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- BOOSTER v1.0
- by Chris Silverberg
-
-
- What is it
- ----------
-
- Booster is a small utility that may be helpful to sysops who are running uupc link.
- Like UUPC Starter, this program will allows you to use UUPC in your launchnext chain.
- But there is one important difference. Booster launches UUPC directly using either
- the Launch trap or the high level LaunchApplication call. This is different from
- UUPC Starter, which sends an Apple Event to the Finder to get UUPC running.
-
- For most sysops either program will work fine. But for sysops who are not running
- the Finder to save memory, then Booster will be necessary.
-
-
- Installing
- ----------
-
- Booster should be installed in the same folder as your BBS and Tabby. Insert
- "Booster" into your event list using TabbyMaint. Then configure Booster by
- launching the program, and immiedately chooseing "Preferences" from the Edit menu.
-
- The dialog that will appear has three options to setup. The first is a checkbox
- that says "Send Open Document Event." If you have this turned on, Booster will
- use System 7's LaunchApplication function instead of the _Launch trap. For now,
- leave this turned off. In the future if UUPC is changed to accept the required
- Apple Events, this can be turned on. But as of this writing it needs to be kept
- off.
-
- The second item asks for the path to "UUPC". This can be a full path to wherever
- UUPC is located.
-
- The last item asks you for the "Command string." This line actually specifies
- the filename it will tell UUPC to "open". UUPC will interpret this as the command
- line. So, you could put something like this:
-
- all -t30 -quit
-
- This will instruct UUPC to call all destinations that have outgoing mail, run for
- up to 30 minutes, and then quit. See the UUPC instructions for other options
- that can be used here.
-
-
- Final Notes
- -----------
-
- This version is currently in beta. As such something might not work the way you
- expect it to. If this happens, PLEASE let me know about it so I can fix it. And
- you'll want to tell me about it, I'm sure John doesn't want to hear about my
- bugs.
-
- Additionally, I came to realize that this utility could be used with not just UUPC,
- but almost any utility to put it in your launch.next chain. Now, dont bother
- trying this now, because Booster is not setup to do this, but if you have some
- thoughts on making Booster more general, please let me know.
-
- Chris Silverberg
- Internet: macman@wpi.wpi.edu
- FidoNet: 1:322/115@FidoNet
-