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X               run_on_time - time of  day to execute  purge. This is a  24-
X                    hour format  string. The  purge should  not be  started
X                    until  after  your  JANTIDY.COM   has  run  to  prevent
X                    disruption of BBoard activity. Default: "4:30".
X               never_purge - the list  of conferences that should  never be
X                    touched.  This  should  be  an  uppercase-only,  colon-
X                    delimited  (before   and  after  each   entry)  string.
X                    Default: ":X-INFO-BBOARD:X-UNKNOWN:".
X               archive_notes - should expired notes  be extracted to a file
X                    before  they're  deleted.  This can  be  anything  that
X                    evaluates to True or False. Default: "F".
X               min_note -  initial topic number  that can be  deleted. This
X                    allows initial topics to be devoted to a description of
X                    the  conference  or  local  meta-discussions about  the
X                    conference. Default: 5.
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X          This procedure provides a needed support  tool for BBoard. If you
X          have any improvements or suggestions for improvement, please send
X          me  your code or ideas. This is one  of the pieces of BBoard that
X          could probably stand the  most improvement and, in the  long run,
X          be one of the most used and most useful.
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X          BBoard  receives  and  processes   certain  interactive  commands
X          through  Jnet. There  are two  types of commands:  restricted and
X          unrestricted. Unrestricted  commands will  be  accepted from  any
X          user at any node except those  specifically listed in the :ignore
X          control section. Restricted  commands will only be  accepted from
X          users at  the same node as BBoard who  are listed in the :manager
X          control section in the control file.
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X          Any interactive command that begins with  an asterisk (*) will be
X          ignored by BBoard.  This is to  prevent possible endless  chatter
X          between BBoard and a LISTSERV-type server at another node.
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X          DISPLAY Command
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X          Display the status of a conference or conferences. The close date
X          (based on posting interval) and the last time that the conference
X          had an entry posted will be sent as an interactive response.
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X               Type:     Unrestricted
X               Syntax:   Display <conference-specifier>
X               Minimum:  D
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X          Note that conference-specifier may be wildcarded with * or %.
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X          HELP Command
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X          Display a short  description of BBoard  and addresses for who  to
X          contact for further information.
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X               Type:     Unrestricted
X               Syntax:   HELP `124 ?
X               Minimum:  HELP or ?
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X          RELOAD Command
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X          Reload the control  file. BBoard will  respond with a  completion
X          message after the control file is reloaded.
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X               Type:     Restricted
X               Syntax:   RELoad
X               Minimum:  REL
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X          RESET Command
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X          Reset  the closing  date of the  specified conference.  This will
X          force the next entry to generate a new topic in the conference.
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X               Syntax:   RESET <conference-name>
X               Minimum:  RESET
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X          Note that conference-name  must be fully specified  and wildcards
X          are not allowed.
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X          RESUME Command
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X          Allow  BBoard  to post  entries to  Notes.  Used after  a SUSPEND
X          command  to  begin  posting any  entries  accumulated  during the
X          suspension and permit all future postings.
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X               Type:     Restricted
X               Syntax:   RESUme
X               Minimum:  RESU
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X          SHUTDOWN Command
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X          Perform shutdown tasks  prior to  terminating processing.  BBoard
X          will verify  that all incoming Jnet links,  specified with :links
X          in the control file,  are inactive. Shutdown will not  be allowed
X          if a SUSPEND command has been given and there are any outstanding
X          entries to post.
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X               Type:     Restricted
X               Syntax:   SHUTdown
X               Minimum:  SHUT
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X          STATUS Command
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X          Display start-up times and number  of posted and unposted entries
X          since start-up.
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X               Type:     Unrestricted
X               Syntax:   Status
X               Minimum:  S
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X          SUSPEND Command
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X          Prevent BBoard from beginning any posting  jobs until a RESUME is
X          given. This will stop  BBoard from writing any entries  to Notes,
X          although  incoming mail will still be  processed and prepared for
X          posting.
