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Short: GUI for selecting files of Fidonet boxes
Type: comm/fido
Uploader: steppler@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Author: steppler@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
NAME
MUI Fido File Request 1.2
DESCRIPTION
MUI Fido File Request is a GUI for selecting files from a filelist,
which almost every Fidonet mailbox provides for download.
The list of selected files is written to a .REQ-file in your
outbound directory.
The next time you call up your Fido Boss these files are
automatically downloaded by your Fidonet communications software.
CHANGES
1.0 Initial release (23.01.94)
1.1 (17.02.94)
- clipboard support
- 4D addressing is used for the request file
- multiple nodes
- download of the selected files
- XPK support
- appending of passwords to the selected filenames
1.2 (16.04.94)
- display of telephone charges, sum of sizes of all selected files
in bytes and expected duration of transmission
(suggested by Stefan Gybas)
- two new environment variables MUIFFR/Outbound and MUIFFR/Config
(suggested by Klaus Melchior)
- bug removed: Filenames and passwords containing spaces inside of a
.REQ file are not split in several parts any longer when loaded
(reported by Matthias Scheler)
- enforcer hit removed (WORD-READ), which appeared sometimes during
startup
- After a successful search the filelist listview gadget in automatically
made the active object of the main window.
(suggested by Stefan Gybas)
- .REQ files, if present, are loaded from now on everytime the user
selects a different alias.
HARD- AND SOFTWARE-REQUIREMENTS
- Amiga OS 2.04
- WB 2.1 (if you want to make use of localization)
- Stefan Stuntz' Magic User Interface 2.0 or better
- Fidonet mailer, e. g. Maximilian Hantsch's and Martin Laubach's TrapDoor
INSTALLATION
Installer script supplied.
DOCUMENTATION
MUIFFR 1.2 is pretty much self-explanatory.
***ATTENTION***
The format of the configuration file has changed form 1.1 to 1.2.
Old 1.1 configuration files can *still* be read.
When installing 1.2 over an already installed version 1.1
your 1.1 configuration file is *not* overwritten by the Installer script.
You can keep on using your old 1.1 configuration. After the installation
you only have to adapt your configuration to 1.2, i.e. enter
transmission rate, telephone charges etc. in the empty gadgets of the
configuration window, and save it..
Configuration window:
- For every node you can define an alias, a node number,
a telephone number, a password, a filelist associated
with this alias and a font compatible with this filelist.
MUIFFR automatically recognizes, if this list has been
packed with an XPK-packer, and unpacks it, when nescessary.
Since. 1.2 you can specify the transmission rate of the
connection to the respective mailbox, the charges per unit
in cents and the duration of a unit in seconds. MUIFFR
uses these data to automatically calculate telephone
charges and display them in the main window.
- When you press the 'Download' button of the main window,
your Fido communications software, e. g. TrapDoor,
is invoked. If you did not specify a phone number
for the current node, the contents of the 'Via Node'
string gadget (otherwise 'Via Number') are used for
invoking your Fido software.
Following format specifiers are recognized.
%t telephone number
%n node number
%l nodelist directory
%p password
Examples:
The current node has a telephone number:
TrapDoor Call %t Boss %n Password %p
The current node does not have a telephone number. It is
extracted out of the nodelist by your Fido software.
TrapDoor Call %n Password %p Nodelist %l
- The outbound directory is the placed, where the .REQ-file is to
be stored to.
Since 1.2 you can specify the outbound directory via the environment
variable MUIFFR/Outbound. The environment variable has a higher
priority than the contents of the outbound gadget.
Example: 1> setenv MUIFFR/Outbound Mail:outbound
copy env:MUIFFR envarc:MUIFFR
- Since 1.2 you can specify the name of the configuration file via the
environment variable MUIFFR/Config. The environment variable has a higher
priority than the default value PROGDIR:muiffr.config.
Example: 1> setenv MUIFFR/Config PROGDIR:muiffr.config
copy env:MUIFFR envarc:MUIFFR
- Termination: Is every line of the .REQ-file to be terminated with
a linefeed character (dec.: 10) or with an carriage return (dec.: 13)
and a linefeed?
- Filename position: Which word of the selected line is to be extracted
as the filename?
- Since 1.2 the filesize entry of a selected line is recognized, too.
Byte position: Position of the filesize entry within the selected line.
Main window:
- Password: Select one or more files and then press this button.
The password is now appended to each of them. Do not mistake
this password, which gives you download access to certain files,
by your personal password, with the help of which you are allowed
to download at all.
- Filenames can be im- or exported via the clipboard (RAmiga-C/V/X).
- Insert: The contents of the string gadget beneath the 'selected
files' listview gadget is appended to the list of these files.
- Delete: One or more filenames are deleted from the list.
- Load: The .REQ-file is loaded, if it exists.
- Save: The .REQ-file is saved to the outbound directory using
4D addressing. If no file has been selected, but a .REQ-file
already exists, then this file is deleted.
DOWNLOAD
Any Aminet site, e.g.
USA (MO) ftp.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 pub/aminet/
USA (CA) ftp.cdrom.com 192.153.46.2 pub/aminet/
USA (TX) ftp.etsu.edu 192.43.199.20 pub/aminet/
Scandinavia ftp.luth.se 130.240.18.2 pub/aminet/
Germany ftp.uni-kl.de 131.246.9.95 pub/aminet/
Germany ftp.uni-erlangen.de 131.188.1.43 pub/aminet/
Germany ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de 130.149.17.7 pub/aminet/
Germany ftp.uni-paderborn.de 131.234.2.32 pub/aminet/
Germany ftp.uni-oldenburg.de 134.106.40.9 pub/aminet/
Germany ftp.coli.uni-sb.de 134.96.68.11 pub/aminet/
Switzerland ftp.eunet.ch 146.228.10.16 pub/aminet/
Switzerland litamiga.epfl.ch 128.178.151.32 pub/aminet/ (*)
UK ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk 146.169.2.1 pub/aminet/
(*) closed 6:30am to 4pm weekdays
DIRECTORY
comm/fido
FILE NAME
MUIFFR12.lha
FURTHER SOURCES
FIDO:
Mowgli 2:242/7 +49-(0)241-40 59 49
2:2452/107
DISTRIBUTABILITY
Freely distributable, but copyrighted.
KNOWN BUGS
- If you start MUIFFR from CLI or another program (e.g. Filer or DirOpus),
reassure yourself the stack is set to at least 10000 bytes. Otherwise
unpredictable errors might occur.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to
- Klaus Melchior for suggestions and beta-testing.
- Matthias Scheler for bug-reports and suggestions.
- Stefan Gybas for suggestions.
AUTHOR
Martin Steppler
Internet: steppler@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
steppler@dfv.rwth-aachen.de
ADSP: steppler@cookies.adsp.sub.org
Fido: 2:242/7.12 steppler@mowgli.fido.de
FidoLite: 2:2452/107.12