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- SkyTick is FreeWare, this means that you can use it for ever without
- paying a penny. :-)
-
-
- INTRODUCTION
- ============
-
- ** NOTE : I HATE to write docs.
-
- Hello folks!! After SkyLog, SkyList, SkyFreq, SkyLast, SkyWho, SkyUpdate and
- other utils, HERE IT IS : SkyTick, the most powerfull Tick program for Amiga.
-
- SkyTick has been developed since I found CS Tick by Calibre Systems a
- VERY BAD program, FULL of bugs and it creates non-standard .TIC.
-
- SkyTick is based upon the sources of AmigaTick by my great friend Russel
- Miranda (that is at college now :-)
-
- Some features of SkyTick :
-
- * FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAST
- * Very verbose log
- * You can send files in Hold/Crash/Direct for each node
- * Automatically uploads files to DLG file areas
- * Powerful LIST command that let you create nice announcement message.
- * Can write announcements directly to message, w/o the use of the ugly
- SendMsg by TPT.
- * Very powerfull Hatch mode, that let you upload the files to DLG file area
- * Purge mode that automatically deletes sent files and tics
- * Compatible with DLG Areafix by Nick Lello
- * Upload function from CLI
-
- SkyTick - as any Tick alike program - let you send files around, each files
- is sent with a file tkxxxxxxx.TIC that contains some info about the files
- (CRC, Description, Origin, Path, etc etc), and let the Tick of another node
- to automatically insert the files in his file areas.
-
- There a lot of file network around, the best for Amiga is SAN (Sky Amiga
- Network), created and found by myself and it is spread all over the world.
-
- BTW, let's look at the switches :
-
- SkyTick v2.00 - by Luca Spada '91-92 - Feb 10 1992 14:56:11 - FreeWare
- The FAST DLG Professional Tick Processor
-
- Usage:
- 1> SkyTick [-C<Path>] [-F<Filename>] [-R<Filename] [-P<Path>] [-A<Area>]
- [-U<Dlg area>] [-D<Description>] [-M<Area number>] [-O<From>]
- [-T<To>] [-S<Subject>] [-X<Filename>] [-Z<Split>]
- <HATCH> <TICK> <PURGE> <WRITE>
-
- [-C<Path>] Search for config info in <Path>
-
- HATCH mode parameters :
- [-F<Filename>] Filename to hatch
- [-R<Filename>] Filename to replace
- [-P<Path>] Path to <Filename>
- [-A<Area>] Area TAG ("NONE" to just upload a file)
- [-U<Dlg area>] Upload file to DLG file area <Dlg area>
- [-D<Description>] Description of the file :-)
-
- WRITE mode parameters :
- [-M<Area number>] Message area number to post announcement
- [-O<From>] From: field
- [-T<To>] To: field
- [-S<Subject>] Subj: field
- [-Z<Split>] Max. number of lines in message
- [-X<Filename>] Body text to insert in announcement
-
- <HATCH> Hatch file
- <TICK> Process inbound tics
- <PURGE> Purge hold directory
- <WRITE> Write an announcement in a message area
-
-
- Basically SkyTick operates in 4 modes :
-
- <HATCH> Mode -> Let you insert a file in the network, this can be made in
- interactive mode (if no parameters are given), or line
- parameters.
-
- <TICK> Mode -> Process inbound tics (no parameters are need)
-
- <PURGE> Mode -> Clean up the HOLD directory (no parameters are need)
-
- <WRITE> Mode -> Write a message in a message area, usefull to place file
- accouncements (generated with the LIST keyword).
-
- Examples :
-
- 1> SkyTick HATCH
-
- You will be asked to enter AreaTag, filename, path, description, etc...
-
- 1> SkyTick -Fpippo.lha -Pram: -ASKYUTILS -U10 "-DEmulate a SUN workstation on your Amiga!" HATCH
-
- SkyTick will hatch file pippo.lha in area SkyUtils and upload it in DLG file area 10
-
- 1> SkyTick PURGE
-
- Clean-up sent files in HOLD directory
-
- 1> SkyTick TICK
-
- Process inbound Ticks
-
- 1> SkyTick -M11 "-OThe Announcer" "-TAll freaks" "-SNew files!" -Z50 -xram:news.txt WRITE
-
- Will place text file news.txt in messages of max. 50 lines in message area 11
-
-
- CONFIG FILE
- ===========
-
- SkyTick will search for a default Tick.CFG in MAIL:, BTW you can change the
- search path by -C paramater, sample config file :
-
- ---------------------------[ Sample Tick.CFG ]----------------------
-
- ; <*> SkyTick v2.00 sample configuration file <*>
-
-
- ; Your address
- HERE 2:331/106
-
- ; Where to search for inbound *.TIC
- IN dh2:dlg/fls/in/
-
- ; Where to place the *.FLO and *.HLO
- OUT dh2:dlg/fls/out/
-
- : Where to keep the *.TIC and files
- HOLD dh2:dlg/fls/hold/
-
- ; Where to move deleted files (requires DLG Pro)
- DELPATH FILE:KilledFiles/
-
- ; Turn off the Replace feature (SkyTick won't delete old files)
- ; Default is ENABLED
- ; NOREPLACE
-
- ; Where put bad files / TICs
- BAD bbs:badtic/
-
- ; This file stores all CRCs and filenames processed in order to stop file dupes
- ; if you want to turn off dupes checking comment out this line
- DUP bbs:SkyTick.DUP
-
- CHECK_CRC ; Turns on the automatic CRC checking.
