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- FAN
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- File Announcement Utility
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- Version 1.20 beta
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- Dave Fisher
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- LiveNet, 1:170/110@fidonet
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- Description
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- FAN is a utility that will create fidonet mail packet files
- (*.PKT) to announce the arrival of files via a file distribution
- system that uses Barry Geller's TIC file format or the standard
- FILES.BBS file format. Many of the ideas for this program have
- come from Doug Belkofer's program RFD (Received For
- Distribution), which worked soley on TIC files under MS-DOS.
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- I created FAN since there were some things that RFD did not do
- (such as support long file descriptions, FAN allows up to 1024
- characters for a description, announcements from FILES.BBS files,
- etc.) and was a DOS only program (and I wanted to run it
- specifically under OS/2).
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- FAN is a bound utility, which means that it will run under DOS or
- OS/2.
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- There are now two version of FAN. A 16-bit version for DOS and
- OS/2 1.x, and a 32-bit version which will only run under OS/2
- 2.x. The DOS/OS2 1.x/16-bit version is named FAN16.EXE. The
- OS/2 2.0/32-bit version is named FAN32.EXE.
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- Currently, FAN does everything I need it to do. If you find that
- you need it to do something different, I would be interested in
- hearing your suggestions, which could very well become part of a
- future release.
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- Please note that this is a BETA release. I wrote the initial
- program over the weekend, and have not sufficiently tested it
- yet. If you decide to use FAN, and run across any bugs, please
- let me know and I will promptly fix the program and make a new
- version available to you.
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- In addition to this brief document, there are also important
- notes in the configuration file that comes distributed with FAN.
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- The most recent version of FAN can be file-requested from me with
- the magic name of "FAN" (quotes not included) at 1:170/110.
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- Usage
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- Fan
- /Config = <path+file name> default: Fan.cfg
- /[no]Log default: NoLog
- /LogFile = <path+file name> default: None
- /LogLevel = <1..4> default: 4
- /[no]Quiet default: NoQuiet
- /TossLogFile = <path+file name> default: None
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- Notes on the syntax:
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- Qualifiers can appear in any order, in any case, and are
- only significant to four characters. Thus, /TossLogFile is
- the same as /toss.
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- Disclaimer!
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- This program is shareware. There is absolutely no warranty for
- this program or guarantee that it will work. The user of the
- program assumes all risk. While I feel confident that this
- program will not harm your system in any way, by using this
- program, you agree to assume full responsibility for any adverse
- effect to your system.
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- Ok. Now with that out of the way -- please send me mail and let
- me know if you are using FAN! I'd like to get an idea of whether
- this program has been useful for others, as it has been for me.
- Also, please send any comments, suggestions and/or problem
- reports. I can be reached at:
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- Dave Fisher
- LiveNet, 1:170/110@fidonet.org
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- Qualifiers
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- Config = <path+file name>
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- This is the name of the configuration file. The default is
- Fan.Cfg in the current directory. You can also define the
- environment variable FAN_CONFIG=<path+file name> instead of using
- this qualifier.
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- /[no]Log
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- This qualifier will turn the logging function on and off.
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- /LogFile = <path+file name>
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- This qualifier defines the name of the log file.
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- /LogLevel = <1..4>
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- This qualifier defines the level of message detail in the log
- file. Level 1 is the least detailed, while Level 4 is the most
- verbose. The levels indicate the 'importance' of a message,
- where Level 1 is the most important (usually error messages).
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- /[no]Quiet
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- This qualifier controls whether the program should emit an
- printed output. If /Quiet, the only output will be the program
- copyright line and any error messages. The default is /NoQuiet.
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- /TossLogFile
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- This qualifier specifies the name of a file to receive the names
- of message areas for which mail packets were created. The name
- of the message area will be written to this file, one to a line.
- This file can then be used with a tosser/scanner (such as Squish
- or oMMM) to only scan the areas listed.
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