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- AUTO-MSG
- A Utility for QuickBBS
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- PROMISES, WARRANTIES, ETC
- Aint none! If you got this directly from me, I can promise it's clean, and
- works for me. I will try to work out any problems reported to me, and will
- consider all criticisms and comments. Flames will be ignored.
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- LICENSE
- You may use and distribute these programs as you see fit. No money may be
- charged for the distribution of these programs with the exception of the a
- small reimbursement for the cost of the floppy disk. The archive must contain
- all original files and doc's.
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- AUTO-MSG was written to allow the SysOp to import any text file into the QBBS
- message base. It may be possible to use in on other BBS systems, but I don't
- have anyway of knowing.
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- SETUP
- You will have to create a two line file called AUTO-MSG.CFG consisting of the
- directory where your system stores the incoming messages (not packets). This
- must be complete enough to get there from the sub-directory where AUTO-MSG is
- run from. Line two is your net/node number. My .CFG is enclosed.
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- C:\Binkley\mail
- 151/807
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- RUNNING
- You can run from your BBS batch, or an external batch file. A sample batch
- file is included. Then use EchoGen (or equivalent) to "toss" the message. Oh
- yeah, in order for the message to be tossed, the area name must be in your
- AREAS.BBS file. AUTO-MSG requires 4 command line parameters in the form of:
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- auto-msg [to] [subject] [board_name] [filename.ext]
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- to: simple.... SYSOP or ALL or USER's NAME
- subject: ..... what is the message about?
- board_name ... The name of the board to toss to (LOCAL or COMMENT,...)
- filename.ext . The text file to import.
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- Remember to use the underscore ( "_" ) if there are any spaces other than
- between the 4 parameters. Example:
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- auto-msg ALL A_TEST_MESSAGE LOCAL TEST.TXT
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- Larry Kremmel
- SysOp The Hole in the Wall
- 1-919-751-2678
- 9600 HST
- 151/807
- 03 JAN 89
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- HISTORY
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- 11 Dec 88
- Initial Beta not released.
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- 27 Dec 88
- Added AUTO-MSG.CFG for use on other systems. Wrote docs. Still Beta!
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- 31 Dec 88
- Fixed message format so they should toss on other systems.
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- 02 Jan 89
- Fixed net/node routine to properly handle hex to decimal to hex
- conversion.