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RLIWP.EXE
FBB --> RLI WP update converter
(C) 1993 by Dean R. Madsen, KE0WO
KE0WO @ KE0WO.#NWIA.IA.USA.NA
After the release of FBB 5.15 there was a great concern about
incompatibiliy between the W0RLI White Pages and F6FBB White Pages. This
eventually led to makeshift software hacks, nastygrams and finger pointing.
Now that tempers have cooled and I have been able to play with FBB 5.15 I now
offer my solution to the incompatibility. Instead of trying to hack into
Jean-Paul's code I found that he has made his software flexible enough to
prevent the need for this and so I have made an external program to change
only those WP updates destine for W0RLI type systems.
-----------------------------Installation------------------------------------
The first thing that needs to be done is to edit the INIT.SRV file to include
WPUPD in the list of those to receive WP update messages from your system.
The next thing to do is decide which RLI systems you will be sending updates
to (be sure to be reasonable, you can't send an update message to every system
in the county :-). Now edit you BBS.SYS file to include an entry for each RLI
system to receive a message. I suggest that you use an alias for this,such as
suffix of the BBS. IE: KE0WO becomes WO.
After the BBS.SYS is changed the next step is to edit the FORWARD.SYS file.
Here you will have to make an A XXXX entry for every alias you added to your
BBS.SYS. The format of the entries is:
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A THC
G WPUPD
P @
C C:/FBB/THCUPD.IN
---------
A CJU
G WPUPD
P @
C C:/FBB/CJUUPD.IN
---------
I have previously entered THC and CJU in my BBS.SYS. The G WPUPD designates
that all bulletins addressed @ WPUPD will be forwarded to the files
C:\FBB\THCUPD.IN and C:\FBB\CJUUPD.IN. The P @ declares that the forward
is to a file.
Now you are able to do the final setup step: edit the CRON.SYS
In your CRON.SYS you will need to add lines such as the following:
IF H 23,0,1,2
X \FBB\BIN\RLIWP.EXE WB0THC C:\FBB\THCUPD.IN
X \FBB\BIN\RLIWP.EXE WA0CJU C:\FBB\CJUUPD.IN
ENDIF
The time specification in the IF H line should be several hours after you
have the BBS program set to do its housekeeping. In my case I have the
BBS set to do its housekeeping at 23:00. The program to convert the FBB
message to the RLI format will check for a file to process at 23:00, 00:00,
01:00 and 02:00 during the call to the CRON.SYS file. It would be useless to
call the converter program every hour when there have been no WP update
messages generated.
The next line runs the converter program (RLIWP.EXE) which is located in the
\FBB\BIN directory. The first parameter is the callsign of the RLI system
that the update message is destine for (in my example WB0THC & WA0CJU, the
stations that received my WP update messages during the testing of the
converter program. {it is silly to send WP update messages half way across
the country to find out that it didn't work}).
The next parameter is the input file to process. These should be the same
as was used in the entries in FORWARD.SYS file.
---------------------How it works/what it does-------------------------------
After EPURWP is ran and the WP updates are created there will be one as a
bulletin @ WPUPD. The BBS will then forward this message to files as defined
in the FORWARD.SYS. At the top of the hour during the indicated times as set
in the CRON.SYS the RLIWP program is run. If it find the file specified
by the second parameter it will read that file, search for the from callsign
to use (that is located at the end of the message subject: WP update from ...).
and then use this as the callsign the new update is from (which has to be a
valid amateur callsign). The converter then assigns the proper title for the
message (WP Update) and copies the message text, looking for the /EX that
concludes the message, into the MAIL.IN file. It then prepares to process
another message that may be in the same file. After all messages are
processed, the input file is deleted.
-----------------------------Conclusion-------------------------------------
1. This software is freeware to the amateur community. It may not be sold.
It may be freely copied and distributed, but at no charge exceeding the
medium and shipping.
2. No warranty is expressed or implied and incidental damages resulting from
the use of this software are solely the responsibility of the user. While
the software works fine, and I am willing to give it to the amateur
community, I am not willing to assume any liabilty for it crashing your
computer or its peripherals. (It has not done that on any machine we have
run it on...this is just legal junk to prevent someone from holding me
responsible for being generous enough to give this server away as a
service to the FBB {and RLI?} community.)
3. Feedback on desired features, bugs, etc. are encouraged.
4. Also check out my modified M_FILTER program which has the capability to
take ALL incoming RLI WP Updates (weather they are @ your system or not)
and create a FBB compatable WP update message from the data in order to
update the FBB WP database. The M_FILTER program is an excellent
compliment to this one.
Good luck and 73,
Dean - KE0WO
US Snail: Dean R. Madsen, KE0WO
P. O. BOX 303
Storm Lake, IA 50588
Packet: KE0WO @ KE0WO.#NWIA.IA.USA.NA
Internet: MADSENDEAN@BVC.EDU