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- D O O R L O G S U I T E
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- Version 1.6
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- A Searchlight BBS "Useful Utility"
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- DOORLOG is Copyright (C) 1989 ASTORSOFT Programming
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- The DOORLOG suite was written by: James Roberts-Thomson,
- 22 Rodrigo Road,
- Kilbirnie,
- Wellington,
- New Zealand.
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- This software is supported through FEELING BAUD, the NZ & OZ
- Searchlight Support BBS, on 64 4 264 276 24hrs.
- DOORLOG.DOC S/L Doors Log Manual Page 2.
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- 1. Table of Contents
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- 1. Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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- 2. Notice: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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- 2.1 Licence Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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- 2.2 SUPPORT FREEWARE! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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- 2.3 DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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- 3. What is The Door Log Suite? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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- 4. Using The Door Log Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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- 4.1 Equipment Needed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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- 4.2 Using the Programmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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- 4.2.1 LOG.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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- 4.2.2 LOGANAL.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
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- 4.2.3 The LOG.CFG file . . . . . . . . . . . 5
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- 5. Notes on Version 1.6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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- 5.1 Any Problems? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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- 5.2 Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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- 5.3 Known problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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- 5.4 Future enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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- 2. Notice:
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- 2.1 Licence Agreement
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- You may make copies of this program, manual, and other files
- and give it to your friends, upload it to bulletin boards, or
- include it in the library of a non-profit computer club. You
- may not distribute The Door Log Suite without the DOORLOG.DOC
- file, or without the LOG.EXE and LOGANAL.EXE files. You may
- not modify the DOORLOG.DOC file, nor the LOG.EXE or the
- LOGANAL.EXE file.
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- I forbid any for-profit venture from selling this software
- and manual, either separately or as part of a "library"
- diskette.
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- By using the software, you indicate your acceptance of this
- licence agreement.
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- 2.2 SUPPORT FREEWARE!
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- If you find this software has any value for you, congratul-
- ations. You didn't even pay a cent for it! There are no
- registration fees for this programme, and no contributions
- are required.
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- However, if you feel you must reward my intensive programming
- effort, feel free to send some money. I'll gladly take it -
- I'm not a fool!
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- Send any comments or suggestions about The Door Log Suite
- to the above address, or via e-mail on any of the BBS systems
- listed below. Your letters will provide the incentive needed
- for me to continue to improve this product by adding new
- features, or fixing any bugs.
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- Please feel free to share this software with others.
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- 2.3 DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
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- THIS SOFTWARE AND MANUAL ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT
- WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING,
- BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
- AND FITNESS OF PURPOSE. THE USER OF THIS SOFTWARE AND MANUAL
- ASSUME ALL RISKS.
- DOORLOG.DOC S/L Doors Log Manual Page 4.
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- 3. What is The Door Log Suite ?
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- The Door Log Suite is a small suite of programmes which
- provide a Searchlight (tm) BBS Sysop to log and then analyse
- the usage of his (or her) Door programmes.
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- There are two programmes which make up the suite. These are:
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- 1) The LOG.EXE programme, which is placed in the DOORS.DEF
- file, and which logs the information about the doors usage
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- 2) The LOGANAL.EXE programme, which analyses the file made
- by the LOG programme, and produces the Top Ten print-out.
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- 4. Using The Door Log Suite
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- 4.1 Equipment Needed
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- The Door Log Suite uses quite a bit of memory, but not nearly
- as much as Searchlight, so if you can run The Searchlight BBS
- software, you will be able to use The Door Log Suite software
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- 4.2 Using the Programmes
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- 4.2.1 LOG.EXE
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- To use LOG to log stats for a door, you have to modify the
- DOORS.DEF file, and place a call to LOG.EXE instead of the
- door programme.
