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The Call Reporter
A
Colossus (tm) Utility
Version 2.5, Released on 4/3/86
Copyright (C) 1985, 1986 By
Mustang Software
Jim Harrer
5124 Sedwick Street
Bakersfield, CA 93308
Welcome!
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Hello, thank you for the time obtaining The Call Reporter.
You must be one of the many Colossus Sysops who has often
wondered "just how busy is my board" well, The Call Reporter
will tell you just that! Everything you every wanted to
know is displayed, maybe even more than you really want to
know!
Being a Sysop myself, and fascinated with tele-
communications, I felt the best way to improve my board was
to know what my callers did (or didn't use) on the system.
The Callers LOG is fine for a quick run down, but what
happened over a longer period of time would be better. That
is basically why The Call Reporter was Written.
Lets Get the Legal Stuff out of the way!
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The Call Reporter is distributed under the Userware
Marketing method. It is provided AS IS! That means, use it
at YOUR OWN RISK! Please don't try to hold Mustang Software
liable for system damage, loss of profit, or any other
commercial damage, including but not limited to special,
incidental, consequential or any other types of damages.
Copyright
---------
The Call Reporter is Copyrighted by Mustang Software. It is
provided for your personal use. You may:
1). Make as many copies as you wish.
2). Give it to all your friends. (Hint)
3). Post it on your Bulletin Board. (Hint, Hint)
But please DO NOT:
1). Distribute the Program without this
documentation.
2). Charge anyone for the program.
3). Or change the program in any way (Hear that
NORTON Fans!)
$$$$$$$$$$
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Oh God, most of you will not even read this part! Ok, I
know, you know this program wasn't written overnight. And,
I know, you know, that if it wasn't for this shareware /
userware scheme, there would be A LOT LESS public domain
programs available!
So as you can see Mustang Software believes in distributing
all of its products in the public domain. We feel, after
you've had a change to use our programs a couple of times,
well, uh, you'll want to show us your support by Registering
your copy.
What will you get, you ask? Good Question! In return, for
registering your copy of The Call Reporter, I'll send you
either the current version (if your using an older
production) or a copy of the next release. See, this way,
Mustang Software can continue to improve their products and
still buy shoes for our kids!
Registration is simply. Send us your name, address, and
Product (with version number) information along with $20.00
Check, Money Order, Cash, (please no rolls of pennies) to:
Mustang Software
5124 Sedwick Street
Bakersfield, CA 93308
Plus, after you receive your diskette, we'll notify you of
all future updates, revisions, and NEW PRODUCTS! Yep, that's
right, boy I know, WHAT A DEAL!
Lets Get on to Business
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The Call Reporter swiftly reads through your Colossus
CALLERS.LOG. During this time, this little jewel is looking
for Key words or phrases like "off at" and "1200 baud".
Like any good analyzer, it operates on "Good info in, Good
results out". That means if your CALLERS.LOG is in good
shape, then you can expect good results.
However, it can also operate on "TRASH in TRASH out". I
personally hate this one, if your CALLERS.LOG contains a lot
of recorded line noise like, $#*^%&@%*#%)#$%(#_*)%(#$, well
don't expect much! I tried to trap for as much garbage as I
could and deal with it the best way I know how, however the
options are endless of what your log could contain. If the
Call Reporter gives you fits, then I suggest looking over
your CALLERS.LOG. Keep in mind, I use a 600K CALLERS.LOG
with over 1800 calls when testing The Call Reporter before I
send it out!
Also, keep in mind, I have tested this version with COLOSSUS
version 1.20Q. As new Colossus versions are released, I may
have to change the way I count the apples! So bare with me
during those periods!
What exactly will I learn from The Call Reporter!
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Ok, well lets take a look at the Statistical information
that is reported.
An Example could be:
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| The REPORTING PERIOD is from 03-24-86 to 04-02-86 |
-----------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Total Number Of Callers = 159 | System Efficiency Usage = 12.7% |
| 300 Baud Callers = 21 13% | Hours of System Use = 26 |
| 1200 Baud Callers = 108 68% |--------------------------------------|
| 2400 Baud Callers = 30 19% | Number of New Users added : 52 |
|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| Number of Bulletin Read : 111 | Number of Local Log-ons : 25 |
|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| # Times Editorial was Read : 43 | # Questionnaire Answered : 0 |
|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| Number of Messages Left : 7 | Times Sysop Was Paged : 2 |
|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| Number Of Messages Deleted : 10 | # of Comments to The Sysop : 31 |
|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| Download Ratio Warnings Sent : 26 | Time Limit Exceeded Log-offs : 3 |
|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| # of Illegal log-on attempts : 1 | Logged Off for No Activity : 2 |
| Incorrect Password : 1 100% |--------------------------------------|
| Name in Alias.BBS : 0 0% | The Call Reporter, Version : 2.5 |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Total Number of Downloads : 77 | Total Number of Uploads : 18 |
| Ascii : 1 1% | Ascii : 0 0% |
| Xmodem : 40 52% | Xmodem : 5 28% |
| Xmodem/CRC : 35 45% | Xmodem/CRC : 13 72% |
| Ymodem : 1 1% | Ymodem : 0 0% |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Peak Calling Periods By Hour |
| ------------------------------ |
| 00:A 01:A 02:A 03:A 04:A 05:A 06:A 07:A 08:A 09:A 10:A 11:A |
| 2 0 2 1 3 6 3 2 12 8 7 4 |
| 1% 0% 1% 1% 2% 4% 2% 1% 8% 5% 4% 3% |
| ======================================================================== |
| 12:N 01:P 02:P 03:P 04:P 05:P 06:P 07:P 08:P 09:P 10:P 11:P |
| 8 4 11 15 8 8 5 11 9 12 10 8 |
| 5% 3% 7% 9% 5% 5% 3% 7% 6% 8% 6% 5% |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Calls Broken Down By Day! |
| --------------------------- |
| Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat |
| 16 19 37 42 17 16 12 |
| 10% 12% 23% 26% 11% 10% 8% |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Most, if not all, of this information will be familiar to
you. However, you may want to know how I get some of these
results.
