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- FDND: FrontDoor NodeDiff Processor, v1.10
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- Copyright (C) 1990, 1991 by Danny Mingle and SPECTRE Software,
- All Rights Reserved.
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- DISCLAIMER: We at SPECTRE Software take no repsonsibility what-
- soever for any problems that may arise out of the use of this
- program. The only thing that we guarantee is that this program
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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- Recognitions and Thanks ............................. page 2
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- Intro to FDND and Brief Command Line Summary ........ page 3
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- Processing Multiple Nodelists ....................... page 4
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- Exit Errorlevels .................................... page 5
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- The Two Simple Steps of Registration ................ page 6
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- Special Note to Version 1.00 Registrants ............ page 7
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- FDND -- FrontDoor NodeDiff Processor, v1.10
- Copyright (C) 1990, 1991 By SPECTRE Software Page 1
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- RECOGNITIONS AND THANKS
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- Much appreciation goes to Wesley Williams for all his help
- in providing ideas for FDND and for programming, especially
- quite heavily in v1.10; Robert McCullough for providing us with
- technical assistance; David Gilbert for generously giving us the
- code he wrote for CRC calculation; and to Jack Smith, Mike
- Janke, John Marlett, Jason Bennett and all the others whom I
- can't remember for testing FDND and giving us feedback on it!
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- FDND -- FrontDoor NodeDiff Processor, v1.10
- Copyright (C) 1990, 1991 By SPECTRE Software Page 2
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- INTRODUCTION TO FDND AND BRIEF COMMAND LINE SUMMARY
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- FDND is a nodediff processor made with FrontDoor in mind,
- but will work with any system. FDND uses low-level system calls
- to write to the disk, which causes the program to run quite
- fast. It will run even faster if you set your BUFFERS statement
- in CONFIG.SYS to equal either 20 or 30. Another thing that
- speeds up FDND is running it on a recently optimized disk.
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- There are 12 command line parameters that you can pass
- FDND. They are:
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- /F Causes FDND to automatically call FrontDoor's nodelist
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- /K Causes FDND to delete the old nodelist and the current
- nodediff after creating the new nodelist.
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- /C Causes FDND to do a CRC comparison between the newly
- generated nodelist and the official CRC, which is listed
- in the nodediff that you are applying.
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- /Q Causes FDND to perform a "Quick-CRC" comparison on the
- newly created nodelist by reading in the first
- line of the old nodelist and the first line of the
- current nodediff and comparing them.
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- /S Causes FDND to not beep when an error occurs.
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- /M Causes FDND to run in monochrome mode.
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- /T Causes FDND to automatically call InterMail's nodelist
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- /D<kilobytes> Causes FDND to abort if there isn't at least
- <kilobytes> amount of disk space free on the
- current drive. This parameter must be capi-
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- /I[<n><pathname>] This is used to specify the input nodelist
- file. <n> can be no higher than 10. Read
- on for an explanation of this feature.
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- /N[<n><pathname>] This is used to specify the input nodediff
- file. <n> can be no higher than 10. Read
- on for an explanation of this feature.
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- /O[<n><pathname>] This is used to specify the output node-
- list file. <n> can be no higher than 10.
- Read on for an explanation of this fea-
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- /Z Causes FDND to place a ^Z at the end of a new nodelist.
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- /? Causes FDND to open a help window with brief descriptions
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- FDND -- FrontDoor NodeDiff Processor, v1.10
- Copyright (C) 1990, 1991 By SPECTRE Software Page 3
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- PROCESSING MULTIPLE NODELISTS
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- There have been quite a few requests to add multiple node-
- list support in FDND. Here's how you can process multiple node-
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- For an example, to process FILENET nodelist files along
- with FidoNet nodelist files, you would type the following:
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- FDND /I2FILELIST /N2FILEDIFF /O2FILELIST
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- As another example, to process FILENET nodelist files,
- SOMENET nodelist files, and FidoNet nodelist files, you
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- FDND /I2FILELIST /N2FILEDIFF /O2FILELIST /I3SOMELIST
- /I3SOMEDIFF /I3SOMELIST
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- To process only FidoNet nodelist files, just simple type
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- Do not specify an extension for the nodelist and nodediff
- files. The nodediff and nodelist filenames must be in the for-
- mat of NODELIST/DIFF.###. FDND will not work with multiple no-
- delsits unless the filenames have this format.
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- /I1, /N1, and /O1 are reserved for the FidoNet nodelist
- files. By leaving them off of the command line FDND will auto-
- matically look for them and try to process them. If you aren't
- in FidoNet you can just specify another nodelist on the command
- line using the /I1 switch and thus make FDND look for another
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- IMPORTANT NOTE: When using these parameters, the "I", "N", and
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- FDND -- FrontDoor NodeDiff Processor, v1.10
- Copyright (C) 1990, 1991 By SPECTRE Software Page 4
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- EXIT ERRORLEVELS
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- FDND exits with one of eight errorlevels:
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- 0 No Errors
- 1 Error finding nodelist or nodediff files
- 2 Reserved
- 3 Memory allocation error
- 4 Disk Write Error
- 5 Failed Annoyance Check (non-registered version only)
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- FDND -- FrontDoor NodeDiff Processor, v1.10
- Copyright (C) 1990, 1991 By SPECTRE Software Page 5
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- HOW TO REGISTER
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- FDND does require registration. It is extremely easy and
- inexpensive to do and is required if you use FDND for over 30
- days; i.e., four weekly nodediff processings.
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- In order to register, carefully read and fill out FDND.REG.
- Then print it out and send it along with a check for $10 to:
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- Charles Wesley Williams, III
- 117 Bellevue Road
- Nashville, TN 37221
- USA
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- Please make checks payable to Charles Wesley Williams, III
- and _NOT_ to SPECTRE Software Development Group.
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- If you have any questions or comments, please send them
- to 1:116/600 or 1:116/9. We want to hear YOUR opinion!
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- The latest version of FDND will always be File Request-
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- FDND -- FrontDoor NodeDiff Processor, v1.10
- Copyright (C) 1990, 1991 By SPECTRE Software Page 6
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- SPECIAL NOTE TO VERSION 1.00 REGISTRANTS
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- If you were a registrant of v1.00, then your registra-
- tion for v1.10 is FREE. This is our way of thanking those
- of you who were loyal to our program. Your keys for v1.10
- have already been made out for you. To receive them, just
- send a netmail message to 116/600 that contains your name,
- telephone number, and street address. After one to two days
- your key will be placed on hold for you. Remember, this key
- will work for all future versions of FDND.
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