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- MBUTIL - RemoteAccess/QuickBBS Message Base Utility 1.10
- Copyright (C) 1990 Gerard van der Land. All rights reserved.
-
-
-
- Features
- --------
-
- * Sorting messages by board and post date and time
- * Purging messages by number, date or received status
- * Message base packing with AutoRenumber
- * Reply chain linking and subject cleaning
- * Creating index files and fixing all kinds of problems and errors
- * Undeleting deleted messages
- * Moving all messages in one board to another board
- * Posting a file as a message
- * Netmail Import .MSG ==> MSG*.BBS
- * Netmail Export MSG*.BBS ==> .MSG (updates credit)
- * Replacing up to 5 different tearlines in outgoing echomail messages
- * Creating 'Outbound Traffic Report'
- * Build-in help screens for all commands
- * It does NOT require a specific BBS program, mailer or message
- editor, as it uses its own control file and environment variable
- * Writes logfile in FrontDoor, Opus, D'Bridge, Binkley and QuickBBS
- format
-
-
-
- Disclaimer, License and Other Important Stuff
- ---------------------------------------------
-
- The following points must be considered, understood and agreed
- upon BEFORE you use MBUTIL 1.10:
-
- * MBUTIL is distributed as ShareWare, and not as FreeWare or Public
- Domain!
-
- * This documentation and the accompanying program is copyrighted
- material by Gerard van der Land.
-
- * Although care has been taken to write and test a program that does
- what this documentation states, the program is provided as it is,
- without warranty or guarantee of any kind, either expressed or
- implied, as to the quality or performance of this program, except
- that it will occupy disk space.
-
- * The author will not be held liable to you or anyone for any direct,
- indirect, incidental or consequential damages, including any lost
- profits, lost savings which may result from the use or inability to
- use this program.
- Your use of the program constitutes your agreement to this
- disclaimer and your release of the author from any form of liability
- or litigation.
-
- * You are granted limited license to use MBUTIL 1.10 and you are
- encouraged to copy and distribute it in an unmodified way as much as
- you want, as long as you still abide to the conditions mentioned
- here and no money or other compensation is asked or accepted.
-
- 1
-
- System Hardware and Software Requirements
- -----------------------------------------
-
- * An IBM PC, XT, AT or 100% compatible.
- * The amount of RAM that should be available very much depends on
- which command you are using and how big your message base is, but
- around 300 KB should be enough in most cases. If you run it under
- DoubleDOS/DesqView, just try. If there's not enough memory
- available, MBUTIL will certainly let you know!
- * Microsoft MS-DOS 3.00 / IBM PC-DOS 3.00 or above. MBUTIL was
- successfully tested under MS-DOS 4.01.
- * At least "FILES=15" (or more) in your CONFIG.SYS.
- * A RemoteAccess ≤ 0.0x or QuickBBS 2.xx compatible message base.
-
-
-
- Setup
- -----
-
- Before you use MBUTIL you should enter your information in the
- control file MBUTIL.CTL using an ASCII text editor. Explanation of the
- keywords is given there.
-
-
-
- Environment Variable
- --------------------
-
- Usage:
-
- SET MBU=<controfile> [<color>]
-
- To be able to run MBUTIL from any directory, you can use the MBU
- environment variable. If MBUTIL can't find MBUTIL.CTL in the current
- path, it will try the open the filename set with MBU. This can also be
- useful for people having more than one message base, who can use SET
- to select from their batch file which control file should be used.
-
- <color> is optional and is the default text color, which is also
- used if the control file was found in the current path. It is
- calculated as follows:
-
- <foreground color> + (16 * <background color>)
-
- Colors:
-
- 0 Black 4 Red
- 1 Blue 5 Magenta
- 2 Green 6 Yellow
- 3 Cyan 7 White
-
- Add 8 for highlighted foreground colors. <color> is 7 by default
- (White text on a Black background).
-
- Example:
-
- SET MBU=C:\RA\MBUTIL.CTL 3
-
-
- 2
-
- Specifying Boards
- -----------------
-
- If you must specify a <board>, you can use the area tag (if you
- have specified an AreasFile in the control file), or #<boardnumber>.
-
- A special fixed area name is "NETMAIL", which will always refer
- to your NetmailBoard, if defined.