The Call Reporter pulls the Beginning, Ending, date and time
from the CALLERS.LOG. I DO NOT depend on the creation line
in your CALLERS.LOG, we simply start your clock on the first
entry whether it be local use or not. The System usage
does take into account all time spent on the system locally,
we felt if you were doing Sysop maintenance then that time
should be accounted for.
This differs with Total Number of Calls, this does not
include local sign-ons. However, local sign-ons are
reported in another area.
The System Efficiency Usage is the percentage your system
was used for Colossus during the dates reported. The number
comes from the total system usage (in minutes) divided by
number of minutes between the begin/end date and time.
Number of times the editorial was read, represents the
number of times the file EDTORIAL.BBS was read. What ever
you call the option on the main menu, some use it for other
usages.
Everything else I believe makes sense. If I get any
questions, I'll append this documentation to cover my
response. Most of us never really look the documentation
over that well anyway!
Anything Else?
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YES! We also breakdown which bulletins were read the most,
so you can tell when a bulletin doesn't get much action!
We breakdown the messages similar to the bulletins however
we also show you the average line per message!
You also get a complete breakdown of the files downloaded,
which ones and how often!
User Download and Upload recaps are printed showing which
callers uploaded or downloaded the most files. This gives
you a quick idea who is doing what, as they say!
Lastly, we'll show you what files were uploaded for your
eyes only, just incase one got by you!
Well, did we forget anything? If so tell us about it! If
we like the idea you'll probably see it added!
Available Options
-----------------
The Call Reporter by default will compile and print to a
file a complete report. All you have to do is type
"CALLRPT" at your DOS prompt and make sure the CALLERS.LOG
is in the same directory.
I have received some requests from Sysop (see I do listen to
your comments) to set up the Call Reporter so you can have
it not print some information. Most of you dump the results
to a Colossus Bulletin, therefore displaying the Special
Sysop upload files maybe inappropriate.
Others like to have two or three Bulletins containing
different information such as The Most Popular Downloads.
Therefore, I have designed switches so you may suppress some
information. Therefore you can customize your results.
Also, by making them Command Line switches, you can still
have The Call Reporter run in Schedule X, completely
unattended. What a neat way to update a bulletin every
night after midnight!
The Command Line switches available are:
/P ........... Redirects the output of the report to the
line printer.
/O=xxxxxxxx.xxx Where "xxxxxxxx.xxx" equals the
FILENAME.EXT for the results to be
sent. The default is "ANALYZER.BBS" .
/G ........... Suppresses the first two Statistical
Information screens.
/B ........... Suppresses the Bulletin Recap.
/M ........... Suppresses the Message Recap.
/D ........... Suppressed the Download Recap.
/A ........... Suppressed the USER Download Recap.
/C ........... Suppresses the USER Upload Recap.
/S ........... Suppresses the Sysop Special File
Upload information.
/L=x ........ Where "x" is an integer. You select
top number of names and files to print
in your report. For example, lets say
you had 100 different files downloaded
in two months, if x was equal to 25
then only the TOP 25 names would be
printed. This effects the Download
File, User Download and User Upload
recaps. The default is set to 10.
/H or /? .... Displays a help screen showing the
available switches.
Let me know if you would like to see something added!
Where is the Call Reporter Going?
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Questions, questions, questions! Well on the drawing board
are the following ideas:
Version 3.0
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Store all the answers in an external file and have the Call
reporter append to this file, therefore allowing you to
delete your CALLERS.LOG to save disk room. Plus, this will
keep the processing time down because the CALLERS.LOG files
will be smaller. Wouldn't it be neat to see what your
totals are after 3, 6, or 12 months!
Version 4.0
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Add ANSI graphics when displaying the results. Pie and Bar
graphs will be available to display your usage. You'll be
able to display graphically the information most important
to you.
Version 5.0
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Add the ability to show comparisons between dates. For
example, how did the board do in January '86 versus June
'86. And of course any other ideas our users have!
So don't you think this is a product worth supporting? Your
support will show us whether or not this type of product is
important to you!
Register Now, while your thinking about it!
Happy Analyzing!
Jim Harrer