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- Sysop Documentation for MazeUtil.EXE designed for MAZE Release 5.0
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- ***** Purpose of MazeUtil *****
-
- Maze operates off an extensive data base comprised of both maze and user
- information. The game does not clean up data associated with a user that
- never returns, like their old mail, etc. MazeUtil is the sysop's friend
- that helps monitor, edit or scrap this information.
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- It is also the way you register the software and if you get into designing
- your own dungeons it validates your design for potential problems.
-
- To set up MazeUtil you just place it in the same directory as your maze
- game. After running maze once, mazeutil will function fine in local mode
- by entering "MazeUtil" at the DOS prompt.
-
- If your bbs runs a nightly or weekly clean up routine you may wish to add
- mazeutil to its operation as it is capable of doing routine clean up
- chores in unattended mode.
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-
- ***** Background Operation *****
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- Example Batch File Lines:
- -----
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- C:
- cd \BBS\Maze
- MAZEUTIL.EXE CLEANUP
- cd \BBS
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- -----
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- This automatic mode does generic data base maintenance described below:
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- All users that have not called in 30+ days are deleted from the maze.log
- file, their game?.dat file is erased, and any mail they have waiting or
- have sent to someone else is zapped.
-
- Any users still in the lowest level of the maze with $1000 cash, the
- default, and still having the max allowed moves per day left after their
- last call are also zapped. This cleans up the visitors that really
- couldn't support ansi graphics but tried to take a peek.
-
- The mail boxes are compressed and deleted if no valid mail is in any of
- them. If no users are left after the clean up then all data files are
- zapped and the game is close to the condition it had after an install.
- Note: you may wish to have an extra copy of "Escapes.Dat" which keeps a
- history of all users that have escaped from the maze.
-
-
- ***** Foreground Operation *****
-
- The interactive mode is straight forward and completely menu driven.
-
- .. It supports reviewing and/or editing of a user's condition and/or
- location in the maze.
-
- .. It converts new maze dungeons you may design to the format expected
- by maze.
-
- .. It allows guided purging of old maze users and compression of the
- data bases.
-
- .. It allows all maze mail to be written, read and/or optionally deleted.
-
- .. It reviews the Maze.cfg file and gives you my interpretation of how
- you have your system setup.
-
- .. It allows you to view any maze or (user in maze) you desire.
-
- .. It supports printing of any maze in regular or IBM format.
-
- .. Upgrades software status to "Registered" with the right password.
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- Fast Fingers ...
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