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- XStat V1.14 Documentation
- =========================
-
- Program and documentation are (C) Copyright 1992,1993 by Jⁿrgen Weinelt.
-
- IMPORT StdDisclaimer; (* in short: use it at your own risk *)
- XStat was carefully tested, but there's certainly plenty of room for bugs.
-
- XStat V1.14 is Freeware, non-commercial distribution is o.k. as long as
- the following conditions are met:
-
- * Source, executable and documentation must be distributed together
- (XStat.mod, XStat, XStat.data, XStat.doc, XStat.dok and Make),
- and these files must be intact (you're not allowed to make changes).
- You're NOT allowed to add files to the archive.
-
- * This program may be included on PD/freeware CDs if I am allowed
- to order one of those CDs at 50% off the retail price (or cheaper :).
- Of course a free copy of the CD would be even nicer...
-
- Exception: Fred Fish has UNCONDITIONAL permission to add this
- program version to his library, no matter if he's distributing it
- on floppy disk or on CD.
-
-
-
- XStat requires AmigaOS V37 or later (that's 2.04 or later).
-
-
-
- Purpose
- =======
- XStat extracts statistic information from the Xferstat file created
- by some UUCICOs (tested with the SWB and wUUCP variant). The most
- important information XStat offers to you is the phone cost for a
- certain number of connects.
-
-
-
- Installation
- ============
- Copy the executable "XStat" to a directory in your "Path", preferably UUBIN:
-
- There's only one more file that needs to be installed; it's called
- "XStat.data", and should be copied to your UULIB: directory.
-
- You'll have to customize (edit) XStat.data to complete the installation.
-
- The new V1.14 output formats and associated environment variables are
- documented in the file "FORMS.doc".
-
-
-
- XStat.data
- ==========
- XStat.data contains the phone cost on a "per host" basis, in the following
- format:
-
- XStat.data file header:
- -----------------------
- H XSTAT DATA
-
- This header must be the first line of XStat.data
-
- XStat.data comment line:
- ------------------------
- # any comments you wish to add to XStat.data
-
- You may add comment lines anywhere in your XStat.data file, except before
- the file header.
-
- XStat.data currency sign info:
- ------------------------------
- S <currency sign>
-
- Tells XStat the currency sign for your country. This line must come before
- the first "N"-line. There can be only one "S"-line in your XStat.data file.
-
- Examples:
-
- # currency sign for the U.S.A.
- S $
-
- # currency sign for Germany
- S DM
-
- XStat.data host name info:
- --------------------------
- N <host name> <host name> ...
-
- Starts a new connection cost data record. Must be followed by at least
- one "C"-line. <host name> should be the name of a host you're directly
- connected to, without any path or domain information.
-
- Examples:
-
- # my own newsfeed
- N imart
-
- # my alternate newsfeed
- N cbmger
-
- Since XStat V1.10, you can use the extended N-line syntax that allows
- you to specify multiple host names in a single N-line. All those hosts
- will have the same cost information.
-
- Example:
-
- # several hosts that have the same cost info's
- N cbmger brewak forge
-
- Since XStat V1.11, you can use several consecutive N-lines.
-
- Example:
-
- # several hosts that have the same cost info's
- N cbmger
- N brewak forge
-
- Maximum line length of a N-line is 100 characters.
-
- Since XStat V1.11, you can also use the reserved host name ".default.".
- This cost info will be used for every connect for which the host name
- cannot be found in XStat.data.
-
- Since XStat V1.12 you can also use the reserved host name ".illegal.".
- This name will be used by XStat whenever an XferStat line with empty
- host name is encountered; some UUCiCos write such lines when a
- connection is aborted prematurely.
-
- XStat.data connection duration offset info:
- -------------------------------------------
- O <offset>
-
- Tells XStat that the connection duration in the XferStat file is
- off by <offset> seconds. You can use this to compensate for the
- connection negotiation phase of the modems (which does not appear
- in the XferStat connection time). The option was only tested with
- positive offsets. The "O" line must come directly after the "N"
- line. There can be only one "O" line per host.
-
- Example:
- N imart
- O 13
- C ...
-
- Tells XStat that my modem will usually need 13 seconds to negotiate
- a connection with imart.
-
- XStat.data connection time/cost info:
- -------------------------------------
- C <start time> <duration> <price>
-
- Tells XStat that between <start time> and <start time of next C-line>
- a connection will cost <price> per <duration>. "C"-lines must follow
- a "N"-line. <duration> must be in seconds, <price> in the currency of
- your choice.
