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- =====( Caller V1.00 )=============================================
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- Trion 'Caller' Utility.
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- (c) Copyright Paul Spijkerman, '95-'97. All rights reserved.
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- Written for use with the Trion BBS package.
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- This is a little Utility to poll a BBS a number of times
- to collect your mail.
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- This is very convenient if you want to controle your BBS with scripts.
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- Also this command is very handy if you use a 'cron' utility that
- spawns programmas or scripts to start processing mail or to
- call to your mail HUB/HOST.
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- Note: This will only work when there is mail for the called system
- in the trion:outbound/ directory.
- When there is no mail you can create a poll packet with the 'poll'
- command like this:
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- Poll 14:103/204
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- Note: In the default state the BBS node will not accept calls between
- tries to call out.
- Use the -A flag , if you still want to be able te get calles will polling
- for mail.
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- Caller will only call again if the previous result was 'No Carrier'
- or 'BUSY' .. this is done to prevent the system from calling
- many times over and over if your password was wrong for instance.
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- For examples look in the trion:scripts/ directory.
- The PollHub and MayPoll scripts use the caller command.
- Also there is some explanation of options in this file.
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- ===( 'Caller' Options (build in help screen) )=============
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- Trion Caller V1.00 (c)95-97 Paul Spijkerman.
- Use : <-options> [-node] NodeNumber #1 .. NodeNumber #n
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- -0 .. -9 = Node to call with. (default: node 1 )
- -Dnnn = Set delay between calls. (default: 60 secs )
- -Nnnn = Number of times to call. (default: 10 times )
- -Q = Quiet operation. (default: not quiet )
- -A = Accept callers while idle. (default: don't accept )
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- ===( 'Caller' Some examples )=============
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- With this command Node 1 will try to call node 14:103/204, 10 times
- (or until there was a succesfull connection) with a delay
- of 1 minute between calls
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- Caller 14:103/204
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- With this command Node 1 will try to call node 14:103/204, 5 times
- (or until there was a succesfull connection) with a delay
- of 3 minutes between calls
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- Caller -D180 -N5 14:103/204
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- The used variables will be shown in de shell window.
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- When the system starts calling a BBS this will printed in the shell,
- when a call is finished the result will be printed.
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- Results can be:
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- No packets for node....
- Node not found in nodelist
- No Carrier or Busy
- Connected of beter
- Connected and transfers made
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