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| -*- POSTLOG -*- |
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by
Bob Ransom
(c) 1988
All Rights Reserved
VERSION 3.00 --
Version 3.00 represents a complete rewrite of the code in
Turbo Pascal 5.0 (previous versions were QuickBASIC). The
advantages of the new language are code that's 75% smaller
than the QB versions, plus the speed has increased over
300%.
In use, v3.00 acts just like v2.00 -- run it from your
QuickBBS directory and away it goes. Run it as often or as
seldom as you'd like. One important change: the "control"
file in v3.00 is a different format than in previous
versions. THIS IS IMPORTANT! If you try to run v3.00 with
a v2.00 control file (POSTLOG.CTL), the program will puke --
loudly and completely. No damage will be done to anything
-- it just won't work.
Since there's no reason you should have to lose your
previous totals, I wrote a sleazy little conversion program
called OLDTONEW.EXE that's included in the archive. Run it
from your QuickBBS directory (where POSTLOG.CTL and
POSTLOG.PTR should be residing). It takes only a couple of
seconds and will make your old data compatible with the new
version of the program. When OLDTONEW is done, you may
delete it (OLDTONEW.EXE) and the old pointer file
(POSTLOG.PTR). Your old pointer data has been moved to the
new control file, so that hasn't been lost either.
That's it. Oh, one thing I forgot to mention: If Postlog
should encounter any problems opening any of the files it
needs, it will exit with an errorlevel of 1. Under normal
circumstances (with no problems), Postlog will exit with an
errorlevel of 0. I have no idea if this is useful, but it
was so easy to add that I couldn't resist (it literally
takes typing in three extra characters into the source code
to make it work. Unbelievably easy, compared to
QuickBASIC.)
UPDATES & REVISIONS --
v1.00 - 1.02 -- All changes made were minor and cosmetic.
No earth shattering news here.
POSTLOG v2.00 UPDATE.DOC Page 2
v1.03 -- This version added two things and
corrected one bug. Version 1.03 now stores the total number
of messages entered in its .CTL file. Because of this,
.CTL's from previous versions no longer work. This version
also added the percentages to the .ASC file (detailing the
percentage of the total posted to each board). The bug that
got fixed involved forwarded messages -- older versions
counted a forwarded message as a new message.
v1.10 -- This version adds the "pointer" file,
POSTLOG.PTR, to the program output. This allows POSTLOG to
be run more than once per day and makes POSTLOG more useful
to people who don't delete their SYSTEM.LOGs during
maintenance.
v1.11 -- Almost unreleased. Very few people ever
saw this one as I got v2.00 finished sooner than expected.
v1.11 corrected for the "Out of string space" error that
occurred when the SYSTEM.LOG exceeded 650 or so lines. This
version also corrected the output file to look normal with
long message board names. Previously, long board names
threw the tabs out of whack.
v2.00 -- A major rewrite of the program to allow it
to process SYSTEM.LOG's of any size. This was the last
QuickBASIC version.
v3.00 -- The current version of the program,
released January 25, 1989.
*eof*