JPG Specifications Inserter

                                 VERSION 1.0

                               for Renegade BBS


1.  Disclaimer

        Let me tell you this first: I wrote this particular utility for per-
    sonal use. It works just fine for me. I hope you understand that I can't
    be held responsible in any way for anything that may happen. Use it at
    your own risk.

2.  Introduction

        Why a JPG Specifications Inserter for Renegade BBS you may think.
    Because Renegade BBS software has build in a possibility to insert GIF
    Specifications (that is height, width and # color information) into a
    GIF-file's description, and I found that more and more JPG files are
    used, I thought it was time to write a JPG Specs inserter.

3.  What does it do

    As you may know, the GIF Specifications are inserted as follows:
    GARFIELD.GIF    (407x443,256c)

    Accordingly, JPG Specs are inserted as follows:
    GRENDEL.JPG     (519x697,color)

    This specification is always inserted before any existing description.
    If a description becomes to long for the standard 60 characters field,
    the overshoot is discarded !!!

3.  How to Use it

        JPGSPECS.EXE expects to get only one parameter: the full path to
    the RENEGADE.DAT file. After that it can find whatever it needs...

    JPG Specifications are only inserted if the file-description does not
    begin with a '('. That means that once specs are inserted, they are
    inserted. (Otherwise you would get something like this:
    GARFIELD.GIF  (407x443,256c) (407x443,256c) (407x443,256c) (407x443,256c)
    and you don't want that, do you ?)

    A parameter '/R' can be specified, however, to specify you want to insert
    the specs of all JPG files, even those who have already specs inserted.
    JPGSPECS.EXE check for that, and if there are already specs inserted,
    they are replaced by the new specs. This might be handy when your contact
    sheets have changed, but the filenames didn't.

    Another constraint: JPG specifications are only inserted in descriptions
    of files located in file-bases with the GIF-Specs flag set.

    Maybe it's an idea to place this utility in your batch file. It would
    be run every time a user logs off, so all just uploaded JPG's would
    have their specs in their descriptions.

4.  Comments, etc.

        This programm is freeware. You may distribute it freely.
    If you have any questions or comments on this utility, please contact
    me at this e-mail address:

    ia_remko@cs.utwente.nl

    or call my BBS,

    Grendel BBS, +31 53 329991


    R.M. Wiersma
    The BeeWare Company
    SysOp of the Grendel BBS.
    The Netherlands.