FFFFFFFFFF BBBBBBBBB F B B F B B F B B F B B FFFFFF IIIII ZZZZZ ZZZZZ BBBBBBBBB IIIII L L F I Z Z B B I L L F I Z Z B B I L L F I Z Z B B I L L F IIIII ZZZZZ ZZZZZ BBBBBBBBB IIIII LLLLL LLLLL by STeve Basford Version 2.3 - ShareWare CONTENTS 1. What's FizzBill? 2. How to setup FzDSTerm 3. Using FizzBill 4. Configuring FizzBill 5. Registering FizzBill 6. Problems? 7. Adverts & Information 8. Greetings Section 1 - What's FizzBill? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Phone Bills are the worst part of comms, you enjoy sending out your messages, playing Space Trader, downloading files but most people don't enjoy the phonebill at the end of it. This isn't FizzBill's problem. What is FizzBill's problem, however, is to try and give you an idea of just how much money it's costing you ( or somebody! ) for your comms 'fix'. FizzBill does have some limitations: o will only work with the brilliant Freeze Dried Terminal program. However you can use the BinkleyTerm, Semper, TeddyTerm & Connect Log converters, to generate FizzBill compatible Log files. Other Log converter could become available for your fave comms program, just ask for more details. o will only calculate Cheap Rate/Economy calls on BT/Mercury networks o You need to setup FzDSTerm before using FizzBill, but it's not that hard...Honest! o FizzBill and the converter programs have not been tested on the Falcon or under Mint. Section 2 - How to setup FzDSTerm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The first thing I suggest you do is to read the manual to FzDSTerm, which will help you understand the settings needed for FizzBill, which i'll explain in a moment. The next thing you need to do, is to make sure you have your ST's system clock set to the correct date and time. For those with Hard Disks, your built-in clock will take care of this for you, however for others there are loads of programs and Accs to set the correct time and date. You will need to change some settings in FzDSTerm, before running FizzBill. Go into the 'System Setup' screen of FzDSTerm ie. click on 'System Setup' from the Main Menu. Once you are in the 'System Setup' screen you will see a box called 'Daily .LOGs', you will need to click on that box, which will enable the writing of Log files, whenever you use FzDSTerm. The Second thing you should do is to change the number of days that FzDSTerm saves your log files for. This option is on the 'System Setup' screen and just click on the 'Save for xx days' button and change the number of days saved to the maximum of 90. The next thing you MIGHT like to change is the Path to which these Log files are written to. This path is normally the same path that the FzDSTerm is in, although I've changed mine. To do this you will need to Create a folder, for example, called 'FZDSLOGS', which you can do either from Desktop or from within FzDSTerm. Section 2 - How to setup FzDSTerm Cont. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Once you've created the folder you need to go into the 'Default Path' screen which is accessed from the Main Menu. Once you have entered this screen, you will need to click on the 'Path for Daily log file' section and you can then enter the pathname, again for example, FZDSLOGS. Now don't forget to re-save your Config file! Section 3 - Using FizzBill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Double-click on FBILLV23.PRG, the first thing you'll see is a the title screen, so just hit a key and it'll go away. Now, you'll have the answer the following questions. You can type in HELP at the prompts for a little on-line help. o 'Select log files on drive (Eg. A, HELP or RETURN to exit ) :' Enter the drive letter (A to Z) where your Log files are located. For example, if you have created the FZDSLOGS folder on Drive D then you just type 'D' and press return. Note that you can enter more than one drive letter. So, if you have your Freeze Dried logs on drive D and your converted logs from