downloads that have occoured on your
system (logged to DOWNLOAD.<node>), and on the number of files available
on your BBS in total.
Once DLCOUNT has completed processing your file areas, log on to your
BBS. After listing a file area where people commonly download files,
you will see that the commonly downloaded files will be marked and will
show the number of times people downloaded them.
If for some reason your file areas are no longer intact, and DLCOUNT
did not work properly, DO NOT run any Powerboard file area utility,
including DLCOUNT. Instead, proceede to copy FILES.BAK files to
FILES.BBS in each file area that is corrupted. FILES.BAK is the
backup file created by DLCOUNT, and FILES.BBS is the file that is
read for the actual listing.
CONFIGURATION -----------------------------------------------------------
DLCOUNT is ready to run in it's distributed state. However, you options
can be configured so that DLCOUNT behaves differently.
The ascii format for the DLCOUNT.CFG file is as follows:
1. Path to Download Logs
2. Path to CD-ROM definitions (AREAS directory)
3. Path to MSGAREAS.BBS
4. Basic file area listing filename (AREAS\FAREA)
5. First part of text to append before [download number]
6. Second part of text to append after [download number]
7. First string of text to search for and remove
8. Next string
Example DLCOUNT.CFG file:
1. logs\
2. areas\
3. msgareas.bbs
4. areas\farea
5. -> Downloaded
6. times <-
7. -> Downloaded
EVENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------
Ideally, DLCOUNT should be run in a nightly event. This way, the file
listings will be updated periodically. After all, if you have the
download statistics from last month in the listing, it will not be an
accurate representation of which files are and which files are not
popular.
If you do not have a nightly event already, you can create one using
the EVCONFIG program. Refer to the Powerboard manual to find out
how to set up events.
SPEEDING OPERATION ------------------------------------------------------
Because of the fact that DLCOUNT must sort through all files, the more
files listed in your DOWNLOAD.<node> log, the slower operation will be.
You may wish to consider copying DOWNLOAD.<node> to another directory
and then deleting the DOWNLOAD.<node> from your logs directory once
a month or so. DLCOUNT will sort up to 10,000 files in memory. After
10,000, files will have to be sorted on-disk.