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- McSoft Corp.
-
- presents
-
- RATPAK V2.2
-
- Remote Access Tool/Utilities Package
-
- For Remote Access V2.xx
-
- Copyright 1991-1994 McSoft Corp.
-
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
-
-
-
- This file is also distributed as part of the RATPAK Collection of tools and
- utilities for RemoteAccess. If you have aquired this file by itself, you
- may also want to look at the entire package. It is available as RATPAK22.ARJ
- at any of the sites listed in the Support.Doc file enclosed with this.
-
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- Licensing Information
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-
- You may use these utilities for a period of 30 days in order to evaluate
- the suitibility of the software. If you wish to continue using ANY of
- the utilities, you must register the package. This support will encourage
- us to continue to update, and write new software for you to use on your
- BBS. No keys are required for these programs, and all you will get in
- return for your registration will be a good feeling inside, and a netmail
- reply or phone call to thank you!
-
- You may not sell the product for a fee and/or distribute the product
- along with other products without expressed written permission, nor may
- you modify or remove the Copyright Notice from the program or the
- documentation.
-
- McSoft Corp. shall not be held responsible for any damage incurred by
- the user to hardware, software or peripheral devices during the operation of
- any the RATPAK programs.
-
- Comments, suggestions and bug reports are welcome. If you have any,
- you may call one of the McSoft Corp. Support Systems listed in the enclosed
- SUPPORT.DOC
-
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- CHAT.EXE Remote Dos Chat Program
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-
- If you have users who drop to DOS on your system, then you know
- what its like trying to chat at the DOS prompt... This is just
- a simple little chat program that makes life a little easier.
-
- Just type CHAT at the dos prompt, and check it out...
-
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- CNUMBU.EXE Caller Number Backup utility
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-
- Simple program really... Put it somewhere in your path, and in your daily
- maintenance simply run CNUMBU
-
- It will use the RA environment variable to find the ra files. It takes
- the total and writes it to a file called CNUMBU.DAT. If the total is less
- than what it was yesterday, then it assumes it got trashed...
-
- It then reads yesterdays total (which should have been correct) and adds
- the current total.
-
- So if yesterday when it ran, you had 20,000 callers, and since then it was
- reset, and now contained 50, it would update it to 20,050
-
- This way you would lose maybe a few callers, but the most would be one days
- worth.
-
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- EXPIRE.EXE Remote Access User Expiration Date Scanner
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-
- This is mainly a utility to let you, at a quick glance see who is going to
- expire on your system in the next 30 days. It is based on the SubDate in
- the user record.
-
- This also creates a text file in the current directory with this information.
- The file is called EXPIRY.RUN
-
- You may specify the following on the commandline:
-
- EXPIRE /D30 /S100
-
- /D### Show all users who expire within ## days
-
- /S##### Show only users with security levels equal or greater than #####
-
- Default is 30 Days, and ALL users
-
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- FINDFLAG.EXE Remote Access User Flag Finder
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-
-
- This program will look for the Users.Bbs file in the directory pointed to
- by the RA environment variable. It will scan through the user file, and
- report on ANY flags which are in use.
-
- You may also specify security levels when scanning, and the following
- command-line options are valid :
-
- findflag Show All Flags in use by ALL Sec Levels
-
- findflag -1000 Show All Flags in use by Sec Level LESS THAN 1000
-
- findflag +1000 Show All Flags in use by Sec Level GREATER THAN 1000
-
- findflag =1000 Show All Flags in use by Sec Level EQUAL TO 1000
-
- findflag !1000 Show All Flags in use by Sec Level NOT EQUAL TO 1000
-
-
- Output is redirectable, and looks like this:
-
-
-
- FindFlag V1.00 - Copyright 1991 by Motor City Software - All Rights Reserved
-
-
- 12345678
- Flags A : X---XXX-
- Flags B : X------X
- Flags C : XXXXXXXX
- Flags D : XXX-X-XX
-
-
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- LASTCALL.EXE Log FrontDoor calls to Remote Access Todays Callers List
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-
- LASTCALL will read in the info from Front Doors LASTCALL.FD (or LastC##.FD if
- a TASK Environment Variable is set, or you pass a /N## on the commandline)
- file, and write the last inbound or outbound call info into your Remote Access
- LASTCALL.BBS file.
-
- This will allow your users to see incoming mail calls when they list
- todays callers.
-
- You must have FrontDoor exit on incoming mail and files in order for this
- to work. It will only write the info when files or mail is received and
- causes FD to exit.
-
- Run it in your batch file from ANY directory, but you MUST make sure that you
- have set the RA and FD environment variables. It uses these to find the files
- it needs.
- You need the following somewhere in your batch files...
- SET FD=D:\FDOOR
- SET RA=D:\RA
- Note that you must change the paths to reflect YOUR setup...
-
- Because the last call info in Front Door does not provide the connect rate,
- it will default to 9600. You can override this by specifying a baud rate
- on the commandline.
-
- COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS
-
- Node # /n#
-
- LASTCALL /n1 for node 1
- LASTCALL /n2 for node 2 etc...
