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- Remote Access Remote User Editor.
- v 1.11
- (c) 1990 J.Berends.
-
- General:
-
- The Remote Access Remote User Editor (Rarue) was written because at the
- time I started my BBS there was not one good Remote user editor, which
- could edit ALL fields from the user record. So I decided to write my
- own user editor. This resulted in the files you have just extracted from
- the archive file. I hope you enjoy using it. Any questions, bugs or
- whatever can be directed to: Jan Berends
- HIO-BBS Groningen
- (+31)50-719921
- Fido adress: 2:282/510
-
- Installation:
-
- RARUE.EXE can reside in any directory you choose. RARUE.EXE uses the dos
- environement variable RA to locate your CONFIG.RA file. CONFIG.RA is being
- used to find out where the file USERS.BBS resides.
- For installation of colors and the additional information file you need
- to use the SETUP.EXE file.
- The file with the aditional informating can be the logfile created by
- REGDOOR.EXE, or any other file, as long as the line with the users full name
- starts with an *. This line must be the first of the info about that user.
-
- How it works:
-
- Rarue.exe looks for an EXITINFO.BBS in the directory from which is was
- executed. When it doesn't find this file, it asumes to run be run in
- local operation. If RARUE finds EXITINFO.BBS, then it expects one
- parameter: the portnumber to use, 1 for com1, 2 for com2, etc.
- For cursor manipulation is ANSI.SYS being used, so Rarue.exe will NOT run
- properly without ANSI.SYS or some other ansi program installed.
-
- From RA a tipical call to Rarue would be:
-
- C:\RA\RARUE.EXE *P
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. Anybody using RARUE can NOT change his own settings when using RARUE
- remote. In local operation (when no EXITINFO.BBS) is available, all
- users can be edited.
- 2. A user can only view and edit users with security levels less than
- or equal to his own.
-
- All functions but three are self-explaining. These three function are a
- little more complex than the other.
- Search and Report are two functions which need a little more information
- from you than the other functions. The input for Search and Report are
- almost identically so I only need to explain one of both.
-
- Search: When you activate the search option. You will be prompted with the
- SearchItem prompt. You can then press one of the keys corresponding to a
- field as you would do when editing this field. The following four field
- types are available:
- -When you select a String type field (such as name) you only need to enter
- the string to search for.
- -When you select a Value type field (such as level), you first need to enter
- a value. Next you have to enter the compare option. ">" for all users with
- that particular field larger than the entered value, "=' for all users
- with that field equal to the entered value, and "<" for all users with that
- field less than the entered value.
- -When you select a Flag type field you first need to enter what flag you
- wish to use. Next you have to enter the flag mask. Then you have to select
- whether a user should have these flags (And), or whether a user shoud not
- have these flags (Not).
- -When you select an Attribute type field you only have to enter whether that
- flag has to be On or Off.
- You can enter up to 10 search items. To stop entering the search items you
- have to use the "Q".
-
- With the Report option you first need to enter the same fields you have to
- enter with the search option. These search options will be reported at the
- top of your report file. Next you have to enter the Report options. These
- options will be reported in your report file after the username.
-
- In the Search and Report the option "*" is available for searches based
- on the last date the user was logged on.
-
- Macro: When you activate the macro option you are prompted for a macroname.
- This macroname points to a specific part in the macro file. This file is
- a text file which has the following format:
-
- Macroname macro1
- Flags A X-I---OX
- Security 100
- Netmailcredit 1000
- Nokill
- IgnoreDl
- Macroname macro2
- etc. etc.
-
- These lines can be in any order as long as a macro block starts with the
- macroname keyword. All keywords MUST start at the first position of a line.
- The next keywords are available:
- -Macroname : Tells RARUE the name of this macro
- -Security : Tells RARUE the new security
- -Netmailcredit : Tells RARUE the new Netmail credit
- -Nokill : Tells RARUE to set the No Kill flag ON
- -IgNoreDl : Tells RARUE to set the Ignore Download flag ON
- -Flags : Tells RARUE to set a specific flag. The flag is the second
- option on the line. The next option is the flagmask.
- X : set flag ON
- - : set flag OFF
- I : ignore flag
- O : XOR flag
-
- History
-
- Mai 01 1990 v1.00 -First release of RARUE, to some beta testers.
-
- Mai 13 1990 v1.01 -Some bugs were fixed.
-
- Mai 15 1990 v1.02 -First public release of RARUE
-
- Mai 28 1990 v1.03 -The security feature which allows users to see only users
- with a security level less than or equal to his own was
- added.
- -An external setup program was added, so the RARUE.CFG
- file is no longer needed.
-
- June 1 1990 v1.04 -The search feature has been expanded. You can now
- search on a maximum of 10 items at one time.
- -A report function has been added.
- -The screen layout has changed a little.
- -Screen writing has been optimized so RARUE works a lot
- faster, specially when in remote operation.
- June 6 1990 v1.10 -The macro feature was added.
- -The cursor key's can be used when editing a field.
- -The cursor key's can be used instead of the < and > key's
- -The HOME and END key are now supported
- June 7 1990 v1.11 -The date option was added to teh Search and report options
-
- I wish all of you succes with RARUE.EXE. If you find it usefull, send a
- postcard to: Jan Berends
- Koolstraat 21a
- 9717 KB Groningen
- Holland.