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Top Ten User Bulletin Generation Utility
Copyright (c) 1992 By Mark G. Spivey
BBSPlus Software Utilities
All Rights Reserved
PREAMBLE and CREDITS
I would first of all like to thank Rachel, my fiancee, who
put up with me hanging around in here at all hours of the
night without complaining! I love you!
Second, I would like to thank all of the users who inspired
me to update this program after I had decided to drop out of
FIDO net and give up, your letters got me going again.
Third, I would like to thank Karen Maynor of The Dart Board
for her help in getting this thing off the ground and my
programming started up. I would also like to thank her for
use of her board in letting me release my programs through
it.
Fourth I would like to thank my Beta Team: Norman Cox, Karen
Maynor, Ken Givens, Steve Proctor, Jim Thompson, Robert
Garbutt.
There will be several other program names mentioned in my
documentation or other areas that are the respective programs
of their authors and are no way related to mine.
LICENSING INFORMATION
"TOPCALL" refers to the executable program(s) and
documentation contained in the TOPCALL archive released by
BBSPlus Software (Shareware Version).
1. TOPCALL is the copywritten material of BBSPlus Software.
It may only be used in accordance with the conditions set out
in this license agreement.
2. You may use TOPCALL for a period of three weeks on a trial
basis in order to determine it's suitability for your
particular application. After this period you MUST register
each copy of TOPCALL that you run simultaneously. Multi-line
installations that share a common message and file base AND
have the same name need only register one copy.
3. Registration entitles you to use TOPCALL and any future
versions of TOPCALL for as long as you wish, subject to any
special licensing conditions attached to future versions. For
details on the registration procedure, refer to the section
in this document "HOW TO REGISTER".
4. BBSPlus Software is in no way obligated to provide future
versions of, or support for, TOPCALL.
5. Site and Group registrations are available, and are dealt
with on a case by case basis.
6. You may not modify or otherwise reverse-engineer TOPCALL.
7. You are encouraged to distribute TOPCALL provided that no
fee is charged for its distribution, and that the
distribution archive is not modified in any way. Pay Bulletin
Board Systems may however charge their normal fee provided
that no additional charged for TOPCALL is levied.
8. TOPCALL may be included as part of ANY software library
which is distributed on a commercial basis (commercial = "for
money").
9. TOPCALL may not be used in any illegal or unlawful manner.
10. BBSPlus Software's liability resulting from your use or
inability to use TOPCALL is limited to the amount that the
affected party has paid for it, or in the event that TOPCALL
was registered with a third party for payment to BBSPlus
Software, liability is limited to the amount that was
received by BBSPlus Software from that third party.
HOW TO REGISTER
Shareware version:
Systems that qualify for this category must be physically run
from a noncommercial OR commercial site.
Print or reproduce the registration form at the end of this
section and send it with your registration payment to the
following address:
Mark Spivey Cost: $5.00 Each Individual Utility
Registration/TOPCALL
2900 Colerain Rd. #938
St. Mary's, GA 31558
USA
* You MUST fill out the registration form correctly in order
for your registration to be processed.
* Check and money orders should be made payable to the person
listed above.
* Please include your FIDONET address or a self addressed
stamped envelope so that receipt of your payment may be
acknowledged.
*** TOPCALL REGISTRATION FORM ***
Your Name ________________________________________________
Your BBS Name ____________________________________________
Network Address (net name too) ___________________________
Primary BBS # and Baud ___________________________________
Voice Telephone # ________________________________________
Hours of Operation _______________________________________
Postal Address :
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
Version Registering BBS_PAK -1.
Registration Amount enclosed _____, for ____ copy(s).
