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- BGFAX2FD v1.00 Table of Contents
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- What Is BGFAX2FD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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- Features at a Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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- Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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- Command-Line Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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- Config File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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- Cover Page Template Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- Macro Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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- Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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- Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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- Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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- [ BGFAX2FD v1.00 User Manual Page 1 ]
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- What Is BGFAX2FD
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- BGFAX2FD will make FrontDoor cover pages from faxes received
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- Features at a Glance
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- * Logfile Support
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- * Multi-Node Aware
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- * Templates Supported
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- * Works With FD 2.12/2.20/2.30
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- Disclaimer
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- "BGFAX2FD" refers to all executables, and its documentation.
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- Although a great deal of care has been put into
- BGFAX2FD to make it as bug-free as possible, it is very
- possible that a few bugs have escaped the debugging
- process. Because of this, BGFAX2FD is provided "as
- is." It has no warranty either written or implied, and
- is guaranteed to do absolutely nothing. Although in
- most cases it will occupy an undetermined amount of
- drive space.
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- In no event shall the author of BGFAX2FD, namely Keith
- Mitchell, be liable for any damage caused directly or
- indirectly from the use of BGFAX2FD. The above
- mentioned author is also not obligated to support or
- maintain this or any other version of BGFAX2FD.
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- System Requirements
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- BGFAX2FD has been tested on a 486/33mhz running under
- Desqview 2.62, but should work on any system with at least
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- * FrontDoor (2.12/2.20/2.30)
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- * Fax Modem
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- * BGFAX
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- * Dos 3.0 or Greater
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- * Approximately 150k of free memory
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- Command-Line Parameters
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- A description of the the command-line parameters are:
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- /C - Specifies the name of the config file
- (DEFAULT: BGFAX2FD.CFG)
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- /L - Specifies the name of the log file to use.
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- Config File
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- The config file for BGFAX2FD is driven by a number of
- keywords. The keywords may start on any position as long as no
- character other than the space character precedes it. The Config
- file keywords are as follows:
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- SYSOP_NAME - The name of the System Operator (in
- most cases this is the person
- reading this file).
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- BBSNAME <bbsname> - The name of the BBS.
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- REGISTRATION_NUMBER - Your registration number (if any).
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- COVERPAGE_TEMPLATE - {+} The name of the temaplet to use
- when writing the FAX cover page.
- See the section entitled "Cover
- Page Template Macros" for a list of
- the available macros.
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- ADDRESS - The fidonet (style) address to use
- as the from/to in the FAX Cover
- Message and in FrontDoors
- Lastcall/Inbound History Files.
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- FAXIN_LOG - Full Path and Filename to BGFAX's
- FAXIN.LOG.
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- FAX_INBOUND - Path where BGFAX stores the
- Incoming FAX files.
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- NETMAIL_PATH - Path where outgoing Netmail (FAX
- Cover Messages) will be written.
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- FD_PATH - Path to FrontDoor's system files.
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- LOG_FILE - Name of the logfile to use. If
- Omitted, then KAMSnoop will not use
- a logfile
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- LOG_TYPE - Type of logfile to keep. Available
- types are: FD (FrontDoor), BINK
- (Binkley), QUICK (QuickBBS), and
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- USE_ML_HISTORY - Tells BGFAX that you have a
- MultiLine version of FrontDoor
- (2.20/2.30) and would like to use
- seperate Lastcall/Inbound history
- files for each node. The actual
- file that gets written to is
- determined by the TASK environment
- variable. For instance, if this
- option was turned on and TASK was
- set to 2, then BGFAX2FD would write
- to INB2.HIS and LASTC2.FD.
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- Cover Page Template Macros
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- The FAX cover Message can be customized to fit your needs.
- To make this possible, a number of macros are available to you.
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- @faxdensity@ - The density of the FAX. This will
- either be Lo-1D, Hi-1D, Lo-2D, or
- Hi-2D.
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- @bbsname - The name of the BBS (as defined in
- the config file).
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- @sysopname@ - The name of the System Operator (as
- defined in the config file).
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- @filename@ - The name of the FAX file (Filename
- ONLY).
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- @faxdate@ - Date the FAX was received. This is
- a five (5) character date (ie
- 05/25).
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- @faxtime@ - Time the FAX was received. This is
- a five (5) character time (ie
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- @transfertime@ - Estimated time the FAX took to
- receive.
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- @remoteid@ - The remote's FAX ID string. In
- most cases, this will identify the
- person sending you that FAX.
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- @faxstatus@ - Status of the FAX. This will
- always be finished, since BGFAX2FD
- only processes finished FAXes at
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- @numpages@ - The number of pages in the FAX.
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- @filesize@ - Size (in bytes) of the FAX file.
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- @baudrate@ - Baud rate at which FAX was
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- Macro Functions
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- In addition to the above macros, a number of
- "functions" can also be used in the Cover Page Template.
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- @padc(nn,"Text") - Center Justifies "Text" (adds
- spaces to both sides).
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- @padl(nn,"Text") - Left Justifies "Text" (adds
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- @padr(nn,"Text") - Right Justifies "Text" (Adds
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- Registration
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- If you find that BGFAX2FD is useful or use it for more
- than 14 days, then you must register. Registrations are
- good for all current and future versions of BGFAX2FD.
- Please see the enclosed REGISTER.FRM file for further
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- Support
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- You may FREQ BGFAX2FD and any other KAM Software
- product from:
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- 1:2602/200@fidonet.org
- 1:2602/115@fidonet.org
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- You may contact the author (Keith Mitchell) at:
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- Fidonet:
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- 1:2602/200
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- GECHO_HELP (Zone 1 Backbone)
- RA_UTIL (Zone 1 Backbone)
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- Internet:
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- kmitch@vt.edu
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- Snail Mail:
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- Keith Mitchell
- 6000 College Drive #102
- Suffolk, VA 23435
- USA
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- Credits
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- All Programs referred to in this document are copyright of
- their respected authors.
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