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- DUPECHEK.EXE - v1.1
-
- DUPECHEK is still a REAL no-frills program but due to popular demand,
- the ability to check for duplicate password CRC's has been added.
-
- To check for duplicate CRC's (this won't tell you the user's
- password), just use a /P or -P command line switch. Using no switch
- means check for duplicate phone numbers.
-
- DUPECHEK.EXE - v1.0
-
- Seems there hasn't ever been a problem so it deserves a 1.0 version
- number.
-
- DUPECHEK has been updated to RA 2.00 specs. Keep in mind with the
- increase of the user record from 158 bytes to its now almost 1k size,
- I had to decrease the buffer size, therefore the program is going to be
- slower. One of these days I'll rewrite it to be more memory efficient
- and allow a larger buffer.
-
-
- DUPECHEK.EXE - v0.2
-
- Sometime during testing I inadvertently left a hardcoded path to the
- user file in the code. This caused a 'path not found' error for anyone
- that had their user file in a directory that was not exactly the same
- as mine (C:\RA\MSGBASE).
-
- DUPECHEK.EXE - v0.1
-
- Removed the record number display for the user on the right since
- they're not really necessary.
-
-
- DUPECHEK.EXE - v0.0
-
- DUPECHEK will run (stroll actually) through a RemoteAccess USERS.BBS
- and attempt to list out all duplicate phone numbers/users.
-
- DUPECHEK may seem a bit slow but keep this in mind... if you have a 500
- user USERS.BBS, DUPECHEK will have to make 250,000 user to user
- comparisons.
-
- That does NOT count the various checks it will have to make for blank
- phone numbers and such. Dupechek also must strip out the hyphen
- character so that 271-2146 is the same as 2712146.
-
- As you can imagine, this takes a little time, though it's not that bad.
- On my 300 user test file (that's 90,000 comparisons) and a (highly
- overrated) 8mhz XT, Dupechek takes about 5 unscientifically calculated
- minutes (no clock used :-)).
-
- Dupechek is a simple progam and it will not harm any files since it only
- READS the users.bbs. Dupechek makes no attempt to share the users.bbs.
- Dupechek's output is to the standard output device so it may be redirected
- to a printer or diskfile.
-
- There are no command line parameters, fancy error checking, etc. Run
- Dupechek in the directory that contains your Users.bbs and sit back. If
- Dupechek cannot find two users with the same phone number, there will
- be absolutely NO output. Dupechek will quietly end and you may wonder if
- it even did anything.. it did.
-
- When Dupechek finds two users with the same numbers its output looks
- like this...
-
- Mike Janke (0) has same phone # as Joe Blow
-
- DupeChek doesn't tell you which numbers are the same... data or home,
- but it does make a cross comparison for each user. In other words it
- checks User A's home and data phone numbers against User B's home phone
- then checks User A's home and data phone against User B's data phone.
-
- Dupechek is free to use though it is NOT public domain.
-
- enjoy
- -mike
-
-