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<h1> Synchronet's FidoNet Packet Tosser Documentation</h1>
<pre><a name="TOC" href="#TOC"><b>Table of Contents</b></a>
<pre><b>Table of Contents</b>
<a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a>
<a href="#Terminology">Terminology</a>
<a href="#Installation">Installation</a>
<a href="#AREAS.BBS Format">AREAS.BBS Format</a>
<a href="#AREAS.BBS">AREAS.BBS Format</a>
<a href="#Configuration">Configuration</a>
<a href="#Running SBBSecho">Running SBBSecho</a>
<a href="#Command Lines Switches">Command Line Switches</a>
<a href="#AREAFIX Commands">Area Manager Remote Commands</a></pre>
<a href="#RunningSBBSecho">Running SBBSecho</a>
<a href="#CommandLineSwitches">Command Line Switches</a>
<a href="#AREAFIXCommands">Area Manager Remote Commands</a></pre>
<h2><a name="Introduction">
<br>
<u>Introduction</u></a></h2>
Introduction</a></h2>
<pre>SBBSecho is a full-blown FTN echomail program (tosser/scanner) for Synchronet
BBS version 2.0 and higher. SBBSecho is level III implementation of the SMB
v2.00 specification including support for HyperAllocated and LZH compressed
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or any echomail programs after you have installed SBBSecho.
<a href="#TOC">Back to Table of Contents</a></pre>
<h2><a name="Terminology"><u>Terminology</u></a></h2>
<pre><b><u>FTN</u></b>
<h2><a name="Terminology">Terminology</a></h2>
<pre><b>FTN</b>
FidoNet Technology Network: Any network using FidoNet standards for addressing,
mail packets, mail sessions, node lists, etc.</pre>
<pre><b><u>Zones, Nets, Nodes, and Points?
<pre><b>Zones, Nets, Nodes, and Points?<u>
</u></b>
FTN node addresses are like phone numbers, they are made up of multiple
components (four to be exact). The components are: zone, net, node, and point.
......@@ -72,7 +80,7 @@ net, node, and optional point numbers (i.e. 1:103/705.1).</pre>
<pre>A 5D (5 dimensional) address refers to an FTN address consisting of a standard
3D or 4D address with an appended &quot;@domain&quot; (i.e. 1:103/705@fidonet.org).
<b><u>Attach or FLO Mailer?
<b>Attach or FLO Mailer?<u>
</u></b>
If you are using FrontDoor, InterMail, D'bridge, SEAdog, Dutchie, or any other
ArcMail *.MSG attach-style mailer, you are using what we will refer to as an
......@@ -80,16 +88,16 @@ ArcMail *.MSG attach-style mailer, you are using what we will refer to as an
<pre>If you are using BinkleyTerm, Portal of Power, or any other FLO/CLO/HLO/DLO
style mailer, you are using what we will refer to as a &quot;FLO Mailer&quot;.</pre>
<pre>Both types are supported equally by SBBSecho.</pre>
<pre><b><u>NetMail
<pre><b>NetMail<u>
</u></b>
Point-to-point (usually person-to-person) direct or routed messages.</pre>
<pre><b><u>EchoMail
<pre><b>EchoMail<u>
</u></b>
Group or conference messages of a particular subject matter. Usually
distributed on a regional or continental (e.g. FidoNet Zone 1 backbone) scale.
FTN style echomail areas have a unique area tag (name) associated with them to
distinguish each area from the others.</pre>
<pre><b><u>Packet
<pre><b>Packet<u>
</u></b>
An FTN packet is a group of one or more messages contained in a single
uncompressed file. Packets may contain echomail and/or netmail messages.
......@@ -101,7 +109,7 @@ temporary outbound packet files with a .PK_ extension and then renames them to
.PKT when they're completed. If you find any .PK_ files in your outbound
directory, don't worry. SBBSecho will find them the next time it is run and
continue packing them and sending them on their way.</pre>
<pre><b><u>Bundle</u></b>
<pre><b>Bundle</b>
An FTN bundle is a single file archive of one or more (usually compressed)
packets. Bundles will have file extensions where the first two characters
......@@ -111,7 +119,7 @@ first eight characters of the filename may be anything, but are usually
hexadecimal digits representing the FTN node address (or relative address) of
the system that created the bundle. SBBSecho changes the file extension of bad
inbound bundles to .MO_, .MO-, or .MO.</pre>
<pre><b><u>Areafix/Area Manager</u></b>
<pre><b>Areafix/Area Manager</b>
Areafix is a synonym for area manager (the very first FTN area manager
program was called AreaFix). Area manager capabilities (remote adding/removing
......@@ -120,7 +128,7 @@ no external area manager program is required. If you are not an FTN hub, then
the area manager portion of SBBSecho will probably not get any use on your
system.</pre>
<pre><a href="#TOC"><b>Back to Table of Contents</b></a></pre>
<h2><a name="Installation"><u>Installation</u></a></h2>
<h2><a name="Installation">Installation</a></h2>
<pre>To begin, copy the SBBSECHO.EXE, ECHOCFG.EXE, and AREAMGR.HLP files into your
Synchronet EXEC directory (usually C:\SBBS\EXEC), copy the SBBSECHO.CFG file
into your Synchronet CTRL directory (usually C:\SBBS\CTRL), and copy the
......@@ -158,7 +166,7 @@ tag (as shown in your echo list), but this may not always be the case - unless
you imported an AREAS.BBS or FIDONET.NA file into SCFG to begin with).
