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Celerity Conversions
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There are two events which will require the use of the Celerity
conversion utilities. The first is when some of the data formats for Celerity
have been changed (which we attempt to keep to a minimum), and the second is
when converting from another BBS program, such as TCS, Emulex, Vision, Havok,
LSD, or Telegard.
CONV????.EXE will convert file areas, and is covered under the heading
of CONVFILE.EXE (the name for the Celerity->Celerity file converter).
???2CELR.EXE is the name of the user converter for other BBS packages, which
is covered under the CONVUSER.EXE header below (for the Celerity->Celerity
userlist converter).
Be warned that none of these are polished programs. They are ugly,
inefficient, slow, poorly documented, have an attrocious interface, and are
dangerous. The up side is that they (usually) work. MAKE BACKUPS before you
attempt to do any conversions.
It is best to have a complete copy of Celerity set up before you do
any conversions. Set up your board as you wish it to be (at least initially)
with all conferences and transfer areas set up (without files of course).
When you convert data areas, do them in a seperate temporary directory and
then copy them to the Celerity directory over the existing files. User files
are easy to convert, file areas are not. For file areas, you will have to
manually run the CONV????.EXE for each file area.
Appendix B: Running CONVUSER
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CONVUSER.EXE is a small program which will convert userlists from one format
to another. In its current form, it will only convert the previous version
of the Celerity userlist to the new one when there is a format change. There
are now specialized user conversion programs:
TG25-CEL.EXE --- Telegard 2.5
TG27-CEL.EXE --- Telegard 2.7
Note that many converters are not packaged as they are pretty obsolete. If
you run a software package (and have the user list format for it!) and desire
a converter, contact us on the support board and we will attempt to make one.
CONVUSER will make a new file called NEWUSERS using the new format. Your
regular user file will not be touched. To start using the new Celerity version,
you will have to rename the NEWUSERS file to USERS, and pack your old USERS file
away for safekeeping or (for the brave ones out there), just delete it.
The input data file will be USERS for TCS, Emulex, Vision, LSD, and earlier
versions of Celerity. The input data file is USERS.LST for Telegard.
Appendix D: Running CONVFILE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There are two types of CONVFILE programs. One is to upgrade to a more recent
version of Celerity (such as Celerity 1.20 to 1.23), the other is to convert
file areas from another BBS program to Celerity.
CONVFILE.EXE --- Upgrade Celerity (needed for 1.19 to 1.20, and 1.20 to 1.23)
CONVTCS .EXE --- Convert from TCS 1.41/1.51
CONVLSD .EXE --- Convert from LSD (1.28 to 1.35 tested)
CONVHAV .EXE --- Convert from Havok, all versions
CONVEMU .EXE --- Convert from Emulex 1.65/2.x
CONVVIS .EXE --- Convert from Vision .82 (identical to LSD). .83 untested.
CONVTG .EXE --- Convert from Telegard 2.5 or 2.7
CONVFILE.EXE is the version to upgrade to new Celerity versions. Simply go
to your DATA directory, make a backup of the files, and run the CONVFILE
program. It will update all your file areas and file records to the new format.
CONVxxx.EXE for TCS, LSD, Emulex, Havok, and Vision accepts two parameters:
the source file, and the target file. You may use complete pathnames here if
you desire. The file records for Celerity are stored in the DATA subdirectory
and always have a ".DIR" extension. The individual names are defined when you
create the transfer areas from the xfer menu. The source files from the above
software are usually named "AREA1", "AREA1.1", or something similar.
CONVTG.EXE accepts three parameters. The first is the source file (the
Telegard .DIR file), the second is the target file (the Celerity .DIR file),
and the third is the full pathname of where the files are stored (ie:
C:\xfers\uploads\). The file records for Celerity are stored in the DATA
subdirectory, and always have a ".DIR" extension. The individual names are
defined when you create the transfer areas from the xfer menu.