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- _ F D R E Q v 1.10 _
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- F D R E Q : free configurable Filerequest-processor for systems running
- FrontDoor > 2.10, 2.11, 2.20(x)mL and InterMail >=2.26
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- -= How it works ? =-
-
- Let's suppose, the setup is done and FDREQ may run in a safe system
- environment.
-
- So, when there is an online-request, your mailer will shell to FDREQ
- and will tell FDREQ, what is requested, who requests and the state
- of the requester.
-
- FDREQ checks out, whether requests (with the requesters baudrate)
- are allowed actually and if yes, how long requests may dure.
-
- FDREQ reads, depending on the requesters state, the list of directories
- the requester may request from.
- It gets its information about REQLIST.DIR, SREQLST.DIR, ALIAS.LST,
- SECALIAS.LST and PASSWORD.LST from FrontDoors/InterMails setup.
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- FDREQ looks for the requested files.
- If a found file is on a CD-ROM-Drive, FDREQ will copy it to the temp.
- outbound (if configured).
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- FDREQ writes a msg to the requester, naming the files, naming the state of
- the search, adding filedescriptions (if available) and naming the
- requesters amount of request-size, -time, -times for the call, the day
- and overall.
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- FDREQ will create and append a FILES.BBx carrying the available file-
- descriptions, if configured (and if the requester didn't disable).
- FDREQ will create and append a TIC-FILE carrying the available file-
- descriptions, if configured (and if the requester didn't disable).
- The AREA-name for the TIC by default is 'REQUEST'.
- The requester may change this areaname by himself.
- After sending, FILES.BBx and/or RQ*.TIC should be deleted by the mailer.
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- FDREQ does logging in three possible grades (as configured).
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- If FDREQ cannot find a special requested file, it adds the filename to
- a list for later offline request processing (if configured) and notifies
- to the requester, that it will look later on offline CD-ROMs for the file.
- Depending on the configuration, FDREQ notifies that the file is available
- on an existing, but offline volume (if it finds it in CD_VOLx.FDR).
-
- FDREQ is able to initiate a new index-run, if it notices differences
- between its index and the filebase.
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- So far.
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- FDRINDEX, which should be run at least once a day, creates a database
- of all requestable files.
- Therefor it uses all normal FD/IM-informaton.
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- You can have FDRINDEX importing CD-ROM-contents.
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- If you allow offline request processing, FDRINDEX can read the list
- of desired requests left and, if a CD-ROM actually is in the drive,
- where a requested file is to be found, it will copy this file to a
- temp. outbound, write a notification to the requester and write a
- fileattachMSG (HOLD) and a normal (routed) information to the requester.
-
- If you have this requester configured as friend and CRASH, both messages
- will be crashed out immediately.
-
- If there will be requests left, FDRINDEX writes a notification to the
- sysop (you).
-
- If there are requests, which you don't want to fullfill or which you
- can not fullfill, you may delete them from the list.
-
-
- FDRINDEX will look for its own fileattachMSGs each run.
- If there are attaches left, which are older than x days (as configured),
- it will delete these attaches.
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- FDRINDEX will look for netmail-request and will, if it finds any,
- append the request(s) to the list of requests to be done offline.
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- With the userbase and the friends/twits-base, you are flexible to
- configure your request-system following special needs.
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- With the baudrate-specific and time-specific handling of
- request-sizes you are highly! flexible to configure your
- request-system. Especially in a multilinesystem, FDREQs
- cababilities will give you a great tool to have your mailer
- done its work done in a smart way.
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- The fullscreen-setup enables you to configure FDREQ in an easy
- interactive way.
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- For more information, please read the documentation.
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