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Using this tutorial you will learn to use BUM by an example:
after having loaded BUM we must insert the BBS (or Aminet sites) to
which the user usually connect himself. To do it we have to insert
the data of the first BBS in the square "BBS Data" of the "BBS Window"
ed eventually the ratio and the credits of the user.
To insert the BBS in the list you have to press the button "Insert"
of the square "Panel".
At this point BUM will send a message to the user in which remember
him to insert the upload dir. Every BBS must have an upload dir, that is
a dir in which there are the files to send to the current BBS.
Two or more BBS (but also all the BBS) can share the upload dir.
To set the upload dir you have to press the button "Set Upload Dir"
of the "BBS Window" or editing the dir directly in the string gadget
located on its right.
Let do the same operations for all the others BBS; now we have a list
in which we can move using the buttons "Next" and "Prev" of the square
"Panel" (so you can select the current BBS).
Now we have to insert the files in each BBS: so select the first BBS
we had inserted as the current one and consider the "Download Window".
In this window there are the files to receive from the current BBS.
The user can get the list of all the files of the system (or browse the list
on-line), select the files he is interested in and insert them in the square
"Files to receive". To do it you have to:
- Select that square as the current one (pressing the square gadget
located above the button "<=Move").
- Insert data of the first file in the square "File Data" (the lenght in K).
- Press the button "Ins" of the square "Panel". "Ins" get file info in the square
"File Data" and insert them in the current square.
- Repeat all the operation for every file to download.
When you have done, in the square "Files to receive" there will be present all
the files to download, while in the informative gadgets there will be
some information about the same files; in the gadget called "N" there
will be their number, in the gadget called "S" their lenght and in the
two gadgets called "TIME" the time they need to be transfered.
(considering the parameter "BPS" of the "Configuration window").
Now look at the square "Next files to receive" that contains the files
that the user wants to receive during the next connection.
By the buttons "<=Move" and "Move=>" of the square "Files to receive" it is
possible to transfer some files from that square to the square
"Next files to receive" (destination list). The file that will be transfered
is the one is actually highlight in the source list.
After having effected the connection and downloaded the files the user
will have to transfer all the files in the "Next files to receive"
to the square "Files received" and prepare the files to download
in the next connection.
Now let go in the "Upload Window". In it there are the files that the user
wants to send to the archieve. The rules of this window are very similar
to the "Download Window", but there are some difference because of the files
of this window have a physical corrispondence in the HD of the user (in fact
the user has to be send them).
This fact means that:
- If you press the button "Ins",a file requester will be displayed.
In this file requester the user will have to choose a file (obviusly that is
already present in the his HD) that will be copied in the upload dir of the
BBS. If the file choosen is already in the upload dir all will be good (or
rather should be always so).
- If you press the button "Del" also the file in the HD will be deleted
(its path is "upload dir" + "name of the file").
- If you press the button "Move=>" of the square "Next files to send" BUM
will check if the file to be moved is not used by others BBS and if so will delete it
from the upload dir (because it is used no more by all the BBS).