What do you like about TOPCALL? ___________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
What suggestions would you have for TOPCALL? ______________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
What BBS program do you use? ______________________________
What Mailer do you use? ___________________________________
PRODUCT SUPPORT
You can always get the latest version of TOPCALL from my BBS,
Online Information Systems, 912-882-8667. I will support
anyone 100% via this system or netmail whether you have
registered or not. I carry an echo for support which may be
placed on the backbone one day which will make it easier. The
reason that I will support registered users AND unregistered
users is that I have wanted to use a program and the author
felt I should register it before he would help me. This made
me delete the program and refuse to use it ever again.
BUG REPORTS
With all software, there are going to be a few bugs that were
not found during the BETA testing period. This is normal and
is much easier to fix with the help of the user of the
software. If you notice anything weird happening and have
found it to be my programs fault, I would appreciate it if
you let me know. I will see if the bug exists and if you have
in fact found a bug, (and are the first to report it)
I will grant you a FREE version.
Hopefully this will give more incentive to helping me find
problems in my software. You may reach me via FIDO netmail at
address 1:3640/13. This will allow a much faster response to
the problem. If you prefer US MAIL you can reach me at:
2900 Colerain Rd. #938 St. Mary's, Ga 31558
---------------------[ TOPCALL.EXE ]----------------------
PURPOSE
This program will generate (on request only) a top ten caller
list in ANSI and ASCII format for the best callers, posters,
uploaders, downloaders, uploaders in megs, and downloaders in
megs. Why another one? Well, I used another program and I did
not like the way that did not allow me to choose which one to
create and I had to delete them after running it and that it
was quite slow. This program can be run after each caller and
only takes about 2 seconds on my SLOW 286/6. Another fine
feature is that you specify where the files go and their name
in the configuration file and you can do this for each node.
Colors are also definable by the SysOp via the Configuration
file.
CONFIGURATION
Single Line Users:
Edit the configuration file and place it in the directory you
intend to execute it.
Multi Line Users:
Place the configuration file into each node directory for
your BBS.
Line 1 - Name of your BBS as you would like it to appear in
the TOP CALL files. Cannot exceed 38 chars.
Line 2 - The full path to your BBS's users file including a
trailing backslash. (eg. C:\RA\MESSAGE\)
Line 3 - Path and filename WITHOUT an extension of TOP 10
CALLERS.
Line 4 - Path and filename of TOP 10 POSTERS.
Line 5 - Path and filename of TOP 10 UPLOADERS IN FILES.
Line 6 - Path and filename of TOP 10 DOWNLOADERS IN FILES.
Line 7 - Path and filename of TOP 10 UPLOADERS IN MEGS.
Line 8 - Path and filename of TOP 10 DOWNLOADERS IN MEGS.
Color Chart
1 - Red 9 - Light Red
2 - Green 10 - Light Green
3 - Brown 11 - Yellow
4 - Blue 12 - Light Blue
5 - Magenta 13 - Light Magenta
6 - Cyan 14 - Light Cyan
7 - White 15 - Bright White
8 - Grey
Color 1 -> Created by TOPCALL by Mark G. Spivey
Color 2 -> Top Ten Callers to
Color 3 -> ONLINE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Color 4 -> ---------------------------------------
Color 6 \/
Color 5 -> MARK SPIVEY .............. 46 <- Color 7
Line 9 - Color1
1
Line 10 - Color2
2
Line 11 - Color3
3
Line 12 - Color4
4
Line 13 - Color5
5
Line 14 - Color6
6
Line 15 - Color7
7
EXECUTION
Execute the program just before you load up your BBS or
MAILER and everything should work fine. Make sure you do not
run this after your BBS as the error levels will be lost and
cause problems with your batch file execution.
Command line options are as follows, TOPCALL <number of file>
where number of file is the screen to create. Here is the
list:
1 - Top 10 Callers
2 - Top 10 Posters
3 - Top 10 Uploaders
4 - Top 10 Downloaders
5 - Top 10 Uploaders Megs
6 - Top 10 Downloaders Megs
Only one can be created at once. Example given:
TOPCALL 1 will create the files you specified in config for
the Top 10 callers.