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- MsgLink ---- Revision: 1.0b
- MsgLinkOS2 - Revision: 1.0b
- by Bill Andrus, SysOp of FidoNet Node 1:109/301.10
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- Documentation by Dot Hage, SysOp of FidoNet Node 1:109/530.0
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- This executable program is based on released sources of
- Bob Hartman. This executable program is in the Public
- Domain as part of the BBS project. For information on
- BBS (Bit Bucket Software), contact 132/101 or 141/491.
- CRC routine copyright Renex Corporation. Used with
- permission of Ray Gwinn.
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- MSGLINK.EXE is the DOS version, MSGLINKP.EXE is the OS/2 Protected
- Mode one.
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- This utility is used to link messages that form part of a particular
- "thread." A thread is a series of messages which are replies to each
- other, usually on the same topic. The way that MSGLNK works is to take
- the first message and look at the Subject line. Say the subject line
- says "Hard drives." Then it will search out each message, in numerical
- sequence, which has a subject of "Hard drive" and will link it into the
- reply-chain with the first message. It will ignore the "Re:" that some
- message editors insert on the subject line when replying to a message.
- Thus, the following are considered the same by MSGLNK:
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- Subject: Hard drives
- Subject: Re: Hard drives
- Subject: RE: Re: Hard drives
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- Note that the messages are linked in strict numerical order, with no
- reference to date. In some echo conferences, a reply can appear on
- someone's system before the original message being replied to appears.
- In cases like that, MSGLNK will link them together, but they will be
- linked in the order in which they appear on your system, not
- necessarily in the order in which they were originally entered on the
- originating systems.
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- Unlike ReplyLnk 1.0, upon which most of MsgLink is based, this program
- does NOT do FAT-structure-specific I/O, resorting instead to slightly
- higher I/O routines like Remapper uses. This program has NOT
- experienced any problems operating in LAN, large or extended FAT
- partitions, or high performance highly cached disk systems. Neither
- Bob Hartman or Spark Software bear any responsibility if this program
- does anything nasty to your system.
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- Usage: MsgLink [-o] [-q] dir [dir] [dir] ...
- MsgLink -f areas.lst [-o] [-q] [+areas.bbs]
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- Switches f, o and q can follow a '-' or '/'
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- f indicates a filename will follow which contains a list of
- area name(s) found in an areas.bbs file. For example, there
- might be certain times of day when you would want to run
- MsgLink only on a subset of your message areas. You could
- list them here. If no file is specified, the full AREAS.BBS
- is used.
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- o specifies Opus 1.1x SYSTEMxx.DAT instead of SYSTEMxx.BBS
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- q requests quiet operation (nothing is written to the screen)
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- dir is a directory path, a SYSTEMxx.BBS number (0-99),
- a SYSTEMxx.DAT number (0-255) if -o, or echomail area name
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- areas.lst is a list of named echomail areas to process
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- areas.bbs is the areas.bbs file to read to find the echomail areas
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- Change History:
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- 03/13/90: Added skip of leading # to get_word, for pesky QMail users.
- 03/19/90: Added '-' or '/' switch logic, quiet mode operation
- 06/11/90: Added '-o' switch to use Opus 1.1x SYSTEMxx.DAT numbers
- 09/17/90: Fixed normal exit to insure ERRORLEVEL 0 if successful
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