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- =====( Poll V1.00 ===)=============================================
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- Trion 'Poll' Utility.
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- (c) Copyright Paul Spijkerman, '94-'97. All rights reserved.
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- Written for use with the Trion BBS package.
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- When you want to make a mail call too an other system with
- the Trion utility, the Caller Utility or from the GUI screen
- in the BBS you have to make sure there is mail for the
- other system or the BBS won't call out.
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- This is done so it can't call a number of times when there
- was already a good connect and mail was transferred.
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- Also it is use with ZModem in the mailer, if there is a
- session between two mailers and the ZModem file transer protocol
- is used then it is necessary to have files to transfer, because
- ZModem has no option to send 'no files'. If there are no
- files to send poll is used to make an empty mail packet
- for the other system.
- Note that nothing will break if there is nothing to send but
- the systems will take a little time before they go further
- with the session.
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- The poll Utility is used by typing poll in the shell with
- a node number on the command line.
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- If there is no mail for the system you want to poll the
- utility will make an empty mail packet of 60 bytes
- with the correct password and nodenumbers.
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- So if you have a poll script you have to have a poll line
- in it .. but only if you want to call that system also
- if there is no mail for that system.
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- Look at the PollHub and MayPoll scripts in the Trion:scripts/
- directory for examples.
- Also look in the Caller and Trion doc for more information
- on how to poll an other system from a shell or script.
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- The utility finds the information which password to use
- in the Trion:cfg/systems.cfg configuration file.
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