-
- If you do not specify a node number, it will default to the current
- %TASK% Environment Variable. If TASK is not set, then it will assume
- a single node FrontDoor, which uses a LASTCALL.FD rather than a task
- specific LASTC##.FD
-
-
-
- Baud Rate /b####
-
- LASTCALL /b2400 for 2400 baud
- LASTCALL /b9600 for 9600 baud etc...
-
- If you do not specify a baud rate, it will default to 2400
-
-
-
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- MC_WAIT.EXE Batch File Time Delay Utility
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-
- All you do is add MC_WAIT <X> to your batch file to cause it to pause for <X>
- number of minutes.
-
- eg. mc_wait 5 will pause for 5 minutes.
-
- You may hit ESCape at any time to abort.
-
- A simple utility for a simple task...
-
-
-
-
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- MCFRE.EXE Online Free Disk Space Door/DOS Utility
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-
- Why Another Free Space Utility?
-
- There are lots of free disk utilities around, but none quite so
- versatile as this one. You may use this as a DOS command-line utility,
- or run it online on your BBS...
-
-
- How to use it...
-
- There are 3 ways this can be run
-
- MCFRE 5 This tells it to display the first 5 Hard Drives
- Starting at C:
-
- MCFRE cdef List all drives to total on the command line.
- No spaces, and you can force it to display in any
- order you wish.
-
- MCFRE This will look for MCFRE.CFG in the current directory.
- Create this file using any ASCI text file editor, and simply
- create 1 line with all drives listed. eg. cdefghijklmno
-
-
- If a DORINFO1.DEF file is found, it will be read and MCFRE will use the
- fossil to output its info to both the local and remote screen. For this
- reason, you must be careful not to run MCFRE in a directory containing
- a dorinfo1.def file, or it will try sending its output to the comport as
- defined in the Dorinfo1.def
-
- If a dorinfo1.def is not found, then it will assume it is running in local
- mode.
-
- McFre can also be redirected to the modem if you cannot create the dorinfo1.def
- file with your bbs software. Simply use MCFRE 5 > COM1: but there will be
- no pause at the end of the display. Another way is to redirect it to a file,
- and then have your bbs software display that file.
-
-
-
- Total Drive Sizes are rounded to the nearest meg, and this usually results
- in a generous total field...
-
-
-
-
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- ONLINE.EXE Manipulate the USERON.BBS (List of callers Online)
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-
- ONLINE with no command line will prompt you for all information.
-
- ONLINE <node> <inuse> <name> <location> <baud> <doing> <private>
-
- <node> the node number you wish to modify. (1-99)
- <inuse> (Y or N) Y means you wish to mark the specified node as
- being in use. An N here will force it to ignore any of
- the following parameters, and mark this node as waiting
- for a call.
- <name> The name you want to appear when you list Who is Online
- NO SPACES! Firstname_Lastname (Note the underscore!)
- The name entered here will appear as both your name
- and handle.
- <location> The location of the caller. NO SPACES! CITY_PROVINCE
- <baud> Baud Rate of connection (0 for local)
- <doing> 10 Character description of what the user is doing.
- <Private> 0 will allow other users to page you
- 1 Will NOT allow others to page you
-
-
-
-
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- RA2FREQ.EXE Remote Access to FrontDoor File Request List creator
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-
- RA2FREQ.EXE #####
-
- This program simply scans your FILES.RA and outputs a list of all PATHS.
- The output may be redirected to a file, to be used by FrontDoor as its
- list of requestable directories.
-
- EG. RA2FREQ.EXE 100 > FreqFile.Lst
-
- This will redirect the list (but not the title screen) to a files called
- FreqFile.Lst
-
- You may pass a security level on the commandline which will limit the list
- to ONLY those areas with download security Less than or Equal to this value.
-
- The default is to include ALL file areas.
-
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- RACNUM.EXE Remote Access Caller Number Editor
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-
- RACNUM uses the environment variable RA to find the system directory.
-
- Type RACNUM, and you will be told the current number of callers to the BBS.
- You will be prompted for a new number, or 0 to abort.
-
-
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- RAFIND.EXE Find Files on your BBS
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-
- RAFIND filename.ext
-
- A very simple file locator for your BBS. It reads your FILES.RA file to
- determine the paths to your file areas, then checks that path for the filename
- that you specified on the commandline. This program does NOT use the RA file
- database to do its search, so it will find files that are not listed in
- the database as well. Wildcard searches ARE permitted. The RA environment
- variable is used to locate the FILES.RA file.
-
-
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- TCLT.EXE Todays Call Log Trimmer
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-
- If your Todays Caller list did not get reset properly at midnight, and
- includes calls from yesterday, then this utility will remove yesterdays
- callers from the file. This is handy to run in an event sometime shortly
- after midnight.
-
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- WHOCALLD.EXE View Todays Callers From DOS Prompt
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-
- This program will list todays callers, much like RA's internal listing.
-
- It looks for the RA environment variable to find the LASTCALL.BBS file.
-
- Thats all there is to it.
-
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- WHOSON.EXE View Callers Currently Online From DOS Prompt
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-
- Not only will you see who is online now, but you can send an online message
- to a specific user, or broadcast a message to all users online. You can also
- see if they have received that message.
-
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