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EZ-Reader Utilities 1.03
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U T I L I T I E S
F O R
(C) E Z - R E A D E R
(The offline reader for Qmail, MarkMail, TomCat, and ProDoor)
(EZ-Reader is a copyright of Thumper Technologies, 1988-90)
February 19, 1990
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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
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Copyright Notice...........................................3
Warranty...................................................3
Contacting the Author......................................4
PC Board Utilities
PCB2QWK................................................x
REP2PCB................................................x
PC Board Reply File Format.............................x
ProDoor Utilities
ZIPM2QWK...............................................x
REP2ZIPM...............................................x
History...................................................xx
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Copyright Notice:
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The EZ-Reader Utility program documentation (EZUTILS.DOC) and the
EZ-Reader Utility programs (PCB2QWK.EXE, REP2PCB.EXE, ZIPM2QWK.EXE
and REP2ZIPM.EXE) are:
(C) Copyright Thumper Technologies 1990, All rights reserved.
They may be freely used, copied, and distributed in any manner by
anyone, provided that no fee is charged for the program or it's
documentation, it is not distributed as part of a commercial
product, all risk is assumed by the user, and this unmodified
documentation file is included. You must distribute the EZ-Reader
Utilities, all programs and documentation, complete and whole,
without alteration. You may charge only for the medium in which the
EZ-Reader Utilties are distributed.
Warranty:
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The author assumes no responsibility for any loss or damage that may
be caused by the use of this software, and does not warrant that it
will do anything at all. Users must agree to accept any risk as a
condition of the free use of this software.
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Contacting the Author:
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The author of EZ-Reader and the EZ-Reader Utilities is Eric Cockrell
from Tulsa, Oklahoma. If you have questions, comments, or
raspberries about EZ-Reader, the Utilities or E-mail in general you
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may contact him in one or more of several ways:
1) You can call the support board, Thumper's Den. The phone number
is (918) 627-0059 and currently the maximum baud rate is 2400.
Right now disk space is limited and messages only are encouraged.
2) You may reach me at Data Warp Premium BBS. The number is (918)
455-5544 running a US Robotics dual standard modem. Data Warp is
a very good BBS run by Mike Meyer. You can either leave me a
message in the Main Board or in the EZ-Reader conference.
3) Via the EZ-Reader conference on Interlink Network. Interlink is
a group of BBSs who have banded together to share messages. The
three BBSs list above are all Interlink BBSs. Ask the sysop to
point out the file that contains the list of Interlink BBSs.
There should be one near you.
4) Via the EZ-Reader conference on SmartNet/Relay Net/MetroNet
Networks. These three networks share conferences. One of these
BBSs is Channel 1 in Boston. It's number is (617) 354-2171. Ask
the sysop for the name of the file that lists the BBSs on each
network. There is probably one near you.
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P C B O A R D U T I L I T I E S
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Introduction:
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The utilities PCB2QWK and REP2PCB, through a conversion, allow
EZ-Reader to read and create replies from PC Board (PCB) capture
files. These utilities where tested with PC Board 14.2/D. With the
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utilities for PC Board you will need a companion script file that
will upload the replies for you. A sample Qmodem script is included.
If ProDoor is available, use it instead.
PCB2QWK (1.02):
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PCB2QWK converts a PC Board capture file to a QMail/MarkMail format
file (*.QWK) readable by EZ-Reader. Simply type:
PCB2QWK [d:][path]zipm_filename[ext]
You do not need to type the drive, path, or extension, PCB2QWK will
supply the defaults from the Download path specified in EZ-Reader's
configuration file. The default extension is CAP. The new
Qmail/MarkMail mail packet will be placed in the Download directory
specified in EZ-Reader's configuration file. All you need to do is
to run EZ-RDR.
EZ-Reader will not run if you have more than 200 messages per
conference. If you have more than 200 messages per conference you
will have to split the PCB capture file into smaller pieces.
PCB2QWK produces the following errorlevels on termination:
0 - No errors encountered
1 - No PCB capture file specified
2 - PCB capture file could not be found
3 - Cannot create or change to the WORK subdirectory
4 - No messages in the PCB capture file
5 - Couldn't open the PCB capture file
6 - Unable to create Qmail/MarkMail Message file
7 - Error encountered when creating an *.NDX file
8 - Unable to create CONTROL.DAT file
9 - Couldn't locate or error reading EZ-RDR.CFG
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REP2PCB (1.02):
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REP2PCB converts an EZ-Reader reply file (*.REP) to an ASCII file
that must be uploaded with a companion script file. The format of
the reply file is simple. An explination follows.
REP2PCB [options] [d:][path]reply_filename[ext]
You do not need to type the drive, path, or extension, REP2PCB will
supply the defaults from the Upload path specified in EZ-Reader's
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configuration file. The default extension is REP. REP2PCB does
require the Qmail/MarkMail mail packet and the reply file to be
available. An ASCII text file is created with an extension of PCB
and will be placed in the Upload directory specified in EZ-Reader's
configuration file. You will need to a script to upload the replies
to PC Board. A sample Qmodem script is included.
