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- RAMail Configuration v1.3
- Copyright 1990, 1991 by Randy Blackmond
- All Rights Reserved
-
- RAMCONF is the configuration program for RAMail. Until version 2.3 of
- RAMail, RAMCONF never had any real documentation because I felt that
- it was straightforward enough not to need it. I still feel this way,
- but being the programmer, things that seem perfectly clear to me may
- be confusing to someone else. This file is provided for those people who
- may need clarification on some of the items in the RAMCONF program.
-
- First, I'll offer a little general information on moving around the screen
- among the different fields. There are three ways to move from field to
- field. These are the ENTER key, the TAB key and the cursor keys.
-
- Pressing the ENTER or TAB key will move to the next field. The up and
- down cursor keys behave a little differently, but experimentation will
- get you used to their actions. The left arrow key will move you to the
- field to the left or the previous field only if the cursor is at the
- leftmost position of the field. The right cursor behaves the same way
- at the rightmost position of the field.
-
- If you press ESCape from the Main Window, the program will terminate
- without saving any changes you may have made. Pressing ESCape from any of
- the subwindows will return you to the Main Window. Changes made to fields
- inside subwindows are "remembered" so ESCape does not abort changes made
- to fields in subwindows, however, the changes made to those fields will
- be lost if you press ESCape from the Main Window.
-
- Pressing Escape from the Main Window will bring up the Exit Window. From
- this window, you have the option of saving the configuration and exiting,
- exiting without saving the configuration or cancelling the exit and
- returning to the program.
-
- Most of the fields are pretty self-explanatory, but I will elaborate on
- some that might be misconstrued and can cause problems if this happens.
-
- The Path to CONFIG.RA is just that. The drive and directory where your
- CONFIG.RA resides, i.e. your main RA system directory.
-
- The Path to EXITINFO.BBS is where RAMail should look for this file. If
- you are running a single node system, the entry you make here should
- duplicate the Path to CONFIG.RA entry. If you run multiple nodes, this
- should be the path to the particular node directory that for which this
- configuration is to be used.
-
- The Path to RAUSER.DAT is where you want RAMail to create and look for
- the RAUSER.DAT data file. This can be anything you want.
-
- The Local Mail Directory is the drive and directory where RAMail should
- place .QWK packets when someone is logged on locally as well as where
- it should look for .REP files when logged on locally.
-
- The Required Conferences field allows you to specify which, if any, boards
- should be included in ALL users' mail packets. For example, if you want
- boards 1, 3, and 20 to included in all user's packets, you would enter:
- 1 3 20
- in this field. Leave it blank if you don't want to force any boards.
-
- The next five Limit fields allow you to specify the maximum number of
- messages that RAMail will place into a mail packet for each baud rate.
-
-
-
- The Default File EXT is what most of your downloadable BBS files use an
- extension. For example, if most of your files are compressed with PKZIP,
- the extension would be ZIP. This allows for users to flag files without
- having to specify an extension. This default extension will be used when
- the extension is omitted during flagging.
-
- The *-Empty-* Replacement field allows you to define what string to use
- for board names of inaccessible boards.
-
- In the Toggles subwindow, the FORCE reply from name will insert the user's
- logon name into the FROM field of all imported messages, regardless of
- what name they enter in their offline reader.
-
- The Check # of Messages toggle will allow you to tell RAMail whether or
- not it should determine what the highest numbered message is during the
- Conference Selection. If your users get an unusually long WAIT! prompt
- when selecting conferences, you may want to set this toggle to N.
-
- The Board Toggles will allow you to set the Lo Bit, Hi Bit and Tagline
- Stripper toggle for EACH message board.
-
- All of the rest of the toggle fields turn off various menu options on the
- RAMail menu.
-
- The Compression Method fields allow you to specify which compression
- program you want to use when compressing the mail packets. The first
- field, Compression Name, is the descriptive name of the method. Anything
- is allowable in this field.
-
- The Compression Program field is where you place the name, with extension,
- of the compression program. The path is not required, but the program
- MUST reside in a directory that is included in your DOS path.
-
- The Decompression Program entry follows the same rules as those of the
- Compression Program entry.
-
- The Compress Command Options allows you to specify command line parameters
- that the compression program will use when compressing files. This field
- is optional IF your compression program requires no paramaters other than
- the file names.
-
- The Decompress Command Options entry follows the same rules as those of
- the Compress Command Options entry.
-
- The Protocols subwindow contains fields that you must fill to define your
- transfer protocols. This will allow you to use any protocols you wish
- for transferring packets and files in RAMail as well as using custom
- command line parameters for these protocols.
-
- The Protocol Name field is for display purposes. Enter anything you want
- in this field.
-
- The Program Name is the name of the protocol program, with extension. The
- path is not reuqired (nor will it fit!), but the protocol program MUST
- reside in a directory that is listed in your DOS path.
-
- The Send Command String field allows you to enter the command line that
- will be passed to the protocol program. Three macro variables are avail-
- able for you to use. These are #P, which is the COM port number to use,
- #F, which is the file name that will be passed to the protocol, and #S,
- which is the speed (baud rate) that will be passed to the protocol.
-
-
-
- The Receive Command String field is for the command line that will be
- passed to the protocol used for receiving files. The same format applies
- as for the Send Command String field.
-
- You can define up to 4 protocols.
-
- If you have any problems with RAMail, feel free to call my BBS (number
- in the main DOC file) or to call my voice line at 505-589-0317. I have
- a 100% success rate at getting RAMail up and running on the people's
- systems who have called me voice for assistance.