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ADD-USERS
An RBBS conference user's file maintenance utility
by Warren Muldrow
at The Software Designer
(912)-432-2440
24 Hrs, 9600 baud (HST)
The purpose of ADDUSERS is to force users to join all conferences for
which their security level allows Auto-joining. This will display the
new messages to each caller even if they haven't explicitly joined the
conference (assuming it's set up in CONFMAIL.DEF). I find that the
conferences can use the extra advertising.
I guarantee that this program works on my system. It will read either
RBBS-PC.DEF or RBBS1PC.DEF to locate the main message and user files.
It updates both the user files (by adding new users) and the message
files (by updating the number of active users in the checkpoint record).
As such it should be considered dangerous until you've run it a couple
of times on your system. I strongly encourage you to make backup copies
of your message and user files before running this program, just in case.
But then if you're reading this, it may be too late.
One control file must be built in order to tell ADDUSERS to what
conferences you wish users to be added. A sample file used on my system
is included. If all conferences are located in the same directory, you
may enter them as shown in the example. If you use different directories,
include the drive and path in front of the conference name. DO NOT
include the "M" or "U" which trails the conference name or the ".DEF"
extension. Those are file names, and ADDUSERS expects conference
names. It will translate them appropriately.
I think that the title line in the source includes a copyright notice,
but I happily release the right to copy, distribute (as long as no fee
is charged), modify, and otherwise proliferate this program. I ask only
that if you distribute any version containing any modification what so
ever, that my name and phone number be removed from the file so that
my phone won't ring because of your errors.