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I run a PCBoard BBS that is "into" keeping historic records. As such,
I run 3 or 4 statistical programs on my BBS ever night during the event.
One of these was a "hotfile" program called HOTSTUFF41. I discovered
that it was counting aborted downloads as good ones. I also have been
using Vern Buerg's PCBS program for a few years, and it produced a
"hotfile" section too. But PCBCS's output contains more data than I
wanted to post to the public.
After looking around for an accurate "hotfile" program that was also
free, and finding none that suited me, I decided to not re-invent the
wheel, but to rather plagerize data out of my PCBCS bulletin.
So I wrote the attached program that reads in the PCBCS report and
outputs a subset of 3 reports: the front main stat report, the
multi-node section, and the "files downloaded counts" section.
The "FORM" command line argument is required and will trigger one
of the following report subsets:
1 = FILES DOWNLOADED report
2 = STATS PAGE and FILES DOWNLOADED report
3 = STATS PAGE and MULTI-NODE and FILES DOWNLOADED report
CS-HOT will handle a PCBCS run on a single node caller file, even
if FORM = 3. It just ignores the multi-node request, acting as if
FORM 2 had been requested.
I run Vern's PCBCS against my full caller logs, creating a bulletin
in my private conference bulletin area. Then I run CS-HOT against
that bulletin, creating a "hotfile" bulletin for public consumption.
rem == CALLER 1 + CALLER 2 + CALLER 3 COMBINED ===
rem USING PCBCS143 CREATE CALL ANALYSIS INTO PRIVATE PBLT4 FOR NODE 1 & 2 & 3
cs callerc. c:\private\pblt4. /SU /MAXBULLETINS:32
rem USING MY OWN CS-HOT CREATE BLT16 OUT OF PBLT4 FOR DOWNLOADED ONLY
cs-hot c:\private\pblt4. c:\blt\blt16. 1
Since this program is reading a relatively small file, this runs
really fast and shouldn't slow down your event at all.
This program is wired for PCBCS version 1.43 ONLY. It doesn't work
when the /FF option in CS143 is used. I realize full well that this
might not work for all variants of output for PCBCS, but the source
is included. You can tweak the program to suit your own needs.
Credit for PCBCS and all my thanks go to Vern Buerg. He created
the tough program, I just parsed it up...
If you see a need for changes, send me a message, either to my own
BBS in care of SYSOP or in care of JIM ROBESON on VOR or SALTAIR.
I'm not promising free maintenance nor support of any kind. But,
on the other hand, improvemnts could help me too, huh?! My speed
of reaction will depend on how good the suggestion is. :-)
Maybe this will be helpful to you. It sure saves time for me!
Jim Robeson
The Cricket BBS, Pacific Grove, CA., 408-373-3773.
3/02/93