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- PIPE2PCB v3.0 by Paul Cirone aka ViGilante on 1/5/93
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-
- NOTE: Many people had probs with earlier versions, and I couldn't figure out
- why, but this version should be OK now.. if you do happen to have a problem
- please let me know ASAP.
-
- <NEW version 2.0 converts to ANSI ESC codes instead of PCB codes>
-
- PIPE2PCB will convert the "pipe" color codes in your incoming FIDO mail
- packets to PCBoard "@" color codes on the fly as you toss the messages
- into PCBoard. Only codes |00 through |15 are supported due to varying
- schemes the software authors use when implementing pipe codes.
-
- Requires: DOS 5.0+, enough memory to run PKUNZIP when PIPE2PCB shells
- to it (leaves about 11k resident), and make sure you have some sort of
- hard disk cache (write-back preferred) or you will be waiting a long
- time.
-
-
- INSTALLATION
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Just put PIPE2PCB.EXE somewhere in your path, and make sure PKUNZIP.EXE and
- PKZIP.EXE are in your path also. If your packets are compressed with
- something other than ZIP then you are SOL. Next, find the area in your
- batch file used to start your mailer where the actual tossing takes place.
- I use QFRONT, here is that section of my STARTER.BAT file:
-
- :TossFido
- C:
- CD \QFRONT
- QScan /CC:\QFRONT\NODE1 /TOSS
- Goto Start
-
- What you want to do is make PIPE2PCB.EXE the _first_ thing you run after you
- receive mail, before any tossers do their thing. PIPE2PCB accepts and
- requires exactly 1 command line parameter, the location of your INBOUND
- directory (where your mailer places incoming packets). Here is the modified
- version of my previous example:
-
- :TossFido
- pipe2pcb c:\qfront\inbound <--Line to add
- C:
- CD \QFRONT
- QScan /CC:\QFRONT\NODE1 /TOSS
- Goto Start
-
- Note that you must specify the complete drive and path to your inbound mail
- directory (C:\QFRONT\INBOUND in my example). Don't worry about other files
- that may be in your INBOUND dir (nodelists, files from SDN, or whatever),
- PIPE2PCB will only process files with standard FIDO packet extensions of
- .SA?, .SU?, .MO?, .TU?, .WE?, .TH?, and .FR?.
-
- If any of this is too hard for you to comprehend you really shouldn't be
- running a mailer in the first place.
-
-
- FINAL NOTES
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- This is provided as freeware. Nothing is guaranteed or warrantied. Use at
- your own risk. This is the initial release, I have tested it about as much
- as I could (and more than I wanted to), so there may be a bug or two lurking
- somewhere (I hope not). If you have any questions, comments, bug reports,
- or whatever I can be found on:
-
- Demons Abyss at 516-293-7313 or 516-752-9820
- White Sands at 718-241-0025
- Prodigy at BWVR36C
-
- Ciao ..ViG
-
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