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- │ ║ ║ ║ ╓──╖ │ ║ Version 0.90α
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- │ ╙───╜ ╨ ║──╜ │ ║ (c) Copyright 1992 - Stacy Smith
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- As some of you may know, I am the developer of the UpLoadProcessor (called ULP
- for short) utilities for PCBoard 14.5+ that are currently under development.
- Within the next month or so, I hope to have the first production release of ULP
- ready for widespread use (although you are welcome to test it out now, even
- though the feature set is not complete).
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- ULP will be including a BBS ad removal feature based on CRC-32 calculation of
- the file contents. In this fashion, ULP can detect a known ad file despite the
- file name and date. However, I need some help in compiling the ad database, as
- I've only come across a couple on my BBS.
-
- Rather than make the unreasonable request of asking people to upload every ad
- they find to my BBS, I have a written a small program to calculate the CRC-32
- and display it in both hex and decimal format. Any sysop who finds an ad can
- use this program to compute the CRC and include it in a message to me; in
- this message please include the filename, CRC-32 and file size. I can be
- contacted through the following means:
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- ∙ Fidonet Netmail addressed to Stacy Smith, node 1:276/112
- ∙ Intelec Shareware conference
- ∙ Intelec PCBoard conference
- ∙ Salt Air (CDC would probably prefer the Sysop Chatter conference)
- ∙ The ULP Support conference on my BBS (the Bloom Beacon-Picayune BBS
- at 804-525-9760 in Forest, Virginia)
-
- The command-line for the ULPCRC.EXE program is simply:
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- ULPCRC bbsad.ext
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- where 'bbsad.ext' is the full path and filename for the BBS ad file to be
- computed.
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- I greatly appreciate any ads you can help me identify and include in the
- ULP system!
-
- Stacy Smith
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