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- AreaFix v1.10 User's Guide
- Jeffrey J. Nonken
- 5 January 1989
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- This document is Copyright 1989 by Jeffrey J. Nonken. I hereby
- give permission to Greg Dawson to modify this document as he sees
- fit and distribute it with any or all versions of his AreaFix
- program. I further give permission to everybody to distribute
- this document as desired.
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- ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT
- ===================
- This is a user's guide to AreaFix. If your echo feed has
- installed AreaFix on his system and given you a password, this
- tells you how to take advantage of his AreaFix installation
- remotely. This does not describe how to install AreaFix. I
- created this document to allow echomail hubs with AreaFix to pass
- simple instructions around to their nodes.
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- In order to keep things simple, I will refer the guy you're
- getting echomail from who just installed AreaFix, whomever he
- happens to be, as your Hub.
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- WHAT IS AREAFIX?
- ================
- AreaFix is a slick program that allows sysops to remotely alter
- their echomail hubs' distribution files without bothering the
- hubs' sysops. In other words, if I want to pick up a certain echo
- from my host, and he has AreaFix installed, I just send a special
- message and the linking is handled automatically. My host does
- nothing once he is set up.
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- SETUP
- =====
- This is mostly your Hub's responsibility. He has to install
- AreaFix on his system and install your password. You should pick
- a password to use in your AreaFix messages. Remember this
- password! It may be from 1 to 30 characters long and may contain
- any printable characters except spaces.
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- TALKING TO AREAFIX
- ==================
- To invoke AreaFix you must send a netmail message to your Hub.
- The message will be private, addressed to AreaFix, and the
- subject will be your password. Case is not important.
-
- To: Areafix
- Subj: Gronk
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- AreaFix will also allow psuedonyms. Your Hub may have a special
- name he wants you to send to instead of "AreaFix". If so, he will
- tell you. For my examples I will use "AreaFix".
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- AreaFix v1.10 User's Guide page 1
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- AREAFIX TALKING TO YOU
- ======================
- Any time it replies AreaFix will send you a message explaining
- what action it took (if any) and giving you a list of echos you
- are currently receiving. If you are first on your hub's list for
- a particular area, AreaFix will put an asterisk next to the echo
- name with a note that says you are your hub's feed for that echo.
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- TURNING ON ECHOS
- ================
- Turning on an echo is easy. Send a message to AreaFix with a list
- of echos you want. Case does not matter. The names may start in
- any column, and you may string them out on a line (separated by
- spaces) or put them on separate lines.
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- TO: Areafix
- FROM: Tom Slick
- SUBJECT: Gronk
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- Sysop
- FDECHO
- mtask
- ---
-
- Notice Tom put a tear line at the end of his message. That's the
- three dashes on the line after "mtask". This tells Areafix that
- there is no more information for it in this message. If he wants,
- Tom may now write comments to his Hub Sysop, or just notes for
- himself. It's a good idea to add this tear line even if you have
- nothing more to say, in case some garbage gets tacked on to the
- message during processing.
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- AreaFix replies:
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- TO: Tom Slick
- FROM: Areafix on 103/522
- SUBJECT: Re: Node change requests
-
- Additions/Deletions
- AREA: STATUS:
- ------------------------------- -------------------------------
- SYSOP ......................... Added area.
- FDECHO ........................ Added area.
- MTASK ......................... Added area.
- Active areas on 103/522
- USERS
- C_ECHO
- ORANGE_CO
- ASIAN-AMERICAN
- FDECHO
- SYSOP
- MTASK
- Total found: 7
- Note, a '*' indicates you're the feed on the echo.
- --- Areafix v1.10
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- AreaFix v1.10 User's Guide page 2
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- TURNING OFF ECHOS
- =================
- Removing an area is just as easy; just preceed the area name with
- a minus sign (-) when you send the message.
-
- TO: Areafix
- FROM: Tom Slick
- SUBJECT: Gronk
-
- -sysop
- ---
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- AreaFix replies:
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- TO: Tom Slick
- FROM: Areafix on 103/522
- SUBJECT: Re: Node change requests
-
- Additions/Deletions
- AREA: STATUS:
- ------------------------------- -------------------------------
- -SYSOP ........................ Deleted.
- Active areas on 103/522
- USERS
- C_ECHO
- ORANGE_CO
- ASIAN-AMERICAN
- FDECHO
- MTASK
- Total found: 6
- Note, a '*' indicates you're the feed on the echo.
- --- Areafix v1.10
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- Now Tom is no longer receiving the Sysop echo.
-
- OPTIONS
- =======
- There are several useful options available. Each of these is
- invoked by adding a command to your subject line after the
- password. Note that any of these options can be disabled at your
- Hub Sysop's discretion.
-
- -R is a rescan command. This causes AreaFix to force a rescan of
- the echo area by removing the high-water mark. The next time the
- area is scanned, any messages in that area that you did not
- receive will be packaged up and sent to you.
-
- -L sends you a list of echo areas. The Hub Sysop may make a list
- of available areas in a file; if he has done this, the -L command
- will cause AreaFix to send it to you.
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- -Q also sends you a list of echo areas. However, unlike the -L
- command, it will scan through the Area Control files to see what
- areas are available and send a list back in a message. AreaFix
- will put an asterisk (*) next to each area that you are
- receiving.
-
- There is one thing to remember when using these switches: they
- may not work unless there is some text in your message. For
- example, the -Q option will not send back a list if you send a
- blank message. However, just having the tear line will be enough.
-
- TO: Areafix
- FROM: Tom Slick
- SUBJECT: Gronk -r -q
-
- Sysop
- FDECHO
- mtask
- ---
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- AreaFix replies:
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- TO: Tom Slick
- FROM: Areafix on 103/522
- SUBJECT: Re: Node change requests
-
- Additions/Deletions
- AREA: STATUS:
- ------------------------------- -------------------------------
- SYSOP ......................... Added area and rescanned.
- FDECHO ........................ Added area and rescanned.
- MTASK ......................... Added area and rescanned.
- Active areas on 103/522
- USERS
- C_ECHO
- ORANGE_CO
- ASIAN-AMERICAN
- FDECHO
- SYSOP
- MTASK
- Total found: 7
- Note, a '*' indicates you're the feed on the echo.
- --- Areafix v1.10
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- Areafix also replies:
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- TO: Tom Slick
- FROM: Areafix on 103/522
- SUBJECT: Query request on 103/522
- Areas available to 103/328 on 103/522:
- * USERS
- * MTASK
- * C_ECHO
- NEWOPUS
- MEADOW
- * ORANGE_CO
- * SYSOP
- HST
- 80XXX
- * ASIAN-AMERICAN
- BIBLE
- CHATTER
- * FDECHO
- FLAME
- * FOR-SALE
- LAN
- LASERPUB
- STTNG
- Total found: 18
- Note: a '*' indicates you're already active for the echo.
- --- Areafix v1.10
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- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ================
- Thanks to Greg Dawson for all the work he put into making the
- AreaFix utility, and for listening to suggestions from the users.
- He is still developing AreaFix, and it has grown from a simple
- utility into a powerful tool that nobody should be without.
-
- Jeffrey J. Nonken
- Ophiophile Opus 1:103/522
- (714)997-8958
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