WWIVutil Help¶

WWIVutil is WWIV's Swiss Army Knife utilty program.  It handles many different
types of commands for WWIV.  It's also replaces the 4.x FIX command.

Here's documentation for the various commands.

wwivutil acs¶

Evaluates an ACS expression for a user.

Arg	Description
--debug	[boolean] Display expression evaluation at end of execution.
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help
--user	user number to use while evaluating the expression

wwivutil conf¶

WWIV conference system commands.

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil conf convert¶

Converts 4.3x conferences to 5.6 format

Arg	Description
--conf_type	The conference type ('subs' or 'dirs')
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help
--menu_set	The menuset to use

wwivutil conf dump¶

Displays the info about a conference

Arg	Description
--conf_type	The conference type ('subs' or 'dirs')
--full	[boolean] Display full info about every command.
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil config¶

WWIV config commands.

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil config convert¶

converts the config to either JSON or DAT format

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help
--revision	Configuration revision number
--wwiv_version	WWIV Version that created this config.dat

wwivutil config version¶

Sets or Gets the config version

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help
--revision	Configuration revision number
--wwiv_version	WWIV Version that created this config.dat

wwivutil email¶

WWIV email commands.

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil email add¶

Creates/Adds a new email.

Arg	Description
--date	message sub name to post on
--from	user number this email is from
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help
--title	email title
--to	user number to send the email to

wwivutil email delete¶

Deletes email number specified by '--num'.

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help
--num	Message Number to delete.

wwivutil email dump¶

Displays message header and text information.

Arg	Description
--all	[boolean] dumps everything, control lines too
--end	Last message number.
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help
--start	Starting message number.

wwivutil fido¶

WWIV fido commands.

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil fido dump¶

Dumps contents of a fido packet

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil fido nodelist¶

Dumps contents of a fido nodelist

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil fido subscribers¶

Dumps contents of a fido subscriber list

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil files¶

WWIV file commands.

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil files allow¶

Manipulate allow.dat

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil files allow add¶

Add to the contents of allow.dat

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil files allow allowed¶

Is the file allowed (i.e. not in the list)

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil files allow delete¶

Delete from the contents of allow.dat

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil files allow list¶

Lists the contents of allow.dat

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil files arc¶

Manipulate archives

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil files arc cmd¶

Gets the commands to use for an archive.

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil files arc view¶

Views the contents of an archive.

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil files areas¶

Lists the file areas

Arg	Description
--full	[boolean] Display full info about every area.
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil files delete¶

Deleate a file in an area

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help
--num	File Number to delete.

wwivutil files list¶

Lists the files in an area

Arg	Description
--ext	[boolean] Display extended descriptions.
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil files tic¶

Manipulate TIC files

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil files tic validate¶

Validates the contents of a TIC file.

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil fix¶

WWIV fix commands.

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil fix dirs¶

Fix File Directories.

Arg	Description
-X --dry_run	[boolean] Enable dry run mode (report errors, do not fix).
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help
-V --verbose	[boolean] Enable verbose output.

wwivutil fix users¶

Fix users.

Arg	Description
-X --exp	[boolean] Enable experimental features.
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help
-V --verbose	[boolean] Enable verbose output.

wwivutil help¶

Displays help on wwivutil and commands.

Arg	Description
--format	The format of the help to use (text
--full	[boolean] Display long format for help.
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil instance¶

WWIV status commands.

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil instance dump¶

Displays WWIV instance information.

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil messages¶

WWIV message commands.

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil messages delete¶

Deletes message number specified by '--num'.

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help
--num	Message Number to delete.

wwivutil messages dump¶

Displays message header and text information.

Arg	Description
--all	[boolean] dumps everything, control lines too
--end	Last message number.
--end_date	Date for ending message in format yyyy-mm-dd[ h:m:s].
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help
--start	Starting message number.
--start_date	Date for starting message in format yyyy-mm-dd[ h:m:s].

wwivutil messages pack¶

Packs a WWIV type-2 message area.

Arg	Description
--backup	[boolean] make a backup of the subs
--delete_overflow	Strategy for deleting excess messages when adding new ones. (none
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil messages post¶

Posts a new message.

Arg	Description
--date	message sub name to post on
--delete_overflow	Strategy for deleting excess messages when adding new ones. (none
--from	message sub name to post on
--from_usernum	message sub name to post on
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help
--in_reply_to	message sub name to post on
--title	message sub name to post on
--to	message sub name to post on

wwivutil menus¶

WWIV menu commands.

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil menus convert¶

Converts a 4.3x menu to 5.6 format

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help
--menu_set	The menuset to use

wwivutil menus dump¶

Displays the info of a menu

Arg	Description
--full	[boolean] Display full info about every command.
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help
--menu_set	The menuset to use

wwivutil net¶

WWIV network commands.

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil net callout¶

Dumps parsed representation of callout.net

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil net connect¶

Dumps parsed representation of connect.net

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil net contact¶

Dumps parsed representation of contact.net

Arg	Description
--backup	[boolean] make a backup of the contact.net files
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help
--save	[boolean] Save/cleanup contact.net in all subs

wwivutil net dump¶

Dumps contents of a network packet

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil net dump_bbsdata¶

Dumps parsed representation of BBSDATA.*

Arg	Description
-L --bbslist	[boolean] Parse bbslist.net vs. bbsdata.net
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil net list¶

List WWIV Networks

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil net req¶

Add/Drop WWIVnet Sub

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help
--net	Network number to use (i.e. 0).

wwivutil net send¶

_{<.net> [num msgs]}

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help
--net	Network number to use (i.e. 0).

wwivutil net subscribers¶

Dumps contents of a WWIVnet subscriber list

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil print¶

prints a textfile

Arg	Description
--ansi	[boolean] Display the file as an ANSI file.
--bps	What BPS to emulate
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help
--io	What type of IO to use, win32

wwivutil status¶

WWIV status commands.

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil status dump¶

Displays status.dat.

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil status qscan¶

Sets or Gets the qscan high water mark.

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil subs¶

WWIV subboard commands.

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil subs areas¶

Lists the message areas

Arg	Description
--full	[boolean] Display full info about every area.
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil subs import¶

Import wwiv subboards.

Arg	Description
-D --defaults	Specify an ini file with defaults to use when creating new subs.
-F --format	must be 'backbone'
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil users¶

WWIV user commands.

Arg	Description
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help

wwivutil users asv¶

Execute automatic sysop validation on a user.

Arg	Description
--asv	user number to use while evaluating the expression
-? --help	[boolean] Displays Help
--user	user number to use while evaluating the expression