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- ********** FORWARD **********
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- * This BBS offers automatic fwd of mails and bulletins to
- other bbss. You have to mark bbs stations by using the 'EU'
- command and put their bid flag as 'Y'. Then you have to set
- up,two forward files,telling bbs what to do.
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- 1.BBS.FWD : In this file ,there are instructions for the
- bbs,about how it will get the fwd station. Each station's
- path,must start and finish with a '---'.
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- Example: We suppose that we have fwd paths with SV1IW ON
- the 1st port AND SV1JO ON the 2nd port.(1st
- port=Com1(default 0),2nd port=Com2(default 1). For DRSI
- card,use always virtual ports,one more above your existing
- ports.)
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- The fwd file will look like this:
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- ---
- 0 SV1IW N (PORTNo CALL TYPE OF FWD)
- T 0023 (TIME - MIN TIME- MAX TIME)
- C SV1IW (CMD SEND TO TNC)
- ---
- 1 SV1JO N
- T 0023
- C SV1JO
- ---
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- If we want to connect to SV1IW From a node ON VHF we have
- to add:
- (We suppose that node's call is J47VAA(TheNet).)
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- 1 SV1IW N
- T 0023
- C J47VAA
- S*C SV1IW (TEXT TO SEND)
- R*Connected to (TEXT WE MUST RECEIVE IF ALL OK)
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- Another example via KANODE.
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- 1 SV7QI N
- T 0023
- C SV7NW-2
- M*? (Wait until receive a '?')
- S*C SV7QI (Text to send)
- R*###LINK MADE (Text we must receive)
- ---
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- An example for the DRSI card.
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- 2 SV7QI N
- T 0023 (Default virtual port)
- C SV7QI
- ---
- 2 IT9UBA N
- T 0023 (2nd virtual port)
- C1:IT9UBA-8
- ---
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- If in case of a port number,we add :
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- 1) T,then export procedure starts for that station when fwd
- starts.
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- e.g:
- ---
- T SV7AIZ N (EXPORT CODE,CALL,FWD TYPE(always N))
- T 0023 (TIME TO DO THIS)
- SV7AIZ.TXT (TEXT FILE TO EXPORT)
- ---
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- 2) D,then bbs executes dos command.
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- e.g
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- D SOME.COM
- T 1114
- ---
- If D becomes DN,bbs executes dos cmd only when it is free
- from connections.
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- e.g
- ---
- DN QSY
- T 1213 (In case of at least one connected channel,bbs
- ignores this topic.)
- ---
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- 3) S,then bbs disconnects all the channels.
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- e.g
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- S
- T 1214
- ---
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- 4) L,then bbs locks.It is the same as we send Y0 and MN
- commands to the tncs.
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- e.g
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- L
- T 1214
- ---
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- 5) U,then bbs unlocks the channels.
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- e.g
- ---
- U
- T 1214
- ---
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- 6) C,Then bbs sends tnc commands to the specified channel.
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- e.g.
- ---
- C 3
- T 0023
- N15
- T50
- ---
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- * Procedures 3,4,5 are useful when bbs executes dos
- commands during fwd. If you wish for example to run a
- housekeeping program or something else which will hold its
- process for some time,then you do not want to accept
- connections.
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- Fwd types:
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- N : For normal fwd:
- RO : For reverse fwd only.
- RF : Start fwd,even if we haven't any msg to send.
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- ** Other options. **
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- - We can specify the max length of files we fwd to each
- station by adding a '<x' description. We can have more
- than one 'T' descriptions.
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- For example:
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- ---
- 0 PA3AIR N
- T 0003 <2 (From 00 to 03 anything less than 2kbytes)
- T 0409 <4 (From 04 to 09 anything less than 4kbytes)
- T 1023 (From 10 to 23 any length)
- C PA3AIR
- ---
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- - We can specify which days we'll fwd to each station by
- adding a 'x-y' description.
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- Days are :
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- 0:Sunday.
