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The functions at one glance: - Lastcaller with flags - User statistics - File statistics - Editor to make the layout of each statistic - Automatic maintenance for the user levels - Sort the userbase - Usereditor with sorting and searching functions (up to now max 1023 user) - Global user editor, for example to move user flags - Messages for birthday and up- or downgrade of the security level - Usage graph Some New few features are: - The extent of configurability - Statistics of the last 3-30 days - Level upgrade for wort in the last 3-30 days (in physics: power) - Display what the users have done in the lastcallers. - Realtime sorting user editor The following parameters activate the different options : Configuration menu (with user editor) -u : Only user editor -d : Default color settings (look lame :) ) -l : Generate lastcaller list -e : Event: Activate functions defined in the menu Main Menu|Event -s : Only generate statistics -nx : Node ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3.Installation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ These files have to be in the archive: -fatal!ra.exe : The program -fatal!ra.cf1/2 : Configuration files -update.msg : User gets a new level -d_update.msg : User gets a new level for a limited time -downgra.msg : User loses his level -birthday.msg : Geburtstagsnachricht -newuser.msg : Newuser welcome message -fatal!ra.doc : This file -fatal!ra.dok : German documentation -ra_mnu.zip : Packet do generate a statistics menu for RA -door_ctl.zip : Packet do generate a statistics menu for Fatal!Doors Unpack the archive for example into the directory c:\ra\utils\FATALRA\. You can start fatal!ra.exe immediately. At first you should set the paths. If the RA - environmentvariable is set, simply chose autoconfig. Else you can set the paths manually in the menu directories. Now chose in the menu user sorter your sorting method for the userbase (ex: primary: level, secondary: handle). If you delete the userbase in trying everything out ( :) ) don't panic: there is a backup (users.bak, usersxi.bak, lastread.bak and 30_days.bak). Now insert into your batch file an entry fatal!ra -L to generate the lastcaller list when the user has logged out. Insert fatal!ra -e into the event batch file. Activate for example the statistics and the user sorter in the menu Main Menu|Event and remove the RAUSER entry to get the statistics of the last 3-30 days. To make all functions concerning the last 3-30 days work properly you have to maintain the userbase _only_ with fatal!ra. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. The user editor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The user editor is like the original, but you can quick sort the users in using the cursor keys. To remove an user press delete. To insert an user press insert :). To search for an user, a location or numbers just enter these. You get the required users or these who come closest. You can define the layout of the user editor: The layout could look like this: Pos │ Name │ Handle │ Level │ Age │ Del ──────┼───────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼───────┼─────┼──── %P │ %N │ %H │ %L │ %A │ %E In this case you can select the column with the age and enter a "18" - imideately you see the users who are allowed to access nice pictures :) The hotkeys are like these at the statistics: F1 - F11 : Insert a character of the character set (ex: ╚ ) 0 - 9 and + : Insert a character with the number block alt-F1-F5 : Chose the character set alt-1-8 : Set a pre-defined color pattern alt-u : Get color attribute alt-a : Set color attribute alt-f : Set foreground color alt-b : Set background color ctrl-arrow : Change color attribute With the global user editor you can define a group of users who have to be changed. Example 1: Move the A1 flag to the B1 flag: ┼─┤Global Usereditor├────────────────────────┼ │ │ │ from level 0 to level 65535 │ │ A X------- │ │ B -------- │ │ C -------- │ │ D -------- │ │ - Deleted │ │ new level - - Clear Screen │ │ A O------- - More Prompt │ │ B X------- - Ansi Graphic │ │ C -------- - Avatar Graphic │ │ D -------- - No Kill │ │ - Free Leech │ │ - Full Screen Edit │ │ - Quiet Mode │ │ - Hot Keys │ │ - Full Screen View │ │ - Hidden │ │ change user globally - Page Priority │ ┼────────────────────────────────────────────┼ Select these settings and then change user globally. Example 2: Give all users with level 20 to 40 the new level 50, hot keys and no avatar: ┌─┤Global Usereditor├────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ from level 20 to level 40 │ │ A -------- │ │ B -------- │ │ C -------- │ │ D -------- │ │ - Deleted │ │ new level 50 - Clear Screen │ │ A -------- - More Prompt │ │ B -------- - Ansi Graphic │ │ C -------- O Avatar Graphic │ │ D -------- - No Kill │ │ - Free Leech │ │ - Full Screen Edit │ │ - Quiet Mode │ │ X Hot Keys │ │ - Full Screen View │ │ - Hidden │ │ change user globally - Page Priority │ └────────────────────────────────────────────┘ All flags can be changed with the space bar. