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====================== UPLOAD TRACKER DOCUMENTATION =========================
****** DISCLAIMER: ******
The author of this program and any program related to this
program, does NOT warrant, guarantee, or otherwise claim that this program
will do anything at all, Nor can he be held responsible for any damage,
loss of time, money, data or hair from the use or inability to use
this program. If you use this program, you do so ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!!
UPLOAD TRACKER and CONFIGUL are NOT Public Domain. I own and retain all
copyrights to these programs. I am, however, releasing this program to
Wildcat! Sysops to be used on their BBS's, and am asking for no fee in
return. (Although if you're a mind to give, I'm a mind to receive, Amen.)
Ok, enough of the legal crapola.
****** RAMBLINGS OF BLEARY-EYED HALF CRAZED SYSOP/PROGRAMMER ******
UPLOAD TRACKER was written in Turbo Pascal v6.0, for those of you who
give a dern, and is my first attempt at programming (Barring a short
flirtation with QuickBasic 4.5).
I always felt that anyone who would knowingly want to be a SysOp
and run their own BBS, was a definite candidate for Nurse Cratchets
Cuckoo Hotel. For those who choose to punish themselves further by actually
trying to interface deeper with these over-glorified abacus's by learning
to write programs, would endure less hassle by taking up the OUJI board and
attempting to chat with Captain Howdy. Yes I am rambling, but what the hell
Mr Warhol, its my 15 minutes.
****** MAKING IT WORK ******
JUST WHAT DOES IT DO???
Glad ya asked. UPLOAD TRACKER does nothing except flash error messages
at you if you haven't run CONFIGUL.EXE first! UPLOAD TRACKER reads the
information from the UPLOAD.CFG file created by CONFIGUL.EXE.
UPLOAD TRACKER peeks into your ACTIVITY.001 file and
finds any and all uploads sent to the areas you specified in the CONFIGUL
program and writes the name AND descriptions to either a bulletin
or hello screen (chosen by you) and has some other "perts" that you'll have
to run and view the results to appreciate. The upload file areas mean
your upload areas as written in MAKEWILD. DO NOT INCLUDE THE PATH TO YOUR
UPLOAD DIRECTORIES. Upload Tracker looks at what you have,
as written in MAKEWILD, and reported in your ACTIVITY.001 file.
THE FILES I SENT:
ULTRACKR.EXE ---> The main program
CONFIGUL.EXE ---> The UPLOAD TRACKER configuration program
SAMPLE.CFG ---> A sample using my configurations (Actual file will be
named UPLOAD1.CFG)
ULTRACKR.DOC ---> The file you're reading right now
READTHIS.1ST ---> Written to guide those who hate to RTFM
UPDATES.TXT ---> New enhancements, bug fixes etc...
UPLAREAS.INC ---> The list of Upload Areas you want scanned for uploads
SETTING UP THE UPLOAD TRACKER PROGRAM.
First, uncompress the ZIP (or ARJ, or however you got it) in the \WC30
home directory.
ULTRACKR.EXE ** MUST ** reside in the same directory as your
ACTIVITY.001 file
Run CONFIGUL.EXE and answer the prompts.
The second screen you get in CONFIGUL is where you assign The upload areas
you want uploads reported. Although it only has 10 entry areas, you can
edit the file created afterwards (UPLAREAS.INC) with a plain ASCII editor
and add as many as you like. I entered 35 just to see and it worked just
fine. The only thing is that when you add an entry to the list, place each
entry under the last one. UPLOAD TRACKER detects a blank line in that list
as the end.
*** NOTE *** The more upload areas you add to the list the longer
UPLOAD TRACKER takes to process everything.
Add ULTRACKR to your POSTCALL.BAT file or run it manually when ya want to.
Once everything is set up, the only files needed to operate the program
are :
ULTRACKR.EXE
UPLOAD1.CFG
UPLAREAS.INC
Thats all there is to it.
****** FUTURE UPDATES & ENHANCEMENTS *******
UPLOAD TRACKER only reads ACTIVITY.001 right now. I will be releasing the
multi-node version as soon as I figure out just how the hell to do it.
I will be making the UPLOAD TRACKER colors user configurable sooner or later
****** ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ******
Thanks to my sweetie/partnerSysop/best friend and boss-in-charge of
constructive criticism, my wife Cheryl. Her ideas, suggestions and support
made UPLOAD TRACKER far better than my origional intentions.
A Very Special Thanks to my good friend and Turbo Pascal Guru,
Bob Dacastello (Llano), a great Sysop even if he does run a Remote Access BBS
(Which you can call if your a mind to @ (805)264-0443 - Teen Town BBS)
He writes really cool BBS door games and I run 1 of 'em here. Call him!!
I would also like to thank the UPLOAD TRACKER BETA testers who ran it and
were quick to respond in suggesting enhancements to a program that I
thought I was finished with. Thanks guys and I know where you live!
Tom Dunavold - Pegasus EAFB
J(oe)D(onut) Filkins - Night Owl Online
Bob Ayers - The Twilight Zone BBS
Dave Norris - Strangers BBS
If you like this program so much that you want to name your next kid after
it, or want to report bugs or have a suggestion to enhance it. Write, call
or yell to me..I'd like to hear how much you like it OR hate it.
If ya have an idear er 2, for another Wildcat! utility, lemme know!
I'm willing to give it a try.
Bruce Bergstrom
TumbleWeed BBS
(805)946-3332
1036 E. Ave J #189
Lancaster California
93535
Donations for this program are not required but would be gratefully
accepted! I'd be using the bux to buy the nicotine patches to get me away
from the ciggies (I smoke like a coal burnin locomotive when I'm
programming!) So if ya think that UPLOAD TRACKER is worth a fiver, or so,
send it to the address above.