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- About Rescan…
-
- Rescan is a Second Sight utility which will scan the entire message base
- and export all messages in selected public net sections to a text file
- which is close in format -- but *not* an exact match -- to the Tabby
- Generic file. It is designed to be used to bring a new BBS up to date
- with messages from an older board, or to reconstruct sections from a
- stable board to a board which has suffered a calamity. The board
- receiving Rescanned messages must process them with a utility called
- Rescanalotor to turn the text file into proper Second Sight messages.
-
- Here is a step by step description of how to use Rescan and Rescanalator:
-
- To create the Generic Rescan file...
-
- • Copy Rescan to the Tabby root level of your BBS.
-
- • Run Rescan. It will display all entries from Tabby's areas.bbs file
- in a scrolling list. Select from 1 to 25 sections to Rescan. The
- Shift key allows you to drag-select multiple sections in a sequence.
- The Command key lets you select non-continuous sections. When you
- have selected sections to rescan, double click one of the sections
- and let Rescan do its stuff.
-
- • Rescan will display a progress indicator while it creates a file
- called Generic Rescan in your Generic folder. (If a file called
- Generic Rescan already exists there, the new Rescan is appended to
- it.) When Rescan is finished, click the Done button, then choose Quit
- from the File menu.
-
- • Send the Generic Rescan text file to the board which will use it.
-
- To process the Generic Rescan file...
-
- • Copy Rescanalator to the Tabby root level of your BBS.
-
- • Put the Generic Rescan file in the Generic folder.
-
- • Run Rescanalator.
-
- • Run TImport or an equivalent importing utility.
-
- Notes
-
- The only difference between Generic Rescan and the Tabby Generic file
- format as defined by Michael Connick is that line 2 (Category Number) of
- each message does not contain a three-digit number, since that is a
- variable from board to board. Instead, line 2 contains a flag symbol
- consisting of •| (bullet+vertical bar) and then the areas.bbs name of the
- section. Rescanalator is a filter which first reads the local areas.bbs
- file, then reads Generic Rescan line by line until it comes to a line
- beginning with •|. This line is replaced by the proper Category Number from
- the areas.bbs file. The filtered file is named Generic Import and the
- Generic Rescan file is deleted by Rescanalator.
-
- -- Pete Johnson
- PETERJ on GEnie
-
- Glassell Park BBS
- 213-254-4133
- Post Office Box 65074
- Los Angeles, CA 90065
-
- November 4, 1990
-