SP2Fizz - Semper to FizzBill Log Converter - v1.0 - FreeWare
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o What's FizzBill?

FizzBill is a program that will calculate how much you have spent on you
comms phonebill, when using the Freeze Dried Terminal program.  I wrote
FizzBill for my own use, but soon realised that quite a lot of other people 
wanted to see how much they have spent on their calls. 

o What's SP2Fizz?

Semper is a new mailer that more and more people are using when they
become a point/node.  If you now use Semper instead of Binkley, you can 
still use FizzBill to calculate the comms phone bill, by using this program
to convert the LOG file from Semper into log files that FizzBill can understand.

o Using SP2Fizz

First of all you need a modify the config. file, that SP2Fizz will read
when run.  Here's an example of the ascii SP2FIZZ.CFG file...

D:\SEMPER\SEMPER\SEMPER.LOG            ! Location of Semper Log file
D:\BTLOGS\                             ! Path to write converted logs
NO                                     ! Delete Semper Log file [YES/NO]

The 1st line is the path and filename of the log that is generated by Semper.

The 2nd line is the path where SP2Fizz will write the converted log file,
Note that you MUST create this folder yourself.

The 3rd line tells SP2Fizz to delete the Semper log AFTER logs the calls have
been converted, if you have put YES in the line.   I'd start off with NO in 
this line, until your sure everything is working ok, after which modify this
to YES.  Note that one version of the log file is kept, before deleteing 
ie. SEMPER.OLD

Save the config file.

Now run SP2Fizz.  If the config. file has been found, you should now be
told that the Semper Log file is being read.

If any calls have been found then SP2Fizz will tell you the date that
the call was made and will write the information to a log file.  For
example, if you made a call on 1-Jun-1993 then the log created will be
called SP930601.LOG.

After the Semper log file has been read, the log will be deleted ONLY
if you placed a YES in the 3rd line of the Config. file.

SP2Fizz also generates a SP2FIZZ.BBS file, which contains the phone
number and the name of the bbs you called...

eg.

0-81-445-6514#90;102/140.0
0-81-244-9825#90;102/0.0

If, for example you don't like the name '90;102/0.0' then just
use an Ascii editor and change the '90;102/0.0' to something
like '<Fortress>', which is more meaningful.

The main reason for changing this file though is that most bbs have
different names, depending on which node address you call it on.

Eg. If you poll Node 90:102/140 -- the bbs name is 'The Tavern'
    If you poll Node 2:254/108  -- the bbs name is 'The Tavern Fido'

In the above case, it makes sense to make the two bbs names the same,
so once you've changed the name, SP2Fizz will use that name, instead
of the name used in the Semper.Log file.

You should now have some SPyymmdd.LOG file, all you do now is run
FizzBill...

o Problem/Comments

If you find any problems with SP2Fizz or want any improvements made
to the program then why not send me a message, to any of the
following networks...

 +---->      InterNet:  Steve.Basford@mettav.royle.org     <----+
 |          NeST: 90:102/108  ~  TurboNet 100:1011/0.10         |
 |         FidoNet 2:254/108.10 ~ AtariNet 51:502/100.10        |
 +---->       Part-time musicians are semiconductors.      <----+