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__________________________________________________________________
This program and the documentation is copyrighted material.
It is (c) by PBS - Peter Hampf, FIDO 2:240/11 --
all rights reserved.
__________________________________________________________________
│ Some words about the LICENSE.
│
└─────────────────────────────────────────────
This program *can* be used as a stand-alone program. Originally
it's intended as an ADDON to ONTOUR, my mail-robot to answer your
netmails (NET!!) during your vacations.
ONTOUR itself (including MSBSCAN) costs 15,-- DM. MSBSCAN alone
doesn't cost anything but a netmail you have to send to me.
(Please tell me you are using it ;-) If you want to send me a
postcard, please use this address:
Peter Hampf
Graf von Galen Strasse 27
2848 Vechta
Germany
This program is *NOT* free! It is shareware and may not be altered
in any way! Please take this in mind.
│ What is this 'ADDON' ...
│ ... and WHY??
└─────────────────────────────────────────────
Ok. I designed ONTOUR to be an automatically replier to your
personal NET (!!) - mail! Not more! That because I hate to get a
reply to a message in an echo. (Like this: "Many thank for your
mail in REQUEST.GER <blabla> but the sysop <blabla> ... ")
But so many people asked me to make ONTOUR also reply to messages
in echo-areas. I ever said: NO! Not the hell!
But they nerved and nerved and nerved ....
ONTOUR - ADDON page 2
Ok, folks, here is your resolution ;-) ONTOUR itself will NEVER
answer echo-mails directly!!!! But you can scan your Hudson
messagebase with MSBSCAN (the ADDON is called MSBSCAN;-) and
create NET-mails that can be answered by ONTOUR. But please USE IT
ONLY ON YOUR NETMAILBOARD OR YOUR LOCAL BOARDS! Please don't
answer ECHOMAIL automatically!
Ok, there are different opinions about automatically answering
echomail. But please take in mind that some people could see an
annoying behaviour in doing this. Another aspect is important,
too: what will happen, if your name is "Peter Miller" and 2 other
poeple with THE SAME NAME will receive echomail in a board which
you scan with MSBSCAN? Right! YOU will answer THEIR mails! TAKE
THIS IN MIND!!!
MSBSCAN will read the ONTOUR-setup because it has to know the
ONTOUR users! Only mails to one of this users will be extracted
from your HMB!!! Because you may use MSBSCAN as a 'stand-alone'
program, if have included a 'partial' setup-program (called
S_ADDON.EXE) which will create an ONTOUR-compatible setup-file.
(But only including the needed informations... .) (S_ADDON is
*NOT* included in the ONTOUR-package, you can use S_ONTOUR
insteed.)
If you are not using ONTOUR's setup-program S_ONTOUR (or S_ADDON),
you can (MUST) give MSBSCAN a few commandline-parameters in this
order (!!!!) :
- the path to your HMB
- the path where to create the *.MSG-messages (usually your
NETMAIL-DIRECTORY where ONTOUR looks!)
- the board-numbers to search! Here you can give a 'range' like
this: "12;30;90-110;156-162;192" (If your command-interpreter
doesn't allow "-" you can use ".." insteed!)
- the names to search for. Please replace any spaces by
underscores (e.g.: Willy_Tester). (Parameters 4-9)
Further MSBSCAN MUST find an AREAS.BBS anywhere in your DOS-PATH
or in the current directory. This is necessary because MSBSCAN
will insert an "AREA:<name>" line in the new *.MSG - message. This
AREA: - line is the only reference to the original ECHO. ONTOUR
will insert this line in it's replies:
* Automatically reply to msg in <name>
(Please DON'T ask me to remove this line! I will not! If you
answer automatically to echomail, this MUST be visible - in my
opinion!)
MSBSCAN has three additional slash-parameters: /R to force already
received mail to be exported from your HMB, /? for a little
helpscreen and /X for relaxed name-checking! If /X is omitted, the
name (from ONTOUR-SETUP) MUST match with the TO-name of the
message starting at character 1, otherwise it may be somewhere in
the TO-line! (Use with caution!!)
One last word: MSBSCAN will create a CRC-checksum-file, so no mail
will be exported twice. Please don't delete this file!!!!
That's all! Enjoy, Peter
Vechta, 25. August 1992