-
- The first "C"-line must be for "SU-00:00:00"!
- (see exception at LOCAL/IGNORE below)
-
- Example:
- N imart
- C SU-00:00:00 120 0.23
- C MO-08:00:00 60 0.23
- C MO-18:00:00 120 0.23
-
- From Sunday 0:00:00 to Monday 7:59:59, a connection between my
- site and my newsfeed "imart" will cost 0.23DM/120sec.
-
- Between Monday 8:00:00 and Monday 17:59:59, a connection between my site
- and my newsfeed "imart" will cost 0.23DM/60sec.
-
- With this short example, the connection cost for the rest of the
- week (from Monday 18:00:00 to Saturday 23:59:59) would be 0.23DM/120sec.
-
- Since Version 1.09 there's another possible C-line syntax... you
- can also use "C IGNORE" to tell XStat to ignore all connections from
- and to that particular host, or you can use "C LOCAL" to specify a
- local connection without connection costs (only the in/out bytes
- will be counted in this case). If you use "LOCAL" or "IGNORE", you
- may NOT use the normal C-line syntax for that host.
- "LOCAL" and "IGNORE" are mutually exclusive.
-
-
- Example:
- N imart
- C IGNORE
-
- will cause all connects from/to imart to be ignored.
-
-
- Example:
- N imart
- C LOCAL
-
- will cause all connects from/to imart to be counted with cost=0.
-
-
- Since Version 1.14, you can also use a unit duration of "0" seconds,
- which will instruct XStat to assume a "flat rate" for the
- corresponding connections (one single "unit" will be counted for
- those connections).
-
- Example:
- N imart
- C SU-00:00:00 0 0.23
- C MO-08:00:00 60 0.23
- C MO-18:00:00 120 0.23
-
- Connections between Sunday, 0:00 and Monday, 8:00 will cost one
- single unit, no matter how long they were.
-
-
- Full length example for XStat.data:
- -----------------------------------
-
- - cut - cut - cut - cut - cut - cut - cut - cut - cut - cut - cut - cut - cut -
- H XSTAT DATA
- #==============================================================================
- # XStat connection cost data file
- #==============================================================================
- #
- #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- # currency sign for Germany; S must come before first N
- #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- S DM
- #
- #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- # my own newsfeed, connection cost is 0.23/60sec (0.23/120sec night & weekend)
- #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- N imart
- N .illegal.
- C SU-00:00:00 120 0.23
- C MO-08:00:00 60 0.23
- C MO-18:00:00 120 0.23
- C TU-08:00:00 60 0.23
- C TU-18:00:00 120 0.23
- C WE-08:00:00 60 0.23
- C WE-18:00:00 120 0.23
- C TH-08:00:00 60 0.23
- C TH-18:00:00 120 0.23
- C FR-08:00:00 60 0.23
- C FR-18:00:00 120 0.23
- #
- #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- # cbmger, brewak, forge, default:
- # connection cost is 0.23/21sec (0.23/42sec night & weekend)
- #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- N cbmger
- N brewak forge
- N .default.
- C SU-00:00:00 42 0.23
- C MO-08:00:00 21 0.23
- C MO-18:00:00 42 0.23
- C TU-08:00:00 21 0.23
- C TU-18:00:00 42 0.23
- C WE-08:00:00 21 0.23
- C WE-18:00:00 42 0.23
- C TH-08:00:00 21 0.23
- C TH-18:00:00 42 0.23
- C FR-08:00:00 21 0.23
- C FR-18:00:00 42 0.23
- #
- #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- # modula, this is a local (e.g. null-modem) connection
- #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- N modula
- C LOCAL
- #
- #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- # walker, connects will be ignored
- #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- N walker
- C IGNORE
- #
- - cut - cut - cut - cut - cut - cut - cut - cut - cut - cut - cut - cut - cut -
-
-
-
- Usage
- =====
- XStat [?] [DATA name] [FILE name] [V | VERBOSE] [FD | FROMDATE date]
- [TD | TODATE date] [NI | NOINCOM] [NO | NOOUTGO]
- [H | HOSTNAME name] [M | MONTH shortdate] [SE | STDERR]
- [P | PREVIOUS numdays] [L | LAST numdays]
-
- Alternate description:
-
- XStat FILE/K,DATA/K,V=VERBOSE/S,M=MONTH/K,NI=NOINCOM/S,NO=NOOUTGO/S,
- Q=QUIET/S,H=HOSTNAME/K,FD=FROMDATE/K,TD=TODATE/K,SE=STDERR/S,
- P=PREVIOUS/N,L=LAST/N
-
- You may also use the environment variable "XSTATARGS" to specify
- parameters. This is very useful if you're using XStat from the
- Workbench (XStat doesn't really support Workbench, that's why
- there's no icon for it).
