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NEATNIK - List FILES.BBS descriptions longer than ?? characters
Written by: Don Dawson, 1:141/730 @FidoNet June, 1990
Updated: January, 1992
This program is distributed under the Dinnerware concept. You
might ask, what's Dinnerware? You might know of Shareware and
Freeware. The Dinnerware concept is this: You don't owe me or
anyone else a thing if you choose to use this program. However,
take your spouse, girl friend, boy friend, best friend or anyone
else you choose out to dinner. You'll enjoy it, they'll enjoy it.
THIS MATERIAL IS DISTRIBUTED "as is" WITHOUT ANY EXPRESSED OR
IMPLIED WARRANTY OR LIABILITY FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. IF IT BREAKS, YOU OWN ALL THE PARTS.
OVERVIEW:
Why neatnik? Callers upload files and provide file descriptions
that often are longer than Maximus or OPUS is able to display neatly.
If the description is longer than 60 characters, the line is wrapped.
If you recieve files via SDS, SDN or one of the other file distribution
methods their descriptions are often too long.
This program will search your FILES.BBS entries and display and
write to a file (or your printer) the descriptions that are too long.
You can then edit these to the proper length. Some similar programs
will merely chop off the excess characters. Using the output, you can
fix the descriptions to suit your taste.
It can be used with Maximus 1.0? and 2.0 as well as OPUS 1.0x and 1.1x.
The SYSTEM??.BBS or SYSTEM??.DAT files are searched for the download
directory paths. Then, the FILES.BBS in each directory is checked
for file descriptions that are too long. NEATNIK will ignore lines
beginning with "-" or a space. If your entries happen to contain
Avatar characters (the special characters that Max and OPUS use to show
color, etc) NEATNIK will not count those when deciding if the entries
are too long.
The output file is always appended. Thus you can tell NEATNIK to
put the output in an existing log. I don't recommend you clutter
up your OPUS log with NEATNIK output. It's your choice.
NEATNIK will "complain" if any of the paths to the FILES.BBS are
wrong or it can't find a FILES.BBS file.
USING NEATNIK:
You must provide two command line parameters, optionally a third,
seperated by a space:
. -I, the path to the directory containing the system?.dat or
system?.bbs files (required).
. -O, the log path and filename to write the output (required)
. -L, the line length that you want checked. Default is 60
if this is omitted. Don't use less than 10.
or
. -I, the path to the directory containing the system?.dat or
system?.bbs files (required).
. -Oprn This will send the output directly to your printer.
. -L (optional)
For example:
NEATNIK -ic:\max -oc:\bbslogs\anyname.log
Note: No trailing backslash on the input path.
The -ic:\max tells the program where to look for the SYSTEM??.???
files.
The -oc:\bbslogs\anyname.log tells the program where to write
the output.
NEATNIK -ie:\opustuff -od:\logs\houskeep.log -l73
This will check for lines longer than 73 characters.
NEATNIK -ic:\opus -oprn
This will send the output directly to the printer.
Following is an example of the output:
Send feedback to: Don Dawson, 1:141/730 @FidoNet
Begin Processing: 06-26-1990 15:19:21 Version 1.2
Find FILES.BBS lines over 60 characters long.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Processing area: 1 C:\Of\General\files.bbs
Processing area: 2 H:\Of\Games\files.bbs
Processing area: 3 H:\Of\Business\files.bbs
Processing area: 4 H:\Of\Batpower\files.bbs
Processing area: 5 H:\Of\Procomm\files.bbs
Processing area: 7 H:\Of\Dvnet\files.bbs
LTDFRE21.ZIP ( 3)FRE 2.1: Displays free disk space and memory
Processing area: 8 H:\Of\Progtool\files.bbs
Processing area: 10 H:\Of\Disk\files.bbs
Processing area: 11 H:\Of\Keyboard\files.bbs
Processing area: 12 H:\Of\Printer\files.bbs
Processing area: 13 H:\Of\Memory\files.bbs
Processing area: 14 H:\Of\Monitor\files.bbs
Processing area: 15 H:\Of\Misc\files.bbs
Processing area: 17 J:\Of\Sdn_Busi\files.bbs
Processing area: 18 J:\Of\Sdn_Comm\files.bbs
Processing area: 19 J:\Of\Sdn_Data\files.bbs
Processing area: 20 J:\Of\Sdn_Grap\files.bbs
Processing area: 21 J:\Of\Sdn_Lang\files.bbs
Processing area: 22 J:\Of\Sdn_Misc\files.bbs
Processing area: 23 J:\Of\Sdn_Util\files.bbs
Processing area: 24 H:\Of\Sdn_Word\files.bbs
Processing area: 25 H:\Of\Sdn_Othr\files.bbs
Processing area: 31 H:\Of\Upload\files.bbs
BRADSH20.ZIP ( )The Brad Parks Ansi Slide Show v 2.0. New!