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Lastcallers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the menu Main Menu|Lastcallers you can chose wether the sysop, hidden users or local calls have to be displayed in the list. You can also substitute the local bps rate (ex: Local : L0cαl ). To make the lastcallers of all lines appear, you have to execute fatal!ra in each batch file like this: fatal!ra -l -nx. For node 3 this is fatal!ra -l -n3. To see what the users have done in their online time there are flags in the lastcaller list. You can either display all nine of them or if this is too much you can disable some of them. A bit more difficult is to configure the flags "paged","chatted" and "online-games". For that you look into your log-file and see what RA or your chatter is entering if an user pages you: > 29-Apr 16:00:07 RA01 Sysop paged (chatted with user) You see that a program can detect the paging with the word "paged" and that you have chattet with the user with "chatted". > 29-Apr 16:01:37 RA01 DOS shell : *C /C M:\RA\ONLINE\MOG\GORR.BAT *N *M > 29-Apr 16:04:12 RA01 DOS shell : *C /C M:\RA\ONLINE\SLOTS\SLOTS.BAT *N *M If all your online-games are in the same directory (ex: ONLINE\ ), you can detect it with the name of the path. Take care that no filebase files are in this directory and that none of your filebase directories has that name. Make the following entries in the lastcallers menu: . . . √ Paged Log: PAGED √ Chatted Log: CHATTED √ Online-Games Log: ONLINE\ √ Lost Carrier In the menu Main Menu|Lastcallers|Layout you can make your own layout of your lastcaller list (see statistics). If you define several lines with %-parameters (maximum of 4) you can get an optical distinction of groups of users. Usually all users belong to group 1. In the menu Main Menu|Lastcallers you can define at which level an user belongs to group 2,3 and 4. A "0" is added to the name for the lastcaller today, a "1" and "2" for yesterday and before yesterday, a "b" for the best day. Example (in the batch file): ... cd \ra\node3 fatal!ra -l -n3 ... The lastcaller of FATAL!RA supports multi line and does not need any changes in your existing menu system. All data is read from the RA log file. The lastcall.bbs file is not used. If there are any bugs in the lastcaller, please send me a copy of your log file. Many utilities insert unusual entries into the log file that may lead to problems. But with a log I can fix such bugs easily. In this case switch off the log-function in the menu Main Menu|Lastcaller. The first run time may be a bit long if many user have already called. Usually the run rime is about one or two seconds (on a 486), even if the log file is larger than 1 MB (our log file is now about 5 MB). All who use chat utilities which do not tell the line number should use one log file for each line. (ex: ICE-CHAT) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. Statistics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edit the layout of the statistics: F1 - F11 : Insert a character of the character set (ex: ╚ ) 0 - 9 and + : Insert a character with the number block alt-F1-F5 : Chose the character set alt-1-8 : Set a pre-defined color pattern alt-u : Get color attribute alt-a : Set color attribute alt-f : Set foreground color alt-b : Set background color ctrl-arrow : Change color attribute Copy and delete lines: a) Move the lightbar to the wanted line b) Do one of the following actons (without pressing <Enter> ) ctrl-Insert : Copy highlighted line shift-Insert : Insert line shift-Delete : Cut line You also can copy lines from one statistic to another. Copy a whole layout: -------------------- a) Select the statistic (show layout) which you want to duplicate b) press <esc> (the layout stays in memory) c) Move the lightbar to the destination statistic (do not press <enter>) d) press ctrl-<enter> Define the name of the statistic without extension Pre-defined color patterns: --------------------------- With alt - 1-8 you can give a line a color pattern. Just try all out, perhaps you like some of them. Cheats: ------- If the 12 lines are not enough, you can insert empty lines (ex: between title and list) in inserting a alt-13 (note) and a alt-10 (circle). With this method you can insert ANSI codes into the layout (alt-27 [ and then the code). But such ANSI codes will appear in the Ascii. With this method you also can display the calls/uploads etc. of the user who views the statistics: just insert alt-6 (on the number block) and then P : Calls Q : Uploads R : Uploads [KB] S : Downloads M : Messages Alt-6 is a pik charakter, see further information in the ra.doc file. Seperate the 1st user in the list: ---------------------------------- You get a homogeneous list if you define the parameters %N for name and/or %H for handle only in one line. Example: >>> The best uploaders <<< ┌─Name───────────────────────────── Age ─────────────── Uploads ──┐ │ %P %H %A %u │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ And what you get (for the length 5): >>> The best uploaders <<< ┌─Name───────────────────────────── Age ─────────────── Uploads ──┐ │ 1 Nappel 15 176 │ │ 2 Dödel 18 132 │ │ 3 Dummel 17 122 │ │ 4 Emil 17 113 │ │ 5 Göppel 17 106 │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ The first user will be seperated, if you define two lines with the parameters %N and/or %H: >>> The