旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� � SYSUTIL 1.0 - A GT Power Sysop Utility Program � � By Russell Kroll, GT Net/Node: 001/070 � � [C]opyright 1990,1991,1992 RKWARE � 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beta #36 12/21/92 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SYSUTIL: - FIX: Using QEDIT to perform certain functions on lines in the GTMDIR.BBS would leave behind tabs rather than spaces. SYSUTIL now treats any line in GTMDIR.BBS that begins with a tab as a comment. - NEW: SYSUTIL will now find $ files in the main routing file and will check them when looking for things. Thanks to Mike Schmieg for suggesting more $ support. - FIX: If there were any comments on the registration lines in SYSUTIL.CFG, it would act as unregistered. Thanks to Mike Schmieg for finding this. - NEW: When changing the source of echoes, you may now enter a / alone as the new source, and SYSUTIL will show you who is carrying that echo. - NEW: When adding echoes, SYSUTIL will now automatically update your routing file(s), and your GTMDIR.BBS if you are not skipping the echo. - FIX: Anything that asked "More?" would not take lowercase. Thanks to Mike Reish for finding this. - NEW: You can now have up to 20 external programs. This is accomplished by using a leading zero as a placeholder for numbers less than 10. External program #7 would be E07=..... for example. Do not go higher than 20 or the program will bomb out. If you truely need more external programs, let me know and I'll see if I can add more. Thanks to Mike Reish for suggesting this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beta #35 12/07/92 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SU: - NEW: The GTMDIR indexing is now released. There is a new option under Local Maintenance: Index GTMDIR. This will create the previously mentioned GTMDIR index for the message maintenance area. This also speeds up entry to that area a lot. NOTE: It will only run on registered versions of SYSUTIL. See the SYSUTIL.CFG file for information on configuring the index. - NEW: The "Find Echo Descriptions" has changed a bit. More lines will now fit on the screen. Also, a blank line will be placed between the newest and the oldest lines to distinguish between them. - NEW: "Message Maintenance" will now display the number of messages in that area next to the pathname. Example: E:\MESSAGE\GENERAL [7651] Thanks to Michael Arnett for suggesting this. - FIX: Uppercase and lowercase will now work at the origin editing selection. Thanks to April Strong for finding this. - NEW: The "drop echo" option now utilizes the automatic ROUTING.BBS editing function introduced in beta 33. Even though it was originally intended for changing lines, it works great deleting them too! - FIX: The drop echo option was opening GTPATH\echolist.bbs instead of the echolist path specified in the SYSUTIL.CFG file. This could have caused some problems on systems where the ECHOLIST.BBS is not in the GTPATH. - FIX: Several screens would not wrap the cursor from the first choice to the last. SU_USER: The help screen has been re-done. - NEW: Access level searching has been introduced. Use the (A) command to activate and deactivate it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beta #34 11/15/92 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SU: - NEW: The SYSUTIL.CFG file should now be placed in your LAN path if you have one and if not, in your GTPATH. If it is not found in the LAN path, SYSUTIL will check your GTPATH. If it's not in your GTPATH, SYSUTIL will let you know. - NEW: SYSUTIL will now delete the Q, E, F, B, and C files for echoes that you drop. This means that SYSUTIL will need to know which drive you run netmail on. See the entry below. Thanks to Mike Schmieg for suggesting this. - NEW: There is a new field in SYSUTIL.CFG: mail drive. All that is needed is the letter of the drive you run netmail on. - FIX: Editing the GTMDIR.BBS was missing a \ in the filename. - NEW: The configuration selection from the main menu now drops directly into your ASCII editor. The ; comments added a few versions back made the "View configuration" obsolete. - FIX: I believe I finally fixed the message maintenance bug. Please try it out and let me know how it works. SU_USER: - FIX: Editing the access level (or the protocol field) would not "stick". It would change back as soon as you left the record. Thanks to Ed Cavender for finding this. - FIX: Using just / on the command line was causing a search for blanks. - NEW: The registration file now goes in the LAN path. If you don't have a LAN path, put it in the GTPATH. If it is not found in either place, SU_USER will act as unregistered. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome!! ========= This is a short note to welcome everyone into the new WIDE BETA cycle of Sysutil 1.0. If you have any problems, comments, suggestions, or need to send me mail, try E02/761 echomail or 001/070 netmail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beta #33 11/01/92 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SU: - FIX: Using "Message maintenance" twice would make an error 55. - NEW: If you press ENTER at the prompt for editing ANSI files, SU will now ask if you want to start up your ANSI editor. - NEW: SU now takes even more of the load of editing ROUTING.BBS off your hands! The "Change source" command of "Modify echo params" will now show you the old line and the new line. Just say YES and it changes it for you. Say NO and it doesn't. Say MANUAL and you get to visit your ASCII editor like before. It still sends the GM's and GQ's regardless of Yes/No/Manual. SU_USER: - FIX: The delete key was doing some strange things when editing a field. Also, some of the fields were going over length a bit. This could cause some strange problems when editing long fields. - FIX: The ENTER and N keys will ALWAYS go forward in the user file. The P key will ALWAYS go backwards in the user file. Having search mode enabled does not change that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beta #32 10/17/92 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SU: ** BUG FIXES ** - Anything that would post a message broke when 10/1 rolled around. SU was putting "10-xx-1992" instead of "10-xx-92" into the MESSAGE.CTL. - The message area maintenance would go into a loop when a message area had a USER_MSG.CTL, but nobody joined to it. This may occur when the MMR pointer program creates USER_MSG.CTL files. - The cursor routines for "Message area maintenance" were buggy. Eight cursor downs would result in 11! I also changed the operation of PGDN and PGUP. They still scroll 11 lines, but they no longer move the cursor. This way, you can skip around and keep the cursor wherever on the screen you want. ** CHANGES ** - "Drop echo" and "Change echo source" now drop into your editor to modify ROUTING.BBS and GTMDIR.BBS. It has also been cleaned up considerably. - The "Find Echo Description" has been cleaned up a bit. The "More?" prompt now blinks to let you know if it is waiting for input. - The log file summary command has changed considerably! It now updates on the screen as it reads from the log file. On some systems, SU was taking far too long. In some cases, it was even running out of memory! It has been recoded to run faster, too. - Free string memory has been increased about 20K. Some arrays have been redone to clear themselves out when they're not being used. This should help those with large user files trying to use the message area maintenance option. - The message area maintenance option will now edit USER_MSG.CTL files! You can edit both the last read pointer and the high scan pointer. You can also edit the banned flag. This is set when a user attempts to join an "application" area. It must be cleared for entry. - If you add an echo to an existing directory, SU will now allow you to continue. However, it will not let you add an echo if the MESSAGE.CTL already exists in that directory. SU will also now return to the netmail menu if it stops due to a MESSAGE.CTL existing. (Bug fix) - SU now supports the enhanced GTMDIR.BBS format. SU_USER: ** CHANGES ** - There is now a command line search option for registered users! Usage: SU_USER / example: SU_USER /kroll Case of the searchstring is ignored. SU_USER will display a special screen and jump to the first matching record. From there, it works just like normal search-mode. If a match is not found, SU will stop at the last record. Other: ===== I've been working on the documentation. The top part of it has changed to the new format. The rest should be looking like that in the next beta release. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- File truncated to save space. Originally went as far back as beta 1. --- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------