CRASHELP.TXT  by  Jim Rash,  004/000           rev 01/14/89


This documentation is to help explain further how to set up to receive
and place Crash!Mail.

** Receive **

Receiving Crash!Mail is done when GT1403 receives a call that supplies
the proper sequence of codes for a crash session.  Your system will
shell and automatically run GTCRASH.BAT.
It should look like the following:

REM =============
REM **  GTCRASH.BAT **
c:
cd \gt
MDRIVER xxxx-xxxx /CA%3 /D10 /R:ROUTING.BBS /ZC /M1200
ECHO ATH1 > COM1
MDIST /R:ROUTING.BBS
ECHO ATH0 > COM1
REM =============

    Be sure that the ROUTING file you point to is complete, and
    specifies a full 24 hour time for echomail.
    i.e. ECHOMAIL HOURS 0100 - 2459


** Place Call **

To place a crashmail call, there are several considerations.  First,
if you wish to run MBAGGER to prepare your messages for delivery, be
sure to use the /N option to create "next day bags" for your echos.

If you are the sponsor of any echos, I strongly urge you NOT to bag
messages in your own echos until the regular netmail session in the
morning.  The reason is that if you bag messages, say at 3:00 pm from
your own sponsored echo, it will create an "E"  bag with the next days
serial number.  That bag could be picked up by anyone requesting your
echo in a crash call.  If you have additional messages before regular
netmail, they will be ADDED to the same bag.  Then there will be two
versions of the bag in the network and anyone getting the first will
NEVER receive the messages added to the second.

The solution is to use a special routing file with MBAGGER that omits
your own sponsored echos from MESSAGE DISTRIBUTION.  I run a manual
CRASHBAG.BAT file as follows:

REM =============
REM ** CRASHBAG.BAT **
echo ATH1 >com1
c:
cd\gt
MBAGGER /D05 /N /R:MSGCRASH.BBS
JDNET /S
REM =============

Next, you need a batch to start the MDRIVER session.  It should refer
to a ROUTING.BBS that you edit to inbound all nodes except those you
wish to place a CRASH call to.  Also, the NODELIST must contain an "*"
beside the name of each BBS that has concented to be "crashable".

REM =============
REM ** CRASHCAL.BAT **
REM ***
C:
CD\GT
ECHO ATH0 >COM1
MDRIVER   xxxx-xxxx 0100 2430 2430 /Q /CC /ZC /M1200 /D10 /E7 /H:CRASH.BBS /R:ROUTING.BBS
MDIST
GTHOST
REM =============