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- OZRobot: A User's Guide
- November 1, 1989
-
-
- OZRobot is a service provided for nodelisted GT Sysops to
- speed and simply registration of OZNET programs. To use it
- all you need to do is send a message to "Ozrobot" at one of
- the following OZNET registration centres:
-
- Kangaroo Korner 302/001 Stephen de Plater
- The Black Hole 302/003 Ken Thompson
- TSUNAMI! Catch the Wave 006/000 Chet Wilkinson
- Control Systems 071/001 Ed Cavender
-
- The message should contain lines in this form (all beginning
- in column 1):
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
- :N my bbs name
-
- where all characters after the first white space will contain
- the name for registration. For instance: to register to
- Kangaroo Korner, the following line is necessary
-
- :N Kangaroo Korner
-
- Remember that this is case sensitive.
-
- There MUST be a :N line before the names of ANY OZNET packages
- to be registered--otherwise OZRobot will do no more than
- return an error message via netmail <grin>.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
- package name
-
- which is the name of the oznet package which you wish to
- register. There may be any number of these per message, but
- only one per line.
-
- PLEASE REMEMBER THAT OZRobot looks for the name of the PACKAGE
- not of the individual programs within a package. That is,
- HISTORY would work, but GENHIST.EXE would not!
-
- To register say, MARVIN and WHODIS the following two lines are
- required:
-
- MARVIN
- WHODIS
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
- :L
-
- This line will generate a list of packages which may be
- registered. In fact, any error in the package names will also
- do the same. Only one list will be generated per message.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
- a tear line
-
- A tear line consists of three (3) minus signs beginning in
- column 1. The effect is to make OZRobot ignore anything which
- comes after it. If you want to include a normal message, then
- you are free to do so AFTER the tear line. (Otherwise OZRobot
- will attempt to process the first word on each line.)
-
- Also any line which has a non alphanumeric character in column
- 1 will be ignored.
-
-
- EXAMPLE:
-
- the following message to OZRobot will generate two
- registrations for me, and then a list of packages, and finally
- contains a message to the registration centre.
-
- ================================
- :N Kangaroo Korner
- whodis
- marvin
- :L
- ---
- the rest of this message (this part)
- is ignored by OZRobot.
- ================================
-
- Stephen de Plater
- Kangaroo Korner (302/1)
- November 1, 1989
-