BinkleyTerm on drive F then just enter 'DF' and press return. Note that this will slow things down, so it's best to have ALL log files on one drive. o 'Enter Date to select from (Eg. 010693, HELP, RETURN for ALL) :' Usually just hit the Return key here, to select all dates, however if you just want to look at all calls from 29-Sep-1993, for example, just enter '290993' and only calls from that date onwards will be shown. If you want to look at calls between 20-Sep-1993 and 25-Sep-1993 for example, enter '200993 250993' and only calls between the dates will be shown. Note: The space between the dates! If you want to look at calls made Today then just type in TODAY. o 'Detail or Summary listing (Eg. D, HELP, RETURN for Detail) :' If you type 'D' or just hit Return, you'll get a list of ALL calls made, followed by a summary. If you type 'S' then you just get the Summary, which speed things up a little. o 'Output to Screen, File, Prt (Eg. S, HELP, RETURN for Screen) :' Normally just hit Return for output to the screen, but you can send output to a file by typing 'F' or to the printer by typing 'P' The un-calculated calls listing will only appear when you select output to a File. If you have any Freeze Dried Terminal calls, which cannot be calculated then the details will be written to the FIZZBILL.ERR file. The un-calculated calls are either calls that you have made by typing 'ATDT' or just by the modem going on/off hook. Section 3 - Using FizzBill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After all this, FizzBill should spring into action... First, FizzBill will try and find a file called 'FIZZBILL.BBS' which will contain any Charge Band details you have entered for a BBS. But the first time you run the program, it will not find one and you'll get a message telling you so. The program scans your selected drive to try and find some FzDSTerm Daily Log files or any of the converted log files. If there are no logs OR no logs which match your date selection then you'll get the following message: 'Sorry, no FizzBill Logs found. Try another drive or selection date.' When a BBS is found in one of the daily log files, you'll have to tell FizzBill what type of charge band the call uses. Here's an example that I entered for 'The Tavern' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Charge Bands : Ix = International ( 1-13 & R ) | Mx = International ( 1-13 or CODE ) L = Local | MN4 = Local A = Up to 56km | MN3 = Up to 56km B1 = Over 56km ( Low cost ) | MN1 = Over 56km ( low cost ) B = Over 56km | MN2 = Over 56km M = Mobile Phones | P1 = Callstream No's | [ Mercury codes: Type HELP at prompt ] Enter Charge Band for The Tavern : B1 Here I type B1 because it is a low cost route, however, you just enter the one applicable to your bbs. If your using the BT network and are dialling overseas then find out which charge band you are using and enter the correct one. Eg. I4 for band 4 etc. Since there are 13 charge bands then you should only enter a band no. from 1 to 13! If you are using the Mercury Network then you should use the codes that start with M. The Mercury Codes are as follows: o National Calls MN1 = Tier b1 = Calls over 56km on low cost routes MN2 = Tier b = Calls over 56km MN3 = Tier a = Calls up to 56km MN4 = LOCAL = Local call o International Groups M1, M2, M3, M5, M6, M7, M8, M9, M10, M12, M13 as per Mercury list Section 3 - Using FizzBill Cont. