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- Documentation update
- 10th February 1996
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- FAKE-COUNTER
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- All Rights Reserved
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- GreenLights Software Development
- Jeffrey R. Dougall
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- FAKECNT may be freely distributed as long as no files are removed
- from the package and the files are not modified in any way, and
- as long as no money or any other compensation is asked or
- accepted for this package without prior written permission from
- the author.
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- Although care has been taken to write and test a program that
- does what this document states, the program is provided as is,
- without warranty or guarantee of any kind, either expressed or
- implied, as to the quality or performance of this program, except
- that it will occupy disk space.
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- The author, Jeffrey R. Dougall, will not be held liable to you
- or anyone for (but not limited to) any direct, indirect,
- incidental or consequential damages, including any lost profits,
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- lost savings which may result from the use or inability to use
- this program.
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- Jeffrey R. Dougall is in no way obligated to provide future
- versions of, or support for this software.
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- Your use of the program constitutes your agreement to this
- license and disclaimer and your release of the author from any
- form of liability or litigation.
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- 1.2 Registration
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- This program is FREEWARE and no registration is required.
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- 1.3 Future Versions
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- There will be no future versions written.
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- 2.0 What does FAKE-COUNTER (FAKECNT.EXE) do
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- I wrote this program after I made major adjustments to my BBS
- which meant totally rebuilding the system.
- After a few smart arse users made comments like, this is either
- a new BBS or a slack BBS because hardly any files had been
- downloaded I thought, what a load of crap you fools, this BBS
- was rebuilt and all counters were reset.
- Hence, I wrote this program to alter the file counters on all
- files to make the BBS look "Run In Again".
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- When you run FAKECNT the program will choose a random number
- between 0 and 100 before altering the counter on each file in
- your file base. Should the number be greater than 80 than no
- change will be made. If less than 80 another random number will
- be selected between 1 and 10 and the result will be stored in
- the files download counter.
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- I chose to keep the fake counter below 10 to ensure the downlaod
- figures were not unrealistic and the idea of making the odds
- for a change being made at 80% was, again, to maintain realism.
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- 3.0 Requirments
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- FAKECNT was tested on the following machines under DOS 6.21
- with no problems and tested on RemoteAccess 2.50g1
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- XT 8080 EGA
- 286 HERC
- 486 SVGA
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- There are no structor changes from RA 2.00 through to 2.50g
- on the files HDR information hence, the program will work
- with no problems on 2.00, 2.01, 2.02 and 2.50g1
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- 3.1 Environment
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- RA MUST be set in your DOS environment for FAKECNT to work.
- Infact as you know RA will not work either.
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- 3.2 FAKECNT Does the following on start up
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- On startup, FAKECNT looks for RA's system directory using
- DOS Environment to do so. From there CONFIG.RA is found and
- your name, BBS name and the path to your Files is obtained.
- Hence, there is no configuration required for FAKECNT to
- work, It's done automatically.
- Once doing that, the program creates located your FDB files
- which contains info about each of your files, from there
- the alterations are made to the file counters.
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- 3.3 To run FAKECNT
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- Very easy, you may put the program in a directory of it's own
- (but I wouldn't bother as you will most likely use it once only
- and delete it once it has aletered your file counters)
- So, when you have decided on where to put FAKECNT, just run it!
- No command lines and no configuration required.
- Gee's don't you wish all programs were like that <Grin>
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- 4.0 Problems
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- You should not have any unless your HDD is craped out or you
- experience a power failure while FAKECNT is altering the files
- counters which a power failure does no program that write to
- disk any good anyay.
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- Seriously, you may experience one problem only ..
- If the program has been modified (Illegally) the low level
- security will stop the program from running. If that be the
- case you may FREQ an original from my BBS. No probs at all!
- But, since its a FREEWARE porogram I doub't the hackers would
- bother cracking a FULLY operational program unless they want
- to remove my name from it.
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- 5.0 Contacting The Author
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- You may contact the author, Jeffrey Dougall by one of the following
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- Fido 3:640/280
- BBB 61-7-32016576 (9600baud-28800baud)
- PO P.O. Box 4061, Raceview, 4305, Qld, Australia
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