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- THE CALL ANALYZER
- Version 1.3
- written for RBBS-PC CPC12.2A or later
- by Lee Nelson
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- The CALL ANALYZER is copyright 1984 by AlphaSoft System,
- 2508 Constance St., Atlanta, GA 30344, phone (404) 761-8137.
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- A limited license is granted to distribute this software with the
- following conditions:
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- (1) No fee is charged for distribution
- (2) This program is not distributed in altered form
- (3) This statement is not removed.
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- If you find this program to be of use, please send $25 along with the
- registration form to AlphaSoft Systems at the above address. A
- registration form has been provided at the end of this documentation
- for the purpose of registering your copy of the CALL ANALYZER. Users
- who pay this fee will receive a registered copy of the latest version
- of the CALL ANALYZER at the time of registration. They are also
- eligible for telephone support for problems and questions about this
- software. In addition, they will receive mail notification of the
- availabiltiy of new releases of this software. Our technical support
- line is (404) 761-8137 after 7 PM. We will need to know the name in
- which the software was registered and the program serial number before
- we can provide technical support.
-
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- DESCRIPTION:
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- The CALL ANALYZER program is a self contained statistical analysis
- program for use in summarizing and catagorizing the user activity on
- an RBBS-PC system. It is designed to work with the caller file of
- any version of RBBS-PC from CPC12.2A or later. It has been thoroughly
- tested only with CPC12.2B and CPC12.2C. Certain version of RBBS-PC
- prior to CPC12.2C do not log all of the caller activity that CALL
- ANALYZER looks for. Garbage records in the caller files of some
- earlier versions of RBBS can also cause problems in the CALL ANALYZER.
- The only solution to this problem is to upgrade your RBBS-PC system to
- CPC12.2C or later.
- DISCLAIMER NOTICE: The CALL ANALYZER should run on earlier version
- of RBBS prior to CPC12.2C. However, you will not get the full
- features of the system and Alphasoft Systems will be under no
- obligation to support paid users with problems caused by files from
- version earlier than CPC12.2C.
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- REQUIREMENTS:
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- The CALL ANALYZER is designed to run on an IBM-PC with a minimum of
- 256K and at least 1 diskette drive. It can be used with either the
- IBM Monochrome monitor or any compatible color monitor. In addition a
- printer is recommended to produce hardcopy reports. The printer
- however is optional. The only other requirement is a caller file from
- RBBS-PC CPC12.2C or later.
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- INSTALLATION:
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- The CALL ANALYZER will self install each time it is brought up unless
- it is able to find a valid configuration file in the current sub-
- directory of the default disk drive. The file, named CONFIG.ANA, will
- be produced the first time the system is brought up. It will prompt
- the user for certain system specific information. You will be asked
- whether you wish to use a monochrome or color monitor and for the full
- name of your RBBS-PC caller file. The standard name for this file is
- CALLERS. However some users have renamed this file in the RBBS-PC
- configuration process. In either case you must reply with the
- complete name of your caller file. In addition you will be prompted
- for a file spec for permanent storage of the callers statistics. This
- message can be replied to with either a standard DOS file name or a
- DOS device specification such as a printer, e.g, LPT1:, LPT2:,
- CALLDATA.DIF. Upon exiting the CALL ANALYZER, you will be asked if
- you wish to make a permanent copy of the statistics. This DOS file or
- device specification will dictate the destination of the permanent
- copy if you should reply yes to this prompt. This date can be sent to
- a printer or to a file for eventual input to another program such as
- LOTUS 1-2-3.
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- USE AND FUNCTIONS:
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- With the caller file in the default drive and sub-directory, issue the
- command CALLANA at the DOS prompt. The startup panel will appear. The
- display at the bottom will indicate which caller record is currently
- being read. When this number reaches 1, the system statistics main
- screen will be displayed. This screen is made up of 3 windows. The 2
- on the left display statistics relating to caller information such as
- baud rate, parity settings and total callers. The other window on the
- left contains statistics relating to the the RBBS file section. The
- right window contains a sorted list of all files that have been
- downloaded from the system, with a total download count. This window
- can be paged forward or backwards using the PgUP and PgDn keys. The
- Home and End keys position the window to the bottom or top of the
- download list.
