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- -=[ ARCH-LOG, the LOG-Archiver ]=-
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- Disclaimer:
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- I assume no responsibility for your use of ARCH-LOG.exe. I only
- guarantee that it will take space on your harddrive.
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- History:
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- I had 8 different log files scattered all over my drives growing
- daily. Therfor I always archive my logfiles. Until now that took
- place just before midnight. My BBS was zo configured that users
- had no access then and the system-time of a user, who was then at
- my BBS, was reduced. I hate that and I think it is not a quite
- friendly behaviour... That's the reason why I wrote ARCH-LOG.
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- So I started a simple, dirty utility to call ARJ, LHARC or PKZIP and
- archive the log to a file named after the original log file.
- Then a suggestion got to me, why not make so that you can archive
- multiple logs across multiple drives and directories unto a single
- file?. I also made it archive-configurable. I took the three most
- popular (at this moment) archivers:
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- - ARJ.EXE (output: .ARJ) (I momentarily use v2.20)
- - LHA.EXE (output: .LZH) (I momentarily use v2.11)
- - PKZIP.EXE (output: .ZIP) (I momentarily use v1.10)
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- The time at which you start the program is not important !
- At the commandline you can configure it too.
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- This version has been tested at my system. I have found no bugs
- so far, unfortunately it's not a guarantee. If you still have
- any bug reports please send them to Gerrit Mak at @fido 2:285/20.
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- When you don't enter any parameters at the commandline a simple
- usage has been shown.
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- Usage:
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- ARCH-LOG <path\archive-name> <path\logfile> <days> <method>
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- ! These four parameters are all recommended !
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- path\archive-name : the full path and the name (without extension)
- of the archived logfile.
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- path\logfile : the full path and the name of the (log-)file you
- want to archive.
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- days : amount of days (see below)
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- method : method of archive (ARJ, LZH or ZIP)
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- Usage:
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- I daily store at 00.05 (or later when a user is in my BBS) my
- BBS-System-Logfile (RA.Log) in the file LOGFILES.ARJ
- After that the same happens for all other Logfiles.
- The commandlines which I use are:
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- ARCH-LOG c:\db\logfiles\Logfiles c:\ra\ra.log 1 ARJ
- ARCH-LOG c:\db\logfiles\Logfiles c:\db\dbridge.log 1 ARJ
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- My logfiles are stored as follows:
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- RAmmdd.Log and DBRImmdd.log
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- Where 'mmdd' are the systemmonth and systemdate (minus the amount
- of days entered at the commandline). BTW, you may configure a
- zero for the days, when you still want to archive just before
- midnight.
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- Since I think this program will be used by Sysop you must have
- loaded your ANSI-driver for full color support.
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- Oh yeah, do not change the name of the file or try to patch it
- otherwise I think it will not work properly.
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- So, I'll hope this document is clear enough for you: I'm not a
- very good doc-writer and English is not my native language.
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- Oh, almost forgotten: this program is FREEWARE you may use and dis-
- tribute it whenever you want. The only thing what you may not is to
- change the packet and/or the files. I only ask you to send a couple
- of coins, when you really like it (f.i. $ 3.00), to Gerrit Mak,
- Postgiro 1023123 in the Netherlands.
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- * ARJ.exe (v2.20) is copyrighted (c) 1990-1991 by Robert K Jung
- * LHA.exe (v2.11) is copyrighted (c) 1988-1991 by Haruyasu Yoshizaki
- * PKZIP.exe (v1.10) is copyrighted (c) 1988-1991 by PKWARE Inc.
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