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╓───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖
║ SmartFA v1.00 by Oliver R.Bell and Becki Warner GT 013/000 ║
╙───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╜
What Does It Do? │
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SmartFA is designed to remove the need for you, the
sysop, to watch for files arriving on your system
and manually file attaching them out to nodes that
you connect to.
Installation │
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The easiest of tasks; first of all type "SMARTFA
SETUP" at the MSDOS command line. You will be asked
to answer three simple questions;
1) The letter of your MailDrive eg. c:, d: etc.
which ever drive you run NetMail on.
2) The default flip directory. This is the
default directory in which the files will end up
after being processed by SmartFA.
3) The NetMail Area you wish SmartFA to post its
messages into.
Create a directory off \MAILIN\FILEIN called
SMARTFA. Then run SmartFA as many times as you like
during the day or night.
Work To Do │
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Now SmartFA has been installed you need to tell the
program which files to watch for and who to
distribute them to.
Giving SmartFA some work to do is done by creating
a .DST file in the \MAILIN\FILEIN\SMARTFA
subdirectory. SmartFA works by matching the name of
the .DST file with the corresponding name of the
file in \MAILIN\FILEIN. Therefore a .DST file
called GTNL.DST would tell SmartFA to work with
file names matching the specification of GTNL*.*
Within a .DST file, the ';' is used to tell the
program that anything following the semi-colon is a
comment and deserves no processing. Also the '#'
can be used to specify an alternative flip
directory, this is done by starting a line in the
.DST file with a '#' followed by a directory name.
To automatically distribute OZ Utilities arriving
on my system in a file called OZUTmmdd.ZIP, and
then move the file to a directory called
C:\FILES\NEWUTILS, I would create a file called
OZUT.DST which will look something like the
following.
#C:\FILES\NEWUTILS
013/001 Mark Shasby
013/002 Dave Churm
013/100 John Whitney
804/000 Alexander Langen
Registered users will also enjoy the ability to
customise the message posted by SmartFA. This is
done by placeing the text you wish to add to the
message into a file ending in .MSG. In the above
example the ammendments to the message posted
by SmartFA would be placed in a file called
OZUT.MSG.
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