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<META name="author" lang="en" content="Michiel Broek">
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<TITLE>MBSE BBS Programs - mbindex - Nodelist Index Compiler.</TITLE>
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<div align="right"><h5>Last update 30-Jan-2001</h5></div>
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<div align="right"><H1>mbindex - Nodelist Index Compiler.</H1></div>
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<H3>Synopsis.</H3>
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<code><strong>mbindex</strong> <options></code>
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<P> <P>
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<H3>Description.</H3>
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<strong>mbindex</strong> is the nodelist index compiler. It will create
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an index file containing the sorted fidonet addresses as index file to the
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raw nodelists in the defined nodelist directory. Several other programs
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use this index file for fast retreival of data from the nodelists. Compiling
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new nodelist indexes can always be done, while compiling the result
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is stored in temporary index files and only after successfull compilation the
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original indexes are renamed and the temporary files get the normal names.
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The renamed (old) indexes stay on disk including the previous version of the
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old raw nodelist. They stay there in case some program had the nodelist or
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index still open. So in the nodelist directory there are current nodelists,
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previous
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nodelists, current indexes and previous indexes, and during compiling the
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temporary indexes. There is no need to manually remove (and not wise to do so)
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files from the nodelist directory.
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The nodelists in the nodelist directory are the normal uncompressed nodelists
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in MS-DOS format (with CR/LF). The filename extensions must be two or 3 digits.
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So if you have a private pointlist named <strong>bestbbs.pts</strong> you
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will have to rename that to <strong>bestbbs.999</strong> to make it work.
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<P> <P>
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<H3>Environment.</H3>
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In order to run <strong>mbindex</strong> you must set the global variable
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<strong>$MBSE_ROOT</strong>. This variable must point to the root directory
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of the bbs structure. The main configuration file <strong>config.data</strong>
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must be present in the ~/etc directory.
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<P> <P>
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<H3>Options.</H3>
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<code><strong>mbindex</strong> -quiet</code> Quiet mode, no screen output. Use the switch
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if you run <strong>mbindex</strong> from a shellscript or from the crontab.
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