-
- ?
- -
- Displays a help message.
-
- DATA name
- ---------
- Tells XStat to read its connection cost data from file <name>.
- <name> defaults to "UULIB:XStat.data".
-
- FILE name
- ---------
- Tells XStat to extract the statistic information from file <name>.
- <name> defaults to "UUSPOOL:XferStat".
-
- V | VERBOSE
- -----------
- Enables the "verbose" mode. When on, XStat displays short statistics
- for every connect found in the Xferstat file. Defaults to "off".
- Specify VERBOSE to turn verbose mode on.
-
- WARNING! The VERBOSE option will be changed drastically soon (probably
- in the next release).
-
- FD | FROMDATE date
- ------------------
- Tells XStat to ignore connects before <date>. <date> defaults to "01-JAN-78".
- You may use any valid AmigaDOS date string, including things like
- "TODAY" or "YESTERDAY". XStat will add a time string of "00:00:00" internally,
- you may not do this yourself. Be careful, if you're using Workbench 2.1 (which
- is [ought to be] currently available to registered developers only) you'll have
- to use your locale date specifications, for example "HEUTE" instead of "TODAY"
- if you're using the german locale.
- Please read the warnings for "PREVIOUS" and "LAST"!
-
- TD | TODATE date
- ----------------
- Tells XStat to ignore connects after <date>. <date> defaults to current
- date/time. You may use any valid AmigaDOS date string, including things
- like "TODAY" or "YESTERDAY" (with the same 2.1/locale limitations as FD).
- XStat will add a time string of "23:59:59" internally, you may not do this
- yourself.
- Please read the warnings for "PREVIOUS" and "LAST"!
-
- M | MONTH shortdate
- -------------------
- Tells XStat to ignore FD and TD, and to compute the statistics for the
- specified month instead. The month must be given in the format "MMM-YY",
- without specifying the day. Example: "MONTH JUN-92" will compute the stats
- for June 92. MONTH is inactive as default.
- Please read the warnings for "PREVIOUS" and "LAST"!
-
- NI | NOINCOM
- ------------
- Tells XStat to suppress evaluation of incoming calls; defaults to off.
- Specify "NI" to suppress evaluation of incoming calls. Meaning of this
- switch was inverted before version 1.04.
-
- NO | NOOUTGO
- ------------
- Tells XStat to suppress evaluation of outgoing calls; defaults to off.
- Specify "NO" to suppress evaluation of outgoing calls. Meaning of this
- switch was inverted before version 1.04.
-
- Q | QUIET
- ---------
- Tells XStat to suppress non-fatal error messages; defaults to off.
- Specify QUIET to suppress non-fatal errors.
-
- This is very handy for getting rid of those "(ignoring this one)" messages
- for failed connects.
-
- H | HOSTNAME
- ------------
- Tells XStat to evaluate calls to host <name> only; defaults to all hosts.
- Starting with V1.06, if <name> contains any valid AmigaDos pattern,
- XStat will display subtotals for each host that matches these patterns.
-
- Patterns are not case sensitive.
-
- Example: XStat hostname (a|x)#?
- will evaluate calls to all hosts that start with an "a" or "x",
- and will display sub-totals for each of those hosts.
-
- SE | STDERR
- -----------
- Tells XStat to send all error messages to StdErr instead of StdOut.
- Then you can redirect the statistic output to a file using ">File",
- without redirecting the error messages to that file as well.
- Redirection defaults to off; specify STDERR to enable redirecting
- error messages to StdErr. StdErr is always the console window
- XStat was started from. The STDERR option was tested with the
- standard AmigaShell only. It *should* work with other shells, too.
-
- P | PREVIOUS numdays
- --------------------
- Display the statistics for a certain period of time; the period
- is from "FROMDATE" to "FROMDATE+numdays".
-
- WARNINGS:
- (1) this overrides both "MONTH" and "TODATE"
- (2) there's no sanity checking done on "numdays", you can cause
- an internal overflow by specifying extremely large values
- (3) you're not allowed to specify "PERIOD" and "LAST" simultaneously
- (4) "numdays"=1 displays statistics for "FROMDATE" and the following day
-
- L | LAST numdays
- ----------------
- Display the statistics for a certain period of time; the period
- is from "TODATE-numdays" to "TODATE".