-
-
-
- Help Screens
- ------------
-
- If you run 'MBUTIL', you will see the following help screen:
-
- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | MBUTIL - RemoteAccess/QuickBBS Message Base Utility 1.10 |
- | Copyright (C) 1990 Gerard van der Land. All rights reserved. |
- | |
- | Usage: |
- | |
- | MBUTIL <command> [<parameters>] |
- | |
- | Commands: |
- | |
- | Export Export netmail messages and replace tearlines |
- | Import Import netmail messages |
- | Index Create new index files |
- | Link Create reply chains and clean subjects |
- | Move Move messages in one board to another board |
- | Pack Pack the message base files |
- | Post Post a file as message in a specified board |
- | Purge Delete messages according to age or number |
- | Sort Sort unread or all messages by board/date/time |
- | Undelete Undelete deleted messages |
- | |
- | Run 'MBUTIL <command> ?' to get information about <parameters>. |
- | |
- | C:\RA>_ |
- | |
- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- Example:
-
- MBUTIL Purge ?
-
- This will give you information about the Purge command and its
- parameters. If a parameter is missing or invalid, MBUTIL will also
- show you a help screen.
-
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-
- Sort
- ----
-
- Usage:
-
- MBUTIL Sort [-All] [-Backup] [-Pack]
-
- The Sort command can be used to sort all unread messages by
- board number and post date and time. This has two advantages:
-
- + When using combined read mode to read new messages for example,
- you won't see messages from different boards mixed up.
- + It reduces the chance that you read a reply to a message before
- you actually read the message that was replied to, which
- happened pretty often to me and which was actually the reason
- why I started writing MBUTIL in the first place! But from one
- thing came another...
-
- Reading replies before the original messages is in most cases
- caused by echo mail processors that don't sort incoming mail
- packets, but I think that DOESN'T HAVE TO BE the case, since a reply
- can simply have a shorter or faster PATH than the message that was
- replied to.
-
- MBUTIL checks if there is enough disk space available. After
- that it scans LASTREAD.BBS to find the highest message that was read
- by all users. MBUTIL assumes there are actually messages to sort and
- starts rewriting MSGHDR.BBS and MSGTOIDX.BBS while scanning
- MSGHDR.BBS to find out where to start sorting. I could have used
- MSGIDX.BBS for this, but the current way is more reliable and works
- faster if there actually are messages to sort, which will most
- likely be the case if you run Sort only each time new messages were
- tossed in to the message base.
-
- MBUTIL will remove all reply chains while sorting, so you
- should run 'MBUTIL Link' each time you used Sort. The next version
- might Link while Sorting. This version can sort up to about 9360
- messages.
-
- You can use '-All' to sort the entire message base, but THIS
- IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR BBS SYSTEMS, as IT DOES NOT UPDATE THE
- LASTREAD.BBS POINTERS (I suggest you delete LASTREAD.BBS if you use
- this switch). It was only added because some POINTS in the beta-team
- requested it.
-
- Switches:
-
- -All Sort entire message base (ignores LASTREAD pointers)
- -Backup Keep the original MSGHDR.BBS as backup (.BAK)
- -Pack Remove header records of deleted messages
-
-
-
-
- The rest of MBUTIL is actually a clone of TosScan(q) Message
- Utility (TSUTIL) 1.00, with some additions and improvements here and
- there. TSUTIL was written by Mats Wallin and Joaquim Homrighausen. I
- hope they won't be angry with me! ;-)
-
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-
- Purge
- -----
-
- Usage:
-
- MBUTIL Purge [-File <file>] [<criteria>] [-Convert <output>]
-
- The Purge command can be used to delete messages based on
- <criteria> specified per board, like age, received status or maximum
- number of messages. <criteria> can be a command line or a text
- <file> with lines in the following format:
-
- [<board>] [-All] [-Days <days>] [-Rcvd] [-Msgs <number>]
-
- <file> can also be "RemoteAccess" or "TosScan", which will
- use their files, if found in the current path.
-
- If you add '-Convert <output>', you can convert TosScan or RA
- information to a <output> text file. If you use '-Msgs <msgs> -Days
- <days> -Rcvd -Convert <output>', your AreasFile will be converted to
- purge file format. You may put comments after a ; in a text <file>.
-
- If you use '-File <file> -Days <days> -Msgs <msgs>', <days>
- and <msgs> will apply to all boards for which the number of
- Days/Msgs was not defined (zero) in <file>.
