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- Remote sysop's manual to Xenolink XAreaFix by Bart Schraa
-
-
- Where should XAreaFix be used for ?
- -----------------------------------
-
- Your sysop has decided to install another Areafix clone, XAreaFix. It
- has been installed for your convenience, you can now turn on and off areas,
- whether they are file related areas or just plain message areas. Lots of
- other features are supported too, they will be explained later.
-
- Write a MATRIX message to your sysop's fidonet address, and write the
- message to username AreaFix.
-
- TO: AreaFix
- Subject: secret
- %QUERY
- ---
-
- After you've send the message to your feed, and it has been unpacked,
- XAreaFix will scan your message, if you've set all things correct, XAreaFix
- will scan your message and send you the list of area's you're connected to.
- If you want to add additional notes in the message, not for XAreaFix but
- the sysop, add '---' on a new line and start writing. XAreaFix will stop
- reading your message if it comes to a line beginning with '---' or when
- end-of-message is reached.
-
- When a remote system wants to write to AreaFix he must specify his
- password on the subject line.
-
- These are the commands currently supported (there will be more), they
- have to be preceeded by a '%' like '%LIST:
-
- * LIST : List of all available area's.
-
- * QUERY : List of all connected area's.
-
- * UNLINKED : List of all available but not connected
- area's.
-
- * AVAIL : List all area's at your uplink(s).
-
- * +ALL : Connect all available area's.
-
- * -ALL : Disconnect all connected area's.
-
- * HELP : Send help file.
-
- * PAUSE : Disconnects all active area's and saves them
- to a temporary file for later use
-
- * RESUME : (re)Connects all area's listed in the
- temporary file saved by the 'PAUSE' command.
-
- * FROM <address> : Changes the address used as origin address
- into <address> which is used to process the
- areafix message.
-
- * COMPRESS <arc> : changes archiver in systems.config to <arc>;
- 'COMPRESS ?' will list all possible archivers
- at your system
-
- * PASSWORD <password> : will change the areafix password to
- <password> in the XAreaFix.config
-
- * LINKPW <password> : will change the linkup password to <password>
- in the systems.config
-
- * TICKPW <password> : will change the tick password to <password>
- in the XAreaFix.config
-
- * TICKMSG <YES/NO> : will change TickSend to (NO)TICKSEND in the
- XAreaFix.config
-
- * SEND <YES/NO> : will change Send to (NO)SEND in the
- XAreaFix.config
-
-
- NOTE:
-
- All commands are available from the subject line also (except (+/-)ALL
- and FROM):
-
- LIST : -L
- QUERY : -Q
- UNLINKED : -U
- HELP : -H
- PAUSE : -P
- RESUME : -R
- AVAIL : -A
-
- The originating (your) message must look something like:
-
- From : Bart Schraa 2:285/312.1
- To : XAreaFix 2:285/312
- Subject : SECRET
- --------------------------------------
- XENOLINK_SYSOP
- +XENOLINK_INFO
- -XENOLINK_UTIL
- %UNLINKED
- NLA*
- ---
-
- This will result in a message like:
-
- From : XAreaFix 2:285/312
- To : Bart Schraa 2:285/312.1
- Subject : Auto Reply
- --------------------------------------
-
- TagName Action
- ------------------------ ------------
- XENOLINK_SYSOP connected.
- XENOLINK_INFO connected.
- XENOLINK_UTIL disconnected.
- NLA_SYSOP connected
- NLA_TEST connected
-
- Unlinked message area's :
-
- TagName Description
- ------------------------ -------------------------------------------------
-
- XENOLINK_UTIL_NL Nederlandse utility support
- XENOLINK_UTIL Intenational utility support
-
- Generated by XAreaFix 1.0, (c) 1992-1994 Bart Schraa, XEcho Development.
-
-
- Switches in front of the commands or tagnames that are valid are:
-
- * % a command to be processed by XAreaFix
- * + Connect an area for the requesting system
- * - Disconnect an area for the requesting system
- * (Nothing) is the same as the '+'
-
- Wildcards are supported in the same way as AmigaDOS handles them. So
- NLA* will connect all area's that begin with NLA.
-
-
-