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- The multi-mailer-random-siteinfo-system!
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- Release version 2.10
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- This program and documentation is
- copyrighted material.
-
- It is (c) by Peter Hampf,
- Graf von Galen Strasse 27
- 2848 Vechta
- Germany
-
- Fidonet 2:240/11 & 22
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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- ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▓▓▓▓▓▒▒▒▒▒░░░░░ 1.) What it is ... ░░░░░▒▒▒▒▒▓▓▓▓▓ │
- └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Every mailer sends a so called site-information to the
- connected system. This site-information consists of two parts,
- the name and the location. The default settings for
- FrontDoor <tm> are: "noname" and "somewhere". :-)
-
- SITEINFO startet as a random-siteinfo-changer for
- FrontDoor<tm> in November 1991 after having some beer at one
- of the legendary DP-CONs ;-). The idea behind siteinfo was to
- change this information after every connect, so the next
- caller will get a different information. And exactly that is
- what SITEINFO is doing!
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- But SITEINFO is not only a silly changer. You can exactly
- define a time and date range for every entry in your database
- (SITEINFO has it's on database). Only within this date- (or
- time-) window this entry can be selected. Further you are able
- do define that a specific entry should only be selectable e.g.
- during the first 10 days of a month (or of specific months) --
- and so on -- have a look at the program itself and try it out.
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- Last but not least you can set a 'main-time' for SITEINFO. If
- you define this time, only during this hours SITEINFO will
- change your informations.
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- Every SITEINFO-database can contain 200 different site-
- informations. One of them will be choosen randomly (if you
- invoke the proper SITEINFO-function with -c). I think, this
- should be enough ... .
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- ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▓▓▓▓▓▒▒▒▒▒░░░░░ 2.) Who may use it ... ░░░░░▒▒▒▒▒▓▓▓▓▓ │
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- The answer is short: everybody may use it.
-
- When I started the development of SITEINFO, I decided to make
- it SHAREWARE! But a little different kind of shareware, the so
- called CARDWARE! That means that you have to send a postcard
- to me after an evaluation period of one month to legalise your
- copy of SITEINFO. (The address is shown above.)
-
- Until today many, many people are using SITEINFO in one of
- it's versions from 0.1 to 2.10. But only 17 people sent me a
- postcard :-((( This is VERY disappointing, but nevertheless:
- many thanks to this seventeen (!!) people, you showed me that
- you fully understood the shareware-idea!
-
- Ok, I will *NOT* make SITEINFO crippled and I will *NOT* ask
- you for any money. The only thing I'm asking you for is to
- send me a postcard with your name and your (network-) address.
- Is this really too much?
-
- Starting with version 2.10 SITEINFO needs a registration-key
- to be fully registered! Note: in the unregistered version
- there are *NO* features disabled. The only differences between
- the registered and the unregistered shareware-version are: the
- "[unregistered]" message on the mainscreen, a short delay at
- the end (can be broken by a keystroke).
-
- For registration-procedures see REGISTER.TXT
-
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- ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▓▓▓▓▓▒▒▒▒▒░░░░░ 3.) Using it....... ░░░░░▒▒▒▒▒▓▓▓▓▓ │
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- SITEINFO in it's version >=2.10 is supporting the following
- mailer:
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- Mailer │ tested with version │ recommended
- │ │ environment-variable
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- - FrontDoor 2.02, 2.10 FD
-
- - Intermail 2.10 IM
-
- - D'Bridge 1.36 DBRIDGE
-
- - BinkleyTerm 2.56/2.50EE BINKLEY
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- - Portal of Power 0.50Γ/0.56ß POPCMDLINE
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- If you have not set the corresponding environment-variable,
- you may call SITEINFO with one of the following parameters:
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- SITEINFO -FD FrontDoor
- SITEINFO -IM Intermail
- SITEINFO -DB DBridge
- SITEINFO -BK BinkleyTerm
- SITEINFO -POP Portal of Power
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- Optionaly you can give the path (and filename) to your
- mailer's configfile, like this:
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- SITEINFO -BK=D:\BINKLEY\MYCONV.CFG
-
- The mailerconfig defaults to: (%XX% means the environment-
- variable of your mailer)
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- FrontDoor %FD%SETUP.FD
-
- Intermail %IM%FD.SYS
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- D'Bridge %DBRIDGE%DBRIDGE.PRM
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- BinkleyTerm %BINKLEY%BINKLEY.CFG
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- Portal of Power PORTAL%PORTALTASK%.CFG
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- SITEINFO will look exactly in this order. If the environment-
- variable is not found, the current path will be used. You can
- overrule this scheme by using the shown parameters.
