Short: Arexx script for spot to enable message backups Author: Anthony Brice - anthony@backyard.demon.co.uk Uploader: anthony backyard demon co uk Type: comm/fido Version: 1.1 Requires: Spot V1.3+ Registered Architecture: m68k-amigaos Distribution: Freeware -+ SaveOut an arexx script for Spot the ultimate mail reader +- Yet another Spot Rexx script by Anthony Brice that you just can't do without! -+ Version 1.1 - February 29th 1996 +- What is it? ----------- SaveOut is an arexx script for spot that will either save out all the messages in the current area as an ascii dump, or do the same for your entire message base. I'm not sure how usefull the function to save everything out will be for most of you but I have had requests to put the feature in from when people used the old version, and I gather it's quiet a popular script :-) It has support for archiving and deleting areas afterwards as well as other options which can be configured on the config lines at the start of the script. I strongly advise not editing the script unless you know what you are doing with arexx as it is potentially destructive if you mess something up. But of course you are free to customise it as much as you want for your own needs even though I can't think of anything else it actually needs :) Just don't blame me if it messes up after you've changed it as it left my system working beautifully. Within the script I've commented near on every function that I could be bothered with so newcomers to spot and it's arexx functions can see what the script does etc. Hopefully this will be helpfull to a few of you. Changes since V1.0 ------------------ Added support for All message areas and not just the selected one if required. DateStamp option is available although I've not written the filename bump routine to use the option as yet. Same applies for the Delete option. You can now specify a temp directory for the hard work to save on disk thrash if you've got the ram spare to use for this. You can now set Save out to use UserNames and not just the echo tagname. SaveOut now cleans up after itself when you abort it in motion. It's totally safe to do this now should you so wish. You can now call the script externally and it will run Spot if not already present so that you can run the script via Cybercron while you're asleep :) All requestors are supressed when Saveout is called without spot running. This is for obvious reasons detailed above. It defaults to backup all messages in the script if this happens.