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- POPULAR
-
- The POPULAR utility is a statistics-gathering utility, and, as such,
- can be easily viewed as your basic feeping creaturism. However, for those
- of us who have somehow acquired that horrible taste for odd statistics
- about how people use Citadel, it does serve some purpose.
-
- POPULAR gathers statistics about the Public rooms on a system. These
- statistics consist of simply calculating how many people have forgotten
- each Public room on a system. Yes, a rather odd statistic to gather, but
- there it is. Once it has finished processing the data, it displays the
- results in tabular form, in (roughly) the following form:
-
- <room name> <# of people who have forgotten this room> <% of total users>
-
- To use this utility, simply make sure your data files are in their
- normal drives, and run this program. The output of this program may be
- redirected to a file via the ">" directive, although not all the
- output will end up in the output file. Unimportant output will continue
- to go to the screen; the important data will end up in the file you
- designated.
-
- There is one command line option available, "-M". If this option is on
- the command line to Popular, it will also scan the message file, counting
- the number of messages that originated in each room and performing AML
- calculations on a per room basis, and display those values for each public
- room in the same tabular format.
-
- The rooms are displayed in descending order of how many people have
- forgotten each room.
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-