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- ║ A MÄC's Place BBS Release ║
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- BudMan
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- Copyright (C)1989,1990
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- Written By: John W. McNamara
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- MÄC's Place PCBoard
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- Dunn, North Carolina
- 919 891-1111 HST (PCPursuitable)
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- BUDMAN - Version 3.0 Page - 1
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- ║ Introduction ║
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- First let me say that I know I have strange names for my programs
- as many of you have commented on them over the past. This program
- is named after a friend of mine in the Boston area. His name is
- BUD NAPIER and he runs the Future Technologies Exchange BBS there
- at 617-227-6260. He initially asked me to write something like
- this so I named it after him.
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- Welcome to BUDMAN version 3.0 ! BudMan does what PCBoard should
- already do. It splits the DOWNLOAD.TXT file into two files, one
- containing downloads and the other uploads.
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- ║ BudMan Operation ║
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- The operation of the BudMan programme is straight
- forward. ANSI.SYS MUST be loaded from your config.sys
- file before running BudMan. See your DOS manual for
- installation on this device driver. It will work fine
- without it but you get strange screen output. The
- programme is invoked from the command line:
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- USAGE: BUDMAN [inputfile] [outputfile]
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- InputFile: DOWNLOAD.TXT or Whatever the Input is.
- OutputFile: UPLOAD.TXT or Whatever You Want.
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- The InputFile is your download.txt file or the filename
- that you have told PCBoard to place download/upload
- information too. The OutputFile is the new file you want
- created that contains all the Uploads in it. This file
- will be created if it doesn't exsist and if it does exist
- the new information will be appended to the end of it.
- This was done so any SYSOP wanting to, can run this
- program in his/her event. This will constantly update the
- UPLOADS.TXT file nightly with all the new uploads. This
- program is helpful when running programs like HOTSTUFF
- (from MÄC's Place) or ProWHO UPLOADED THAT FILE DOOR
- (from Sam Smith). This way all the extra information in
- your present file won't slow these programs down. This
- will cause your programs to run faster and the end users
- will receive a faster response. If ever the need arises
- to have a complete file containing all the information,
- then just simply append one file to the other. Another
- great program this is needed for is ORIGIN DOOR also from
- MÄC's Place.
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- BUDMAN - Version 3.0 Page - 2
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- ║ Acknowledgements ║
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- This programme was conceived and created by John McNamara - the
- SysOp of MÄC's Place [919 891-1111 HST].
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- Special thanks are extended to David Patterson, SysOp of Viking
- Magick BBS [617-354-2171]. He wrote the initial supporting
- documentation for the BUDMAN Utility programme.
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- The BUDMAN Utility programme is written in C and compiled with
- Microsoft C 6.0. The C language was choosen for writing several
- of the MÄC's Place BBS PCBoard utilities such as BUDMAN
- because of its speed and flexibility. The MSC source is NOT
- available. The only function NOT in "C" in the function to turn
- off the cursor while the program is running, this is is .ASM an
- called in-line.
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- If you have any comments, suggestions or improvements for the
- BUDMAN Splitting Utility programme, please let John McNamara
- know by contacting MÄC's Place at 919-891-1111 and leaving a
- comment to the SysOp. The author, John McNamara can be contacted
- through the SW support conference which is one of the national
- PCRelay International network conferences. Messages concerning
- support of BUDMAN Utility or any other MÄC's Place Release
- programme doors and utilities should be left in the SW
- conference which can be accessed through most International
- RelayNet member boards.
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- Thanks !!
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