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I N S T I M E
by
John Greenwood
Version 1.1 Compiled 07/09/92
A Public Domain Utility for Wildcat! SysOps
from The Development System BBS
(071) 388 4764
WHAT IT DOES:
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INSTIME allows you to easily and quickly add the time and/or date to any
file. This is a quick and simple way to notify people of the times of
events that have occured. For example, my Login screen shows the time and
date the system was last Re-Booted, and my Mail Screen shows the time of
the last successfull mail transfer.
Of course this can easly be done with a couple of lines in Basic, but this
program 'learns' where your files are and where you want the time and date
inserted in the file. Once taught you dont need to worry about paths and
positions anymore.
SETTING UP:
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First, be sure that the supplied INSTIME.DAT is installed somewhere in a
directory that exists in your DOS Path.
Secondy, have a look at the included HELLO2N.BBS, this is my TheNet Hello
screen that includes the time of the last transfer. The files you want
time stamped should have two patterns within the body of the file :-
HH:MM - is the time position in the file.
DD/MM/YY - is the position of the date in the file.
The first time you run INSTIME with the full path and name of the text
file it will scan the body and detect the positions of the above codes.
It will then record the path, time location and date location to it's
data file for future use. From now on you need only enter the filename
and INSTIME will know the path and locations of the data you need!
RUNNING THE PROGRAM:
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For an example copy the included HELLO2N.BBS to your display directory
and copy the data file to somewhere in your path.
COPY HELLO2N.BBS C:\WC30\DISP
COPY INSTIME.DAT C:\WC30\PROGS (in my Path!)
Then tell INSTIME where the file lives.
INSTIME C:\WC30\DISP\HELLO2N.BBS
This may take a few seconds, while INSTIME scans the file and records
the information it needs.
Now to insert the time/date into the file you only need to enter,
INSTIME HELLO2N.BBS
and the file will be updated. It's then only a matter of adding this
command to your mail transfer batch file, and you then know at a glance
if your mail has been sent when you log-in.
PROBLEMS, SUGGESTIONS:
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INSTIME is Public Domain. I don't seek or accept any donations for this.
I welcome suggestions, and will try to help (no guarantees) if there are
problems. You may also leave a message via TheNet or my BBS number above.
There are a few error messages written in, but nothing amazing!
If INSTIME detects the destination file has been modified then it may
well have written the time or date to the wrong place (oops!) but this
is normally due to someone/something else editong the file. Just edit
the file and insert the HH:MM and DD/MM/YY into the file and teach it
again!
REVISION HISTORY:
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Version 1.0 Compiled 06/09/92 First General Release.
Version 1.1 Compiled 07/09/92 Will now create the Config
file if it can't find it.
Also searches Novell drives
in the path correctly.