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- David Blanchard, the SysOp of MySTery BBS is pleased to present
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- ST-QWK: offline mail door by: A+ Software
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- Programmed by: David Blanchard & James Armstrong, III Copyright (c) 1992,
- A+ Software
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- When entering the door you will be presented with a menu.
- The four options are:
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- [D] 'D'ownload QWK packet
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- Are you ready to 'D'ownload your QWK packet? First, ST-QWK will
- create your CONTROL.DAT and DOOR.ID files needed by your reader. It
- will then ask you for the compression method, which for now includes
- Zip, Arc, & Lzh. (Note: most of these options are hot-keyed). Then
- it will ask you for the maximum number of message per base to scan.
- Type in a number or hit [Enter] for all. It will then ask if you wish
- to scan only messages to you. Typing 'Y' will only send messages to
- you, and your High Message Reads WILL NOT be updated. That way, you
- may go back and scan the other messages in the base manually via
- FidoDoor, or download a complete QWK later. Hitting 'N' will send all
- messages that you have not read, up to the maximum number that you
- specified. After answering this prompt, ST-QWK will proceed to
- analyze the messages and store them in the MESSAGES.DAT file.
- Everytime it finds a message base that you have marked for scan, (and
- provided you have read access to it) it will print a status report on
- that conference after scanning it. If there no new messages, it will
- not print anything. After it scans all the bases, the archiver you
- selected will be called up, and will pack everything into the .QWK
- file. You will be asked for your preferred transfer protocol, and XYZ
- will be called with the proper parameters. After the transfer, the
- program will end and return to the BBS.
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- [U] 'U'pload REP packet
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- Ready to upload a REPly? Select the 'U'pload REP option. ST-QWK
- will ask you for the transfer protocol and execute XYZ to receive the
- REP packet. The program is capable of detecting the type of archive,
- and calling the appropriate extraction routine. If it can't deter-
- mine the archive type, the process will be halted, and an error logged
- to the screen and logfile. It will recognize the following archive
- methods: ARC, LZH, ZIP & ARJ. The messages will be imported, and a
- report returned. When completed, you will be returned to the BBS.
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- [C] 'C'onfigure scan settings
- ST-QWK uses the scan settings that are in FidoDoor, and can be
- configured from either program. FidoDoor, by default, turns all the
- scan settings on; you NEED to set your scan settings before attempting
- a download. The Configure section goes through each message base one
- by one, displaying the Conference name and status of the scan setting
- (on or off). You have four options to use, Yes, No, Quit and [Enter].
- Hitting 'Y' will turn the base on, 'N' will turn it off, 'Q'uit will
- exit the routine, saving your progress to that point, and hitting the
- [Enter] key, will skip to the next conference without modifying the
- settings of that base.
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- [Q] 'Q'uit. The Quit option should be pretty self explanatory.
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- Future features:
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- Some features I will be adding in the immediate future include:
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- o Netmail Support.
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- o ANSI and VT52 support.
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- o BlueWave Option (may or may not be separate program)
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- o Improved interface. It works for me, but I am sure many
- of you will have suggestions! :-)
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- o Any features that the SysOps or users have to offer...
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- This program is Copyright (c) 1992, A+ Software. No portion of the program
- may be altered, dissassembled, changed, or modified in any way.
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