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- =====( TrionTick V1.10 )===========================================
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- Trion 'TickProcessor' Utility.
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- (c) Copyright Paul Spijkerman, '94-'98. All rights reserved.
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- Written for use with the Trion BBS package.
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- The trion BBS has a simple Tick processor.
- Tick's are files that come with the mail, during a mail call
- session. With every file there is al little data files,
- which tells the BBS what to do with the file.
- This file usually has a name ending in ".TIC" and contains
- a description of the file, the systems where it has arrived
- and a section name and some other data needed to for the
- tick processor. What normally happens is that a sysop
- sends a file away in a mail network. Because that file has
- a section name attached to it .. it is easier to have
- only send certain files to you .. and you can let the
- tick processor add the file to a certain section of
- the file catalogue.
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- The Tick processor has the ability to send netmail with
- files to the recipient to attention him that he received
- a new file. The message contains file name, file size,
- section name and a description.
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- The Tick processor can process compressed archives with
- files and the .tic files that were send with the files
- as sometimes generated by PC tick processors.
- It can Unpack archives with an .Cnn extension where nn
- is a number. It will start with the lowest nn number.
- Also it can unpack archives with extensions ending in .?IC
- like .ZIC
- Note that it won't try to unpack files with .TIC extension
- but only process them.
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- The tick processor has 2 modes, the "process" mode which is used
- to process incoming TIC files and send them to other connected
- systems and there is the "send" mode which is used if you want
- to send (hatch) a (fysical) file in a file net.
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- Process mode:
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- TrionTick -P
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- In process mode you can use the -B flag to backup incoming .TIC
- files to the "trion:inbound/backup/" directory.
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- When TrionTick encounters a problem then the .TIC file and
- (if available) the fysical file are moved to the 'BAD' directory
- "trion:inbound/bad/" so the mail script doesn't process the
- files over and over if it was started and it only is shown
- once in the maitenance monitor.
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- Note that files added to the file catalogue are not validated
- unless they are added to a section that has the auto-validate
- flag set.
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- When a tick file contains a "replace" line .. it means that
- the file is an update for an old file. Before the new file is
- added the old file is removed from the file catalogue and
- moved to directory "trion:killedfiles/".
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- Send mode:
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- TrionTick -s FILE TICKAREA "DESCRIPTION" [REPLACES]
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- Note: When you want to use the "send" option you have to be
- in the directory where the fysical file is you want to send.
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- If you "send" (hatch) a file it is added to you file catalogue
- and it is Validated , you don't have to validate the file
- by hand in an editor or file list.
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- When you "send" a file it is copied to the filecatalogue directory
- note that the original file is not deleted.
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- Configuring:
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- For TrionTick to work you need 2 configuration files in
- the directory "Trion:cfg/".
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- The first is "Trion:cfg/filenet.cfg" .. and it contains all
- the tick file sections.
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- The file can consist of empty lines, comment lines that start
- with a ";" character and area sections.
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- The format of an area section is like this:
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- AREA <areaname> <origin NodeNum> <FileAreaNumber>
- <send to NodeNum>
- #
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- A section starts with an "AREA" line, it contains 5 fields,
- the first field contains the word "AREA" in capital letters.
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- The second field is a unique section number, which is used
- to reference to it from the areafix.cfg
- In the Areafix config you will make groups of tick file
- sections by using ranges of numbers. So it is the easiest
- if you give sections in the same net numbers in the
- same range. Even better is just to reserve ranges for
- certain nets.
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- The third field is the areaname, which is the name of the
- tickarea, note that is case-sensitive and that most names
- are in capitals.
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- The fourth field the origin nodenumber, which means it is
- your nodenumber for the net this tick section is part of.
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- The fifth field is the FileAreaNumber, which means it is
- the number of a file section from the fileareas.cfg,
- here go all the files which arive in this tick section.
-
- After the AREA line follows a list of nodenumbers of the
- systems that get mail from you and your bosses that are
- connected to this area.
- Note that the list is vertical, it consists or lines with
- one nodenumber, and it is terminated with a line with a "#" on it.
- Note that <send to NodeNum> symbolises a list of nodenumbers.
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- The second file is "Trion:cfg/filenodes.cfg" .. it contains a list
- of all the nodes that tick can send files to.
-
- The file can consist of empty lines, comment lines that start
- with a ";" character and lines with node information.
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- The format of a line with node information is like this:
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- PASSWORD <NodeNumber> <Password> [flags]
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- A node line contains 4 fields.
- the first field contains the word "PASSWORD" in capital letters.
- (so don't replace it with an actuall password)
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- The second field contains the nodenumber of one of the
- points, nodes or bosses you get mail from or suply mail.
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- The third field contains a password that is used for
- this node, note that passwords are case-sensitive but they
- are almost always in capital letters.
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- The (optional) fourth field contains the flags, at this
- type there is only one flag which controls if there is
- netmail send with a .tic file or not.
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- Suply an empty flag field "[-]" if no netmail is needed, or
- a use an "[M]" flag when netmail is wanted.
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- Netmail:
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- If a node has a [M] flag instead of a [-] flag in the
- filenodes.cfg, it means that the with every tic file for
- that nodenumber TrionTick will send a simple netmail so
- the sysop on the other side is notified of a new file.
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- The "to" name for the netmail message is found in the
- nodelist or pointlist ... if you want to use this option
- and one of your nodes or points is not in a nodelist you
- should enter a line like this to the pointlist:
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- Point,14:103/300.1,BBS_Name,City,Name,Tel_Number,baud,flags
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