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- About Timestamp…
-
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- Version 1.6 of Timestamp shows a title alert while it’s working, reads
- the Config file to find the CallerLog and can cope with launch.next
- files of up to 100 successive events. It also adds a “Logged off…”
- line at the end of the CallerLog to assist CallerLog analyzing
- programs.
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-
- Timestamp is a simple application designed to be launched as the last
- non-Host event in a Tabby chain. It contains one STR resource, #500,
- which should be altered with ResEdit to contain the name of your Red
- Ryder Host application (it comes set to launch an application called
- Host).
-
- Timestamp’s purpose in life is to insert in the CallerLog a date/time
- stamp when Host is launched, followed by a dashed line, so the CallerLog
- goes from this:
-
- --------------------
- Launching network mail application on 01/08/89 at 00:45:00
- Launching external application <TabbyNet>
- Connection made at 2400 baud on 01/08/89 at 02:08:39
- GEORGE DRAPEAU from Los Angeles
- <etc.>
-
- to this:
-
- --------------------
- Launching network mail application on 01/08/89 at 00:45:00
- Launching external application <TabbyNet>
- Launching Host on 01/08/89 at 02:04:13
- --------------------
- Connection made at 2400 baud on 01/08/89 at 02:08:39
- GEORGE DRAPEAU from Los Angeles
- <etc.>
-
- This isolates network mail events from normal caller events and tells
- you exactly when your Tabby sequence has finished its work. The name of
- the application launched is taken from the Tabby launch.next file, if it
- exists, or the STR 500 resource, so if you call your BBS program Wally,
- the entry will read
-
- Launching Wally on 01/08/89 at 02:04:13
- --------------------
-
- Timestamp has only three requirements:
-
- • You must have a CallerLog file
-
- • Timestamp must be at the same folder level as Host
-
- • Timestamp’s STR 500 resource must have the proper name for Red Ryder
- Host unless there is a launch.next file with the proper name for the
- next application to launch. In any case, it’s a good idea to modify
- the STR 500 resource to contain your Host program name.
-
- You don’t *have* to run Timestamp as the last pre-Host application in a
- Tabby event, but it makes sense to run it in this position.
-
- I have modified the mail and Echo events on Glassell Park BBS to the
- following sequence:
-
- BusyOut,TabbyNet SendNews,TabbyNet SendMail,TabbyNet,BusyOut,ArcMail
- Extract,TabbyNet DeliverMail,mehit,BullGen,Timestamp,Host
-
- (Actually, I have a couple of slightly different sequences, but this is
- the general structure.)
-
- In addition, you will want to modify TabbyNet STR 305 to insert
- Timestamp. This makes sure that all Tabby events including CrashMail are
- timed and roped off in the CallerLog.
-
- Thanks to Mike Lininger for suggesting the “Logged off…” addition.
-
- Pete Johnson
- April 1, 1989
-
- Glassell Park BBS, “Home of Archie and mehitabel”
- 213-254-4852
-