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- Platinum Xpress Addendum File
- (c) copyright 1988-1995 by Santronics Software
-
- This document contains last minutes changes and extra information.
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- DOCUMENTATION NOTES TO BE ADDED TO MANUAL
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- DOC: Very Important Note: SHARE is required by Platinum Xpress.
-
- If share is not available, PX will not work properly. If you are
- using LANTASTIC, it now has an INTERNAL SHARE. Some people are
- turning this on and removing the DOS SHARE. However, sometimes when
- they do not log into the server, SHARE is no longer available.
-
- DOC: You need atleast FILES=100 in your CONFIG.SYS to get perfect
- operations.
-
- DOC: PX SYSOPS not using the Internal Editor; please keep in mind that no
- other editor is compatible with the Fido Flags that PX uses.
-
- DOC: Semaphore Files.
-
- Platinum Xpress can use semaphore files to trigger certain things
- to occur. Semaphore files are basically files with special names.
-
- Here is a table of semaphore files PX will look for in the SEMA
- directory:
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- $ECHONET.xxx Scan for new echo mail and netmail.
- $NET.xxx Scan for new netmail only.
- $ECHO.xxx Scan for new echo mail only.
- $TOSS.xxx Look for and toss any new mail that has arrived.
- $EXIT.xxx PX running on Node xxx will exit.
- $EXIT.ALL All PX nodes will exit.
- $BATCH*.xxx PX running on node xxx will run this batch file.
- $NEWDIFF.xxx Created if new NODEDIFF is received.
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- DOC: People using WILDUUCP can do the following for NewsGroups:
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- 1) USE FAKE NODE IN NODE MANAGER
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- 2) LINK NEWSGROUPS TO FAKE NODE
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- 3) FOR EXPORTING, USE PXECHO OR EVENT TO MOVE FILES.
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- COPY BUNDLE FOR NODE TO WILDUUCP INBOUND
- VIEWOUT /KILL "fake node address"
-
- DOC: Hubs using MAKENL
-
- Add the INTL option to the SUBMIT command. This will create a
- ^aINTL line to better control addressing.
-
- DOC: Platinum Xpress has a NODELIST flag of XW or XA for WAZOO File
- Request. The old and primitive Bark is not supported. Note, it is
- extremely minor and is only pointed out for consistency.
-
- DOC: In some WARP setups, RING BELL causes disconnects and no carrier.
- Solution: Do not use the SOUND system in WARP.
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- DOC: All Fido Address Dial translations should be moved to the top of the
- dial translation list to ensure proper translation.
-
- DOC: Steve Proctor reports IDLE_SENSIVITY must be set to 100 to get PX to
- work under OS/2 Warp. For the new V1.1 version, this is not
- necessary. PX is now very smart about when needing to use TIME
- SLICING and when to temporarily turn it off during connection
- handshaking.
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- DOC: PX has a "practical limit" of 255 characters worth of AKA's. This is
- approximately 25 akas. We will make make extensive changes to
- support more than 25 once we find out if other mailers can handle
- more than 25. (ie, Intermail/FrontDoor only allow 20 to be created)
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- DOC: PXP (386) will work very nicely under Desqview. However, you MUST
- NOT use QDPMI from QuarterDeck and you must use the 1994 Summer
- version of QEMM.
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- DOC: Tips using the PXECHO external mail processor
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- The complete Platinum Xpress internal mail TOSSING and EXPORTING
- logic is equivalent to using the external PXECHO utility in this
- fashion
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- PXECHO TOSS SCAN PASSTHRU
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- If you don't have any passthru echos (all mail is tossed into
- Wildcat!), then you may skip the PASSTHRU command, like so:
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- PXECHO TOSS SCAN
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- How to speed up processing or change the processing
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- You may use PXECHO options to delay or change processing. For
- example, one of the fastest ways to process mail is to use the
- presort option:
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- PXECHO TOSS /SORT
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- This will sort the mail into specific PKT packets for each echo. The
- mail which would normally be tossed into Wildcat!, will be sorted
- and placed in the PRESORT directory. The passthru mail will be
- sorted and placed in the PASSTHRU directory.
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- With this in mind, you now use the following commands to complete
- the processing:
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- PXECHO SCAN /NE <--- Scan Wildcat Conferences
- PXECHO PRETOSS PASSTHRU
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