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- =====( ConvertUsers V1.00 )========================================
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- Trion 'ConvertUsers' Utility.
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- (c) Copyright Paul Spijkerman, '95-'97. All rights reserved.
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- Written for use with the Trion BBS package.
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- This utility was written to convert the Userdatabase between
- version. Which is more practicall than having to delete
- the entire userbase when installing a new version.
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- At this moment it is only needed to convert the database from
- version 0.62 or earlier. In version 0.62 there was more space
- needed for a couple of variables. Also there are 64 empty
- bytes added at the conversion. So there is enough room for
- expansion for a long time. And this converter doesn't has
- to be extended soon.
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- Note that each userfile is started with a userfile version byte
- so the converter knows which files it has to convert and can't
- scramble a userfile by mistake by converting a file twice
- when it was ran to often, also this makes it easier for
- future extensions.
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- Note that the BBS programm itself checks if a user file
- is of the rigth version. If it is to old it will write a
- message to shell that you have to use convertusers.
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- Before you start converting make sure the BBS isn't running
- so there are no userfiles in use at this time.
- (Run the "Trion:down" script to make sure).
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- To convert users type "convert OK".
- At this time your users are converted, so make sure
- you run a NEW version of the BBS after conversion.
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- Note that this programm only works if you type "OK"
- on the commandline. This is to make sure you don't
- accidently convert users with the Resource Manager
- and the BBS nodes active.
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- Note that you should make a backup of the "trion:users/"
- directory before use .. so you could use old versions of
- the BBS if the new one doesn't work properly.
- Do I have to mention you always should have a backup of
- all the data and configuration files of the BBS ?
- It is a lot easier to copy a few config files from disk
- than to invent them from scratch.
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