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CALLSTAT(1) FNORDADEL BBS SOFTWARE CALLSTAT(1)
NAME
callstat.tos - digest calllog.sys and produce silly statis-
tics
SYNOPSIS
callstat [-cdhsu]
DESCRIPTION
Callstat expects to be run from the directory which contains
ctdltabl.sys. It will munch your call log
(#audit\calllog.sys) and produce pretty graphs and tables,
showing how many people at what baud rates have called and
for how long they were connected.
If callstat encounters weirdness in your call log, it will
complain about it and exit. The usual problem is that the
system has crashed while someone was logged in, resulting in
an entry in the call log which has a login time but no
logout time. Use an editor to fix this or any other weird-
ness, and run callstat again.
Callstat keeps an ongoing statistics file for its own uses,
called calldata.sys, which lives in your #sysdir. The main
output file is callstat.sys, which is written to the #audit-
dir. In addition, a supplementary file may be written in
callbaud.sys, giving some extra information about calls at
each hour of the day, for all baud rates. This is REALLY
esoteric stuff.
OPTIONS
-c Write callbaud.sys.
-d Debug flag.
-h Display a brief help message.
-s Don't count sysConsole activity in the statistics. If
the Sysop logs in a lot, the results will probably be
skewed towards shorter average connections and such-
like.
-u Delete your calllog.sys and update the running statis-
tics file calldata.sys.
NOTES
Callstat doesn't do anything with file logging yet.
The program is a bit vague when giving warnings about bad
stuff in your call log; you have to go searching through it
to find the error.
Callstat can be run from a shellscript as a nightly event;
you may wish to run it without the -u flag for this purpose.
It will still produce the same statistics, but will leave
your call log alone. When you want to delete the call log,
just manually run 'callstat -u', to properly update the run-
ning totals file.
BUGS
None that we know of; just "misfeatures".
FILES
callstat.tos The silly statistics generator.
ctdltabl.sys The system tables file.
#auditdir\calllog.sys The call log.
#auditdir\callstat.sys The main silly statistics file.
#auditdir\callbaud.sys The additional silly statistics
file.
#sysdir\calldata.sys Callstat's running totals.
SEE ALSO
The Fnordadel Reference Manual
AUTHOR
Royce Howland
HISTORY
Callstat was written by Royce Howland some time after he
switched to orc's STadel from his old BBS (which ran on a
Basis 108 Apple ][ clone). He missed the neat histogram
features he had hacked into his old BBS, and so wrote
callstat.
The title banner, "The Antithesystem Memorial Histogram", is
meant to be a reminder of the heady days of early-80's
BBSing in Edmonton, when the Round Table and the Antithesys-
tem were the two best conversation boards in town. Unfor-
tunately, only RT has survived; may Anti rest in peace.