-
- ; Pathname to the log file
- LOGFILE bbs:Tick.LOG
-
-
- ; This is for message annuncements...
- ; LIST <match> <filename> <string>
- ;
- ; Tokens available for <string>:
- ; \n - Put a line feed (C style)
- ; %n - Put filename
- ; %l - Put file lenght
- ; %d - Put file description
- ; %o - Put file origin
- ; %a - Put AreaTag
- ; %t - Put file date
- ; %c - Put file CRC
- LIST * txt:SAN.TXT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n Nome file : %n\n Lunghezza : %l\n Descrizione : %d\n Ricevuto da : %o - %t\n\n
- LIST SKYBETA sys:text/Beta.TXT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n Nome file : %n\n Lunghezza : %l\n Descrizione : %d\n\n
- LIST DLGNEWS sys:text/Dlgnews.TXT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n Nome file : %n\n Lunghezza : %l\n Descrizione : %d\n\n
- LIST SKY* sys:text/SANNews.TXT \n Area: %a - Filename: %n (%l bytes) - Origin: %o\n Description: %d\n
- LIST SKY* sys:text/AmigaNews.TXT \n Area: %a - Filename: %n (%l bytes) - Origin: %o\n Description: %d\n
-
-
- ; The Passwords
- PASSWORD 2:331/106.5 xxxxx
- PASSWORD 2:302/562 xxxxx
-
- ; This is area SKYCOMMS and all files will be uploaded to DLG file area 5
- FILEECHO SKYCOMMS #5
-
- ; Set Amiga style echo (no checking of illegal characters in filenames)
- TYPE AMIGA
-
- ; Set FREE flag for this files
- FREE
-
- ; Put the files in hold for this node (only for this area!!)
- TO 2:331/315 *H
-
- ; Put the files in crash for this node
- TO 2:332/604 *C
-
- ; Put the files in Direct for this node
- TO 2:300/681 *D
-
- ; Valid value are :
- ; *C -> Crash
- ; *H -> Hold
- ; *D -> Direct
- ; Default is Direct
-
- TO 2:310/21 *H
- TO 2:332/405 *H
- TO 2:203/507 *H
- TO 2:331/106.9 *H
- TO 2:331/106.2 *H
- TO 2:263/198 *H
- TO 2:331/208 *H
- TO 2:245/40 *H
- TO 2:332/110 *H
- TO 2:320/100 *H
-
-
- FILEECHO SKYUNET #1
-
- ; Set Ms-Dos style echo (turns on checking of illegal characters in filenames)
- ; Default
- TYPE MSDOS
-
- ; Executes "c:rx rexx:myscript %a %n "%d" %c" each time a file is
- ; received/hatched in this area. Available tokens are :
- ; %a - Areatag
- ; %n - Filename
- ; %t - Time & date the file was received
- ; %l - File lenght
- ; %c - File CRC
- ; %d - File Description
- ; %z - File Origin (zone)
- ; %f - File Origin (net)
- ; %q - File Origin (node)
- ; %p - File Origin (point)
- COMMAND c:rx rexx:myscript %a %n "%d" %c
-
- FREE
- TO 2:332/110 *H
- TO 2:331/315 *H
- TO 2:332/604 *H
- TO 2:300/681 *H
- TO 2:310/21 *H
- TO 2:332/405 *H
- TO 2:203/507 *H
- TO 2:331/208 *H
- TO 2:245/40 *H
- TO 2:320/100 *H
-
-
- FILEECHO SKYGAMES #6
- TO 2:332/110 *H
- TO 2:331/315 *H
- TO 2:332/604 *H
- TO 2:300/681 *H
- TO 2:310/21 *H
- TO 2:332/405 *H
- TO 2:203/507 *H
- TO 2:263/198 *H
- TO 2:331/208 *H
- TO 2:245/40 *H
- TO 2:320/100 *H
-
-
- FILEECHO SKYUTILS #1
- FREE
- TO 2:332/110 *H
- TO 2:331/315 *H
- TO 2:332/604 *H
- TO 2:300/681 *H
- TO 2:310/21 *H
- TO 2:332/405 *H
- TO 2:203/507 *H
- TO 2:263/198 *H
- TO 2:331/208 *H
