                             Mystic Echomail Count 
                                   Ver 1.0c

								 
Black Panther
aka Dan Richter
RCS
Sysop - Castle Rock BBS
telnet://castlerockbbs.com
The sparrows are flying again...


                             -=-= Description =-=-

Mystic Echomail Count Report is a count of all incoming, outgoing and dupe
messages transferred by your BBS. The format is based off of reports 
generated by other FTN mail software. This report can be posted to message
echos, such as Fidonet's STATS echo.
							 
This program was written for use with Mystic BBS, running under Windows. It 
utilizes some Windows functionality in its processing. This program does not
directly interact with Mystic in any way. It obtains all of the information 
needed by reading the MUTIL.LOG file.

This software is in no way related to Mystic BBS, g00r00, James Coyle, or 
mysticbbs.com. I am just a fan of Mystic BBS, and wanted to write some 
utilities that either were not available, or did not require a mile long
configuration file. I like using the functions included in Mystic BBS, such
as integrated echomail and file processing, but I also wanted to see reports
of what was happening on my system, without having to read the logs.

                       -=-= Warranties and Guarantees =-=-

While every effort is made to make sure this program does what it is designed
to, and not harm your computer, the only warranty you have, is this program 
will take up space on your hard drive. Other than that, I assume no 
reponsibility for what happens to your computer due to the use of this 
software. 

If you do notice a bug in the program, or have a suggestion on how it could
be improved, please feel free to let me know.

                               -=-= Files =-=-
							   
mecrpt.exe    -  The main program
mecrpt.txt    -  The file your reading right now :)
countech.rpt  -  File created by the program in Mystic directory		

                            -=-= Installation =-=-

Installation of this program is simple. Copy the mecrpt.exe file into your
main mystic directory. (eg. c:\bbs\mystic) This file needs to be located here
so that it can find the MUTIL.LOG file in the mystic\logs\ directory.

When running this program, it will take two command line parameters. The first
is the number of days the report will be created for. The second parameter is 
simply the BBS name. For example, if you wanted to create a report for the 
last 7 days, the command line would look like this:

mecrpt 7 Castle Rock BBS

If you wanted the report for the last 30 days, it would read:

mecrpt 30 Castle Rock BBS

This program will only be able to back as far as your logs do. If you archive
your logs every week, the most you will be able to generate, is 7 days. If you
keep your logs for a month, the most you would be able to do is 30(31) days.

Keep in mind, if you use the 'log rolling' feature within the MUTIL ini files,
it will rename the old log files. This program will not look for any other
file name other than MUTIL.LOG. 

                              -=-= Credits =-=-

I would like to give sincere thanks to the following people
(in no particular order):

g00r00    -  for making, and maintaning an awesome BBS package
Avon      -  for having an great network which provides great support
             and for testing this program during pre-release
GaryCrunk -  for answering some rookie pascal questions
Apam      -  for showing us all that BBS programming is still alive
fsxNet    -  for putting up with my stupid questions and test posts
Cmech     -  for making great looking programs look easy to do :)
Gryphon   -  for porting some awesome games into MPL which got me 
             interested in learning Pascal again
xqtr      -  for making some great MPLs - even if most of them won't work 
             on Windows :)
fabian    -  for helping me figure out better functions to use
tiny      -  for letting me use some functions he has written

I know I'm forgetting people here. It is not intentional. :)

                            -=-= Change Log =-=-
							
1.00a -=> First pre-release (very buggy) version
1.00b -=> Added dupe messages to the report
1.00c -=> Changed file names to not require my directory structure :)