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- For example, assume that you have ASTORSOFT's TRIVIA game as
- a door on your BBS. You would have a line like this in your
- DOORS.DEF file:
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- 1;0;1;20;Trivia Game;c:\doors\trivia;trivia.exe
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- You add LOG.EXE to this line so it looks like this:
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- 1;0;1;20;Trivia Game;c:\doors\trivia;\log.exe trivia.exe
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- NOTE:
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- This example assumes that the LOG.EXE programme is kept
- in the root directory of the hard-disk. This is where ASTOR-
- SOFT recommend you put LOG.EXE, but you can put it anywhere
- you like, but you MUST make sure that the path is supplied in
- the DOORS.DEF entry. For example:
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- 1;0;1;20;Trivia Game;c:\doors\trivia;c:\bbs\log.exe trivia.exe
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- If the door programme needs any parameters passed to it, then
- just include them on the command-line, and LOG will pass them
- thru to the door. For example:
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- 1;0;1;20;Anydoor;c:\door;\log.exe doorname.exe %w FRED!@# %g
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- will cause the %w FRED!@# and %g parameters to be passed to
- the doorname.exe programme.
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- 4.2.2 LOGANAL.EXE
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- To use LOGANAL to analyse the data captured by LOG.EXE, you
- simply call:
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- LOGANAL
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- The programme will then read the LOG.EXE logfile, and produce
- the top-ten printout on the screen. You can use the DOS I/O
- redirection facility to re-direct the output into a file, so
- that the information may be included in a bulletin.
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- For example:
- LOGANAL > C:\BBS\INCLUDE\DOORTOP.TEN
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- will routine the output from the programme to the DOORTOP.TEN
- file in the C:\BBS\INCLUDE sub-directory. This file will be
- automatically created if it doesn't exist, otherwise the old
- file contents will be automatically over-written.
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- 4.2.3 The LOG.CFG file
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- Both LOG.EXE and LOGANAL.EXE rely, for correct logging and
- analysing, on a file called LOG.CFG. In this release of The
- Door Log Suite, this file MUST be kept in the C: drive ROOT
- directory (ie it MUST be called C:\LOG.CFG). The file con-
- tains two records, and can be easily created via the DOS COPY
- command (ie COPY CON: C:\LOG.CFG). The two records contain
- the FULL path and filename of the file to which LOG uses to
- record its stats in, and which LOGANAL will analyse. The
- second record contains a path to the Searchlight (tm) BBS
- 'home' directory. This is required so that the programmes
- can read the .BBS files to find out about who the online
- caller is.
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- If this file cannot be found, or if the information in it is
- not correct, then the LOGANAL programme will FAIL. The LOG
- programme, however, will not fail, but will be unable to log
- any stats. It will still execute the command passed as the
- first parameter, however, so the door will still execute.
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- 5. Notes on Version 1.6
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- 5.1 Any Problems?
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- Are you having problems with this program? Would you like to
- see any extra features added? Any comments you would like to
- make?
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- Leave me a note on: The Magic Tower, Ph. 64 4 767 326, or
- The Cave BBS, Ph. 64 4 697 379, or
- Contact New Zealands Searchlight Support BBS
- FEELING BAUD, Ph. 64 4 264 276.
- 300/1200/2400 24hrs
- Or write to: James Roberts-Thomson,
- 22 Rodrigo Road,
- Kilbirnie,
- Wellington,
- NEW ZEALAND.
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- 5.2 Development
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- The Door Log Suite was developed using Turbo Pascal v5.0. The
- hardware used was a DG-1 Laptop, with CGA and running MS-DOS
- version 3.2, with Searchlight (tm) version 1.30. No other
- hardware/software combinations have been tried, but there is
- no reason why any generic MS-DOS machine shouldn't work
- correctly.
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- v 1.0 - Initial "quick-hack" to get the concept working.
- v 1.1 - Tided up v1.0, and corrected sorting routine.
- v 1.2 - Added Door duration to output chart.
- v 1.3 - Added Number of Calls to Top Ten User display.
- v 1.4 - Fixed a 'midnight-rollover' problem.
- - First version released for Public Use.
- v 1.5 - Fixed a bug in the Top Ten User display.
- v 1.6 - Tided up documentation, and fixed a bug introduced in
- v1.5 fix.
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- 5.3 Known problems
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- I am not aware of any problems, and it is up to you, the
- user, to point them out to me.
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- This software has been extensively tested and used online on
- The Dragon's Tower BBS.
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- 5.4 Future enhancements
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- Again, it's up to you as the user, to suggest new features to
- me.
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- Turbo Pascal is a trademark of Borland, Ltd.
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- Searchlight is a trademark of Frank LaRosa and Seachlight
- software.