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 FidoNet/FTN Echo Mail Bulletin Maker, Ver 1.5  Copyright 2006 Philip Brown 
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This program was written to read the sbbsecho.log file and create a bulletin
showing monthly count of messages imported and exported.

This program was written to run on MSDOS and Windows platforms.  I have tested
this program on Windows XP Home edition.

Below is a example of the echolog.asc file it creates.

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 FidoNet/FTN Echo Mail Bulletin Maker, Ver 1.5  Copyright 2006 Philip Brown 
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             Mail imported and exported from 04/30/06 to 05/26/06

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                               Messages      Messages      Message   
       Date                    Imported      Exported       Total    
     +-----------------------+--------------+--------------+-------------
      April '06                       5            10            15  
     +-----------------------+--------------+--------------+-------------
      May '06                      3037            64          3101  
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   Total Imported:       3042
   Total Exported:         74
                      -------
Total Mail Ported:       3116

Last Mail Run: 05/27/06 at 14:20

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  By Philip Brown  The Flaming Star BBS  telnet/www bbs.flamingstar.com    
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FILES USED BY THIS PROGRAM:

ECHOLOG.EXE 	Program used to create bulletin.
SETUP.DBF       Data file used to store program information.
TEMP.DBF        Temporary file used to read log file.
ECHOLOG.DBF     Temporary file used to process log file.
BULLETIN.DBF	Temporary file used to create bulletin.

FILES CREATED BY THIS PROGRAM:

ECHOLOG.ASC 	.ASC Bulletin, You can change the name or keep the default.
ECHOLOG.ANS     .ANS Bulletin, You can change the name or keep the default.


EXECUTING THE PROGRAM:

Step 1:

Run the setup.exe program and it will give you 4 menu choices.

1) Log Path\Filename             Path and filename of the log file.

2) Bulletin Path\Filename        Path and filename of the bulletin it creates.

3) Bulletin Color Selection      Menu with 3 boxes (top, middle, bottom)

        After you select one of the three boxes, it will give you a
        selection of color choices, using your arrow keys, move to the
        color and press enter to make your choice and above the choices
        it will show your selection as you try other colors.
        When finished, select 'Exit Color Selector' and then pick another
        box and like above, pick your colors.  When done select
        'Exit Color Selection' and it will return to the menu.

4)Exit Setup Program             Exit Program.

        Before exiting, check the values and colors you have selected.


Step 2:

Run the echolog.exe program and it will read the setup data file for the
information it needs to process the log and create both ascii and ansii
bulletins.


If you run the echolog.exe program without running setup.exe, you will get
the following error:

For Example:

Error:
  Please Run Setup.exe To Configure Program.


Once you have ran the setup program and gave it the information it needs, then
run echolog.exe again and it will read the setup information and process the
log and create both ascii and ansi bulletins.




MODIFYING BULLSEYE.CFG/BULLSEYE.ASC:

To show the new bulletin, you will need to modify the bullseye.cfg file located
in the sbbs\text folder.

For Example:

0
../text/system.msg
../text/newuser.msg
../text/sbbs.msg
../docs/dove-net.txt
c:/echolog/echolog.asc (change path to reflect folder where bulletin written to)
c:/echolog/echolog.ans (change path to reflect folder where bulletin written to)


Then modify the bullseye.asc file in the sbbs\text folder.

For Example:

l0nc4k0
4c  hyBulletins  nk40
4ckb0

 hy1 ngStatistics for h@BBS-L....................................@nb
 hy2 ngNew user instructions                                     b
 hy3 ngAbout this version of Synchronet BBS Software             b
 hy4 ngWhat is DOVE-Net?                                         b
 hy5 ngFidoNet/FTN Echo Mail Statistics (B/W)                    b
 hy6 ngFidoNet/FTN Echo Mail Statistics (Color)                  b
n


CONTACT INFORMATION:

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  By Philip Brown  The Flaming Star BBS  telnet/www bbs.flamingstar.com    
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    Email: pbmountaincat@flamingstar.no-ip.info
      FTP: ftp://flamingstar.no-ip.info
      WWW: http://www.flamingstar.com
  FidoNet: 1:227/300
  Intelec: 239:600/160
FamilyNet: 8:7204/512

