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- I run a PCBoard BBS that is "into" keeping historic records. As such,
- I run 3 or 4 statistical programs on my BBS ever night during the event.
- One of these was a "hotfile" program called HOTSTUFF41. I discovered
- that it was counting aborted downloads as good ones. I also have been
- using Vern Buerg's PCBS program for a few years, and it produced a
- "hotfile" section too. But PCBCS's output contains more data than I
- wanted to post to the public.
-
- After looking around for an accurate "hotfile" program that was also
- free, and finding none that suited me, I decided to not re-invent the
- wheel, but to rather plagerize data out of my PCBCS bulletin.
-
- So I wrote the attached program that reads in the PCBCS report and
- outputs a subset of 3 reports: the front main stat report, the
- multi-node section, and the "files downloaded counts" section.
-
- The "FORM" command line argument is required and will trigger one
- of the following report subsets:
- 1 = FILES DOWNLOADED report
- 2 = STATS PAGE and FILES DOWNLOADED report
- 3 = STATS PAGE and MULTI-NODE and FILES DOWNLOADED report
-
- CS-HOT will handle a PCBCS run on a single node caller file, even
- if FORM = 3. It just ignores the multi-node request, acting as if
- FORM 2 had been requested.
-
- I run Vern's PCBCS against my full caller logs, creating a bulletin
- in my private conference bulletin area. Then I run CS-HOT against
- that bulletin, creating a "hotfile" bulletin for public consumption.
-
- rem == CALLER 1 + CALLER 2 + CALLER 3 COMBINED ===
- rem USING PCBCS143 CREATE CALL ANALYSIS INTO PRIVATE PBLT4 FOR NODE 1 & 2 & 3
- cs callerc. c:\private\pblt4. /SU /MAXBULLETINS:32
- rem USING MY OWN CS-HOT CREATE BLT16 OUT OF PBLT4 FOR DOWNLOADED ONLY
- cs-hot c:\private\pblt4. c:\blt\blt16. 1
-
- Since this program is reading a relatively small file, this runs
- really fast and shouldn't slow down your event at all.
-
- This program is wired for PCBCS version 1.43 ONLY. It doesn't work
- when the /FF option in CS143 is used. I realize full well that this
- might not work for all variants of output for PCBCS, but the source
- is included. You can tweak the program to suit your own needs.
-
- Credit for PCBCS and all my thanks go to Vern Buerg. He created
- the tough program, I just parsed it up...
-
- If you see a need for changes, send me a message, either to my own
- BBS in care of SYSOP or in care of JIM ROBESON on VOR or SALTAIR.
- I'm not promising free maintenance nor support of any kind. But,
- on the other hand, improvemnts could help me too, huh?! My speed
- of reaction will depend on how good the suggestion is. :-)
-
- Maybe this will be helpful to you. It sure saves time for me!
-
- Jim Robeson
- The Cricket BBS, Pacific Grove, CA., 408-373-3773.
- 3/02/93
-