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- CVT2SBBS
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- Convert to SuperBBS
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- Bob Henderson
- 1:3812/10 & 11
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- CVT2SBBS is a File convertor for converting Qbbs 2.75+, Remote
- Access 1.10+, and Maximus to the SuperBBS 1.16 format. I wrote this in
- a attempt to make it easier on the Sysop of another BBS package to
- convert over to SuperBBS, or at least to give SuperBBS a try.
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- This program has been tested on several different machines and will
- require at least 10 free file handles in order to run. You can run it
- in a DV window but you should not try to run it while your BBS is up as
- the files are not opened in share mode. All of the input files are
- opened in read only mode. If you use the same input and output
- directory and a USERS.BBS file is found it will be renamed to
- USERS.OLD. In any case the program should tell you what is going on
- while it is working. Before running it I would recommend creating a
- temporary directory to hold the output files and work from there.
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- I tried to cover every little detail in the conversion. What I mean
- is if your BBS package has a variable that Sbbs uses it will be used,
- even down to your color schemes. SuperBBS does contain more info on the
- users than most so you will have to check the converted files for
- accuracy on that note.
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- QUICKBBS Conversion
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- The following files will be needed to make a complete conversion
- from QuickBBS 2.75 to SuperBBS.
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- USERS.BBS
- ALIAS.BBS
- QUICKCFG.DAT
- MSGCFG.DAT
- EVENTCFG.DAT
- COMBINED.BBS
- FILECFG.DAT
- LIMITS.CTL
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- If any one of these files are not present the conversion will not
- fully complete. All of these files should be present in your Qbbs main
- directory. I was not sure about where the users files are stored so if
- the program cannot find them in the main it will look for them in the
- message base directory( like RA ). Sbbs stores quite a bit more info
- than Qbbs does so you must run CONFIG.EXE after the conversion and add
- any missing data. Don't forget to check your Users birthdates with
- SBBSUSER.EXE, Qbbs stores the birthdate in a way that allows for a year
- between 1600 and 833,000 so I limited it to the 1900-2000, this should
- cover everyone?
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- REMOTE ACCESS Conversion
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- The following files will be needed to make a complete conversion
- from Remote Access 1.10 to SuperBBS.
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- CONFIG.RA
- USERSXI.BBS
- EVENTS.RA
- FILES.RA
- MESSAGES.RA
- LIMITS.CTL
- USERS.BBS
- PROTOCOL.RA
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- I any of these files are not present the conversion will not
- fully complete. If the users files are not found in the input directory
- the program will look in the message base directory as defined in
- config.ra for the files. I included the conversion of the protocol.ra
- but don't know how well the RA protocol definitions will work with
- SuperBBS, look for things like *M in RA is *S in Sbbs. Everything else
- converted fine. Sbbs does store more info and has more configuration
- items. Run CONFIG.EXE and check everything over.
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- MAXIMUS Conversion
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- At the moment all I can convert in Max is the users file. I will
- try to get to the other files soon. The program will ask you for the
- name of the user file since Max can have different names.
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- DISCLAIMER
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- Please don't hold any shortfalls of this program against the
- authors of SuperBBS, I am doing this just to help people out. I can't
- gaurantee that this program will do anything but take up some disk
- space but when properly used it can make your life a lot easier and
- save you hours of time.
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- EXTRA INFORMATION
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- I can't stress this enough but MAKE A BACK UP OF YOUR FILES before
- running anything that will read or modify them. This converter will
- check for existence of SuperBBS files and ask you if you want to
- overwrite them. My suggestion is to make a temporary directory and use
- this for the output path, this could save you some grief if it was to
- overwrite your files.
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- Thanks for at least trying SuperBBS, I think you will be very
- please with the job that Aki and Risto has done.
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- If you have problems with this program or questions on the setup of
- Sbbs I would be more than happy to help. I have some text files on
- setting up Sbbs in a multi-node environment and other little helpful
- things. Just send me a message through the SUPERBBS echo or netmail me
- at either 1:3812/10 or 1:3812/11.
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- Bob Henderson
- 1:3812/10