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Storm Watch Software Presents . . .
FDHist - The FrontDoor History Door
Version 1.10
Programmed by Alan Jurison
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FDHIST DOCUMENTATION v1.10 -
Table of Contents
What is FDHist ........................................... 1
Fixes/Additions since 1.00 ............................... 1
The future of FDHist ..................................... 1
Legal Notice ............................................. 2
Registration ............................................. 2
Installation ............................................. 3
The Setup Program ........................................ 3
FDHist Command Line Parameters ........................... 4
FDHist Menu Commands ..................................... 4
Credits & Copyrights ..................................... 5
Support .................................................. 5
Scribble Paper ........................................... 6
FDHIST DOCUMENTATION v1.10 - Page 1
- What is FDHist
FDHist is a door which allows your BBS callers, as well
as yourself, to view recent mailer activity, and other
statistics managed by FrontDoor. Some of the options which
can be viewed through FDHist's vivid displays are inbound and
outbound mail histories, last calls, and the day's statistics.
By registering this program, you enable the yesterday options,
which provide the mailer information from the previous day,
with the exception of last calls.
- Fixes/Additions since 1.00
In this new version of FDHist, we have fixed a few
problems and added a few features. The following is a list
of them:
- ANSI SysOp chat color
If you started a chat session, the SysOp's color
would be white until the remote pressed a key. -- FIXED!
- Lastcalls time/date
On the lastcalls screen, the time and date of the
lastcalls has been added. -- ADDED!
- Registration "credit" screens
When registered, if you loaded the registered
features, it would give credit to the person who
registered (or helped register) it would pause. This
pause can now be toggled.
- More than 30 day history Logs
If your history log contained more than a month of
data, it would display last month's same day info. (ie :
it's 02/01/94 - it would also display 01/01/94) -- FIXED!
- General Speed Up
FDHist now runs faster than before; I sped up the
searching routines.
- Future Release Information
These things are what I hope to accomplish in the next
version:
- More statistics
Average CPS, Total daily online time, average daily
CPS and more!
- More chat features
FDHIST DOCUMENTATION v1.10 - Page 2
- Legal Notice
Neither the author, Alan Jurison, nor any other party
involved in the creation of this program makes any guarantees
as to its functionality. It has been tested and produced
satisfactory results. However, there is no way to be sure it
will work in all environments. Although I hope it won't, if
FDHist formats your hard drive, causes a shift in the orbit of
Jupiter's 12th moon resulting in severe snowstorms over the
east coast of Somalia, or influences government officials to
raise taxes on candy bars, through this disclaimer, I can not,
and will not be held responsible. If you find that FDHist does
not work properly, please don't hesitate, though, to let me
know what the problem is. Be sure to tell me what kind of
setup you are running, and perhaps I can fix it up in the next
release.
- Registration
This version of FDHist is being released as shareware.
This means that you are entitled to use and try out the
program, but after a reasonable time, should register it. I
have no way of forcing you to do so, and won't pretend that I
do, but registration will entitle you to some newer features,
which won't be released as soon in the demo version, and some
which perhaps will never be released in that version. It will
also eliminate a few annoying beeps in the program. FDHist
registration is $10 US.
To register, fill out the registration form included in
the archive, and send it back to me. I'll have your key sent
to you as soon as I can fire up my registration program.
FDHIST DOCUMENTATION v1.10 - Page 3
- Installation
To install FDHist on your system, create a directory for
it, then extract the files from the FDHist archive into that
directory. Run FDHSetup to configure the door to run on your
system.
The setup program is pretty much explanatory.
FILE
Write setup file - Writes the setup file to the disk
Exit - Exits the program
Registration Info - Registration information
Program/Credits - Credits and other information
SETUP
Pathnames/Filenames - Define where files that FDHist
needs are
Set registered features - Set registered only features {+}
Miscellaneous - Not yet available (Nothing)
SETUP -> Set Registered Features {+}
Set registered by field - Set who registered the door {+}
Set register pause - Whether or not to pause on
registered features. {+}
{+} Registered only
- Setup Program
FDHist setup is easy. All you have to do is run the
program, FDHSETUP.EXE, included in this archive.
FDHSetup takes the following command-line paramater:
[SETUP.FDH] - The name of the setup file if other than
SETUP.FDH. This is useful if you are running FDHist on
more than one node.
The setup program is easy; you just move the windows and
hit enter on the items you would like to see/configure.
FDHIST DOCUMENTATION v1.10 - Page 4
- Command-Line Parameters
FDHist takes the following command-line parameters:
[SETUP.FDH] - The name of the setup file if other than
SETUP.FDH. This is useful if you are running FDHist on
more than one node.
LOCAL - Run in local mode. If this parameter is used,
you MUST specify a setup file.
ANSI - Use ANSI in local mode. This parameter can
only be used when running in LOCAL mode, and because of
this, both a setup file and LOCAL must appear on the
line.
- FDHist Menu Options
Once inside FDHist, a user has many options. They are
as follows:
[ I ] - View today's inbound mail history
[ O ] - View today's outbound mail history
[ M ] - View last inbound and outbound mail calls
[ R ] - View today's mailer activity
[ A ] - View yesterday's inbound mail history {+}
[ B ] - View yesterday's outbound mail history {+}
[ C ] - View yesterday's mailer activity {+}
[ \ ] - View program information & registration credits
[ Q ] - Quit to BBS
{+} Registered only
Remember -- Space or the "s" key aborts most text displays.
FDHIST DOCUMENTATION v1.10 - Page 5
- Copyrights
Original visual interface concept as used in FDHSetup
designed by Joaquim Homrighausen. Used with permission.
FrontDoor is a trademark of Joaquim Homrighausen.
- Credits
Thanks to Victor Capton, an author of T.A.G. BBS Software
for providing some code used in this program.
Thanks to
Philip Spevak for writing the wonderfully assembled, well-
worded, error-freee, professionally paginated,
and just overall good docume-
ntation. 8-)
Special thanks to the Beta team members:
Jim Elliott, Eric Hasselwander,Brian Onofrio, Sue Wilson,
Vic Phillips, Andy Olech,Daniel Mecklenburg, Steve Kelly,
Leon McClatchey, Jim Tomlinson, Chris Hammond, Robert
Rawlings, and Floyd Drennon.
Oh, yeah... Paul Melnikow and Philip Spevak (haven't we
seen his name before?) for Alpha testing it..
Other thanks go out to Joaquim Homrighausen for writing
the best mailer software in the whole world, FrontDoor... And
to Bruce Bodger for some pointers and other general things :-)
- Comments & Support
Please send comments or suggestions (or requests for help)
to Alan Jurison (1:260/375 @FidoNet or 181:192/104 @StormNet).
You can also call Ham-Net BBS (1-315-682-1824) for the latest
versions of Storm Watch Software programs.
Support is also available through StormNet's SWS_SUPPORT echo.
Anyone interested in joining StormNet, the home of the
OFFICIAL Storm Watch Software Echo,SWS_SUPPORT, should contact
Alan Jurison (1:260/375@FidoNet). The alias "STORMNET" may be
requested via WaZoo file request to receive the latest
information on StormNet.
StormNet! Serving the US, Canada, and Europe!
FDHIST DOCUMENTATION v1.10 - Page 6
- Notes
This page is for you. Write on it, post it on your wall, feed
it to your dog, make an airplane out of it, or make use of it
by using it for important stuff. This page was NOT left
blank.