-*- MM_EstadisEcos.rexx -*- v1.0 Ferran Delriu [English Documentation by Alfredo Soro] Program ~~~~~~~ Finally, I decided to bring out this new version of the old statistics program EstadisEcos.rexx adapted for using with Mail Manager!. EstadisEcos.rexx was programmed in October of 1993 to run initially over DLG/PDQ in my own BBS. In that moment only show consideration about a couple of statistics, but for some time new options were added upto the version that is working at present. In March of 1995 I installed Mail Manager in my BBS, and in that moment I must adapt EstadisEcos.rexx on the way to work with the Pino Aliberti's fabulous Software. ;-). Two months ago, I added to the echoareas list of the program the MMBETA and MM_AMY international areas, and I be surprised when I become acquainted with there are a lot of people interested in to have the program. This encouraged me to re-write part of the code, to adapt it 100% for the MM and in order that can be used into other computers. That is why the name and version has changed, now it goes to be called MM_EstadisEcos.rexx and version 1.0 is the first public release, accomplishing the wishes of a lot of people of nearly all Europe. 8-) Management ~~~~~~~~~~ MM_EstadisEcos.rexx performs the statistic of every message area of all the mail echo areas that are specified in the configuration file MM_EstadisEcos.cfg When an echoarea is scanned, it checks the MSGID: control code of every message in the current area, and if it doesn't match with the MSGID: code archived in the .cfg file, automaticly run the statistic process, send a message with the result of the same echoarea and saves the MSGID: control code of the last message processed in the configuration file. If during the scan process is yet detected the presence of MSGID:, skip the process and continues with the next echo area. Definitively, the statistic of an echo, isn't done upto the last message detected in the previous statistic process is disappeared. The best is to run the program from an event, once a day. The process could need some minutes, depending on the amount of messages of an echo-area, and the number of them in the .cfg file. Instalation ~~~~~~~~~~~ - Copy the files in the corresponding directories. - Copy 'c/sort' file in c:, because the program use it to perform operations of alphabetic sorting. - It must be installed the 0.61 version of Robert Hofmann's MM:Rexx/MM_SendMsg.rexx because the program use it to generate the messages with the statistic report of the corresponding echo. - Run the program once a day from one event. Example: 8 0 * * * c:rx mm:rexx/MM_EstadisEcos.rexx Configuration ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #AREA ----- Command used to configure the echo to be processed: Example: #AREA CUA_PROTEC ESP 100 MSGID: 28:91/1.26@CUARED C1297C57 #AREA MMBETA ING 100 MSGID: 2:335/602.2@fidonet 8B022CC2 The first parameter will be the tag of the echoarea. Second parameter will be the language used for that echo. Third parameter is the number of days the statistic will take into consideration to process the messages. By default this parameter is 100 days, therefore the messages will be processed if they aren't older than 100 days. That whose exceed this date will be marked with 'People who lives in another period of time' flag. Fourth parameter is the MSGID: control flag for internal using of the program. NEVER TOUCH THIS INFORMATION. IT IS GENERATED AUTOMATICLY BY THE PROPER PROGRAM. When we go to add a new echoarea, only we must to specify the two first parameters. Example: #AREA MM_AMY ING 100 MM_EstadisEcos.rexx will add the third parameter by itself when performs the first statistic. #BANNER1 #BANNER2 #BANNER3 -------- In these three lines we may add the information of our BBS with a maximum of 60 characters in every line. This information will be showed in the header of every statistic message. Example: #BANNER1 Amiga-Penedes BBS #BANNER2 2:343/119.0@fidonet 39:190/1.0@amiganet 757:101/20.0@redbbs #BANNER3 27:993/1.0@bionet 28:93/1.0@cuared E-Mail fdelriu@redestb.es #LOG ---- This line is used to specify the path name for the program logfile. Example: #LOG logs:MM_EstadisEcos.log Languages ~~~~~~~~~ The texts appeared in the statistic message are initially listed in the external file MM_EstadisEcos.ESP (spanish version). These texts may be translated to any language, while the lines have the same order. Any new language, must be sended to the author to be added in the next version. In the current version are included: MM_EstadisEcos.ESP (Spanish) MM_EstadisEcos.ING (English) Acknowledgements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - To the BetaTesters: * Eugenio de Frutos Sysop: MAS BBS 2:341/35.0@fidonet 39:192/1.0@amiganet * Alfredo Soro Sysop: Nyarlathotep BBS 2:344/15@fidonet 39:194/1.0@amiganet * Frederic Aleixendri Sysop: Tu Amiga BBS 2:343/119.45@fidonet 39:190/3.0@amiganet * Miquel Barnosi Sysop: Tanit BBS 2:347/11.0@fidonet 39:195/1.0@amiganet - To Rogeli Navarro, for the english language text file - To Alfredo Soro, for the english language doc file - To Pino Aliberti for the excellent software Mail Manager 8-) - To Robert Hofmann for so much MM_arexx utilities that he is programming for our MM, among these is MM_SendMsg.rexx used for this program. Bugs ~~~~ To notify about bugs, feature suggests or program improvements, please, send net-mail or e-mail to the addresses detailed in the 'Author' section. Autor ~~~~~ Ferran Delriu c/.Balco de les Clotes, 45, 2-1 08720-Vilafranca del Penedes (Barcelona) - Spain Voz :(34)3-890.00.48 - Movil (908)19.17.99 BBS :(34)3-817.24.40 E-Mail fdelriu@redestb.es FidoNet 2:343/119.0@fidonet AmigaNet 39:190/1.0@amiganet RedBBS 757:101/20@redbbs BioNet 27:993/1.0@bionet Cuared 28:93/1.0@cuared History ~~~~~~~ 07/10/93 - EstadisEcos.rexx v1.0 for DLG/PDQ's soft 25/03/95 - EstadisEcos.rexx v1.2 for DLG/MM soft 15/05/96 - MM_EstadisEcos.rexx v.1.0 for MM soft First oficial version publicly released out the BBS. Adaptated to Mail Manager enviroment. Texts included in external file for to be able to translate it. Included LOG file. Included parameter control 'days' in #AREA Diverse improvements.