home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Crawly Crypt Collection 1
/
crawlyvol1.bin
/
bbs
/
nfiles10
/
newfiles.doc
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1994-02-28
|
5KB
|
126 lines
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
o NEWFILES - The Newfiles Data Creator. o
o o
o © 1992/93/94 by Robert Darling. o
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This program is released with no guarantees! You use this program at
your own risk and I accept no responsibilty for any damage that may
be caused by use or mis-use of this program. The source code remains
my copyright.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Welcome to the latest version of Newfiles.
This program has been written to create a list of newfiles since a
user last called your BBS system. It is designed to work on QuickBBS
systems only, and used in conjunction with HoloQWK (©Dave Meaker), and
Amail (©Andy Styles) QWK mailer programs.
It is very easy to use and should cause you no problems when setting
it up. It requires a small control file to be in the same directory as
itself and must be named NEWFILES.CTL. You should find an example
control file included within the archive.
If you have used a previous version of Newfiles, please note a change
to keyword DORINFO - it is now called QWKINFO.
Keywords/statements are:
QBBS <full pathname>
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
e.g. D:\QBBS\
This must point to your main QuickBBS directory. It will look for
files in this directory, such as your USERS.BBS file.
QWKINFO <full pathname>
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
e.g. D:\QBBS\HOLOQWK\
This points to the directory where it will find one of the following
files:
QWKUSER.INF or AMAIL.INF or DORINFO1.DEF
These files are used to tell Newfiles the last date a caller was on
the BBS.
HoloQWK uses these files in the main QuickBBS directory so a copy of
the pathname from the QBBS statement above can be used. Amail, on the
other hand, expects to find these files in it's own directory so just
enter the path to your Amail program here.
NEWFILE <full pathname>
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
e.g. D:\QBBS\HOLOQWK\
This is the path that will be used when writing out the NEWFILES.DAT
file. Do not add the filename, Newfiles does this for you.
SIZE
¯¯¯¯
This simple switch just allows the file size information to be
included in the list.
Pathnames will have a backslash appeneded to them if you do not enter
them yourself.
Update information.
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Version 0.2
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
In version 0.2 I added a small piece of code to account for a user who
calls twice in one day. Now, if a user has called on the same day the
list is created using the date of the previous day.
Version 0.3
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
In version 0.3 I tidied up the finished list. It now includes the name
of your BBS system.
Version 0.4
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Important bug fix! I completely overlooked the users security level so
he would get a list of files, including those that should not be
accessible to him!
This version now also adds the date information to the list. Now a
user can tell when the list has been created from. It also adds the
date the list was created to the bottom of the list.
Version 0.5
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
I found a small bug! As I tidied up my system and re-arranged some of
the file areas I created folders into which I transferred some of the
existing files. The date of the folder actually allowed old files to
be added to the list, regardless of the file's date! Fixed.
Also added a total file count - yet another cosmetic change!
Version 0.6
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Yet another cosmetic change! Now the contents of each area are sorted
into order. Looks neater!
Version 0.7 - 0.8
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Don't fully remember all the changes made as it was quite a long time
but the main difference is the speed of execution. The docs have now
been amended to reflect my newer BBS details as that has also changed!
Version 0.9 - 1.0
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Updated Newfiles to run with the new .INF files that are written out
by later versions of Amail and HoloQWK. It should still work OK with
older versions of these programs, but hey, why use older versions
anyway?! ;-)