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║ Spitfire System Statistics (SFSS) v2.0 ║
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║ Ross Cassell Of Cornerware Utilities (C) Copyright 1996 All Rights Reserved. ║
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║ Introduction ║
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Another System Statistics Reporting Utility..<g>. Yeah I know, we have tons
of them out there, but hey, this is FREEWARE!! SFSS, is a small but fast
utility that will create a Spitfire Display Screen showing the caller 18
little tidbits of info pertaining to them and your BBS, it may interest
them, but again it may not!! SFSS is intended and designed to run in either
the SFLOGON.BAT or a SFSEC###.BAT file, which are executed by Spitfire when
a caller logs on.
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║ Features ║
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■ Fast execution, your callers would be none the wiser that you just ran a
utility that read in SFDOORS.DAT/SFNODE.DAT and SFSYSTEM.DAT and then
wrote 2 display screens. Makes *.BBS and *.CLR.
■ Reports Following Info:
* Sysop Page Status
* Callers Baud Rate
* Callers Last File And Message Areas
* Callers Security Level
* Callers Allowable Downloads Per Day
* Callers Downloads That Day (So far)
* Callers Subscription Expire Date
* Callers Time Left In Minutes That Day
* Number Of Calls To System That Day
* Total Calls To System
* System Node Number And Total Nodes
* New Callers To System That Day
* Number Of Doors Ran That Day
* Uploads To System That Day
* Downloads From System That Day
* Messages Entered Online That Day
■ You the sysop can configure the color of the output ANSI file (*.CLR)
■ Its FREEWARE! What more do you want..<g>
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║ Setup And Usage ║
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Ok, so you downloaded this utility from your favorite Spitfire Support BBS
or received it from some other method, you want to see what the screens
look like that this program produces? Well included in this package are:
SFSS.CLR
SFSS.BBS
These are samples for your perusal, SFSS.CLR is the ANSI screen and
SFSS.BBS is the ASCII screen.
Lets get started:
[1] Unzip the executable and sample SFSS.CFG file into your Spitfire home
directory.
[2] SFSS relies on an environmental variable in order to properly find your
Spitfire data files, this variable is widely used by a vast majority of
utilities authored by Spitfires author and other third party authors
such as myself..:) Take a peek into your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and look for
this statement:
SET SFPATH=DRIVE:\PATHTOSPITFIRE
Where PATHTOSPITFIRE would represent the correct path to where you have
the SPITFIRE.EXE and SPITFIRE.OVR files, therefore if your Spitfire
Home directory is C:\SF then your SET statement in AUTOEXEC.BAT would
look like this:
SET SFPATH=C:\SF
If you already have this statement, proceed to step 3, if you had to
add or modify this statement, make those changes, reboot your system
and then proceed to step 3.
If the SFPATH environmental is not present or incorrectly setup, SFSS
will complain, refuse to run and nothing happens..
[3] I thought deeply about including the configuration file info into this
documentation but decided to document it in the enclosed sample, so
your next step is to create your cfg file, my suggestion to you is to
print it out and then load it into your favorite text editor.
Some rules on the cfg file:
[A] The CFG file must be called SFSS.CFG!
[B] SFSS.CFG must exist within the same directory or SFSS will complain
and nothing happens.. This also means that SFSS.CFG must exist
period..
[C] It must be setup exactly as documented in the sample or the
resulting display screens will probably not look right?
(Especially true for the ANSI screen)
[4] For SFSS to have the appropriate effects, you must run SFSS in one of
the batch files that Spitfire runs at logon, that would be SFLOGON.BAT
or SFSEC###.BAT (Where ### would represent a security level),
SFLOGON.BAT is the preferable method. Execution of SFSS is simple:
Example:
@ECHO OFF
CD\SF
SFSS
SFSS does not recognize or require any command line parameters, it will
do its thing provided that the afore mentioned environmental variable
is set and that it can find SFSS.CFG, one further consideration is that
since it reads in SFDOORS.DAT, it wont do anything until SFDOORS.DAT is
present. (Hence why it must be run at logon, as Spitfire creates a
SFDOORS.DAT file when shelling to SFLOGON.BAT or SFSEC###.BAT.)
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║ Warranty And Disclaimer ║
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SFSS comes with no warranty expressed or implied, use it at your own risk.
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║ Registration ║
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SFSS is released as FREEWARE, although I retain rights to the program and
its source code, if you feel a monetary donation is necessary, then please
donate what you can to your favorite charity.
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║ Credits And Acknowledgements ║
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SFSS is (C) Copyright 1996 by Ross Cassell Of Cornerware Utilities.
Spitfire is (C) Copyright by Mike Woltz Of Buffalo Creek Software.
Turbo Pascal v7.0 is (C) Copyright of Borland International.
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║ Support ║
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Ross Cassell
The Dark Corner BBS
1-864-573-7069
INTERNET: rcassell@worldnet.att.net
FIDONET: 1:3652/1
SFNET: A0864000