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Australian Bulletin Board System Registry -- ASCII Data File Guide
Australian Bulletin Board System Registry
ASCII Data File Guide
Contact for information
-----------------------
Rodney Creer
National BBS Registry Coordinator
PO Box 731
Penrith NSW 2751
BBS (047) 35-6789 - FidoNet: 3:713/317
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Australian Bulletin Board System Registry -- ASCII Data File Guide
The data file created by the registry is to allow users to
create custom listings and online enquiry systems. Only
"public" information is included with the file.
The first record in each data file includes release
information, anyone writing utilities should make use of
this record to ensure that old data files are not used.
Always obtain the lastest listings, whether data file or
formatted lists, help eradicate out of date lists.
Each other record is a system record, the contents of the
records are explained below. Records are delimited ASCII,
this means almost any programming language can process the
file easily.
For dBase specify "Append from xxxx delimited" then retrieve
record number 1 and store the details and delete the record,
you now have a usable dBase database file.
BASIC programs should be able to LINEINPUT the records, C
programs will need to either manually scan the strings or
use scanf() to process the information.
To simplify processing the shorter header record (with the
release information) has the same number of fields as the
data records, each of the unused header fields has a null
string present.
The data fields are;
Field Format Description
----- ------ ----------------------
1 Int BBS Registration Number
2 Int Region Code - (Note 1 )
3 Int System Status - (Note 2)
4 C 40 System Name
5 C 40 SysOp Name
6 C 16 Telephone - (xxxx) xxxx-xxxx
7 C 15 Network Title 1
8 C 20 Network Address 1 - x:xxxx/xxxx.xxxx
9 C 15 Network Title 2
10 C 20 Network Address 2 - x:xxxx/xxxx.xxxx
11 C 40 Baud Rates
12 C 40 Access
13 C 30 Hours 1
14 C 30 Hours 2
15 C 20 Computer
16 C 20 DOS
17 C 20 BBS Software
18 C 40 Emulation
19 C 30 Established
20 C 40 Note 1
21 C 40 Note 2
22 C 40 Info 1
23 C 40 Info 2
24 C 40 Info 3
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25 C 40 Info 4
26 C 40 Info 5
27 C 40 Info 6
The header fields are;
Field Format Description
----- ------ ----------------------
1 Int Literal 0
2 Int Spare - Unused
3 Int Spare - Unused
4 C 40 Release Information
5 C 40 Release Date
6 C 0 Spare - Unused
7 C 0 Spare - Unused
8 C 0 Spare - Unused
9 C 0 Spare - Unused
10 C 0 Spare - Unused
11 C 0 Spare - Unused
12 C 0 Spare - Unused
13 C 0 Spare - Unused
14 C 0 Spare - Unused
15 C 0 Spare - Unused
16 C 0 Spare - Unused
17 C 0 Spare - Unused
18 C 0 Spare - Unused
19 C 0 Spare - Unused
20 C 0 Spare - Unused
21 C 0 Spare - Unused
22 C 0 Spare - Unused
23 C 0 Spare - Unused
24 C 0 Spare - Unused
25 C 0 Spare - Unused
26 C 0 Spare - Unused
27 C 0 Spare - Unused
NOTE 1: Region Codes are - 0 - Australia Wide
1 - Australian Capital Territory
2 - New South Wales
3 - Victoria
4 - Queensland
5 - South Australia
6 - Western Australia
7 - Tasmania
8 - Northern Territory
NOTE 2: Status codes are - 0 - Online
1 - Unknown (Can not contact)
2 - Temporarily Offline
3 - Permanently Offline
4 - Name Changed
5 - New System
6 - Amended
7 - Status changed to Online
8 - Status changed to:
- Unknown
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- Temporarily offline
- Permanently offline
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