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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. About PM FUSL/2 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ -------------------------------- COPYRIGHT -------------------------------- You can use PM FUSL/2 (Noncommercial version) any way you like, as long as you use it in a noncommercial enviroment. I only guarantee that this program uses some space on your harddisk and in your computers memory. -------------------------------- CREDITS -------------------------------- Many thanks to all FUSL users especially the registered ones <grin> for all the ideas and bug reporting! Thanks to Urban Oettli for some really tricky suggestions!!! Glorious Betatesters Schlagi: "Wann kann mir das Ding die Kaffeemaschine einschalten?" - Binkley, Maximus support. Erich: "Hannes, bei mir macht er nicht, tut er nicht..." Eno: "Gibt's einen neuen Fusl?" -------------------------------- CONTACT THE AUTHOR AT -------------------------------- Fidonet : 2:310/3.90 or 2:310/90.32 Compuserve: 76631,1446 -------------------------------- PURPOSE OF FUSL -------------------------------- The main reason why FUSL was born was the matter that I find it quite annoying to search through kilobytes of filelistings to get the new files there. The only indication I had was the datestamp of the files. Well, we all know the matter that there might be some files NEW in the different listings which haven't been there before but didn't get a datestamp. I found it now interesting to know what really happend in the listing since my last request. With FUSL now you can compair two filelistings for differences, request from in the listing, and send a thanx msg to the nodes. It seems to me that FUSL is one of the first anti D'Bridge or anti-request processor tools because now you can also bother these sysops with these very important msg's;-) -------------------------------- WHAT FUSL NEEDS -------------------------------- Γûá 386DX or better Γûá OS/2 2.1 or above -------------------------------- WHAT IS RECOMMENDED -------------------------------- Γûá FrontDoor, Intermail, MainDoor or Binkley as mailer Γûá version 7 compiled nodelist (recommended!) Γûá 1, better 2 filelistings Γûá A modem;-) -------------------------------- GENERAL -------------------------------- FUSL has some capabilities which you can't change. Here I've listed them - hope I did not forget some:-) Γûá The configuration files 'PMFUSL.SYS', 'PMFUSL.MSG', 'PMFUSL.LST', 'PMFUSL.INI' and 'PMFUSL.DSC' are expected to be found in the same directory as PMFUSL.EXE resides. Γûá When a SET TEMP= or SET TMP= is found in the environment, FUSL will use this defined path for creating its temporary files too. Γûá Allthough this thing is called Frontdoor's... you can use it with Intermail, Maindoor and Binkley environment too!! Γûá The 'file requests' which FUSL generates are kept very common (*.msg in netmail directory, or *.REQ, *.?LO in outbound direcory) so maybe other mailers could work with PM FUSL/2 as well. Γûá FUSL will save the path to the last directory you were looking at a filelist. CAUTION: The DOS and OS/2 versions are NOT fully compatible! ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. Viewing a List ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Viewing a Filelist For the most PM FUSL/2 users this will be the main screen:-) Here you are browsing a filelist, looking for files you'd like to request. Press space or double click at a file you like to request. PM FUSL/2 will add the selected item to the request buffer and display the selected item in an alternate colour. If a file is allready in your request buffer, PM FUSL/2 will ask you for removing it from the buffer. If you have enabled the Files LookUp feature in setup (Setup/Files LookUp), PM FUSL/2 will first scan the defined filelist or maxfiles.idx for the tagged file. So you get the chance not to request the file, when you allready have it:-) ToolBar Here some of the most important functions are available. Status Window You can find the status window at the bottom of the list window. In this window you are shown some informations about the current open filelist. Box 1 short help of the current menu or toolbar button action. Disappears after three seconds. Box 2 alias name of list if defined in Setup/ Filelists or filename of the list. Box 3 Filedate of the list. Box 4 ammount of current requested files in buffer. Box 5 ammount of lines filterd. Box 6 ammount of lines not shown because of smart reading. (See: Request/Read Parameters/Smart) Valid keys Cursor down selection bar down one line Cursor up selection bar up one line Page down Page up Home goto beginning of the list. End goto end of the list. Space select file under selection bar for request. Backspace displays area selection list. Tab jump forward to next filearea. Shift-Tab jump back one filearea. All defined hotkeys Context Menu Find Shortcut: CTRL-F SEE: Find Define Areaseperator Shortcut: CTRL-D SEE: Define Areaseperators List Areas selection list of all File-Areas found in this filelist. SEE: List Areas Write Req SEE: Request/Write Req Scan Lists SEE: Request/Scan Lists Edit Buffer SEE: Edit/Edit Buffer Close List Close current open filelist. