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R E M O T E A C C E S S
L O G R E P O R T I N G P R O G R A M
REMOTLOG
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The Program - Remotlog
I developed Remotlog because when the announcement of RA was made and I
endeavored to switch from QuickBBS. There was something missing. I
could no longer use all my QBBS utilities. After exhaustive efforts of
trying to get the implementation of my old program by its author, I
decided that it was time to do some coding.
Here we have the finished product. A full fledged RA log reporting
program. This program is in no way crippled. And never will be.
RA is the registered product of Continental Software.
QuickBBS is the registered product of The QuickBBS Support Group.
At present this program will function with RA version 0.02. It should
have no problems with 0.03 but will have to wait till its release.
Do not attempt to use this program with any other software except RA
because it uses the file MESSAGES.RA. If it cannot find this file the
program will abort in error.
The screens provided by this program are as the author thought you
the sysops would like to see. If you feel the information is too much
or that there is not enough, or would even like to see some of the
information moved from one location to another part of the page or a
totaly different screen. Please do not hesitate to let the author
know.
Configuration of Remotlog
A copy of exactly how the configuration file looks is included with the
zipped package. Here is a line by line definition. The configuration
file is called REMOTLOG.CFG.
Line 1 : SYSTEM.LOG [ This line defines you log file name. If you want to
run the program in a separate directory than where
you log file is being stored then you may simply add
the path to this line. There is no caps requirement
for this lines entries.]
{ ie. C:\RA\System.log is also acceptable}
Line 2 : Fx-Chat.exe [ This line is for you folks that use and external chat
program. The ones that I have seen so far do not
talk to the BBS software to let them know exactly
what happened during the page. Ie. No response,
Chatted, Toomany pages etc. So I went ahead and
counted any page using the external chat program as a
chatted type page. Meaning as far as the program is
concerned you and the user had a conversation during
this page.]
{{ Note. This line must be the same as the one in your
menu that calls the chat program. The reason is that
Ra uses that line to log the chat in the log file. If
I had entered fx-chat.exe on line 2 Remotlog would
never acknowledge any pages in the log. }}
Line 3 : C:\RA\TXT\ [ This line is for the output files. The program
creates two files. The Remotlog.Asc/*.Ans. This
line tells the program where to send them. Right
now they are being sent to my text files directory.
You are required to place the "\" at the end of the
line. The program will not check for this or
automatically add it. ]
Line 4 : 40 [ Now we get into the colors. Yes you can configure
the color or the output screen. This specific line
is the color of the Background. This most likely
wont affect much if changed. It is currently set to
black.
Line 5 : 1;33 [ As you should have noticed by now. The colors are
not using the standard numbers. These numbers are
the actual Ansi color codes. This allows for a
greater freedom for individuality in the output.
Any of the color lines will accept the ";" color
separator. These lines are inserted directly into
the program as is. Do not add the escape code
sequences or the "m". Those are already supplied by
the program, internally.
This line is the color for all the numbers that are
displayed.]
Line 6 : 1;46;37 [ This line is the color for the Begin Date, Ending
date, and any other currently highlighted items.]
Line 7 : 0 [ This line reset the colors to normal. Really
shouldn't change this but, its all at your
discretion. ]
Line 8 : 1;34 [ This is the color codes for the outline/Box. Around
the text. ]
Line 9 : 0;32 [ This is the color for the Text itself. ]
Line 10 : N [ This is the good one. If you are running RA in a
multi-line environment and have one log file for all
lines. Or can merge the combined log files
together. This will tell the program to display a
line usage screen. It will display the amount of
calls recieved on each line. Up to line 99. To be
complex you could have more than one configuration
file active for this program. Just rename them as
necessary and the data file will keep track of all
lines. However all other information will be
assembled together. Entries must be in caps. This
is a Y/N option.]
Line 11 : R [ This line tells the program what type of log file
you are using. Whether you are using the Remote
Access type log file or the Opus style log format.
To indicate either use R - for remote access and O
- for the Opus style log format. Entries must be in
caps.]
Line 12-##: 8 [ These lines are optional. The above are not. These
lines lets the program now Which specific message
areas it should not include in the report listing.
I have had problems with this in other log programs.
They tend to show what they want without asking you
whether you want it or not. IF the message area is
not in use then the program will not display it.
There is a possible two hundred entries allowed
here. Don't think you will ever need them all. But
they are there. ]
Supplied ANSI Code sequences
Number Represents
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0 All attributes off (Normal Display)
1 High Intensity (Bold)
5 Sets Blink on
7 Reverse Video on
8 Concealed on (makes display invisible)
30 Foreground Black
31 Red
32 Green
33 Yellow
34 Blue on Color Monitor
Underline on MonoChrome
35 Magenta
36 Cyan
37 White
40 BackGround Black
41 Red
42 Green
43 Yellow
44 Blue
45 Magenta
46 Cyan
47 White
Hints about operation of this program
There are several different things that you can do to get certain results
from this program.
For example if you want to change the beging date of the report without
erasing the remotlog.dat file. All you have to do is to edit the .DAT file
find the string that has the date in it and make it a null string. When the
program starts up it will notice the date is missing and get the date from
the current system.log file.
When reading the log file the program will not attempt to reposition pointers
if the last item in the log is that REMOTLOG has checked the log. Of course
the current session will be appended to the end of the logfile.
By deleting the notation that REMOTLOG makes in the log file you can force
it to re-process the log file.
Any bug reports, comments, or requested addition, deletions etc. may be sent
to Node 1:135/72. or the address listed in the registration section. I can
also be reached in the RA_SUPPORT echo.
Credits
The author, Orland K. Carter, would like to thank my two beta testers of
this program that put up with the constant updates to the one program and
major overhaul of their configuration and data files.
Daniel Johnston, and Robert Taylor thank you for your patience, and help in
beta testing this program.
Registration
This program should be registered with the author. If anything at all just
drop me a line so I can determine the scope of this program. This program
has a registration fee of $5.00. If you wish you can donate more to the
author.
______________________________________________________________________________
|Registration of REMOTLOG, Form 01, U.Date 11 Mar 90|
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|Name of Sysop ______________________________________________________________|
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|Street Address______________________________________________________________|
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|City/St/Zip ______________________________________________________________|
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|Name of BBS ______________________________________________________________|
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|Number of BBS ______________________________________________________________|
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|Node # ______________________________________________________________|
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|Make all payments address to |
| Orland K. Carter, REMOTLOG |
| 2850 N.W. 155 Terrace |
| Opa-Locka, FL 33054-2223 |
|____________________________________________________________________________|
Thank you for your support.
Orland