Magnum One/Magnum One (Mid-American Digital) (Disc Manufacturing).iso/d20/fusl_120.arc/FUSL.DOC

Text File | 1991-02-19 | 11KB | 387 lines

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                  │  FrontDoors Ulimate Scan Lister   │
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                  │(c) copyright 1990 Johannes Hoerhan│
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    If you find a character after the version number it means that this
    isn't a public version. This version is restricted to the betatest
    team!

        ┌─────────┐
        │Copyright│
        └─────────┘

    You can use the FUSL (Noncommercial) version any way you like, as
    long as you use it in a noncommercial enviroment. I only guarantee
    that this program uses some space on your harddisk and in your
    memory.

    Since development of FUSL took a lot of time and effort I will
    stop the development of the noncommercial version at this point
    (V 1.20). Up to this, both versions (registered and unregistered)
    have exactly the same features except the unregistered version will
    write "UNREGISTERD FUSL USER" as Sysopname.

    Further improvements will only concern the registered version!

    How to register:

        Send    100.- austrian shillings or
                 15.- DM or
                 10.- US $

        to      Johannes HOERHAN (Fido 2:310/10)
                Ettenreichgasse 1/18
                1100 VIENNA
                AUSTRIA

        or to this account:

                BLZ:  20151   Nr.: 907079719


    You can request the newest versions of FUSL at the following nodes:

                Blumenkistl     HST     2:310/10 FidoNet
                Gallatin Link   HST     2:310/19 FidoNet


        ┌───────────────┐
        │Purpose of FUSL│
        └───────────────┘

    The main reason while FUSL was born was the matter that I find it
    quite annoying to search through kilobytes of filelistings to get
    the new files there. The only indication I had was the datestamp
    of the files. Well, we all know the matter that there might be
    some files NEW in the different listings which haven't been there
    before but didn't get a datestamp. I found it now interesting to
    know what really happend in the listing since my last request.

    With FUSL you can now compair two filelistings for differences,
    request from in the listing, and send a thanx msg to the nodes.
    It seems to me that FUSL is one of the first anti D'Bridge tools
    because now you can also bother these sysops with these very
    important msg's;-)


        ┌───────────────┐
        │What FUSL needs│
        └───────────────┘

        ■ MS Dos compatible computer with MS Dos 3.x or better
        ■ >200 K Memory


        ┌───────────────────────────┐
        │What is suggestive for FUSL│
        └───────────────────────────┘

        ■ FrontDoor as mailer
        ■ DESQview or other multitasking software
        ■ 1, better 2 filelistings
        ■ Fidouserlist
        ■ A modem;-)


        ┌──────────┐
        │FUSL menus│
        └──────────┘
        ┌────┐
        │Main│
        └────┘
        ┌─────────┐
        │Prgm Info│
        └─────────┘

    Info about FUSL


        ┌────────┐
        │Dosshell│
        └────────┘

    A small dosshell

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------

        ┌─────┐
        │Setup│
        └─────┘

    Enter some necessary parameters, they are saved in the file
    'fusl.sys'in the current directory.


        ┌───────────┐
        │Netmailpath│
        └───────────┘

    Enter the complete path to your netmail directory. I need this to
    generate my request msg.

        e.g.: d:\fd\netmail



        ┌────────────┐
        │Fidouserpath│
        └────────────┘

    Enter your path to the fidouserlist, you can generate this easily
    with parslist and qsort. I need an alphabetical sorted list that
    should have this format:


             Aaboe, Ole                  231/75
             Aagaard, Peter              231/11
             Aalsburg, Hans Van          285/508
             Aaltonen, Mika              504/102
             Abel, Juergen               244/17
             Abele, Rainer               507/18
             Abelmann, Guus              286/304
             Abels, Wim                  242/20
             Abma, Henk                  512/30
             Abril, Tirs                 343/106
             Achutegui, Juan J.          344/7
             Acosta, Juan                345/403
             Acuna, Norberto             348/4
             Adams, Colin                250/121
             Aerts, Robert               282/372
             [.....]