-
- If you use '-File <file> <board> -Days <days> -Msgs <msgs>',
- <days> and <msgs> will override the settings in <file>.
-
- If you use '[-File <file>] [<board>] -Rcvd', received messages
- will be deleted in <board> or all boards.
-
- If you use '-File RemoteAccess [...]', it will delete received
- messages in all boards where the "Days After Received Messages are
- Killed" value in RACONFIG is non-zero.
-
- If you want to, you can still retrieve deleted messages with
- 'MBUTIL Undelete', described later.
-
- Switches:
-
- -All Delete all messages (won't be used as default)
- -Days Delete messages older than <days>
- -Rcvd Delete all received messages
- -Msgs Delete all except the last <number> messages
- -Convert Convert AreasFile, MESSAGES.RA or AREAFILE.FD
-
- Examples:
-
- ; Delete messages older than 2 weeks and received messages on board
- 10.
- MBUTIL Purge #10 -Days 14 -Rcvd
-
- ; Delete messages in SYSOPS.028 according to information in MBUTIL.PUR
- MBUTIL Purge -File MBUTIL.PUR SYSOPS.028
-
-
-
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-
- Pack
- ----
-
- Usage:
-
- MBUTIL Pack [-Backup] [-Force] [-Overwrite] [-Renumber]
- [-Delete] [-Recover]
-
- The Pack command can be used to pack the message base files by
- removing deleted messages.
-
- Pack will by default rewrite the message base file and delete
- the old files if the message base was packed successfully. If you
- use '-Backup', it will keep MSGHDR.BAK and MSGTXT.BAK. Note that I
- don't keep a backup of the index files. If you should ever need to
- use your backup message base, just run 'MBUTIL Index' to create new
- index files. By using '-Overwrite' you can choose to overwrite the
- existing files if there's not enough disk space to create new files.
- I personally always use and recommend using '-Force' to overwrite
- the existing message base files, which has the following advantages
- and disadvantages:
-
- + It requires no free disk space at all, which is actually the
- reason why I always HAVE to use overwrite mode. :-)
-
- + It is much faster (especially since MBUTIL won't rewrite text
- blocks that don't need to be moved)
-
- + It causes less disk fragmentation, and thus prevents message
- base access from slowing down.
-
- - It is a little bit more dangerous, because if MBUTIL is
- interrupted while overwriting, it will probably damage your
- message base beyond repair. 'MBUTIL Index -Delete -Renumber' is
- the best you can do when this should happen. MBUTIL will
- temporary ignore the Ctrl-Break and Ctrl-C keys when it is in
- overwrite-mode so you can't accidentally interrupt it.
-
- When MBUTIL has renumbered the messages, it will update the
- LASTREAD pointers in LASTREAD.BBS. If USERS.BBS exists it will also
- update the 'highest read' pointers in the user records and reformat
- LASTREAD.BBS if necessary. I recommend using '-Renumber' regularly.
- MBUTIL will automagically renumber if the highest message number is
- higher than what you defined using the 'AutoRenumber' keyword in the
- control file.
-
- See 'MBUTIL Index' on the next page for details on using '-Delete'
- and '-Recover'.
-
- Switches:
-
- -Backup Keep the original MSGHDR.BBS and MSGTXT.BBS as .BAK
- -Force Force overwriting of the existing message base files
- -Overwrite Overwrite existing files only if short of disk space
- -Renumber Renumber messages and update LASTREAD pointers
- -Delete Delete messages crosslinked in MSGTXT.BBS
- -Recover Move messages in invalid boards to the RecoveryBoard
-
-
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-
- Index
- -----
-
- Usage:
-
- MBUTIL Index [-Delete] [-Recover] [-Renumber]
-
- The Index command can be used to create the following index files:
-
- MSGIDX.BBS This file contains the message and board numbers
- of each parallel records in MSGHDR.BBS. It is used
- to quickly find a message by message number or to
- find the previous/next message on a specific board
- or in the entire message base.
-
- MSGTOIDX.BBS This file contains the name of the addressees of
- the messages in the parallel record in MSGHDR.BBS.
- It contains "* Received *" if a message is already
- received and "* Deleted *" if a message is already
- deleted. It is used to quickly check the entire
- message base for personal mail.