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o International Popular routes ( Type HELP when you are asked for the Charge band ) MUS = USA MBE = Belgium MCA = Canada MDE = Denmark MBM = Bermuda MFR = France MAS = Australia MGE = Germany MHO = Hong Kong MGR = Greece MJA = Japan MIT = Italy MLU = Luxembourg MAT = Austria MNE = Netherlands MFI = Finland MPO = Portugal MIC = Iceland MSP = Spain MNO = Norway MIR = Republic of Ireland MSW = Sweden MSL = Switzerland Once all the daily log files have been scanned the screen will clear and you'll get something like this... FizzBill v2.3 - Un-registered +-----------------------+------+--------+--------+--------+---------+---+-+ | BBS Name | Date | Start | Finish | Elapsed|Cost # |Crg|I| +-----------------------+------+--------+--------+--------+---------+---+-+ |Desktop BBS |131193|17:36:48|17:37:50|00:00:56| 0.042|L | | |The Tavern |131193|18:32:36|18:34:26|00:01:44| 0.126|B1 | | |The Tavern |141193|12:49:20|12:51:18|00:01:52| 0.126|B1 | | |NeST South East |141193|12:53:58|12:57:26|00:03:24| 0.210|B1 | | |The Tavern |141193|14:04:18|14:06:04|00:01:40| 0.084|B1 | | |The Tavern |151193|21:12:30|21:13:46|00:01:10| 0.084|B1 | | |The Tavern |151193|22:20:48|22:21:40|00:00:44| 0.042|B1 | | |The Tavern |181193|18:27:52|18:28:56|00:00:58| 0.084|B1 | | |The Tavern |181193|19:13:12|19:15:24|00:02:04| 0.126|B1 | | |The Tavern |201193|16:23:16|16:23:54|00:00:30| 0.042|B1 | | |The Tavern |211193|13:17:18|13:18:10|00:00:46| 0.042|B1 | | |The Tavern |211193|14:48:34|14:49:28|00:00:48| 0.042|B1 | | |The Tavern |231193|18:36:46|18:37:54|00:01:02| 0.084|B1 | | |The Tavern |241193|17:03:42|17:05:18|00:01:30| 0.084|B1 | | |The Tavern |251193|19:02:32|19:04:58|00:02:20| 0.126|B1 | | |The Tavern |271193|13:28:10|13:29:50|00:01:34| 0.084|B1 | | |NeST South East |271193|14:21:20|14:22:26|00:01:00| 0.084|B1 | | |The Tavern |281193|17:18:08|17:19:16|00:01:02| 0.084|B1 | | |The Tavern |281193|18:25:12|18:26:38|00:01:20| 0.084|B1 | | |The Tavern |101193|18:17:12|18:19:34|00:02:16| 0.126|B1 | | |The Tavern |101193|19:39:50|19:41:58|00:02:02| 0.126|B1 | | +-----------------------+------+--------+--------+--------+---------+---+-+ Section 3 - Using FizzBill Cont. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FizzBill v2.3 - Un-Registered +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Total On-line time : 00:30:51 | | Approx. Cost (Exc. Vat.) : # 1.93 | | Approx. Cost (Inc. Vat.) : # 2.27 | | Total No. of Calls : 21 | | Itemised No. of Calls : 0 | | Itemised Cost (Exc. Vat.) : # 0.00 | | Itemised Cost (Inc. Vat.) : # 0.00 | | BT Cost (Inc. Vat.) : # 2.27 | | Mercury Cost (Inc. Vat.) : # 0.00 | | Average Minutes Online : 1.46 | | Un-Calculated Calls : 0 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | You called Desktop BBS 1 time, Cost # 0.05 Inc.Vat | | You called The Tavern 18 times, Cost # 1.88 Inc.Vat | | You called NeST South East 2 times, Cost # 0.35 Inc.Vat | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ I'll go though the above example and just explain a few things. First I'll go thought the 'DETAIL' lines... BBS Name - Gosh this is hard, it's the name of the BBS that you called. Date - The date you called the BBS eg. 200993 is really 20-Sep-1993 Start - The time when you logged on to the BBS ( in the form HH:MM:SS ) Finish - The time when you logged off from the BBS ( in the form HH:MM:SS ) Elapsed - How long you were online to the BBS ( in the form HH:MM:SS ) Cost - The cost in Pounds you were charged eg. 0.042 is just over 4p Crg - This is the Charge band of the BBS you called. If a '@' appears in this area, it means that the call was made during BT's Weekend Rate period. If a '+' appears here it means that it's a discount call made using BT's Close Ties service, ie. Choose 5 phone numbers and for a one-off payment of #4.99, you'll receive a 5% discount. I beleive Mercury run the same sort of service. Only Registered FizzBill users can use this option. It - If you are using the BT network and a '*' appears here then the call made will appear on your Itemised Phone Bill! Section 3 - Using FizzBill Cont. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Now for the 'SUMMARY' lines... Total On-line Time - The total amount of time you were connected to the BBS for ( in the form HH:MM:SS ) Approx Cost Ex Vat - This is the estimate of how much your comms phone bill will be EXCLUDING VAT Approx Cost Inc Vat - This is the estimate of how much your comms phone bill will be INCLUDING VAT Total No of Calls - This is how many calls you have made to ALL BBS Itemised No of Calls - This is the number of calls that will appear on a BT itemised Phone Bill Itemised Cost Ex Vat - This the estimate of how much your Itemised calls cost EXCLUDING VAT Itemised Cost Inc Vat - This is the estimate of how much your Itemised calls cost INCLUDING VAT BT Cost (Inc. Vat.) - FizzBill's estimate of the BT part of your bill Mercury Cost (Inc. Vat.) - FizzBill's estimate of the Mercury part of your bill Average Minutes Online - This is how long your average call to a BBS took Un-Calculated Calls - Normally this should be zero, however if isn't you can get more information about the calls via FIZZBILL.ERR, which is produced when you output the listing to a File. Now for the BBS breakdown. This section will show you how much each BBS has cost you to call. So in the above example you can see I called The Tavern 18 times and cost #1.88, where as I only called DeskTop bbs once and that cost me 5p This is because DeskTop bbs is a LOCAL call to me and The Tavern bbs isn't. This section is really only useful when you call more than one BBS but it's interesting to see which boards you call the most. Right, now remember earlier you had to type in those charge details, well after the SUMMARY, FizzBill will save these charge details to a file called 'FIZZBILL.BBS', so that you don't have to re-enter the details again the next time you use FizzBill. Note that this file is ONLY updated when you have entered some 'new' charge details. Section 4 - Configuring FizzBill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ************************************************************************* **** **** **** A sample FIZZBILL.CFX file is supplied in this archive but has **** **** been renamed to FIZZBILL.CFX, edit this sample config to suit **** **** your setup and rename to FIZZBILL.CFG BEFORE using the program. **** **** **** **** Note: FizzBill can run without a .CFG file **** **** **** ************************************************************************* FizzBill can read a config file which will enable it to run in batch, ie. from a shell or as normal ( but saves a lot of typing ) The FIZZBILL.CFG file should be located in the FizzBill directory. An example config file is included eg: D ! Drive(s) to Search for Log files ALL ! Date to select calls from/to D ! Detail or Summary listing F ! Output to Screen/File or Printer NO ! Ask for key press [YES/NO] YES ! Display Title screen [YES/NO] NO ! Display 0 calls BBS [YES/NO] NO ! NLQ on Printouts [YES/NO] NO ! Kill Fizzbill.lis & .err before run YES ! BBS Breakdown? [YES/NO] YES ! Use Colour Codes [YES/NO] 00 00 00 ! Background Colour 07 07 07 ! Important Colour 03 07 00 ! Helpful Colour 07 05 04 ! Main Ink Colour YES ! Full Nested LOG search [YES/NO] YES ! Re-calculate times [YES/NO] NO ! Use Daily Charge files [YES/NO] FT_BT_SP_TT_CN_UU_FP ! Only read log files starting xx NO ! Charge BT calls per Second [YES/NO] NO ! Include discount numbers [YES/NO] 66 ! No. lines per page [70=A4] This is a list of ALL current calls... ! Header for each page. Max 60 Chars 0 ! Decrease each online time by x secs If you need to search two drives for the Log files eg. Drives D and E then just change the 'D' to 'DE' The 'ALL' in the Date selection will select ALL calls that you have made, however you may with to run calls From/To a date, if that's the case then just change the 'ALL' to 'ddmmyy ddmmyy'. You may also want to display calls just for the CURRENT day, if you do, just replace the 'ALL' with 'TODAY' If you want a summary listing then change the 'D' to an 'S The output of FizzBill can be changed as follows: 'F' - output to a file 'S' - output to screen 'P' - output to printer Section 4 - Configuring FizzBill Cont. