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█ █ █ █ █▀▀▀ Dykstra
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▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀ █ (C) Copyright 1993, 1994 William J. Dykstra
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Area Manager v1.0
(C) Copyright 1994, Dykstra Software
written by Bill Dykstra
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AreaMgr, short for Area Manager, is a RemoteAccess 2.0x area management
utility. AreaMgr will allow you to make global changes to just about all
of the message area and file area settings, including security levels and
flag settings!
AreaMgr is another freeware product from Dykstra Software.
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Disclaimer: Use this stupid program at your own risk. The author will not
be held responsible for any damages resulting either directly or indirectly
from the use of this program. In other words, if it nukes your hard drive,
burns down your house, or in any other way ruins your day, don't come
looking for me with large blunt objects in your hand.
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AreaMgr is designed for making global changes to file and message areas.
AreaMgr allows you to make changes to ALMOST all of the area settings.
The following message area settings may NOT be changed:
■ Area type (JAM or Hudson)
■ JAMBase name
All other message area settings may be changed, and ALL file area settings
may be changed.
The AreaMgr screens look very similar to the RACONFIG file and message area
screens, so you should have no problems figuring them out.
To exit the screen without processing your changes, press ESC.
To exit the screen and begin processing the changes, press F10. You will
be asked to enter the starting and ending area numbers. The starting and
ending area numbers that you enter WILL be processed.
For example, if you enter a starting area number of 4, and an ending area
number of 7, areas 4, 5, 6, and 7 will be updated.
If you leave a field blank, NO CHANGE will be made to that field.
If you enter a new value in a field, that value will be placed in all the
areas that you process. If you don't want to change a field, make sure
that its blank.
The flags are the only section that may be confusing. The flags work as
follows:
- any flag that is left with a '.' (period) value will NOT be changed.
- any flag that you set to a '-' (dash) value will be cleared in the
areas that you process. (A cleared flag shows up as a dash (-) in
RACONFIG.
- any flag that you set to an 'X' will be set ON in the areas that you
process. (These will appear as X's in RACONFIG)
- any flag that you set to an 'O' will be set OFF in the areas that you
process. This does NOT mean that the flag will be cleared! It will be
set OFF. This is how you can update the NOT flags.
For example, if you want to clear the Read flag A4, set read flag B2 OFF, and
set the read flag C6 to ON, your Read flag fields should look like this:
A flag: ...-....
B flag: .O......
C flag: .....X..
D flag: ........
This would make the appropriate changes to the three specified flags, while
all other flags would remain UNCHANGED.
NOTE: When selecting Archive Types (File areas) or the AKA address (message
areas), a popup list box will appear, from which you can make a selection.
These AKA's and archive types are read from CONFIG.RA. To modify the data
that appears in these popup list boxes, you must modify the settings in
RACONFIG.
If you do NOT want to make changes to one of these two fields, select the
"DO NOT CHANGE" option from the popup list box. Selecting a blank row will
NOT have the same result.
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Well, that's about all I have to say. Hopefully you can understand how
this works. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions, suggestions,
or if you find any bugs.
I know, these docs really suck. Sigh. This program is pretty straight
forward, so you should be able to figure it out... after all, you must
have figured out RACONFIG by now, and its pretty much the same.
If somebody really gets bored they could always rewrite these for me... :)
Enjoy!
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Registration:
There is none! This is freeware!
I'd love to hear from you - netmail, Internet e-mail, whatever! Even better,
to show your appreciation (assuming you like the program <smirk>) send me
a postcard... preferrably of your city! (I like to see the places where my
stuff gets used).
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Contacting the author:
Bill Dykstra
189 Bristol Road
Newmarket, ON Canada
L3Y 7X9
BBS: The BillBoard BBS
(905) 898-2443
Fidonet 1:250/932
Internet: bill.dykstra@canrem.com
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