DELMBASE.EXE (C)opyright 1994 Michael Zmuda.
This file is FREEWARE (No charge to anyone. Copyright owned by
Mike Zmuda. Use + distribute freely. No modifications may be made,
etc...). Consider it gratis. (Gratis: free/ a present. Now use it 3
times and it's yours!)
Warranty: None. Use at your own risk. Back up your MBOARDS.DAT
file before using it.
Purpose: Delete a range of TAG message bases quickly and easily.
Calling Procedure:
[drive:][\path]DELMBASE[.exe] [offset] [# to delete]
[drive] Drive where DELMBASE is located. |OPTIONAL
[\path] Path where DELMBASE is located. |OPTIONAL
[.exe] Use this if there is a DELMBASE.COM/.BAT |OPTIONAL
lurking somewhere on your HD/path
[offset] The message you want to start deleting at. |REQUIRED
[# to delete] The number of messages you want to delete. |REQUIRED
eg:
DELMBASE 208 40 - deletes messages 208-247 (inclusive)
DELMBASE 1 20000 - deletes all message bases except "0"
NOTE: If you enter an out-of range value for the offset, DELMBASE will
end in error without doing anything.
NOTE: MBOARDS.DAT must reside in the current (active) directory on the
current (active) drive. If you get a runtime error message, it's
probably because DELMBASE can't find MBOARDS.DAT.
If you enter an out-of range value for the # of messages to
delete parameter, DELMBASE will delete all messages to the end.
DELMBASE uses TAG's internal indexing formula:
examples:
Private E-Mail section 0
General messages section 1
BBS news section 2
ANSI ads section 3
ARCHIVE comments section 4
. .
. .
. .
Z-Modem support section 459
If you wanted to delete message bases 1 and 2 (General messages,
BBS news, and ANSI ads), you would run DELMBASE 1 3. To delete Private
E-Mail, you would run DELMBASE 0 1.
NOTE: Because Tag displays the message and file bases under the group
that is currently active, be sure that ALL groups are activated
(if you use groups, this concerns you; if not, disregard this
segment). There are a few ways to do this: make and use a
complex menu entry that allows groups 0-255 (check the docs on
how to do this) or, from the wait screen, hit S (Systems Config),
B (Message Editor), enter your password, and there you are. All
groups become active, and all message bases can be seen,
regardless of group identifier.
DELMBASE uses the disk extensively. If you use a cache, this is
where it pays off! Processing for my 500+ message bases took under a
second on my 486/50 under OS/2 2.1. Before doing any modification on
the MBOARDS.DAT file, DELMBASE will check the current drive for the
proper amount of free space. If there isn't enough space, it will
terminate without doing a thing.
DELMBASE works by first making a backup copy of the current
MBOARDS.DAT file (renamed MBOARDS.BAK). DELMBASE then selectively
copies certain aspects of the MBOARDS.BAK file to a new MBOARDS.DAT
file. Quite logically, it reads the MBOARDS.BAK file for [offset-1]
times and writes to the MBOARDS.DAT file offset-1 times. It then reads
another [number of boards to delete] times and writes nothing. It
completes by reading the rest of the records in MBOARDS.BAK and writing
them to MBOARDS.DAT. It's quick, easy, safe, and effective (I guess
that qualifies it for FDA approval, eh?)
Now that you know how it works, enjoy it.
Warranty/Guarantee: This program is provided as is. The user agrees by
using the program that he/she is doing so under his/her own free
will and understands that (with these computers now-a-days),
anything can and (eventually) WILL go wrong and that Mike Zmuda is
NOT responsible.
Michael Zmuda is hereby rendered NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR SH*T!
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DELMBASE is intended for use solely on the TAG BBS ver 2.7. It was
created with the use of the TAG record structures provided by the TAG
TEAM.
Keep using TAG. It's the best!
There are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and
in between are the [school] doors. Stay in school. It'll change your
life.
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