Original from G7AYI @GB7SDC.#25.GBR.EU FBB sysops A file passed through the network some time ago that triggered of the following It's been done before but here goes anyway. It captures and decodes any 7PLUS files sent as bulletins through the network. It requires little maintenance from the sysop and uses version 2 or greater 7PLUS.EXE This is the line in CRON.SYS ============ D C:\FBB\7PCAPT\7PEXTRCT.BAT ========= This is the forward file =========== A 7PCAPT # #Capture all bulls to file and extract 7plus files at clean up P @ C C:\FBB\7PCAPT\7PCAPT.TXT # G GBR G EU G EURO G WW ----------- Here is the actuall batch file called 7pextrct.bat ================ @ECHO OFF set capdir=c:\fbb\7pcapt set savedir=c:\public\7plfiles cd %capdir% IF not exist 7pcapt.txt goto decode ECHO extracting from capture file 7plus -x -y 7pcapt.txt del 7pcapt.txt :decode for %%F in (*.cor) do 7plus -k -y %%F for %%F in (*.7pl) do 7plus -k -y %%F for %%F in (*.p01) do 7plus -k -y %%F ECHO Move decoded files for %%F in (*.exe *.com *.zip *.arc *.gif *.lzh *.arj) do copy %%F %savedir% for %%F in (*.exe *.com *.zip *.arc *.gif *.lzh *.arj) do del %%F ECHO All decoded =============== Change the savedir and capdir to your own directories. The basic idea is that the BBS captures ALL bulletins to a file called 7pcapt.txt (c:\fbb\7pcapt\7pcapt.txt) 4 times a day the batch file 7pcapt.bat is launced from cron.sys. Change the times to suite your system. A list of file types (*.zip *.exe *.com etc) are then moved to c:\public\7plfiles when they have been created by the 7plus util. You need version 2 7plus as this will delete parts not needed after conversion thus keep the trash to a minimum. Interseting how much data is flying around. In the 4 weeks i've been running the system it has captured 135 files with 2116kb of data, The only maintenance is to delete the few xxxx.p55 file from a set of 190 from some far away land!!!!!! Have fun! Laurence G7AYI SysOp @ GB7SDC. Message timed at 02:15z on 10-Aug 1992