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TOPPER v1.04
WWIV TopTen Users Utility
Copyright (C) 1992-1994 by WWIV Software Services
All Rights Reserved
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DESCRIPTION:
Topper is a small utility for WWIV BBS systems that creates a file containing
the top ten users in a variety of categories. These categories include top
ten file uploaders, file downloaders, uploaders and downloaders in kilobytes,
posters, emailers, loggers-on, and the top ten people who've read messages.
Those with a 255 security level are not included in the count.
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REQUIREMENTS:
Topper >likes< quite a bit of memory during its sorting, so it works best
if you shrink to run it. However, it will work without shrinking. One thing
to keep in mind if you do not shrink is that if all elements to be sorted
will not fit into memory then Topper will have to sort portions at a time
to disk, and this will affect performance. How much it affects performance
depends on how many user records you have and how low your available
memory is.
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LIMITATIONS:
Currently, Topper can only handle boards with 10000 users or less. If your
board has more than this (!), let me know, and I'll see about raising that
limit.
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USAGE:
Topper can be run at the commandline or it can be run as a WWIV chain. To
run as a chain you should have "TOPPER %1" as the filename, shrink should
be "yes", ANSI should be "required", and WWIV's DOS intercept should be
OFF (Topper handles the com port itself and doesn't need or want WWIV for
this).
If you run it as a simple commandline program, Topper needs two parameters,
the path to CHAIN.TXT, and "-MAINT" or "/MAINT" as the second parameter.
The following would be a valid commandline, assuming you were running
Topper from the main WWIV directory:
TOPPER CHAIN.TXT -MAINT
When it runs, in either mode (chain or commandline), Topper creates a file
called TOPPER.MSG which will be located in the WWIV GFILES directory. If
run in chain mode, Topper also prints this file (which is colorized with
WWIV color codes) to the user. Commandline mode is obviously intended for
running as part of the external event.
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SHAREWARE REGISTRATION:
See enclosed order form (NEWREG.FRM) for price and address.
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SOFTWARE TOOLS USED:
Topper was written by using a custom chain development unit, under Borland
Pascal 7.0. The chain development unit itself was written using Object
Professional and Async Professional, both by TurboPower Software.
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