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New Message Update for GAP
Copyright (c) 1993 RoboSoft Systems.
All rights reserved.
New Message Update will update the new message counts for your entire
user base. This is effectively the same thing NEWMAIL does, but, using
virtual memory techniques and a few other magical tricks, New Message
Update is able to do the job in considerably less time. Both single-
and multi-node versions are available. The multi-node version can be
run while callers are online. It even takes into account the fact that
callers may be reading new messages while NEWMSGS is running.
New Message Update relies upon the availability of EMS/XMS to provide
fast access to virtual memory. If you have a few hundred k-bytes of
EMS/XMS available, you should see very significant improvements in
processing speed. If you don't have EMS/XMS available, New Message
Update will still provide significant improvements, they just won't be
quite as great.
Since New Message Update is designed to complete its task in a very
short period of time, no provision has been made to limit the operation
to a particular user or forum. New Message Update will always process
the entire user and message bases. This should not cause a severe
hardship since NEWMSGS will be finished in minutes, not hours.
The program needs to find GAPBBS.CNF either in the current directory or
in the directory defined by the environment variable GAPCNF. It will
look first in the current directory, then in the GAPCNF directory. To
run the program, just type NEWMSGS. There are no command line
parameters.
NEWMSGS has four distinct processing phases. First it reads the USERS
data, then it reads the MEMBER data, then it scans the message base,
and, finally, it updates the MEMBER file. The first three phases of
program operation can be interrupted by pressing the ESC key. You will
be asked if you really want to terminate the program. The last phase,
the actual update of the USERS and MEMBER file, can not be interrupted.
Please note that NEWMSGS works a bit differently than NEWMAIL and may
identify unread messages that are not detected by NEWMAIL. These unread
messages may not show up when you do a [Y]our Mail scan in GAP, but they
are there. If you appear to have some phantom messages, try doing a
[T]ext Search for your alias (the name used in the Sysop record in the
USERS file) and reading those messages. They will probably be very old
messages that never got properly marked as being read.
Registration
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New Message Update is copyrighted software, but there is no charge for
its use. All I ask is that you review the brief descriptions of the
other GAP-Pro utilities from RoboSoft Systems in GAP-PRO.TXT. If you
like NEWMSGS, you're sure to like one of our other utilities.
Distribution
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New Message Update may be freely distributed on any Bulletin Board
System (BBS), including commercial systems such as CompuServe (CIS),
Genie, and BIX. New Message Update may be distributed by diskette by
any organization or disk distributor as long as the fee for this
distribution is no greater than $5.
Disclaimer
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New Message Update is provided AS IS without any warranty, expressed or
implied, including, but not limited to, fitness for any purpose. Use
of New Message Update, and the consequences thereof, are entirely your
risk. In no event will RoboSoft Systems be liable for any damages
whatsoever resulting from the use of New Message Update.