InterChange Utilities Included with this InterChange Release are the following special utilities, written specifically for administrator's of large post offices. More information and optional parameters for each utility are described in the following sections. ARCSYNC Compares messages in your Inbox with messages in a given archive. BBCLR Checks every bulletin board for unread messages, and prompts the user with the option to mark them as read. DUMPBB Displays the bulletin boards in a post office. DUMPDIR Displays every user in a post office. DUMPIBOX Displays the messages in a user's Inbox. DUMPPRV Displays private mailing lists. DUMPPUB Displays public mailing lists. FOLDARCH Archives the messages in folders. LISTCHK Ensures that every member of a public mailing list is also in the post office Directory. MLIST Displays every public mailing list that a user is in. VIMMSG.RI is the resource file that contains messages for the FOLDARCH utility. This file must be in the same directory as the FOLDARCH utility. ARCSYNC This utility compares messages in your Inbox with messages in a given archive. Messages are matched by author, subject, and message time and date. ARCSYNC is useful for DOSMAIL users if you read and archive your messages at different times, and wish to be sure that a message is in the archive file before it is deleted from the Inbox. It compares the messages in your inbox with messages in a given archive file. Messages found in both locations are deleted from the Inbox. Usage: ARCSYNC /Nname /Ppassword [/Ddirectory] [optional parameters] /Nname - User Name. /Ppassword - User Password. /Ddirectory - Post office drive and directory (default: M:\CCDATA). Optional Parameters /AUTO - Deletes messages without prompting. /? - Displays brief explaination of command-line parameters. If the /AUTO parameter is not used, the program will ask if you want to delete each matching message that it finds. If the /AUTO parameter is used, the program will automatically delete the message. BBCLR This utility checks every bulletin board for unread messages, and prompts whether you want to mark them as read. This is useful if many messages that you do not want to see have arrived on one or more system BBSs, or if you are a new user and want to start out with no unread messages. Usage: BBCLR /Nname /Ppassword [/Ddirectory] [optional parameters] /Nname - User Name. /Ppassword - User Password. /Ddirectory - Post office drive and directory (default: M:\CCDATA). Optional Parameters /PREFIX/title - Partial bulletin board name to match on. /AUTO - Marks the messages as read without prompting. /? - Displays brief explaination of command-line parameters. If the prefix is used, the program looks only for bulletin boards that begin with the prefix, and ignores all others. If the /AUTO parameter is not used, the program will ask if you want to mark the messages as read for every bulletin board it finds with unread messages. If the /AUTO parameter is used, the program will automatically mark the messages as read. DUMPBB This utility displays the subject lines of the messages in all or selected bulletin boards in a post office. This utility is useful in batch files. Usage: DUMPBB /Nname /Ppassword [/Ddirectory] [optional parameters] /Nname - User Name. /Ppassword - User Password. /Ddirectory - Post office drive and directory (default: M:\CCDATA). Optional Parameters /BBOARD/title - Displays the messages for this bulletin board. /BRIEF - Displays only the bulletin board titles. /? - Displays brief explaination of command-line parameters. If the /BBOARD parameter is used, the program will display only the given bulletin board. If the /BRIEF parameter is not used, the program will display the bulletin board title and every message subject in each bulletin board. If the /BRIEF parameter is used, the progarm will display only the bulletin board title. DUMPDIR This utility displays every user or selected user types in the post office Directory. Usage: DUMPDIR /Nname /Ppassword [/Ddirectory] [optional parameters] /Nname - User Name. /Ppassword - User Password. /Ddirectory - Post office drive and directory (default: M:\CCDATA). Optional Parameters /L - Displays only local users. /R - Displays only remote users "R". /P - Dipslays only post offices "P". /S - Displays only remote stand alone users "r". /H - Displays only remote post offices accessed through another remote post office used as a hub "p". /A - Displays only aliases "A". /? - Displays brief explaination of command-line parameters. DUMPIBOX This utility displays the information about the messages in a user's Inbox. Usage: DUMPIBOX /Nname /Ppassword [/Ddirectory] [optional parameters] /Nname - User Name. /Ppassword - User Password. /Ddirectory - Post office drive and directory (default: M:\CCDATA). Optional Parameters /BRIEF - Displays only the message subject. /? - Displays brief explaination of command-line parameters. If the /BRIEF parameter is not used, the program displays the message subject, message author, message priority, time and date the message was created, and the message items. If the /BRIEF parameter is used, the program displays only the message subjects. DUMPPRV This utility displays private mailing lists by dumping the names and members, or just the members, of the user's mailing lists. If the /MLIST parameter is used, the program displays the participants only for the given mailing list. Usage: DUMPPRV /Nname /Ppassword [/Ddirectory] [optional parameters] /Nname - User Name. /Ppassword - User Password. /Ddirectory - Post office drive and directory (default: M:\CCDATA). Optional Parameters /MLIST/title - Display the participants for this mailing list. /BRIEF - Display only the mailing list title. /? - Displays brief explaination of command-line parameters. If the /MLIST parameter is used, the program displays the participants only for the given mailing list. If the /BRIEF parameter is not used, the program displays the mailing list title and the participants in each mailing list. If the /BRIEF parameter is used, the program displays only the mailing list titles. DUMPPUB This utility displays the public mailing lists by dumping the names and members, or just the names of the public mailing lists on the post office. Usage: DUMPPUB /Nname /Ppassword [/Ddirectory] [optional parameters] /Nname - User Name. /Ppassword - User Password. /Ddirectory - Post office drive and directory (default: M:\CCDATA). Optional Parameters /MLIST/title - Display the participants for this mailing list. /BRIEF - Display only the mailing list title. /? - Displays brief explaination of command-line parameters. If the /MLIST parameter is used, the program displays the participants only for the given mailing list. If the /BRIEF parameter is not used, the program displays the mailing list title and the participants in each mailing list. If the /BRIEF parameter is used, the program displays only the mailing list titles. FOLDARCH This utility places messages in archive files from the named folders. The archive filename is created from the folder name by looking for the first space or period in the folder name, truncating the rest and appending ".CCA". Examples: Folder Name File Name MISC STUFF MISC.CCA TEST TEST.CCA INVENTORY INVENTOR.CCA Usage: FOLDARCH /Nname /Ppassword [/Ddirectory] [optional parameters] /Nname - User Name. /Ppassword - User Password. /Ddirectory - Post office drive and directory (default: M:\CCDATA). Optional Parameters /FOLDER/"title" - Archives the messages for the given folder. /FOLDERS - Archives the messages for every folder. /ARCHIVE/path - Sets as default directory for archive messages. /? - Displays brief explaination of command-line parameters. If the /FOLDER parameter is used, the program archives the messages in the given folder. If the /FOLDERS parameter is used, the program archives the messages in every folder. If the /ARCHIVE parameter is used, the archives are placed in this directory. LISTCHK This utility ensures that every member of a public mailing list is also in the post office Directory. Usage: LISTCHK /Nname /Ppassword [/Ddirectory] [optional parameters] /Nname - User Name. /Ppassword - User Password. /Ddirectory - Post office drive and directory (default: M:\CCDATA). Optional Parameters /? - Displays brief explaination of command-line parameters. MLIST This utility displays every public mailing list that a user is in. This is useful for administrators who are performing post office maintenance, or reorganizing a large number of mailing lists. Usage: MLIST /Nname /Ppassword [/Ddirectory] [optional parameters] /Nname - User Name. /Ppassword - User Password. /Ddirectory - Post office drive and directory (default: M:\CCDATA). Optional Parameters /? - Displays brief explaination of command-line parameters.