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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 1.1
-
- 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
-
- 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
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- Installer script supplied.
-
- DOCUMENTATION
-
- MUIFFR 1.1 is pretty much self-explanatory.
-
- 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.
-
- - 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.
-
- - 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?
-
- 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.
-
- Switzerland litamiga.epfl.ch 128.178.151.32 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/
- USA ftp.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 pub/aminet/
- USA ftp.cdrom.com 192.153.46.2 pub/aminet/
- USA merlin.etsu.edu 192.43.199.20 pub/aminet/
-
- DIRECTORY
-
- comm/fido
-
- FILE NAME
-
- MUIFFR11.lha
-
- FURTHER SOURCES
-
- FIDO:
- Mowgli 2:242/7 +49-(0)241-40 59 49
- 2:2452/107
-
- DISTRIBUTABILITY
-
- Freely distributable, but copyrighted.
-
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
-
- Thanks to Klaus Melchior for suggestions and beta-testing.
-
- AUTHOR
-
- Martin Steppler
-
- Internet: steppler@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
- ADSP: steppler@cookies.adsp.sub.org
- Fido: 2:242/7.12 Martin_Steppler@mowgli.fido.de
- FidoLite: 2:2452/107.12
-