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.1. Find ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Finds strings in current open filelist. A dialog window similar to Request/Scan Lists Goto jumps to the position of the tagged file in the filelist. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.2. Define Areaseperator ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Defines an Areaseperator In a filelist the files are commonly grouped in so called 'file-areas'. So a user can find the file he is looking for more easily. An AreaSeperator is used to make it easy to move from one group to another or display a selection list of all 'File Areas' in the list. When you select 'Define Areaseparator' the line under the selection bar is used as a mark to recognize the 'File-Areas' in the filelist. With the following options you can select what line PM FUSL/2 should take as a description for the area (will shown when displaying an 'Areas List') and the length of characters to use for the separator. Options Line next sep. line next the selection bar (seperator) is used for area description. Line before sep. line before the selection bar (seperator) is used for area description. Seperator line the line under the selection bar is used for area description. CAUTION: Since this line would obviously change for each area found, the first characters in line MUST NOT change. eg.: [ Area 1: OS/2 Apps ] In this case you can use the line as a seperator AND description with the option 'Lenght of seperator: 1. Start of sep. defines where to start the definition of the seperator. Length of sep. defines length of characters from the left to the right, beginning at 'Start of Seperator' to use for the seperator. Example: ΓòôΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓòÑΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇ <-- Sep 1 ΓòæArea1 Γòæ Telekom <-- Description ΓòÖΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓò¿ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇ <-- Sep 2 'Sep 1' as seperator use 'Line next seperator'. 'Sep 2' as seperator use 'Line before seperator'. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.3. List Areas ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Lists all 'File Areas' found in the filelist. See: Define Areaseperator for more information about Area Seperartors. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. Main Menu ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Here we have the MainMenu ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3.1. About ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Displays some informations about PM FUSL/2 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3.2. OS Shell ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Opens an OS/2 shell. CAUTION: This shell will be closed without any questions, when exiting PM FUSL/2! ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3.3. Information ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Pops up a window with your system ressources and system information ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3.4. Quit ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Quits the PM FUSL/2 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. Setup ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Setup PM FUSL/2 Γûá Mailer Γûá RegKey Γûá Name Γûá Addres Γûá Baud Γûá Systempath Γûá Netmailpath Γûá Nodelist Γûá Filesbbs Γûá Inbound DIR Γûá more... Γûá Semaphores Γûá Filelists Γûá Binkley & Maximus Setup Γûá Packers Γûá Filters Γûá Files LookUp ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1. Setup-Mailer ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Valid entries: Γûá Frontdoor Γûá Intermail Γûá MainDoor Γûá Binkley When Frontdoor, Intermail or MainDoor is selected FUSL needs no further information. If you use Binkley as a mailer you should check the Binkley & Maximus Setup Also a batch file called rescan.cmd can be useful for Binkley users. This batch is executed after genereating a request message and direct write is not selected in Binkley & Maximus Setup. Rescan.cmd is then needed to generated the *.REQ *.CLO etc. files in your outbound directory. Rescan.cmd is also executed, when you like to send thanks messages to avoid calling a node more than once. (First when the *.REQ *.CLO files force Binkley to call out and second after the netmail directory is rescanned and the thanks message is found). Examples for rescan.cmd: QMAIL PACK or SQUISH SQUASH ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.2. RegKey ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ If you are a registered user, enter your key here. This version of PM FUSL/2 should work with the same key used in the DOS version FUSL II. Older keys does not work - Please contact me! ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.3. Name ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ SysOp's first and lastname (just as it appears in the nodelist) ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.4. Address ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Your Fidonet 4-D Address Example: 2:310/3.90 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.5. Baud ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Generally defines the transferrates of your modem. This is used to calculate the total transfer time of a request. