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SPANN
SPecial ANNouncement setter
Doug Boone, 1:119/5
April 9, 1991
What it is:
SPANN.EXE is a small program I threw together to set the SPecial
ANNouncement flags in the Opus USER.DAT file via a batch ap-
proach. It will work with either Opus 1.20 or Opus 1.1x provided
that USER.DAT and USER.?DX (the index file) are both in the
current directory. If both are there, it will use the 1.20 file.
Its command line is:
Spann <listfile or priv or "ALL"> <Which> <Many>
Listfile is just an ASCII list of names:
Joe Blow
Fred Flinstone
Barny Rubble
<etc>
Each person on your list would have the SPANN flag number <Which>
set to <Many> times. This might be a list of people who are in a
club or other organization to let them know about something.
Or you can give a privilege level and everyone who has that
privilege level would have their SPANN flag set. Valid privilege
names are: TWIT, DISGRACE, LIMITED, NORMAL, WORTHY, PRIVEL,
FAVORED, EXTRA, CLERK, ASSTSYSOP, SYSOP, HIDDEN.
Or you could use the magic name "All" and everyone's SPANN would
be set.
For example:
SPANN ALL 1 3 Sets SPANN1 to be shown 3 times to
everyone.
SPANN SYSOP 1 0 Sets SPANN1 off for all people who
have SYSOP privileges.
SPANN Myclub.lst 2 5 Sets SPANN2 to 5 showings for
everyone listed in Myclub.lst.
No guarantees or warranties are implied. This was just thrown
together because I was too lazy to read up on how to do it with
UPL or OOPS. If its helpful for you, great.