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W h e r e A m I
by
John Greenwood
Version 1.3 Compiled 24/12/92
A Public Domain Utility for Wildcat! SysOps
from The Development System BBS
(071) 388 4764
WHAT IT DOES:
=============
WhereAmI will deduce a new callers location from the phone number they
enter in the WC Database. This will `Standardise' the location field,
and hopefully reduce the number of silly locations entered. The user
can still edit their location on their second call if they want.
SETTING UP:
===========
Just copy the WHEREAMI.EXE to anywhere in your dos path, and copy
WHEREAMI.TEL into the Wildcat home directory. The environmental variables
needed are allready setup on most WildCat systems, but WhereAmI will
inform you (and ERROR.LOG) of any problems in this area.
RUNNING THE PROGRAM:
====================
WhereAmI is best added early in your POSTCALL.RUN file so that it will be
executed after each caller. There are NO command options, just a simple
`WHEREAMI' executed from anywhere, so long as the WHEREAMI.TEL file is in
the Home directory. that you
WhereAmI uses these files:
WHEREAMI.TEL, a simple ASCII list of phone numbers and locations.
The file is in numerical order, it's very simple to Add or Edit
the location if you find an error (!)
WHEREAMI.LST, is another ASCII list of users names that have had
there location updated. Again you can Add or Delete from this list
at will.
ALLUSERS.DAT, the MOST IMPORTANT WILDCAT DATABASE is directly
modified by this program! Make sure you backup this file BEFORE
you run this program.... I've tested it on two systems, both
3.55M, without any adverse effects.
The ACTIVITY.xxx and ERROR.LOG files are also appended.
PROBLEMS, SUGGESTIONS:
======================
WhereAmI 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!
REVISION HISTORY:
=================
Version 1.0 Compiled 01/11/92 First General Idears.
Version 1.1 Compiled 07/11/92 Adding Conferences means
the ALLUSERS record length
changes!!! Fixed.
Version 1.2 Compiled 16/10/92 Multi-Node support.
Version 1.3 Compiled 24/12/92 Speeded up for Xmas (!)