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- Using this tutorial you will learn to use BUM by an example:
- after having loaded BUM we must insert the BBS (or Aminet sites) to
- which the user usually connect himself. To do it we have to insert
- the data of the first BBS in the square "BBS Data" of the "BBS Window"
- ed eventually the ratio and the credits of the user.
- To insert the BBS in the list you have to press the button "Insert"
- of the square "Panel".
- At this point BUM will send a message to the user in which remember
- him to insert the upload dir. Every BBS must have an upload dir, that is
- a dir in which there are the files to send to the current BBS.
- Two or more BBS (but also all the BBS) can share the upload dir.
- To set the upload dir you have to press the button "Set Upload Dir"
- of the "BBS Window" or editing the dir directly in the string gadget
- located on its right.
-
- Let do the same operations for all the others BBS; now we have a list
- in which we can move using the buttons "Next" and "Prev" of the square
- "Panel" (so you can select the current BBS).
-
- Now we have to insert the files in each BBS: so select the first BBS
- we had inserted as the current one and consider the "Download Window".
-
- In this window there are the files to receive from the current BBS.
- The user can get the list of all the files of the system (or browse the list
- on-line), select the files he is interested in and insert them in the square
- "Files to receive". To do it you have to:
-
- - Select that square as the current one (pressing the square gadget
- located above the button "<=Move").
-
- - Insert data of the first file in the square "File Data" (the lenght in K).
-
- - Press the button "Ins" of the square "Panel". "Ins" get file info in the square
- "File Data" and insert them in the current square.
-
- - Repeat all the operation for every file to download.
-
- When you have done, in the square "Files to receive" there will be present all
- the files to download, while in the informative gadgets there will be
- some information about the same files; in the gadget called "N" there
- will be their number, in the gadget called "S" their lenght and in the
- two gadgets called "TIME" the time they need to be transfered.
- (considering the parameter "BPS" of the "Configuration window").
-
- Now look at the square "Next files to receive" that contains the files
- that the user wants to receive during the next connection.
- By the buttons "<=Move" and "Move=>" of the square "Files to receive" it is
- possible to transfer some files from that square to the square
- "Next files to receive" (destination list). The file that will be transfered
- is the one is actually highlight in the source list.
-
- After having effected the connection and downloaded the files the user
- will have to transfer all the files in the "Next files to receive"
- to the square "Files received" and prepare the files to download
- in the next connection.
-
- Now let go in the "Upload Window". In it there are the files that the user
- wants to send to the archieve. The rules of this window are very similar
- to the "Download Window", but there are some difference because of the files
- of this window have a physical corrispondence in the HD of the user (in fact
- the user has to be send them).
- This fact means that:
-
- - If you press the button "Ins",a file requester will be displayed.
- In this file requester the user will have to choose a file (obviusly that is
- already present in the his HD) that will be copied in the upload dir of the
- BBS. If the file choosen is already in the upload dir all will be good (or
- rather should be always so).
-
- - If you press the button "Del" also the file in the HD will be deleted
- (its path is "upload dir" + "name of the file").
-
- - If you press the button "Move=>" of the square "Next files to send" BUM
- will check if the file to be moved is not used by others BBS and if so will delete it
- from the upload dir (because it is used no more by all the BBS).
-