-
- WARNINGS:
- (1) this overrides both "MONTH" and "FROMDATE"
- (2) there's no sanity checking done on "numdays", you can cause
- an internal underflow by specifying extremely large values
- (3) you're not allowed to specify "PERIOD" and "LAST" simultaneously
- (4) "numdays"=1 displays statistics for "TODATE" and the day before
-
-
-
- XStat's output
- ==============
-
- Example:
-
- > (On 25-DEC-93) XStat last 30
- >
- > XStat 1.14
- > ⌐ Copyright 1992,1993 by Jⁿrgen Weinelt
- > XStat is Freeware - read the docs for details.
- >
- >
- >
- > TOTAL: Connection statistics for incoming calls.
- >
- [...]
- >
- >
- >
- > TOTAL: Connection statistics for outgoing calls.
- >
- > Transfer statistics from 25-Nov-93 18:24:07 to 25-Dez-93 18:24:07
- >
- > number of connects 54
- > local connects 0
- > ignored connects 0
- >
- > total online time 8112 seconds
- > total phone units 98 units
- > total phone cost 22.540 DM
- > average online time 151 seconds/connect
- > average phone units 1.815 units/connect
- > average phone cost 0.417 DM/connect
- >
- > total gross read 10491743 bytes
- > total gross send 1819008 bytes
- > total net read 8347777 bytes
- > total net send 106961 bytes
- > average gross read 194292 bytes/connect
- > average gross send 33686 bytes/connect
- > average net read 154589 bytes/connect
- > average net send 1981 bytes/connect
- >
- > average speed 1517 CPS (gross data transfer)
- > fastest connect 1653 CPS (gross data transfer)
- > average speed 1042 CPS (net data transfer)
- > fastest connect 1366 CPS (net data transfer)
- >
- > average cost 1.920 DM/MB (gross data transfer)
- > average cost 2.795 DM/MB (net data transfer)
-
- Notes:
-
- "gross" means, the figure includes the protocol overhead.
-
- "net" means, the figure excludes the protocol overhead.
-
-
-
- History
- =======
- V1.14 added output formats, connection time offset, flat rate feature
- V1.13 added "PREVIOUS" and "LAST", added date line to output
- V1.12 added ".illegal." feature
- fixed a potential bug in the XferStat parsing code
- V1.11 added multiple N-line feature and ".default." host name to XStat.data
- N-Line Syntax.
- fixed a minor bug in the EOF handling of the Xferstat parser.
- V1.10 added multiple name feature to XStat.data N-Line syntax
- fixed a small bug in the NI/NO feature
- V1.09 added LOCAL and IGNORE to XStat.data C-line syntax
- V1.08 added STDERR option, replaced "°" with "av."
- V1.07 list of connection statistics was not sorted correctly. Fixed.
- V1.06 extended "hostname" to include pattern matching and "per host" feature
- V1.05 added "per host" statistics
- V1.04 fixed a bug (problem with locale), switched to dos.library "ReadArgs()"
- V1.03 added monthly statistics.
- V1.02 added peak brutto/netto cps rating.
- V1.01 XStat used to guru when brutto or netto xfer was 0 bytes. Fixed.
- V1.00 initial release.
-
- V0.9x several test/beta versions, limited circulation
-
-
-
- Known problems/bugs
- ===================
- The MONTH option yields inaccurate results. This is not a bug in XStat.
- The date conversion routines from dos.library are broken; C= will fix this
- in the release version of [whatever comes after Kickstart 3.0].
-
- The online time is not very accurate. That's because the connection start
- time seems to state the time the modem says "CONNECT", not the real
- start time of the (phone line) connection. This can be improved by using
- the new 1.14 "connection time offset" feature.
-
-
-
- If you have questions or bug reports...
- =======================================
- You can contact me by eMail:
-
- jow@rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (preferred)
- jow@hcast.franken.de
- jow@hcast.adsp.sub.org (avoid if possible)
-
- Or through the snail mail:
-
- Jⁿrgen Weinelt
- Zur Kanzel 1
- D-97762 Hammelburg
- Germany
-
- You might also try posting to alt.sys.amiga.uucp.
-
-
-
- Thanks
- ======
- The following people contributed suggestions and bug reports:
-
- Christian Balzer
- Kai Bolay
- Christof Damian
- Hartmut Goebel
- Tommy V. Hansen
- Tapio Heiskanen
- Michael-Wolfgang Hohmann
- Alfredo Jahn V
- Andrew Kopp
- Matthias "Tron" Scheler
- Henning Schmiedehausen
- Kai "wusel" Siering
- Peter Simons
-
- Thank you all.
-