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- ENHANCED CALLER LOG SHRINKER V1.0
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- -Dox By Timecop
-
- 1. Introduction.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- First of all I would like to thank Drew for giving me yet another great
- idea. ECS is a pretty much straight forward utility that trims your
- huge caller log down to size. If you used LOGTAME by Vigilante before
- you probably noticed that it's not as fast as it could be. Well, if you
- are one of those, this thing is for you.
-
- 2. Syntax.
- ~~~~~~
- There are only three (3) things that you have to tell ECS.
-
- 1) Where your caller log is.
- 2) Where you want your output file to be.
- 3) How many days you want to go back from today.
-
- As you can see, no knowledge of calculus is required in order to operate
- the utility.
-
- 3. Different situatins.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Let's say you have something like this in your caller log:
-
- **************************************************************
- NO CONNECT / NO CARRIER+++
- **************************************************************
-
- ECS will blow away all logs that have no dates in them, including the
- one that you see above.
-
- Also there are a lot of logs that look like this:
-
- **************************************************************
- Back from DOS at 15:35
- Carrier Lost.
- Last Callers v2.00 - Updated Successfully!
- Weektop v1.50 Final - User Didn't Upload!
- 07-28-95 (15:36) (7) TIMECOP -/╫\-SysGod Himself-/╫\-
- (blah, blah, blah)
- **************************************************************
-
- Since ECS searches for a date, once it finds one, it checks if the date
- is in the range that you specified. If it is, ECS starts copying lines
- from there. In other words first four (4) lines in the above example
- will be taken out if the date is within the range, otherwise the whole log
- will be blown away.
-
- Notice that all logs are separated by a line of stars.
-
- 4. A few words about utility itself.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- ECS was written in C and compiled with Borland C++ v3.1 with all necessary
- optimizations for the fastest performance. And it *does* work two times
- faster than LOGTAME by Vigilante released some time last year.
-
- 5. Greetings.
- ~~~~~~~~~
- Drew - whew, what's next?
- ViG - basic is a waste!!
- Max Headroom - great work dude!
- Cyber Demon - almost there... ;)
-
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