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- The following is a desription of the DOSMAIL package.
-
- The following environment variables MUST be set correctly for the
- DOSMAIL package to function properly.
-
- MSG - The disk drive and subdirectory in which the DOSMAIL
- and USER.LOG files are stored. Must be set by
- AUTOEXEC.BAT. Used by DOSMAIL functions and
- START.
-
- SYSTEM - The name of the system. Used by DOSMAIL. Must be
- set by AUTOEXEC.BAT.
-
- SYSOP - Used by TALK.EXE to inform the remote user of the
- name of the person running this DOSGATE node.
- Set by AUTOEXEC.BAT
-
- The DOSMAIL system:
-
- SEND.exe - 'Sends' mail to the designated party, if receiver of
- mail is not specified, the sender is prompted.
- The sender ID is from the environment USER.
- If USER is not available from the environment,
- then the sender is prompted for his ID.
- The user can then specify a subject, and then
- enter his message. Send terminates with a
- CTRL-Z or /EX. The mail is stored in the MSG
- subdirectory in the file xx.MSG, where xx is
- the number of the message in HEX.
-
-
- ie: SEND NM1D - To send a message to NM1D.
-
-
- READ.exe - 'Reads' mail send to the current user. The current
- user is defined by the environment USER. If
- USER is not found or specified on the command
- line, then the invoker is asked to supply the
- required ID. If there is any mail waiting for
- the user, it is presented to the user, one
- message at a time. At the end of each message
- the user is given the chance to delete
- the message. Optionally, 'READ /c' will
- check the MSG directory for a mail file to the
- current USER, or if USER is not found, the
- invoker is prompted for an ID.
-
-
- ie: READ - To read mail addressed to the
- environment USER.
-
- READ /c - To check for mail addressed to the
- environment USER.
-
- READ NM1D - To read possible mail for NM1D.
-
- READ 21 - To read message number 21.
-
- LIST.exe - 'Lists' all (*.msg) files stored in the environment
- MSG directory (INDEX.MSG). This is to allow the user to
- see what pending mail files exits.
-
- ie: LIST NM1D - To list all mail for NM1D
-
- LIST ALL - To list mail addressed to ALL
-
- LIST /FNM1D - To list all mail (F)rom NM1D
-
- LIST /TNM1D - To list all mail (T)o NM1D
-
- LIST /S"DOSGATE" - To list all mail that has
- the word 'DOSGATE' in the
- subject field.
-
- KILL.exe - 'Kills' a specified mail message. This is to allow
- a user to delete mail messages. The user is
- only allowed to delete a message if the
- the message is either 'from' or 'to' him.
-
- ie: KILL 1 - To kill message number 1
- KILL 23 - To kill message number 23
-
- PURGE.exe - Actually erases all files from the DOSMAIL 'MSG'
- directory and from the INDEX.MSG file that
- have been read and deleted by the user. Also
- performs other housekeeping functions. Do NOT
- allow remote users access to this program!!!
-
- MAINTAIN.exe - A SYSOP ONLY utility, it allow you to maintain
- the messages in the mail system. Messages can
- be deleted, un-deleted (until PURGEed!), or
- copied to a file of your choice. This utility
- will go through the index of messages and allow
- you to perform one command on each message.
- Do NOT allow remote users access to this
- program!!
-
- TALK.exe - Allows the remote user to attempt to contact the
- sysop for keyboard-to-keyboard communication.
- The sysop is informed of the ID of the remote
- user by way of the USER environment variable.
- Either persopn can abort the 'talk' session by
- sending a CTRL-Z.
-