-
- MSGINFO.BBS This file contains the total number of messages in
- the entire message base, the highest and lowest
- message numbers used and the number of messages
- per board. It is used to give the BBS program,
- message editor or echo mail processor this
- information without having to scan MSGHDR.BBS.
-
- Note that these index files are also created by the Pack,
- Purge and Undelete commands. If Sort sorted message it will also
- create new index files.
-
- You can optionally delete crosslinked messages (two or more
- messages claiming partially or entirely the same block in
- MSGTXT.BBS) or messages pointing to a non-existing block (outside
- MSGTXT.BBS). You can also choose to move messages in invalid boards
- (0 or > 200) to the RecoveryBoard. If you haven't defined one, these
- messages will be deleted if you use the -Delete or -Recover
- switches. Please note that -Delete and -Recover don't update the
- reply chains.
-
- If the message numbers really get out of order and/or Pack is
- unable to renumber the messages (for instance if there are negative
- message numbers or you don't have enough memory available) you can
- use the -Renumber switch to fix this. Please note that this will
- *NOT* update the LASTREAD pointers. Only use this switch in extreme
- emergencies. If you don't have very much memory you should run
- 'MBUTIL Pack -Renumber' regularly or choose a low AutoRenumber value
- to prevent needing this.
-
- Switches:
-
- -Delete Delete messages crosslinked in MSGTXT.BBS
- -Recover Move messages in invalid boards to the RecoveryBoard
- -Renumber Renumber all message numbers in MSGHDR.BBS
-
-
-
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-
- Link
- ----
-
- Usage:
-
- MBUTIL Link [-Clean] [-Remove]
-
- The Link command can be used to link messages with the same
- subject in a reply chain that can be walked through with the message
- editor or the BBS program.
-
- MBUTIL will always create new reply chains for all boards
- rather than updating any existing reply chains. Deleted messages
- will not be linked. MBUTIL links messages using a CRC-32 on the
- message subjects, ignoring case and "Re:" or "(R)" junk. Future
- versions of MBUTIL will use the MSGID and REPLY kludges and/or sort
- the reply chains by post date.
-
- With the -Remove switch MBUTIL will only remove all existing
- reply chains.
-
- With the -Clean switch MBUTIL will remove "Re:" and "(R)" junk
- from the subject texts.
-
- I recommend running 'Link -Clean' each time messages were
- tossed into the message base.
-
- Switches:
-
- -Clean Remove "Re:" and "(R)" from subjects
- -Remove Remove all existing reply chains
-
-
-
- Move
- ----
-
- Usage:
-
- MBUTIL Move <from_board> <to_board>
-
- The Move command can be used to move all messages in one board
- to another board. The messages are not physically moved, only their
- board number is changed. They keep the same message numbers and
- reply chains. Deleted messages will not be moved.
-
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-
- Export
- ------
-
- Usage:
-
- MBUTIL Export [-Crash] [-Direct] [-Keep] [-ReTear] [-Report]
-
- or:
-
- MBUTIL Export <board> <path> [-Delete]
-
- The Export command is the opposite of the Import command and
- can be used to export messages from RemoteAccess message boards to
- FidoNet .MSG standard messages. It will by default export netmail
- messages from all boards to the NetmailPath if defined.
-
- If netmail was entered using RemoteAccess, those programs will
- increment the Pending field in the user record. When MBUTIL has
- exported such messages, it will decrement both Pending and Credit
- fields in the user record (if found).
-
- Netmail will NOT be exported if it is destined to your main
- address or one of your Aka's.
-
- When export is used to export netmail, it will also turn off
- invalid 'Outgoing EchoMail' bits of messages that don't have the
- Local bit set, which fixes the problem that Qecho exports messages
- that you replied to with FrontDoor 1.99c. MBUTIL will also create a
- file TRAFFIC.MBU, that contains the number of outbound messages from
- each board. Use '-Report' to produce the report TRAFFIC.RPT.
-
- When you use the -ReTear switch, MBUTIL will search outgoing
- echomail messages for up to five specified tearlines and replace
- them with the matching ones, comparable to ReTear by Cary Howell.
-
- If you specify <path> <board>, you can use MBUTIL to Export
- all messages in an RemoteAccess board to .MSG format. Don't use this
- to export netmail!
