FMSCHK was written in order to check the structure of your FMS
files and ensure that they are in proper format to be processed by DLMASTER.
To run the program, simply enter the command:

      FMSCHK <filename>

where <filename> is the name of the FMS file to check.  If FMSCHK
encounters any errors, it will display them as follows:


  ERROR in line #2 of master.dir:
      extraneous characters in line
  GIF2WP34.ZIP    21134  02-25-91o Convert GIF to WPG (WordPerfect 5.x) 008

  ERROR in line #3 of master.dir:
      error in date format
  VRAM386A.ZIP    60966  02/26/91  386 memory manager like QEMM/386MAX.  011


    If no errors are encountered, FMSCHK will display the message

        "file <filename> checks okay."

where <filename> is the name of the FMS file being checked.

    FMSCHK will also return a DOS errorlevel of 0 if successful, or -1 if
there was a problem.

    You must correct any errors that FMSCHK detects before running
DLMASTER against the FMS file.  Hopefully, this utility will save
people hours of aggravation when trying to run DLMASTER for the first
time.

    I might make note that FMSCHK prints to stdout, so you can redirect
the output to a disk file if you wish, using DOS redirection.  This
capability, along with the fact that it returns an error level, makes
FMSCHK suitable for batch processing, if desired.




HISTORY:

   1.10      8-15-93      Now properly parses lines that employ RBBS
                          security symbol '=' at beginning of line.

   1.04      6-29-92      Corrected bug that showed comment lines as
                          errors.

   1.03      5-04-92      Corrected bug where bad line length would
                          go unnoticed in extended description lines.

   1.02      8-30-91      Corrected bug that would not detect invalid
                          characters for 2nd separator in date field
                          (i.e. - "08-30/91" would show as okay).

   1.01      8-3-91       Added success message, and ability to return
                          an error code.

   1.00      7-27-91      Initial release.