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STUFIT! - Scant and Scarce Documentation
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(* March 16 , 1994 ... hey, it's my birthday in two days *)
Welcome to STUFIT! ... the ST UseNet<=>FidoTechnology Interface
Copyright Steve Caple 1993,1994
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Email : spcaple@gn.apc.org
u3d69@cc.keele.ac.uk (Until June 1996)
Steve Caple at 90:103/107.0@NeST.Ftn (-=UnPublished=-)
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In order to use STUFIT! you need to have a UUCP Email/News account
somewhere and a FidoTechnology mail system. STUFIT! will convert
incoming Compressed Email/News batches to Uncompressed Fidostyle PKTs,
and vice-versa.
(This may sound simple... it isn't! Try writing it someday...)
A minimal setup would use something like the following:
UUCICO v3.72+ with associated XHOSTS files etc..
COMPRESS.TTP to pack/unpack UseNet stuff.
STUFIT! to do the conversions.
JETMAIL to import/export the PKTs.
LED to read / reply to all your mail....
You could also be running stuff like HERMES, or QBBS etc...You would
be able to allow all the users on your system access to both 'worlds'.
=================================================================
STUFIT! consists of 5 programs, although only TWO of these
need be called by the user. The two main programs, 'UFTOSS2.TTP' and
'SCANFU2.TTP', call the other three as needed. They operate as shells,
they know what they are doing, and will normally recover if one of the
'daughter' programs should bomb out :-) STUFIT! also writes incredibly
long and boring logfiles.. as did it's PC predecessor upon which it is
modelled :^>
If you run any of the programs with no commandline arguments, then a
short help text will be produced on screen. I have copied the
texts below so you can see what sort of information must be passed by
you ... and also what the shell programs are telling the others to do.
Apparently some people like to know these things!
The extracts show , pretty clearly I think, how to use the shell
programs... The sample CONFIG file, and the seperate CONFIG.DOC will
explain all that in great detail <bet you'll be bored>...As you will
rapidly notice - you can have as many config files as you like, and
call them any name you like.
This software is distributed as SUPPORTWARE. This means that if
you want to use it, fine... if you want to pass it on to your friends,
that's fine too.... but if you want any SUPPORT for it, you send me
some money <grin>. I don't mind if no-one 'registers' because
NO_MONEY = NO_HELP_WHEN_YOU_HAVE_A_PROBLEM :-)))
If you feel like contributing , I will accept any of the following:
10 UK Pounds
15 US Dollars
25 Deutschmarks
CASH only (if not - a UK Cheque, Postal Order or EuroCheque for UKP.)
If you'd like to haggle and offer me something just as nice, feel free
to call me ... My phone number is VOICE ONLY, or write to me in Email
or Snailmail...
S.P.Caple
82 Broad Street
Crewe
Cheshire
UK CW1 3DJ
+44-270-583287 (ONLY between 8pm and 10pm UK Time please...)
(Email addresses at top of this document)
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(* Fido -> UseNet conversion *)
Usage: SCANFU2 -c <config> -a <address> -h <hostdir> -d <DELETE|NODELETE> -NoZone
Example: SCANFU2 -c config -a 2:255/404.1 -h exnet2 -d DELETE
where: config is the configuration file
address is the FidoNet address to scan for
hostdir is the uucp host to build for
DELETE will delete processed packets
NODELETE will save processed packets
-NoZone will ignore the ZONE in the PACKET address
(* UseNet -> Fido conversion *)
Usage: UFTOSS2 -c <config> -h <mailqueue> -d <DELETE|NODELETE> [-<code>]
Example: STUFTOSS -c config -h mqueue -d DELETE
where: config is the configuration file
mqueue is the name of spool directory to process
DELETE will delete processed messages
NODELETE will save processed messages
[-<code>] is optional command to select processing
of only news or mail.
-NewsOnly or -MailOnly are acceptable values.
=================(* And the daughters.... : *)=================
usage: ImpMail -c config -a address -i batch -o packet
where: config is the configuration file.
address is the user.name@site the mail is for.
batch is the mail file.
packet is the FidoNet mail packet to build.
Usage: ImpNews -c config [-quiet] -i batch -o packet
where: config is the configuration file.
-quiet supresses a lot of messages.
batch is the DECOMPRESSED batched news file.
packet is the FidoNet mail packet to build.
usage: ST-FU2 -c config -i packet -o batch
where: config is the configuration file.
batch is the batched news file to build.
packet is the UnArced FidoNet mail packet.
(* Hope you have fun!!!!! Welcome to my world *)