Hello Roy!

May 29 04:06 03, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Bo Simonsen:

 BS>> Mostly for fun :) Maximus isn't ready for taking calls yet.

 RJT>> I'll figure something out,  though.

 BS>> Attached e-mail? :)

 RJT> Maybe,  if it's not too big.

Ok, but we would figure a fileecho or something out.

 RJT>> And I'll start to thinking about what I can do to replace the other 
 RJT>> tools I have here (HLIST, DLC, etc.) too.

 BS>> HLIST? DLC?

 RJT> HLIST is my files list generator,  by one Harvey Parisien,  who also 
 RJT> wrote a bunch of other stuff that's out there.  Not a bad program,  
 RJT> and I've been using it for ages.  There's quite possibly a later 
 RJT> version out there than the one I'm using.  The output looks 
 RJT> something like this:

Ok.

 RJT>                               F I L E    L I S T

 RJT>  TANSTAAFL BBS                                               
 RJT> 05-04-2003 11:33a
 RJT> Í-------------------------------------------------------------------
 RJT> ----------À
 RJT> |        This is a complete list of all files available on this 
 RJT> system        |
 RJT> |                                                                    
 RJT>          |
 RJT> |  File dates followed by a * are = 
 RJT> 04-04-2003  |
 RJT> |                                                                    
 RJT>          |
 RJT> | HLIST v1.12 - Copyright (c) 1994 by Harvey Parisien         
 RJT> FidoNet 249/114 |
 RJT> Ë-------------------------------------------------------------------
 RJT> ----------¢

 RJT> ############ TXT: Text files about Linux 
 RJT> ######################################

 RJT> -
 RJT> - Text files about Linux
 RJT> -
 RJT> HALL_DOC.ZIP   87778 11-20-99  [   1] The Halloween Documents - how 
 RJT> m$ view
 RJT>                                Linux and proposes to deal with it
 RJT> HALOWEEN.ZIP   97966 11-26-99  [    ] The Halloween Documents in 
 RJT> html format
 RJT>                                (non 8.3 filenames in this zip!)
 RJT> -
 RJT> LINUXBBS.ZIP    6023 10-18-98  [   2] Linux BBS FAQ
 RJT> LINUXFAQ.ZIP   22357 03-01-03  [   8] Linux FAQ
 RJT> -
 RJT> - Assorted HOWTO files
 RJT> -
 RJT> 3-BUTTON.ZIP   11281 05-19-99  [    ] How to get a 3 button serial 
 RJT> mouse
 RJT>                                working properly under Linux.
 RJT> 3DFX.ZIP       26029 05-19-99  [    ] describes 3Dfx graphics 
 RJT> accelerator
 RJT>                                chip support for Linux
 RJT> -
 RJT> ACCESS.ZIP     23462 05-19-99  [   1] using adaptive technology to 
 RJT> make Linux

 RJT> 

 RJT>   ** 9 files in this area (1483678 bytes)

That's quite cool!

 RJT>  TANSTAAFL BBS                                               
 RJT> 05-04-2003 11:33a
 RJT> Í-------------------------------------------------------------------
 RJT> ----------À
 RJT> | There is a total of 180 files on this system (8638448 bytes)       
 RJT>          |
 RJT> |                                                                    
 RJT>          |
 RJT> | HLIST v1.12 - Copyright (c) 1994 by Harvey Parisien       FidoNet 
 RJT> 1:249/114 |
 RJT> Ë-------------------------------------------------------------------
 RJT> ----------¢
 RJT>                 HLIST is a freely available file list compiler.


 RJT> (Hope those box-drawing characters don't give you problems.>

 RJT> This particular zip is linux,  the smallest of the several I have 
 RJT> here,  the whole list being somewhat bigger:

 RJT> TANSTAAF.LST   570585   1844056   30% Deflated   04-May-03 11:29

 RJT> Hm,  I'm a little out of date there,  need to fix that.  Anyhow,  I 
 RJT> run a batch file that goes into a bunch of different config files 
 RJT> and generates the whole list,  the "new" files list (not much of 
 RJT> that),  and similar for several other categories,  like dos, 
 RJT> windows, w32, cp/m, text, pictures,  etc.  It used to run as a part 
 RJT> of midnight maintenance but I stopped because it'd crash due to not 
 RJT> quite enough memory,  or something,  so I have to run it manually. 
 RJT> Something I changed in my setup here.

 RJT> What you're seeing above is basically the info that's in each 
 RJT> directory's FILES.BBS listing but with the size and date added,  and 
 RJT> the line reformatted to wrap properly.  That took a bit of fiddling 
 RJT> to get it right,  but looking at that next-to-last file listed you 
 RJT> can see what I mean.

 RJT> DLC is another matter.  I put square brackets in each line of the 
 RJT> FILES.BBS listing,  to start with,  and when somebody downloads a 
 RJT> file it's logged,  the program scans both max.log and bink.log 
 RJT> looking for downloads and freqs.  A typical entry from DLC.LOG looks 
 RJT> like this:

 RJT> + 01 May 00:04:54 DLC  Begin, DLC v2.51 (mem=410K)
 RJT> * 01 May 00:04:54 DLC  Reading M:\MAX\FILE\LOGS\MAX.LOG
 RJT> : 01 May 00:04:54 DLC  Processed M:\MAX\FILE\LOGS\MAX.LOG, 0 file(s) 
 RJT> downloaded
 RJT> * 01 May 00:04:54 DLC  Reading M:\MAX\FILE\LOGS\BINK.LOG
 RJT> : 01 May 00:04:57 DLC  Processed M:\MAX\FILE\LOGS\BINK.LOG, 0 
 RJT> file(s) sent
 RJT> + 01 May 00:04:57 DLC  End.  (length=0:03, mem=410K)

 RJT> If it finds some that were downloaded or freq'd,  it alters the 
 RJT> files.bbs file and increments the count that's there already,  if 
 RJT> there is one.  I see in the quoted list above that the linux FAQ 
 RJT> that Pascal is nice enough to email to me has been grabbed a total 
 RJT> of 8 times,  which is not too bad.  Most of the files I have here 
 RJT> are in the single digits,  with exceptions here and there,  although 
 RJT> the files list itself has been grabbed over 350 times.

Ahh that cool!

 RJT> I could see doing this sort of thing with unix tools,  maybe.  DLC 
 RJT> has a bug in it anyhow,  it cuts lines off at 255 or 256 characters, 
 RJT>  and some of my file descriptions were a bit longer than that,  so 
 RJT> they got truncated.

 RJT> I hear that bink is being ported,  and TimED,  so there's not a 
 RJT> whole lot else I'd need to move the whole setup over to linux.  
 RJT> Nodelist tools,  I guess,  a compiiler and something to take the 
 RJT> place of BONK...

Well bink isn't very stable on Linux, but i found a very good alternative
called Qico.. Made by russians, it's a clone of the ifcico program, but it
has a control interface, and other goodies.

I've tested it with my ISDN T/A and it works fine agianst Cantaloup (with
Hydra) and Frontdoor (with Zedzap)..

Regards,
Bo

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