The PalmScan commandline consists of:
PALMSCAN.EXE [FileSpecs|@ListFile|Command] <Options>
[..] is mandatory
<..> is optional
[FileSpecs] must be valid DOS file-specifications. At least one
should be given, up to 30 can be given.
File-specifications can be either filenames or
directories. In the last case, all files in that
directory will be processed.
Example : PalmScan *.ZIP
[@ListFile] Instead of (a) file-specification(s), you can also use
a listfile. This listfile should contain valid
file-specifications (see above). PalmScan will process
all file-specifications in the listfile (there is no
maximum size for the listfile!). The
file-specifications should be placed on the first part
of each line, 2everything behind it will be ignored.
Example listfile:
d:\files\upload This is the upload directory
d:\files\incoming This is the incoming files
directory
In this example, all files in the directory's
d:\files\upload and d:\files\incoming, will be
processed (except for those files configured with the
SkipFile keyword in the PalmScan configuration). The
comments behind the directory's will be ignored.
You can also use FLSEARCH.CTL (QuickBBS format) with
this option.
Example : PalmScan @C:\BBS\FLSEARCH.CTL
[Command] :
/FDBmaint<areanr<-areanr>>
Usage : Run Ezycom/RemoteAccess/Concord file-database
maintenance. PalmScan will first search the
file-database for files which have not been processed,
and place them in a file called FILEINFO.FIX. After
that, the PalmScan FileInfo system will take over and
those files will be processed. Files will be converted
to the archiver configured in the file-area
configuration. When no archiver is configured for an
area, PalmScan will not process files in that area.
(Except for Concord, at this moment no archiver can be
configured in the file-area configuration so all areas
will be processed).
When running with Ezycom or Concord, PalmScan will use
the checked bit in the file-database to determine
wether a file has been processed or not.
When running with RemoteAccess, PalmScan uses
LASTSCAN.PS in the file-database directory to store
the last time when the FDB maintenance has been run.
All files which have an upload date after the date of
that file will be processed.
When running with Concord, PalmScan will only do
virus-scanning when that's configured in the file-area
configuration.
<areanr-<areanr>> The area numbers which should be
processed. A range of areas can be
given here (eg. 10-20) or just one
area can be given.
When no area number is specified,
PalmScan will process all areas
which have a destination archiver
configured.
Any file specifications given on the commandline will
be used to determine wether a file should be processed
or not.
Options : /All Process all files in the specified areas,
even if they have already been processed.
/AnyArea Process any area, instead of only areas
which have a target archiver set.
Example : PalmScan.Exe /L /FDBMAINT50-99 /ALL *.ARJ
- This will process all *.ARJ files which are in
the file-database in areas in the range 50 to 99
which have a destination archiver configured in
the file-area configuration.
/Fix<+>
Usage : Use the PalmScan FileInfo system. This system
accomplishes an enhanced communication between
PalmScan and programs using PalmScan. When using /FIX,
PalmScan will use the FileInfo system in Read-Only
mode, the FileInfo file (FILEINFO.FIX) will be deleted
when all files have been processed.
When using /FIX+, PalmScan will use the FileInfo
system in Read/Write mode. PalmScan will update the
FileInfo file with some information that can be used
by the program which is calling PalmScan.
Technical information about the FileInfo system can be
found in FILEINFO.INC, which is included in the
PalmScan package.
<options> :
/L
Usage : Local operation. When this switch is NOT used,
PalmScan will search for DOOR.SYS and/or DORINFO?.DEF
to get the user information from.
/C[configuration-filename]
Usage : By default, PalmScan will search for it's
configuration file in the same directory where
PALMSCAN.EXE is placed, with the filename
PALMSCAN.CFG. With this commandline option, you can
tell PalmScan to use an alternate configuration file.
Example : /Cc:\palmscan\afixpalm.cfg
/D[dorinfo-filename]
Usage : When your BBS-package creates a DORINFO file with a
filename that can't be found by searching for
DORINFO?.DEF (ie. Ezycom can create DORINF85.DEF for
line 85), you can specify this filename here.
Example : /Ddorinf85.def
/N[node]
Usage : When the node number is specified with this
commandline option, PalmScan's multi-line support is
enabled. This makes sure that PalmScan will run
without problems when running on more nodes at the
same time on multi-node systems.
This commandline option is required when using the
EzyFileID configuration keyword.
/NoChanges
Usage : When this option is used, no archiving will be done at
all. This means that no archive will be converted,
there won't be any file removal or file adding, no
music modules will be described, and the archive
header will not be updated. This can be especially
useful for running PalmScan as online virus scanner
(when the archive conversion is done in an event), or
for just updating file descriptions in FILES.BBS with
the 'FileID' keyword used.
/NoConversion
Usage : When this option is used, archive conversion is not
done. All other function will be performed.
/T[archiver]
Usage : Override the configured destination archiver.
When no archiver is configured in the PalmScan
configuration, PalmScan will only convert the main
archives, no embedded archives. When there is an
archiver configured in the PalmScan configuration,
those settings will be used for SFX/Secure/Embedded
archives.
When used when running the file-database maintenance,
PalmScan will still only process those areas which
have a destination archiver configured (in the
Ezycom/RemoteAccess file-area configuration). This
commandline option does override that configured
archiver, though.
Example : /TARJ
Note : This is a bonus feature, which is available in the
registered version only.
/NoFDB
Usage : Temporary disable the file-database support.
Note : This is a bonus feature, which is available in the
registered version only.
/NoFilesbbs
Usage : Temporary disable the files.bbs support.
Note : This is a bonus feature, which is available in the
registered version only.
/S
Usage : When this option is used, PalmScan will search all
sub-directory's of the given file-specifications for
files to be processed. Together with the
ProcessListedOnly configuration keyword, this option
can very well be used to process all files on a
bulletin board.
/Unlisted
Usage : When this option is used, PalmScan will only process
files which are not listed in FILES.BBS and/or the
RemoteAccess/Ezycom/Concord file-database. This
commandline option overrides the ProcessListedOnly
configuration keyword.
/Move[Path]
Usage : When a file has been processed and is ok, it can be
moved to another directory.
[Path] The directory where good files will be moved
to.
Note : This is a bonus feature, which is available in the
registered version only.
/V[Size]
Usage : To use the multi-volume packing (MultiVolumePack
configuration keyword), the target size must be
specified on the PalmScan commandline, using this
commandline option.
[Size] The target size of the multi-volume
archives. This parameter is passed on
directly to the archiver when PalmScan
starts packing the archives.
/NoMove
Usage : Temporary disable the moving of files to the BadPath,
InfectedPath, HackPath, OldPath and BadGifPath. When
needed, PalmScan will exit with an errorlevel instead
of moving any files.
Note : This is a bonus feature, which is available in the
registered version only.
/NoScan
Usage : Temporary disable virus-scanning.
Note : This is a bonus feature, which is available in the
registered version only.
/Mono
Usage : Forces monochrome mode.
/NoCls
Usage : Do not clear the screen at startup.
/Debug
Usage : This will log some more information on the execution
of external programs (such as virus scanners,
archivers, etc.) and virtually anything which is
displayed on the screen.
/P[priority]
Usage : This option is only available in the OS/2 version of
PalmScan. The priority of the process can be set using
this commandline option.
[priority] This is a percentage of the normal
priority. It can be a value from 0 to
257. The default priority is 100.
/Interactive
Usage : When this option is used, PalmScan can ask some
questions when needed. When running in on-line mode,
the user who is on-line can also type an answer.
PalmScan will time-out when no input is given within a
minute.
Interactive mode is currently only used for obtaining
passwords for password protected archives.