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- Trion Commander 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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- This is a little Utility to send command's to one, some or
- all BBS nodes.
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- This is very convenient if you want to controle your BBS with scripts.
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- For example, you can call out to a system for mail just by
- typing 'trion -c -1 14:103/204' in a shell window.
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- These commands area very usefull 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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- With the trion utility you can also Warn a user that it's about time
- to log him so you can poll for your mail.
- Also you can force logoff this user with this utility.
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- For examples look in the 'trion:scripts/' directory.
- For instance the PollHub script where first a user is
- warned that the system will call out in a few minutes,
- later he will be disconnected and the system will call out.
- Also there is some explanation of options in this file.
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- ===( 'TRION' use of commands )=============
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- First you have to specify to which nodes the commands will be
- send:
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- -0 .. -9 = Send message to nodes.
- -A = Send message to all nodes.
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- If you don't specify a BBS node number .. the utility will send a
- command to node 0.
- You can send commands to more nodes at once by using a
- list of numbers:
- for instance: trion -0 -1 -2 ............
- or trion -124 ............
- Or you can send commands to all BBS nodes (Node 0 to 9)
- for instance: trion -A ............
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- You can use an optional command to make the utility quiet.
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- -X = Quiet operation.
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- Then you have to specify a command:
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- -C = Make FidoNet call.
- -N = Make FidoNet call (no mail pickup).
- -H = Make FidoNet call (only main address).
- -M = Send node message.
- -Q = Quit a node.
- -L = Logoff a user.
- -P0 = Serial Port Off.
- -P1 = Serial Port On.
- -I0 = Don't accept calls.
- -I1 = Accept calls.
- -U0 = Sysop not available.
- -U1 = Sysop available.
- -S = Sysop login.
- -O = Normal login.
- -V0 = Modem sound Off.
- -V1 = Modem sound On.
- -F0 = Freq's not allowed.
- -F1 = Freq's are allowed.
- -W0 = Iconize a node.
- -W1 -D = DeIconize a node.
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- Note: The -C, -N and -H commands are followed with a nodenumber.
- The -M command is followed by a line of text to
- send to nodes, place text between "" if you want
- to use spaces in the text.
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- Note: You can write multiple characters after a '-' sign.
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- Like: 'Trion -246MX Test'
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- To send text "Test" quiet to nodes 2, 4 and 6.
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- ===( 'TRION' utility. Some examples of use. )=============
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- Send a line of text to a BBS node:
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- trion -1 -x -m "Hello, some one there ? .."
- trion -0 -1 -m Test
- trion -a -x -m "system slows down due to mail processing"
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- You can use this in a menu to send a message to all nodes that a
- User is loged in on an other node (in quiet mode).
- Add the folowing line to the 'trion:menus/start.src' directly
- before all 'GotoMenu main.menu' lines:
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- DosCommand "trion:utils/trion -max 'User ~200 logged in on node ~50.'"
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- Note that the '' are translated by the menu compiler to "" characters.
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- Call a BBS to deliver or get mail:
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- trion -1 -c 14:103/204
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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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- This command logs the sysop in wihout deIconizing with the mouse
- and the need to type in his name and password.
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- trion -0 -s
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- This command stops and removes a node from memory.
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- trion -0 -q
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- This command Logs off a User from node 0.
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- trion -0 -l
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- You can do strange things with the message command as an
- example how you can use it very creative with tilde codes
- a little example (maybe not very practical):
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- If you add the folowing line to a Crontab or a scheduler
- you could make a clock .. if it was run for instance
- every 5 or 15 minutes.
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- trion -m -a -x "Hello ~200, it's now ~252."
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- Users are shown something like: 'Hello Sysop , it's now 20:30:00'
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