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MSGUTIL by Steven Kling
Many of the older RBBS doors need to have the MESSAGES file in the same
subdirectory as the D)oorware itself. As some MESSAGEs files are very
large (mine is almost 200K), putting the MESSAGES file in all of the D)oors
on my system that want it would waste almost a MEG of disk space. MSGUTIL
simply copies the first eight records of the MESSAGES file to a new file
entitled MSGS. This 1K file then can be copied and renamed into the
appropriate directory. As an example, suppose I had Tradewars (for 15.1B)
setup in subdirectory C:\RBBS\TW. I would leave an old copy of RBBSx.DEF
with TW (if I was runing 15.1.C or higher), and my batch file looks like this:
msgutil
cd c:\rbbs\tw
copy c:\rbbs\msgs c:\rbbs\tw\messages
tw2.exe
cd c:\ rbbs ..etc.
This file was written in QB 3.0 and the source code is so trivial that
I almost did not bother providing it. MSGUTIL will work with up to 9 nodes.
I am providing this file as an afterthought to go with USEMALL.
Any questions regarding its use, please contact me at my BBS:
Technopeasants' BBS 301 927 4258