TT2Fizz - TeddyTerm FizzBill Log Converter - v1.0 - FreeWare
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o What's FizzBill?

FizzBill is a program that will calculate how much you have spent on you
comms phonebill, when using the Freeze Dried Terminal program.  I wrote
FizzBill for my own use, but soon realised that quite a lot of other people 
wanted to see how much they have spent on their calls. 

o What's TeddyTerm?

Who better than Mark Matts to tell you...(from the TeddyTerm docs)...

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Teddy-TERM v1 originally started life as a simple shell program to
allow you to use external protocols such as XYZ.TTP and Jekyll easily 
from within Vanterm. As time passed it was obvious Vanterm was not 
going to be developed any further so after many requests to extend 
Teddy-TERM v1 into a self contained terminal program I decided to 
take the bait and try it. The main driving force behind wanting to 
start programming Teddy-TERM v2 was that I could learn more about the 
ST's methods of communicating with the outside world and secondly 
more about using the excellent extended GEM handling routines written 
by Gregor Duchalski. The result of many hours work is now presented 
to you in the form of Teddy-TERM v2, it has finally grown up into a 
fully functional communications terminal which will support many of 
the external protocol programs available aswell as ANSI/VT100 and 
VT52 terminal emulations.

One of my main goals with Teddy-TERM v2 was to make it as easy to use 
as possible for anyone who is new to ST comms, also to make it easily 
adaptable for anyone already experienced in ST comms who were still 
looking for their ideal terminal program. I know there are many more 
terminal programs available with many more features, a lot of them 
much better, some more confusing to use, but in practical comms, how 
many of the extra features are really useful?

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o What's TT2Fizz?

This program will convert the Capture Buffer files from TeddyTerm into
a format that FizzBill can read.
 
Although TeddyTerm v2.10 has a built in call coster, which is fine for most
people I thought it would be a nice idea to get a more detailed list of calls
made with TeddyTerm.

o Using TT2Fizz

First you might need to modify some of your TeddyTerm options:

 o Bring up the popup menu and select the Terminal settings
 o Click on the 'File for each day' or 'File for each day & bbs' option
 o Make sure the 'Auto Caputre Buffer' option is switched on.
 o Save the settings
 
Next you will need to modify the config. file, that TT2Fizz will read
when run.  Here's an example of the ascii TT2FIZZ.CFG file...

D:\TTERM210\CAPTURE\                   ! Pathname of TeddyTerm Buf file(s)
D:\BTLOGS\                             ! Path to write converted logs
NO                                     ! Delete ALL BUF file(s) [YES/NO]

The 1st line is the pathname of where the TeddyTerm Capture Buffer files
are located.  The buffer files are called xxxxxxxx.BUF

The 2nd line is the path of where TT2Fizz will write the converted files,
Note that you MUST create this folder yourself.

The 3rd line tells TT2Fizz to Delete the buffer files AFTER they have been
converted, if you have put YES in the line.  Normally you should leave
this set to NO.

You will now be told that the Teddy-Term BUF files are being read.

If any calls have been found then TT2Fizz will tell you the date that
the call was made and will write the information to a log file.  For
example, if you made a call on 1-Jan-1994 then the log created will be
called TT940101.LOG.

Once the TeddyTerm buffer file(s) have been read, they are renamed to
xxxxxxxx.CAP, instead of xxxxxxxx.BUF which will mean that your calls
won't be logged twice.

You should now have some TTyymmdd.LOG files, all you do now is run
FizzBill...

o Problem/Comments

If you find any problems with FizzBill or want any improvements made
to the program then why not send me a message, to any of the
following networks...

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