best uploaders <<< ┌─Name───────────────────────────── Age ─────────────── Uploads ──┐ │ %P %H %A %u │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ %P %H %A %u │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ And what you will get: >>> The best uploaders <<< ┌─Name───────────────────────────── Age ─────────────── Uploads ──┐ │ 1 Nappel 15 176 │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ 2 Dödel 18 132 │ │ 3 Dummel 17 122 │ │ 4 Emil 17 113 │ │ 5 Göppel 17 106 │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ The menu generator ------------------ Just execute the program ra_menu.exe in the Fatal!ra directory after you have changed the layouts of the statistics. You get a statz.mnu and a statz.q-a, that you do not have to enter the names of the ansis for yourself. Copy these files into the corresponding directories and edit them if needed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7. Automatic level updater ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ With the automatic level updater you can reward your users corresponding to their work. For that purpose you chose the menu Main Menu|Level Manager. Now you see all levels, which are already defined. If there is nothing defined yet, there will appear a Menu, in which you can define a security level with its demands: ┌──Level Verwaltung──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │Level : 50 Level Update Downgrade User löschen│ │ │ │ Alter Level : - Auf Level : - Tage : - │ │ Kosten : 1 Hysterese : 0 % │ │ │ │ In 14 Tagen Absolut │ │ │ │ Calls : - Credits : - │ │ Messis : - Calls : - │ │ Files : - Messis : - │ │ KB : - Files : 30 │ │ KB : 2000 │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ In this case a user gets the level 50, if he uploads 30 files or 2000 KB. The level cost him one credit and he gets it only if the user can pay the credit. If everythin is OK then press <esc>. To define more level press insert, to delete press delete. Deleted levels will be deleted if you leave the menu. The list of levels is always sorted. 32 level can be defined. On the left side there should apper an arrow ( ), which indicates that the level exists in your BBS. If the arrow does not appear you have to look your levels up again. If all levels are defined, activate in the Menu Main Menu|Event the Level updater. That your user base does not get stuffed with users who do not call any more you can define a time after which the user will be deleted: ┌──Level Verwaltung──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │Level : 50 Level Update Downgrade User löschen│ │ │ │ Alter Level : - Auf Level : - Tage : 100 │ │ Kosten : 1 Hysterese : 0 % │ │ │ │ In 14 Tagen Absolut │ │ │ │ Calls : - Credits : - │ │ Messis : - Calls : - │ │ Files : - Messis : - │ │ KB : - Files : 30 │ │ KB : 2000 │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ User with level 50 will be deleted after 100 days, i.e. the deleted-flag will be set. One day later the user will finally be deleted. ┌──Level Verwaltung──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │Level : 50 Level Update Downgrade User löschen│ │ │ │ Alter Level : 40 Auf Level : 40 Tage : 100 │ │ Kosten : - Hysterese : 80% │ │ │ │ In 14 Tagen Absolut │ │ │ │ Calls : 8 Credits : - │ │ Messis : - Calls : - │ │ Files : 8 Messis : - │ │ KB : 500 Files : - │ │ KB : - │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ A new feature is the level updater for achievement, i.e. for the work which an user has done in x days. In this example an user with level 40 gets level 50, if he has 8 calls, 8 files and 500 KB in the last 14 days. Because these values can decrease again if the user does not do so well any more, you can define the level on which an user can be downgraded. The hysteresis of 80% says, that the user loses his level if his achievements have decreased on a level of 80%. In this case this is less than 6.4 calls and messis and less than 400 KB in the last 14 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8. Messages ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Finally FATAL!RA supports the JAM message base. All messages are posted with the stati private and local into the corresponding board. Messages can be posted into the netmail main board. They get as origin and destination address the main aka, which you can define in raconfig. The following parameters can be used in a message: %SYSOP %BOX %NAME %HANDLE %LEVEL %UPLOADSK %UPLOADS %AGE %CALLS %TCALLS (Total Calls) %Sx: (Size of hard disk x in MB) %Fx: (Free space on disk x) %Px: (Used space in per cent) ex: %SC: is substitudet by the size of disk C:. You can attach files to messages to new users. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9. Registration ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you like FATAL!RA : just buy it :) If you don't need it : just kick it If you find it too difficult to install : keep tryin' ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10. Copyrights ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Remote Access : Wantree Development Turbo Pascal : Borland International, Inc. JAM(mbp) : Copyright 1993 Joaquim Homrighausen, Andrew Milner, Mats Birch, Mats Wallin. All rights reserved. <end>