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YD.DOC 20 Jul 1996 (from YRNDL13.ZIP)
(c) 1996 by Jerry Levy Marblehead, MA USA
jlevy@ibm.net
This is the Documentation file for YRNDL13.ZIP.
This is very much in <<Draft>> form at present.
This file should be printed at 10 cpi (Courier or other monospaced
font recommented, or a Times font will be acceptable)
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, will work
adequately.
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.
CONTENTS
1.00 Installation For The Impatient User (assumes Yarn and
Souper are Installed And They Work
2.00 What Is Yarndial?
3.00 Key Features
4.00 Copyright Notice and Disclaimers
5.00 Passwords - Disclaimer
6.00 How Does the Installer Work?
7.00 Example: Setting Up For Two Users (My Installation)
8.00 What Does YDINSTL.CMD Do?
9.00 .CMD Files Created - Meaning of Customization
10.00 Recreating Objects (running OBJECTS.CMD - A Peculiarity
11.00 Warp Connect, Souper, YARN: Versions Tested
12.00 You Have Not Installed Yarn and Souper Yet?
13.00 History
14.00 Should You Upgrade Anything Before You Install?
14.10 Souper
1420 IBM/Advantis IAK Dialer
14.30 SLIPPM.EXE (Dial-Other-Internet-Providers Utility
and SLIP Upgrades
15.00 Before You Run YDINSTL.CMD
16.00 Notes On Using The IN-JOY Dialer
17.00 About The Fix-Interrupted-Import Option On The Main
YARNDIAL Menu
18.00 Souper Command-Line Options
19.00 Questions That May Come Up During Or After Install
20.00 Manual Install
21.00 Manual Install: The Password Problem
22.00 Connection-Type: the Seven Connection-Type Choices
23.00 More About Dialup_String: A Programming Note
24.00 Zip and UnZip Files
25.00 Compression Executables: OS/2 Versus MS-DOS
26.00 Some Other Breed Of Compression Utilities
27.00 Setting Up Yarn And Souper From Scratch
28.00 Install EMXRT, METAMAIL, MIME64 (recommended)
28.10 EMXRT09B (optional)
28.20 METAMAIL (optional)
28.30 MIME64 (optional)
29.00 Step-By-Step Installation Of Yarn And Souper
30.00 Note About Adding Newsgroups
31.00 Setting Up And Installing For Multiple Users
32.00 Where To Get Software
33.00 Where To Find Helpful Documentation
34.00 Bugs
1.00INSTALLATION FOR THE IMPATIENT USER (ASSUMES YARN AND SOUPER
ARE INSTALLED AND THEY WORK)
1.10 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 A lot shorter than YD.DOC
YD.DOC This file
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.
1.20 Double-click on YDINSTL.CMD and follow the
instructions in screen prompts.
2.00 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
3.00 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 YARN