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│ │ └────┘ │ ┌┘ └┐ │ └───┘ │ AMAN v1.76 │▓
│ └────────┘ └───┘ └───────┘ (c) 1995 Koen Koster │█
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘█
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▀ AMAN version 1.76 - The 'Advanced Message Area Navigator for AdeptXBBS'.
▀ AMAN makes it very easy for BBS users to browse and select the available
Message Areas.
▀ AMAN is easy to setup and is 100% configurable, all colors, prompts and
external screens featuring acces levels by Sec1, Sec2 and even by Age!
▀ AMAN makes it possible to use Message Groups or with other words, it's
specialy designed for that purpose!
▀ AMAN pulls out all the extra info it's need from AdeptXBBS and displays
it on the fly when browsing the available Message Areas!
▀ AMAN has to many options to list them all, so check it out Yourself!
▀ AMAN gives your AdeptXBBS a whole different look and feeling.
▀ Now let's talk about the registration fee.. how much does AMAN cost ???
▀ Hehe.. :) AMAN version 1.76 is FreeWare!! Only thing I ask is.. send me
your comments positive or negative it doesn't matter.
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▀ What's new in AMAN v1.76 ?
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Aman v1.76 is a whole new program, a large part of it is optimized so
that it's starting up faster, some little bugs are fixed and ...
Aman supports now the option to select a area in the last selected
group, so you have 2 menu option's in your adeptxbbs message.menu file!
One option to select a messagegroup and one option to directly a area
in the active group.
Aman keeps also a records to remember the last group that a user was in
these records are stored in the new directory \Adept\Aman\UserInfo, so
when your upgrading from v1.75 *don't* forget to make this new
directory, else nothing happens.
Aman is now logging all actions also when a user has no Access to a
MessageGroup etc.
Aman.Erx is no longer used and can be deleted, because it's replaced
with a file AmanA.Erx and AmanG.Erx.
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▀ How to install AMAN v1.76 manualy?
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▀ First switch to your AdeptXBBS directory usually called \adept
Then make the following directory's:
\Adept\Aman
\Adept\Aman\Text
\Adept\Aman\UserInfo
▀ Unzip the archivefile AMANv176.zip in \adept\aman
Unzip the archivefile amantext in \adept\aman\text
Unzip the archivefile adepttext in \adept\text
▀ Then edit your message.menu file located in \adept\menus
and add the following lines to it:
G,10 ,[G] Change MessageGroup,d:\adept\aman\amanG.erx,0
^
| Your AdeptXBBS DriveLetter
A,10 ,[A] Area Change in Active Group,d:\adept\aman\aman.erx,0
^
| Your AdeptXBBS DriveLetter
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▀ The next external screens are used by AMAN and located in the
\adept\text directory.
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▀ Mgroup.ans - The first startup screen of AMAN where the users select
a messagegroup is called Mgroup.ans.
▀ NoSec1.asc - The screen that is displayed when a user tries to acces
a messagegroup and his securitylevel 1 is to low.
▀ NoSec2.asc - The screen that is displayed when a user tries to acces
a messagegroup and his securitylevel 2 is to low.
▀ ToYoung.asc - The screen that is displayed when a user tries to acces
a messagegroup and if he's to young.
▀ msgnotactive.asc - The screen that is displayed when a user tries to
acces a messagegroup that isn't active or disabled.
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▀ How to setup the MessageGroups?
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▀ For every single Messagegroup there's a control file needed with in
that file the areas you want to list in.