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- The left window can be toggled to display additional statistics about
- the overall utilization of the RBBS system. The F1 key provides the
- means to toggle this window.
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- To exit the CALL ANALYZER, hit the Esc key. At this point the system
- will ask if you wish to print the statistics. If you wish to receive
- a hardcopy of the statistics, simply reply with a Y. If no hardcopy
- is desired or if the system does not have a printer a reply of N will
- terminate the program.
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- A menu of all CALL ANALYZER keyboard functions is displayed at the
- bottom of the screen at all times.
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- LIMITATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS:
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- Due to the nature of the internal sort, the CALL ANALYZER can only
- handle caller files with no more than 500 different named download
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- files contained therein. The total files downloaded count has no
- direct bearing on this limitation.
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- As a benchmark I have run CALL ANALYZER against a caller file which
- contained 4356 records. This represented 436 different named download
- files for a total of 879 total downloads. This particular caller file
- spanned a period of 11 days of 24 hour operation. System utilization
- ran at 51%. The system contained approximatly 1200 download files.
- Under standard DOS 2.1, the CALL ANALYZER took 2 mins and 49 seconds
- to run. Under Multi-Job, with 2 partitions and RBBS-PC CPC12.2C
- running in the background, using the same caller file, the system took
- 4 mins and 44 seconds to run. Experience with MultiLink indicates
- that CALL ANALYZER will probably run approximatly the same as under
- Multi-Job.
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- Based on these run times, I recommend that a caller file that is one
- week (7 days) in length is probably ideal. Such a file should be
- processed in a reasonable time and should not be capable of taxing the
- limitations of the CALL ANALYZER. In addition, if the user
- establishes a specific time each week to run this program and then
- deletes or archives the caller file and starts a new one, he will be
- able to compare statistics from week to week. The printed report is
- ideal for week to week comparisons.
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- FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS:
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- Currently the permanent output file from CALL ANALYZER is designed for
- output to a hardcopy printer. One beta tester has shown interest in
- trying to develop a LOTUS 1-2-3 worksheet for graphing and comparing
- RBBS-PC statistics. This permanent output data set can serve as the
- source of data into the LOTUS system. If I find that there is a
- general interest in this, I will develop a new output section to the
- program, possibly using the DIF format. Let me know if you would be
- interested in seeing this.
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- I will continue to add additional features to the system from time to
- time, as well as keep it up to date with the most current release of
- RBBS-PC. In the future I plan to add additional statistics from the
- caller file and provide some statistical peeks at the RBBS message and
- user files. If you have any ideas or suggestions that you think might
- improve the CALL ANALYZER, please call me voice at (404) 761-8137
- after 7:00 PM EST, call my BBS at (404) 761-3635 or write me and tell
- me about it. I anticipate a new release of this software about every
- 2 or 3 months.
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- RBBS-PC is copyrighted by Tom Mack and Jon Martin, of the Capitol City
- PC Users Group. Washington, D.C.
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- Multi-Job is a registered trademark of B & L Computer Software, Bosie,
- Idaho
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- MultiLink is a registered trademark of The Software Link, Atlanta,
- Georgia
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- LOTUS and 1-2-3 are registered trademarks of Lotus Development Corp.
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- DIF is a trademark of Software Arts, Inc.
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- CALL ANALYZER REGISTRATION FORM
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- To register your copy of this software please complete the form below
- and return along with $25 to Alphasoft Systems, 2508 Constance St.,
- Atlanta, Georgia 30344. You will receive the latest version of CALL
- ANALYZER by mail within 4 weeks. You may call our technical support
- line as soon as we receive your registration form.
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