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XPIRDATE.EXE (c) 1991 Karl Schneider
S & H Engineering, Inc.
8505 Woodwick Ct.
----------------------- Tampa, FL 33615
For WILDCAT v3.0+ ONLY! 813-884-9661 voice
----------------------- My BBS is offline for the
time being, no phone lines.
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9/29/91 Bug fix. Previous version would not run with some configura-
tions, depending on # of conferences set up in Makewild. Discard any
versions dated before 9/29. Sorry!
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XPIRDATE
Usage: xpirdate [n]
n is a number of days to look forward; see below
XPIRDATE is a handy utility program that looks through your
ALLUSERS.DAT file and compares the 'Expiration Dates' you have
entered in their user records with today's date and makes up a list
of user's record number, name, their Expire Date, and the number
of days since that date has passed. If the program is run without
a number argument [n] as above, it lists ONLY 'expired' memo dates.
Very handy for checking expired subscriptions, etc.
XPIRDATE simply skips over user records that have blank entries in
the 'expiration date' field. The record numbers (in the left column
of the output) are the actual Wildcat user record numbers as they
appear in ALLUSERS.DAT.
If you want to list EVERY user with an Expire Date entered, WHETHER
THE DATE HAS PASSED OR NOT, execute XPIRDATE n. n is a number
(integer) of days to compare the users dates for days REMAINING
between today and that date.
If you run 'xpirdate 30', for example, you will get a list of ALL
users with memo dates in their records, and a 'WARNING' note for
any whose upcoming expiration dates are 30 days OR LESS from today,
in addition to those which have already expired.
It can be run during an external event, or standalone from DOS;
supports file sharing, and can be run with WILDCAT nodes up.
XPIRDATE.EXE can reside anywhere in your PATH, but should be run
from the 'home' Wildcat directory of whichever node you're looking
at. It must be able to find a MAKEWILD.DAT in the current directory.
You can, of course, redirect the output to a file or a printer with
something like: xpirdate>expired.lst
or xpirdate > prn
...etc..
I find this program handy; if you do too, a modest registration would
be much appreciated, and will help motivate me to make other utilities
for WILDCAT! Thanks a lot!
-eof-