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History of FDLog (C) 1994,96 by Lothar Lindinger ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.22 (20-Mar-96) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── I am very sorry that development of FDLog was quite slow during the last months. As some of you might know, I spent 6 weeks in far Japan last sommer. Although I took my note- book with me I did not have time to program there; I had better things to do :-) Since my return I have been very busy. I hope, that this stress will now be a little less so I can continue programming on FDLog. It's still fun. + You can get your FDLog demo-key now just by writing a net- mail to my mail-manager. Refer to Updates in FDLOG.DOC on how to write this netmail. * Demo-Key is now valid for five (5) weeks. * In the registered version FDLog will not wait after processing before closing the status window any more. Under usage of /WAIT in the command-line you can force FDLog to wait for 10 seconds or a keypress. In the unregistered version FDLog will always wait for 10 seconds or a keypress. + Error-netmail: If there were any entries into the error-log FDLog can now write a netmail to you after it has done its work. This is extremely useful because you so you will get automatically informed about problems of FDLog. To use this new feature, there are the following new key- words in the [Settings] section: ErrorNetmail=NO|yes ErrorTemplate=<Template> Further there is one new netmail-template: ERRORLOGNAME: Name of the error-logfile - Error-logfile: FDLog now can write a second logfile which will be newly created on EVERY run. This log can i.e. be imported into the Error-netmail mentioned above. I have installed these keywords in the [Settings] section: ErrorLogName=<File> ErrorLogLevels=?! By default this logfile will not be written. + Implemented new logging keywords in [Settings] section: DispLevels=-+#?! LogLevels=-+#?! Using the log-levels -+#?! you can now switch every kind of information on or off. These are the currently available log-levels: - (green) : Trivial/debug information + (green) : Informative stuff # (cyan) : Disqualification (Call/Netmail/...) ? (yellow): Warning - something might be wrong ! (red) : Fatal error - program will terminate These new keywords should replace the old keywords Display and LogLevel. However, the old ones are still working. ? The Ctrl-Z problem concerning the netmail-templates is now finally fixed (hopefully). * Changed loglevel auf tranx time update messages to info level. ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ FDLog V1.22 Page 1 History of FDLog (C) 1994,96 by Lothar Lindinger ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ! Tranx function caused runtime error when using with McMail log in binkley style. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.22ß-7 (3-Feb-96) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── + I really expected the ß-6 to be the last release before the public one but the bugs made me change my mind :-( So, once again (and now hopefully really the last time) I hope that this is the release-candidate. + Note: If you are using McMail 1.0g5 and get out cost/min of McMail's log (recommended procedure) make sure that CostTimeOffset is set to 0 in the McMail config! Commenting CostTimeOffset does *NOT* set it to zero! * Minor changes in T-Mail date reading ? I saw a log where McMail 1.0g4 wrote the AKA of a system at the beginning of a line. FDLog interpreted this address as time and changed its internal date. This problem is under control now. * Magic-repsonsefiles starting with "/" are now longer added to the magic list as usually is a special switch, not a filename. ? If Fast-Pointer positioning failed, FDLog did not analyze the mailer-logfile any more. This bug might have been a side-effect of the /TRANX function. + Min. time-differnce in the logfile before FDLog changes the date is now configurable. New keyword DateJump. Unit is minutes. ? FDLog did not get out the last request of a request- proessor logfile. ! No non-magic filerequests were recognized since V1.22ß-5! * If the number of calls exceeded 4 characters in the Activity or Timeusage-Log FDLog wrote **** instead of the number of calls. Now if the number exceeds 9999 FDLog uses the "k" convention to write the number. So 10k4 means 10400 calls, 23k3 means 23300 calls and so on. * FDLog will now append to runtime-error info-file if a run- time error occurs and this file already exists. Hopefully you will never meet a "FDLOG.ERR" on your system :-) * If a cost-entry in a user's log, summary log or netmail- report exceeds 8 characters, the commas will not be disp- layed any more. In prior versions FDLog just display *****.** instead. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.22ß-6 (29-Jan-96) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── + This is probably really the last version before the public V1.22 release. Please report all bugs, funny things, and your last SMALL wishes for the new public release. + Use PATCH.BAT to upgrade your FDLog V1.21 * Beta-Versions now keep running if your temporary key has expired, but will have the same limits as the normal un- registered version. ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ FDLog V1.22 Page 2 History of FDLog (C) 1994,96 by Lothar Lindinger ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ? Fixed a cosmetic bug: FDLog did not write that Fast-Pointer-Positioning failed under some circumstances. ? FATTACH netmail-template did not write the filename of the attach into the subject line. + Implemented new netmail-templates for use in the tranx- netmail: TRXADDRESS : Address of time-server TRXDATE: Date of failed Tranx-Session TRXDIFFMINS: Time difference in minutes TRXDIFFSECS: Time difference in seconds TRXFIRSTNAME: First name of time-server Sysop TRXLASTNAME: Last name of time-server Sysop TRXLOGNAME: Name of used mailer-logfile TRXMAXDIFF: Max. allowed time difference in minutes TRXNAME: Sysop of time-server TRXOWNDATE: Own date (normal) from Tranx-line TRXOWMTIME: Own time (normal) from Tranx-line TRXOWNUNIX: Own unix date (Hex) from Tranx-line TRXREMDATE: Remote