That control file is called mgroup?.asc and located in the directory
\adept\aman\text
▀ So here's a short example, when you want to make a messagegroup called
FidoNet ,Public Messages and a group AdeptNet you have to make 3
control files called: mgroupF.asc for the FidoNet areas
mgroupP.asc for the Public Messages Group
mgroupA.asc for the AdeptNet group
Edit your mgroup.ans in \adept\text so that:
The FidoNet Messagegroup is listed with the startup key 'F'
The Public Messagesgroup is listed with the startup key 'P'
The AdeptNet MessageGroup is listed with the startup key 'A'
In this example the fido message areas numbers are listed 100-110
▀ Then edit the MgroupF.asc file in \adept\aman\text so that it has the
fido message areanumbers in it.. all numbers has to be under eachother
like this:
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
▀ The Message Area numbers for the Public Messages Group in this example
are 1, 2, 10, 203, 405, so the contents of mgroupP.asc contents
would be:
1
2
10
203
405
▀ The message Area numbers for the AdeptNet group in this example are
400-405 so the contents of the mgroupA.asc would be:
400
401
402
403
404
405
▀ Simple hey? <G> AMAN self pulls out all the extra info needed like,
AreaNumber, AreaName, AreaDescription a '*' if there new mail in a Area
and lots of other info.
▀ But.. before that, you have to tell, which groups you want to make, which
groups are enabled/disabled, how many digits are used for a group,
Securitylevel 1, Securitylevel 2, acces age, and groupname (used for
logging).
All this setup info can be found in the file AMAN.CFG located in the
directory \adept\aman.
Read this file good and for a good working setup .. and please
!!DO NOT DELETE!! any lines, because AMAN WON'T work anymore or not
correctly, also notice that you don't add extra spaces when setting up
the groups all options has it's own column.
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▀ More Info..
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▀ If you don't have Internet Acces you can always call to my BBS:
ClipArT BBS - 31-172-439373 - Located in Holland and also the Home and
SupportSite of CliP-Soft
▀ If you have any questions, comments, feature requests etc. about AMAN,
please send Netmail to Koen Koster
55:66/0.0@AdeptNet
55:1600/0.0@AdeptNet
55:1600/100.0@AdeptNet
15:200/605.0@DigitalNet
17:787/604.0@Olympic
169:100/1130.0@Contact
160:212/2.0@SkyNet
88:7107/6.0@MufoNet
▀ Internet E-Mail address: kkoster@cistron.nl or contact CliP in IRC
channel #Adept
▀ When you have Internet acces and want to see a good demonstration of the
working of AMAN, then Telnet to the International CliP-Soft Support and
demonstration site 'The Internet Central OS/2 BBS' telnetnumber:
204.157.227.222 or Adept2.com (Sysop is Bill Seward).
▀ If you don't have Internet Acces you can always call to my BBS:
ClipArT BBS - 31-172-439373 - Located in Holland and also the Home and
SupportSite of CliP-Soft
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▀ Sites that using AMAN or other CliP-Soft Products (send me your info
when you want to be in the list).
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▀ ClipArT BBS - Home and Support Site of CliP-Soft
located in Holland
Data phone nummer: 31-172-439373
Sysop: Koen Koster
▀ The Internet Central OS/2 BBS - International CliP-Soft Support and
Demonstration Site.
Accessible via telnet: Adept2.com or 204.157.227.222
Data phone number: 1-954-475-0454 and 1-954-452-1104
1:369/110.0@fidonet
Sysop: Bill Seward
▀ Fast Times BBS - International CliP-Soft Support and
Demonstartion Site
Data phone number: 1-210-333-8252
Sysop: Rick Stevens
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▀ Special thanks and greatings go out to ...
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AdeptSoft for making AdeptXBBS
AFMOS: for helping me out with some rexx programming
Bill Seward: for betatesting AMAN 1.75
Rick Stevens: for testing previous releases of Aman and making good
suggestions for future releases of AMAN etc.. he know's :)
And anyone else I forgot to list here
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▀ What's next!
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▀ AMAN 1.77 -- 1.99
Good documentation
Install program
PM-Setup Util (will be released very soon! :)
ASCII, RIP and eventualy W.I.P. Support
Add Support for Topics
Fix the tagged for Offline mail option
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▀ Available Soon ...
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▀ AFAN
Releasing AFAN, The 'Advanced File Area Navigator'
▀ 3D-Graphity Wall
▀ Adept New User Questionary Door
▀ Special modified version of the ClipArT BBS Menu's and Screens (also a
Rexx based menusystem will be included).
▀ And many other utils. I won't tell you all about it.. wait and see <G>