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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Binkley 2 AdeptXBBS Outbound Convertor ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1.1. About 'n' history ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This is just a short help for setting up Bink2Adept.
I 've started this small little tool because someone called Hagar was too lazy to plug
Binkley styled outbound into AdeptXBBS WC builds. (I ve heard of another Hex, who is even too lazy
to plug in squish support)
Anyway .. after some hours of tests it was just fun. First version (plain CMD)
worked fine, but it seems that some sysops were not able to use it, so i decided to rewrite
it using VX-REXX - adding a complete setup and some other stuff.
History
30.07 V1.06
-found a bug i report once to Hagar, when he was fixing gatekeeper:
When Bink2Adept tries to archieve new mail into an existing A.* packet, which will be send
at the same time or modiefed in another way, some strange behavior occours
anyway, if bink2adept trapps or just run through w/o reporting problems, mail was lost always!
Sorry for that .. didn't think bout it.
Implement a work around ...:
If archieving new mail into an existing A.* fails new mail will be left in your binkley styled
outbound. They will be converted into Adept's outbound on next run.
I your default archiever should exit with errorlevel 0 / RETCODE 0. Any other value will be
handled as an error.
Also on multiline systems there may be a problem, when Bink2Adept will be started more than once.
When starting B2A it will now test if a named rxqueue exists. If it exists B2A pulls out
some session infos from the other active B2A. Otherwise it creates a new RXQueue and pushes
session infos into it. <<< I NEED some tests!!!
This is a bit dangerous, because when B2A aborts rxqueue can still exist. This will B2A prefent
itself to restart again. Include in this archieve is a small cmd: removeque.cmd
Start this rexx script if this happens. If u still cannot start B2A u must reboot!
Added some reports to the log file .. PLEASE report, if there are still problems!!!
Beside this i started a new outbound manager. On Main screen press F5.
In this release all functions are disabled or even not visible .. not ready yet, but i think
i have to correct upper bugs immediately.
Changed the way B2A looks for bink2adept.ini . Now u may start B2A from any directory.
removed some pretty much useless "IF THEN - DO SELECT" structs
28.07 V1.05
-changed Netmail area handling. Now Netmailarea will be identified by flags - till now
Bink2Adept searched for name "NETMAIL" - but yes ... you may name it as you want.
27.07 V1.04
-some minor stuff
26.07 V1.03
-added a resize event into menu tools - i use 1024x768 ... everthing was displayed here
but on lower resolution parts of the window where out of visible
(hey wikk .. u should upgrade your 256kb videocard)
-rewrite help file - now you should get correct help
-some cosmetic stuff
25.07. V1.02
-parsing line args was not correct
-mismatched filenames for message_areas.squish and squish.cfg.new
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. SETUP ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
SETUP
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.1. Setup ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
First of all run SETUP of BINK2ADEPT:
BINK2ADEPT.EXE SETUP (or even without any argument)
On main window enter Setup (F2). After all HIT SAVE !!!
If you have the one of the following lines in your config.sys (i'm sure you have), most of
the required settings should be ok.
SET ADEPT=C:\ADEPT
SET APATH=C:\ADEPT
Further i assume adept's default pathes and filenames are used:
<Adept main directory>\GATEKPR.CTL => will look into for your default archiever statement
<Adept main directory>\SYSTEM\ADDRESSES => first address in this file must be your main aka
<Adept main directory>\MESSAGE_BASES => default directory where your msgbase is stored
Any difference MUST be changed manually! So go through all settings.
Next open your mailer settings: CONFIG -> ACTIVE LINE -> MAILER SETTINGS
EDIT MAIL PROC CMD: C:\OS2\Cmd.Exe /c C:\Adept\Mail.Cmd 1 %s
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line number <----- |
inbound path <--------
Now open your mail.cmd and add the following line AFTER your tosser:
start /PM BINK2ADEPT.EXE TOSS %1 %2
Command line switches:
BINK2ADEPT.EXE TOSS = Look into Binkley's outbound and convert
BINK2ADEPT.EXE SETUP = run SETUP mode
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.2. MAIL.CMD ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Here a copy of my mail.cmd
rem ======================================
rem ----Adept Request Prozessor
rem ======================================
c:
cd \adept\tools\arp2
start /PM arp200.exe %1 %2
rem ======================================
rem ----New NET/ECHOMAILS tossen
rem ======================================
c:
cd \adept\tools\fastecho
fastech2 toss -c
fastech2 afix
rem ======================================
rem ----FILE TICER AND FILEMGR
rem ======================================
cd \adept\tools\mtic
MTIC2.EXE SCAN
MTIC2.EXE TICHATCH
rem ======================================
rem ----SCAN FOR ECHO OUTBOUND (Squish base only)
rem ======================================
cd \adept\tools\fastecho
fastech2 scan -SQ
rem ======================================
rem ----SCAN FOR NET OUTBOUND (FIDO/*MSG only)
rem ======================================
cd \adept\tools\itrack
itros2 /Cadept.cfg scan
rem ======================================
rem ----CONVERT INTO ADEPT OUTBOUND
rem ======================================
cd \adept\tools\bink2adept
start /PM bink2adept TOSS %1 %2
cd \adept
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.3. General Settings ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
GENERAL SETTINGS
In case bink2adept can't get domain, zone and point out of binkley's outbound
i need to have defaults. This occours, when binkley's outbound will be stored in
a directory call "OUTBOUND" instead of nameing directory like domain.(hex of zone).
