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- OMAILRUN Version 1.4
- Copyright 1987 Benny N. Ormson
-
-
- First things first:
-
- This is FREEWARE meaning you can have it free of charge. There
- is no fee required or requested. There is no gaurantee or
- warranty. Bugs and enhancement requests may be sent but there
- is no guarantee that they will be addressed. Use of the software
- is at your own risk. This program and documentation is copyrighted.
- All rights are reserved. This product may be given away freely but
- may NOT be sold or provided with any type of fee attached. This
- document must accompany any copies made.
-
- Configuration:
-
- This software has been tested on an IBM PC/XT running DOS 3.1
- and OPUS 1.03a. No other configurations have been tested.
-
-
- What is here:
-
- OMAILRUN.DOC - You're reading it.
- OMAILRUN.EXE - Executable file.
-
-
- What it does:
-
- There must be a dozen mail check utilities for FIDO and OPUS. I
- looked at at least a half a dozen myself. I couldn't find one
- which ran the way I wanted for my OPUS so I wrote this one. It
- is relatively simple and has limited options, but it is FAST.
-
- What it does in a nutshell is notify callers of unread mail they
- have waiting. Nothing more and nothing less. It has a few
- benefits over some of the other mail checkers such as:
-
- 1) Does NOT require a bunch of support files.
-
- 2) There is only one program to run instead of 2 or 3.
-
- 3) Since custom welcome .xBS files are not used by this
- program, they are still available for your use.
-
- 4) It is simple and easy to install and use.
-
- 5) Will not list mail for a caller that may be found in a
- message area which he/she does not have access to.
-
- 6) Messages to "sysop" are included in the display for user 0.
-
- 7) The gen option run may be executed at any time, even while
- OPUS is up, via another multitasking partition.
-
-
- Then again there are a few limitations also:
-
- 1) It is assumed that the SYSOP user.bbs record is record 0.
-
- 2) There is a maximum limit of 1000 users in your user.bbs file.
-
- 3) The maximum number of unread messages to these users is 4000.
-
-
-
-
- Installation instructions:
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- Copy OMAILRUN.EXE to your OPUS directory.
-
- Add two lines to your welcome.xBS file(s) as follows:
-
- ^OCOmailrun
- ^OSC:\Opus\Omailrun
-
- Add the OMAILRUN gen command to your OPUS batch file after
- your message area maintenence programs have executed. The
- format for this command is as follows:
-
- OMAILRUN GEN [-opt] user.bbs area# [area# ...]
-
- Example: OMAILRUN gen myusers.bbs 0 1 8 12 43
-
- Example: OMAILRUN gen -s myusers.bbs 0 1 8 12 43
-
- -opt - Options: -s Exclude messages to "SYSOP".
- gen - The generate option is selected.
- myusers.bbs - The name of your opus user.bbs file.
- Process message areas 0, 1, 8, 12, 43
-
-
- Method of operation:
-
- During you maintenece batch processing OMAILRUN is executed
- which scans your user.bbs and all selected message areas. It
- then creates or replaces the message base file OMAILRUN.MSG
- in your OPUS directory.
-
- When a callers comes online, your welcome bbs/gbs file will
- execute OMAILRUN. This execution reads the message base file
- OMAILRUN.MSG and creates/replaces a file called OMAILRUN.BBS.
- This file contains the display of waiting messages. Your
- welcome bbs/gbs file then hands off to OMAILRUN.BBS which
- results in the display of messages to the caller.
-
-
- Revision Log:
-
- 11-03-87 Version 1.1: Add ^A to "no mail" message.
-
- 12-11-87 Version 1.2: Add date and timestamp when mailrun was done.
- Add -s option to exclude "sysop" messages.
-
- 12-25-87 Version 1.3: Remove restriction that message directory be
- on the default drive.
-
- 01-09-88 Version 1.4: Eliminate compiler warning messages at /W3 and
- reduce optimization level to avoid some
- possible problems which have been reported with
- large user.bbs files.
-
-
- Benny N. Ormson
- Air Traffic Control BBS - Node 147/16
- 405-752-9760
-