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- rOverBoard Maintenance Utility
- BBSMAINT.EXE
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- Usage: BBSMAINT.EXE /U /F /A /M or /X or /Z
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- Notes: SETUP.DAT MUST be in the default directory when this program is
- started, as MUST USER.DAT if the /U or /M options are selected,
- and REGISTER.DAT/APPROVED.DAT or BBSFILES.DAT/BBSFILES.IDX for the
- /A and /F switches, respectively.
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- /U - Deletes old users (produces MAINTLOG.DAT w/ names & stats of all
- deleted users) based on their 'keep-til' date and date of last logon.
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- /F - When rOver K)ills a file, the appropriate line in the description file
- is 'deleted' by placing "" as the first two characters of the line.
- This function physically removes such 'deleted' lines from the file.
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- /A - When a user is upgraded/rejected thru the automated upgrade procedures,
- their answer set in REGISTER.DAT is flagged for deletion (and rewritten
- to APPROVED.DAT if accepted). This option removes such flagged sets
- from the REGISTER.DAT file.
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- /M - This switch causes ALL messages areas to be purged of old messages (also
- based on their 'keep-til' dates), renumbered, and the .DAT files to be
- stripped of any fragmentation. The USER.DAT file is updated to reflect
- any changes to the users' "High Msg Read" #.
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- /X - Forces all index files to be rebuilt
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- /Z - Checks all index files; rebuilds only those that are out-of-date
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- Note that many of rOver's common woes are caused by various index files
- getting out of synchronization with the data. If you seem to be having
- strange problems (like all your files are suddenly missing - from the
- list - not from your hard disk!]), having BBSMAINT rebuild the indexes
- will very possibly solve the problem. When attempting this, be sure and
- use /X (or /A /F /M /U), as /Z will NOT cure the problem - if rOver knew
- something was out-of-date, it would have been flagged already.
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