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╔═════════════════════════════╗
║ A MÄC's Place BBS Release ║
╚═════════════════════════════╝
BudMan
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Copyright (C)1989,1990
Written By: John W. McNamara
MÄC's Place PCBoard
Dunn, North Carolina
919 891-1111 HST (PCPursuitable)
BUDMAN - Version 3.0 Page - 1
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║ Introduction ║
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First let me say that I know I have strange names for my programs
as many of you have commented on them over the past. This program
is named after a friend of mine in the Boston area. His name is
BUD NAPIER and he runs the Future Technologies Exchange BBS there
at 617-227-6260. He initially asked me to write something like
this so I named it after him.
Welcome to BUDMAN version 3.0 ! BudMan does what PCBoard should
already do. It splits the DOWNLOAD.TXT file into two files, one
containing downloads and the other uploads.
╔══════════════════╗
║ BudMan Operation ║
╚══════════════════╝
The operation of the BudMan programme is straight
forward. ANSI.SYS MUST be loaded from your config.sys
file before running BudMan. See your DOS manual for
installation on this device driver. It will work fine
without it but you get strange screen output. The
programme is invoked from the command line:
USAGE: BUDMAN [inputfile] [outputfile]
InputFile: DOWNLOAD.TXT or Whatever the Input is.
OutputFile: UPLOAD.TXT or Whatever You Want.
The InputFile is your download.txt file or the filename
that you have told PCBoard to place download/upload
information too. The OutputFile is the new file you want
created that contains all the Uploads in it. This file
will be created if it doesn't exsist and if it does exist
the new information will be appended to the end of it.
This was done so any SYSOP wanting to, can run this
program in his/her event. This will constantly update the
UPLOADS.TXT file nightly with all the new uploads. This
program is helpful when running programs like HOTSTUFF
(from MÄC's Place) or ProWHO UPLOADED THAT FILE DOOR
(from Sam Smith). This way all the extra information in
your present file won't slow these programs down. This
will cause your programs to run faster and the end users
will receive a faster response. If ever the need arises
to have a complete file containing all the information,
then just simply append one file to the other. Another
great program this is needed for is ORIGIN DOOR also from
MÄC's Place.
BUDMAN - Version 3.0 Page - 2
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║ Acknowledgements ║
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This programme was conceived and created by John McNamara - the
SysOp of MÄC's Place [919 891-1111 HST].
Special thanks are extended to David Patterson, SysOp of Viking
Magick BBS [617-354-2171]. He wrote the initial supporting
documentation for the BUDMAN Utility programme.
The BUDMAN Utility programme is written in C and compiled with
Microsoft C 6.0. The C language was choosen for writing several
of the MÄC's Place BBS PCBoard utilities such as BUDMAN
because of its speed and flexibility. The MSC source is NOT
available. The only function NOT in "C" in the function to turn
off the cursor while the program is running, this is is .ASM an
called in-line.
If you have any comments, suggestions or improvements for the
BUDMAN Splitting Utility programme, please let John McNamara
know by contacting MÄC's Place at 919-891-1111 and leaving a
comment to the SysOp. The author, John McNamara can be contacted
through the SW support conference which is one of the national
PCRelay International network conferences. Messages concerning
support of BUDMAN Utility or any other MÄC's Place Release
programme doors and utilities should be left in the SW
conference which can be accessed through most International
RelayNet member boards.
Thanks !!