-
- Switches:
-
- -All Send all messages to another zone direct, not via the
- zonegate (myzone:myzone/destzone)
- -Crash Send only crash messages to another zone direct
- -Keep Keep the message in the NetmailPath after they have been
- sent. Normally to are killed after they have been sent.
- -Delete Delete messages in the RemoteAccess board after they
- have been exported. This is always done for netmail
- with the Kill/Sent bit set, even if you use -Keep.
- -ReTear Replace the tearlines of Outgoing Echomail messages
-
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-
- Import
- ------
-
- Usage:
-
- MBUTIL Import [-Users]
-
- or:
-
- MBUTIL Import <path> <board> [-Delete]
-
- The Import command is the opposite of the Export command and
- can be used to import messages from FidoNet standard .MSG message
- files to RemoteAccess message boards.
-
- It will by default import messages from the NetmailPath to the
- NetmailBoard if defined. It only imports netmail messages that are
- destined to your main address or one of your Aka's and if the name
- of the addressee is one of the users listed in the control file or
- found in the user file. If a message is for one of the users listed
- in the control file, MBUTIL will still search the user file (if any)
- for the username, and replace it exactly as it was written there. If
- you use the -User switch, MBUTIL will NOT import messages addressed
- to users listed in the control file.
-
- If you specify <path> <board>, you can use MBUTIL to Import an
- entire directory of .MSG format echomail messages, for example to
- import messages from you Dupe path to a RemoteAccess board. Don't
- use this to import netmail!
-
- Switches:
-
- -Delete Delete the .MSG files after they have been imported in
- they have been imported in the RemoteAccess.
- This is always done for netmail.
- -Users Don't import messages to any of the users defined in the
- control file
-
- Examples:
-
- ; Import netmail
- MBUTIL Import
-
- ; Import all .MSG files in C:\FD\BADECHO to the area "NEWECHO" and
- ; then delete the .MSG files
- MBUTIL Import C:\FD\BADECHO NEWECHO -Delete
-
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-
- Post
- ----
-
- Usage:
-
- MBUTIL Post <file> <board> [-From <from>] [-To <to>]
- [-Subject <subject>]
-
- The Post command is similar to the Import command and can be
- used to create a message with the contents of a specified file in a
- specified board. The messages will have the 'Outgoing Echomail' bit
- set, so they will be exported if you post them in an echomail board.
- Post can't post files larger than 32 KB. If <from>, <to> or
- <subject> contains spaces, enclose it in double quotes.
-
- Defaults:
-
- -From First UserName defined in control file
- -To All
- -Subject <file>
-
- Example:
-
- MBUTIL Post C:\MBU_REL.TXT 37 -From "Gerard van.der.Land"
- -To "Everyone" -Subject "Message Base Utility 1.10 release"
-
- One special option not listed on the help screen is the -Test
- switch. If you use it, the Post command will have the following
- format:
-
- MBUTIL Post <number> <board> -Test [...]
-
- MBUTIL will post <number> test messages in the specified
- <board>. Those message will NOT be exported. I used this switch for
- testing purposes and decided to keep in the release version.
-
-
-
- Undelete
- --------
-
- Usage:
-
- MBUTIL Undelete [<board>]
-
- The Undelete command can be used to undelete all deleted
- messages in all boards or <board>.
-
- When messages are deleted, they are marked as deleted and not
- physically deleted or overwritten, which means that you can Undelete
- all deleted messages, as long as the message base file haven't been
- packed yet.
-
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-
- AreasFile Example
- -----------------
-
- This is an example for an AreasFile. This file, usually called
- AREAS.BBS, is used by some echomail processors, like Qecho and ZMail.
-
- /--------------------------------------------------------------------\
- Default origin line ! Sysop name
- 1 RA_SUPPORT [net/nodes...]
- 2 RA_SUP.028 [net/nodes...]
- 3 LOCAL
- \--------------------------------------------------------------------/
-
- In this example "RA_SUPPORT" would be the same as "#1". As you
- can see, you can add local areas to make it easier to specify those
- boards.
-
-
-
- Purge File Example
- ------------------
-
- This is an example for a Purge File.
