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SkyTick is FreeWare, this means that you can use it for ever without
paying a penny. :-)
*************** READ Changes.DOC for more infos!!!! ****************
INTRODUCTION
============
** NOTE : I HATE to write docs.
Hello folks!! After SkyLog, SkyList, SkyFreq, SkyLast, SkyWho, SkyUpdate and
other utils, HERE IT IS : SkyTick, the most powerfull Tick program for Amiga.
SkyTick has been developed since I found CS Tick by Calibre Systems a
VERY BAD program, FULL of bugs and it creates non-standard .TIC.
SkyTick is based upon the sources of AmigaTick by my great friend Russel
Miranda (that is at college now :-)
Some features of SkyTick :
* FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAST
* Very verbose log
* You can send files in Hold/Crash/Direct for each node
* Automatically uploads files to DLG file areas
* Powerful LIST command that let you create nice announcement message.
* Can write announcements directly to message, w/o the use of the ugly
SendMsg by TPT.
* Very powerfull Hatch mode, that let you upload the files to DLG file area
* Purge mode that automatically deletes sent files and tics
* Compatible with DLG Areafix by Nick Lello
* Upload function from CLI
* Intuition interface for Hatch/Upload mode
SkyTick - as any Tick alike program - lets you to send files around, each files
is sent with a file tkxxxxx.TIC that contains some infos about the files
(CRC, Description, Origin, Path, etc etc), and lets the Tick of another node
to automatically insert the files in its file areas.
There are a lot of file network around, the best for Amiga is SAN (Sky Amiga
Network), created and found by myself and it is spread all over the world.
*** Read the Changes.DOC VERY CAREFULLY ***
BTW, let's take a look to the switches :
SkyTick v3.10 - by Luca Spada '91-92 - May 7 1992 15:07:43 - FreeWare
The FAST DLG Professional & Generic Tick Processor
Syntax:
1> SkyTick [-C<Path>] [-F<Filename>] [-R<Filename>] [-P<Path>] [-A<Area>]
[-U<Dlg area>] [-D<Description>] [-M<Area number>] [-O<From>] [-J]
[-T<To>] [-S<Subject>] [-X<Filename>] [-Z<Split>] [-Y] [-V] [-Q]
<HATCH> <TICK> <PURGE> <WRITE>
Parameters:
[-C<Path>] Search for config info in <Path> (Default: MAIL:Tick.LOG)
HATCH mode parameters : (if no or some parameters are given, SkyTick will
enter in interactive-mode)
[-F<Filename>] Filename to hatch
[-R<Filename>] Filename to replace
[-P<Path>] Path to <Filename>
[-A<Area>] Area TAG
[-U<Dlg area>] Upload file to DLG file area <Dlg area>
[-D<Description>] Description of the file :-)
[-Y] Just upload the file
[-V] Disable dupe checking - hatch
[-J] Disable dupe checking - upload
[-Q] Delete file after hatch/upload
WRITE mode parameters : (only for DLG Pro OS/BB)
[-M<Area number>] Message area number to post announcement
[-O<From>] From: field
[-T<To>] To: field
[-S<Subject>] Subj: field
[-Z<Split>] Max. number of lines in message
[-X<Filename>] Body text to insert in announcement
Commands:
<HATCH> Hatch file(s)
<TICK> Process inbound tic(s)
<PURGE> Purge hold directory
<WRITE> Write announcement(s) in a message area
You can write also the first letter of the command.
Strings with spaces should be contained between quotes, i.e. :
1> SkyTick "-DNew version of SkyTick" HATCH
Basically SkyTick operates in 4 modes :
<HATCH> Mode -> Let you insert a file in the network, this can be made in
interactive mode (if no parameters are given), or line
parameters.
<TICK> Mode -> Process inbound tics (no parameters are need)
<PURGE> Mode -> Clean up the HOLD directory (no parameters are need)
<WRITE> Mode -> Write a message in a message area, usefull to place file
accouncements (generated with the LIST keyword).
Examples :
1> SkyTick HATCH
SkyTick will open a nice window and the rest is very easy to understand :-), BTW
SkyTick can be used also in batch files or as a clone of the upload utility :
1> SkyTick -Fpippo.lha -Pram: -ASKYUTILS -U10 "-DEmulate a SUN workstation on your Amiga!" HATCH
SkyTick will hatch file pippo.lha in area SkyUtils and upload it in DLG file area 10
1> SkyTick PURGE
Clean-up sent files in HOLD directory
1> SkyTick TICK
Process inbound Ticks
1> SkyTick -M11 "-OThe Announcer" "-TAll freaks" "-SNew files!" -Z50 -xram:news.txt WRITE
Will place text file news.txt in messages of max. 50 lines in message area 11
CONFIG FILE
===========
SkyTick will search for a default Tick.CFG in MAIL:, BTW you can change the
search path by -C paramater, take a look to Tick.CFG for more infos.
Description of the LIST command :
LIST <AreaTag Matching> <Pathname> <Template>
Example :
LIST * txt:SAN.TXT \n\n Nome file : %n\n Lunghezza : %l\n Descrizione : %d\n Ricevuto da : %o - %t\n\n
This will match all areatag!
Token available :
\n - Put a line feed (C style)
%n - Put filename
%l - Put file lenght
%d - Put file description
%o - Put file origin
%a - Put AreaTag
%t - Put file date
%c - Put file CRC
Ok folks, the doc ends here! I think you are smart enough to use SkyTick :-)
For Bug reports, suggestions etc etc :
Luca Spada (Sky Luke), Sysop of:
Sky Link, 4500 Megs online for Amiga, SAN World HQ, running under DLG Pro,
Line 1: +39/332/706469 H16/v32bis v42bis - 24hrs - 2:331/106.0
Line 2: +39/332/706739 H14/v32bis v42bis - 24hrs - 2:331/117.0
Line 3: +39/332/706009 ZyX/v32bis v42bis - 24hrs - 2:331/121.0
Line 4: +39/332/767277 H14/v32 v42bis - 24hrs - 2:331/110.0
Line 5: +39/332/819044 ZyX/v32bis v42bis - 24hrs - 2:331/118.0
UUCP : skyluke@skylink.sublink.org
or : ..rutgers!sublink!skylink!skyluke
F'Req DLGNEWS from Sky Link in order to have a list of latest hot DLG
utilities!
Bye, Sky Luke
(uucp : skyluke@skylink.sublink.org)