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X               Type:     Restricted
X               Syntax:   SUSPend
X               Minimum:  SUSP
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X          Force BBoard to write unposted entries to Notes.
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X               Syntax:   WRIte
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X          Disclaimer
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X          BBoard uses  undocumented Jnet  hooks.  Joiner Associates,  Inc.,
X          extends no support for  user utilization of these  function calls
X          and  so  the   actions  that   BBoard  performs  are   officially
X          unsupported.
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X          The author will support BBoard to  the best of his ability, given
X          the lack of official support by Joiner Associates, Inc.
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X          Trade Marks
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X          VMS   and  VAX  Notes  are  trade   marks  of  Digital  Equipment
X          Corporation.
X          Jnet is a trade mark of Joiner Associates, Inc.
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X          New Features
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X          Version 1.41 new features:
X               o    Addition of SUSPEND and RESUME processing, required for
X                    "expiring" entries in Notes conferences.
X               o    Inclusion   of    BBOARD_MAKE_CONF.COM   to    generate
X                    conferences for BBoard.
X               o    Inclusion of NOTES_PURGE.COM to expire entire topics as
X                    Notes conferences begin to get large.
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X          Version 1.40 new features (in no particular order):
X               o    The topic for  digests is now posted  as the conference
X                    alias, rather than BBoard.
X               o    Only  one detached posting job will  be allowed to run.
X                    If another should be started, it will be deferred until
X                    the  other  job completes.  This  reduces the  CPU load
X                    whenever  a   link  restarts   after  a   long  outage.
X                    Additionally, this  removes the  need for  any sort  of
X                    batch submission and processing of postings.
X               o    Subject lines starting with  '$' will have a space  ' '
X                    prepended to them.  This prevents the Notes  processing
X                    from aborting due to a '$' forcing control back to DCL.
X               o    'From' text  will  possibly have  angle  brackets  "<>"
X                    placed  around   it  which   will  give   Gold-F  (from
X                    NOTES$COMMAND.SAMPLE)  a  better chance  of determining
X                    the poster's address.
X               o    Some     logical    names     (BBOARD_NOTECONTROL_FILE,
X                    BBOARD_ERROR_CONF,                BBOARD_TIME_INTERVAL,
X                    BBOARD_COUNT_INTERVAL) have been moved into the Control
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X                    BBoard to four.
X               o    Add  a HELP command  to give a  limited description and
X                    provide addresses to contact for further information.
X               o    Move digest  definitions into the Control  File, rather
X                    than being hard-coded, as they were previously.
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X          Possible Future Enhancements
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X          The following are possible future enhancements to BBoard:
X               o    Add Restricted command  CURRENT <conference-specifier>.
X                    This will cause  the specified conference(s)  to change
X                    their close  date so  that they  are "current".  Weekly
X                    conferences will end on the coming Saturday and monthly
X                    conferences will end at the end of the month.
X               o    User  Exits to  allow  further  processing of  incoming
X                    messages. This can  be used for testing or  for further
X                    distribution of mail.
X               o    Provide a mechanism to copy header information onto the
X                    tail-end of each posting in  selected conferences. This
X                    will be especially useful during  mail loops to provide
X                    the headers that everyone needs to solve this problem.
X               o    Interface  BBoard to  Callable Notes  to speed  access.
X                    (Yes,  Callable  Notes exists;  No, no  one I  know can
X                    provide me with any information, yet.)
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X          BBoard was written by:
X               Benjamin M. Cohen
X               Ben@SPCVXA.Bitnet
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X          Additionally,  support  is  available  through  the   Info-BBoard
X          distribution  list at SPCVXA.Bitnet. To request to be included on
X          this distribution list, send a mail message to I-BBREQ@SPCVXA.
