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QUICK START for IBM OS/2 (32 bit)
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1) Put the binary ATP.EXE anywhere in your PATH. Put EMX.DLL in your
LIBPATH. (However, if you already have EMX.DLL installed, don't
install the enclosed version unless your currently installed EMX.DLL
is older than 0.9b).
2) If you wish to run ATP from the desktop, you should install
it as a full screen application. ATP will work in a window but it was
designed to be a full screen text mode application. See your OS/2
docs for info on how to set an application to full screen.
3) Set the environment variable ATP to point to the directory where you want
ATP message bases to reside (add this to your config.sys and reboot).
For example:
set ATP=c:\foobar\qwks
4) Put the configuration file `atprc' in your ATP directory pointed to
by the environment variable which you set in step 2 above. Edit
the `atprc' file to your personal taste and circumstances.
5) Put the taglines file "taglines.atp" in your ATP directory.
6) Edit the following entries in your atprc, and verify that the paths
which you enter *really* do exist. If you have a Perl interpreter
installed, you can use the script atpdiag.cmd to verify your setup.
(Perl for OS/2 is available via ftp from hobbes.nmsu.edu:/os2/unix).
a) user = Your Name
b) editor = your_editor
c) mail = C:\your\mail\path\for\new\QWK\packets
d) reply = C:\your\reply\path\for\outgoing\rep\packets
e) workpath = D:\some\directory\for\atp\temp\files
7) Enter `atp' at the prompt to start atp.
8) At ATP's prompt enter `load bbsname.qwk' to view your first packet.
(ATP searches the "mail" directory for QWK packets--this is the
directory you specified in step 5(c).
9) Type `help' for help, `q' for quit.
10) Read the docs! The files COPYING and COPYING.EMX in the bin
subdirectory contain license information for ATP and for EMX.DLL
respectively. There are various informational files in the docs
subdirectory, including plain text and PostScript versions of the
ATP user's manual.
OS/2 TIPS
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Please read the docs to get the most out of ATP. ATP also functions like
a mini-shell and allows you to enter many common system commands from
the command line. It is very powerful and allows you to navigate QWK
message bases with a couple key strokes. But you will have to read the
docs. See the ATP user's manual in the docs subdirectory of this archive.
Your choice of editor is important. Any editor designed for OS/2 should
be suitable, but be careful of certain editors ported to OS/2 from other
operating system. Many "ports" of Unix editors to OS/2 lack the ability
to reference a file by absolute path (including drive letter). This is
because those who "ported" these softwares overlooked the fact that OS/2
(and DOSish operating systems in general) require a drive letter in an
absolute path designator. One nice Unix style editor that does work well
with ATP for OS/2 is ELVIS 1.7.
Zip and Unzip seem to be the most popular archiver format used with QWK
packets. But note this: the 1989 version of PKzip for OS/2 has many known
bugs. Please don't use it. The freeware ZIPs from Info-Zip are *highly*
recommended instead. Find them available via ftp at:
hobbes.nmsu.edu:/os2/archiver/unz5*
hobbes.nmsu.edu:/os2/archiver/zip2*
The EMX.DLL enclosed with this version of ATP is version 0.9b. The latest
versions of EMX.DLL can always be obtained from:
ftp.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/systems/os2/gnu/emx+gcc/emxrt.zip
Would you like to run your OS/2 version of ATP under MSDOS? Then note
that the above archive also contains a VCPI based MSDOS extender EMX.EXE
which will allow your OS/2 ATP binary to run under MSDOS. But perhaps
more flexible is the RSX.EXE MSDOS extender which supports DPMI,
available from:
ftp.uni-bielefeld.de:/pub/systems/msdos/misc/rsx503rt.zip
A Perl interpreter for OS/2 can be obtained via ftp from:
hobbes.nmsu.edu:/os2/unix/perl*
The source code for ATP may be had via ftp from:
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/BBS/mail/atp-1.50-src.tar.gz