-
- One exeption is valid for Portal of Power: Portals CFG-file
- will only be searched in the current directory. If you have a
- POPCMDLINE-environment-variable, the TASK-number will be taken
- from there! e.g.: POPCMDLINE=-T01 results in PORTAL01.CFG as
- Portal's config-file. If you want SITEINFO to use a Portal-
- file in a different directory, you MUST give the name on the
- command-line, like this: "Siteinfo -POP=c:\pop\PortalMe.CFG"
-
- Furthermore, Portal of Power does NOT support changing the
- system-location! Therefore this feature will be disabled in
- POP-mode!
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- The FrontDoor and Intermail config-files are binary and
- double-CRC-secured. Binkley and D'Bridge are using plain ascii
- files, POP an unsecured binary-file. If the format of one of
- this configuration-files will ever change, please let me know
- ASAP.
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- Currently SITEINFO will look up the config-files like this:
-
- D'Bridge: systemname -> line 16
- location -> line 38
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- BinkleyTerm: systemname -> tag SYSTEM
- location -> tag MYLOCATION
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- You can overrule the line-numbers for D'Bridge, using two
- additional commandline-parameters: (only valid in DB-mode!)
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- -DB -NAME=<x> -LOC=<y>
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- In this case SITEINFO assumes to find the system-name in line
- number <x> and the location in line-number <y>. If your
- DBRIDGE.PRM differs from that format SITEINFO knows, the
- 'additional-informations' on your screen may be invalid. But
- if you use the -name and -loc parameters, everything will work
- fine!
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- Other commandline-parameters:
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- -?: Show a summary of commandline-options.
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- -s: Skip the time check. Even if you've specified a
- maintime for SITEINFO, it'll work at every time. (Still
- ignore the maintime :-)
-
- -f: Force every entry to be processed. Ignore it's
- individual time.
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- -i: Normally SITEINFO will add an manually entered entry
- (this is an entry you have not defined within SITEINFO
- but directly in your mailer's configuration) in it's
- database. If you don't want this, simply add "-i".
-
- -y: Normally SITEINFO will exit automatically after a given
- time (hardcoded). You can make it 'sit and wait' using
- -y.
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- -m: force monochrome-mode. If you dislike the colors ;-)
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- -nod: do NOT use direct-screen-writes in batchmode! (useful
- e.g. for DesqView)
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- At least you can give an optinal SITEINFO-RSI-FILE-NAME on the
- commandline. By default siteinfo will use SITEINFO.RSI in it's
- homedirectory. (All RSI-database-files are stored there!)
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- And now: THE MOST IMPORTANT COMMANDLINE-SWITCH:
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- -c: This switch envokes the proper RANDOM-SITEINFO-
- FUNCTION! Only if present, SITEINFO will search for a
- new entry, insert it in your mailer's config and exit
- immediatly. You *MUST* call SITEINFO like this in your
- mailer-batch:
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- :LOOP
- CD F:\FD
- SITEINFO -c -fd=f:\fd\
- FD.EXE
- [...]
- GOTO LOOP
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- Keyboard reference and meanings:
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- This key does
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- F1 open Helpwindow with keyboard-reference
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- F2 sort all entries by name
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- F3 store this entry immediatly into your
- mailer's configuration.
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- F4/RETURN EDIT this entry. If the actual entry is the
- active one, you will be asked wether to edit
- it, because SITEINFO would add the old one
- the next time you start it (without "-i").
