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About Timestamp…
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About Timestamp…
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Version 1.6 of Timestamp shows a title alert while it’s working, reads
the Config file to find the CallerLog and can cope with launch.next
files of up to 100 successive events. It also adds a “Logged off…”
line at the end of the CallerLog to assist CallerLog analyzing
programs.
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Timestamp is a simple application designed to be launched as the last
non-Host event in a Tabby chain. It contains one STR resource, #500,
which should be altered with ResEdit to contain the name of your Red
Ryder Host application (it comes set to launch an application called
Host).
Timestamp’s purpose in life is to insert in the CallerLog a date/time
stamp when Host is launched, followed by a dashed line, so the CallerLog
goes from this:
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Launching network mail application on 01/08/89 at 00:45:00
Launching external application <TabbyNet>
Connection made at 2400 baud on 01/08/89 at 02:08:39
GEORGE DRAPEAU from Los Angeles
<etc.>
to this:
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Launching network mail application on 01/08/89 at 00:45:00
Launching external application <TabbyNet>
Launching Host on 01/08/89 at 02:04:13
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Connection made at 2400 baud on 01/08/89 at 02:08:39
GEORGE DRAPEAU from Los Angeles
<etc.>
This isolates network mail events from normal caller events and tells
you exactly when your Tabby sequence has finished its work. The name of
the application launched is taken from the Tabby launch.next file, if it
exists, or the STR 500 resource, so if you call your BBS program Wally,
the entry will read
Launching Wally on 01/08/89 at 02:04:13
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Timestamp has only three requirements:
• You must have a CallerLog file
• Timestamp must be at the same folder level as Host
• Timestamp’s STR 500 resource must have the proper name for Red Ryder
Host unless there is a launch.next file with the proper name for the
next application to launch. In any case, it’s a good idea to modify
the STR 500 resource to contain your Host program name.
You don’t *have* to run Timestamp as the last pre-Host application in a
Tabby event, but it makes sense to run it in this position.
I have modified the mail and Echo events on Glassell Park BBS to the
following sequence:
BusyOut,TabbyNet SendNews,TabbyNet SendMail,TabbyNet,BusyOut,ArcMail
Extract,TabbyNet DeliverMail,mehit,BullGen,Timestamp,Host
(Actually, I have a couple of slightly different sequences, but this is
the general structure.)
In addition, you will want to modify TabbyNet STR 305 to insert
Timestamp. This makes sure that all Tabby events including CrashMail are
timed and roped off in the CallerLog.
Thanks to Mike Lininger for suggesting the “Logged off…” addition.
Pete Johnson
April 1, 1989
Glassell Park BBS, “Home of Archie and mehitabel”
213-254-4852