X2D v1.0
                                     by
                                Mark Montminy
                              The Bloom Beacon
                             (401)751-3831/6568
                        markm@zerbin.dev.cdx.mot.com

X2D is my first Dialog utility.  It will convert Xenolink Z3a file catalogues
into DLG .fd files.  Converting over to DLG from Xenolink, I was faced with
the wonderfull job of uploading 10,000 files from 100+ file areas.  To make
things worse, I couldn't just use the DLG TurboUpload option, since these
files are scattered across 3 CD-Roms, and 4 HD's.  And to really add to the
mess, all the files inone directory, don't always go into the same file area.
So my first task was to write a conversion utility.  Here it is.

Usage is fairly straightforward.  Give it the Xenolink file area # you want
to convert from, and the DLG area # you want to convert to.

WARNING: It WILL overwrite any existing .fd files in your DLG areas.  It does
NOT add to an area, it assumes there are NO files in the area.  You have been
warned!

Xenolink's manager task must be running for this to work.  X2D will read each
file in the Xenolink file area, and write out a DLG compliant .fd file for
you, retaining all the information, upload date, uploader, DL count, etc.

It won't check for the existance of the file, it won't copy the files, nor
will it cook you supper.  It makes .fd's, that's it.

Once you've run it on all of your file areas, you should run TpT's freshen
utility to create the files.dat file for each area.  I didn't bother making
one since they provided a utility to do it :)

Note for CD-Rom owners [and TpT]:  Freshen tries to write the fd # as the
file's filenote.  Not good, since you can't write to a CD-Rom :(  After
clicking on a few dozen "Volume is write protected" requesters, I loaded up
my Xetec install utility and set the "ignore write attempts" flag.  This will
make DLG happy, thinking it was really able to write to the CD :)

I make NO claims as to the stability of this pgm.  It's ugly (the date code
is horrible:( but it works.  I used it to convert 10,000 files and it didn't
miss a beat.  It's a throw-away utility, so I didn't put alot of error
checking into it.  I only check for the errors I had to.

Hope it helps any other Xeno converts coming to DLG.