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README.1ST for YRNDL13.ZIP 20 Jul 1996
[Excerpted from YD.DOC]
(c) 1996 by Jerry Levy
Jerry Levy Marblehead, MA USA
jlevy@ibm.net
ABOUT THIS VERSION: This is version 1.3(beta) of YARNDIAL and
represents a major upgrade. An installer has been added which supports
fully use of IBM/Advantis' IAK Dialer (for Advantis network only), the
IBM SLIPPM dialer (the Dial-Other-Internet-Providers utility), and
PPP.EXE and SLIP.EXE dialup strings. It supports use of other dialers
such as the IN-JOY Dialer via dialup strings and has IN-JOY support
"built-in".
I plan to issue the final version by October 1, 1996. This version is
in pretty good shape and the only reason for keeping it beta is that I
hope to enhance third-party dialer support.
This program is and will stay freeware.
For use of third-party dialers such as IN-JOY, YARNDIAL expects
you to go through the motions of setting up SLIPPM, and we use
the SLIPPM parameter files as repositories for parameters that
YARNDIAL needs in order to run. SLIPPM is a fine utility, and in
most instances where you are connecting to a provider other than
Advantis and you need to make a SLIP or PPP connection, it, used
alone or with add-on script packages such as PPPDIAL28, is a fine
utility.
I am committed to adding and improving support of third-party
dialers provided I can obtain a copy to work with and the interface
is not obscure. Contact me if I do not support your pet dialer.
INSTALLATION FOR THE IMPATIENT USER (ASSUMES YARN AND SOUPER
ARE INSTALLED AND THEY WORK)
1. First unzip YRNDL13.ZIP into a temporary folder. You
have probably done that if you are reading this.
The archive is YRNDL13.ZIP
Files in the archive are
FILE.DIZ Zipfile description
README.1ST This file, a lot shorter than YD.DOC
YD.DOC Documentation for YARNDIAL
YDINSTL.CMD The installer
YARNDIAL.CMD
GO.EXE From GO_15.ZIP, needed by YARNDIAL
GO_15.ZIP Please open at your leisure, read
the documentation and send Carsten
his postcard.
an \ICONS\ subdirectory containing all of the icons
needed
If you unzipped YRNDL13.ZIP with PkZip without using the -d
option, you will not have a subdirectory named ICONS. That
will not interfere with installation. YDINSTL will manage
to find the icons.
2. Double-click on YDINSTL.CMD and follow the
instructions in screen prompts.
WHAT IS YARNDIAL?
YARNDIAL.CMD is a menu-driven front end for C.T. Huang's
OS/2 Souper and Yarn off-line News and Mail
reader/management programs. YARNDIAL is a ReXX utility
running under OS/2 Warp. It is designed to automate the
steps needed to retrieve and send news articles and mail and
while doing so to provide a more versatile, friendlier
interface for users than could be accomplished using
ordinary batch files.
YARNDIAL v. 1.3 and its installer (YDINSTL.CMD) should work
with any version of OS/2 Warp. ReXX must installed for
YARNDIAL and its installer to run. Yarn and Souper must
also be correctly installed since YARNDIAL functions as a
front end for Souper and interfaces with Yarn.
YARNDIAL's opening menu allows you seven choices:
1 Only import Mail
2 Only import News Articles
3 Only import, but both Mail AND News
4 Only export (send Mail, Posts, Replies, and Follow-ups)
5 Everything: Get mail and news AND send Posts, Replies,
and Follow-ups
6 Complete an interrupted importation of mail/news
or rebuild a corrupted YARN history file
7 Souper options: one-time-only changes in how souper
runs:
Catchup on News
Maximum News Packet Size
Do not retrieve newsgroup articles Longer than set
number of lines
Read-only for Mail: Don't empty POP3 Mailbox
KEY FEATURES
o Automatic dialup, connection, retrieval and sending of
news and/or mail, and signoff
o Ability under certain circumstances to operate for a SLIP
or PPP connection that happens to be established to a
provider
o Ability to use a variety of dialup and connect options.
Supported are: the IBM/Advantis IAK Dialer, IBM's Dial-
Other-Internet-Providers utility (SLIPPM.EXE), PPP.EXE and
SLIP.EXE dialup strings, and the IN-JOY dialer (only in-joy
v. 09 tested so far)
o Menu-driven, for convenient selection of tasks
o Ability to choose/change a limited number of Souper
command-line options (menu, during install)
o Ability to choose/change some Souper command-line options
(menu, when running YARNDIAL)
o A YARNDIAL menu item which allows you to complete an
importation of news or mail which had been interrupted, and
to call up the Yarn utility REBUILD to restore damaged Yarn
spool and history files (You don't need to understand this:
if you were downloading news and mail and it never showed
up, or your machine quit in the middle, or the lights went
out, maybe this will provide a fix)
o YDINSTL.CMD provides a near-automated (prompted)
installation process if you already have installed Yarn and
Souper and they work
o Ability of YARNDIAL to grab and use an existing SLIP or
PPP connection, or an existing PPP0 or SL0 interface. This
has only been tested with connections initiated by
SLIPPM.EXE (includes SLIP.EXE and PPP.EXE), a connection
established by the IBM/Advantis IAK Dialer, or one
established by the IN-JOY dialer.
o Some ability exists to discriminate if the connection
that is up is the correct connection for the particular user
for which YARNDIAL was installed. This presently only
partially applies to the IN-JOY dialer. I hope through
communication with the author of IN-JOY to work out details
for improved validation procedures.
o Ability when you run YARNDIAL to select read-only for
mail retrieval (doesn't empty your POP3 mailbox). I did not
extend this to read-only for news retrieval (i.e., to
prevent your NEWSRC file from updating). You can edit the
Souper parameters in YD_PARMS.DAT file following
installation to achieve this end (add -r to the
getnews_xtra_options element).
o Ability when you run YARNDIAL to do catchup on news.
Catchup marks as read all but some number you specify of
unread articles in each news group.
o Among the Souper command-line options you can choose when
you run YDINSTL.CMD or at runtime when YARNDIAL is executed
are:
Set maximum size of the news packet you can download
in a single session
and
Limit retrieval of news
articles to those with no more than some maximum
number you set of lines in the body of the article.
======================
COPYRIGHT NOTICE AND DISCLAIMERS
YDINSTL.CMD is Copyright 1996 by Jerry Levy
(all rights reserved)
YARNDIAL.CMD is Copyright 1995 and 1996 by Jerry Levy
(all rights reserved)
These are provided as-is and without charge, with no
warranty expressed or implied as to merchantability or
fitness for any particular purpose. All responsibility for
any and all incidental and consequential damages is
disclaimed. These programs and associated text files are
freeware. They may be distributed without restriction
providing: (1) this notice and disclaimer remain intact, (2)
all programs and files are included and unchanged, and (3)
they are distributed either in the original .zip archive or
the archive after being unzipped into a folder or onto a
disk or other medium. Use of either or both of these
programs constitutes acceptance of these terms by all users.
GO.EXE and GO_15.ZIP are (c) 1993-95 by Carsten Wimmer and
are included with permission.
YARN.ICO is (c) by Chin Huang and is included with
permission.
PASSWORDS - DISCLAIMER
Some passwords are extracted from dialer setup files, and
while installing for use of the IBM/Advantis IAK Dialer,
we prompt for the Advantis password. To keep these
passwords free from the casual eye, we scramble them before
they are written to YD_PARMS.DAT. YARNDIAL unscrambles them
to use them. Bear in mind that this is very low-tech
password protection designed only to discourage the
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