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RAMail Configuration v1.3
Copyright 1990, 1991 by Randy Blackmond
All Rights Reserved
RAMCONF is the configuration program for RAMail. Until version 2.3 of
RAMail, RAMCONF never had any real documentation because I felt that
it was straightforward enough not to need it. I still feel this way,
but being the programmer, things that seem perfectly clear to me may
be confusing to someone else. This file is provided for those people who
may need clarification on some of the items in the RAMCONF program.
First, I'll offer a little general information on moving around the screen
among the different fields. There are three ways to move from field to
field. These are the ENTER key, the TAB key and the cursor keys.
Pressing the ENTER or TAB key will move to the next field. The up and
down cursor keys behave a little differently, but experimentation will
get you used to their actions. The left arrow key will move you to the
field to the left or the previous field only if the cursor is at the
leftmost position of the field. The right cursor behaves the same way
at the rightmost position of the field.
If you press ESCape from the Main Window, the program will terminate
without saving any changes you may have made. Pressing ESCape from any of
the subwindows will return you to the Main Window. Changes made to fields
inside subwindows are "remembered" so ESCape does not abort changes made
to fields in subwindows, however, the changes made to those fields will
be lost if you press ESCape from the Main Window.
Pressing Escape from the Main Window will bring up the Exit Window. From
this window, you have the option of saving the configuration and exiting,
exiting without saving the configuration or cancelling the exit and
returning to the program.
Most of the fields are pretty self-explanatory, but I will elaborate on
some that might be misconstrued and can cause problems if this happens.
The Path to CONFIG.RA is just that. The drive and directory where your
CONFIG.RA resides, i.e. your main RA system directory.
The Path to EXITINFO.BBS is where RAMail should look for this file. If
you are running a single node system, the entry you make here should
duplicate the Path to CONFIG.RA entry. If you run multiple nodes, this
should be the path to the particular node directory that for which this
configuration is to be used.
The Path to RAUSER.DAT is where you want RAMail to create and look for
the RAUSER.DAT data file. This can be anything you want.
The Local Mail Directory is the drive and directory where RAMail should
place .QWK packets when someone is logged on locally as well as where
it should look for .REP files when logged on locally.
The Required Conferences field allows you to specify which, if any, boards
should be included in ALL users' mail packets. For example, if you want
boards 1, 3, and 20 to included in all user's packets, you would enter:
1 3 20
in this field. Leave it blank if you don't want to force any boards.
The next five Limit fields allow you to specify the maximum number of
messages that RAMail will place into a mail packet for each baud rate.
The Default File EXT is what most of your downloadable BBS files use an
extension. For example, if most of your files are compressed with PKZIP,
the extension would be ZIP. This allows for users to flag files without
having to specify an extension. This default extension will be used when
the extension is omitted during flagging.
The *-Empty-* Replacement field allows you to define what string to use
for board names of inaccessible boards.
In the Toggles subwindow, the FORCE reply from name will insert the user's
logon name into the FROM field of all imported messages, regardless of
what name they enter in their offline reader.
The Check # of Messages toggle will allow you to tell RAMail whether or
not it should determine what the highest numbered message is during the
Conference Selection. If your users get an unusually long WAIT! prompt
when selecting conferences, you may want to set this toggle to N.
The Board Toggles will allow you to set the Lo Bit, Hi Bit and Tagline
Stripper toggle for EACH message board.
All of the rest of the toggle fields turn off various menu options on the
RAMail menu.
The Compression Method fields allow you to specify which compression
program you want to use when compressing the mail packets. The first
field, Compression Name, is the descriptive name of the method. Anything
is allowable in this field.
The Compression Program field is where you place the name, with extension,
of the compression program. The path is not required, but the program
MUST reside in a directory that is included in your DOS path.
The Decompression Program entry follows the same rules as those of the
Compression Program entry.
The Compress Command Options allows you to specify command line parameters
that the compression program will use when compressing files. This field
is optional IF your compression program requires no paramaters other than
the file names.
The Decompress Command Options entry follows the same rules as those of
the Compress Command Options entry.
The Protocols subwindow contains fields that you must fill to define your
transfer protocols. This will allow you to use any protocols you wish
for transferring packets and files in RAMail as well as using custom
command line parameters for these protocols.
The Protocol Name field is for display purposes. Enter anything you want
in this field.
The Program Name is the name of the protocol program, with extension. The
path is not reuqired (nor will it fit!), but the protocol program MUST
reside in a directory that is listed in your DOS path.
The Send Command String field allows you to enter the command line that
will be passed to the protocol program. Three macro variables are avail-
able for you to use. These are #P, which is the COM port number to use,
#F, which is the file name that will be passed to the protocol, and #S,
which is the speed (baud rate) that will be passed to the protocol.
The Receive Command String field is for the command line that will be
passed to the protocol used for receiving files. The same format applies
as for the Send Command String field.
You can define up to 4 protocols.
If you have any problems with RAMail, feel free to call my BBS (number
in the main DOC file) or to call my voice line at 505-589-0317. I have
a 100% success rate at getting RAMail up and running on the people's
systems who have called me voice for assistance.