- TO 2:245/40 *H
- TO 2:320/100 *H
-
-
- FILEECHO SKYDLG #40
- TO 2:332/110 *H
- TO 2:331/315 *H
- TO 2:332/604 *H
- TO 2:300/681 *H
- TO 2:310/21 *H
- TO 2:203/507 *H
- TO 2:263/198 *H
- TO 2:331/208 *H
- TO 2:245/40 *H
- TO 2:320/100 *H
-
-
- FILEECHO SKYPROGS #2
- TO 2:332/110 *H
- TO 2:331/315 *H
- TO 2:332/604 *H
- TO 2:300/681 *H
- TO 2:310/21 *H
- TO 2:332/405 *H
- TO 2:203/507 *H
- TO 2:263/198 *H
- TO 2:331/208 *H
- TO 2:245/40 *H
- TO 2:320/100 *H
-
-
- FILEECHO SKYINFO #32
- TO 2:331/315 *H
- TO 2:332/604 *H
- TO 2:332/110 *H
- TO 2:300/681 *H
- TO 2:310/21 *H
- TO 2:332/405 *H
- TO 2:203/507 *H
- TO 2:263/198 *H
- TO 2:331/208 *H
- TO 2:245/40 *H
- TO 2:320/100 *H
-
-
- FILEECHO SKYMOD #9
- TO 2:331/315 *H
- TO 2:332/604 *H
- TO 2:300/681 *H
- TO 2:310/21 *H
- TO 2:332/110 *H
- TO 2:203/507 *H
- TO 2:263/198 *H
- TO 2:331/208 *H
- TO 2:245/40 *H
- TO 2:320/100 *H
-
-
- FILEECHO SKYGIF #30
- TO 2:331/315 *H
- TO 2:332/604 *H
- TO 2:300/681 *H
- TO 2:310/21 *H
- TO 2:331/110 *H
- TO 2:332/110 *H
- TO 2:203/507 *H
- TO 2:320/100 *H
- TO 2:263/198 *H
- TO 2:331/208 *H
- TO 2:245/40 *H
-
-
- FILEECHO SKYTEXT #31
- COMMAND c:rx rexx:upload %a %n "%d" %c %z:%f/%q.%p
- TO 2:331/315 *H
- TO 2:332/604 *H
- TO 2:300/681 *H
- TO 2:310/21 *H
- TO 2:332/110 *H
- TO 2:320/100 *H
- TO 2:332/405 *H
- TO 2:203/507 *H
- TO 2:263/198 *H
- TO 2:331/208 *H
- TO 2:245/40 *H
-
-
- ; This is area ADSUTILS and all files will be placed in tick:adsstuff and of course
- ; not uploaded in any dlg file area.
- ; In this area the filenames will NOT be checked. (Amiga RULEZ!!)
-
- FILEECHO ADSUTILS tick:adsstuff/
- TYPE AMIGA
- FREE
- TO 2:331/315 *C
- TO 2:332/604 *D
- TO 2:300/681 *H
- TO 2:331/208 *H
- TO 2:310/21 *H
- TO 2:331/106.99 *H
-
-
- -----------------------------------[ END ]-----------------------------------
-
-
- Description of the LIST command :
-
- LIST <AreaTag Matching> <Pathname> <Template>
-
- Example :
-
- LIST * txt:SAN.TXT \n\n Nome file : %n\n Lunghezza : %l\n Descrizione : %d\n Ricevuto da : %o - %t\n\n
-
- This will match all areatag!
-
- Token available :
-
- \n - Put a line feed (C style)
- %n - Put filename
- %l - Put file lenght
- %d - Put file description
- %o - Put file origin
- %a - Put AreaTag
- %t - Put file date
- %c - Put file CRC
-
-
- Ok folks, the doc ends here! I think you are smart enough to use SkyTick :-)
-
- For Bug reports, suggestions etc etc :
-
- Luca Spada (Sky Luke), Sysop of:
-
- 2:331/106 -> Sky Link, 1445 Megs online for Amiga, running under DLG Pro,
- 68030/68882 33mhz and 9Megs of memory.
- Line 1: +39/332/706469 HST/v32bis v42bis
-
- 2:331/110 -> Db-Line, 676 Megs online for Ms-DOS, running under Maximus 2.0
- shit 386SX 20mhz :-)
- Line 1: +39/332/767277 HST/v32 v42bis
-
- UUCP : skyluke@skylink.sublink.org
- or : ..rutgers!sublink!skylink!skyluke
-
- F'Req DLGNEWS from Sky Link in order to have a list of latest hot DLG
- utilities!
-
- Bye, Sky Luke
- (uucp : skyluke@skylink.sublink.org)
-
-
-