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 FidoNet/FTN Echo Mail Bulletin Maker, Ver 1.0  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 1.0  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.
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.


EXECUTING THE PROGRAM:


When running the echolog.exe program, you will need to provide some 
information on the command like.

For Example:

echolog c:\sbbs\data\sbbsecho.log echolog.asc


If you leave off the path\sbbsecho.log file, it will give you a error.

For Example:

Error:
  No Parameters Given: Example echolog c:\sbbs\data\sbbsecho.log echolog.asc


If it can't find the file, it will give you a error:

For Example:

Error:
   c:\sbbs\data\filename.log File Not Found, Please verify path\filename.

Once you have ran the program and see what it does and the bulletin it 
creates, you can add/change a batch file (.bat) to run when you poll 
your FidoNet/FTN hubs.


For Example:

cd\echolog
echolog c:\sbbs\data\sbbsecho.log echolog.asc
cd\ 

Again, if you would like the bulletin to be created in a certain folder, add 
the path to the filename.


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)


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   
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

