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- FMSCHK was written in order to check the structure of your FMS
- files and ensure that they are in proper format to be processed by DLMASTER.
- To run the program, simply enter the command:
-
- FMSCHK <filename>
-
- where <filename> is the name of the FMS file to check. If FMSCHK
- encounters any errors, it will display them as follows:
-
-
- ERROR in line #2 of master.dir:
- extraneous characters in line
- GIF2WP34.ZIP 21134 02-25-91o Convert GIF to WPG (WordPerfect 5.x) 008
-
- ERROR in line #3 of master.dir:
- error in date format
- VRAM386A.ZIP 60966 02/26/91 386 memory manager like QEMM/386MAX. 011
-
-
- If no errors are encountered, FMSCHK will display the message
-
- "file <filename> checks okay."
-
- where <filename> is the name of the FMS file being checked.
-
- FMSCHK will also return a DOS errorlevel of 0 if successful, or -1 if
- there was a problem.
-
- You must correct any errors that FMSCHK detects before running
- DLMASTER against the FMS file. Hopefully, this utility will save
- people hours of aggravation when trying to run DLMASTER for the first
- time.
-
- I might make note that FMSCHK prints to stdout, so you can redirect
- the output to a disk file if you wish, using DOS redirection. This
- capability, along with the fact that it returns an error level, makes
- FMSCHK suitable for batch processing, if desired.
-
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-
-
- HISTORY:
-
- 1.10 8-15-93 Now properly parses lines that employ RBBS
- security symbol '=' at beginning of line.
-
- 1.04 6-29-92 Corrected bug that showed comment lines as
- errors.
-
- 1.03 5-04-92 Corrected bug where bad line length would
- go unnoticed in extended description lines.
-
- 1.02 8-30-91 Corrected bug that would not detect invalid
- characters for 2nd separator in date field
- (i.e. - "08-30/91" would show as okay).
-
- 1.01 8-3-91 Added success message, and ability to return
- an error code.
-
- 1.00 7-27-91 Initial release.
-