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- FILECON.EXE Compiled executable
- FILECON.DOC This file
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- FILECON was written because I was going nuts converting from my FILES.BBS
- style Bulletin Board to TRIBBS. Files lists seem to come in all flavors and
- descriptions. A Files list converter, I soon found, needed to be able to
- determine if there were only filenames and descriptions, for filenames,
- lengths, dates and descriptions, and what the spacing was between these
- elements.
-
- CD-ROMs in particular have a curious duke's mixture of files listings. With
- the release of TRIBBS 5.0, I felt that a utility to work with these areas was
- needed.
-
- Filecon does these jobs.
-
- FILECON reads in the FILES.BBS data, does a DIR of the current directory, and
- proceeds to combine the two. It tests to see if there are dates and
- descriptions in the old list, and deletes them if they are present in favor of
- the dates and file sizes it detects through its own operations. Additionally,
- if the lines are longer than 75 characters, the descriptions are wrapped to
- the next line. FILECON limits the length of the description field to 255
- characters. If enough people need it to support longer descriptions, we'll
- see what we can do in a future release, but for now, any description beyong
- 255 characters will be truncated.
-
- For this program to work, you must have FILECON.EXE in your path, and be
- logged into the hard disk directory you wish to process. When you run FILECON,
- you will be asked for the complete FILE PATH AND NAME of the files list. If
- it is already there in the logged directory, just press return; else enter the
- path (this lets you direct the program to a CDROM directory if desired). Next,
- you will be asked where the files are located. Return defaults to the
- directory entered in the above path. You can enter an alternative path, if
- needed. The presence of a FILES.LST is detected, if one exists. You will have
- the option to overwrite or append to the existing list. This option is given
- to allow the sysop to combine related files lists on separate CD-ROMs and
- multiple hard disks, if desired. The resulting file will be left in the
- current directory as FILES.LST. FILES.BBS is *NOT* deleted, as such attempts
- on a ROM would produce program errors.
-
- FILECON has a limit of 500 files per area. This seems an arbatrary limit,
- but it's about what my compiler allowed the program to hold. However, if you
- have ever logged onto a BBS with file areas this large, YOU KNOW this is not a
- good situation for the users. Therefore, in the case where there are more than
- 500 files in an area, Filecon will ask you to break the files up into several
- different areas. You'll be asked for a starting letter and an ending letter
- for the file names. Just enter what's asked for. After you run the program,
- you can create another subdirectory, point the program to the same files area
- and files list, and specifiy another set of beginning end ending letters.
-
- It works for me. If it doesn't work for you, please give me a call at my BBS,
- Adventureland (606) 271-0558 or call me voice at 606-272-9674 between 6 and 10
- PM Eastern time. Support is free if you will pay for the call.
-
- If you like FILECON and find it useful, how about throwing five bucks my way?
- I've spent a lot of time writing this program, and would appreciate some
- support. If you find it valuable, send $5.00 to:
-
- Doug Rogers
- 3288 Shoal Lake Dr.
- Lexington, Ky 40515
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