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- Poll! 1.01 -- for FrontDoor / InterMail
-
- Copyright (C) Barto Veldhuis 1994. All rights reserved.
-
- Poll! creates empty poll messages, it reads the mailer's history
- files to see how long ago a node was called or if you were called
- by that node.
-
- Poll! is designed to run from a batchfile. It automagically
- finds the FrontDoor logfile, your name and address(es). If you
- are a point and want to poll your boss' system, simply type:
-
- 'Poll! .0'
-
- The general syntax is:
-
- POLL! [-options] <address to poll> [-options]
-
- Options: ('/' and '-' are valid prefixes)
- -dxxx last call xxx days back
- -hxxx last call xxx hours back
- -mxxx last call xxx minutes back
- -sCIF Crash / Immediate / Force pickup status
- (Pvt/Dir/Loc/Kill is always set)
- If this option is not present the Crash statusbit will be set
- -i read inbound history file too
- -n do *not* log to logfile
- -a log in appendmode, without header
-
- Example: poll! -d3 -h12 -sc 2:282/210 -i
- poll! @poll!.rsp
-
- Address
- -------
- An address may be abbreviated the same way as in FrontDoor.
-
- e.g. your address is 2:282/210.15,
- poll! 320 -> 2:282/320
- poll! .2 -> 2:282/210.2
- poll! 2800/2 -> 2:2800/2
-
- Poll! uses the aka matching tables in SETUP.FD.
-
- Logfile
- -------
- Poll! searches for the FrontDoor logfile defined in SETUP.FD/SYS.FD.
- To find SETUP.FD/SYS.FD, the environment variable FD/IM must be set:
- SET FD=C:\FD, or SETUP.FD/SYS.FD is found in the current directory.
-
- In a FD mL setup, '$TASK$' in the logfilename will be replaced
- by the tasknumber (taken from the environment variable 'TASK').
-
- If you don't want to log to the FD logfile use the -n option. The
- output is displayed on the screen and can be redirected to a file:
- poll! -h4 210 -n >> poll!.log
-
- Example log entries:
-
- ---------- Sun 12 Jun 94, Poll! 1.01
- # 22:00:41 Command line: -h1 -sc .0
- # 22:00:41 Empty pollmessage created for 2:282/210
-
- When called more than once the logfile can be messed up, so I invented
- the -a option (append):
-
- ---------- Sun 12 Jun 94, Poll! 1.01
- # 0:48:17 Command line: /h4/30 282/100 /si
- # 0:48:17 Empty pollmessage created for 2:282/100
- # 0:49:15 Command line: /d4 281/10 /sdi /a
- # 0:49:15 Empty pollmessage created for 2:281/10
-
- If no poll is necessary it's logged as:
-
- ---------- Sun 12 Jun 94, Poll! 1.01
- # 0:50:10 Command line: /d1/h12/m45 282/210 /si
- # 0:50:10 No need to poll 2:282/210. Last poll: Sat 14 May 94, 22:02:39
-
- @Response file
- --------------
- Poll! can read commands from a responsefile. This is a plain
- ASCII file with one command per line:
-
- ; This is a Poll! responsefile comment line
- 80:200/29 -i -d3 -si ; poll novionet every 3 days
- .0 -h1 ; poll boss if it's longer than 1 hour ago
- 111:314/10 -s
-
- Everything after ';' is ignored.
-
- Errorlevels
- -----------
- Poll! returns errorlevel 1 in case of a fatal error: probably
- a file that couldn't be created or opened. An errormessage is
- written to the logfile.
-
- Disclaimer/legal note
- ---------------------
- * You may freely distribute and copy Poll! provided no fee
- is charged and the Poll! archive contains unmodified
- copies of the original files. Although care has been taken
- to write Poll!, it is provided "as is", without warranty
- or guarantee of any kind.
-
- * In no event shall Barto Veldhuis be liable to you or anyone
- else for any damages or cost, including, but not limited
- to, any lost profits, lost savings or lost income which may
- result from the use or inability to use Poll!.
-
- * FrontDoor is a trademark of Joaquim Homrighausen.
-
- * InterMail is a trademark of Scandinavian PC systems and
- Interzone software inc.
-
-
- Barto Veldhuis,
- Nijmegen (near Gendt) NL, July 1994
-
- 2:283/608.15@fidonet (new adres!)
- barto.veldhuis@p15.f608.n283.z2.gds.nl
- barto@dds.hacktic.nl
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