- 1:Monday.
- 2:Tuesday.
- 3:Wednesday.
- 4:Thursday.
- 5:Friday.
- 6:Saturday.
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- For example :
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- 0 PA3AIR N
- T 0003 0-3 (From 00 to 03 on Sunday through Wednesday)
- T 0410 4-6 (From 04 to 10 on Thursday through Saturday)
- T 1219 1-4 <5 (From 12 to 19 on Monday through
- C PA3AIR Thursday,less than 5kbytes)
- ---
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- - We can fwd on more than one channels or ports at the
- same time,during each fwd cycle or during manualy fwd. In
- the BBS.FWD file,we have to add a '>' as the last cmd on
- each path, we don't wish to lock.
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- For example, if we have to do fwd on ports 0 and 1 at the
- same time,to avoid
- loss of time,we have to add.
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- 0 IN3TUR N
- T 0023 <5
- C IN3TUR-8
- > (Continue with the next path.)
- ---
- 1 SV7QI N
- T 0023
- C SV7QI (Don't continue,until
- --- disconnect or end of fwd.)
- 0 PA3AIR N
- T 0023 <5
- C PA3AIR
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- 2.DEST.FWD : Destination file.
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- When we receive a bulletin or a mail,bbs has to know
- where to send it. You have to set this file correct.A
- destination description,must start and finish, also with a
- '---'. Destinations are, calls with a '@' in front,which
- means,bbs checks only the @bbs field of the msg,missing
- calls with a '*',which means,bbs matches the address call
- up to '*' and full calls,which means bbs matches the
- address call. In case of hierarchical fwd,we can add
- descriptions with a '.' in front.
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- Example :
- We suppose @EU bulletins have to go to SV1IW,SV1JO.SV1XXX
- mails have to go to SV1JO and SV1IW mails have to go to
- SV1IW.
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- The destination file will look like this:
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- @EU
- SV1IW
- SV1JO
- ---
- @SV1IW
- SV1IW
- ---
- @ALLS*
- SV1IW
- ---
- @SV1JO
- SV1JO
- ---
- SV1IW
- SV1IW
- ---
- SV1* (every * goes last)
- SV1JO
- ---
- .NA (Hierarchical fwd.BBs matches any NA in the @ field.)
- EI6EH
- 5B4TX
- ---
- .USA
- 4X1RU
- ---
- OE* (We have a different WAY here,which decreases the
- DK8AT (time of a mail to catch its destination.
- IT9UBA (We say that all OE mails
- SV1IW (have to go to DK8AT or IT9UBA or SV1IW.It
- --- (means,this mail will go to one of these
- stations,except we have declared the type of msg
- as 'S'.)
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- ** MORE OPTIONS
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- - We can have two wildcard callsigns,which match any
- call to a given bbs station. If we wish to send all unknown
- destinations to SV7QI,we have to add the following,as the
- last always,description.(Use with care)
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- # (It works only when there is no @bbs field in
- SV7QI the header)
- ---
- $ (It works in any case)
- SV7QI
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- ** BULLETIN HOLD
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- - We can hold any bulletin,or groups of bulletins
- from being fwdded to any station.This can be done, by
- creating a file with the name of the station we have to
- hold.This file,will have an '.HLD' as extension.It
- has the same format,like the 'DEST.FWD' file, but without
- any dashes.
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- Let's see an example:
- We wish to hold all these bulletins addressed to
- AMSAT,all these with BBS field ALLE , all these msgs
- addressed to any SV7XXX,all these come from I0IEX and
- all these come from any I0,from being forwarded to
- IN3TUR. We wish also to hold msg 1215 and all these
- messages between 900 and 1000. We have to create a text
- file named 'IN3TUR.HLD' with an editor, or with the
- built in editor, and put the following in it :
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- @ALLE
- AMSAT
- SV7*
- <I0IEX
- <I0*
- #1215
- #1000 - 900
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