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- There's not a real need for a vast amount of documentation for this
- product so I'll just do a walk thru on how to set the various control
- files are setup.
-
-
- Ron Pritchett
- 1:376/74.0
-
- 5 Easy Steps to generating Status Messages with NetStat
-
- 1) Print out this doc so you can following along with it. ;)
- 2) Load NETSTAT.CTL into any ASCII editor.
- a - Specify your address
- b - Specify the directory to your netmail area. (NEVER end this
- with a trailing backslash)
- c - Specify your name
- 3) Load NETSTAT.TXT into any ASCII editor. This file, if present, will
- be the first thing in all generated msgs.
- 4) Copy any portion of the nodelist to NETSTAT.DAT. NETSTAT.DAT is
- just the Standard St. Loius format and also supports the "Point"
- identifier. (Your welcome <g>).
-
- NOTE: Any entry in NETSTAT.DAT that begins with "Zone", "Hold", or
- "Down" will not have a message generated. "Region", "Host",
- "Hub", "Pvt", "Point" & regular nodes are the only entries
- that will cause NetStat to generate a status message.
-
- ALSO: Any flag that stars with U or G will have it trimmed off when
- searching for a verbose description.
-
- eg: if the node has the USDS flag, SDS will be looked up in
- NETSTAT.CTL. In most cases NETSTAT.CTL's flag definitions
- won't have to be changed.
-
- 5) Run Netstat. (oh, you knew that one, eh?)
-
- You're done! Enjoy. If you're still unsure what the program does, try
- deleting all but a few lines from the supplied .DAT file & run it.
- I hope you find this program helpful.
-
-
- Ron
-
-
- ps... Comment lines are supported in NETSTAT.DAT but not NETSTAT.CTL.
-