date (normal) from Tranx-line TRXREMTIME: Remote time (normal) from Tranx-line TRXREMUNIX: Remote unix date (Hex) from Tranx-line TRXTIME: Time of failed Tranx-Session + Implemented full tranx timesync support for all mailers writing tranx-lines. These are FrontDoor, Xenia, McMail and Binkley. New keywords for the tranx-support in the [Settings] section: TranxLog, TranxUpdServer, TranxMaxDiff, TranxNetmail, TranxTemplate. New section [TranxAddresses]. To use this new feature run FDLog /TRANX. To learn more about this new feature refer to your user's manual. + Implemented new netmail template PROGTIME representing the compile-time of FDLog. + Implemented simple environment and environment conditional support for the .INI file and the command-line parameters. This shows how to use it: %env% - will be translated in the contents of the environ- ment variable env %env=string% - the rest of the line will only be processed if the contents of the environment variable env are equal to string %env#string% - the rest of the line will only be processed if the contents of the environment variable env are not equal to string %% - one single % If you are using McMail I am sure that have seen this stuff before :-) ? Due to the modification of the end of session trigger in McMail FDLog could possibly include terminal-connects into its calculations. Fixed. ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ FDLog V1.22 Page 3 History of FDLog (C) 1994,96 by Lothar Lindinger ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.22ß-5 (25-Jan-96) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── + This is probably the last version before the public V1.22 release. The new version of McMail (1.0g5) did not change its logstyle and I don't expect any problems there. FTS-1 and YooHoo session have been tested and FDLog does not have any problems with that one. However, I would like to wait for the FrontDoor 2.30.mL release because I expect FrontDoor to have some significant improvements. ? If you put FDLog's own logfile into the same path as the userlogs or summarylogs and set DeleteOldLogs=Yes FDLog would delete its own logfile although it was opened. I have no idea how an opened file can be deleted but it was like that. Now FDLog checks if the file to delete could be the own logfile and skips in that case. * Changed end of session trigger for McMail from "End of mailsession" to "Hang up the line". Therefore the cost of failed sessions (EMSI) get calculacted as well. Name and address of these calls are Unknown, 0:0/0. + Implemented FIPS CAPI-ISDN Support. This kind of calls will appear as 64000/CAPI in the userlogs. + Implemented switch RunSemaphore=<File> in the [Settings] section. Use this if you want FDLog to create a special run-semaphore when it is active. + A warning message appears if there was a not locked FDLog lock semaphore in FDLog's system path. ? Lock semaphore was not created if existing one could be deleted. + Implemented support for the FIPS/32 Win95/NT point mailer! Please don't ask for a Windows version of FDLog - I don't think that there will ever be one. The current release of FIPS when implementing support for it was 0.90. As the inbound module is not available yet there is no support for inbound calls yet in FDLog. ? Some log-phonenumbers were not correctly recognized and that leaded to a wrong basis-rate for calls. Improved recognition system. + Implemented support for multiple magic responses. So, more files can be sent upon one magic request. These files have to be written in the magic files-list after the magic name separated by blanks. + Implemented BinkleyMagics=NO|yes switch. If you set this switch to yes, you can include your Binkley-Style request- configuration files as magic files. Every magic starts with a "@" there. This also works together with McMail and Xenia request congiurations. * Lock file FDLOG.LOC gets automatically deleted if it is not in use. + Implemented /NOWAIT command-line switch. This disables the 5 seconds waiting time after FDLog has completed its work. This feature is only available in the registered version! ? When using a T-Mail log FDLog wrote also CONNECT to the connect-string. This has been removed. + FDLog now also accepts connects that do not start with ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ FDLog V1.22 Page 4 History of FDLog (C) 1994,96 by Lothar Lindinger ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── the CONNECT but with the CARRIER modem response. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.22ß-4 (13-Dec-95) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── + Use PATCH.BAT to upgrade your FDLog V1.21 + Implemented REALCOST option for every logfile in the [LogFiles] section. If you write this keyword after a log- file, FDLog will just take the costs out of the logfile without doing any calculations with them (at least not directly). This is useful if the costs in your logfile are for sure totally correct. Currently, this can only be true if you are using McMail together with cFos and have not activated the keyword NoFosCharge in McMail's config. Further you have to ensure that your mailer really writes the correct costs into its logfile. As there are some important notes on that please refer to FDLOG.DOC. + Implemented [SysOpCost] section. In this section you can combine the name of a sysop with a remote-cost for his' system. The order of checking for a remote-cost is now [Cost], then [SysOpCost] and at last [RemoteCost]. + You can now place a description for every rate in the [CostTran] section at the beginning of a line within two Quotes ("). This description will again appear in the Cost-Separation summary. + Implemented UserLogType=CONNECT|address switch in the [Settings] section of your .INI file. With this switch you can exchange the connect-string with the used main-AKA in the user's logs and vice versa. ? FDLog did sum up duration and cost in the cost-separation summary without re-initialization before creating a summary for a new month or year. This caused much too high values in the last summary created on periodic runs. Fixed. ? Fixed a bug that caused a Runtime Error when creating a cost-separation