MDEL 1.0,  Donated to the ILink International Mail Network on 8/20/93
by the author,  Michael W. Cocke

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MDEL - what is it?
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Ever need to go through a few (or a few hundred) conferences and delete
hundreds of messages that got imported by a mail tosser error?

MDEL will now do it in a fraction of the time, as long as you run a 
PCBoard 15.x BBS.  

** NOTE **
  
  MDEL will work properly ONLY with PCBoard 15.0 message bases - if you
  are running a pre-15 version, DO NOT RUN MDEL.


MDEL - Why is it?
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Last night around a thousand messages were cross-echoed from another 
mail network into ILink.  I personally wasn't wild about having to go 
through all 211 ILink conferences, reading all 400 messages per 
conference, just to delete the non-ILink messages - so I wrote MDEL.


MDEL - how does it work?
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The command to start MDEL is simple;

     MDEL D:\PATH\CNAMES.@@@
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^   This is the exact drive,path, and filename
                               of your PCBoard 15.0 CNAMES.@@@ file.

MDEL will ask you to enter starting and ending conference numbers.  These
are the first and last conferences that will be scanned for incorrect
origin line data.  There is no way to make MDEL run on your main board
(Conference 0)

MDEL will then ask you what it should look for in the origin line 
of each message (PostLink, Intelec, etc.).  Any message containing EXACTLY 
what you specify here on its origin line (last non-blank line) will 
be deleted.

Note that when I say EXACTLY, I mean just that.  PostLink is NOT the same
as postlink.  Case is important, as is spacing.

That's all - MDEL will now process the specified conferences.  It will
produce a file named MDEL.LOG in the current directory containing a
complete log of what incorrect messages were found.

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MDEL is donated to the ILink International Mail network.  If you want 
to do something nice for the author, TEST your mail tosser when you 
reconfigure it!