-
- /--------------------------------------------------------------------\
- ; MBUTIL 1.10 Purge File
- ;
- ; Example
- ;
- ; 0 Days or 0 Msgs = unlimited
- ;
- ;Board # of Days # of Msgs Rcvd Comment (optional)
- ;----- --------- ----------- ----- --------------------------------
- -Days 21 -Msgs 100 ; Default values
- #001 -Days 14 -Msgs 200 ; Int. RemoteAccess Support Area
- #002 -Days 21 -Msgs 50 ; Nat. RemoteAccess Support Area
- #003 -Days 28 -Msgs 150 -Rcvd ; Local sysop board
- ;
- ; It can also be like this:
- ;
- RA_SUPPORT -Days 15 -Msgs 300 ; RemoteAccess Support Area
- NETMAIL -Days 14 -Msgs 200 -Rcvd ; This is the NetmailBoard
- LOCAL -Days 10 -Msgs 75 -Rcvd ; Local board
- \--------------------------------------------------------------------/
-
- You can also create a Purge File with the -Convert switch:
-
- To convert MESSAGES.RA to a text file:
- MBUTIL Purge -File RemoteAccess [...] -Convert PURGE.RA
-
- To convert AREAFILE>FD to a text file:
- MBUTIL Purge -File TosScan [...] -Convert PURGE.TS
-
- To convert your AreasFile to a text file:
- MBUTIL Purge [...] -Convert PURGE.MBU
-
- You can also specify default values:
- MBUTIL Purge -Days 14 -Msgs 50 -Rcvd -Convert PURGE.MBU
-
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- Batch File Example
- ------------------
-
- /--------------------------------------------------------------------\
- :Clean
- rem Do your daily/nightly maintenance here.
-
- rem The Purge command depends on what software you are using.
-
- rem In a RemoteAccess environment you can use:
- CD \RA
- MBUTIL Purge -File RemoteAccess
-
- rem In a FrontDoor+TosScan environment you can use:
- CD \FD
- MBUTIL Purge -File TosScan
-
- rem This works in all environments:
- MBUTIL Purge -File MBUTIL.PUR
-
- rem This command deletes invalid messages, recovers messages in
- rem invalid boards and packs and renumbers the message base by
- rem overwriting the existing message base files
- MBUTIL Pack -Force -Renumber -Delete -Recover
- goto Start
-
- :Unpack
- rem Toss incoming echomail, import netmail, sort unread messages
- rem and create reply chains
- <command to toss incoming echomail>
- MBUTIL Import
- MBUTIL Sort -Pack
- MBUTIL Link -Clean
- goto Start
-
- :Net
- rem Only export NetMail
- MBUTIL Export
- goto Start
-
- :Net&Echo
- rem It is not necessary that there is NetMail that needs to be
- rem exported, but we run Export anyway for the ReTear option.
- rem We are sure that EchoMail needs to be exported.
- rem Just replace the "goto Echo" with "goto Net&Echo"
- MBUTIL Export -ReTear
- <command to scan outgoing echomail>
- goto Start
- \--------------------------------------------------------------------/
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-
- History/Future
- --------------
-
- Until now I spent quit some hours writing, testing and
- documenting MBUTIL and I will keep on doing that. There are also
- things that can and will be done to make MBUTIL even a little bit
- smaller and faster. There is still some redundant code that could be
- made more compact and efficient. MBUTIL is also using quit a lot of
- memory at the moment, which can be made less. Further I'm working on
- my own echomail processor and a full screen personal mail check.
-
-
-
- Registration
- ------------
-
- As long as you don't register, MBUTIL will remind you of that on
- the screen and in the logfile. MBUTIL is NOT crippled in any way. If
- you use this program for a period of time and you decide you like it,
- you can get a personal RegistrationKey by sending:
-
- * $10US - $99US (Whatever the program is worth to you, may also be an
- equivalent amount in a freely convertible currency).
-
- * The name you want to have defined after the "RegisteredTo" keyword.
-
- * Any questions, comments, suggestions and bug-reports, and ofcourse
- your FidoNet (or else snail mail) address, to:
-
- Gerard van der Land
- Cannenburg 23
- 3772 BH Barneveld
- The Netherlands
-
- FidoNet 2:283/1.5 and 2:283/108.1
-
- Users in The Netherlands can transfer their registration to
- PostBank giro-account 5.245.162 in The Netherlands. For usres outside
- The Netherlands there are a few other possibilities to send your
- registration:
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- * Cash money in a registered letter.
