SnapUP.cmd v2.0                                                        
                                                                   
 This script will create a GIF of your screen, produce             
 an animated GIF of the last X number of screen shots and upload   
 both of those files to an FTP server.  As of v2.0, it can also wait
 for a user specified file to appear allowing an external program 
 (such as NexStorm or L2K) to produce a screen capture.

  Waiting for the external program to create the screen capture file allows you
 to run this script on another machine.  For instance, you can have your lightning 
 detector lightning detector machine running Win98 and sharing a drive.  Then, using
 SAMBA on Linux, you can access that drive and the script running  on the Linux box 
 will see the screenshots as they appear.  All of the following programs 
 (except for, obviously, WinCap) have Linux binaries.

  The only issue I have seen with this script is that under Win9x (and possibly WinME)
  if you use the WinCap program for the screen capture,
  temporary files get left in the windows temp directory.  My machine reboots once a day
  so I put a "del c:\windows\temp\*._rx" /y" in my autoexec.bat.  If you plan to keep
  it running for days at a time, I would set up the windows scheduler with that delete
  cmd.
  
  One neat feature is that if a user specified file exists, the script will
  pause until that file is deleted.  This is useful if you want to make some configuration
  changes in your detection software and you don't want to have to kill the script or
  have the script take a screenshot of your config screen.
                                                                   
 This script and all of it's components are FREEWARE. 
 This script requires the following:                               
                                                                   
  Regina Rexx interpreter:                                         
     regina.exe,regina.dll                                         
     http://regina-rexx.sourceforge.net/                     
                                                                   
  Regina Rexx utils:                                               
     rexxutil.dll                                                  
     http://www.interlog.com/~ptjm/
     
  WinCap.exe                                                       
    http://www.rudware.com/lightning/howto.html                  
                                                                   
  nconvert.exe                                                     
    http://come.to/xnview                                          
                                                                   
  gifsicle.exe                                                     
     http://www.lcdf.org/~eddietwo/gifsicle/                                                 
                                                                   
  ncftpput.exe                                                     
     http://www.ncftpd.com/                                        
                                                                   
  All of these programs should have come in the distribution       
  that this file came in                                           
                                                                   
  Unzip the archive into a directory.  Put that directory on your path.
Edit the Snapup.cmd file and change the variables to match your system.   
                                                                   
   Invoke the program with "regina snapup X" where X is a number of minutes
to wait between screen captures.

 
User Variables to change:

USING_EXTERNAL_CAPTURE="false"
    set to true if you are using an external screen capture such as
    NexStorm's. 
    set to false to use the WinCap screen capture
  

/* name of the External screen cap file */ 
ext_screencap_name="c:\nexstorm\screencap.png"

min_to_wait=3
      this is the number of minutes to wait between screenshots                  
      and can be overridden by passing a number on the command line 
        
server="ftp.blah.org"
      This is the DNS name of your ftp server 
        
userid="lightning"
      This is your ftp user name 
        
password="mypasswd"
      Your ftp password 
        
image_path="c:\snapup"
      where this program was installed 
       
max_frames=10
      number of frames in the animated gif 
         
prefix = "lgt"
      the prefix of the local filename - a prefix of "lgt" will produce 
      lgt00001.gif and constantly increment the number                 
        
remote_path = "/weather"
      the path to the sub dir where you plan to store your images on the ftp server 
     
remote_file = "lightning1.gif"
      the filename of the latest screen capture on the ftp server 
       
remote_animated_file = "animate.gif"
      the filename of animated gif on the ftp server 
 
animate_pause_time=100
      animation pause time in ms 
        
animate_loops=99
      number of times the animation should loop
      
pause_file="c:\pause.rud"
      the name of the file that if exists this script will wait until 
      it is deleted 
      
LOG_ALL_TEXT=1
      write text out to file for logging
      
logfile="snapup.log"
      log file name