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The GAP-Pro line of utilities by RoboSoft Systems consists of
programs designed to make your life as a GAP sysop much easier.
They either provide capabilities not present in the basic GAP
package or enhance capabilities that are included.
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GAP_LIST generates file listings from a GAP filebase. In one pass
through the filebase, GAP_LIST will allow you to create condensed
and enhanced listings for any and all areas and/or subjects.
GAP_LIST's major features include:
- Creates Master lists of all areas and subjects
specified in the configuration file.
- Creates Area (Forum) lists including all subjects
or individual subjects specified in the configuration
file.
- Creates individual listings for each area/subject.
- Can create separate Condensed, Enhanced, Raw, and
New File listings in each of the categories above.
- Creates a color summary bulletin listing the number
of files and total bytes in each area and subject.
- Allows files to be excluded from the listings
according to security level.
- Multi-user version can be run while users are still
online.
- Configuration file is plain ASCII so it's easy to
change and you can have any number of different
configurations.
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GAP_VERIFY is a batch mode maintenance tool for the GAP
filebase. It's primary functions are:
- Verify the size, date, and location of files in
the filebase.
- Word-wrap the enhanced descriptions to fit the
72-character line allowed by GAP.
- Extract and use FILE_ID.DIZ descriptions if found
in .ZIP files.
- Add a contents line to the enhanced description
showing the number of files and newest/oldest
file date for .ZIP files.
- Re-parse the keywords using a sysop-defined list
of words to be excluded from use as indexed keywords.
- Look for "lost" files on the hard drive. These are
files that exist on the hard drive but aren't in
the GAP filebase.
To provide for extremely fast operation, GAP_VERIFY makes use
of advanced virtual memory techniques. If you have a couple
megabytes of EMS/XMS memory available, GAP_VERIFY should just
about fly on your machine. The verify process should run
anywhere from twice as fast to upwards of ten times as fast as
the GAPFILE UPDATE function, depending on exactly what is
being updated.
One particularly handy use for GAP_VERIFY is to periodically
scan your upload area and extract the FILE_ID.DIZ descriptions
from the files uploaded in non-batch mode. It will also update
the file sizes to correct for comments added to the ZIP during
UPCHECK processing.
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Forum Shuffle will allow you to quickly and easily change the
arrangement of the forums on your GAP BBS. It will do
everything except update your menus. All you have to do is
figure out what order you want the forums in and Forum_Shuffle
will do the rest, including rearranging all the files required
for GAPQWK and MainMail, and updating your filebase to reflect
the new forum arrangement.
Forum Shuffle is not the kind of program you're likely to use real
often, but, when you need it, there is NO substitute. Forum Shuffle
can save you many hours of tedious, boring work.
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GAP_Merge allows you to merge two GAP filebases into a single
filebase. To an extent, this duplicates the capability provided by
the GAPFILE Merge function, but GAP_Merge allows you to specify a
specific mapping of the area/subject associations between the source
and destination filebases. This means you do not need to make
massive changes to the area/subject arrangement of either filebase
before doing the merge. If you want area 0, subject 5 in the source
to become area 7, subject 42 in the destination, GAP_Merge will take
care of it for you.
GAP_Merge will produce a complete log of all the collisions found
during the merge and will optionally delete either the source or
destination file in the event of a collision. This is very handy
when merging a CD-ROM filebase into an existing filebase.
A very useful side benefit of the area/subject mapping ability of
GAP_Merge is that by merging an existing filebase into a brand new
filebase (which GAP_Merge will create for you), you can use
GAP_Merge to rearrange your filebase areas and subjects. You
simply indicate what you want the new area/subject mappings to be
and GAP_Merge will create a new filebase to your specifications.
If you've been wanting to rearrange your filebase but have been
putting it off because of the massive amount of work involved,
GAP_Merge may be just the solution you've been looking for.