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AREALIST, A MAXIMUS BBS UTILITY
THIS PROGRAM IS DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT COST. IT IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND
AND YOU USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Revisions: This version cured a nasty bug that sometimes put an
incorrect access level in when they were different for File and
Message areas. It also adds the /S switch to add leading spaces at the
begining of a description line.
Very Quick Reference:
AREALIST. Generates MSGAREA.BBS and FILEAREA.BBS for MAXIMUS CBCS.
(C) 1990 Yale Computer Consulting. FidoNet 1:141/535 bbs 203-753-8351
This program is absolutely free and has no warranty of any kind.
Usage: AREALIST [/Iinfile] [/F] [/M] [/Hfile] [/Nc] [/Bc] [/Tc] [/Sn]
/Iinfile, use infile to specify an areas.ctl file to read-default= AREAS.CT.
/M Generate MSGAREA.BBS only"
/F Generate FILEAREA.BBS only-default is to generate both. If both are
specified you will get only a FILEAREA.BBS
/H Name of header file to be added at top of MSGAREA and/or FILEAREA
file. Default is no file. May be compiled MECCA.
/Nc c is the color the area numbers will be.Default is Blue.
/Bc c is the color the periods between the area number and title will
be. Default is White.
/Tc c is the color the area titles will be. Default is Yellow.
/Sn n is the number of leading spaces in the area description line.
Color Key: Blue=1 Green=2 Cyan=3 Red=4 Magenta=5 Brown=6 Gray=7 DarkGray=8
LightBlue=9 LightGreen=10 LightCyan=11 LightRed=12 LightMagenta=13
Yellow=14 White=15
Purpose:
I used to use an excellent program with OPUS to generate MSGAREA.BBS
and FILEAREA.BBS files. When I switched to MAXIMUS I wanted something to
generate those same files without having all those SYSTEM??.BBS files lying
around my hard drive, so I threw together AREALIST.
Examples of Usage:
AREALIST
Will read AREAS.CTL and produce MSGAREA.BBS and FILEAREA.BBS with the
following colors:
b w y
l h e
u i l
e t l
e o
w
1....Area Name
AREALIST will skip area that have an access level of HIDDEN.
AREALIST does not support barracades at this time.
AREALIST /hheader.fil /n4 /b5 /t14
Will read AREAS.CTL, start both MSGAREAS.BBS and FILEAREA.BBS with
whatever you have in the file HEADER.FIL, and use red area numbers, magenta
dots, and yellow area titles.
You can have imbedded comments in your AREAS.CTL file and AREALIST will
include them into your MSGAREA.BBS and FILEAREA.BBS files. Any line that has
%ALM% in it will have whatever follows the %ALM% written into the MSGAREA.BBS
file. Any line that has %ALF% in it will have what ever follows the %ALF%
written into the FILEAREA.BBS. The %ALM% or %ALF% do not have to start the
line, they can be at any position.
I use this to put comment lines about restricted access for some areas
in the file and to break the echos into groups by subject.
I use a batchfile to run AREALIST because I have different header
files for MSGAREA.BBS and FILEAREA.BBS, here is the one I use for MSGAREA.BBS:
d:
cd \max\misc
AREAFIX /id:\max\areas.ctl /m /n4 /b15 /t1
type msgtrail.txt >> msgareas.bbs
cd \max
Note that by using the DOS TYPE command you can add a trailer to the
file. It is not necessary for AREALIST to support this function.
Any comments, problems, or suggestions can be directed to me (David
Yale) at my BBS, A Place in the Sun- (203) 753-8351, FidoNet 1:141/535