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- FDView - FrontDoor Log Viewer for current day's activity.
- Version 2.02
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- Supports FrontDoor 2.10 and under.
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- History:
- Listed at end of documentation.
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- Warranty:
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- None, I will not be held liable for any damage, whether
- direct or consequential, relating to the use of FDView.
- You acknowledge this in full by using FDView.
- Use FDView at your own risk ! !
-
- Intro:
- I wrote this program because I got tired of scrolling through
- FD.log with List to see what happend for the current day.
- All I wanted is something that told me what each user
- did for the current or selected day.
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- FDView reads the FD.Log and compares the entry dates
- with the current date or the date you entered on the
- command line. If they match, the activities for that date
- and on will display on the screen with the option to scroll
- forward and backward or pan left and right through the selected
- activities. FDView also gives you choices to print the activities
- to the printer, save the activities to a file, or shell to a batch
- file where you may do anything you want. A new feature is a Paint
- and Save otion. This will let you paint selected text and save or
- append the text to a file.
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- Simple, but useful to me. I thought someone else might
- like it too so I wrote a .Doc and made it available.
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- Installation:
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- The only thing you have to copy FDView.EXE to your
- directory that contains the FrontDoor Log file.
- The Log file does not have to be named FD.Log.
- FDView WILL WORK WITH ANY FILENAME AS LONG AS IT IS
- A LOG FILE GENERATED BY FRONTDOOR ! !.
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- To start FDView, type the following at the command line:
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- Usage: FDView <logname> <option1> <option2>
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- If no options are specified FDView will default to the
- current date.
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- Option1, if used, must be before Option2.
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- Option1: mm-dd-yyyy (Starts displaying from this date)
- /Dnn (Starts displaying nn day's ago)
- /A (Prompts for nn day's)
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- Option2: /Ffilename.ext (Writes Activities to filename.ext)
- /P (Prints Activities to Printer)
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- Example 1: FDView FD.Log 08-05-1991
- This would read FD.Log and start displaying the activities
- from 08-05-1991 to the present date.
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- Example 2: FDView FD.Log /d2
- This would read FD.Log and start displaying the activities 2
- days from the the present date.
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- Example 3: FDView FD.Log /Fexample.txt or
- FDView FD.Log /d1 /Fexample.txt
- The first would read FD.Log and write the activities to example.txt.
- The second would read FD.Log and write the activities starting one day
- before today to example.txt. It simply reads, writes, and exits the
- program. I did this so I could use it remotely and not lock up my
- board.
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- Example 4: FDView FD.Log /P or
- FDView FD.Log /d1 /P
- The first would read FD.Log and print today's activities to the
- printer. The second would read FD.Log and print activities starting
- one day before today to the printer.
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- Example 5: MXView Max.Log /A
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- This will prompt you to enter the number of days to start before
- the current day. 1 = one day, 2 = two days, etc. If you just
- press enter it will default to the current day.
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- That's it. You'll get a listing of all the activities
- for the current day or from the date you specified.
- (If your computer clock is correct and the total selected
- activities you want does not exceed 1100 lines. This is becuase
- of a 64 K barrier in Basic PDS 7.1. I'm hopeing to get around this
- soon.)
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- While FDView is displaying your activities you have full cursor
- support to scroll up, down, left or right. Home key will take
- you to the top and End to the bottom. A help screen is displayed
- by pressing F1. F2 will save your activities to a text file.
- F3 will print them to the printer. F4 will shell out and execute
- FDVBATCH.BAT if it exists. You could have some sort of log
- maintenance in this batch file. F4 will start the paint and save
- option. To exit the program, press Escape.
-
- Information
- and Desqview:
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- After reading the FD.Log file and before it display's
- the activities to you, FDView closes the log file in case
- FD.Log is needed to be accessed by something else.
- I guess this would only apply to multitasking software.
- I run Desqview under Frontdoor. I have a separate window
- for FDView with the same settings as BigDos window.
- I have not had any problems yet. FDView will display up to
- 1100 lines of selected activities.
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- I don't know if any of you will like this or not.
- If you do, great. If you don't delete it. Simple.
- If anyone has any suggestions on how to make this
- utility better, please let me know. I would love
- to hear your ideas.
- I can be reached at the Following:
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- Bill Spicer
- The Hook and Slice Club BBS
- 202 Warrington Ave.
- Danville, IL 61832 USA
- (217) 446-0105 (BBS)
- FidoNet 1:233/6
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- You can Freq FDView from the above address using FDView for
- the Magic file name.
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- If you use FDView, a donation of $5.00 would be appreciated. This
- would keep me motivated to update and write more of these utilities.
-
- Thanks for trying FDView
-
- Also you might want to try.
-
- FDVRem - Remote FrontDoor Log Viewer Door. Supports Door.Sys,
- Dorinfo1.Def, CallInfo.Sys, PCBoard.Sys.
- Available at The Hook and Slice Club
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- FDView was written and compiled using
- Microsoft's Basic Professional Development System 7.1
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- History:
-
-
- 1.00 - Finished Program
- 1.01 - Added a check to see if FD.Log exists.
- - Display's a message if no activity for the
- current day was found.
- 1.02 - Added a command line logname parameter so
- FDView could be used on log files that have
- been renamed to some other name.
- - Added a Usage message that display's if FDView
- was executed without a logname.
- - Added the option to re-display the activities
- by pressing the Escape key.
- - Added the option to display the previous screen
- by pressing B.
- - Added the option to end the program without having
- to display all the activities. Pressing E will end
- the program.
- 1.03 - Added command line option to specify a starting
- date.
- - Added command line option to start nn day's ago.
- 1.04 - Added more tags to support FrontDoor Ver. 2.01
- - Changed a few colors.
- 1.05 - Added the option to save selected activities to a file.
- - Added the option to print selected activities to the printer.
- - Re-structured a few routines and added error routines.
- 1.06 - Fixed color on ? error tags.
- - Added command line option to write activities to a
- file without having keyboard input. (/F)
- - Added command line option to print activities to a
- printer without havig keyboard input. (/P)
- 1.07 - Added a new routine for /d option. Now handles months
- with 28 and 30 days correctly..
- 1.08 - Fixed bug in parsing command line parameters.
-
- 2.00 - Added complete cursor control. Scroll up, down, left or right.
- - PgUp, Pgdn, Home, and End now work with display.
- - Display now scrolls instead of clearing with every keystroke.
- - Moved Save and Print keys to F2 and F3.
- - Added a Info Screen (F1).
- - Added option to shell to a batch file for log maintenance.(F4).
- - Fixed bug with command line date. Used to screw up if you didn't
- specify a leading 0 for months 1 through 9. Fixed!
- - Added some neat display routines.
- 2.01 - Added a feature to mark selected text and save to a text file.
- - Added option to append or overwrite existing text file.
- 2.02 - Added the /A switch to prompt for nn day's.
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