    You actualy don't need this list for your requests but it makes
    life easy since you don't have to enter every time the complete
    sysop name and his fido address. You can enter now a part of the
    sysop name (similar to FrontDoor) and FUSL will find the
    destination node. Of course it would have been better if I can use
    the nodelist index files of FrontDoor but their structure aren't
    for free and so I had to find this solution;-(


        ┌──────────┐
        │Systempath│
        └──────────┘

    Enter the main directory of FrontDoor

            e.g.: d:\fd


        ┌─────────┐
        │Your Name│
        └─────────┘

    Hope you don't need further help;-)


        ┌─────────────┐
        │Your Address │
        └─────────────┘

    Enter your network address

                e.g.: 2:310/10


        ┌───────────┐
        │Registerkey│
        └───────────┘

    Enter your registration key here!!

        ┌────────┐
        │Baudrate│
        └────────┘


    Enter the highest baudrate your system supports. I need this
    to calculate the time for the request.

                e.g.: 9600



        ┌────┐
        │Save│
        └────┘

    You can save this parameters now.

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------

        ┌────────────┐
        │Request     │
        └────────────┘

        ┌────────────┐
        │Request List│
        └────────────┘

    With this point you can use a list and if you find a file which
    seems to be worth requesting, you should now press 'F1'. A window
    will appear and if you press now RETURN the file will be requested.
    If you don't find any further file press ESC and enter the
    destination address of the node. If you are using a fidouserlist
    you only have to enter a part of the sysop's name to get the
    important informations.
    Further you will see in this window the size in bytes and how long
    the transfer might be.

    With 'F2' you can search for strings in the filelist - they will
    appear invers.

    With 'F3' you can define a password to be sent to the filerequest
    selection.

        e.g.: file select is   FUSL120.ZIP, defined password is
              'GRMMPF'. The request msg would read:
              FUSL120.ZIP !GRMMPF


        ┌─────────┐
        │Filelists│
        └─────────┘

    Starts to compare 2 filelistings, if these filelistings contain
    different files they will be shown on the screen and a file
    'differ.txt' will be generated in the current directory. After
    processing you are prompted to rename 'differ.txt'.

        ┌────────┐
        │Get From│
        └────────┘


    Enter the fido address and the name of the sysop from whom you want
    to request.


        ┌─────┐
        │Magic│
        └─────┘

    Request one of the magic filenames:


                FILES
                NEWFILES
                ABOUT
                NODELIST
                NODEDIFF


        ┌─────┐
        │Clear│
        └─────┘

    Clears the requestbuffer


        ┌────────┐
        │Send Msg│
        └────────┘

        You can send a user defined msg with the file request. All
        you need to do: generate a file called FUSL.MSG which has
        to reside in the directory where FUSL.EXE can be found.

        e.g.:

        Dear %TONAME% !

        Thank you for allowing the file request!
        %FROMNAME%, (%NODE%)

        %TONAME%   = Name of the sysop
        %FROMNAME% = Your name
        %NODE%     = Your address

    These are the default flag settings:
    PVT CRASH FILE REQ KILL
    Of course only as long as you didn't edit them with the menu
    MSGSTATUS.

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        ┌────┐
        │Edit│
        └────┘

        ┌──────┐
        │Buffer│
        └──────┘

    You can edit the requestbuffer but in the current version it's not
    possible to recalculate the number of files or the size of them.


        ┌───────┐
        │Message│
        └───────┘

    You can edit a generated msg - the name of the files, the node
    or the msg bits. These values are also used on your next request.

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        ┌─────────┐
        │MsgStatus│
        └─────────┘

    Enter the msg. status like CRASH, DIRECT, HOLD or RESCAN
    (FrontDoor will rescan the netmail directory).
    Rq-Msg allows you to en- disable the including of the thanks
    message.

    You can save this flags with the 'Save Flags' option.

    The flags also will be saved when you select 'SETUP - SAVE'.

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------

        ┌────┐
        │Quit│
        └────┘

    Quit the FUSL

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------

        ┌───────────────────┐
        │Last but not least │
        └───────────────────┘

    If you find this prgm worth to stay for a while on your harddisk
    you can send me a netmail and report about problems, bugs or just
    congratulate me. Maybe you find this prgm to be trash then delete
    it but don't flame me, I made this tool just for fun not to earn
    some flames from you.

    Thanks to Robert Maierhofer (2:310/19) for the German and
    English docs, for his suggestions and ideas during the
    programing of this tool.

    Many thanks go to my girlfriend Maria for her tolerance she had all
    the time when I was just sitting in front of my machine doing this
    odd work.