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;╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
;║ Helpfile for Portal of Power Last changed: 06.03.93 JS ║
;║ ║
;║ (C) Copyright 1989-93 by ║
;║ Dan Wulff, Jens Sandalgaard, Steen Christensen & S¢ren Ager ║
;║ ║
;║ This file may not be given to anybody, without the written permission ║
;║ from The Portal Team. ║
;╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
;
;
;===========================================================
; POPLIST: DIR & FILES
;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 620 PoP-List: FileList name
!NOINDEX
Here you enter the complete path and filename of the filelist. If you don't
specify anything, the lister will not work at all.
;
;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 621 PoP-List: NewsList name
!NOINDEX
Here you enter the complete path and filename of the newslist.
NOTE: You must also specify newslistdays to a number greater than 0.
In other words: To get a newslist you must specify BOTH the path\filename AND
how many days.
;
;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 622 PoP-List: Header name
!NOINDEX
Here you can optionally specify which file to put in the beginning of the
filelist. The header may contain your logo or some information about your
board, or anything else you would like.
The headerfile is inserted BEFORE any toplists or statistics.
;
;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 623 PoP-List: Footer name
!NOINDEX
Here you can optionally specify which file to put in the end of the filelist.
The headerfile is inserted AFTER the filelist, and BEFORE the PORTAL-copyright
notice
;
;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 624 PoP-List: Statistics file
!NOINDEX
Here you can optionally specify the path and filename to a statistics file. If
you don't enter anything Portal will not create a statistics file.
NOTE: This option has no effect on the creation of a statistic-list in the
filelist.
;
;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 625 PoP-List: TopList file
!NOINDEX
Here you can optionally enter the complete path and filename of a top-list
file. This option has no effect unless you also specify anything else than 0
in TopList (Numbers)
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;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 626 PoP-List: Dupe report
!NOINDEX
Here you specify the path and filename of the dupe-report. If you leave
this empty, the dupereport is written to the activity-log.
See also: 649Dupe Check
;
;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 632 PoP-List: Bimodem Ok-File
!NOINDEX
Here you specify the path and filename of the Bimodem Ok-File
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;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 627 PoP-List: Run CMD before
!NOINDEX
This command is executed from current-dir (normally Portal homeland) BEFORE
the creation of the filelist
See also: 763Globals: Swap on exec
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;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 628 PoP-List: Run pack CMD
!NOINDEX
This command is executed from the path specified in the 620FileList name,
AFTER the creation of the filelist
See also: 763Globals: Swap on exec
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;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 629 PoP-List: Run CMD after
!NOINDEX
This command is executed from current-dir after the creation of the filelist.
See also: 763Globals: Swap on exec
;
;===========================================================
; POPLIST: MISC OPTIONS
;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 640 PoP-List: Adopt files
!NOINDEX
If you want the file list generator to adopt files, that are located in the
directory of a file area, but NOT in the FILES.BBS, you may set this option
to 'Y'. Any missing files will be placed at the bottom of the FILES.BBS and
will get the description entered under 647Adopt comment.
;
;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 641 PoP-List: NewsList days
!NOINDEX
If you want to create a newslist, you specify here how many days to include.
If you specify eg. 30, the the files from the past 30 days will be included
in the newslist.
NOTE: You must also specify a path to the newslist if you want this option
to work.
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;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 642 PoP-List: Update OK-File
!NOINDEX
If this options is set to 'Y', all file-areas not excluded, will be checked
against the Portal OK-File. Any areas not represented, will be added (with
default values).
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;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 643 PoP-List: Incl. statistics.
!NOINDEX
If you want the statistic-list to appear in the beginning of the filelist, you
specify 'Y' here.
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;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 644 PoP-List: Incl. TopList
!NOINDEX
If you want the Top-list to appear in the beginning of the filelist, you
specify 'Y' here.
;
;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 645 PoP-List: Remove missing
!NOINDEX
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;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 646 PoP-List: European dates
!NOINDEX
This option affects the way PoP-List writes the dates in the filelist and
newslist.
'Y' = DD-MM-YY
'N' = MM-DD-YY
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;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 647 PoP-List: Top X (numbers)
!NOINDEX
If you want a Top-10 list of your downloaded files, specify '10' here. The
maximum is 50. '0' turns this option off
It uses the download counters in the filelist. In the setup for Area-Manager,
you may specify the DL-counter look. If you use the square-braces '[' and ']'
and you have a comment in you files.bbs:
FILE.ARJ 24-01-92 Testing [With help]
This would count for 0 downloads...
FILE.ARJ 24-01-92 [10] Testing [With help]
This would count for 10 downloads.
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!TOPIC 648 PoP-List: Dupe threshold
!NOINDEX
Here you can specify the % of difference in filesize that PoP-List would
accept as dupes. E.g. if you specify 30, PoP-List will accept files with less
difference in the file size than 30%, as dupes. Example:
File 1 POP.ARJ 100 KB
File 2 POP.ZIP 72 KB
File 3 POP.LZH 60 KB
File 4 POP.LZH 12 KB
File 1 to 3 are dupes because that the difference in size is less than 30%.
File 4 is not a dupe.
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!TOPIC 649 PoP-List: Dupe check
!NOINDEX
Specify "Y" to enable dupecheck.
See also: 626Dupe Report
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!TOPIC 650 PoP-List: Touch illegal dates
!NOINDEX
If you set this option to "Y", all files dated before 01-01-82 AND files
dated after today (future) will be touched (set to todays date).
If your computers clock is set to anything before 1993,
this feature will have no effect.
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;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 651 PoP-List: Zap ZeroLength
!NOINDEX
Not described yet!
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;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 652 PoP-List: Adopt comment
!NOINDEX
Here you may specify the file description, that adopted files will get, when
added to the FILES.BBS. If you leave it blank, the file will get NO
description.
See also: 640Adopt files
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!TOPIC 630 PoP-List: Freq OK
!NOINDEX
The text you specify here will be displayed in the filelist, just beneath
the area-header, IF the area exists in your OKFile AND Level=0 AND
KEYS=00000000 AND there is no password
In The OK-FILE, in the field "Nodes Stat:", you select between ALL,KWN,PWD.
POP-LIST uses this to determine the text to display:
Freq for ALL : Everybody has Freq Access
Freq for Known : Nodes in the nodelist OR in Nodes Setup has Freq Access
Freq for Pwd : Nodes with session password has Freq Access
See also: 631Freq NOT OK
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!TOPIC 631 PoP-List: Freq NOT OK
!NOINDEX
The text you specify here will be displayed in the filelist, just beneath
the areaheader, IF the area does not exist in your OKfile, OR LEVEL<>0 OR
KEYS<>00000000 OR There is a password on the area.
See also: 630Freq OK
;
;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 653 PoP-List: Delete FileNames
!NOINDEX
The filenames you specify here, will be deleted in each area (Not including
the excluded areas).
Wildcards are allowed; However you may not specify wildcard that would delete
all files in an area, such as *.* or ????????.???
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;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 654 PoP-List: Exclude FileNames
!NOINDEX
Not described yet!
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;-----------------------------------------------------------
!TOPIC 655 PoP-List: NoDupeCheck FileNames
!NOINDEX
Not described yet!
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!TOPIC 656 PoP-List: NoAdopt FileNames
!NOINDEX
Not described yet!
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!TOPIC 657 PoP-List: NoAdopt areas
!NOINDEX
Not described yet!
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!TOPIC 658 PoP-List: Private areas
!NOINDEX
Here you can specify the arenumbers that PoP-List should exclude from the
file-list.
;