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X#define TRUE 1
X#define FALSE 0
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X#define SLOP_LEN 5`009`009`009/* Extra space on allocated strings */
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Xtypedef long SYSTIM[2];
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Xstruct jnet_file_header `123
X    char host[10];
X    char user[10];
X    char filename[10];
X    char filetype[10];
X    char device[10];
X    char class[2];
X    char local_file[128];
X    char jnet_file[128];
X    char conf_name[41];
X    char flag_user_exit;`009`009/* For later development */
X`125;
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Xstruct list_info `123
X    char scan_data[11];
X    char conf_hdr[21];
X    char conf_user[13];
X    int flag_digest;
X    int flag_keyword;
X    char new_topic_interval;
X    char conf_name[41];
X`125;
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Xstruct source_info `123
X    char id[3];
X    char scan_text[21];
X    int reg_text_length;
X    char * header_text;
X`125;
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Xstruct rule_info `123
X    char ids[2][3];
X    char comparison[3];
X    char action[3];
X    char id_from[3];
X    char id_subj[3];
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Xstruct command `123
X    char * name;
X    int min_len;
X    int privileged;
X    int cmd_value;
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X    unsigned short year;
X    unsigned short month;
X    unsigned short day;
X    unsigned short hour;
X    unsigned short minute;
X    unsigned short second;
X    unsigned short h_second;
X`125;
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X/* From BBOARD.C */
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Xvoid timer_reset(void);
Xvoid process_message(void);
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X/* From BBSUPP.C */
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Xchar * log_tran(char * log_name);
Xvoid send_msg(char * n, char * u, char * s);
Xvoid send_log_file(char * s);
Xchar * get_vms_ver(void);
Xvoid init_log_file(void);
Xvoid send_opcom(char * s);
Xvoid from_text_fondle(char * s);
Xvoid subj_text_fondle(char * s);
Xvoid report_error(char * s, int error);
Xint receive_file(struct jnet_file_header * f);
Xint receive_message(char * node, char * user, char * msg);
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Xvoid critical_error(char * err_line);
Xvoid inter_error(char * log_flag, char * err_line, char * node, char * user);
Xvoid str_desc(struct dsc$descriptor * desc, char * str);
Xchar * strip(char * s);
Xchar * trim_end(char * s);
Xchar * scrunch(char * s);
Xchar * strupr(char * s);
Xchar * strlwr(char * s);
Xchar * remove_quotes(char * s);
Xlong * get_time(long * buf);
Xstruct $NUMTIM * get_numtim(struct $NUMTIM * num, long * buf);
Xlong * start_end_time(char delt_type, long * buf_start, long * buf_end);
Xvoid * xmalloc(unsigned size);
Xvoid xfree(void * mem);
Xint fgets_lcl(char * s, int len, FILE * f);
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Xint read_control_file(int reload, char * node, char * user);
Xvoid do_rules(FILE * note);
Xchar * find_source(char * id);
Xvoid scan_header(FILE * note, struct source_info * p);
Xint digest_find(char dig_type, int * len, int * error);
Xint ignore_msgs(char * n, char * u);
Xint valid_manager(char * n, char * u);
Xint mandatory_link(char * l);
X#ifdef DEBUG
Xvoid dump_control_file(void);
X#endif
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X/* From USEFILE.C */
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Xvoid use_file(struct jnet_file_header * f);
Xvoid put_note(FILE * note, struct rule_info * rule, struct list_info * list,
X    int error_note);
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X/* From USEMSG.C */
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Xvoid use_msg(char * node, char * user, char * msg);
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X/* From HOOKS.C */
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Xint check_for_hook(char * hook);
Xvoid load_host_name(char * host);
Xchar * check_links_down(void);
Xchar * get_jnet_ver(void);
Xchar * get_jnet_wrk(struct dsc$descriptor * jni_vers_dsc);
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X/* From NOTELOG.C */
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Xvoid reset_log_file_entry(char * conf, char * node, char * user);
Xvoid display_log_file_entry(char * conf, char * node, char * user);
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X/* From COMSUPP.C */
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Xvoid com_write_notes(void);
XFILE * com_open(void);
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