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- RLIMAIL Version 2.10 05/15/90
- (C) 1990 R. J. Farrell, WB2COY - All Rights Reserved Page 1 of 3
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- RLIMAIL is a program written in BASIC which will analyze the MAIL.MB
- file from a W0RLI PBBS system (Version 6.05 and above), generate a
- report, and send it to the display, printer, or save it to a file.
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- Note: If you want to run the BASIC code under the BASIC interpreter,
- you MUST specify the following when starting BASICA:
- BASICA /S:512
- Then LOAD"RLIMAIL and RUN
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- The compiled program can be run by simply specifying RLIMAIL
- at the DOS prompt.
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- This program was born out of a desire to be able to get a printout of
- the entire message header database for the purpose of doing some
- housekeeping. There is no provision in the W0RLI code to have the
- message list sent to a file or to the printer. RLIMAIL simulates the
- BBS environment offline and provides this function.
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- You should run the program offline using a backup copy of your MAIL.MB
- file (you do make backups regularly, right?). The program will prompt
- for a Mail database filename. The default is MAIL.MB, so just hitting
- <Enter> will give you the default. You may also specify a filename and
- extension, if you save your backup copies using a different naming
- convention.
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- The program will support the listing of messages in the following ways:
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- (A)ctive ------- all active (unkilled) messages
- (K)illed -------- killed messages only
- (D)ate ---------- all active messages on a specified Date
- (R)ead ---------- all messages that have been read (Status of Y)
- (O)ld ----------- all messages flagged as OLD
- (H)eld ---------- all messages flagged as HOLD (Status of H)
- (F)orwarded ----- all messages flagged as Forwarded (F)
- (B)ulletins ----- all messages marked as 'B' type messages
- (T) NTS Traffic - NTS traffic messages only
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- (>) TO ---------- Messages addressed TO Callsign
- (<) FROM -------- Messages addressed FROM Callsign
- (@) AT ---------- Messages addressed AT Callsign
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- (?) Find Text --- Messages containing text string in Subject field.
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- A secondary prompt for a Callsign will be made in the case of the (<),(>)
- and (@) search types. This may be a valid callsign, or a Mnemonic, such
- as ALL, RLIBBS, etc.
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- The (D)ate option will prompt for the date in the format MMDD.
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- For the (?) Find Text search type, you will prompted to enter the text
- to search for. This entry is case Insensitive.
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- You will then be prompted to choose the output device type:
- <H>ardcopy <F>ile or <D>isplay (H F or D) ?
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- The default is Display, so just hitting <Enter> will provide a display
- to the screen only. Answering H will result in a hardcopy printout only,
- (make sure your printer is on), while answering F will save the output
- into a filename using the following table:
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- Active Messages - RLI-ACT.RPT
- Killed Messages - RLI-KILL.RPT
- Read Messages - RLI-READ.RPT
- Old Messages - RLI-OLD.RPT
- Held Messages - RLI-HELD.RPT
- Forwarded Messages - RLI-FWD.RPT
- Bulletins - RLI-BULL.RPT
- NTS Messages - RLI-NTS.RPT
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- Messages TO, FROM or @ a callsign or mnemonic will be saved with a
- filename matching what was entered at the Callsign prompt. For example,
- if you answered the prompt with AMSAT, then the filename AMSAT.RPT will
- contain the output report. Find Text will save into RLI-MAIL.RPT
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- RLIMAIL will generate a report using the following header:
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- Msg # NR Stat Size To From @ BBS Date Subject
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- Msg # = message number
- NR = Number of times this message has been Read
- Stat = message statistics (see example)
- Size = size of the message file in bytes
- To = whom the message was addressed TO
- From = whom the message was FROM
- @ BBS = whom the message was addressed AT
- Date = date the message was left on the system (MMDD)
- Subject = first 32 bytes of subject field
-
- Some typical output would look like the following: (This example shows
- Killed messages)
-
- W0RLI Mail File Read Utility - WB2COY - 12-19-1988 - 14:18:30
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- Msg # NR Stat Size To From @ BBS Date Subject
- 8861 1 BKF 785 ALL N1API N1CUI 0211 ARRL SB 354
- 8849 3 BK 1138 ALL W3IWI MBLBBS 0210 It's a Girl
- 8767 2 BK 1740 ALL W1AW ARL 0206 ARRL Propagation Forecast
- 8542 15 BK 444 ALL WA2MMX 0204 FOR SALE
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- I find the 'NR' field very useful when determining if an old bulletin or
- message should be deleted for cleanup purposes, and in determining how
- much activity certain types of messages have. If nobody is reading
- bulletins addressed @FINOGA, then why continue to keep them around?
-
- The program BASIC source code is included. Feel free to modify it in
- any way. I will make an attempt at keeping the program functional for
- later releases of the W0RLI PBBS code. I would be interested in
- receiving any major functional enhancements that are made by other
- Sysops. I do not profess to be an expert in BASIC. Others may find
- better or more efficient methods for accomplishing the same results.
- To quote an old saying: "There's more than one way to skin a cat."
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- The following information may be useful to others who want to modify or
- enhance this program. Most of this info was determined by trial and
- error. There are no published functional specs for the database.
- For purposes of this program, I am concerned with only the first 132
- bytes of each record. Additional information, such as BID, Distribution
- list data, etc., will be found in the remainder of the record.
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- - The MAIL.MB database consists of 512 byte records
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- - The database is structured such that the most recent entry is
- at the end of the file.
-
- - The first record of the database does not contain any message
- data.
-
- - For each valid record, the following structure is found:
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- Byte(s)
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- 0,1 - database relative record number (*)
- 2,3 - # times message has been read (*)
- 4,5 - actual message number (*)
- 6,7 - message size in bytes (*)
- 8 - message type (B,T,P - plain text)
- 9 - message status (coded HEX) see table in source code
- 10-15 - TO field (plain text)
- 16 - null (00) separator
- 17-22 - FROM field (plain text)
- 23 - null (00) separator
- 24-29 - @BBS field (plain text)
- 30 - null (00) separator
- 31-36 - Date (YYMMDD)
- 37 - null (00) separator
- 38-41 - Time (HHMM)
- 42 - null (00) separator
- 43-48 - Originating BBS
- 49 - null (00) separator
- 50-51 - message number at Originating BBS (*)
- 52 - null (00) separator
- 53-132 - subject field (80 bytes)
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- (*) stored as a string variable
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- 73 - Bob, WB2COY @ WB2COY - Poughkeepsie, NY