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About Timestart…
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About Timestart…
Timestart is a simple application designed to be launched as the first
event in a Tabby Robot 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
Red Ryder Host).
Timestart’s purpose in life is to insert in the CallerLog a date/time
stamp when Tabby Robot is launched. If you end the Tabby Robot event with
Timestamp, your CallerLog will note those long sessions when you’re
polling other boards with the robot.
Timestart has only three requirements:
• You must have a CallerLog file
• Timestart must be at the same folder level as Host
• Timestart’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.
In addition, you will want to modify Tabby Robot STR 301 to insert
Timestart and Timestamp.
Version 1.1 of Timestart adds a “fake connection” line to the header it
writes to the CallerLog, so Tabby Robot time is added to “board in use”
time when Archie or Tom Konantz’ CallerLog Analyzer is used. Thanks to
Mike Lininger, from whom I borrowed this idea (he introduced it in his
PreStamp Tabby utility).
This is a sample of what Timestart writes to the CallerLog:
Launching network mail application on 06/02/89 at 01:45:00
Connection made at 19200 baud on 06/02/89 at 01:45:00
Launching external application <Tabby Robot>
Pete Johnson
June 2, 1989
Glassell Park BBS, “Home of Archie and mehitabel”
213-254-4852