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BBSUtils Documentation
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Daniel B. Doman
166 East 96th street Apt 15B
New York, N.Y. 10028
212-289-1020
This is a collection of utility programs that I wrote to make
managing a Bulletin Board a little bit easier. By and large, they
should be usable with most bulletin board programs, although they were
only tested on dBBS style directories. If you find them useful thats
great. I don't expect anything back from you except perhaps a kind word.
If you are running a dBBS system, you can use one of your ".DL"
files as an input file that can be read by most of these utilities. I
have enclosed a sample input file called MYINPUT.
Dirchk4.exe
Dirchk is designed to scan your directory listings and check
against your drive for files listed but not actually present in your
download path. You can type in the arguments interactively, or give it an
input file to read. It will optionally edit out the missing file names.
If you select this option, it will save your old directory
listings with a ".OLD" extension. If you are using a BBS program that
puts the date in a non-standard format, command line arguments allow you
to tell the program where to look for the date fields.
Notlist4.exe
This program does the reverse of what Dirchk3 does e.g.. it flags
those files that are present in your download path, but NOT listed.
Command line arguments, and parameters are the same as for Dirchk.
BB-Sort4.exe
This program sorts your directory listings in Alpha, Date, or
Reverse-date order. It will handle files as large as memory allows. I
have tested it on files as large as 400K, but that is not the upper
limit. You can specify an input and output name. If you do not specify
the output name, BB-Sort will use the input name as the output name.
BB-Sort is quite fast, and many people have asked me to modify it so that
it can be used as a general sort utility. This version has a "/C" command
line switch so that you can have it do a sort on a
specific column position.
CapsNoMo.exe
All too many users type file descriptions all in UPPER case. I find
this unsightly, and retype the descriptions. I got tired of doing this
and thus came CapsNoMo. It simply reformats the description to first
letter upper case, all others lower case. I think it looks
better that way. Some names such as dBase (tm) have their first letter
spelled in lower case. Other names such as BBS are spelled all in upper
case. Capsnomo will try to recognize those words and handle them
accordingly. This program is not perfect, but it does reduce most of your
editing to a minimum.
Dupfind
Dupfind is locates duplicate filenames. It is rather specialized
and does not really work like traditional file finders or duplicate
listers. Dupfind can use an input file like Dirchk and Notlist. it will
normally flag duplicate file names, but command line switches allow you
to have it flag as duplicates files that have different
extensions. You can also tell Dupfind the length of file names to
check for and thus flag files that have different version numbers in
their names e.g.. NIFTY1.ARC, NIFTY10.ARC, NIFTY30.EXE could all be
flagged as duplicates if you wanted. This can be handy since it lets
you locate old versions of new programs.
Dupfind DOES NOT search out subdirectories. You have to tell it where
to look. On a large system common sense dicates that you use an input
file. All of these programs can use the same inout file.
Cmove6.com
Cmove is a general purpose utility. It Moves files from one drive
and subdirectory to another. It does not employ directory
trickery of any kind. The move/copy is heavily verified, and will not
damage any of your files. It can take wildcards (*?) and as many
arguments as you like. e.g.. CMOVE D:\*.ARC E:\FRED; A:*.COM D:\STUFF
enjoy - daniel