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The Blue Wave Mail Door/Maximus
v3.01
INSTALLATION/UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS
**** This version of The Blue Wave Mail Door has been shipped with a
file called BWDOOR.USE. This is a text file tutorial that can be
put online for users to download. A full explanation of the use of
The Blue Wave Mail Door is contained within this file, along with
tips, tricks, and hints on effective usage.
NEW INSTALLATIONS
-----------------
The procedure for new installations is outlined in BWMAIL.DOC, enclosed
with this archive.
UPGRADING FROM V3.00 for OS/2 to V3.01
--------------------------------------
Upgrading an already-installed OS/2 Blue Wave Mail Door (v3.00) is simple.
Just unpack BWMAIL.ZIP to your mail door's directory, overwriting all files
contained in the mail door directory with the new files contained in the
BWMAIL.ZIP archive.
CHANGING FROM V3.00 or V3.01 for DOS to V3.01 for OS/2
------------------------------------------------------
If you have already installed v3.0x of The Blue Wave Offline Mail Door
for Maximus (DOS), installation is a snap. Simply copy the following
files from BWMAIL.ZIP into your current door directory:
BWMAIL.EXE
BWMAIL.OVR
BWUTILS.EXE
The configuration files and Blue Wave user list files are the same format
as the DOS version. After you have copied the above files, you will need
to edit the Maximus menu(s) which call The Blue Wave Mail Door in order
to pass command line parameters from Maximus to the mail door. Please
see "INSTALLING THE BLUE WAVE MAIL DOOR INTO MAXIMUS" in BWMAIL.DOC if
you need information on how to accomplish this task.
1) Create a file called BWDOOR.CMD in the \MAX\BLUEWAVE Directory.
The contents of this file should be as follows:
@ECHO OFF
C:
CD \MAX\BLUEWAVE
BWMAIL %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
2) To get Maximus to supply the user with a menu item to access The
Blue Wave Mail Door, you will need to edit your MENUS.CTL file
(in your \MAX directory). You can place the menu item on any
system menu you choose. Suggested menus are the MAIN menu and
the MESSAGE menu. Below is a menu entry that can be used for
both single and multi-line systems. THE ENTRIES IN MENUS.CTL ARE
CASE-SENSITIVE. ENTER THE INFORMATION EXACTLY AS SHOWN!
ReRead Xtern_DOS C:\MAX\BLUEWAVE\BWDOOR.CMD_/p%P_/t%k Twit "Blue Wave"
3) You will need to replace your DOS archivers with archivers that will
run in an OS/2 native session. The below excerpt is taken from
BWMAIL.DOC:
The following examples have been tested with their
respective archivers and work well. It should be noted that
PKZIP and PKUNZIP v1.02 for OS/2 Protected Mode (16-bit) are
only capable of creating and decompressing v1.10 ZIP-compat.
files. Therefore, we recommend against using this version
with The Blue Wave Mail Door.
The InfoZip project's ZIP and UNZIP are quirky in that ZIP
must have the "-j" command line parameter to supress the
storage of path names in the ZIP archive. If you fail to
include the "-j" command line parameter, your users will
have trouble when using The Blue Wave Offline Mail Reader
to read their mail packets. The UNZIP program is also not
able to decompress files to a directory given on a command
line. For this reason, the mail door CHANGES to the \WORK
directory before calling all decompression programs. For
UNZIP.EXE to work correctly, you must leave off the "@I"
parameter. An example is shown below.
ZIP.EXE -j @F @I InfoZip Compression Command
UNZIP.EXE @F InfoZip Decompression Command
LH.EXE a @F @I LHarc/2 Compression Command
LH.EXE e @F @I LHarc/2 Decompression Command
4) Oh, and good luck/2!