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Setting up uuPCB
Step by Step
1. First create two PC Board conferences. You will need other
conferences for usenet newsgroups, but these two are needed to get
started. The first conference is email. You may name it anything you
want, but keep in mind that it is for private Usenet/Internet email. In
PCBSetup, set this up with echo mail enabled and all messages private.
The second is junk. This is where uupcb puts public news articles for
newsgroups not carried on your system. This can happen on occasion for
a number of reasons. You can set the private message flag and echo flag
in PCBSetup as you desire. Please note, uuPCB will NOT send messages
left in this conference.
2. In order to insure that files and directories are actually in place,
please start PC Board, enter each conference and leave a dummy message
in each.
3. Create a subdirectory for UUPCB. (Normally \UUPCB, but it can be
anything.)
4. In that directory, unzip the UUPCBxxx.ZIP (where "xxx" is the version
number) with the PKUNZIP -d option (this will allow the subdirectories
to be created).
5. Run DBFSETUP. You will notice that it has two records already exist,
email and junk. Enter the PC Board conference number for each one. You
can then hand-enter the PC Board conference or perform a CNAMES.@@@
import to pull the data from the CNAMES.@@@ file. Use of CNAMES.@@@
import is recommended.
6. Now it is time to run UUSETUP to establish the UUPCB.INI and the
STATIC file. Before you invoke UUSETUP, set the environmental variable
"WAFFLE" to point to the STATIC file found in \UUPCB\SYSTEM. For
example: SET WAFFLE=C:\UUPCB\SYSTEM\STATIC.
Once that is set, invoke UUSETUP. Each option REQUIRED to operate
UUPCB under normal circumstances may be defined in UUSETUP. Online help
is available for each item by pressing F1.
Make sure that you press F3 to pick the Usenet News headers you wish to
retain in the PC Board messages. This insures that your users will have
information about the news article that may not be available in the PC
Board header.
Press F2 to save your configuration and exit UUSETUP. UUSETUP will
alert you to non-existent directories and will ask your permission to
create them. Refusing to create a directory will abort your UUSETUP
session.
7. from the \UUPCB subdirectory, run UUPCBOUT. This will establish the
UUPCB.PTR file.
8. Now establish UUCICO communications with your host system. (We
assume that you have made arrangements for uucp communications with a
Usenet host system. If you have trouble finding one, call us for help.)
Please see UUCICO.DOC for more information on setting up UUCICO.
9. Now we will send a test email message. First review the bulletins in
the \uupcb\blt subdirectory. Next, enter the PC Board email conference
you established earlier. Enter a private, echo message. On the first
line of text within the PC Board message, enter "TO:" + the email
address of the person you wish to reach. I suggest you send to the
operator of your feedsite. You can also send to: ed.hopper@ehbbs.com.
Ask for a confirmation message in return to make sure that all is
working.
10. Run UUPCBOUT to export the message created above.
11. Run CALLUNIX.BAT to connect to your feedsite. (see UUCICO.DOC).
It's a good idea to make a voice call to your feedsite to tell them that
this message is coming. That way, they can reply right away and you can
make a second call after a reasonable period of time to pick up the
reply. Import the reply by running UUPCBIN.
12. Now it is time to setup your newsgroups. Most Usenet systems rely
on email messages between you and the system administrator of the
feedsite to communicate which newsgroups you want. There are some
automated means available on some systems, but they are different
depending on the system used. For the most part, however, adding
newsgroups is a manual process.
Send an email message to your feed site (or feed sites) requesting their
"ACTIVE" file. Please have the feed site send this to you as email and
not as a uucp file transfer.
Look over the active file. The normal format is:
<news.group.name> <low> <high> <y or m>
The numbers in the middle (<low> and <high>) are not important. The <y
or m> indicates a normal or moderated newsgroup.
Edit this file to include only the newsgroups you want to receive. Send
it back to your feed site as part of a message.
Set up PC Board conferences for each newsgroup using PCBSetup by Clark
Development Co. It's best to set them up in sequence so that DBFSETUP
can later import the data into the database in the same sequence. While
you are setting up the conferences you need to be aware of which
conferences are moderated and which ones are not. The fourth field in
the active file (<y or m>) indicates this. "m" means moderated, "y"
means non-moderated.
Normal newsgroups. (non-moderated)
Set up one conference for each newsgroup you wish to carry. These
conferences should be arranged to allow echo mail. "Make all messages
private?" should be set to NO.
Moderated newsgroups.
In these conferences, you are expected to keep all messages posted on
your system private until they are approved by the moderator. All
messages approved by the moderator will come back to you as incoming
news. uuPCB will then post the incoming news articles as public PCB
messages. Moderated conferences are marked as such in the listings of
newsgroups available for download on Ed Hopper's BBS.
To summarize:
Type of conference ECHO MAIL ALL MESSAGES PRIVATE
Normal Newsgroup Y N
Moderated Newsgroup Y Y
EMAIL Conference Y Y
JUNK Conference N N
Next, you can import this file into DBFSETUP. Do this with the "F"-flat
file import command. The file must be in ACTIVE file format (see
above). If it isn't, edit it so that it is.
When DBFSETUP imports an ACTIVE file, it inserts PC Board conference
numbers sequentially based upon a starting point you give it. If you
tell it to start at conference 100, for example, the first line will be
imported as conference 100, the second as 101 and so on. If you want
gaps, for example all alt.* newsgroups in conferences 100-200, all
comp.* in conferences 300-400, etc. then edit your active file into
multiple files and perform multiple imports.
If you have completed the PCBSetup work, then DBFSetup is ready for a
Flat File Import.
13. Once this step is completed, you are ready to receive Usenet news.