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- About Timestart…
-
- Timestart is a simple application designed to be launched as the first
- event in a Tabby Robot 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
- Red Ryder Host).
-
- Timestart’s purpose in life is to insert in the CallerLog a date/time
- stamp when Tabby Robot is launched. If you end the Tabby Robot event with
- Timestamp, your CallerLog will note those long sessions when you’re
- polling other boards with the robot.
-
- Timestart has only three requirements:
-
- • You must have a CallerLog file
-
- • Timestart must be at the same folder level as Host
-
- • Timestart’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.
-
- In addition, you will want to modify Tabby Robot STR 301 to insert
- Timestart and Timestamp.
-
- Version 1.1 of Timestart adds a “fake connection” line to the header it
- writes to the CallerLog, so Tabby Robot time is added to “board in use”
- time when Archie or Tom Konantz’ CallerLog Analyzer is used. Thanks to
- Mike Lininger, from whom I borrowed this idea (he introduced it in his
- PreStamp Tabby utility).
-
- This is a sample of what Timestart writes to the CallerLog:
-
- Launching network mail application on 06/02/89 at 01:45:00
- Connection made at 19200 baud on 06/02/89 at 01:45:00
- Launching external application <Tabby Robot>
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-
- Pete Johnson
- June 2, 1989
-
- Glassell Park BBS, “Home of Archie and mehitabel”
- 213-254-4852
-