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Motor City Software
presents
RATPAK V2.00
Remote Access Tool/Utilities Package
For Remote Access V2.00
Copyright 1991-1993 Motor City Software
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Licensing Information
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RATPAK is distributed as a collection of utilities for Remote Access BBS.
This complete package should be kept together, and individual programs
may NOT be distributed via any means without being part of the whole
package.
The current name of the package is RATPAK20.ZIP
You may use these utilities for a period of 30 days in order to evaluate
the suitibility of the software. If you wish to continue using ANY of
the utilities, you must register the package. This support will encourage
us to continue to update, and write new software for you to use on your
BBS. No keys are required for these programs, and all you will get in
return for your registration will be a good feeling inside, and a netmail
reply or phone call to thank you!
You may not sell the product for a fee and/or distribute the product
along with other products without expressed written permission, nor may
you modify or remove the Copyright Notice from the program or the
documentation.
Motor City Software shall not be held responsible for any damage incurred by
the user to hardware, software or peripheral devices during the operation of
any the RATPAK programs.
Comments, suggestions and bug reports are welcome. If you have any,
you may call one of the Motor City Software Support Systems listed is
the enclosed SUPPORT.DOC
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CHAT.EXE Remote Dos Chat Program
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If you have users who drop to DOS on your system, then you know
what its like trying to chat at the DOS prompt... This is just
a simple little chat program that makes life a little easier.
Just type CHAT at the dos prompt, and check it out...
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CNUMBU.EXE Caller Number Backup utility
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Simple program really... Put it somewhere in your path, and in your daily
maintenance simply run CNUMBU
It will use the RA environment variable to find the ra files. It takes
the total and writes it to a file called CNUMBU.DAT. If the total is less
than what it was yesterday, then it assumes it got trashed...
It then reads yesterdays total (which should have been correct) and adds
the current total.
So if yesterday when it ran, you had 20,000 callers, and since then it was
reset, and now contained 50, it would update it to 20,050
This way you would lose maybe a few callers, but the most would be one days
worth.
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EXPIRE.EXE Remote Access User Expiration Date Scanner
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This is mainly a utility to let you, at a quick glance see who is going to
expire on your system in the next 30 days. It is based on the SubDate in
the user record.
This also creates a text file in the current directory with this information.
The file is called EXPIRY.RUN
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FINDFLAG.EXE Remote Access User Flag Finder
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This program will look for the Users.Bbs file in the directory pointed to
by the RA environment variable. It will scan through the user file, and
report on ANY flags which are in use.
You may also specify security levels when scanning, and the following
command-line options are valid :
findflag Show All Flags in use by ALL Sec Levels
findflag -1000 Show All Flags in use by Sec Level LESS THAN 1000
findflag +1000 Show All Flags in use by Sec Level GREATER THAN 1000
findflag =1000 Show All Flags in use by Sec Level EQUAL TO 1000
findflag !1000 Show All Flags in use by Sec Level NOT EQUAL TO 1000
Output is redirectable, and looks like this:
FindFlag V1.00 - Copyright 1991 by Motor City Software - All Rights Reserved
12345678
Flags A : X---XXX-
Flags B : X------X
Flags C : XXXXXXXX
Flags D : XXX-X-XX
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LASTCALL.EXE Log FrontDoor calls to Remote Access Todays Callers List
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LASTCALL will read in the info from Front Doors LASTALL.FD file, and write
the last inbound or outbound call info into your Remote Access LASTCALL.BBS
file.
This will allow your users to see incoming mail calls when they list
todays callers.
You must have FrontDoor exit on incoming mail and files in order for this
to work. It will only write the info when files or mail is received and
causes FD to exit.
Run it in your batch file from ANY directory, but you MUST make sure that you
have set the RA and FD environment variables. It uses these to find the files
it needs.
You need the following somewhere in your batch files...
SET FD=D:\FDOOR
SET RA=D:\RA
Note that you must change the paths to reflect YOUR setup...
Because the last call info in Front Door does not provide the connect rate,
it will default to 2400. You can override this by specifying a baud rate
on the commandline.
COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS
Node # /n#
LASTCALL /n1 for node 1
LASTCALL /n2 for node 2 etc...
If you do not specify a node number, it will default to 1
Baud Rate /b####
LASTCALL /b2400 for 2400 baud
LASTCALL /b9600 for 9600 baud etc...
If you do not specify a baud rate, it will default to 2400
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MC_WAIT.EXE Batch File Time Delay Utility
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All you do is add MC_WAIT <X> to your batch file to cause it to pause for <X>
number of minutes.
eg. mc_wait 5 will pause for 5 minutes.
You may hit ESCape at any time to abort.
A simple utility for a simple task...
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MCFRE.EXE Online Free Disk Space Door/DOS Utility
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Why Another Free Space Utility?
There are lots of free disk utilities around, but none quite so
versatile as this one. You may use this as a DOS command-line utility,
or run it online on your BBS...
How to use it...
There are 3 ways this can be run
MCFRE 5 This tells it to display the first 5 Hard Drives
Starting at C:
MCFRE cdef List all drives to total on the command line.
No spaces, and you can force it to display in any
order you wish.
MCFRE This will expect to find MCFRE.CFG in the current directory.
Create this file using any ASCI text file editor, and simply
create 1 line with all drives listed. eg. cdefghijklmno
If a DORINFO1.DEF file is found, it will be read and MCFRE will use the
fossil to output its info to both the local and remote screen. For this
reason, you must be careful not to run MCFRE in a directory containing
a dorinfo1.def file, or it will try sending its output to the comport as
defined in the Dorinfo1.def
If a dorinfo1.def is not found, then it will assume it is running in local
mode.
McFre can also be redirected to the modem if you cannot create the dorinfo1.def
file with your bbs software. Simply use MCFRE 5 > COM1: but there will be
no pause at the end of the display. Another way is to redirect it to a file,
and then have your bbs software display that file.
Total Drive Sizes are rounded to the nearest meg, and this usually results
in a generous total field...
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ONLINE.EXE Manipulate the USERON.BBS (List of callers Online)
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ONLINE with no command line will prompt you for all information.
ONLINE <node> <inuse> <name> <location> <baud> <doing> <private>
<node> the node number you wish to modify. (1-99)
<inuse> (Y or N) Y means you wish to mark the specified node as
being in use. An N here will force it to ignore any of
the following parameters, and mark this node as waiting
for a call.
<name> The name you want to appear when you list Who is Online
NO SPACES! Firstname_Lastname (Note the underscore!)
The name entered here will appear as both your name
and handle.
<location> The location of the caller. NO SPACES! CITY_PROVINCE
<baud> Baud Rate of connection (0 for local)
<doing> RA 1.00 recognises the following:
0 : Browsing (in a menu)
1 : Uploading/downloading
2 : Reading/posting messages
3 : In a door/external utility
4 : Chatting with sysop
5 : Answering questionnaire
<Private> 0 will allow other users to page you
1 Will NOT allow others to page you
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RACNUM.EXE Remote Access Caller Number Editor
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RACNUM uses the environment variable RA to find the system directory.
Type RACNUM, and you will be told the current number of callers to the BBS.
You will be prompted for a new number, or 0 to abort.
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WHOCALLD.EXE View Todays Callers From DOS Prompt
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This program will list todays callers, much like RA's internal listing.
It looks for the RA environment variable to find the LASTCALL.BBS file.
Thats all there is to it.
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Rod Hancock
Motor City Software