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- Fido-Colossus Conversion Utility
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- BUG FIXES IN VERSION 1.10:
- Well there was two major bugs. and a couple little niggling things.
- FIDO-COL didn't work properly if you had a FILES.BBS in any root
- directory (ie Drive A, Drive B, Drive C etc).
- It truncated lines that were comments only instead of passing them
- through.
- Also fixed bug that made the comments one character too far over.
- The other major bug was that it wouldn't work properly with Tom Neff's
- Merger program. In connection with this, it seemed to display OK for
- PC's and the like, but when the FILES.BBS was displayed for other
- computers it concatenated everything together.
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- This is just a quick documentation for Fido-Colossus FILES.BBS Convereter and
- I thought I'd better write it down before I forget.
- A few things to note about Fido-Colossus:
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- It starts off with the FILES.BBS file and renames it to FILES.BAK, if FILES.BAK
- already Exists then it deletes FILES.BAK and still renames FILES.BBS to
- FILES.BAK.
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- It then reads each line of FILES.BBS and determines whether or not its a
- filename. This is done very simply. If the first character of the line is ANY
- character except 'A' to 'Z' or '0' to '9' then its a comment. Its as simple
- as that.
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- You MUST run it seperately inside each FIDO Directory.
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- All comments are truncated to 40 characters, if you wish to change the comment
- after, use Tom Neff's MERGER program to edit the comments or a text editor.
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- It does NOT insert commas(,) into the file size.
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- FIDO-COL was written in Turbo Pascal, and the source code is available on
- request.
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- All questions and or problems should be directed to:
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- Bruce McPherson
- 34 Grange St
- Guelph Ontario
- N1E 2T7
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- You can FidoNet me at: 148/666
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- or Directly at my BBS.
-
- Wit's End.
- (519)-763-1143
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- On its way is a utility that converts SYSTEMx.BBS to Colossus SYSINFO.
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