• C-Net/5 Echo Sort

    From Gary McCulloch@1:154/50 to All on Thu Sep 10 19:55:45 2026
    CNetEchoSort v2.0 - put your echo list in alphabetical order

    If you run C-Net/5 Amiga Pro, your subboard list is probably in the
    order the boards happened to get created in. This door sorts a
    network by TITLE - the name your callers actually read off the list.

    It works out the moves itself. It reads the current order straight
    out of C-Net's subboard database, plans the sort, shows you the list
    before and after with the number of moves needed, and then feeds the
    moves to the BBS through the ARexx port. You never type an ML
    command.

    That is worth more than it sounds. Moving one subboard is
    "ML <from> <to>", and every move renumbers everything after it, so a
    list worked out in advance is right for exactly one move and wrong
    from then on. My FidoNet list is 90 boards and needed 83 moves. The
    door did it in two runs. By hand it is an evening's typing and one
    mistyped number away from a mess.

    What it does:

    o Menu of your FTN networks, worked out from your own echo config
    o Shows the list before and after, and the move count, before it
    changes anything
    o Titles in [brackets] sort to the end, where admin echoes belong
    o SysOp-only; it never writes to the subboard database itself
    o Every change goes through C-Net's own ML command
    o Free to use and pass on. ARexx source, nothing compiled

    FOR C-NET/5 AMIGA PRO ONLY. It drives C-Net's ML command and reads
    C-Net's own subboard files. Other Amiga BBS packages organise their
    conferences differently and have no ML command, so there is nothing
    in this archive for them. Written and tested on 5.37c.

    Download CNetEchoSort.lha from Reign of Fire BBS:

    telnet call.rofbbs.com port 6800
    ssh ssh call@call.rofbbs.com
    dial-up (423) 541-8271

    Reign of Fire also carries the C-Net/5 Amiga Pro SysOp manual as an
    AmigaGuide, if that is of use to anyone still running the software.

    Gary McCulloch
    Reign of Fire BBS - www.rofbbs.com

    * ACIS Member. AmigaNet ArakNet C=Net DescipleNet FidoNet PiNet RetroNet
    --- C-Net/5
    * Origin: Reign of Fire : ROF FTN : ArakNet 2.0 : www.rofbbs.com (1:154/50)