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- VEXFIND
-
- Vortex handling in Citadel-86 (that is, the detection of loops in
- the network) is activated by placing +vortex on the command line of
- CTDL. The VEXFIND utility allows the display of information concerning
- the current vortex records.
-
- Vexfind may be used in one of two modes. First, just the name may
- be typed at the command line:
-
- C>VEXFIND
-
- This will result in all of the current names known to the vortex handler
- to be printed to the console. This allows you to get an active list of
- all the systems you have recieved at least one message from since you last
- deleted the *.VEX files.
-
- The second mode is to place a system name on the command line:
-
- C>VEXFIND "C-86 Test System"
-
- This allows the discovery of the index value associated with the named
- system. This can be used in turn to delete corrupted vortex records.
- The vortex records are the files named *.VEX in the #NETAREA directory.
- Once the index is found, simply delete "<index>.vex".
-
- And, unlike most other Citadel-86 utilities, this utility can be run
- while in #NETAREA or from your standard Citadel directory, because it
- doesn't need CtdlTabl.Sys if the vortex files (VORTEX.SYS) are in the
- current directory.
-