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CALPRN V1.0
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The Automatic Callers file pruning program
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This program will help you automatically prune down the Callers file on
your board down to a manageable level. The originator of the idea was Michael
Brown of NICBUL bbs with some others writing similar programs. CALPRN has one
very important feature distinquishing itself from the others in that it is
designed to run in the nightly maintanence cycle of RBBS WITHOUT requiring any
keyboard input on the part of the Sysop.
The records that are purged from the Callers file are placed into a file
that is named based on the last date stored in that file. You can run CALPRN
on any cycle that you with but I found that running it daily and then
immediately running PROANA behind it keeps everything down to a manageable
level.
CALPRN also contains another feature that shows some real possibilities.
Besides keeping the extracted information into a named file plus keeping a
backup copy of the callers file before the purging of records took place, it
also records its operation into a common log file so that you can review it at
your leasure to see if you need to run the program more or less frequently
than you are. This log file also contains run time information from other
programs that I have written or on programs that you run that do not support
the JOBLOG specification used in my programs by using a program called
JOBLOG.EXE
Configuration file - to be named CALPRN.PRM
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d:\rbbs\callers - Drive,subdirectory and name of Callers file
d:\rbbs\job.log - Drive,subdirectory and name of Job log file
d:\rbbs\ - Drive,subdirectory where extracted Callers records go
60 - number of days to retain in Callers file
You will need to contruct the CALPRN.PRM file using an ASCII based word
processor (like PC-WRITE) or by using the DOS COPY CON command.
Example of job log file entry after CALPRN has run -
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08-27-1988 04:00:16 Job Started - CALPRN.EXE
08-27-1988 04:04:31 Comment - Wrote 2166 to C062888.LOG file
08-27-1988 04:09:03 Comment - Wrote 6255 records to Callers File
08-27-1988 04:09:03 Job Finished - CALPRN.EXE
Support -
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I have established a sysop conference on my board to help those using the
programs that I have written. All are welcome there whether you are using my
programs or not. A Donation of $5 would be appreciated if you find this
program useful. As time permits, I will be coming out with other programs
that will be helpful to the RBBS sysops. One of my goals now is to write
programs that will help automate the routine maintanence of the board and free
the sysop to pursue other parts of using RBBS or just to have some free time
away from the board.
I have written the following programs that also follow the joblog spec -
FMSDIR - checks for a matching file to the entry in the master directory
FMSDUPE - checks for a duplicate of a file on more than one drive and sub-
directory combination
JOBLOG - helps those programs that I have not written or that do not follow
the job log spec to make an entry into the joblog file so that you
know when they ran and how long they took.
Other programs that I have written to help with the maintanence of RBBS -
FMSED - helps with the maintanence of the Master Directory file
QWRITE - writes the questionaires used in the Askuser function of RBBS (You
put in the text and QWRITE writes the logic!)
Ronald Nutter
Bluegrass RBBS (606)-272-0499
1132 Mt. Rushmore Way
Lexington,Ky 40502-5459