MONO.ZIP Better program to run clr. prgs. on laptop or amb. mon
Processing area: 32 H:\Of\Private\files.bbs
Processing area: 34 E:\Fnews\files.bbs
EDLIST05.ZIP ( 6)Educators Interested in Telecommunications Projects
FNEWS721.ARC ( 20)vince's first attempt ever to use tick (omigod!!)
FNEWS722.ARC ( 19)FidoNews Thanks Steve Bonine in Vol 7 No 22
FNEWS724.ARC ( 16)FidoNews, 5th anniversary of MultiNet issue
FSC-0046.A02 ( 3)A Proposed Product Identifier, J Homrighausen
MAPS.152 ( 7)June 1st edition of MAPS of CT.FidoLand - LZH format.
Processing area: 35 G:\Of\Opus1\files.bbs
Processing area: 36 G:\Of\Opus2\files.bbs
Processing area: 37 G:\Of\Opus3\files.bbs
Processing area: 38 G:\Of\Ddsdoors\files.bbs
Processing area: 40 G:\Of\Sdsbink\files.bbs
Processing area: 41 G:\Of\Sdsfront\files.bbs
Processing area: 42 G:\Of\Sdsopus\files.bbs
SALT_119.ZIP ( 3)Update to SALT.EXE, fixes multi-language OEC files.
Processing area: 43 G:\Of\Sdsos2\files.bbs
Processing area: 44 G:\Of\Sdsother\files.bbs
Processing area: 45 G:\Of\Sdsquick\files.bbs
Processing area: 46 G:\Of\Sdsra\files.bbs
Processing area: 47 G:\Of\Sdsrbbs\files.bbs
Processing area: 48 G:\Of\Softdist\files.bbs
X00V123D.ZIP ( 8)Special Release of X00 Beta with enhanced trace data. (Writes to a debugging file)
Processing area: 49 G:\Of\Sdsfido\files.bbs
Processing area: 50 G:\Of\Sdsmax\files.bbs
MNUMBETA.ZIP ( 4)MsgNum 4.13 - Msg Renum Util (DOS and OS/2)
CALL175.ZIP ( 4)Modem stuff fixed. MAXimus Call Back verifier v1.75
Processing area: 53 G:\Of\R16Files\files.bbs
QFIL31LA.ZIP ( 5)QFILER v.3.1LA from Kenn Flee Now Supports LZH
LOTT30.ZIP ( 4)Six State Megabucks Lottery Door for QBBS/RA
CRITTER.ZIP ( 7)Fixes abort,retry,abort problem. Newer version
JANIT101.ZIP ( 3)JANITOR v.1.01 Delete EchoMail Based on Messages Read
VP_405.ZIP ( 5)VPurge v.4.05 Modified ConfMail for DOS - UpDate Copy
End of Processing: 06-26-1990 15:19:33
# of file entries too long: 17
# lines in FILES.BBS......: 3702
Elapsed time: 13 seconds
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Revision History:
Version 1.0 6/25/90, the origial
1.1 6/26/90, added the -L command line option and modified report
headings and footers
1.2 1/26/92, open files in share mode and return to the system on
and error rather than stop. If you use NEATNIK in a
.bat file during your housekeeping and it encounters
an error a keypress WILL NOT be required.