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(C)1994 Robert E. Lee 1:232/31 (309)797-6027 New Century BBS
"I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man shall come to the
Father except by me." -- Jesus Christ --
FILLFREQ.DOC
This little utility will assist you, the sysop, in filling
offline files requests made by your users using cdmx2dor. To run
the program, just type:
fillfreq
and the program will start. You must have a file called
FREQSUB.CNF in the same subdirectory as the door for this program
to operate reliably. FREQSUB.CNF is hardcoded, so you must use
that name and cannot use another name. FREQSUB.CNF will have the
drive/path to your holding directory (where found files will be
copied and held for your users that have requested an offline
file). FREQSUB.CNF will look something like this:
C:>type freqsub.cnf
c:\work
C:>
you'll just see "c:\work" when you type it. That is the holding
directory where files will be copied and await pickup from a
requesting user. FILLFREQ will look through a list that is
generated by the file request module of CDMX2Dor. That list
will be name FREQFILE.LST and will contain the following
information:
Jim Beam|03-23-1994|PowerPak '92|TRIAL.ZIP|BAD
Jim Beam|03-24-1994|SoundWare CD|BUZZ.ZIP|
Randy Miller|03-27-1994|Tech Arsenal CD|SOMETHIN.ZIP|
Walter Everett|03-27-1994|PowerBox v1.00|WOLFGOD.ZIP|OK
First is the name of the requester, second is the date of the
request, third is the name of the CD that the user desires you
search for their file; next is the name of the file...
If the file search resulted in the file being found, then an OK
will be appended to this request line and the file will be copied
to the holding directory and await pickup by the user. Once it
is picked up, it will be deleted. If the file was not found, a
"BAD" will be appended to it and the user will be shown a message
that the file request was not found as the file did not exist.
After the user sees that message, his BAD request will be
deleted.
A user may request only 5 files at one time and must await the
disposition of these files before he can request anything new.
When you run FILLFREQ, you will be shown this list and will be
shown whether it is a request that is "filled" (you've already
filled it), "not found" (you tried and it was not there but the
user hasn't look to see that yet), or "New request" (the user is
expecting you to try to fill this request.
If you encounter a "new request" and desire to fill it at this
time, then press "f" for "fill" and the "activity window" will
show you:
1) the drive/path to the hold subdirectory
2) the name of the CD to put in your drive
3) ask you what drive to look on for the file
4) give you a report of what happened.
If the request was found, it will be copied to the hold directory
for the user to get. If not, then not, but the user will be told
that it was not found. If you do not want to fill the new
request at this time, just type "S" or ENTER to SKIP over that
particular request.
For the most part, I think, files should be deleted when they are
picked up, and BAD requests will be deleted once a user has seen
that their request was not found. Best thing is to try the
utility out. Make sure that "trunk.exe" also exists in the same
sub as the fillfreq.exe program and that freqsub.cnf is also
there with the appropriate drive/path information.