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- CommCost V2.0
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- (c) Copyright William 1991
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- CommCost is a little program that caculates the size of you Modem
- addiction by examing the log file from your communication program.
- CommCost will also produce a Top Ten BBS list as well as an analysis of the
- period that the log ran for. AT the moment the programs that are supported
- are : JR-Comm
- NComm
- MAXsBBS
-
- Now the first two are pretty straigh forward, but the third one may
- confuse some people. Well Being a MAXsBBS sysop (BTW MAXsBBS is a New
- Australiam BBS package and is probably the BEST package available on the
- Amiga Today) I decided it would be nice to count the absoulte number of
- call Imate Not just the one I make from JR-Comm.
-
- Setting Up:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- In this section I'll simply tell you how to set up CommCost so that it
- will work properly. First of all start up the program and have it running
- in tha background while you read the documents.(Hey thats what you got and
- an amiga for right).
-
- STEP 1: Move the the mouse over the Cost Per Call Gadget and click the
- mouse once. Enter the cost per call here in cents. eg if it costs
- 24 cents per call then enter 24.
-
- STEP 2: Move the mouse over the Cost of Rent Gadget and click the mouse
- once. Enter the cost of the rent you pay on the line per period.
- This sould also be in cents.
-
- STEP 3: ยบ Move the mouse over the Log File Gadget and click the mouse
- once. Enter the name of the log file that you wish CommCost to
- use. This should include both the path and the name of the log
- file. eg jrcomm:jrcomm.log.
-
- STEP 4: Move the mouse over the SAVE Gadget and click the mouse
- once. This will save a config file the the S: directory. From
- Now on you not have to worry about the setting the call cost, or
- log file unless you wish to.
- This log file can be edited using any text editor as long as
- the format is kept constant.
- If you change the setting and you want to return to the saved
- setting the click on the LOAD gadget.
-
- Usage:
- ~~~~~~
- CommCost can be started from CLI or from Workbench. Using the program
- is quite easy but just incase here is some help.
-
- +----------------------------------------------------------------+
- |+--------------------------------------------------------------+|
- ||Total Calls: Downloads: +----------------------+||
- || |Cost For Calls : |||
- ||Total Fido : Uploads : |Total Cost : |||
- || +----------------------+||
- ||BBS Name: BBS Calls: ||
- |+--------------------------------------------------------------+|
- | |
- |+--------------+ +--------------+ +--------------+ +-------+ |
- |+--------------+ +--------------+ +--------------+ | | |
- | 1 2 9 | | |
- |+--------------+ +--------------+ +--------------+ | | |
- |+--------------+ +--------------+ +--------------+ +-------+ |
- | 3 4 10 5 |
- |+------++------+ +--------------------------------+ +-------+ |
- |+------++------+ +--------------------------------+ +-------+ |
- | 6 7 11 8 |
- +----------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- GADGET 1: Show List
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This will produce a list of bbs that you have called as well as
- the number of times you have called it. This list will be placed and a
- file called CommCost_bbs.text which will be in the same directory that
- you started CommCost from.
-
- GADGET 2: Period Analysis
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This will open an window and tell you some interesting statistics
- about you log file. The best way to describe this is the tell you to
- try it.
-
- GADGET 3: Top Ten
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This will produce a Top Ten list of BBS that you have called and
- place them in a window. The BBS list will NOT be produced if this
- option alone is selected to get the top ten list as well as the
- CommCost_bbs.text then you will need to select both options.
-
- GADGET 4: MAXsBBS FIDO
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This option enables the MAXsBBS Fido scan option. For this option
- to work you need an assignment 'BBS:' which is the directory that you
- MAXsBBS.config file is in. This option will work with all version of
- MAXsBBS higher than 1.18.
-
- GADGET 5: OK
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- After making selection of options select this to start scan
-
- GADGET 6: Load
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This will load the config file (see above)
-
- GADGET 7: Save
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This will save a new config file (see above)
-
- GADGET 8: About
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Will Bring Up the standard about window.
- To remove this window click on about again..
-
- GADGET 9: Cost Per Call
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This is the cost per call call (gee fancy that). It should be in
- CENTS so if it costs 24 cents per call then the gadger would show 24
- NOT .24. At this point in time CommCost does not caculate LongDistance
- calles(sorry).
-
- GADGET 10: Cost of Rent
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This is the rent you pay on the line per Bill period. Once again this sould be in Cents.
- eg. If the cost is $23.54 the the gadget will show 2354.
-
- GADGET 11: Log File
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This is probably the most important gadget of the program. This
- the the log to be examined. this gadget shoud contain both the path
- AND the the name of the log file. If CommCost can not open the log
- file it ill not let you go on.
-
- OK there you go once you have set the options you would like then click
- and sit back and be AMAZED. Once everything has stoped just click on any
- of the gadgets in the MAIN window the close everything.
-
- Notes:
- ~~~~~~
- Although this program will work on Any Amiga system it may look a
- little funny under Workbench 1.3. The program was developed under a
- WorkBench 2.0 machine and as you may know the colours have been changed
- around, all I can recommend is to change you coulouts to something like
- this..
-
- 0.. BackGround Colour
- 1.. Blank
- 2.. White
- 3.. Highlight Colour
-
- Legal Stuff:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- I have written this program to be quite stable and I don't think you'll
- have any trouble with it, but I am in no way responsible for any damages
- cause to you system as a result of using this programme.
-
- MAXsBBS was written by Anthony Barrett.
- JR-Comm was written by Jack Radigan.
- Ncomm was written by Torkel Lodberg.
-
- CONTACT INFO:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- If you really like this program then drop me a line and give me some
- suggestions. I'm very interested in hearing from people about this little
- program. Hope to here from you soon..
-
- I can be contacted by...
-
- BBS: 10:15 Saturday Night BBS (Sysop)
- +61 (02)913-2638
- 1200 - 9600 (V.32/MNP/V.42bis)
-
- INTERNET: willw@extro.ucc.su.oz.au
-
- MAIL: 2 Warruga Place,
- North Narrabeen. 2101
- NSW. Australia
-