Don't confound it with your fidonet outbound dir!
DEFAULT DOMAIN: Type in your domain of your main AKA
This should normaly be "FIDONET"
DEFAULT ZONE: Type in your zone number
DEFAULT POINT: Don't change this value. Must be zero.
MAIN AKA: Your Main AKA (also know as). Should be
your Fidonet AKA
ARCHIVER: Your default mail archiver - don't forget all switches!
Default set to ZIP.EXE -m -j
LOGFILE: Complete path and filename for your logfile
LOGSTYLE: Choose between NORMAL and NONE
DEBUG log-style isn't ready yet (nice feature, isn't?)
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.4. PATHES OF YOUR SYSTEM ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
PATHES OF YOUR SYSTEM
ADEPT OUTBOUND: Type in complete path of your Adept styled outbound
Don't forget a trailing "\"
BINKLEY OUTBOUND: Type in complete path of your Binkley styled outbound
Don't forget a trailing "\"
AREA.CONTROL: Type in complete path and filename of your area.control file
MESSAGE_AREAS: Complete path and filename of your message areas file
MESSAGE_AREAS.SQUISH: When converting your message areas file into squish i need
complete path and filename where to store it
DO NOT USE SAME AS YOUR MESSAGE_AREAS !!!
MESSAGE BASE: Complete path to your squish message base
Don't forget a trailing "\"
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.5. SQUISH MESSAGE BASE ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
SQUISH MESSAGE BASE DEFAULTS
SQUISH.CFG: Complete path and filename where to store SQUISH.CFG
PURGE MESSAGES: Delete messages according to number of messages
0 = don't care
PURGE DAYS: Delete messages according to days
0 = don't care
CREATE SCO: When converting into squish, your origin lines can be stripped
and stored in a <areaname>.SQO file, which may be used by SQED32
AUTORENUMBER MSG: If you enable this option BINK2ADEPT will automaticly renumber your
*.MSG message base. Only rquired if your 3rd tosser can't do that
AdeptXBBS currently cannot handle *.MSG, when *.MSG aren't numbered
from 1 to X by step 1
(can anyone try to translate this for me???)
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. MENU Tools ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3.1. SQUISH Convertor ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
MENU TOOLS
ADD AREA {ALT-A} Add a new area (only) to squish.cfg - not ready yet
DEL AREA {ALT-D} Delete an area (only) from squish.cfg
After deletion u must enter direct edit of areas! See below ..
RENUMBER {ALR-R} Renumber your FIDO/*.MSG Message base
CREATE SQO {ALT-C} Extract Origin lines out of message_areas into
<areaname>.sqo - these files may be used by SQED32 or something else.
EXPORT MESSAGE_AREAS related to flags out of message_areas the following function will be used:
NETMAIL areas will be converted into FIDO/*.MSG (FLAGS: +1048576)
ECHOMAIL areas will be converted into squish (FLAGS: +32768)
USENET and EMAIL areas (FLAGS: 8192 btw 65536) will be ignored, because up now
they cannot be used with either squish nor FIDO/*.MSG
EXISTING files will be over written!!! Also see SETUP.
EXPORT SQUISH.CFG This option will create a SQUISH.CFG, including all informations we collected out
of message_areas and area.control.
EXISTING files will be over written!!! Also see SETUP.
OTHER KEYS: DIRECT EDIT (ALT-E) enables direct editing of squish areas listed in th main container
ENDEDIT (ALT-S) will safe your changes. Use (TAB) or (Shift-TAB) to switch between.
Drag 'n' Drop:
You may change the default listing of areas by simple dragging and droping area names
in main container.
Important: After a drag'n'drop operation you MUST enter direct edit! Areas MUST
be reordered and renumbered by entering direct edit. Hope will find a fix for that.
Up now ... mmhhh ...
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. LAST but not LEAST ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1. Reports ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
LAST BUT NOT LEAST
Some special thanks to HoRRible and HeX
BUG REPORTS: If the program abort, a file "BINK2ADEPT.ERR" will be in your directory.
please rename it into: <your_name>.ERR and send it to one of the addresses listed below.
You may also send me new ideas for this tool. If it is possible i will add them.
Also availble: ARP206 Adept Request Prozessor 2.06 PM
ABS300 Adept Backup System 3.00 PM
- New Version - completely rewritten (still in testmode, but coming out soon)
FileM AdeptXBBS filebase mover - corrects files.path - no need to run bfsmake
You may contact me:
BBS: +49-201 - 898524 (V.34 - X.75)
+49-201 - 898598 (X.75)
email: Klaus.Ader@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Fido: 2:2448/391.0@Fidonet
or much easier on IRC: IRC.ISONLINE.COM or IRC.SNOVAL.COM
channel: #Adept (what else?)
cya on streets
BK
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.2. COPYRIGHT ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
SOME USELESS STUFF: COPYRIGHT
This small tool was written in VX-REXX 2.1d by Watcom Software
VX-REXX (c) copyright by Watcom Software
AdeptXBBS copyright by AdeptSoft - Portions by M.Kimes
BINK2ADEPT (c) copyright by PC-TEAM GbR - K. Ader