- Save your work by pressing CTRL/RETURN or
- just RETURN in the last field!
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- F5 set all entry-counters to zero. If there are
- e.g. 4 entries in SI's queue, the one with
- the lowest count has the greatest chance! Set
- the counters to zero to 'giv'em a chance' ;-)
-
- F6 set the starting and ending time of ALL
- entries to 00:00.
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- F7 treat this entry as privileged! If there is
- only one privileged entry for a specific
- time, only this one can be selected!
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- F8/CTLR-RETURN get an overview-screen of all entries. To
- jump directly to one entry, just press it's
- first letter.
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- F9 set THIS entry-counter to zero!
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- F10 set THIS entry to inactive -> it will never
- be selected until you press F10 on this entry
- again. Inactive entries are shown in a
- different color in the overview screen.
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- S set a starting time for ALL entries.
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- E set an ending time for ALL entries.
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- P Maintime for SITEINFO. Only within this time-
- window site-informations will be changed.
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- D invoke a DOS-SHELL. SITEINFO will swap to
- XMS, EMS or DISK. Type EXIT to return.
- If there is no XMS or EMS available, a
- temporary file will be created (name:
- SITEINFO.$$$ in the path pointed to by the
- environment-variable TMP or TEMP).
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- F search for an entry. Try it...
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- G search again (previously selected with F)
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- INS Insert a new entry.
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- DEL Delete this entry.
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- Cursorkeys what can they do? :-))
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- Logging:
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- The logging is a little bit different in dependance of your
- mailer: if you are using FrontDoor, Intermail or Portal of
- Power, their log-file will be used. For Binkley and D'Bridge
- SITEINFO will create an own logfile in it's directory called
- RSI.LOG. If you don't want loggind, just set an environment-
- variable called NOLOG and fill it with any value, e.g. SET
- NOLOG=bla
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- Password:
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- Only if you are using FrontDoor or Intermail, you have to
- enter the same password as for your mailer's setup!!!
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- Opening files:
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- SITEINFO will open the config-files in "readonly/denynone"-
- mode for reading and "writemode/denywrite" for writing. If
- there are any troubles or sharing problems, please let me
- know.
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- Length of your SITE-informations!
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- Please take in mind, that the maximal length of the *used*
- (NOT allowed!) site-information depends on the type of your
- mailer. SITEINFO will show a ruler on it's screen which is
- valid for FrontDoor. The system-line will be stripped on
- FrontDoor's screen at character 29, the location-line at
- character 30. (Both may be longer!)
-
- Another short ruler (1---5----0----5----0---!5) is shown just
- for your orientation. (Character 24 is extra-marked because
- someone told me, that one mailer - I think it was Binkley - is
- going to strip the information at this position.)
-
- Though Portal of Power supports a 60 character long name-
- information, Siteinfo will use only the first 50 characters. I
- think this should fit all needs. Anyway, all other mailer are
- stripping this information!
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- I know of sure that I have forgotten something. But I hope you
- can work to your satisfaction with this program!
-
- My greatest thanks goes to my early betatesters:
-
- Eckhart von dem Berge, Fidonet 2:240/500 and 2:240/501 who had
- spend much time and expanded his telefone-bill for testing
- SITEINFO. Thank you, Ecki!
-
- Hans Siemons, Fidonet 2:512/149, who gave the suggestion to
- make SINTEINFO Intermail-compatible. (And who made the world
- famoust chatter - P-CHAT! Have a look on it!)
-
- Many thanks to Peter Rohde, Fidonet 2:240/1 and 2:240/2 (our
- HOST:-)). He gave me the structures of the D'Bridge- and
- BinkleyTerm-configuration-files and testet the new behaviour.
- Great, Peter!
-
- Andreas Klein, 2:246/47 gave me the needed information about
- Portal of Power. Thank you, Andreas!
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- BTW: if you send a postcard to me, you will honour their work,
- too! Please take this in mind.
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- And now: go on and every time a good 'site-infoing' :-)
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- Regards,
- Peter Vechta, 28. Februar 1993
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