It's actually super easy!

Just download the Windows exe package (it is a .zip file).

Then right click on the file and choose Unzip to create an eqAuctions folder.

Go inside the folder, you will see a file named eqAuctions.ini, if you double click it will open a plain text file in Notepad.

There will be a few lines of text, each starting with the hash (#) symbol. That means it is a comment and not parsed by the program.

Uncomment the line that lists your EverQuest log directory path (this will be based on where you installed EverQuest).

Now just double click the exe after turning on /log inside the game and you're done!

(And from then on, all you have to do is double click the exe after turning on /log in game)

Hello!

First of all thanks a lot Tristantio for this tool, this is a wonderful addition to the server.

Was using the windows version on my virtual PC since a few days ago.

Now playing Everquest on my macs using Wine, and I would like to know if anyone knows how to enable this tool with this. I would like to continue to contribute. :)

Thanks a lot!

I'm using it on OS X, running EQ under WINE like you (saw your post in the Mac/WINE thread). The shell script on tristantio's page works great for us. You'll need to open it in a text editor and change the LOGDIR=... line to point to the log file under your P99 install. For me, it's:

LOGDIR="/Applications/Project\ 1999.app/drive_c/eq/Logs"

Make sure any spaces have a backslash in front of them, like above.

Once you've done that, you can run the script from Terminal (which is how I do it). I don't know if you can make it run just by double-clicking; that opens it in an editor for me, but I think I may have changed the from the default. If you just save it to your home folder (usually /Users/yourname) you can run it by opening Terminal and typing: ./eqAuction.sh

Hope that helps!

now i can read EC auctions without having to be in the game! thats so awesome. someone needs to see if this works on a smartphone too.

It does, at least on my Palm Pre running WebOS.

The menu is a little wide for phones still and wraps, but I have the proper viewport scaling so it will size to your phone's screen width instead of requiring you to zoom in etc

bump for sticky status

What would it cost you to be able to run this so it could track more than one auction at a time from a person?


maybe say 3 or 4 shouts?

I'll do some size checks and see how much space the database is taking now, I may be able to do the last 3 /auctions.

I think even two would be nice


so you could have a WTB shout and a WTS shout

Each person is now able to have 3 unique auctions.