RA to T.A.G. Conversions
By Mark McKay
Fidonet - 1:271/22
Disclaimer
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This program is guaranteed to take up some of your precious disk space.
The author Mark McKay is in no way liable for what occurs because you
feel to need to run it. The person operating the program is totally
responsible for all consequences of running this program. You break it
you own it! This program is intended for conversion from Remote Access
1.11 to T.A.G. 2.6. Use with any other program versions may/will produce
unwanted results.
Thanks to Paul Williams on the T.A.G. date structures.
CONVERSION
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How to convert from RA to T.A.G..
1. Create a new directory for userfile conversion.
DO NOT DELETE ANY OF YOUR RA DATAFILES UNTIL YOU ARE SURE THAT
THIS PROGRAM HAS WORKED FOR YOU!!!!!
2. Unarchive ALL the files from RA2TAG to this directory.
It should contain the following files:
┌─────────────┬─────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Filename │Bytes│ Description │
├─────────────┼─────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ MBOARDS.DAT │ 505│ TAG Message database with just area 0 - EMail │
│ USER.LST │ 1170│ TAG User list with just the initial record 0 │
│ RA2TAG.DOC │?????│ This document │
│ UCVT.EXE │10320│ RA 1.11 to T.A.G. 2.6 userfile convertor │
│ MCVT.EXE │ 5168│ RA 1.11 MESSAGES.RA to T.A.G. MBOARDS.DAT convertor│
│ FCVT.EXE │ 6560│ RA 1.11 FILES.RA to T.A.G. FBOARDS.DAT convertor │
└─────────────┴─────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
3. Copy your RA "USERS.BBS", "USERSXI.BBS", "FILES.RA" and "MESSAGES.RA"
to this directory.
4. Run UCVT.EXE. It will convert RA's USERS.BBS and USERSXI.BBS to
T.A.G.'s USERS.LST and NAMES.LST by adding to T.A.G.'s USER.LST then
creating NAMES.LST. No further work on your part should be needed.
5. Run MCVT.EXE with the path to your RA message base. (i.e. MCVT C:\RA)
It will add all your Hudson style areas from RA's MESSAGES.RA to
T.A.G.'s MBOARDS.DAT. You will need to go into T.A.G.'s Board editor
and add the AREATAG's and Node information to all the areas MCVT
created for you, RA doesn't contain this information in an easy to get
at format. You will need to add a NETMAIL area to the message areas
also. Also check the EMail path and fix it as necessary (unless you
want it in your C:\ root directory). All your echomail processors
should run fine with T.A.G. as is.
6. Run FCVT.EXE. It will convert RA's FILES.RA to T.A.G.'s FBOARDS.DAT.
You will need to create your own FILES.DIR's but there are several
programs available on better T.A.G. board that will do this for you.
All upload directories will be set to the same thing as the download
directory. See T.A.G.'s documentation if you have a CDROM drive
online, you will need to make some changes in this case. All DSL's
(download security levels will be set to 30 and see-names security is
set to 80).
7. Copy USERS.LST, NAMES.LST, MBOARDS.DAT and FBOARDS.DAT to your T.A.G.
gfiles (datafiles) directory.
8. Make whatever changes you feel necessary to your BBS. Hopefully
these 3 programs will save you hours of work and get you "up and
running" with T.A.G. in a short period of time and keep your previous
users happy since they won't have to log on as new.
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Notes on UCVT ...........
1. RA doesn't contain Highest baud. After conversion
T.A.G. *should* ask the user for this information.
2. RA doesn't store the users gender. After conversion
T.A.G. *should* ask for this information.
3. RA doesn't store the users street address. After
conversion T.A.G. *should* ask for the information.
4. Subcription date is set to 12/31/99 so T.A.G. won't
come up saying "Your account has expired".
5. Security levels >255 are set to 255. (T.A.G.'s highest)
All possible fields are converted from RA to T.A.G. format.
If I missed any please let me know.
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The 3 RA2TAG files, UCVT,MCVT,FCVT, are *FREE* to all who wish to use
them.
All I ask is that if you use any of my T.A.G. doors and utilities that
you register them for the fee asked in the individual documentation.
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Mark McKay
Fidonet 1:271/22
The PlayWorld BBS
Over 6274 files - Over 619 MEG of files online
804-499-5150
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Release notes
5/7/92 - Initial release
5/13/92 - Converted Password to upper case to fix problem.
5/20/92 - Fixed Rows and columns since default was fubar.
5/21/92 - Updated to T.A.G. 2.6b formats