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- CALLSTAT(1) FNORDADEL BBS SOFTWARE CALLSTAT(1)
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- NAME
- callstat.tos - digest calllog.sys and produce silly statis-
- tics
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- SYNOPSIS
- callstat [-cdhsu]
-
- DESCRIPTION
- Callstat expects to be run from the directory which contains
- ctdltabl.sys. It will munch your call log
- (#audit\calllog.sys) and produce pretty graphs and tables,
- showing how many people at what baud rates have called and
- for how long they were connected.
-
- If callstat encounters weirdness in your call log, it will
- complain about it and exit. The usual problem is that the
- system has crashed while someone was logged in, resulting in
- an entry in the call log which has a login time but no
- logout time. Use an editor to fix this or any other weird-
- ness, and run callstat again.
-
- Callstat keeps an ongoing statistics file for its own uses,
- called calldata.sys, which lives in your #sysdir. The main
- output file is callstat.sys, which is written to the #audit-
- dir. In addition, a supplementary file may be written in
- callbaud.sys, giving some extra information about calls at
- each hour of the day, for all baud rates. This is REALLY
- esoteric stuff.
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- OPTIONS
- -c Write callbaud.sys.
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- -d Debug flag.
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- -h Display a brief help message.
-
- -s Don't count sysConsole activity in the statistics. If
- the Sysop logs in a lot, the results will probably be
- skewed towards shorter average connections and such-
- like.
-
- -u Delete your calllog.sys and update the running statis-
- tics file calldata.sys.
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- NOTES
- Callstat doesn't do anything with file logging yet.
-
- The program is a bit vague when giving warnings about bad
- stuff in your call log; you have to go searching through it
- to find the error.
-
- Callstat can be run from a shellscript as a nightly event;
- you may wish to run it without the -u flag for this purpose.
- It will still produce the same statistics, but will leave
- your call log alone. When you want to delete the call log,
- just manually run 'callstat -u', to properly update the run-
- ning totals file.
-
- BUGS
- None that we know of; just "misfeatures".
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- FILES
- callstat.tos The silly statistics generator.
- ctdltabl.sys The system tables file.
- #auditdir\calllog.sys The call log.
- #auditdir\callstat.sys The main silly statistics file.
- #auditdir\callbaud.sys The additional silly statistics
- file.
- #sysdir\calldata.sys Callstat's running totals.
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- SEE ALSO
- The Fnordadel Reference Manual
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- AUTHOR
- Royce Howland
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- HISTORY
- Callstat was written by Royce Howland some time after he
- switched to orc's STadel from his old BBS (which ran on a
- Basis 108 Apple ][ clone). He missed the neat histogram
- features he had hacked into his old BBS, and so wrote
- callstat.
-
- The title banner, "The Antithesystem Memorial Histogram", is
- meant to be a reminder of the heady days of early-80's
- BBSing in Edmonton, when the Round Table and the Antithesys-
- tem were the two best conversation boards in town. Unfor-
- tunately, only RT has survived; may Anti rest in peace.
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