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- ZZNotify NLM Demo An MHS Enhancement from Scott Wertz
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- ZZNotify is a fairly simple program with a fairly simple purpose:
- it notifies users when they have mail messages waiting in their
- MHS mailbox. It's designed so that you can specify how often you
- wish to be reminded of waiting mail; the notification interval
- can be as long or as short as you like, and is specified in hours,
- minutes, and seconds as HH:MM:SS. When that time interval has
- elapsed, ZZNotify goes through the entire list of users defined
- at this host, and uses Novell's broadcast ("Send") messages to
- remind them that they have not read their mail, and then it begins
- counting down to the next time interval. If the administrator
- has a need to send notifications to users other than the owner
- of a mailbox, or to a user who has a different login name than
- their mailbox name, ZZNotify has an alias feature to do so.
- This is often used to notify the network administrator when the
- mail administrator ADMIN has mail waiting. Normally, a typical
- notification looks like "You have 4 mail messages waiting"; for
- aliases the message would be something like "User SUPERVISOR has
- 3 mail messages waiting".
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- This is a fully functional demo version of ZZNotify. It will
- function exactly like the real thing, but it will only cycle
- 200 times and then stop. If you set a notification interval
- of 30 minutes, then you'll have roughly 4 days to try it out,
- or you could set it for every 24 hours and run for months! <g>
- You are free to use and distribute this program as long as
- you're not making a profit from it.
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- The registered version costs US $25 per file server. A single
- copy will not run on multiple servers. See below for ordering
- information.
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- MHS 1.x users might be interested to know that there is also a
- gateway version of ZZNotify. Like this NLM version, the gateway
- edition is available in the libraries of the NOVUSER forum on
- Compuserve.
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- INSTALLING ZZNOTIFY
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- PLEASE NOTE: This demo version of ZZNotify will run on NetWare 3.11
- (or higher) out of the box. The registered version, however,
- requires CLIB v3.12 or later.
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- 1) Copy ZZNOTIFY.NLM into your SYS:SYSTEM directory.
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- 2) Load it at the console screen. ZZNotify requires at least
- one command-line parameter, and that is the time interval
- between notifications, specified as HH:MM:SS, or any shorthand
- equivalent:
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- LOAD ZZNOTIFY 24:00:00 = every 24 hours
- LOAD ZZNOTIFY 30:00 = every 30 minutes
- LOAD ZZNOTIFY 30 = every 30 seconds
- (NOT recommended!)
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- 3) If you load it as shown in the examples above, the program
- assumes that your MHS mailboxes are installed in the default
- location (under SYS:MHS\MAIL\USERS\....). If you have placed
- them in a different location, you must also specify where
- they are.
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- ZZNotify wants the path to your MHS installation; it assumes
- a path of SYS:. But if your mailboxes are installed under
- VOL2:PROGRAMS\MHS\MAIL\USERS\..., then you would load:
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- LOAD ZZNOTIFY 30:00 VOL2:PROGRAMS
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- 4) To setup up aliases, you must create alias files. For example,
- if you want users ADMIN, SUPERVISOR, and FRED to be notified
- whenever ADMIN has mail waiting, you would create a file in
- ADMIN's mailbox called ALIASES that contains a line for each
- alias. In other words, the contents of the file
- \MHS\MAIL\USERS\ADMIN\ALIASES would look like this:
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- ADMIN
- SUPERVISOR
- FRED
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- Contacting the Author
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- Whether you decide to register or not, your comments and
- suggestions are welcome. However, I do not accept phone calls at
- my home; I prefer to be contacted by eMail or US Mail.
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- Scott Wertz CIS 71541,3051
- 9740 Michael Drive
- Streetsboro, OH 44241
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- For the Lawyers
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- ZZNotify is Copyright 1992-4 by Scott Wertz. I grant any and all
- the use of this software provided that in no event shall Scott
- Wertz be liable for any damages whatsoever (including, without
- limitation, damages for loss of business profits, business
- interruption, loss of business information, or other pecuniary
- loss) arising out of the use of or inability to use this software,
- even if Scott Wertz has been advised of the possibility of such
- damages.
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- You are free to use and distribute the demo version of ZZNotify.NLM
- as long as you do not charge anyone for its use or modify the package
- contents. This document must accompany distribution.
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- ZZNotify Order Form
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- ** Please print legibly **
- Please send me:
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- _____ copies of ZZNotify NLM at US $25 each.
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- I require: _____ 3.5" media _____ 5.25" media
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- Name/Title: _______________________________________________
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- Company: _______________________________________________
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- Address: _______________________________________________
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- _______________________________________________
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- _______________________________________________
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- Country: _______________________________________________
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- Phone ______________________________________________
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- CompuServe ID ______________________________________________
- or other mail
- address
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- Optional Information:
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- Where did you get ZZNotify? _________________________________________
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- How many MHS users do you serve? ____________________________________
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- How many MHS hosts do you serve? ____________________________________
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- General Comments:
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- Make checks payable to:
- Scott Wertz
- 9740 Michael Drive
- Streetsboro, OH 44241
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