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The Numberizer v1.5c - by Mark Kupferman
About the Program
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This program is built up from v1.0c of the Numberizer, which was found to
have worked successfully. It is different from 1.0c in that it is designed
to work as part of a network event.
What it does is renumber your message base, starting from whatever number
you select. Since it will do this every night, your message base will
always be sequencial.
This program is most useful if you back up your message base every day, causing
messages to be deleted.
ShareWare Notice
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This program is free.
If you would like to send some sort of donation towards my laserwriter fund,
please direct any & all contributions to this address:
Mark Kupferman
935 Washington Street, Box #1
Newton, MA, 02160-1560
This archive contains the following files:
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Numberizer - The application
Numberizer.Config - Configuration file (text)
Numberizer Docs - This documenation
This program will update the following files:
MSGHDR - The messages themselves
MESSAGES - The high and low message markers
USERLOG - Highest number read by each user
News HiMark - Changed to match it's new counterpart.
Seenby.bbs - Clears it except for the last record, which is changed.
This should be all that is needed. This program is free. If you get some
use out of it, please send me a message letting me know. The reason this
program is free is because...well, it's very short and only took a little
over an hour to write.
Configuring the Numberizer
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All of the data that the Numberizer needs is stored in a text file
entitled 'Numberizer.Config'. This file should be in the same folder as
the application. Here is what each line means:
Line 1 - Table file path:name. This file is the location where you want
the table to be stored. Just put the path to your host folder...
the program will automatically delete it when it is done.
Line 2 - Path:Name to MSGHDR file.
Line 3 - Path:Name to MESSAGES file.
Line 4 - Path:Name to USERLOG file.
Line 5 - Path:Name to News HiMark file.
Line 6 - Path:Name to Seenby.bbs file.
Line 7 - Path to Red Ryder Host. Should end it a colon.
Line 8 - Starting number for your message base.
Thus, you would have a total of 8 lines of text, none of which should be
empty.
Running the Numberizer
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Place the Numberizer and the Numberizer Config file in your RRH folder.
Then, adjust your NetMail event so that the Numberizer is after TabbyNet,
but before Tabby Delivermail (or Hiss).
It should look like this:
TabbyNet SendNews,TabbyNet SendMail,TabbyNet,Numberizer,Hiss,TabbyNet
SendNews,(program to backup messages),Red Ryder Host
Numberizer must be run BEFORE the TabbyNet Delivermail/Hiss program is
run in order to keep the seenby file correct.
Questions?
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If you have questions or comments, please feel free to send mail to
me on GEnie at 'M.S.K.' or in Cat 2, topic 21 of the Freesoft Roundtable.