home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- =======================
- BBSUtils Documentation
- =======================
- Daniel B. Doman
- 166 East 96th street Apt 15B
- New York, N.Y. 10028
- 212-289-1020
-
-
-
- This is a collection of utility programs that I wrote to make
- managing a Bulletin Board a little bit easier. By and large, they
- should be usable with most bulletin board programs, although they were
- only tested on dBBS style directories. If you find them useful thats
- great. I don't expect anything back from you except perhaps a kind word.
-
-
- If you are running a dBBS system, you can use one of your ".DL"
- files as an input file that can be read by most of these utilities. I
- have enclosed a sample input file called MYINPUT.
-
-
-
- Dirchk4.exe
-
- Dirchk is designed to scan your directory listings and check
- against your drive for files listed but not actually present in your
- download path. You can type in the arguments interactively, or give it an
- input file to read. It will optionally edit out the missing file names.
- If you select this option, it will save your old directory
- listings with a ".OLD" extension. If you are using a BBS program that
- puts the date in a non-standard format, command line arguments allow you
- to tell the program where to look for the date fields.
-
-
-
-
- Notlist4.exe
-
- This program does the reverse of what Dirchk3 does e.g.. it flags
- those files that are present in your download path, but NOT listed.
- Command line arguments, and parameters are the same as for Dirchk.
-
-
-
-
-
- BB-Sort4.exe
- This program sorts your directory listings in Alpha, Date, or
- Reverse-date order. It will handle files as large as memory allows. I
- have tested it on files as large as 400K, but that is not the upper
- limit. You can specify an input and output name. If you do not specify
- the output name, BB-Sort will use the input name as the output name.
- BB-Sort is quite fast, and many people have asked me to modify it so that
- it can be used as a general sort utility. This version has a "/C" command
- line switch so that you can have it do a sort on a
- specific column position.
-
-
-
- CapsNoMo.exe
-
- All too many users type file descriptions all in UPPER case. I find
- this unsightly, and retype the descriptions. I got tired of doing this
- and thus came CapsNoMo. It simply reformats the description to first
- letter upper case, all others lower case. I think it looks
- better that way. Some names such as dBase (tm) have their first letter
- spelled in lower case. Other names such as BBS are spelled all in upper
- case. Capsnomo will try to recognize those words and handle them
- accordingly. This program is not perfect, but it does reduce most of your
- editing to a minimum.
-
-
- Dupfind
-
-
- Dupfind is locates duplicate filenames. It is rather specialized
- and does not really work like traditional file finders or duplicate
- listers. Dupfind can use an input file like Dirchk and Notlist. it will
- normally flag duplicate file names, but command line switches allow you
- to have it flag as duplicates files that have different
- extensions. You can also tell Dupfind the length of file names to
- check for and thus flag files that have different version numbers in
- their names e.g.. NIFTY1.ARC, NIFTY10.ARC, NIFTY30.EXE could all be
- flagged as duplicates if you wanted. This can be handy since it lets
- you locate old versions of new programs.
- Dupfind DOES NOT search out subdirectories. You have to tell it where
- to look. On a large system common sense dicates that you use an input
- file. All of these programs can use the same inout file.
-
-
-
- Cmove6.com
- Cmove is a general purpose utility. It Moves files from one drive
- and subdirectory to another. It does not employ directory
- trickery of any kind. The move/copy is heavily verified, and will not
- damage any of your files. It can take wildcards (*?) and as many
- arguments as you like. e.g.. CMOVE D:\*.ARC E:\FRED; A:*.COM D:\STUFF
-
-
-
- enjoy - daniel
-
-
-