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Program : MsgX
Description: Message base extraction utility for BBS management
Author : Dave Fisher, 1:170/110@fidonet
MsgX is a message extraction program that will select messages
from any *.MSG or Squish formatted area base and store them in a
text file or archive. MsgX can extract messages based on date
ranges (see /Date) or on specified number of messages (see
/LimitSize).
MsgX is mainly intended to act as an archival, storage, and
management tool for message areas (national echos or local) and
can be run on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. The collected
messages can optionally be compressed into an archive using your
favorite archival program. If desired, MsgX will also add an
entry in the specified FILES.BBS for the newly created archive.
MsgX can archive multiple areas to one archive in a single pass.
Usage:
MsgX [@CtlFile] AreaTag(OutputFile) [, AreaTag(OutputFile), ...]
/[no]AppendMsgs default: NoAppendMsgs
/Archive = <path+file name> default: "Constructed"
/[no]Compress default: NoCompress
/Config = <path+file name> default: MsgX.Cfg
/[no]Control default: NoControl
/Dates = (from_date, to_date) default: All dates
/Description = "<filesbbs desc>" default: "Constructed"
/[no]Kill default: NoKill
/LimitSize = <number of messages> default: No Limit
OR
/LimitSize = (threshold, del cnt) default: No Limit
/[no]Log default: NoLog
/LogFile = <path+file name> default: None
/LogLevel = <1..4> default: 4
/Margin = <right margin> default: 79
/[no]Quiet default: NoQuiet
/[no]Seenbys default: NoSeenBys
/Skip = <number of messages> default: 0
/[no]Statistics default: Statistics
/Title = "<header title>" default: "Constructed"
/[no]Update default: NoUpdate
/[no]Write default: Write
Highlights:
+ Areas can be specified with wildcards.
+ Multiple areas can be specified in one pass. Messages from these
areas can either be combined into one file or many separate
files.
+ Text files created can be automatically archived.
+ FILES.BBS can be automatically updated with descriptive text
describing what is in the text files. The descriptive text can
be defined by you, or constructed by MsgX.
+ The archival program can be defined by you.
+ MsgX is available for DOS or OS/2.
+ Statistical reporting facility available showing traffic usages
of echo on a day-by-day basis, or summary.
+ Logging facility available in the style of Maximus and
BinkleyTerm.
+ Macro expansion facility for various aspects of the date range
being extracted from the message base (month name, julian date,
etc). These macros can be used in the resultant text file name,
archive name, and/or descriptive text within the FILES.BBS file.
+ Messages can be extracted and appended to an existing file of
messages, or put into a newly created file. If appending, MsgX
will extract needed files from the archive first, append the new
messages, and update the archive.
+ MsgX can be used as a management tool to control the size of the
message base. Messages can be extracted when the size of the
message base exceeds a certain size, and can then be trimmed back
by a specified number of messages.
+ Date ranges can either be specific, or broadly stated as "current
month", "previous week", etc.
+ MsgX will look for area definitions within Maximus's message
control file (MsgArea.Ctl), Squish's configuration file
(Squish.Cfg), or Areas.Bbs file.
+ Message size only limited by available memory (can be hundreds of
lines, or several kilobytes).
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Current version can always be file-requested as MSGX (for DOS
version) or MSGXP (for OS/2 version) from 1:170/110.