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 |
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--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 |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil conf convert¶
Converts 4.3x conferences to 5.6 format
Arg | Description |
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--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 |
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--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 |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil config convert¶
converts the config to either JSON or DAT format
Arg | Description |
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-? --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 |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
--revision | Configuration revision number |
--wwiv_version | WWIV Version that created this config.dat |
wwivutil email¶
WWIV email commands.
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil email add¶
Creates/Adds a new email.
Arg | Description |
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--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 |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
--num | Message Number to delete. |
wwivutil email dump¶
Displays message header and text information.
Arg | Description |
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--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 |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil fido dump¶
Dumps contents of a fido packet
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil fido nodelist¶
Dumps contents of a fido nodelist
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil fido subscribers¶
Dumps contents of a fido subscriber list
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil files¶
WWIV file commands.
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil files allow¶
Manipulate allow.dat
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil files allow add¶
Add to the contents of allow.dat
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil files allow allowed¶
Is the file allowed (i.e. not in the list)
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil files allow delete¶
Delete from the contents of allow.dat
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil files allow list¶
Lists the contents of allow.dat
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil files arc¶
Manipulate archives
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil files arc cmd¶
Gets the commands to use for an archive.
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil files arc view¶
Views the contents of an archive.
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil files areas¶
Lists the file areas
Arg | Description |
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--full | [boolean] Display full info about every area. |
-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil files delete¶
Deleate a file in an area
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
--num | File Number to delete. |
wwivutil files list¶
Lists the files in an area
Arg | Description |
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--ext | [boolean] Display extended descriptions. |
-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil files tic¶
Manipulate TIC files
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil files tic validate¶
Validates the contents of a TIC file.
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil fix¶
WWIV fix commands.
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil fix dirs¶
Fix File Directories.
Arg | Description |
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-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 |
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-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 |
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--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 |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil instance dump¶
Displays WWIV instance information.
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil messages¶
WWIV message commands.
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil messages delete¶
Deletes message number specified by '--num'.
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
--num | Message Number to delete. |
wwivutil messages dump¶
Displays message header and text information.
Arg | Description |
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--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 |
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--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 |
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--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 |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil menus convert¶
Converts a 4.3x menu to 5.6 format
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
--menu_set | The menuset to use |
wwivutil menus dump¶
Displays the info of a menu
Arg | Description |
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--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 |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil net callout¶
Dumps parsed representation of callout.net
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil net connect¶
Dumps parsed representation of connect.net
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil net contact¶
Dumps parsed representation of contact.net
Arg | Description |
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--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 |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil net dump_bbsdata¶
Dumps parsed representation of BBSDATA.*
Arg | Description |
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-L --bbslist | [boolean] Parse bbslist.net vs. bbsdata.net |
-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil net list¶
List WWIV Networks
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil net req¶
Add/Drop WWIVnet Sub
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
--net | Network number to use (i.e. 0). |
wwivutil net send¶
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
--net | Network number to use (i.e. 0). |
wwivutil net subscribers¶
Dumps contents of a WWIVnet subscriber list
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil print¶
prints a textfile
Arg | Description |
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--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 |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil status dump¶
Displays status.dat.
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil status qscan¶
Sets or Gets the qscan high water mark.
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil subs¶
WWIV subboard commands.
Arg | Description |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil subs areas¶
Lists the message areas
Arg | Description |
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--full | [boolean] Display full info about every area. |
-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil subs import¶
Import wwiv subboards.
Arg | Description |
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-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 |
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-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
wwivutil users asv¶
Execute automatic sysop validation on a user.
Arg | Description |
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--asv | user number to use while evaluating the expression |
-? --help | [boolean] Displays Help |
--user | user number to use while evaluating the expression |