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- (c)1992 by Gary Glueckert
- The SUNY BBS (516)420-0818
- For Non-Commercial use only.
- All rights reserved.
-
-
- Purpose:
- --------
- DayPack was designed to help manage log files generated by such
- programs as bulletin board systems, communications programs, and the like.
- Originally, DayPack was written to handle the RBBS-PC "Callers" file but
- can now be used to handle practically any type of log file, including
- those generated by some door programs.
-
- How it works:
- -------------
- DayPack takes advantage of PKwares (R) PKZIP to compress log files and
- append a "daynumber" as the file extension. Therefore, a file compressed using
- DayPack on January 12th will have a file extension of .012 (eg: LOGFILE.012).
- Files may be processed on a daily, weekly, monthly, or filesize (in K) basis.
- Additionally, if you are processing the CALLERS file from RBBS-PC you have the
- option to first convert this file to a text file before compressing.
-
- Running DayPack:
- ----------------
- First and most importantly; PKZIP must be in your PATH or DayPack
- must be placed in the same directory as PKZIP. Running DayPack with no
- command-line parameters or switches will display a list of parameters which
- are available to you.
-
- Command-Line Switches:
- ----------------------
-
- Usage: DAYPACK <filename> <Process> <Trigger> [Optional]
-
- <Filename> - This is the file that DayPack will process for you.
- Be sure to include the full Drive:\Path\Filename of the
- file unless it is in the current directory with DayPack.
- <Process> - Two options are available and you may supply both if
- needed.
- /Cx - This is for RBBS-PC SysOps. It will convert the CALLERS
- file specified by <filename> and created by RBBS-PC to
- a readable text file.
- /Zx - This will compress the file specified by <filename> into
- archive x (Drive:\Path\Filename). Do not include a file
- extension, this will be added by DayPack as the number
- of the day in the current year.
- <Trigger> - Only one of these options may be specified on the
- command-line. These paramters will determine WHEN DayPack
- is to process the file.
- /D - Process the file now! Used mostly for daily processing.
- /Wn - Process the file weekly on day n, where n is specified
- as numbers 1 through 7, corresponding to the day of the
- week. 1=Sunday, 2=Monday,... ,7=Saturday and so forth.
- /Mn - Process the file Monthly on day n, where n is equal to
- the day of the month. Ranges from 01 through 31.
- Note the use of a leading zero on single numbered days.
- /Kn - Process the file if equal to or greater than this size
- in Kilobytes. Eg: /K20 means 20,000 bytes.
- [Optional] - This cammand line parameter is optional and may be
- omitted.
- /X - Do NOT kill any of the files after processing them.
- Normally, DayPack will delete the old log files after
- it has converted or compressed them. To prevent this from
- happening use this command-line switch!
-
- Using DayPack with RBBS-PC:
- ---------------------------
- DayPack offers a great deal of flexibilty for use with the CALLERS
- file created by RBBS-PC. You may convert the callers file into a readable
- text file before compressing OR choose to convert and not compress it at all.
- You may also choose to simply compress the CALLERS file in it's original
- form without converting it. This is useful when you are using certain
- utilities that require the callers file and need to keep a backup of the
- file JUST IN CASE something goes wrong. Here is how I process my callers
- file monthly so that I can get both an original compressed backup AND
- a readable text file in one archive.
-
- First I invoke DayPack like so:
-
- DAYPACK C:\Rbbs\Callers /Zc:\rbbs\backup\callers /M01 /X
- This invokes DayPack to compress the CALLERS file into the
- archive c:\rbbs\backup\callers.xxx (xxx=Daynumber) without
- converting it, on the first day of every month. NOTE that
- DayPack will not delete the callers file at completion.
-
- Then I invoke DayPack a second time like so:
-
- DAYPACK C:\Rbbs\Callers /Cc:\rbbs\caller.txt /Zc:\rbbs\backup\callers /M01
- This invokes DayPack to convert the callers file into a
- readable text file called CALLER.TXT then compress it and add it
- to the archive c:\rbbs\backup\callers.xxx (xxx=Daynumber), also
- on the first day of every month. DayPack will then delete both
- the CALLERS file AND the CALLER.TXT file it created.
-
- Note that you can simply convert the CALLERS immediately by doin the
- following:
- DAYPACK C:\Rbbs\Callers /Ccaller.txt /D /X
-
- Using DayPack on Log Files:
- ---------------------------
- DayPack can also help you to manage any type of log or text file
- which tends to grow in size. For example, DayPack can take care of log
- files created by communications software simply by excluding the /C switch
- from the command-line. This will also manage log files created by some
- door programs such as GMon (John Morris' game monitor). This is especially
- usefull if you like to keep those log files around for reference.
-
- Registration:
- -------------
- Registration will elliminate the need for you to enter any key-press
- during the operation of DayPack. This allows you to use it in your nightly
- maintenance (RBBS) or during Boot-up to process files automatically.
- The best thing about registration is that it is FREE for the asking!
- To register DayPack for free simply logon to out support BBS and ask for a
- registered copy. The SUNY BBS can be reached 24Hrs/day and 7 days/week at
- 516-420-0818. Please be sure to include a name for registration purposes.
- You will have to logon once again to download your copy. If you find DayPack
- to be a useful program please consider donating $5.00 to our BBS. Donations
- are NOT required for registration.
-
- Make checks payable to:
- The SUNY BBS c/o The Auxiliary Services Corp.
- And send them to:
- Gary Glueckert
- The State University of New York at Farmingdale
- Dept. of Biological Sciences
- Farmingdale, NY 11735
-
- If you wish to have a registered version of DayPack mailed to you,
- send $10.00 in U.S. funds to the above address requesting a registration.
- Use the registration form included to help process your registration.
-
-
-
- Limited License
- ---------------
- You are free to use DayPack without registration if for
- Non-commercial use. Commercial use REQUIRES a paid registration!
- You may NOT engage in, nor permit another party to engage in, any of
- the following:
-
- - Making alterations of any kind to this software,
- documentation, or file archive containing this software.
-
- - Attempting to disassemble, decompile, or reverse engineer
- all or part of this software; including the files it
- generates.
-
- - Grant a license or sub-license or any rights in the software
- to others.
-
- You may distribute DayPack and post it for download on Bulletin
- Boards given these restrictions:
-
- - The program shall be supplied in it's original and
- unmodified form, which includes this documentation.
-
- - No fee is charged.
-
- - For profit use is prohibited without registration after
- a reasonable period of evaluation.
-
- - The program may not be included with other goods or
- services.
-
- The author of this software grants you a license to use this software
- as long as the above conditions are met. Any violations of the above
- conditions will result in the termination of your license to use this
- software. Upon termination of this license, for any reason, you must
- stop using this software and destroy all copies of it in your
- posession. In addition the author reserves the right to cancel your
- license at any time for any reason that he sees fit.
-
- Disclaimer:
- -----------
- The author disclaims any warranties either expressed or implied,
- including, but not limited to, the applied warranties of
- mercantabilities or fitness for a particular purpose. All liability
- for all possible damages which may be incurred from the use, or
- mis-use, of this product is solely with the user.
-
-
- Credits where credit is due:
- ----------------------------
- ** PKWARE and PKZIP are registered trademarks of PKWARE, Inc.
- ** GMon is Copyrighted 1992(c) by John Morris.
- ** DayPack is Copyrighted 1992(c) by Gary Glueckert.
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