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Hints
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Well, as long as there's no general documentation, I'll at least reveal a few
hints. Some of the aspects of this program is not exactly easy to find out by
chance.
* Filelists:
Inside !FidoMail there is a dir called 'Filelists'. If you've got a filelist
from a fido-bbs (eg. Cryton), put it in that dir, and call it:
'NNNNnnnnFL'
where NNNN is the net# in hex, and nnnn the node#. Just like the files in
Binkley's outbound dir. Then you will see this net/node appear in the iconbar
menu under 'In->Req file->". Click on the address, and you'll get a window
containing the filelist, and a small toolbox to search in it. If the lines in
the list starts with the filenames (as is normal), you will be able to just
click on a file to request it.
* StrongHlp:
Try running StrongHlp (part of StrongEd) and then FidoMail. StrongHelp's 'Help'
menu should now contain a 'FidoMail' entry. By clicking this, you can get
further info about FidoMail, although it isn't completed at all. Most of the
finished stuff concerns FidoNet in general.
* Check heap
Check heap can be used if strange things starts happening to see if the heap
is still in a sensible state. If you find an error, there is currently little
you can do to correct it, but if it's just a number of unallocated bytes, you
can safely continue to use the messagebase, though it will be larger than
actually needed.
* Tidy
Tidy will remove all the free blocks in the messagebase file, and reduce it
to minimum length.