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_ F D R E Q v 1.16 _
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_ Copyright 1993-1995 Manfred Schramm _
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_ Manfred Schramm _
_ Esplanade 2 _
_ D-46483 Wesel _
_ Phone : +49-281-340193 _
_ Mailbox : +49-281-340191 V32B, ZyX _
_ Mailbox : +49-281-340192 X75 _
_ Fido : 2:2446/501 + 502 _
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F D R E Q : free configurable Filerequest-processor for systems running
FrontDoor > 2.10, 2.11, 2.20(x)mL and InterMail >=2.26
-= How it works ? =-
Let's suppose, the setup is done and FDREQ may run in a safe system
environment.
So, when there is an online-request, your mailer will shell to FDREQ
and will tell FDREQ, what is requested, who requests and the state
of the requester.
FDREQ checks out, whether requests (with the requesters baudrate)
are allowed actually and if yes, how long requests may dure.
FDREQ reads, depending on the requesters state, the list of directories
the requester may request from.
It gets its information about REQLIST.DIR, SREQLST.DIR, ALIAS.LST,
SECALIAS.LST and PASSWORD.LST from FrontDoors/InterMails setup.
FDREQ looks for the requested files.
If a found file is on a CD-ROM-Drive, FDREQ will copy it to the temp.
outbound (if configured).
FDREQ writes a msg to the requester, naming the files, naming the state of
the search, adding filedescriptions (if available) and naming the
requesters amount of request-size, -time, -times for the call, the day
and overall.
FDREQ will create and append a FILES.BBx carrying the available file-
descriptions, if configured (and if the requester didn't disable).
FDREQ will create and append a TIC-FILE carrying the available file-
descriptions, if configured (and if the requester didn't disable).
The AREA-name for the TIC by default is 'REQUEST'.
The requester may change this areaname by himself.
After sending, FILES.BBx and/or RQ*.TIC should be deleted by the mailer.
FDREQ does logging in three possible grades (as configured).
If FDREQ cannot find a special requested file, it adds the filename to
a list for later offline request processing (if configured) and notifies
to the requester, that it will look later on offline CD-ROMs for the file.
Depending on the configuration, FDREQ notifies that the file is available
on an existing, but offline volume (if it finds it in CD_VOLx.FDR).
FDREQ is able to initiate a new index-run, if it notices differences
between its index and the filebase.
So far.
FDRINDEX, which should be run at least once a day, creates a database
of all requestable files.
Therefor it uses all normal FD/IM-informaton.
You can have FDRINDEX importing CD-ROM-contents.
If you allow offline request processing, FDRINDEX can read the list
of desired requests left and, if a CD-ROM actually is in the drive,
where a requested file is to be found, it will copy this file to a
temp. outbound, write a notification to the requester and write a
fileattachMSG (HOLD) and a normal (routed) information to the requester.
If you have this requester configured as friend and CRASH, both messages
will be crashed out immediately.
If there will be requests left, FDRINDEX writes a notification to the
sysop (you).
If there are requests, which you don't want to fullfill or which you
can not fullfill, you may delete them from the list.
FDRINDEX will look for its own fileattachMSGs each run.
If there are attaches left, which are older than x days (as configured),
it will delete these attaches.
FDRINDEX will look for netmail-request and will, if it finds any,
append the request(s) to the list of requests to be done offline.
With the userbase and the friends/twits-base, you are flexible to
configure your request-system following special needs.
With the baudrate-specific and time-specific handling of
request-sizes you are highly! flexible to configure your
request-system. Especially in a multilinesystem, FDREQs
cababilities will give you a great tool to have your mailer
done its work in a smart way.
The fullscreen-setup enables you to configure FDREQ in an easy
interactive way.
For more information, please read the documentation.