Bo Simonsen wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> Well,  yeah I do,  just a small one.  I don't have any easy way to 
 RJT> get a hold of this stuff,  having no 'net access beyond email at 
 RJT> this point in time...

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

 RJT> I'll figure something out,  though.

 BS> Attached e-mail? :)

Maybe,  if it's not too big.

 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?

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


                              F I L E    L I S T

 TANSTAAFL BBS                                               05-04-2003 11:33a
ÖÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ·
º        This is a complete list of all files available on this system        º
º                                                                             º
º  File dates followed by a * are = 04-04-2003  º
º                                                                             º
º HLIST v1.12 - Copyright (c) 1994 by Harvey Parisien         FidoNet 249/114 º
ÓÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄĽ

±±±±±±±±±±±± TXT: Text files about Linux ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±

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




  ** 9 files in this area (1483678 bytes)


 TANSTAAFL BBS                                               05-04-2003 11:33a
ÖÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ·
º There is a total of 180 files on this system (8638448 bytes)                º
º                                                                             º
º HLIST v1.12 - Copyright (c) 1994 by Harvey Parisien       FidoNet 1:249/114 º
ÓÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄĽ
                HLIST is a freely available file list compiler.


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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