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Fill in this registration form and mail it along with your $10-$15
registration fee to me as follows...
Mail to: Glenn J. Schworak
1710 Lee St SE
Salem, Or 97302
If you are simply updating your key file, you may fill in the form and net mail
it to me and I will get you a new key file. Or you may upload it to my BBS!
Upgrades: Glenn's World BBS
(503) 581-6524
Glenn Schworak 1:3406/32 FidoNet
glenn@g-world.com
PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY
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Software Information
Program: AmiNet Utilities V1.0
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Your Information
Name: _____________________________________________
Address: _____________________________________________
City: __________________ State: _____ Zip: ________
Phone: _____________________________________________
Your BBS Information
Name: _____________________________________________
Software: _____________________________________________
Min Baud: ________________ Max Baud: ________________
Phones: _____________________________________________
Your Network Information
Net #1 Name: _________________ Address _________________
Net #2 Name: _________________ Address _________________
Net #5 Name: _________________ Address _________________
Net #6 Name: _________________ Address _________________
Net #7 Name: _________________ Address _________________
(feel free to list any other networks you are connected to)
How should I deliver your KEY file?
___ Hold it on your BBS for me please... I will log on and get it.
___ Crash Mail! (only on FidoNet, E!Net)
___ UUENCODED with PGP (send your public key to me at glenn@g-world.com)
___ Network HOLD Mail! (Fido like network only)
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AmiNet Utilities - By: Glenn J. Schworak
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Version 1.0
Overview: This software is a collection of programs designed to allow systems
with InterNet EMail access to offer the complete AmiNet to their
users without having to have a huge hard drive deticated to AmiNet
or buying every AmiNet CD-ROM.
How it works: Put simply, users of this software are accessing the BITFTP
service from Princeton University. This is an EMail FTP program
that allows users to FTP without having a live InterNet link.
You or your users simply move throught the AmiNet directories
selecting the files that are of intrest to you. The software
does all the work of building the proper message to be sent out
to BITFTP. Within a short while, your file comes back to you.
Requirements: Of course, you need to have AmiUUCP set up and running. You
also need a feed site for your UUCP mail. You will need some
way to get the UUENCODED files that come back to your system out
to the users who have requested them. These files will sent to
the users directly in EMail. So if your system is already getting
mail out to your users, you are fine!
Installing:
1) Unpack all files to the directory Doors:AmiNet
(if you use another directory, things will work but you need
to modify the rexx scripts)
2) Get a copy of INDEX from the aminet site of your choice.
IE: ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/INDEX
if your system can handle large (1meg) messages in a single block,
you may simply run the AmiNetUpdate.rexx program and this file will
be requested and processed automaticaly. For information on a manual
update and using AmiNetBreak, see step 5.
NOTE: If you are going to use this option, copy UUBREAK to your
UUCP:C/ directory so it is in the normal search path.
3) Set your BBS up to call AmiNetSearch as a CLI program. If you need,
you can modify AmiNetSearch.rexx to do this for you. The version
included in this package is designed for Excelsior BBS but is easily
modified.
Format:
AmiNetSearch <rows> <workpath> <InterNetAddress> [chunksize]
<rows> Max rows per screen (normaly 24)
<workpath> Where all the AmiNet Utilities are (Doors:AmiNet/)
<InterNetAddress> The users address without domain
-- If the full address is glenn@g-world.com
-- only use the information left of the @ symbol
-- this would be glenn in this case.
[chunksize] The largest message size your system can handle.
If your system can only handle 100k files, this would
be set to 100. If your system accepts files of any
size, leave this variable out, or set it to 0.
Example:
AmiNetSearch 24 Doors:AmiNet/ glenn 200
4) If your system can handle files of any size, you can set up your
CRON program to call the script AmiNetUpdate.rexx each night.
This script will keep your AmiNet data base up to date each month.
Calling it nightly insures the files required are requested if needed
and installed when they come in. And if the files don't need updating
little time is lost while things are checked. Check the script for
more information if you need to. (skip to step 6)
5) If you don't want to automaticaly update the files, or you are limited
to the size of the files you can accept, you will need to update the
database manualy from time to time as you see fit. Once you have the
index file on your system (ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/INDEX) you
can run AmiNetBreak which creates the data files used by AmiNetSearch.
Format:
AmiNetBreak <workdir> <indexfile>
<workpath> Where all the AmiNet Utilities are (Doors:AmiNet/)
<indexfile> The full path to the index file you are using.
Normaly this would be INDEX, but if you are only
getting the RECENT files, you can run them through
this same program and they will update the database
just as a complete INDEX would. This is recomended
if you are doing the updates manualy as it saves
a lot of time.
Example:
AmiNetBreak Doors:AmiNet/ Temp:INDEX
-or- AmiNetBreak Doors:AmiNet/ Temp:RECENT
6) Once you have an INDEX file and the data base had been created, you
are done and you are all set to use the program. Enjoy!
7) If you so desire, you can add filenotes to the directories and files
that make up the database within the work directory. These file notes
will be used as added descriptions by the AmiNetSearch program and
will help you and your users find the files they are looking for.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at glenn@g-world.com
and I will do what I can to help you out.