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Important Changes since MakeNL 2.5x:
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ARC:
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The ARC keyword no longer works as documented in the old MakeNL
documentation and is obsolete. MakeNL 2.5x only had support for
Arc compression, but 3.x.x now supports multiple compression
utilities, through configurable archiver entries following the
ARCCopy, ARCMove, and ARCOpen keywords. These new keywords need
between three and five parameters. To provide compatibility with
MakeNL 2.5x, the ARC keyword must be commented out of the
MAKENL.CTL file, which will cause MakeNL to default to Arc
compression as before.
The new syntax of the ARCXxxxx keywords are as follows:
ARCXxxx [x] [archiver exe name] [archiver command] [command switches]
The [x] tells MakeNL what the first character of the final archive
of the stub will be. For zip, you would list z, resulting in *.znn
output files.
Here are some examples of commonly used archivers, and the commands
that work with those specific versions. Please check your archiver's
documentation if you have different versions, or open sourced
versions as opposed to commercial versions:
PKZip v2.04: ARC[Copy] z pkzip -ex (or: ARC z pkzip -a)
InfoZip v2.3: ARC[Copy] z zip -jo (or: ARC z zip -j)
Rar v1.53: ARC[Copy] r rar a -ep
Arj v2.22: ARC[Copy] j arj a -e
Lha v2.13: ARC[Copy] l lha a -m1
Currently, ARCCopy and ARCMove work for this feature. ARCCopy
creates an archive but leaves the original file, while ARCMove
creates an archive and removes the original file. To implement
these keywords, enter the following in your MAKENL.CTL file:
THReshold 0 -1
ARCCopy z zip -jo ; Infozip v2.3
ARCMove z zip -jmo
The ARCOpen keyword will allow you to receive segment files in
different archiver formats and have them automatically unpacked.
A maximum of 10 ARCOpen commands may be defined in the MAKENL.CTL
file. In the FILES section of MAKENL.CTL, if a file is defined as
hub.50, then in the MAILFILES and UPLOADS directories a zipped
segment with the name hub.z0 or hub.zip will be unpacked, and the
unpacked file will be processed.
The syntax for the ARCOpen command is the same as for ARCCopy, but
10 lines are allowed and 10 different archive formats are recognized.
The following archivers are recognized:
Pkzip, Infozip, Arc, Lha, Zoo, Arj, Rar, Ha, Bzip2, Gzip and
Unix compress.
Following are some examples of decompression entries in MAKENL.CTL
for the ARCOpen keyword (versions unknown - please refer to your
own archivers' documentations):
Arc: ARCOpen a arc ew
Infozip: ARCOpen z unzip -oj
Lha: ARCOpen l lha e f
Rar: ARCOpen r rar e -o+ -y
Gzip: ARCOpen g tar xfz
Bzip2: ARCOpen b tar xfj
Compress: ARCOpen c tar xfz
Arj: ARCOpen j arj -y e
Zoo: ARCOpen o zoo eq:0
Ha: ARCOpen h ha ey
3D addressing Support:
----------------------
MakeNL v2.5x only supported 2D addressing (ie. 134/10). This
caused problems when attempting to use MakeNL in multi-zone or
multiple network setups. MakeNL v3.x.x now supports 3D addressing
(ie. 1:134/10), which resolves those problems.
MSGID support:
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MakeNL v3.x.x now implements MSGID's in it's outgoing netmails. A
file named SEQUENCE.DAT will be created in the MASTER directory as
a result.
ALLOwunpub:
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ALLOunpub is a new keyword that will cause MakeNL to allow the
-Unpublished- string to be present in the sixth (phone number)
field of node listings, without requiring the Pvt keyword to be
present in the listing. This keyword is disabled by default. To
enable it, add ALLOwunpub 1 to your MAKENL.CTL file.
ALPHAphone:
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ALPHAphone is a new keyword that will cause MakeNL to allow alpha
characters to be present in the sixth (phone number) field of node
listings. This keyword is disabled by default. To enable it, add
ALPHAphone 1 to your MAKENL.CTL file.