Quick and Short UserList Converter Instructions: (by N Hawthorn 11/15/91)
This program was created by N Hawthorn.
It's the program I used to convert my Hermes Userlist (Hermes "Shared" file) over to MUBBS when I started using MUBBS.
It's not guarenteed to do anything, it might crash. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !
You have source, so you can make it do whatever you want it to !
Use it on a COPY of your file(s) !
It worked for me, and the source code is included on the MUBBS support BBS so you can change it to read other BBS formats if you wish !
Any user levels ABOVE 10 were set to 10. In MUBBS our users levels are 1 to 20. (20 is sysop). New users are set to 1.
I have seen where it makes SOME names shorter than they should be. I don't know why and I don't care. It works real good on my 500 names, and only one name got screwed up (mine!).
The "users" file is a text file, so you can print it out to a printer and look over your list of users.
(you can do all this user stuff from your "sysop" module while online!)
It's better to use the tools provided, but you can use EDIT to edit the file. YOU SHOULD BE CAREFULL! make sure your LENGTHS are correct after editing.
NOT THIS:
Jack Jones ~
MY PASSWORD ~
12345 Street ~
DO THIS:
Jack Jones ~
MY PASSWORD ~
12345 Street ~
The "return" character is in the same spot on each line! This is important. You need to add spaces or take them out as needed. (the example above is NOT the correct amount of characters, look at a actual users file).
