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- FMOVE -- BBS Directory File Utility
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- Written By John Riley for RBBS-PC
- and dBBS. Copyright 1986, but released
- to the Public Domain.
-
- John Riley may be reached at "The Lattice BBS"
- [(312) 858-8087 300-2400 baud, 24hrs.]
-
- OVERVIEW
- --------
- FMOVE was written with the purpose of easing that task of BBS
- directory maintenence. Most of the time, when you have to move
- a file over to a download directory on your BBS, you have to
- a) copy the file, b) get the file's size and date stamp, and
- c) edit the directory file to include the new file's information.
-
- FMOVE does all this automaticly. All you have to do is specify
- the file to be added, the directory to add it to, and the
- description of the file. FMOVE will copy the file and update
- the required directory.
-
- OPERATION
- ---------
- FMOVE is easy to set up and use. All you need to do to set up FMOVE
- to work with your BBS is create a DIRS.DAT file. The DIRS.DAT file
- contains three pieces of information for every BBS directory:
-
- 1...A description of the directory
- 2...The path to the directory
- 3...The path and name of the directory file
-
- For example, if you had a BBS with two directories; a general files
- directory and a C language directory, you could write a DIRS.DAT
- like this:
-
- General Files <-Description of directory
- c:\bbs\files\general <-Path to directory's files
- c:\bbs\dirs\1.DIR <-Directory entries file
- C Language Files <-Description of other directory
- c:\bbs\files\c <-Path to other directory
- c:\bbs\dirs\2.DIR <-Other directory entries file
-
- Just use any normal ASCII text editor to create the DIRS.DAT file.
- You can have up to 100 directories defined.
-
- After a DIRS.DAT has been created, you can run FMOVE. Just be shure
- that DIRS.DAT is in the current directory when you execute FMOVE.
- When FMOVE comes up, it will display a list of numbered BBS
- directories. You can scroll through the list with the up and down
- arrows. Press the F1 key to add a file to a directory. FMOVE
- will then ask you the destination BBS directory number (choose one
- from the list), and then display the amount of free space available
- to that directory.
-
- FMOVE will then ask you for the file name to add. You can (and
- should) give FMOVE a full path and file name specification. It will
- then attempt to copy the file to the destination directory.
-
- Assuming that the copy was succesful (you'll get an error
- otherwise), FMOVE will then ask you for a description of the file.
- It will then take that description and build a directory entry.
- After it does this, FMOVE will append the entry to the
- destination's directory file.
-
- If you want to do a directory to directory copy (e.g. copy a file
- from an upload directory to a download directory), press the F2 key.
- FMOVE will ask you for the destination directory number, the source
- directory number, and the name of the file. If the file can be found
- in the source directory, it will be copied. FMOVE will then display
- the source directory's comment for that file. You can either copy
- it to the destination directory, or you can enter a new one. All
- entries are appended to the destination directory file.
-
- When you're all done updating your BBS's file system, press Esc
- to exit to DOS.
-
- Currently, FMOVE uses the RBBS-PC directory entry format. A sample
- format is shown below:
-
- DEMO DAT 1408 06-05-86 A description goes here
- 1--------10--------20--------30--------40.........................80
-
- This format also works with dBBS and PC-Board.
-
-
- REVISION HISTORY
- ----------------
- Version 1.00 6/30/86
- First release of FMOVE.
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