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- CENCALL CALLERS LOG PROGRAM
- George M. Cheney
- Sysop Centrox BBS
- (915)332-4256
- Odessa, Texas
-
- A small compact program written for Spitfire BBS systems that will make
- a mini-bulletin or callers log showing just the callers that called
- today. The other day a fellow sysop called me and asked if I knew a way
- to find out who called today without reading the entire callers log.
- I did not know of any program that would quickly tell me who called
- today. I always open the callers.log and go to the end of it and read
- backwards. So after some thought I wrote a little program that I run
- from the sfinit.bat that writes a little bulletin type file to show me
- who had called today. It is so simple that I wanted to share it with
- other sysop's that might want to do the same thing.
-
- FIRST THE LEGAL STUFF:
-
- The author, George M. Cheney makes no warranties or any other
- representations as to the usefulness of Cencall for any purpose. I
- am not responsible for damages to equipment, loss of time, loss
- of data, or any other loss resulting from the use of this program.
- Anyone using this program does so at their own risk. While the
- program has been thoroughly tested, I make no representations as
- to the performance or fitness of this program for any useful or
- un-useful purpose declared or not declared.
-
-
- INSTALLING CENCALL:
-
- First is the question of where to put CENCALL.EXE Actually you
- can put it almost anywhere you want to. <Grin> It needs to be put
- in its own directory. This may be a subdirectory off your board
- directory, or a directory on another drive. The important thing
- is to let it live in it's own directory. You will need two files
- for it operate. The main program, CENCALL.EXE, and TODAY.COM,
- written by Mike Woltz, author of Spitfire Bulletin Board Software.
- Also you will need BRUN45.EXE somewhere in your path.
-
- Next you will need to edit your SFLOGON.BAT to copy SFDOORS.DAT to the
- directory Cnecall.exe resides in. The following is an example of my
- SFLOGON.BAT. Note that I cange the name to SFDOORS.ONE.
-
- @Echo Off
- CENSECII
- COPY SFDOORS.DAT C:\SF\CENCALL\SFDOORS.ONE
- CD\SF
-
- And here is a copy of my SFLOGON.BAT for Node Two. Note the change in
- name to SFDOORS.TWO
-
- @Echo Off
- CENSECII
- COPY SFDOORS.DAT C:\SF\CENCALL\SFDOORS.TWO
- CD\SF2
-
- *Censecii is another freeware utility I wrote to monitor security levels
- and tell the caller who was on the other node.
-
- Next you will need to edit your SFINIT.BAT as follows.
-
- ECHO OFF
- C:\SF\SFCHKUP
- CD\
- CD\SF\CENCALL
- @TODAY >CENTIM.DAT
- @CENCALL
- @CD\SF\WORK
- @FAST!L10 /nCentrox BBS /cC:\SF\DISPLAY\welcome6.CLR /bc:\sf\DISPLAY\welcome6.BBS /Sys /d /f
- CD\SF
-
- Note the I run my last ten callers bulletin last and sfchkup first....
- The program will run after every call and show a screen that lists that
- day's callers. I wrote a little bat file to show me the list so I could
- jump to dos and look.
-
- @ECHO OFF
- TYPE C:\SF\CENCALL\CENCALL.DAT
-
- Simple enough... and fast...
-
- Than as an added touch I edited my SF.BAT to copy the file to my display
- directory and then erase it. Then used it as a who called yesterday
- bulletin. Just for the fun of it. You will need to erase it some at
- midnight so it will start creating a new list. The following is an
- example of that part of my sf1.bat
-
- :EVENT_A
- COPY C:\SF\WORK\SFUSERS.DAT C:\SF\DISPLAY
- CD\SF\DISPLAY
- SFTODAY /O WELCOME3.* /S CENTROX BBS /P /U /C
- COPY WELCOME3.* C:\SF\DISPLAY\BULLET4.*
- COPY C:\SF\CENCALL\CENCALL.DAT C:\SF\DISPLAY\BULLET27.BBS
- COPY C:\SF\CENCALL\CENCALL.DAT C:\SF\DISPLAY\BULLET27.CLR
- ERASE C:\SF\CENCALL\CENCALL.DAT
- CD\SF
- GOTO LOOP
-
- I copied it rather than moved it so as to give it the *.BBS and *.CLR
- extension. Then when I run my mail I get all the new bulletins and can
- see who called yesterday.
-
-
- LICENSE AND REGISTRATION:
-
- Cencall took me about three hours to write. I saw a need and put
- something together to fulfill that need. Cencall is freeware. I am
- including the source code so you can fold, spindle, mutulate, destroy,
- or whatever. Please do not name it after me if you do so. I hope that
- this is of some value, and someone that is a "real" programer writes
- something quicker, simpler, and better. Enjoy...
-
- Note: If Cencall can't find it's files, sfdoors.* it will not lock up
- with a file not found message. It is mostly bulletproof and supports
- file shareing.
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