_Tag-O-Matic Installation Guide._ ================================= (Last updated 10 November 1996 (version 12)) The program INSTALL.EXE which is supplied with Tag-O-Matic will install Tag-O-Matic into your OLR, and basically setup T-MATIC.CFG. Further configuration must be done if you want a more advanced setup. INSTALL.EXE is fairly self-explanatory, but I'll explain roughly what it does here. When run, Install searches for TM.CFG or GOLDED.CFG. If it finds either, it will prompt you to make sure, then it will backup your existing config, and modify relevant entries in those files for T-Matic to run. It will also do some minor changes to the default T-MATIC.CFG to suit that OLR. It is recommended that you also follow this file to make sure, and to further modify T-MATIC.CFG so it suits you. If Install doesn't locate either of the above, it will give you the choice of creating a generic install. This creates a batchfile called REPLY.BAT which can be called by your OLR in place of your editor. Once installed, you can safely delete INSTALL.EXE - it's not used. This file gives installing tips for various mailers. Specific help is offered for Termail. If you're using another mailer, then please read the "Generic Section". If you're using a Windows mailer, or email reader, see the "Email" section. _Termail Instructions_ ====================== (If you would like an automated setup program, please let me know and I'll see what I can do) There are two sections to be completed to use Tag-O-Matic with Termail for basic use. The first is to edit T-MATIC.CFG to your satisfaction. Full details on the specifics of this are in T-MATIC.DOC. When that's set up, you can now setup Termail so it runs Tag-O-Matic when you enter a new message, or reply to one. Load Termail's configuration file [TM.CFG] into your favourite word processor. Find the line that starts with: Editor Change this to read (for example) Editor T-MATIC @FILE As far as Tag-O-Matic's concerned, you can leave the entries: BeforeEdit AfterEdit blank. You can, of course, use other programs here, but Tag-O-Matic no longer needs them for itself. Note that Tag-O-Matic can also call a program after editing itself. _Advanced features of Tag-O-Matic and Termail_ ============================================== There are some extra features of Tag-O-Matic that work well with Termail. These can be called on the command-line, or from one of the function keys in Termail. Eg: (Change TM.CFG for the following) ShiftF1 Adpt T-MATIC /S {tagfile} !MSG !W This will steal any taglines from the current message displayed in Termail, and append it to {tagfile} when you press SHIFT+F1 You can do this for any of the Tag-O-Matic switches, such as stealing taglines or de-duping your tagfile. _Using Macros in Termail_ ========================= You need to do some complicated stuff to get headers to work properly, but nothing too strenous. Again, editing TM.CFG, locate the templates. The first should look something like this: Template 1 MsgStart To: @FROM@CR MsgEnd @CRFrom: Simon Avery MsgQuote Howdy @F!@CR Change this to the following. (Exactly - remember you can change the actual headers and footers in T-Matic to resemble what you had before) Template 1 MsgStart ~NAME @F @L@CR~SUBJECT @SUBJECT@CR~ORIGFROM @FROM MsgEnd MsgQuote This means that when Termail prepares a message for editing, it will start the message with: ~NAME Name of other person ~SUBJECT Subject of message ~ORIGFROM Name of third person Note the use of @CR to force a new line. Each macro MUST be on a seperate line! If you wish to use seperate config files for different groups, there is another macro you can use here: ~CONFIG Config_file Eg: MsgStart ~NAME @F @L@CR~SUBJECT @SUBJECT@CR~ORIGFROM @FROM@CR@~CONFIG FIDO.CFG This tells T-Matic to use another config file. Because Tag-O-Matic is already running, it will have already used a config file, but the new will overwrite any previous values... If your OLR supplies a group or other area-specific string, you can amend the Edit string to something like: Editor T-MATIC @FILE @GROUP.CFG Termail doesn't support this in the Editor string. Ask Bo why not. By the time Tag-O-Matic calls the editor, these should all have gone, as Tag-O-Matic reads them in to know what's going on. It then deletes them to keep things tidy. You can then enable macros in Tag-O-Matic's config. Full list of T-Matic macros: Termail's Equivalent --------------------------------------------|-------------------------------- ~NAME (Name of other person) @FROM ~SUBJECT (Subject of message) @SUBJECT ~ORIGFROM (Name of third person) @TO ~CONFIG (Config_file) N/A ~ORIGDATE (Original date of quoted message) @DATE ~ORIGTIME (Original time of quoted message) @TIME _Generic Mailers_ ================= This method will work with 99% of all Fidonet mailers. Any mailer that will allow you to use an external editor will work. (Timed and Golded are special cases, see below) Where the mail program asks you for the filename of your text editor, replace this with "T-MATIC" (sans quotes). Note that you may have to supply the filename for the message, or a macro, or the program may automatically append the message filename to the end of this. With Golded or Timed, if you wish to use the internal editor - then things get a little more complicated. As I understand it (I don't use either) they can only call another program after they're finished, thus the tagline appears after their own tearline. Use of the ~TAG locater (and enabling TagLocate in the config) can overcome this. Including ~TAG into your standard sig can speed things up. Have a read of the Termail section in this file to see if there are any of the other features (groups, macros etc) that you might be able to use. It's beyond the scope of this document to cover everything for all mailers, so it's left a little up to you. _Email_ ======= The status of Windows / OS2 Email programs and DOS tagline tools is somewhat murky, but it can be done. To do so successfully, you need to know a little how each program works. Tag-O-Matic needs a text file to work on in order to add a tagline. Since it doesn't have access to the message file of most (if not all) Windows message editors, then you need something else. A lot of email programs allow for a sig (or signature) file to be added automatically. It is this that Tag-O-Matic can work on. You need to create a sample sig file, and find out what it's called. Also, you need to make sure that you make a copy of the original sig file before Tag-O-Matic is run, otherwise it'll only work once before it complains that it already has a tagline. For example, Eudora 1.5.4: ============= [In Eudora] Click "Tools" then "Signature" This takes you to a dialog box where you design your standard signature. (If you want to use random sigs, then it's a little more tricky but it can be done. Basically, you just treat the Eudora sig file as the message file and setup T-matic as per a dos prog.) Design this as you like, but it must contain at least something (even if it's just a blank line, to force Eudora to actually SAVE the sig file) Go to Eudora's dos directory (it helps if you're in dos to do this). Copy SIGNATUR.PCE to SIGNATUR.OLD Copy T-Matic's files to this directory. Create a batchfile akin to: COPY SIGNATUR.OLD SIGNATUR.PCE T-MATIC SIGNATUR.PCE (or T-MATIC /F SIGNATUR.PCE if you want it done automatically) You can then create a program icon or shortcut to this batch file. This means that T-Matic won't be called automatically for every message you write. However, there will always be a tagline on your sig, it just won't be updated until the next time you run the batch file. Once a day should be enough, but it's up to you. Netscape 2.x also uses this system, and probably most others too. -End of File-