home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
-
-
-
- QUPDN version 4.0
-
- Released 9/10/87
-
-
- for PC-Board 14.0 ONLY!
-
-
- Scott M. Pazur
- PO Box 582
- Englishtown, NJ 07726
-
-
-
-
-
-
- What is QUPDN4? Simply put, QUPDN4 reads your PC-Board user file, and
- creates a report listing your top x downloaders, and/or top x uploaders.
- QUPDN4 will report on actual number of transfers, and/or total bytes
- transferred. The downloader report is done based on ratio, while the
- upload report is based on pure numbers.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Version 4 Release Notes:
-
- New configuration file format!
- Ascii AND Ansi report capabilities
- Eight possible reports can be generated
- Command line DAT file specification
- Up to five retries on "locked" user file
- PC-Board 14.0 compatibility
-
-
-
-
- Data file specifications:
- Name: QUPDN.DAT
- Location: Current directory or pointed to by the command line
- switch /D:DatFileLoc&Name
-
- Line 1: Path/Name of users file (a copy is made and used here)
- Line 2: Number of entries to include in report (may be lower than
- specified depending on security ranges - below)
- Use a "0" if you want every user in range below listed.
- Line 3: BBS Name
- Line 4: Uploader Report specs - If you don't want the top uploaders
- reported, put a "0" in column 1 of this line and go to the
- next line. If you DO want the top uploaders reported, column
- 1 must have a "1", and column 2 must have a comma (",").
- Column 3 is either "B" or "N", specifying whether to report
- based on total "B"ytes transferred, or "N"umber of files.
- Comma in column 4. Two more values are needed, the low and
- high end of the security range to report on, separated by a
- comma again. (examples below)
- Line 5: Downloader Report specs - exactly the same as above.
- Line 6: ASCII file report specs - if you want an ascii report - no
- colors - put a "1" in column 1, comma, and report name.
- If you do not want a plain ascii report, put "0" in column 1.
- Line 7: ANSI file report specs - same as Line 6, but this is for the
- colorized version. Yes, you can do both, but use different
- file names (obviously).
-
- DO NOT PUT ANY SPACES IN LINES 4 THRU 7!!
-
- Examples:
- ======================================================================
- C:\PCB\MAIN\USERS
- 15
- The Extinct Flea Market BBS
- 1,B,15,75
- 1,N,15,99
- 1,C:\PCB\GEN\BLT9
- 1,C:\PCB\GEN\BLT9G
- --> This DAT file reports both top uploaders and downloaders, uploaders
- based on total BYTES uploaded, downloaders based on NUMBER of
- downloads (remember - this is a ratio where uploads are strictly
- numbers). The range to include in the uploader report is 15 thru
- 75, and for downloaders, use the range 15 thru 99 (inclusively).
- Two versions of the output will be created, ascii as BLT9 and
- ansi as BLT9G. A maximum of 15 entries will be reported.
- =======================================================================
- C:\PCB\MAIN\USERS
- 0
- The Testing Point
- 0
- 1,B,10,20
- 0
- 1,C:\PCB\GEN\NEWSG
- --> This DAT file will report only the top downloaders, using all who
- fall in the security range 10 thru 20. No ASCII version of the
- report is created, but an ANSI version as NEWSG will be.
-
-
-
-
- In effect, there are 8 possible reports that can be generated.
- - Uploaders by BYTES
- - Uploaders by NUMBER
- - Downloaders by BYTES
- - Downloaders by NUMBER
- - Uploaders by BYTES, Downloaders by BYTES
- - Uploaders by BYTES, Downloaders by NUMBER
- - Uploaders by NUMBER, Downloaders by BYTES
- - Uploaders by NUMBER, Downloaders by NUMBER
-
-
-
- Note: If you tell the program to list the top 15 (for example) uploaders and
- downloaders, but it only finds 10 users in the range specified in
- lines 4 and 5, it will adjust itself to include only 10. Also, and
- read this part carefully, if you tell it to report the top 15, and
- it finds only 8 in the d/l range, and 12 in the u/l range, the report
- will include only the top 8 in each catagory. In other, maybe more
- confusing words, the report will list the lesser of the number of
- users in the two security ranges, should either of these numbers be
- less than the desired number of users to report. This is just to
- keep the output report somewhat uniform.
-
-
-
- Did you get all that? The best way to find out is to make a copy of your
- user file to a floppy or something (eventhough the program only reads the
- file, it's better safe than sorry) and give it a shot. If you like it,
- use it. If not, don't. Simple enough.
-
-
-
- This program is free, I hope you find it useful.
-
-
-
- If you need to contact me, since I no longer run a board of my own, the
- easiest place to find me is on one of these fine PC-Board systems:
-
-
- The Right Choice BBS Spring Lake Hts NJ 201-974-8317 Public Node
- 1200/2400
-
-
- The Jersey Shore BBS Sayreville NJ 201-613-7350 9600 w/HST
-
-
-
-
-
- Revision History:
-
- =============================================================================
-
- Version 4.0:
-
- - New configuration file format!
- - Ascii AND Ansi report capabilities
- - Eight possible reports can be generated
- - Command line DAT file specification
- - Up to five retries on "locked" user file
- - PC-Board 14.0 compatibility
-
- =============================================================================
-
- Version 3.0:
-
- - PC-Board 12.0 compatibility! And changed the name of the mandatory
- data file to QUPDN.DAT.
-
- =============================================================================
-
- Version 2.0:
-
- - Mandatory data file, PCBQUPDN.DAT, which MUST be in the directory from
- which you execute QUPDN2. (layout later) The use of a data file should
- allow QUPDN2 to work with version 10.0 of PC-Board. It has only been
- tested with version 11.7.
- - Variable number of users in report, i.e. Top 3 or Top 10 or Top 100
- - User defined report title (70 chars max)
- - Range of security levels to include in report.
- Separate range for uploader list and downloader list. For example, if
- you give SYSOPs unlimited downloads, you might not want them listed
- in your top downloaders list, but you might want those that upload to
- be listed as one of the top uploaders. Can be done...
- - User defined report filename/location. (you might want it as NEWS
- or BLTx etc)
-
- =============================================================================
-
- Version 1.0:
-
- - The initial release
-
-
-