<a href="#TOC"><b>Back to Table of Contents</b></a></pre>
<h2><a name="AREAS.BBS Format"><u>AREAS.BBS Format</u></a></h2>
<h2><a name="AREAS.BBS">AREAS.BBS Format</a></h2>
<pre>Lines beginning with a semicolon (;) are considered comments, and are ignored.</pre>
<pre>Each line is in the following format:</pre>
<pre><b><i>CODE TAG UPLINKS</i></b></pre>
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here. Your address should NOT be listed here. If multiple
addresses are specified, you should specify the full 3D address
for each.</pre>
<pre><b><u>AREAS.BBS Example:</u></b></pre>
<pre><b>AREAS.BBS Example:</b></pre>
<pre>SBBS SYNCHRONET 1:3615/50
SYNCDATA SYNCDATA 1:3615/50
SYNC_SYS SYNC_SYSOPS 1:3615/50</pre>
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<pre>It must be changed to match the example given above!
<a href="#TOC"><b>Back to Table of Contents</b></a></pre>
<h2><a name="Configuration"><u>Configuration</u></a>
<h2><a name="Configuration">Configuration</a>
</h2>
<pre>In order to set up SBBSecho for your system you must run the included ECHOCFG
program. It should already be located in your EXEC directory. You may want to
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will allow you to change this to a different address. Using
the &quot;ALL&quot; wildcard in place of one of the address components
will allow you to configure settings for all nodes that meet
that specication (e.g. all nodes in zone 1 can be specified
that specification (e.g. all nodes in zone 1 can be specified
as 1:ALL or all nodes in zone 1, net 103 can be specified
as 1:103/ALL).</pre>
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you to add a new archive program. Pressing the DELete key will remove
the currently highlighted archive program. And pressing ENTER on the
currently highlighted archive program will allow you to edit the
options for that particular prgram from a menu like the following (note
options for that particular program from a menu like the following (note
that the name of the archive program you are editing appears at the top
of the window):</pre>
<blockquote>
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specifier will expand to the name of the file being compressed.</pre>
<pre><b> Unpack Command Line:
</b> This is the command line used by the archiving program for
UNcompressing files. The '%f' command line specifier will
Uncompressing files. The '%f' command line specifier will
expand to the name of the compressed file, the '%s' command
line specifier will expand to the path where the file is
being extracted to.
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<pre><b> Echo List Path/Name:
</b> This is the full path and filename of the echo list you are
defining. This list should contain the areatag names of areas,
one per line, with any comments seperated from the areatag by
one per line, with any comments separated from the areatag by
at least one space.</pre>
<pre><b> Hub Address:
</b> This is the address of the hub of the conferences contained
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request to the Hub Address specified to turn on an area from
this list. This happens when users remotely add areas using
Areafix and is not necessary if you are already receiving the
conferences in this list (ie: from Planet Connect).
conferences in this list (i.e.: from Planet Connect).
</pre>
<pre><b> Echo List Flags:
</b> These are the flags required for a node to be able to gain
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</blockquote>
<pre><b><a href="#TOC">Back to Table of Contents</a></b></pre>
<h2><a name="Running SBBSecho"><u>Running SBBSecho</u></a></h2>
<h2><a name="RunningSBBSecho">Running SBBSecho</a></h2>
<pre>The command line for executing SBBSECHO is very similar to SBBSFIDO, although
some command line switches have been eliminated.</pre>
<pre>We suggest you use the following command lines:</pre>
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<pre>Remove all references to SBBSFIDO from your batch files (if you have any).
See the included MAILER.BAT as an example.</pre>
<pre><a href="#TOC"><b>Back to Table of Contents</b></a></pre>
<h2><a name="Command Lines Switches"><u>Command Lines Switches</u></a>
<h2><a name="CommandLineSwitches">Command Line Switches</a>
</h2>
<pre><b>usage: sbbsecho [cfg_file] [/switches] [sub_code]</b></pre>
<pre>where: cfg_file is the filename of config file (default is ctrl\sbbsecho.cfg)
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U: Update echomail pointers only (export no echomail messages)
T: Do not update echomail pointers (test export)
H: Export all echomail messages (including messages imported from FidoNet)
J: Ignore recieved bit on netmail (import even though flagged as received)
J: Ignore received bit on netmail (import even though flagged as received)
L: Create log file (data\sbbsecho.log)
R: Create report of import totals (text\sbbsecho.msg)
B: Import locally created netmail too (ignore the local flag)
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=: Change existing tear lines to === when exporting
!: Notify users via telegram of received echomail messages</pre>
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<h2><a name="AREAFIX Commands"><u>AREAFIX Commands</u></a>
<h2><a name="AREAFIXCommands">AREAFIX Commands</a>
</h2>
<pre>Remote area manager, or areafix, commands are used by uplinks to be able to
turn echo areas off and on, list currently connected areas, and more.</pre>
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%-ALL Disconnect all areas
[---] Everything below the tear line is ignored</pre>
<pre>NOTE: A compression type of NONE is also supported for uncompressed packets.</pre>
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