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- GATHER v. 1.20
-
- Copyright 1993
-
- by
- Pass - the - Buck Software
- Independence, Mo.
-
-
- Gather is a simple, single purpose utility designed for use with the
- RemoteAccess (c) Bulletin Board System. It gathers the files on the
- system into an ALLFILES listing for download by system users.
-
- Gather does NOT attempt to manage files or alter your files.bbs in any
- way. It is intended for, and well behaved in, unattended operation on
- a 80286 or better system. Gather was not designed to operate on an XT
- class machine. A version of Gather compiled with the 8088 instruction
- set is available upon request.
-
- While Gather has been exhaustively tested and performs reliably in DOS,
- Windows and DesqView, it is impossible to guarantee it will work in all
- system configurations. The usual FreeWare/ShareWare disclaimers apply.
- Use this program at your own risk.
-
- This program may be used and freely distributed for all non-commercial
- uses in unmodified form and with all files included and intact.
-
- For non-commercial usage of this program you are NOT required to
- register or notify the author. I would appreciate a short FIDO NetMail
- message if you care to send one. Please let me know if the program
- is of value to you and behaves well on your system. Of course, also
- let me know if you have any problems with it.
-
- NETMAIL: Dave Perry FIDO 1:280/19
- 1:280/32
-
- I will receive mail addressed to either node.
-
-
- The author retains all intellectual property and distribution rights.
-
-
- INSTALLATION:
-
- Create a directory to contain the GATHER files. This directory would
- normally contain:
-
- GATHER.EXE The executable file
- GATHER.CFG The configuration file
- GATHER.DOC This documentation (for future reference)
-
- GATHER.HDR User supplied ASCII text BBS Banner file
- GATHER.FTR User supplied ASCII text file appended to end of listing.
- NEW.HDR User supplied ASCII text BBS Banner file
- NEW.FTR User supplied ASCII text file appended to end of listing.
-
- All of the files listed may reside anywhere in the system as long as the
- complete path and file names are included in the configuration file. If
- the files are contained in the SAME directory as the .EXE file, only the
- file name need be listed in the config file.
-
-
- OPERATION:
-
- Gather requires that the RA environment variable be set in your system.
- It uses this information to locate the FILES.RA control file used by RA.
- Gather reads this file to locate the FILES.BBS files in each of the system
- directories. See your RA documentation if this environment variable is
- not currently set. (It should be for proper operation of RA)
-
- Gather expects to find the GATHER.CFG file in the current working directory.
- If the configuration file lives elswhere in the system, the command line
- MUST contain the complete path and file name for the file. This also makes
- it possible to use separate configuration files for different purposes or
- groups of users. If you wish to make different listings for different
- security levels or for network MAGICNAME listings, just create the config
- files and call Gather with the path file names of the separate configurations.
-
-
- CONFIGURATION:
-
- Following is a complete list of the configuration commands that can be
- used in configuring Gather for your system. The commands may be used in
- any order.
-
- The command must be the first thing on the line and may be in either
- upper or lower case. Following the command in the text is a sample
- parameter. Use this as a guideline to make it suit your system.
-
- GATHER supports .arc .arj .lzh .pak .zip file compression utilities.
- It expects to find the compression program in a directory included in the
- DOS path statement or in the current working directory.
-
-
- ALLFILES d:\ra\files\bbsfiles.zip
-
- Produce a file called BBSFILES compressed with PKZIP (c) in the indicated
- directory. The file name of the uncompressed file is ALLFILES.TXT by default.
-
-
- ALLTEXT 280-19.lst
-
- Make the uncompressed allfile listing with the name 280-19.LST. This makes
- the uncompressed file identifiable with your system when the user has
- downloaded several.
-
-
- NEWFILES d:\ra\files\bbsnew.zip
-
- Produce a file called BBSNEW compressed with PKZIP (c) in the indicated
- directory. The file name of the uncompressed file is NEWFILES and is a listing
- of files that have arrived on the system in the last nn days. Use the NEWDAYS
- command (below) to set the number of days.
-
-
- NEWTEXT 280-19.new
-
- Make the uncompressed NEW file listing with the name 280-19.NEW. This makes
- the uncompressed file identifiable with your system when the user has
- downloaded several.
-
-
- DIR_ID on
-
- Some systems use file management utilities which modify the FILES.BBS file
- to include header information. This switch makes Gather compatable with
- most of these utilities. If this switch is OFF, Gather will not include
- a directory header or file summary in the each of the directories. The
- header placed in the FILES.BBS file will be used instead.
-
-
- NEWMARK *
-
- Defines the character to use to indicate new files in the ALLFILE list.
- If this command is deleted or commented out and a new file search is
- indicated, the graphics character "■" is used by default.
-
-
- NEWDAYS 30
-
- Defines the number of days to include in a NEW file search. If this
- command is deleted or commented out no NEW files will be indicated in
- the ALLFILE list and NO NEW files output file will be created. Valid
- NEWDAYS range from 1 to 255.
-
-
- HEADER [d:\dir\]gather.hdr
-
- Path and file name to be prepended to the ALLFILE list. If the ASCII
- text file lives in the current directory, only the file name is needed.
- If you wish to use a file used for archive commenting, you may use the
- full DOS path and file name to indicate that file. This file may be
- named anything you wish as long as it is a valid DOS file name.
-
-
- FOOTER [d:\dir\]gather.ftr
-
- Same as above but file is appended to the end of the file listing.
-
-
- NEWHEADER [d:\dir\]new.hdr
-
- Same as above but applies to NEW listing file.
-
-
- NEWFOOTER [d:\dir\]gather.ftr
-
- Same as above but applies to NEW listing file.
-
-
- SECURITY 20
-
- Sets the security level of user access to a specific directory for
- both the NEW and ALLFILE listings. All directories with user download
- access of 20 or less will be included in the list. Directories with
- user access of 21 or greater will not be included in the listings.
-
-
- LOGFILE d:\ra\ra.log
-
- Complete DOS path and file name of logging file to use for Gather
- output. The default is GATHER.LOG in the current directory. Naming
- the path to the RA system log will result in the inclusion of Gather
- results in that file.
-
-
- I hope you find this utility of value.
-
- Dave Perry
- Pass - the - Buck SoftWare
- Independence, Mo.
- 1:280/19
-
-
- History:
-
- 01/17/93
- v. 1.1
- First release of GATHER remade to operate with RemoteAccess from
- original designed for another BBS system.
-
- 02/20/93
- v. 1.2
- Changed date comparison routine that was causing GATHER to ignore
- files uploaded in current month if month was not January. Had to
- wait till February to find this one. Thanks to Mike Poston of the
- Sounding Board BBS for calling this to my attention.
-