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The 'Ask for keypress' option, when running from a shell is usually set to 'NO' as this stops the 'Press a key for more...' message. For normal Desktop operation this should be changed to 'YES' If you wish to speed up FizzBill when running from a shell then you can stop the title screen being displayed by replacing the 'YES' with a 'NO' The 'NO' in the Display 0 calls BBS line, means that when FizzBill breaks down the bbs names at the end of the listing, you will only see the bbs that have had one call or more. It saves you looking at 'You called XXX, 0 times, costing 0.00' If you have a 'NO' in the NLQ for printouts line then you will get a draft printout, when you select the output to printer option, otherwise you get a NLQ printout. The next line of the .CFG file, ie. Kill FIZZBILL.LIS & FIZZBILL.ERR will delete the FIZZBILL.LIS and FIZZBILL.ERR files BEFORE the program starts. Normally this should be set to 'NO'. It's only useful if you are using Txt-2-Msg (A NeSTWare program by Mark Matts) and you want to make sure you don't receive an old FIZZBILL.LIS file. If you have a 'YES' in the next line then FizzBill will give you a cost breakdown of calls made to each bbs. The next line is only useful if you run FizzBill in Medium Rez. If the colour option is "NO", FizzBill run run, without changing any of the current colours. However, if you say "YES" then colours will be added certain parts of the output to the screen. The colours selected can be changed by the colour line. Eg. the background colour black is selected by using the RGB values "00 00 00". Note: Make sure the RGB values are between 0-7 and are two characters Eg. "01 07 04" The next line, ie. 'Full nested LOG search' will tell FizzBill to either search ALL folders for LOG files, if set to YES. If this option is set to NO then FizzBill will only search for LOG files ONE level deep, which will be a lot quicker. The next line, should normally set to 'NO', unless you have registered FizzBill. Once registered set this to 'YES' and FizzBill will use the charge files that you have setup, which will enable you to cope with changes to costs on the BT/Mercury networks The next line is 'Re-calculate times'. Normally Freeze Dried and BinkleyTerm calculate the elapsed time of the call made, however it has been noticed that this time is a little inaccurate, so if you put a 'YES' on this line, FizzBill will re-calculate the elapsed time from the Start and End time of the call, which should be more accurate. Section 4 - Configuring FizzBill Cont. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After this, is the 'Only read log files starting xx' option. Normally this should be set to 'FT_BT_SP_TT_CN_UU_FP'. In other words FizzBill will try and find log names that start FTyymmdd.LOG, BTyymmdd.LOG etc. If, for example, I released a new FizzBill log converter called 'AA2Fizz', just add '_AA' to this line and FizzBill will load in the new converted logs. NOTE: you MUST use the underscore character! The 'Charge BT calls per Second' option should normally be set to 'NO' ie. BT calls at the moment are rounded UP to the nearest UNIT, however I believe that in the future calls will be charged per second, in which case change the option to 'YES' The next line is the 'Include Discount numbers', normally this should be set to 'NO', unless your a registered user and want to be able to use BT's Closer Ties service. Ie. Choose any 5 numbers and receive a 5% discount. I believe Mercury run something similar. After this is the 'Lines per page' option. This is the number of lines per page on your printer that FizzBill will use. Change this number to 70 for A4 size paper. The next option ie. 'Header Text' contains a line of text, maximum of 60 characters, that will apprear on each page of your FizzBill listing. For example, you could change the text to 'All calls from 01-Jan-94...'. The next option ie. 'Decrease online time by x secs' will normally be 0. This option is really a fiddle factor... if, for example, on your Mercury Bill you can see that their elapsed time for each call is approx. 