- * Sending a EuroCheque.
- * International money order.
- * Personal check. If you absolutely want to do this, the minimum
- registration fee is $17US, because of the outrageous conversion cost
- the banks charge when cashing a check.
-
- You will receive your key per crashmail (or snailmail if you are
- not in FidoNet) as soon as possible after I received the money or
- money order form or check.
-
- Don't forget to register!
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- Technical Notes
- ---------------
-
- * MBUTIL was written using Turbo C 2.00 and Turbo Assembler 1.01.
- * It writes directly to video RAM or DesqView/DoubleDOS virtual screen
- buffer.
- * It can't be used while an other program is also using the message
- base at the same time (multitasking environments). It does not
- support record locking yet, which might change in the near future.
- * Import and Export are fully zone and point aware.
- * Export creates FTS-0001 rev 12 compatible .MSG files.
- * Import can parse Fido and SEAdog style .MSG dates.
- * Link is based on code written by Folkert Wijnstra.
- * You can use LZEXE 0.91 by Fabrice Bellard to reduce the size of
- MBUTIL.EXE down to 32 KB.
-
- * TRAFFIC.MBU has the follow format:
-
- struct TRAFFIC.MBU {
- unsigned int Outbound[200]; /* # of outbound messages per board */
- unsigned char Month, Day, Year, Hour, Minute; /* file created */
- unsigned long TotalCost; /* total netmail cost */
- } Traffic;
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-
-
- Many Thanks To...
- -----------------
-
- ... Eric Lotgerink, Onno Hagers, Perry de Ronde, Reinier de Groot,
- Adrie van Lith, Folkert Wijnstra, Gerard Sittrop, Rudi van Lishout,
- Richard B. van Dijk, Willem Blink, John Veldhuis, Sander Davidson,
- Sander Eek, Ari Sadarjoen, Peter Smink, Jan Vroonhof, Arjen Lentz and
- all who I forgot...
-
- All brand and product names are Copyrighted (C) material,
- Trademarks <tm> or Registered Trademarks (R) of their respective
- holders:
-
- BinkleyTerm Bit Bucket Software
- D'Bridge Chris Irwin
- DesqView Quarterdeck Systems
- DoubleDOS SoftLogic Systems
- FrontDoor, TosScan Joaquim H. Homrighausen
- IBM International Business Machines Corporation
- MBUTIL Gerard van der Land
- Microsoft, MS-DOS Microsoft Corporation
- Opus Wynn Wagner III
- QuickBBS, Qecho Ultimate Software Technologies, Inc.
- RemoteAccess Continental Software, Inc.
- ReTear Cary Howell
- TSUTIL Mats Wallin and Joaquim H. Homrighausen
- Turbo C,
- Turbo Assembler Borland International, Inc.
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- Other Files I Released Recently
- -------------------------------
-
- * FD199CNG.ZIP (84 KB): The FrontDoor 1.99c Norton USER GUIDE database
-
- This archive contains FD199C.NG, which needs NG.EXE, the resident
- Norton Guides program. It enables you to consult the FrontDoor
- manual any time you want by pressing a hot key. It uses menus with
- the same conveniently arranged index as FRODO.DOC does.
-
- * FS_100.ZIP (7 KB): Folder sort 1.00
-
- A program that enables you to organize your FrontDoor FOLDER.SYS
- by manually moving the folders to the positions where you want
- them. You can also sort by title, delete folders or duplicate them
- to save time with adding new ones.
-
- * USA_100.ZIP (21 KB): USERS.BBS Statistics Analyzer 1.00
-
- A statistics program for RemoteAccess and QuickBBS 2.xx. It is
- very fast, small, and fully configurable. It can produce the
- following QuickBest look-alike surveys:
-
- + Best Downloaders (KB)
- + Best Uploaders (KB)
- + Best Downloaders (Times)
- + Best Uploaders (Times)
- + Best Callers
- + Best Message writers
- + Last Callers
- + Best active Areas
- + File/Message Base Report
- + Security Report with up to 7 Security Levels
- + Flag Report with Setting Flags and up to 7 Authorization Flags
-
- The latest version will always be requestable as "USA" and "MBUTIL"
- from:
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- 2:282/220 (V22b), RAccess The Arena, Stiens Holland
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- *==================* Pfff... End Of Documentation *==================*
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