summary after netmail creation. This could only happen on periodic runs of FDLog. + Implemented analyzer for Request-Processor logfiles. This was necessary because some mailers (i.e. InterMail and McMail) did not write any specific information about file- requests into their logfile. Therefore FDLog could not analyze those filerequests. Now there is the new section [RPLogfiles] where you can specify the names of the logs of your requestprocessor for the different lines. I also implemented a the new switch ReqProcessor=AUTO|rp|easyerp| easyerp/binkley in the [Settings] section. You can select the type of your request-processor there. Currently supported request-processors are The Prime RP and EasyERP (with both logtypes). More request-processors can be im- plemented without any problems upon request. * The structure of the file-request database changed again. FDLog will convert it automatically and will show the progress of the conversion using its new user-interfache. * I thought that InterMail did not verbose file-requests in its logfile. In fact, it does, but only when you are using the internal request-processor. Now FDLog is able to ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ FDLog V1.22 Page 5 History of FDLog (C) 1994,96 by Lothar Lindinger ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── analyze file-requests with InterMail. + Implemented a new state-of-the-art ;-) status output. ? There was a problem with McMail's short logtype. When you synchronized your clock while your mailer was running (i.e. via cFos TimeSync function), it could be possible, that FDLog thought that there was a date change (only, when the new time was lower) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.22ß-3 (11-Nov-95) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── + Use PATCH.BAT to upgrade your FDLog V1.21 + From now on there is a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) included in the FDLog package. Currently there is no English FAQ available but I will start to collect English FAQs from now on as well. + With the Magic FDL_DEMO you can now obtain a free Demo- Key for FDLog which is valid for two weeks. + Implemented MyCountryCode switch in the [Settings] section. If you put your international access code there (Austria=43, Germany=49, Great Britain=44), Phone entries starting with 0 will be converted into the international format used by FDLog. For example, if you set MyCountryCode=81 and there is a phone-entry with 03-3333-8702 it will be converted to 81-3-3333-8702 (btw: don't call this number, it's in Tokyo ;->). This feature makes sense if your remote system has not set up his phone-entry in the international format. + Implemented [Cost] section. From now on, FDLog uses a new way to calcuate the cost of the remote system or all costs if AlwaysRemoteCost is set to "Yes". FDLog now examines the "Phone" entry in the logfile and tries to get the phone number of the caller/destination. Then, FDLog looks in the entries in [Cost] to find a match to the phone number. Every number (in fact it's a part of a number) has a certain cost/min, and so FDLog knows the cost of the call. If no match can be found in [Cost], or the remote system reports -Unpublished- (or just trash), the old [RemostCost] section will be used to calculate the costs. [RemoteCost] uses the AKA of the remote system to calculate the costs. For more information, refer to the user's manual FDLOG.DOC. Please note that this new feature does NOT work together with InterMail because InterMail does not put the "Phone:" Entry into its logfile. * The database structure changed. Your current database will be converted. ? Commandline-switch /I<File> caused a Runtime error since V1.22ß-1, fixed. + Implemented [Include] section. In this section you can specify additional configuration files (or parts of configuration files). You can use this, if you use two different configuration files but you want to have common parts, i.e. for [RemoteCost]. You may use [Include] in an included configuration. ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ FDLog V1.22 Page 6 History of FDLog (C) 1994,96 by Lothar Lindinger ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.22ß-2 (6-Nov-95) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── + If you are using McMail and having problems with FDLog, please read to updated McMail-setup part in FDLOG.DOC. + One old, but till now not documented feature: If you call FDLog /FREEZE and freezing failed, FDLog will return with errorlevel 5, otherwise with errorlevel 0. Same is for FDLog /UNFREEZE. * I changed the unfreeze procedure once again. Now unfreeze removes the freeze-semaphore as well, if it is still present (important for McMail). ? Points and commas will now be removed from McMail's "Cost:" entry because this might cause serious problems. So, 0,37 will now be converted to 37, and 1.223 will be converted to 1223. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.22ß-1 (5-Nov-95) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ! Oeps, I found a terrible "bug" in the FDLog docs concerning McMail's cost setup. The sample cost-table was completely wrong, because I swapped the cost and secs/impulse para- meters, sorry. + Added the /TODAY and /YESTERDAY commandline switches. If you specify these switches upon startup of FDLog and you have commented the keywords StartDate and EndDate in your .INI file, you can easily create the logs and summaries of the current day or the day before. + Implemented [Holidays] section. You can specify your holi- days there. There is also a new Keyword "Holiday" that can be used in every [CostInclx-xx] and [CostExclx-xx] section which represents all days specified in [Holidays]. + "Workday" and "Everyday" can now be used as statement in Cost Inclusion and Exclusion sets. This makes the config- uration easier. "Everyday" represents just every day, while "Workday" represents every day from Monday to Friday. ? Fixed two small bugs related to OS-Initialization and the commandline-parameter-check. + Enhanced [Freeze] section. The new argument has been added. This new argument specifies the file that should be deleted upon unfreeze. This is necessary for mailers, which use a different file to freeze and unfreeze. McMail, for instance, kills the freeze semaphore after it is frozen and FDLog has to delete the response-semaphore to unfreeze McMail. ? Fixed a small bug in the cost-separation log: When using HISDN it could happen, that the sum of the impulses of the different cost-brands is not equal to the sum written at the end of the summary. + Information about quantity and costs of the answer-cost management are located the Cost-Separation-Log. This information will only be present, when you have either HISDN oder InitCost activated with at least one logfile. ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ FDLog V1.22 Page 7 History of FDLog (C) 1994,96 by Lothar Lindinger ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ? Cost-translation has been ignored on calls over midnight; however, I think that almost nobody had to use a cost- translation over midnight. I wonder if that is the last "midnight" bug or not? + Implemented flexible answer-cost management. This is necessary for some telephone systems. In Great Britain there is a new way of calculating costs: The first 5 minutes of call get a fix charge, and after these 5 minutes it continues as usual with impulses. The length and charge of this answer-costs depends on the time you called and where you called. You can set up cost and length in the [CostTran] section now. For more information please refer to descripton of [CostTran] in FDLog's manual. To activate aswer-cost management for a specific line/logfile you have to add "InitCost" after the logname in [LogFiles]. + Implemented AllCallsLogType=CONNECT|sysopName switch in the [Settings] sections in FDLog's .INI file. With this switch you can change the sytle of the Allcalls-Log a little bit. If you set this switch to "Connect", FDLog will will write information about the connect-string into this log, if you set it to "SysopName", FDLog will write the Sysop's Name instead of the connect-string. * Changed a minor thing concerning Userlog and Allcalls- log writing. I couldn't remember the sense of a command in there and so I just removed it. Please give me a message if you find a user's log without extension. * Changed some small things in McMail/Binkley style log analyzer procedure; this should increase the speed a little bit. ? FDLog did not correctly recognize date changes in McMail logfiles in Binkley style (no ShortLog), fixed. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.21 (11-Jul-95) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── + Implemented cost-separation-summary. This new summary shows exactly how the costs are devided up (rates with mutation times). You can activate this new summary with the switches CostSeparationLog=NO|yes and PCostSeparationReport=NO|yes. Check this out, this is a really great new feature! + Added AddMissing=NO|yes switch in FDLOG.INI. If you set this switch to yes, FDLog will adopt a file into FILES.BBS if it was requested but could be located in FILES.BBS. + Ctrl-Z will now be recognized in netmail-templates as End-Of-File. + Implemented /NOPER command-line switch. If this switch is specified upon startup, FDLog will never process periodic logs and summaries. This makes i.e. sense if you want to use FDLog's internal scheduler but you don't want FDLog to process these scheduled events automatically. + Implemented /ONLYPER command-line switch. If you specify this switch upon startup, FDLog will only create periodic log if there are periodic logs to create. ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ FDLog V1.21 Page 8 History of FDLog (C) 1994,96 by Lothar Lindinger ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.21ß-5 (30-Jun-95) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── + Use PATCH.BAT to apply this update and make sure that you you have the FDLog V1.20 executable in your current path. FDLog V1.20 might be named FDLOG.EXE, FDLOG120.EXE or FDLOG120.OLD for the patch to work. * DOS 7.0 gets reported as Windows 95 now. + Implemented complete support for T-Mail. This new logfile- type can be auto-detected and forced via Mailer=T-Mail as well. Please not that you have to set up [RemoteCost] correctly because this mailer does not seem to have an internal cost-handling. Further updating of download- counters is not possible because the path of a sent file is not written to the log. ? Fixed some small things related to McMail logfiles. ? Multiple requests in one session to one and the same file were processed more than once which caused failed requests. ? First call information was written into allcalls-log. Removed. + FDLog did not support McMail logfiles in Binkley-format. Now FDLog is able to auto-detect the style of a McMail logfile and to process is. There is also a new mailer- switch for this style of logfiles: McMail/Binkley * Changed handling of magics that cover a special function. Now these magics are not ignored any more but always assumed to be successful. The size of the transferred data can unfortunately not be determined, so these freqs have 0-size. In the allcalls summary and the user's log there is written that the file-request was special. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.21ß-4 (16-Jun-95) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── + Implemented complete support for Binkley and Binkley/2. These logfile-type can be auto-detected and forced via Mailer=Binkley as well. I have been reported that there is a problem when reading Binkley's log while the mailer is running. It seems that the filesize cannot be determined. We will have a closer look at that and try to do *some- thing*. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.21ß-3 (9-Jun-95) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── I am sorry that this update took so long and that there has not been done too much :( It's just that I am very busy by the time I didn't have much time to continue on FDLog. + From now on I will release Beta-Versions of FDLog as PATCH- releases. This should save some space and money :-) Please execute PATCH.BAT to patch your last official release- version. In this case, this is FDLog V1.20. + Implemented RemoveMissing=YES|no switch. With this switch ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ FDLog V1.21 Page 9 History of FDLog (C) 1994,96 by Lothar Lindinger ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── you can tell FDLog if entries with missing files should be removed from FILES.BBS. ? Fixed transfer resume problems with FrontDoor and Inter- mail. Now the aborted transfers are not considered but the full file length is calculated on resumed transfers. Please note that with Xenia FDLog also conideres an aborted transfer (in sending mode) with full length. This is due to the information in the logfile. ? Runtime-Error occured, when FDLog detected an invalid node- number in a FrontDoor or InterMail logfile, fixed. ? FDLog could not interpret nodenumbers, when the zone was longer than three characters. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.21ß-2 (4-May-95) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── + I start writing information about every entry into the history file with some "severity" information: ! Fixed mayor bug ? Fixed minor bug + New feature * Changed feature - Removed feature ! When last call written into the database had a file-request and this call was remaining in your mailer-logfile, FDLog updated the download-counter of this file once again, fixed. ! Multiline-systems and McMail: Beginning from Line 2 - n, it was possible, that FDLog wrote the last processed call into the database once again but with the date of the following day, fixed. >> Sorry about that! << + Implemented ALLCALLS.LOG summary statistics. This sta- tistics contain every in- and outbount call in ONE file with information about Line, Date, Time, Duration, Connect, Remote-System, cost and FREQs. The switches for this logs are AllCallsLog=NO|yes and PAllCallsLog=NO|yes for the periodic logs. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.21ß-1 (1-May-95) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Improved AKA-Matching Logic: Check now even for node, not only for zone and net. If FDLog should increase the download-counter of a file that did not exist any more, it added this non-existing file to FILES.BBS. Fixed. Implemented ForcedDLCLength=NO|yes switch. In Version 1.20 FDLog took the possible maximum for the download-counter if it would be longer than specified in DownloadCounter=[##]. If you set the switch to "No" FDLog just expands the down- loadcounter for the specific entry automatically that the number fits into it. If you set it to "Yes" FDLog will be- have as in V1.20 and set it to the possible maximum for the specified length. ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ FDLog V1.21 Page 10 History of FDLog (C) 1994,96 by Lothar Lindinger ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Implemented DLCLeadingZeros=YES|no Switch. With this switch you can tell FDLog if you'd like to see leading Zeros or leading Spaces in the downloadcounter. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.20 (30-Apr-95) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The cost-calulation of ISDN-lines in Holland is now supported; for more detailed information have a look into FDLOG.DOC. Cost-Translation has been reprogrammed completely. Now it's possilble to define more than two cost-mutations depending on date, weekday and time. ** YOU WILL HAVE TO ADOPT YOUR CURRENT .INI TO THE NEW ** ** SYSTEM! ** Removed "by Lothar Lindinger" from FDLog's logfile. Implemented new templates to check wheater current run is a yearly/monthly run or not: @YEARLYLOG@ and @MONTHLYLOG@. These logic templates are true, if the currently created netmail comes from a monthly or yearly run. Implemented new templates for language-definition of week- daynames and monthnames: @MON:@ - @SUN:@ and @JAN:@ - @DEC:@. Implemented template to define the string displayed for failed filerequests in the netmail: @FAILED:@ The database is now also available in the unregistered version, but not all advanced functions on it. Hi Ask! :-) FDLog did not adopt a missing sysop name in Xenia, fixed. Changed name of user's logs: The part of that contains the sysop name now has 2 chars of the firstname and 2 chars of the lastname - i.e. Lothar Lindinger's log will be LILO####.LOG. FDLog will warn you if you specify values with commas in the INI-file where commas are not allowed. Changed screen output-routine: If a string is longer than 79 chars, it will be placed in a 2nd line in a proper way. Implemented McMail support with Auto-Detection or forced via Mailer=McMail. Implemented AlwaysRemoteCost switch - with this switch you can force FDLog to use [RemoteCost] for ALL calls to pro- cess. Added CentsPerUnit switch to make also very small rates (i.e. 1.4 cents per minute) possible. See FDLOG.DOC for further information about that. FDLog did not recognize last line in a textfile if it was not terminated with CRLF, fixed. Implemented UpdateCounter=<Yes/No> switch. It is now possible to update the download-counter after a file-request. This works only in combination with the data- base. Improved download-counter support. The style of the down- load-counter is now configurable with DownloadCounter=<Spec>. If <Spec> is empty no download- counter will be created. Internal netmail-template had a small error when writing ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ FDLog V1.20 Page 11 History of FDLog (C) 1994,96 by Lothar Lindinger ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── messages from a multiline system, fixed. Cost translation for the higher rates during daytime is now also available in the unreg. version. Remote-cost was calculated after address remapping ([NodeLinking],NodeByName), fixed. Made some internal changes in the database-handling. The longer breakes, that appear when processing really big databases should be shorter now. Implemented ExtendedInfo=Yes|no switch. If this switch is set to yes, there will be information about date, time and line of any in/outbound call on the screen/logfile. This is useful if you want to know about progress of the current process. Implemented new features for file-requests. Any filerequest gets completely analyzed now, magics get converted