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- This program and the documentation is copyrighted material.
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- It is (c) by PBS - Peter Hampf, FIDO 2:240/11 --
- all rights reserved.
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- │ Some words about the LICENSE.
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- └─────────────────────────────────────────────
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- This program *can* be used as a stand-alone program. Originally
- it's intended as an ADDON to ONTOUR, my mail-robot to answer your
- netmails (NET!!) during your vacations.
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- ONTOUR itself (including MSBSCAN) costs 15,-- DM. MSBSCAN alone
- doesn't cost anything but a netmail you have to send to me.
- (Please tell me you are using it ;-) If you want to send me a
- postcard, please use this address:
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- Peter Hampf
- Graf von Galen Strasse 27
- 2848 Vechta
- Germany
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- This program is *NOT* free! It is shareware and may not be altered
- in any way! Please take this in mind.
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- │ What is this 'ADDON' ...
- │ ... and WHY??
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────
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- Ok. I designed ONTOUR to be an automatically replier to your
- personal NET (!!) - mail! Not more! That because I hate to get a
- reply to a message in an echo. (Like this: "Many thank for your
- mail in REQUEST.GER <blabla> but the sysop <blabla> ... ")
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- But so many people asked me to make ONTOUR also reply to messages
- in echo-areas. I ever said: NO! Not the hell!
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- But they nerved and nerved and nerved ....
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- ONTOUR - ADDON page 2
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- Ok, folks, here is your resolution ;-) ONTOUR itself will NEVER
- answer echo-mails directly!!!! But you can scan your Hudson
- messagebase with MSBSCAN (the ADDON is called MSBSCAN;-) and
- create NET-mails that can be answered by ONTOUR. But please USE IT
- ONLY ON YOUR NETMAILBOARD OR YOUR LOCAL BOARDS! Please don't
- answer ECHOMAIL automatically!
-
- Ok, there are different opinions about automatically answering
- echomail. But please take in mind that some people could see an
- annoying behaviour in doing this. Another aspect is important,
- too: what will happen, if your name is "Peter Miller" and 2 other
- poeple with THE SAME NAME will receive echomail in a board which
- you scan with MSBSCAN? Right! YOU will answer THEIR mails! TAKE
- THIS IN MIND!!!
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- MSBSCAN will read the ONTOUR-setup because it has to know the
- ONTOUR users! Only mails to one of this users will be extracted
- from your HMB!!! Because you may use MSBSCAN as a 'stand-alone'
- program, if have included a 'partial' setup-program (called
- S_ADDON.EXE) which will create an ONTOUR-compatible setup-file.
- (But only including the needed informations... .) (S_ADDON is
- *NOT* included in the ONTOUR-package, you can use S_ONTOUR
- insteed.)
-
- If you are not using ONTOUR's setup-program S_ONTOUR (or S_ADDON),
- you can (MUST) give MSBSCAN a few commandline-parameters in this
- order (!!!!) :
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- - the path to your HMB
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- - the path where to create the *.MSG-messages (usually your
- NETMAIL-DIRECTORY where ONTOUR looks!)
-
- - the board-numbers to search! Here you can give a 'range' like
- this: "12;30;90-110;156-162;192" (If your command-interpreter
- doesn't allow "-" you can use ".." insteed!)
-
- - the names to search for. Please replace any spaces by
- underscores (e.g.: Willy_Tester). (Parameters 4-9)
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- Further MSBSCAN MUST find an AREAS.BBS anywhere in your DOS-PATH
- or in the current directory. This is necessary because MSBSCAN
- will insert an "AREA:<name>" line in the new *.MSG - message. This
- AREA: - line is the only reference to the original ECHO. ONTOUR
- will insert this line in it's replies:
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- * Automatically reply to msg in <name>
-
- (Please DON'T ask me to remove this line! I will not! If you
- answer automatically to echomail, this MUST be visible - in my
- opinion!)
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- MSBSCAN has three additional slash-parameters: /R to force already
- received mail to be exported from your HMB, /? for a little
- helpscreen and /X for relaxed name-checking! If /X is omitted, the
- name (from ONTOUR-SETUP) MUST match with the TO-name of the
- message starting at character 1, otherwise it may be somewhere in
- the TO-line! (Use with caution!!)
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- One last word: MSBSCAN will create a CRC-checksum-file, so no mail
- will be exported twice. Please don't delete this file!!!!
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- That's all! Enjoy, Peter
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- Vechta, 25. August 1992
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