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.6. Systempath ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Path to your mailers system directory. If no entry in the Semaphore field, PM FUSL/2 uses this path for semaphores. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.7. Netmailpath ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Path to your netmail directory. Fusl will put the file-request messages in this directory. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.8. Nodelist ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Path to your nodelist - Version 7 Version 7 nodelist is an index file format for the 'compiled' nodelists. There should be three files in the path to your 'nodelist': NODEX.NDX, SYSOP.NDX, NODEX.DAT. You can generate a version 7 nodelist with the FASTLST nodelist compiler. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.9. Filesbbs ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Requiers Path AND Filename This is needed for the MainTain feature of PM FUSL/2. PATH files will be moved to this path FILENAME description of files will be put in FILENAME. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.10. Inbound DIR ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Path to your inbound directory. (That's where the files arrive:-) This parameter is needed for the MainTain feature of PM FUSL/2. Files will be moved from this directory to Filesbbs. You can define up to three more inbound directories using the more... button. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.11. More Inbound ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Lets you define three more inbound directories, if one is not enough. Some mailers are able to handle more than one inbound directory. The use different inbounds for password protected mail sessions etc. See also: Inbound DIR . ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.12. Semaphore ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Path to your semaphore directory. PM FUSL/2 will create his 'rescan' files, which forces the mailer to rescan the netmail direcory for new messages, in this path. Binkley users has to 'rescan' with the rescan.cmd to generate the correct *.req message in the outbound area. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.13. Filelists ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Defines Filelist Lets you store some information for each filelist, that makes life more easy. When you request a file from a defined filelist, you need not care about the address or name of the node to request from becaus PM FUSL/2 allready 'knows' these things. Parameters: Γûá FileList Γûá Alias Γûá Address Γûá Pwd Γûá CPS Γûá OpenName Γûá Scan Γûá ThxMsg ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.13.1. Alias List ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Alias list. In this list you can see all the filelist you have set up. You can see here what you have entered into the Alias field. Select a list here to edit it. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.13.2. FileList ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Path AND Filename of a filelist. See AddSel for simply adding a list. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.13.3. Alias ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Define an Alias name for a filelist. This is the text you'll see in a selection window, whenever you open a filelist. (See: Request/File List ) In most cases this would be the SysOp's name. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.13.4. Address ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Fidonet 4-D address associated with this list. PM FUSL/2 tries to evaluate the address from the filename you have specified. The first 4 characters of the filename are treated as the net and the second 4 characters are treated as the node address. For zone PM FUSL/2 inserts 'your' zone to complete the address. Example: 03100003.ARJ -> 2:310/3 03160747.LZH -> 2:316/747 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.13.5. Pwd ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Password associated with this list. Some fidonet systems requires a password to request from. Here you have the possibility to enter a password for this filelist. Whenever you request a file from this list, this password will be put automatically in the request message. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.13.6. CPS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Enter a CPS rate. This overrides the baudrate which you have defined in Setup/Baud for this list. PM FUSL/2 can give you an idea, about how long your request will last. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.13.7. Scan ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Toggle scan. With scan set, a filelist is automatically selected when you perform a Request/ Scan Lists. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.13.8. ThxMsg ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Thanks-for-the-request message. With ThxMsg set, PM FUSL/2 sends a 'Thanx' message with each request message to this node. Note: Overrides MsgStatus/Thx.Msg To send a send message you need a file called 'PMFUSL.MSG' in the same directory as PMFUSL.EXE. Example for PMFUSL.MSG: Hello %TOfirstNAME% %TOlastNAME% (%TONODE%)! Thanks for all the files:-) %FROMfirstNAME% %FROMlastNAME%, (%FROMNODE%) ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.13.9. Master ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ NOT YET IMPLEMENTED!!! ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.13.10. New ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Add a new filelist. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.13.11. Del ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Deletes a filelist. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.13.12. AddSel ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Add a new filelist. Lets you select path and filename with a dialog box. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.13.13. OpenName ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Enter a filename To avoid the dialog window when PM FUSL/2 dearcs more than one filelists from an archive. The filename entered here, will be opened by default. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.14. Binkley & Maximus Setup ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Binkley & Maximus Setup Binkley Setup These items only are available when Binkley is selected as mailer. When you check direct request (don't generate netmail) you have to specify Outbound too. If checked, PM FUSL/2 then generates the *.REQ and *.?LO files in your defined Outbound directory. If not checked, PM FUSL/2 generates *.msg request message(s) in the netmail directory and uses the Rescan.cmd to generate the required *.REQ, *.?LO files. See also: Setup/Mailer Maximus Setup This parameters are used by Setup/Files LookUp and Files Management ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.15. Packers ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Define packers. Since the filelists PM FUSL/2 has to handle with, may be in compressed form, PM FUSL/2 has to know how to unpack them. Here you can define the uncompression programms for the most common file compressors. Whenever you select a filelist, which has one of the extensions listed, PM FUSL/2 takes the de-compression programm you have defined to unpack the list. PM FUSL/2 first looks into the archive, if it can find a 'signature' to determine the correct program for unpacking. Only if such a 'signature' can not be found, PM FUSL/2 checks the extension of the archive. PM FUSL/2 uses the SET TEMP, or SET TMP environment variable to locate, where to put the temporary directory with the uncompressed files. Be sure to specify the filename AND the extension eg.: (lha.exe). Note: If there is more than one file in the archive, PM FUSL/2 will ask you, which one you would like to open. checkbox DOS: Check the checkbox DOS to tell PM FUSL/2 that you would prefer using the DOS version to uncompress. Show decomp...: when this item is checked, you can watch the unarchiver working:-) This might be useful, if you are not quite sure what's wrong, when you get a PM FUSL/2 error message. I prefer it unchecked:-) ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.16. Filters ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Define File - Filters Here you can define up to ten file filters. These filters are used to supress the files you never wants to request. When PM FUSL/2 reads a filelist and indicates a file which extension is in the filters, it will not display the file. In my case I don't want to see *.GIF, *.ANS, *.SDN, *.WMF etc. You have the possibility to enable/disable filtering with Request/Read Parameters/ Filters As you can see above, the extension of the files are used for filters. So you have to specify the extensions of the files you don't want to see. Note: Only specify the extension without the '.' ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.17. Files LookUp ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Setup File LookUp. When enabled, each time you select a file to request, PM FUSL/2 will search it in the defined maxfiles.idx or in the defined filelist. This gives you a chance not to request a file you allready have:-) When maxfiles.idx is defined and the requested file is found there, PM FUSL/2 will open (F)AREA.DAT to get further information of the requested file. SEE: Binkley & Maximus Setup Parameters Enable MaxFiles.idx lookup: enable/disable maxfiles.idx scanning. Enable Filelist lookup enable/disable scanning a defined filelist. Filelist Path and filename of a filelist to scan. You can specify compressed filelists too. The lists should have the format: FileName FileSize FileDate Description Check filename only(no extension) will check the filename only without using the file extension. FILENAME.ZIP ---> FILENAME ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5. Request ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ All you need to request files from a filelist ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.1. File List ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Displays a list of FileLists to request files from. This list contains the filelists you have set up in the Setup/Filelists menu. The filelists may be compressed. Meanings of the icons in list: Compressed List. Uncompressed List. List not found. Other: Let's you open any filelist. Sort Lists: Sorts file lists displayed alphabetically. Note: If the menu entry is grayed, then PM FUSL/2 is currently reading a list. You have to wait, till PM FUSL/2 has finished reading the list. You can stop reading by pressing the "ESC" key. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.2. Compare Lists ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Compares two filelists for differences. You have a filelist from a node. A week later you get another filelist from this node. You now wants to know the NEW files of this node. So you compare the lists against each other. Otherwise it would take you a lot of time to find all the new files in the new list. The NEWFILES list which is available from many nodes, does not help you much, because there are only the files listed, which have a datestamp from the last week or 14 days. But there may be some 'new' files with an older datestamp. These files would not be included in the NEWFILES list. PM FUSL/2 finds them all and generates a *.DIF with all the differences listed. Compare is done in its own thread, so that you can continue using PM FUSL/2 while two lists are compared. CAUTION: Better not select filelists from different nodes! There will be too many differences and the performance of PM FUSL/2 and OS/2 will decrease to a very low extent. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.2.1. Old List ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Path and filename of the OLD-List (enter with button) ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.2.2. New List ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Path and filename of the NEW-List (enter with button) ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.2.3. Start compare ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Starts the compare thread. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.2.4. Dif Name ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Path and filename of the dif file. filename defaults to ListPATH\ListNAME.DIF ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.2.5. Replace OLD ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Replaces the OLD-Filelist with the new one. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.3. Get From ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Specify System to request files from. Address: Enter a 4-D Fidonet address. You only need to specify the node (eg: 3) and then press the button 'Find'. PM FUSL/2 will lookup in the version 7 nodelist (SEE: Setup/Nodelist) and find all matching nodes in your Zone:Net. You may also specify a wildcard '?' for node and/or point. 2:310/? finds all nodes in net 2:310 2:310/3.? finds all points of 2:310/3 2:310/?.? finds all points and nodes in net 2:310 Name: Enter the SysOp's name - or specify the first characters (eg.: schlag) and PM FUSL/2 will find all matching entries in the version 7 nodelist (SEE: Setup/Nodelist) and lets you select the one you like. Find Button: This button is used to look up the version 7 nodelist (SEE: Setup/Nodelist). A selection list pops up, and lets you select the system you like to request from. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.4. Write Req ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Generate Request. Here you generate your requests:-) You are shown an overview of all tagged files in request buffer and how many are assigned to a specific node. If the selected system drop down list contains 'No System', you have not assigned a node address to the tagged file and PM FUSL/2 does not know to request the file from. Please use Edit Buffer to enter the missing parameters. Req All: Generates request messages for all tagged files in request buffer. This means, that there might be written several messages to several nodes. Req selected: requests only the files from the slected system. Edit: See Edit/Edit Buffer ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.5. Scan Lists ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Scan Filelists for a string. You can search all your filelists you have set up in Setup/Filelists for a string. This scanning will be done in an own thread, so that you can continue working with PM FUSL/2. In the output window you can select files by double click left mouse button for requesting. Scanning will find the Search string in a 'file block'. A 'file block' consists of one ore more description lines. If a Search string is found in a 'file block' the whole block will be shown in the output window. CAUTION: This means, that PM FUSL/2 has to decide which line includes a filename to request. SEE: Edit/Scan Lists how requestable files are recognized. In the Search string textbox you can enter the string(s) to find. You can specify more then one search string an connect them with the operators & (AND) or | (OR). With &(AND) specified a line must include all search strings to be found be PMFUSL. With | (OR) specified each line is found which has one of the search strings included. deskjet & hp & driver seagate | conner | digital CAUTION: Notice that there have to be spaces as shown in the example above. Options: Exact: search for an 'exact' match of the string you entered. Alphanum: reduces string to alphanumerical characters. eg.: Input : !file-1.ext Search: file1ext Sounds like: makes hard character soft. eg.: Input : Hp-Deskjet Search: Hb-Desgjed Start: Starts the scan thread. PM FUSL/2 will list all files found and you can select the files you want to request. Even while PM FUSL/2 is searching for more files. Sel List: lets you select the lists to scan. Preselections are done from Setup/Filelists/Scan. Skip: Skips currently searched list. Stop: Stops scanning. Request: generates a request message. See: Request/Write Req. 0 tagged: shows you the ammount of files you have already selected for request. Selecting this push-button will let you edit the request buffer. See: Edit/Edit Buffer CAUTION: If you are selecting files to request from different nodes, you have to generate the message for the one node first before the files for the other node are tagged. Otherwise the request buffer will be overwritten! ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.6. Add File ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Adds a file to your request buffer. See Edit/Edit Buffer ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.7. Read Parameters ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Lets you define some parameters for reading a filelist. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.7.1. Filter ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Enable/Disable File-Filters Defines if PM FUSL/2 file filtering is enabled or disabled. See Setup/Filelists/Filters ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.7.2. Smart ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Enables/Disables smart reading. Smart reading means, that PM FUSL/2 checks each line, if this could be a requestable file, so that you see files only no empty lines, descriptions, area descriptions or any other information. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.7.3. Save ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Save Read Parameters to file. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.7.4. Close ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Close current open filelist. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6. Edit ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Some options to edit request buffer, request messages, maintain files, file management. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.1. Edit Buffer ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Edit FileRequestBuffer. Lets you edit the files which you have selected to request. Whenever you selected a file to request, PM FUSL/2 will put this file to the request buffer. You can edit all entries by pressing ALT + LEFT Mousebutton. Options Add: adds a new file to request buffer. Edit: lets you edit the filename or the description. You also can edit with ALT-Left Mousebutton. Delete: deletes item from request buffer. LookUp Node: Lets you lookup the node in the nodelist (V7). Simply enter (ALT-Left mouse button) the name and/or address into the matching columns and PM FUSL/2 will find the node for you. If name and address is specified, PM FUSL/2 will lookup the address. You can mark more than one entry for nodelist lookup. PM FUSL/2 then will lookup the first selected entry and replace the found name and address in all marked entries. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.2. Edit Msg ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Edit pending request messages. PM FUSL/2 will scan your Netmail area for request messages not sent. These Pending requests are shown to you, so you are able to edit/delete them. Options Delete: deletes item from list and removes request message from netmail folder. Edit: See: Request/Write Req ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.3. Perform Rescan ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Performs Netmail-Rescan. Let's you manually perform a rescan. This will perform the same action, like PM FUSL/2 does, after generating a request message. See: MsgStatus ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.4. Maintain ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Start Maintainance. This "maintainance feature" of PM FUSL/2 can be performed when you specified the two parameters in setup: FILES.BBS and INBOUND. Otherwise this menuitem will be greyed. Whenever you request a file, PM FUSL/2 will create a file (PMFUSL.DSC) in the startup directory from PM FUSL/2, containing the filename, the description and where to request the selected file(s). So PMFUSL.DSC is a "list of pending requests" and can be used for further processing. Start the maintainance with Edit/MainTain. PM FUSL/2 will look at the files in PMFUSL.DSC and try to find them either in a pending request- message (Netmail directory) or in your INBOUND DIR. CAUTION: If the selected mailer is "Binkley", no scanning of the netmail directory is performed! When a file is found in your inbound directory the file and the description (found in PMFUSL.DSC) can be moved to your specified FILES.BBS path. (See: Move to files.bbs) If the file is received and moved to your files.bbs directory, FUSL will remove it from the PMFUSL.DSC list. If PM FUSL/2 cannot find a request message, and the file neither resides in the inbound directory nor in the files.bbs directory, PM FUSL/2 assumes that this is the result of a 'failed request'. That means: you sent the request message, but the node you requested from did not send any files (no requests allowed at this time, failed connection, file not found etc.). In the 'Status' column PM FUSL/2 shows '???' you then can select to re-request (See: Re-Request) or clean-up (See: Clean Up) the list. A new status 'INCOMPLETE' is now available. This indicates that your received file might be incomplete. That means the received file is smaller in size than the file you requested. All options like Move to files.bbs, Re-Request and Clean Up are possible, when the item is hilighted. CAUTION: 'INCOMPLETE' might not work 100% since the file-length in the filelists you requested from might not be correct or PM FUSL/2 could not determine the correct length! So use this carefully! ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.4.1. Re-Request ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Recover file request from so called 'failed requests'. You can either select some items with status '???' to re-generate the request message, or PM FUSL/2 automatically re-requests all items with status '???'. If you want to re-request items with status 'INCOMPLETE' you have to mark them! See also: Write Req ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.4.2. Move to files.bbs ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Received files with the status 'INBOUND' will be moved from Inbound directory to your defined Filesbbs directory. The description will be put into the filename you specified in Setup/Filesbbs parameter. You can also move items with status 'INCOMPLETE' when you marked them. Before you do so, you should be sure, that the received files are not INCOMPLETE! Once you moved them to your files.bbs directory, there is no possibility to re-request them using the maintainance feature! If you have marked some items, only these marked items will be moved. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.4.3. Clean Up ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Clean Up is used to keep the maintainance list up to date. If nothing selected, items with status '???' and 'Files.BBS' will be removed from the list. If you have marked some items, only these marked items will be removed! The status of this items will be ignored, so you can remove every item from the list! CAUTION: Once removed, you will not be able to recover any file requests! ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.5. Files Management ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Files Management. To use file management you need a file called 'areas.lst' in the same directory as PM FUSL/2 EXE resides. If not found, the menuitem is greyed. In AREAS.LST you define your file areas you whish to use. First specify the area name then the path to the area. '_' (underscore) characters will be translated to ' ' (space). See also included sample areas.lst. Example: OS2_Applications E:\stuff\os2\apps PM FUSL/2 also can add your maximus file areas automatically. You have to specify the keyword MAX_AREAS_HERE in your AREAS.LST. PM FUSL/2 will then use the filename (F)AREA.DAT specified in Setup/Binkley & Maximus Setup to determine your maximus file-areas. A double click on an item in the 'FileArea' column will show you the files in this directory. A description can be edited by moving the mousepointer over the description you like to edit then press ALT-Left Mousebutton In the same way you easily can rename files. PM FUSL/2 will generate a 'files.bbs' in each directory, so that you can use it for your BBS. Files found and not listed in 'files.bbs' will be added. File listed in 'files.bbs' and not found in directory will be removed. CAUTION: Since PM FUSL/2 is rebuilding each files.bbs from the scratch, all other text lines, which are not representing a file with it's description, will be removed! Context Menu (Areas Window) All actions in this menu will force PM FUSL/2 to generate the AREAS.LST file. So all changes you made to the file wil be lost! Add new area: Lets you add a new file area to the list. Change area: change area name and path. Remove area: removes an area from the list CAUTION: YOU CAN USE THIS MENU ONLY IF YOU DID NOT SPECIFY THE MAX_AREAS_HERE in the AREAS.LST. Context Menu (Files Window) Move files: Lets you move tagged files with description from one FileArea to another. Moving files can also be done via drag and drop! Remove: removes file from 'files.bbs' and physically from harddisk. Get Description: See: Edit/Files Management/Get Description. Process Tic's: *.TIC files mostly comes with the files, you receive from your Boss or another node via a so called 'fileecho processor' such as RAID or FILESCAN. This *.TIC files contain a description of the file you received. PM FUSL/2 search for the descriptions and adds it to the files.bbs. CAUTION: PM FUSL/2 does not move the file to an area described in the *.tic! But the *.TIC will be removed! Process FILE_ID.DIZ: See: Edit/Files Management/Process FILE_ID.DIZ. Open archive...: Let's you extract an archive and select a file for importing description for the selected archiv. Generate Filelist: generates a filelist. The filename is 'filelist.txt' and PM FUSL/2 will put it into the directory your Setup/Filesbbs points to. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.5.1. Process FILE_ID.DIZ ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Get description from FILE_ID.DIZ PM FUSL tries to extract the file FILE_ID.DIZ from the selected archives. This file contains information about what exactly is in this archive - a file description. You get a window with the contents of FILE_ID.DIZ, which lets you select the lines you whish to have as your file description. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.5.2. Get Description ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Get Description. PM FUSL/2 scans your filelists set up (SEE: Setup/Filelists) for all the tagged files. When a file is found, PM FUSL/2 shows FILENAME and the DESCRIPTION which has been found in the scanned filelist to you. You now can select the description PM FUSL/2 has found and it will be put to your files.bbs. So PM FUSL/2 helps you to find descriptions for your files, from which you do not exactly know what they are for:-) Options Sel Lists: lets you select filelists to scan for descriptions. Start: starts the process. Take Desc: Take this description shown to you. PM FUSL/2 will remove the file from the tagged file list. Not this one: skip the description found. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.6. E-Mail Areascan ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ E-Mail Areascan (Squish, *.msg) Scan an echo area (SQUISH or *.MSG message base) for files (file announcments). You can use this feature to scan an echo area (e-mail area) which is commonly used for file announcments. PM FUSL/2 will find this files and either write them in a file (similar to a normal filelist) or let you select the files dircet from a window. To use this feature, the file MSGAPI32.DLL must be in your *.DLL path or in the same directory of PM FUSL/2. MSGAPI32.DLL is distributed whith the SQUISH echomail processor. PM FUSL/2 uses some parameters to 'recognize' requestable files in the message: Γûá filename at the beginning of a line. Γûá filename in upper case Γûá filename must not contain special characters eg.: no control characters (ASCII < 32), several other characters (' ', '+', '"', '<', '>') Dialog options: Squish cfg: Enter path and filename of your squish.cfg file. PM FUSL/2 needs this file to find the e-mail areas you have set up. Select MsgArea: Select the message area (e-mail area) you whish to scan for files. Newer than: When squish is importing to your msg base, the messages will get a date stamp when they arrived at your system. When checked, PM FUSL/2 will scan messages newer than specified date and time only. Search Text: enter a search text to be found. Find Text in: lets you specify where to find search text. At least one option must be specified. Γûá From Field: looks for search text in the from field of a message. Γûá Subject line: looks for search text in the subject line of a message. Γûá Body Text: finds search text in the body text of a message. If search text is not found in the from or subject field of the message, only the file and description lines are included, where search text is found. Desc Lines: some files have multiple description lines. A maximum of lines to take can be specified here. Output to File: When checked, PM FUSL/2 redirects output to Filename. You have the options to Append or Overwrite the Filename each time you use Squish Areascan feature. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.6.1. Scan Messagebase ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Here you have the results of scanning the message area you selected. You can select files to request by either double click whith the left mouse button or press enter. Parameters OK closes the window. If there are any tagged files, you are prompted to generate a request message (Request/Write Req). Stop stops scanning. Request if there are any tagged files, you can generate a request message (Request/Write Req). % tagged shows you how many files are allready tagged. When pressed, you can edit the request buffer (Edit/Edit Buffer). Cancel stops scanning and closes window. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7. MsgStatus ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Define message attributes. Crash: sets the crash bit Immediate: writes immediate kludge in message. KillSent: sets the KillSet bit - message is killed after sent. Direct: sets the direct bit Hold: sets the hold bit. Rescan: forces mailer to rescan the netmail directory after generating the request message. The rescan flags are generated in the Setup/Semaphore directory. If you are using Binkley as a mailer, the file rescan.cmd is executed, to generate the needed *.REQ and *.?LO files in your outbound directory. Thx.Msg: send a thanks message with the request message. Can be overridden by Setup/ Filelists/ThxMsg. Save: save flags ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8. Register PM FUSL/2 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Registration fee: 200.- ATS or 30.- DM or 20.- US $ Registering via COMPUSERVE GO SWREG. Registration ID: 8541 Registration fee as shown above. Send money or cheque to Johannes HOERHAN (Fido: 2:310/3.90, 2:310/90.32) (Compuserve: 76631,1446) Ettenreichgasse 1/18 1100 VIENNA AUSTRIA or money order to this account: BANK AUSTRIA BLZ: 20151 Nr.: 907079719 CAUTION: If you send Eurocheques, please fill in the correct amount of AUSTRIAN SCHILLINGS (ATS)! No DM or other currency! CAUTION: To save time and money I will NOT distribute FUSL via snailmail! All further upgrades, updates or bug fixes are free!