14 seconds less than FizzBill's then by changing the 0 to 14, FizzBill's elapsed times per call will be decreased by 14 seconds, therefore being more accurate. Note: This option only works when you set the 'Re-Calculate times' option, to 'YES' FizzBill can also be used from the command line. Enter -help on the command line for a list of the following parameters... -drD : Drive(s) to Search for Log files -selALL : Date to select calls from/to -typeD : Detail or Summary listing -outS : Output to Screen/File or Printer -keyYES : Ask for key presses [YES/NO] -titleYES : Display Title screen [YES/NO] -zeroYES : Display 0 calls BBS [YES/NO] -nlqNO : NLQ on Printouts [YES/NO] -killYES : Kill FizzBill.Lis & Err before run -breakYES : BBS Breakdown? [YES/NO] -colYES : Use Colour Codes [YES/NO] -fullYES : Full Nested LOG Search [YES/NO] -calcYES : Re-calculate times [YES/NO] -usecrgNO : Use Daily charge files [YES/NO] -logsFT_BT : Search for logs starting xx_xx_xx -btsecNO : Charge BT calls per Second [YES/NO] -discNO : Include Discount numbers [YES/NO] -lines66 : Printer lines per page [70=A4] -hdrAll_Calls : Prints 'All Calls' on each page -dur0 : Decrease each online time by x secs -fileFIZZBILL : Filename to be written to disk -cfgFIZZBILL : Filename to read as Config file. Section 4 - Configuring FizzBill Cont. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Note that the command line will OVERWRITE any of the settings in your config file, you will need a SPACE between each parameter & doesn't use ARGV, so keep 'em short... Examples... '-sel010194070194 -typeS' will show all calls between 01.01.94 and 07.04.94, summary only. Note there is NO Space between the dates! '-calcNO -hdrNormal_Times' will turn off the re-calculation of elapsed times and sets the page header to 'Normal Times' Note: the use of the userscore character instead of a space. '-fileBBS -cfgTEST -typeF' will output the report to a File called BBS.LIS/BBS.ERR and will read the other parameters from TEST.CFG, instead of FIZZBILL.CFG All the programs can be run from batch because they read a .CFG file. Choose a shell program, eg. TOMShell and something simple like the example below can be used to automate things... cd g:\bt2fizz\ <- Change directory bt2fizz <- Call the BT2Fizz Log convertion program cd g:\fizzbill\ <- Change directory fbillv23 -selTODAY <- Run FizzBill and Select TODAY's calls only cd d:\txtmsg15\ <- Mark Matt's Txt-2-Msg txt2msg <- NeSTWare Program Section 5 - Registering FizzBill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At this point i'll remind you that FizzBill is ShareWare, so if you do find this program useful then I ask you to send me a small amount of money, say five pounds. As well as that nice feeling you get for being so honest, you will also recieve information on how to setup daily charge files for FizzBill that will enable you to enter your own BT/Mercury Prices, which is useful since they are changing quite often. You'll also be able to use BT's Closer Ties option, ie. Choose 5 numbers and you will receive a 5% discount on these calls... this option is also available on Mercury. I'll also netmail you, if you provide an address, when a new version of the program or converter programs are released. Please send the money to : STeve Basford, 139 Wistaston Road, Crewe, Cheshire CW2 7RH Section 6 - Problems? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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... +----> InterNet: Steve.Basford@mettav.royle.org <----+ | NeST: 90:102/108 ~ TurboNet 100:1011/0.10 | | FidoNet 2:254/108.10 ~ AtariNet 51:502/100.10 | +----> Part-time musicians are semiconductors. <----+ Note: Obviously Registered users will get better support! This program will only give an Approximate view of the cost of calls, so don't be that shocked if the bill is much higher. The lastest version of FizzBill and converter programs should be available here first... _________ _________ /___ ___/\ /___ ___/\ \__/ /\ _\/ __ ____ \__/ /\__\/____ _ __ ____ ___ __ __ / / // /_/ /\/ __/\ / / / / _ /\| |/ /\/ __/\/ _ \ / |/ /\ / / // __ / / __/\/ / / / / _ / /| / / __/\/ _ < \/ / / /_/ //_/\/_/ /___/\/ /_/ / /_//_/ / |__/ /___/\/_//_/\/_/|__/ / \_\/ \_\ \_\/\___\/ \_\/ \_\\_\/ \_\/\___\/\_\\_\/\_\/\_\/ ___ ___ _____ Turbonet~ 100:1011/0 / _ \ / _ \ / __/\ FIDOnet ~ 2:440/108 NeST ~ 90:102/140 / _ < \/ _ < \/__ /\/ Atarinet~ 51:8/100 /____/\/____/\/____/ / mettav.royle.org \____\/\____\/\____\/ 081-445-6514 V21,23,22,22bis,32,32bis,V42,V42bis,HST,MNP 2 to 5 24 Hours 7 days a Week Section 7 - Adverts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Just to tell you about other programs that i've written and you might find useful... DupFind - When you get your new hard drive, you throw on loadsa programs from floppy onto you new fast drive. The problem is that it's very easy to get the same program/file on two or three different areas of your disk. DupFind will go though all your files and tell you which files have been duplicated and where you can find them. I use this program all the time and it's amazing just how much duplication you can get...Free that wasted disk space! Section 7 - Adverts Cont. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scan4Pak - Program/Data packers are great, trouble is there are a lot of them and you can never really tell which packer has been used to pack a program/data file. Scan4Pak will scan you drives and will tell you if it thinks a program/data file has been packed and with what packer...All you need to do then is to use a de-packer or Mug UK's Multi-file de-packer and away you go! Having Un-packed files on your hard disk, makes things a lot faster.... FoldIt - A little FreeWare program that will LZH ALL folders on a drive into a single .LZH file, with the same name as the folder. It will also, un-compress ALL .LZH files on a drive and put the contents of the .LZH file into a folder. None of the usual typing of loadsa command lines etc. JekQuote - This little program is really only of use to Jekyll users; Just copy this program into the Auto folder and each time you boot-up a quote will be written to your Jekyll.Ban file, just to make comms more silly... ArcAdder - Produced after a message from Colin Bruce, this program will add comments or a file to ARC/LZH/ZIP/ZOO files BUT on a wildcard basis. Ie. Add a file to ALL LZH files on drive D. None of this typing in loads of command lines. Written using GUI-4-GFA(tm) by Mark Matts. Ideal for lazy Sysops Recommended bbs... Name ~ Online Time ~ Phone ~ Sysop The Tavern ~ 24hrs ~ 081-445-6514 ~ Paul Baker STandard QBBS ~ 22:00-08:00 ~ 0394-271550 ~ Karl Foley DeskTop BBS ~ 20:00-08:30 ~ 0782-541305 ~ Alan Woodcock System ST ~ 22:00-07:00 ~ 0533-413-443 ~ Mark Matts Section 8 - Greetings ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Just for those people who hate greetings, here are a few people I wish to say a big 'Hi' to... All NeSTWareż Programmers & Registered users of FizzBill... Karl Foley - For superb beta testing, Mercury information and many good ideas on how to improve FizzBill. David Malins - For beta testing FizzBill Rob De Wet - For using FizzBill from the early versions and providing me with some great bugs, improvements. Mark Matts - For producing superb programs such as TeddyTerm and Txt2Msg etc. Paul Baker - For providing a Semper Log file to work with Charlie Rawlins - For spotting a few bugs Anthony Poli - For spotting a few bugs Barry O'Neil - For letting me know about the 'Connect' bug. Steven Campbell - For the BT Special Offer idea. Simon King - For some Mercury Infomation. Clifford Cook - For asking for the Mercury Network to be added. Steve 'n' Lindy - For Coffee & Bicci's... Stuart Coates - For the Mega fast Revenge Doc Displayer and other great Utils... Vincent Partington - For that totally amazing Jekyll protocol. Colin Campbell - For writing the MAD Blue Sunrise adventure.