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- The GAP-Pro line of utilities by RoboSoft Systems consists of
- programs designed to make your life as a GAP sysop much easier.
- They either provide capabilities not present in the basic GAP
- package or enhance capabilities that are included.
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- GAP_LIST generates file listings from a GAP filebase. In one pass
- through the filebase, GAP_LIST will allow you to create condensed
- and enhanced listings for any and all areas and/or subjects.
- GAP_LIST's major features include:
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- - Creates Master lists of all areas and subjects
- specified in the configuration file.
- - Creates Area (Forum) lists including all subjects
- or individual subjects specified in the configuration
- file.
- - Creates individual listings for each area/subject.
- - Can create separate Condensed, Enhanced, Raw, and
- New File listings in each of the categories above.
- - Creates a color summary bulletin listing the number
- of files and total bytes in each area and subject.
- - Allows files to be excluded from the listings
- according to security level.
- - Multi-user version can be run while users are still
- online.
- - Configuration file is plain ASCII so it's easy to
- change and you can have any number of different
- configurations.
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- GAP_VERIFY is a batch mode maintenance tool for the GAP
- filebase. It's primary functions are:
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- - Verify the size, date, and location of files in
- the filebase.
- - Word-wrap the enhanced descriptions to fit the
- 72-character line allowed by GAP.
- - Extract and use FILE_ID.DIZ descriptions if found
- in .ZIP files.
- - Add a contents line to the enhanced description
- showing the number of files and newest/oldest
- file date for .ZIP files.
- - Re-parse the keywords using a sysop-defined list
- of words to be excluded from use as indexed keywords.
- - Look for "lost" files on the hard drive. These are
- files that exist on the hard drive but aren't in
- the GAP filebase.
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- To provide for extremely fast operation, GAP_VERIFY makes use
- of advanced virtual memory techniques. If you have a couple
- megabytes of EMS/XMS memory available, GAP_VERIFY should just
- about fly on your machine. The verify process should run
- anywhere from twice as fast to upwards of ten times as fast as
- the GAPFILE UPDATE function, depending on exactly what is
- being updated.
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- One particularly handy use for GAP_VERIFY is to periodically
- scan your upload area and extract the FILE_ID.DIZ descriptions
- from the files uploaded in non-batch mode. It will also update
- the file sizes to correct for comments added to the ZIP during
- UPCHECK processing.
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- Forum Shuffle will allow you to quickly and easily change the
- arrangement of the forums on your GAP BBS. It will do
- everything except update your menus. All you have to do is
- figure out what order you want the forums in and Forum_Shuffle
- will do the rest, including rearranging all the files required
- for GAPQWK and MainMail, and updating your filebase to reflect
- the new forum arrangement.
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- Forum Shuffle is not the kind of program you're likely to use real
- often, but, when you need it, there is NO substitute. Forum Shuffle
- can save you many hours of tedious, boring work.
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- GAP_Merge allows you to merge two GAP filebases into a single
- filebase. To an extent, this duplicates the capability provided by
- the GAPFILE Merge function, but GAP_Merge allows you to specify a
- specific mapping of the area/subject associations between the source
- and destination filebases. This means you do not need to make
- massive changes to the area/subject arrangement of either filebase
- before doing the merge. If you want area 0, subject 5 in the source
- to become area 7, subject 42 in the destination, GAP_Merge will take
- care of it for you.
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- GAP_Merge will produce a complete log of all the collisions found
- during the merge and will optionally delete either the source or
- destination file in the event of a collision. This is very handy
- when merging a CD-ROM filebase into an existing filebase.
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- A very useful side benefit of the area/subject mapping ability of
- GAP_Merge is that by merging an existing filebase into a brand new
- filebase (which GAP_Merge will create for you), you can use
- GAP_Merge to rearrange your filebase areas and subjects. You
- simply indicate what you want the new area/subject mappings to be
- and GAP_Merge will create a new filebase to your specifications.
- If you've been wanting to rearrange your filebase but have been
- putting it off because of the massive amount of work involved,
- GAP_Merge may be just the solution you've been looking for.
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