and there is more detailed information the reports. Implemented FailedFREQs=yes|No switch; with this switch you can in/exclude failed-file-requests from any logfiles. The structure of the file-request database has changed; the old database will be automatically converted, but the size of all requests will be set to zero and the status will be set to ok. This means that eventually failed old requests will be handled as sent requests. Aborted mail sessions and failed file-requests were not recognized in Xenia, fixed. Changed Jokers: * stands for an unlimited amount of alphanumeric characters, ? stands for ONE alphanumeric character, # for a numeric character or the character "#" itself. Therefore i.e. 2:24*/## stands for all systems with a 2 char nodenumber in Region 24. FDLog always wrote CONNECT to the connect-string when using Xenia logfiles, removed. FDLog did not recognize calls which were made via FrontDoor's script feature because then the connect- message was not written to the logfile. Now FDLog takes date and time of the "~ SysOp:" Message for such a call and assumes "n/a" for the connect-message. Runtime-Error occured when there was a file-transfer with- out connect-message (i.e. midnight-maintainance), fixed. @ONECALL@ template did not work, fixed. Removed Version-Date from PID-Kludge in netmail-messages. I deleted my current FDLog Source-Code and could not un- delete it any more. Due to this fact, I have to reprogram all the stuff mentioned after the [Magic] Section once again :-( Updated compiler-libraries. I have no idea if this fixed bugs or created new ones ;-) Implemented [Weekend] section and the corresponding entry for [CostTran] to specify a weekend-rate. Added CentsPerUnit switch to make also very small rates (i.e. 1.4 cents per minute) possible. See FDLOG.DOC for further information about that. Remote-cost was calculated after address remapping ([NodeLinking],NodeByName), fixed. Cost translation for the higher rates during daytime is now also available in the unreg. version. ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ FDLog V1.20 Page 12 History of FDLog (C) 1994,96 by Lothar Lindinger ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Implemented UpdateCounter=<Yes/No> switch. It is now possible to update the download-counter after a file-request. This works only in combination with the data- base. Improved download-counter support. The style of the down- load-counter is now configurable with DownloadCounter=<Spec>. Implemented new features for file-requests. Any filerequest gets completely analyzed now, magics get converted and there is more detailed information the reports. !!! This structure of the file-request-database has !!! !!! changed and the old database cannot be converted !!! Aborted mail sessions were not recognized in Xenia, fixed. @ONECALL@ template did not work, fixed. Changed Jokers: * stands for an unlimited amount (0..x) of alphanumeric characters, ? stands for ONE alphanumeric character. So 2:24*/?? stands for all systems with a 2 char Nodenumber in Region 24. Removed Version-Date from PID-Kludge in netmail-messages. Implemented [Magic] section in FDLOG.INI to detect File- Requests of Magic files. Implemented settings SystemMail= and MinDownlinkCost= for more flexible downlink-cost calculations. Implemented free base memory check. Added handshaking time in [ConnTime] in sample FDLOG.INI for modes >19200bps. Changed program-header line to a more FIDO-style way. FDLog now *tries* to set 80*25 screen-size if it is not already set. This does not work out from some very special video-modes! Implemented [Freeze] section and SemaphoreMaxWait= in FDLOG.INI, implemented command-line switches /FREEZE and /UNFREEZE. With this you can freeze your mailer in a secure way. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.19 (4-Mar-95) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Under some circumstances a cost of a call was not written 100% correctly into the user's log, fixed. Expanded max. call duration in database - the old database gets converted automatically. Changed output of duration-time: Before the output changed from hh:mm:ss to ddd:hh:mm if a duration was longer than 23 hours, now it changes if duration was longer than 99 hours. If scheduler should create userlogs and UserLogs was set to No, userlogs were not created and then there was a file-open error on creating the summaries, fixed. Implemented mailer-rescan semaphore (RescanSemaphore=) Implemented powerful template-converter and tons of templates for netmail-messages. Check out FDLOG.DOC for further information about this new powerful feature. Rewritten and modularized netmail-writer. Implemented possibility to disable certain logfiles; i.e. ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ FDLog V1.19 Page 13 History of FDLog (C) 1994,96 by Lothar Lindinger ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── if you just want to know the cost of one specific line. Just write a minus "-" before the filename of the logfile in [LogFiles] and then FDLog does not care about any calls in this logfile. Implemented file-request analyzer: -New Logfile: (P)Requester-Log ((P)RequesterLog=yes/NO) -New Logfile: (P)Request-Log ((P)RequestLog=yes/NO) -New switch: FREQsInUserLog=yes/NO There is a new database for these file-requests: FREQS; all filerequests will be written into this database when database is used. The file-request analyzer also works w/o database. If you are using InterMail you cannot use these new features, because InterMail does not verbose file-requests in it's logfile. FDLog now writes all AKAs a SysOp used into his User's Log. Implemented FlipName switch. If you set this switch to yes, the filename of the user's log is starting with the code instead of starting with the SysOp-name. This was made due to security reasons (request logs of others). Fixed the problem with periodic logs and different configs; there was only one global LASTRUN info file - now there is LASTRUN file created for every config. Implemented support for Xenia Mailer. Rewritten complete logfile analyzer in a modular way. Now it's much easier to implement new mailer-systems and adapt existing ones. As this is a pretty lot of new code, there might be new bugs there although I've tested the code very well. However, the new code is about 25% faster than the old one ;-) Rewritten mailer detection. Implemented DeleteOldLogs switch to delete old .LOG files automatically. Added unit "Day(s)" for DataBaseMaxAge switch. Implemented [NodeLinking] to link nodes together via their addresses. Short addresses are supported. Fixed a bug that occured when calls were over midnight - the date of this was wrong in every log. Rewritten FILES.BBS writing part - there is now no size limit for FILES.BBS any more. Long Descriptions are also supported now, although FDLog will never create a long- description. This is the first version with English and German Docs. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.18 (27-Dec-94) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Implemented currency in logfiles, set via Currency=<String> in FDLog's INI. In the sample configuration file (FDLOG.INI) the line with the RealDuration option was missing; implemented. The number of my bank account was wrong, I've written 0192-0011300 instead of 1092-0011300. Fortunately the guys at the bank checked that and corrected the number and I received all transfers without any problems ;-) Fixed RunTime error that occured when TimeUsageLog was ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ FDLog V1.18 Page 14 History of FDLog (C) 1994,96 by Lothar Lindinger ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── created and ActivityLog was NOT created. Fixed RunTime error that occured when expected date in log- file was invalid. This could only happen when other pro- grams write into FrontDoor/InterMail's logfile which are not 100% compatible with FD/IM's logstyle. Fixed RunTime error that occured when a ":" was written after a filename. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.17 (17-Nov-94) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Fixed a bug that occured when a "------------------" string occured in the logfile. This could only occur if there was e.g. an error in the ROUTE.FD (forgotten comment). Changed Operating System Output again, e.g. DOS 4.01 was reported as 4.1, fixed. FDLog did not recognize all EchoFiles. ALLFIX sends files with extensions like *.Z0C - *.Z9C which have not been re- cognized. I have just had a chat with an EchoFile special- ist about that problem and I hope FDLog recognizes all kind of these files now. FDLog had some problems with considering the files in [EchoFiles]. FDLog also included files of unknown type which were transferred before the EchoFile. Fixed. If you disabled FDLog's logfile by avoiding a filename in LogName= you got an "? Incorrect setting" error although this is the way to disable the logfile. FDLog did not create the logfile but the error message was displayed. But however, fixed. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.16 (14-Nov-94) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Changed EchoFile recognition - now all files ending with IC and the files before are identified as EchoFiles. In V1.15 only .TIC and .ZIC files were recognized. Implemented qualifying-system for calls. Now only calles from qualified systems get processed by FDLog. This is use- ful if you would like to have the reports just a certain call and costs from other zones should be ignored. When running under OS/2 V3.00 FDLog reported OS/2 V2.30. In fact this was not a bug of FDLog but OS/2 V3.00 reports Version 20.30. However FDLog now reports OS/2 V3.00 when running under OS/2 V3.00. FDLog had a stack overflow when FDLog's logfile could not be opened, fixed. Changed keyfile. You need a new registration key. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.15 (9-Nov-94) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── I changed nearly all the program - the source nearly is about twice as long as the one of V1.14 and this leads to ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ FDLog V1.17, FDLog V1.16, FDLog V1.15 Page 15 History of FDLog (C) 1994,96 by Lothar Lindinger ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── a lot of new great features. Implemented possibility to calculate costs that downlinks cause to your system; FDLog can exactly calculate to cost that your downlinks have to pay that you can run your system only by the payments of your downlinks. Implemented EchoMail and EchoFile detection in logfiles; FDLog can tell you how much of the costs have been caused by EchoMails and EchoFiles. Implemented possibility to specify certain directories as ECHOFILE directories; every transfer to/out of these directories are recognized as ECHOFILE transfer. Implemented ECHOMAIL and ECHOFILE summary logfiles. Implemented "Node-Linking": If a system calls your system with different AKAs FDLog can select the node via the SysOp's name and put all calls of this SysOp together. Enhanced FILES.BBS support. FDLog now leaves old entries in FILES.BBS if the file still exists. Also comment lines are now possilbe in FILES.BBS. Implemented possilbilty to calculate the cost of the remote-system via it's nodenumber. Now the systems that call your system can also see the cost THEY had when calling YOUR system. Implemented scheduler for monthly and/or yearly creation of all types of reports and netmails. Changed the name of the User's Logs. Implementes database. You can now delete your large Front- Door/InterMail logfile because FDLog can store ALL relevant information in a fast access database. Implemented fast- pointer-postioning for fast input-logfile access. Some minor changes in several reports. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.14 (28-Oct-94) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── When using MultiLog processing FDLog only considered the first log for the first call and the last log for the last call, fixed. If there was a date error in the input logfile (i.e. date jumped from 10-Oct-94 to 8-Aug-93 for the next call) FDLog stopped activity when 8-Aug-93 was not in the selected time period. Now there will occur a warning message, FDLog will ignore all calls which were during the date-jump but FDLog will continue analyzing the logfile. When handshaking time occured over midnight (i.e. 10secs handshaking time, connect at 00:00:07->call cost from 23:59:57) FDLog calculated horrible handshaking cost and the log was out of "state-of-the-art". I considered this special case in every version of FDLog but unfortunately I had a small sign error in the calculation, but anyway, it's fixed now. ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ FDLog V1.14 Page 16 History of FDLog (C) 1994,96 by Lothar Lindinger ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.13 (22-Oct-94) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Changed sorting-information output to Info level. Runtime error occured if FDLog started detailed analysis, no call was found and RealDuration was set to Yes. Fixed. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.12 (18-Oct-94) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Max. Zonenumber was limited to 255 by FDLog although a maximum of 65535 is allowed, fixed. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.11 (17-Oct-94) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Implemented different summary-log sort criteria. Implemented a NM-Send-Level: A system must have at least a certain number of calls before a NM-Report is written to it. See NMLevel= setting. Implemented detection of first/last call in selected period, deactivateable with setting RealDuration=No. The information will be written into the summary logs and the netmail reports. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.10 (16-Oct-94) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog wrote "FDLog active for * seconds" also on Usage- display, fixed. Calculation during low-cost periods could cause wrong calc- ulation of costs under some circumstances, fixed. In the sample FDLOG.INI I've written in [ConnTime] 14440 instead of 14400, fixed. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.09 (14-Oct-94) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── I am using a new release of the compiler now. The "known bug" which caused a crash when using FDLog under MS-DOS 6.2, EMM386 and NOEMS is fixed now. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.08 (13-Oct-94) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Added Operating-System detection. Currently FDLog differs between any kind of DOS and OS/2. FrontDoor / InterMail logfiles can now be analyzed WHILE the mailer is running. This was possible due to some extra ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ FDLog V1.13, FDLog V1.11, FDLog V1.10, FDLog V1.09, FDLog V1.08 Page 17 History of FDLog (C) 1994,96 by Lothar Lindinger ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── C code. Thanks to Ron Huiskes who nearly insisted on that. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.07 (13-Oct-94) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Added some high-speed C code to speed up the program. Approximate acceleration: 2:1 Implemented support for InterMail logfiles and automatic logfile detection. Now FDLog is able to make it's stat- istics out of InterMail logs as well. Changed FDLog's output logfile - first screen displays will now also be written to the logfile if enabled. Nice feature if there is something wrong in the config-file. Added RunTime counter which is displayed on termination of FDLog. Added [ConnTime] part in sample configuration file; I've forgotten this in former releases. Forground colour did not change back after FDLog terminated on some graphic boards and special conditions. Fixed. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.06 (12-Oct-94) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Cost-calculation during daytime had a small logical mistake, fixed. Pointnumbers longer than three characters caused "***" in FILES.BBS, fixed. Runtime error always occured on inbound calles due to a stupid mistake, fixed. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.05 (9-Oct-94) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Added a startup-line in FDLog's logfile. Fixed a bug that caused wrong calculation when a call covered the whole HighCost period. Implemented possibilty the calculate with cost-impulses instead of fixed rates per minute. Rewritten high-cost calculating part. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.04 (1-Oct-94) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Implemented possibility to create logfiles with config- urable filename and loglevel. Implemented one new display-level (Infos) for a good amount of information but not too much. Changed summary/timeusage statistics - expanded space of in- and outbound calls to 4 characters. ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ FDLog V1.07, FDLog V1.06, FDLog V1.05, FDLog V1.04 Page 18 History of FDLog (C) 1994,96 by Lothar Lindinger ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.03 (29-Sep-94) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Fixed a bug that could cause file-creation error when a pointnumber was greater than 999. (Released at 12:00) Implemented runtime-error handler. Fixed a bug that caused internal division by zero. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.02 (27-Sep-94) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Implemented different colours for a different kind of messages on the screen. Implemented "display-level". Implemented support of different costs during different periods. Implemented support of modem-handshaking calculation. Implemented HIGHRATE logfile. Made some internal changes for outputs. Changed all logfiles a little bit. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.01 (25-Sep-94) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Implemented a lot of new features, like MultiLine-Log processing and the possibility to control FDLog via a configuration file. Changed and added some command-line switches. Netmails were not set to be kill/sent. Fixed. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── FDLog V1.00 (23-Sep-94) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── First public release ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ FDLog V1.03, FDLog V1.02, FDLog V1.01, FDLog V1.00 Page 19