Some new features have been added, a few other things cleaned up in the code. Note that Hermes Utilities is now shareware ($15; see about box for details). There may be a bug in the sorting from most recently to least recently downloaded files in the “Popularity List” function, but I cannot test this myself since Hermes won’t allow local downloading, so I cannot change the “lastDL” field of the files on my Hermes test files. Tell me if the files aren’t being sorted correctly.
I am looking for source code to the QuickSort routine in Pascal (in its current incarnation, Hermes Utilities uses an Insertion Sort), as well as code to use modified SFGet/SFPut dialog boxes.
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[Beta 1 Info]
This beta is mostly a cosmetic fix of Hermes Utilities. Some old features that were rarely used or too confusing have been removed (no more post/upload rewarding in the “global changes” function, or “update file UL dates”, which were completely unintuitive and meaningless to most people). It also has a new “Delete Nonexistent Files” and “[File] Popularity List”, which should be fully operational but has not been heavily tested and so may not be. All other options should work as expected. The type declarations of users, file entry records, and such have been updated where necessary. This version of Hermes Utilities should work well with any version of Hermes from v1.0.4 and up. The code has been cleaned up, resulting in a smoother interface and some speed increases. You may distribute this as you wish, but please include this text file with it. I may be reached with bugs, comments, suggestions, money, etc. at:
Walter Korman
2985 Lake St.
San Francisco, CA 94121
or on the Hermes Support bulletin board.
Keep in mind that this is a pre-release; there is no complete documentation file, some functions may not work completely or at all, and I am not responsible for any damage done to anyone’s system. Make a backup before running the utilities, even though I can't think of a way that anything could be damaged myself.
• “Include Extremes” option for Top Ten Users; filters out any users in the Top Ten Users list that have extreme ratios due to very few calls; for example, a user who calls once and posts one message has a 100% post/call ratio. With “Include Extremes” not checked, he will not be included in the list. Or, a user calls once and uploads one file without downloading at all; he will have an UL/DL ratio of 99.999, yet that does not necessarily mean that he should be included on the Top Ten Users list. (Suggestion by Lloyd Woodall)
• “Popularity Definition: Most Times DL’d, Most Recently Downloaded” option in the Popularity List dialog. This allows you to choose whether to determine how popular files are by the number of times they have been downloaded, or the most recent time that they were downloaded.
