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AmigaNOS Utilities
December 5, 1993
Legal Mumbo Jumbo
:
These AREXX programs and documentation are Copyright 1993 by
Dan Roman. Permission is granted to redistribute and use or
modify the same as FREEWARE. Please credit me if you use my work
and I'd like to see the results of any improvements or
modifications you make.
The only warranty is "It works for me."
How to contact the author
:
My amateur call sign is N2MFC and I can be reached at the
following addresses (in order of preference):
1) Internet as roman@tix.timeplex.com
2) or D.ROMAN1@genie.geis.com
3) GEnie as D.ROMAN1
4) Amateur radio TCP/IP as n2mfc%n2mfc@w2nv.ampr.org
5) Amateur radio AX.25 BBS as n2mfc@n2imc.#nnj.nj.usa.na
What's in here and what does it do
?
Contained in the archive with this documentation you should find
the following files which pertain to using AmigaNOS for amateur
radio TCP/IP:
AmigaNOS-Utilities.doc What you are reading now.
SendMail.rx AREXX program to allow various versions
of ELM to work with AmigaNOS.
Announcer.rx A little gizmo which allows you to let
people page you or run programs on your
Amiga by sending mail to your Amiga.
Why did I choose to use AREXX over C? First, not everyone has a
C compiler and AREXX comes standard with the AmigaDOS. There is
a lot of room for variation from system to system especially
among amateurs using AmigaNOS, AREXX allows the user to customize
these routines for use with his specific needs. Second, AREXX
allows for very quick development of routines like these. Speed
is not critical and AREXX handles the job quite nicely. This was
a nice little job that did not justify C and if C was the only
way to do it I probably would not have invested the time to do
it!
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December 5, 1993
Setting up SendMail
:
The instructions below assume you are using AmigaELM version 1.17
by Andreas M. Kirchwitz (Internet address
amk@zikzak.in-berlin.de). There are other version of ELM
available and although none are tailored to amateur radio
specifically and therefore have many drawbacks, this one does
work fairly well.
1) You need to make the following two aliases which your shell
running ELM can use:
alias sendmail rx SendMail.rx
alias rmail rx SendMail.rx
AmigaELM calls either sendmail or rmail (depending on
whether or not it is doing a reply) and feeds it the email
message from stdin. Aliasing the AREXX execution allows
sendmail.rx to take stdin and process it.
2) You must have the assignment for ELM's uumail: pointing to
your AmigaNOS
Spool/Mail
directory.
3) The following ELM parameters should be set in the ELM
uulib:Config
file. I use my call, N2MFC in all examples.
ELM parameters which I have not listed are unimportant to
SendMail.
NodeName n2mfc
UserName n2mfc.txt
RealName Dan Roman
DomainName .ampr.org
DefaultNode n2mfc
4) The following ELM parameters should be set in the ELM
uulib:.elm/elmrc
file. ELM parameters which I have not
listed are unimportant to SendMail.
SendmailVersion Feulner
5) You must edit two lines in the beginning of
SendMail.rx
to
assign the variables
mailhost
and
stationcall
. See
SendMail.rx
for more information.
NOTE:
SendMail uses the T: directory for temporary files.
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AmigaNOS Utilities
December 5, 1993
Using SendMail
:
When you send or reply to a mail message using ELM, ELM will call
the
SendMail.rx
AREXX program. You must however be aware of
several things in the use of ELM which affect SendMail. ELM is
not 100% clean in these respects.
1) The To: line should contain only one address, multiple
addressees are not supported. SendMail simply passes on
addressing to AmigaNOS for the smtp command to use. It
creates files in the AmigaNOS
Spool/MQueue
directory and
updates the file
sequence.seq
as necessary.
2) Provisions are made within SendMail to allow up to 10 cc:
address to be placed on
one
line and 10 bcc: addresses to be
placed on
one
line. Place these lines
after
the To: line
and
before
the Subject: line. For example:
To: ron
Cc: bill steve ka9q@ucsd.edu
bcc: joe john g1yyh@g1yyh.ampr.org
Subject: Test of sendmail.
SendMail creates individual files for AmigaNOS smtp to
process for each recipient.
3) This has nothing to do with SendMail really but is important
for using ELM. You must leave a blank line in between the
header information (usually the Subject: line) and the body
of the text. Otherwise, ELM on receiving mail will consider
part of the body of text header information (until a blank
line is reached). This method of implementing ELM for this
version allows headers to be added easily and simplified
coding by leaving it up to the user to design and compose
the header properly but it is not consistent with recent
revisions of ELM (ie 3.4) on Unix workstations.
NOTE:
SendMail does some processing of header information that
ELM passes on and adds the date to the header. SendMail attempts
to read the
TZ
environment variable to get the timezone
information (defaults to GMT). See
SendMail.rx
for more details.
Setting up Announcer
:
1) Edit the variables
mailfile
,
modemport
,
modemstring
,
modemringdelay
,
beeperstring
, and
beeperdelay
as needed in
the top of
Announcer.rx
, see
Announcer.rx
for details. I
chose the user "robot" for Announcer to use on my system.
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AmigaNOS Utilities
December 5, 1993
Announcer deletes the mail file after processing it so be
sure you don't use YOUR mailbox!
2) Edit the file
Announcer.commands
in your TCPIP: directory to
include the programs you want Announcer to be able to run.
3) You must have the SPEAK: device mounted in order to have the
PAGE and PAGEMESSAGE functions work.
4) You must have either AmigaNOS or a cron type program run
Announcer periodically. I suppose you could have it run
continuously and putting a wait delay in the AREXX program
but I chose not do do it on my system. To have AmigaNOS
execute Announcer once every five minutes you would put the
following two lines in your nos-startup:
amiga interval 300
amiga command rx TCPIP:Announcer.rx
Using Announcer
:
1) Announcer commands are placed on the subject line and sent
to the user configured in the
mailfile
variable in
Announcer.rx
, it currently supports the following commands:
PAGE {message}
Uses the Amiga's narrator device (via SPEAK:) to "say" the
text on the subject line. If the optional message is not
provided, the PAGE command will use the from line to make
the announcement.
PAGEMESSAGE
Like PAGE but uses the body of the message to figure out
what to "say". The text to be spoken should follow a line
which contains only
[START]
. The text will be spoken up
until a line which contains only
[END]
.
PHONEHOME
Uses the information in the configuration variables and your
modem to dial a phone number and then hang up after a
variable amount of time.
BEEPER
Like PHONE HOME except it dials the number of a personal
pager or beeper and sends a message to display.
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December 5, 1993
RUN program
Checks
Announcer.commands
to see of "program" is in the list
of programs Announcer is permitted to run and then executes
the program. Announcer then waits for that program to
return control.
2) After processing successfully the commands in the mail file,
Announcer deletes the file so that the commands will not be
run again.
3) Announcer keeps a log of the commands it processes and
reports any errors. This information is stored in
TCPIP:Announcer.log
and is created if it does not exist or
appended to if it does.
The possibilities are endless for a program like Announcer,
hopefully these commands are a good start for ideas of your own.
Got something cool you did with it? Let me know, I'd like to
hear from you.
5c