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FMOVE -- BBS Directory File Utility
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Written By John Riley for RBBS-PC
and dBBS. Copyright 1986, but released
to the Public Domain.
John Riley may be reached at "The Lattice BBS"
[(312) 858-8087 300-2400 baud, 24hrs.]
OVERVIEW
--------
FMOVE was written with the purpose of easing that task of BBS
directory maintenence. Most of the time, when you have to move
a file over to a download directory on your BBS, you have to
a) copy the file, b) get the file's size and date stamp, and
c) edit the directory file to include the new file's information.
FMOVE does all this automaticly. All you have to do is specify
the file to be added, the directory to add it to, and the
description of the file. FMOVE will copy the file and update
the required directory.
OPERATION
---------
FMOVE is easy to set up and use. All you need to do to set up FMOVE
to work with your BBS is create a DIRS.DAT file. The DIRS.DAT file
contains three pieces of information for every BBS directory:
1...A description of the directory
2...The path to the directory
3...The path and name of the directory file
For example, if you had a BBS with two directories; a general files
directory and a C language directory, you could write a DIRS.DAT
like this:
General Files <-Description of directory
c:\bbs\files\general <-Path to directory's files
c:\bbs\dirs\1.DIR <-Directory entries file
C Language Files <-Description of other directory
c:\bbs\files\c <-Path to other directory
c:\bbs\dirs\2.DIR <-Other directory entries file
Just use any normal ASCII text editor to create the DIRS.DAT file.
You can have up to 100 directories defined.
After a DIRS.DAT has been created, you can run FMOVE. Just be shure
that DIRS.DAT is in the current directory when you execute FMOVE.
When FMOVE comes up, it will display a list of numbered BBS
directories. You can scroll through the list with the up and down
arrows. Press the F1 key to add a file to a directory. FMOVE
will then ask you the destination BBS directory number (choose one
from the list), and then display the amount of free space available
to that directory.
FMOVE will then ask you for the file name to add. You can (and
should) give FMOVE a full path and file name specification. It will
then attempt to copy the file to the destination directory.
Assuming that the copy was succesful (you'll get an error
otherwise), FMOVE will then ask you for a description of the file.
It will then take that description and build a directory entry.
After it does this, FMOVE will append the entry to the
destination's directory file.
If you want to do a directory to directory copy (e.g. copy a file
from an upload directory to a download directory), press the F2 key.
FMOVE will ask you for the destination directory number, the source
directory number, and the name of the file. If the file can be found
in the source directory, it will be copied. FMOVE will then display
the source directory's comment for that file. You can either copy
it to the destination directory, or you can enter a new one. All
entries are appended to the destination directory file.
When you're all done updating your BBS's file system, press Esc
to exit to DOS.
Currently, FMOVE uses the RBBS-PC directory entry format. A sample
format is shown below:
DEMO DAT 1408 06-05-86 A description goes here
1--------10--------20--------30--------40.........................80
This format also works with dBBS and PC-Board.
REVISION HISTORY
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Version 1.00 6/30/86
First release of FMOVE.
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