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PTIC
PTIC is a pre-processor for TICK or FLEA. In other words, you run it
before you run TICK or FLEA, because TICK and FLEA don't know about
the new file database structure in Opus 1.79, and you still need to
add new file names and descriptions to your file database.
PTIC uses the same rules as TIC for finding the TIC.CFG file. First it
looks for the command line switch /C, then for the environment
variable TIC, and then for TIC.CFG in the current directory.
Opus 1.79 update file database from TIC/FLEA files
command line switches are:
/c TIC configuration file name
/d no duplicate file entries
/s use sender instead of originator for uploader name
/q quiet mode
/a use Allfix files instead of TIC.CFG (future)
/v verbose gives very detailed output (for debugging)
Note: Be sure to comment or delete all the FILES.BBS statements like
ListFmt and ListName from your TIC.CFG file.
Since Opus allows the system dat files and the user file to be located
in other than the Opus home directory, support has been added to look
up these paths in the Opus prm file.
Set up an environment variable labelled OPUS, and specify the full
pathname of the prm file, i.e.
SET OPUS=C:\OPUS\BBS.PRM
(if your environment space is cramped, you may leave off the .PRM
suffix, the program will add it). BTW, Doug and I are making the OPUS
environment variable a standard for all the OPUS utilities.
If the OPUS environment variable is not set, the program will look in
the current working directory for USER.DAT and SYSMSG.DAT. If either
file is not found, it will then look for BBS.PRM and look up the paths
in there. If none of the above are found, the program will fail.
John Valentyn 1:114/5@fidonet.org