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- Telegard Duplicate User Checker v1.04 for Telegard v2.7+
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- Written by Dan Winsor, 1991-1992, All Rights Reserved.
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- This is a fairly short documentation file outlining general usage and
- features of the DUPCHECK.EXE program written by Dan "Lord" Winsor in an
- effort to reduce the number of duplicate users logged onto a system (i.e.
- users with more than one account, either intentionally or not). As always,
- the author cannot be held liable for anything that happens due to the use of
- this program, although as always, it has been tested and is safe for all
- practical intents and purposes (although perhaps it has a few minor bugs).
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- Basically, the program works by reading in a user's account and running
- through all the users in the list after that account searching for duplicate
- information, either a matching real name, address or telephone number.
- Although this is a fairly slow and inefficient method, it is tolerable for a
- system with a moderate number of users. The program will report matches on
- any of the three checked fields, although typically a SysOp is only worried
- about users with matching real names since addresses and phone numbers
- usually indicate related individuals. The program performs an exact check
- only, any differences between strings will not cause a match. If more than
- one field matches, as is often the case, only the most important match is
- noted (i.e. real name <-- address <-- phone number).
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- The program is run from any directory where a copy of the STATUS.DAT
- Telegard file resides. The program will then use this file to locate where
- the USER.LST file is, although if a USER.LST is also located in the current
- directory, it will use that one instead, permitting one to copy the
- STATUS.DAT and USER.LST files to a ram disk with the program in an effort to
- increase the speed of the checking. Other than that, program operation is
- fairly simplistic. Merely running the program with no command line options
- will begin the checking process, which can be aborted after the current
- matching session by pressing any key. If one prefers to output the list of
- matched users to a text file (recommended), then one specifies the path and
- name of the text file to output to on the command line as the parameter.
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- This program is written in Turbo Pascal v5.5 and compressed with the
- Pklite program using extra compression. Please enjoy and use it on your
- Telegard system for whatever purposes you see fit.
- ... Dan Winsor
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