Options are to be preceeded with either the / or - characters. The
options may be lower or upper case. The only option available is:
E - This tells REP2PCB to generate the response to echo all of
the conferences except the Main Board. If you do not use
this option and the conference is echoed unknown problems
will occur. It's safer to use the echo option than not. If
you use the echo option and the conference is not echoed,
the only harm is that the first line in the message will
contain a Y.
REP2PCB produces the following errorlevels on termination:
0 - No errors encountered
1 - No reply file specified
2 - Reply file could not be found
3 - Cannot create or change to the WORK subdirectory
4 - Error unZIPping the mail packet or reply file
5 - Couldn't open the PC Board reply file (*.PCB)
6 - Unable to open Qmail/MarkMail Message file
7 - Qmail/MarkMail mail packet could not be found
8 - Unable to open CONTROL.DAT file
9 - Couldn't locate or error reading EZ-RDR.CFG
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PC Board Reply File Format
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This file is a straight text file with all the necessary PCB
commands to enter and create a message. There are two special
commands which the script MUST handle. Otherwise unknown things will
happen. These commands are:
***JNC*** Join a New Conference. The conference number follows
on the following line. The script MUST put the
conference number together with "J;". See the file
SENDREPS.SCR, line 64.
***EOM*** End Of Message. This indicates the end of the
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message. The script MUST supply the commands to save
the message. See the file SENDREPS.SCR, line 70.
The format of the file follows:
J;0
***JNC***
Conference Number
E
Name of the person the message is addressed to
Subject of the message
Blank if Public, R if Private
Y - This line is present only if the echo was on
text of the message
.
.
.
.
text of the message
***EOM***
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P R O D O O R U T I L I T I E S
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Introduction:
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The utilities ZIPM2QWK and REP2ZIPM, through a conversion, allow
EZ-Reader to read and create replies from ZIPM mail packets.
ZIPM2QWK (1.01):
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ZIPM2QWK converts a ZIPM mail packet to a QMail/MarkMail format file
(*.QWK) readable by EZ-Reader. Simply type:
ZIPM2QWK [d:][path]zipm_filename[ext]
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You do not need to type the drive, path, or extension, ZIPM2QWK will
supply the defaults from the Download path specified in EZ-Reader's
configuration file. The default extension is ZIP. The new
Qmail/MarkMail mail packet will be placed in the Download directory
specified in EZ-Reader's configuration file. All you need to do is
to run EZ-RDR.
Since ProDoor only allows you to download 200 messages per mail
packet ZIPM2QWK does not check to see if you have more than 200
messages per conference. EZ-Reader will not run if you have more
than 200 messages per conference. If you have more than 200 messages
per conference you will have to split the ZIPM mail packet into
smaller pieces.
ZIPM2QWK produces the following errorlevels on termination:
0 - No errors encountered
1 - No ZIPM mail packet specified
2 - ZIPM mail packet could not be found
3 - Cannot create or change to the WORK subdirectory
4 - Error encountered when unZIPping the mail packet
5 - Couldn't open the ZIPM text file
6 - Unable to create Qmail/MarkMail Message file
7 - Error encountered when creating an *.NDX file
8 - Unable to create CONTROL.DAT file
9 - Couldn't locate or error reading EZ-RDR.CFG
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REP2ZIPM (1.01):
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REP2ZIPM converts an EZ-Reader reply file (*.REP) to an ASCII file
that can be uploaded directly to ProDoor.
REP2ZIPM [options] [d:][path]reply_filename[ext]
You do not need to type the drive, path, or extension, REP2ZIPM will
supply the defaults from the Upload path specified in EZ-Reader's
configuration file. The default extension is REP. REP2ZIPM does
require the Qmail/MarkMail mail packet and the reply file to be
available. An ASCII text file is created with an extension of ZPM
and will be placed in the Upload directory specified in EZ-Reader's
configuration file. All you need to do is to run your communications
program and upload the ZPM file, using an ASCII protocol, directly
to ProDoor.
Options are to be preceeded with either the / or - characters. The
options may be lower or upper case. The only option available is:
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E - This tells REP2ZIPM to generate the response to echo all of
the conferences except the Main Board.
REP2ZIPM produces the following errorlevels on termination:
0 - No errors encountered
1 - No reply file specified
2 - Reply file could not be found
3 - Cannot create or change to the WORK subdirectory
4 - Error unZIPping the mail packet or reply file
5 - Couldn't open the ZIPM reply file (*.ZPM)
6 - Unable to open Qmail/MarkMail Message file
7 - Qmail/MarkMail mail packet could not be found
8 - Unable to open CONTROL.DAT file
9 - Couldn't locate or error reading EZ-RDR.CFG
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History:
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1.03 Fixed PCB2QWK so that it works with PC Board 14.5.
1.02 The EZ-Reader Utils would not read the configuration
file if you did not have the environmental variable
EZRDR set. This has been corrected.
1.01 Corrected small bug in REP2PCB. Increased delays in
SENDREPS.SCR.
1.00 Initial release of PCB2QWK, REP2PCB, ZIPM2QWK and
REP2ZIPM.
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