D'Bridge v1.54,Wildcat! v3.x, & FidoNet Perfect together! The Promised Land BBS 715 East 138th Street Bronx, New York 10454 (718) 562-1946 (718) 295-3266 SysOp: Richard Rodriguez Fido: 1:2603/506 I make no guarrantees with this help file, but I can almost guess that you'll be up and running in no time...! List of files needed and can be found on my Board and MSI HQ BBS where you got this file from: Print out DOC -> DB-154.ZIP or current.... D'Bridge File itself " " -> WNODE151.ZIP.............. WilNode v1.51 " " -> WM310-1.ZIP .............. WildMail v3.10 file 1 " " -> WM310-2.ZIP .............. WildMail v3.10 file 2 " " -> WM310-3.ZIP .............. WildMail v3.10 file 3 " " -> X00150.ZIP .............. Fossil Driver NODELIST.* .............. FidoNet Nodelist FIDONET.NA .............. FidoNet Conferences The reason it says print out "DOC" is so that you can get a better grasp of the instructions... Yea I know, I hate reading too! D'Bridge EMAIL System Single Line Beta 154 /14 June 1993 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Installing D'Bridge from the release ZIP file is quick and easy. First , make sure that you have a copy of both PKZIP.EXE and PKUNZIP.EXE in the DOS PATH. Version 2.04g or later is REQUIRED! PKZIP is a compression/decompression system available from: PKWARE, Inc. 7545 N. Port Washington Rd. Glendale, WI 53217 This program is available as a ShareWare product and available for file- request from most if not all of the dealers in the DBNET nodelist & from my BBS or MSI HQ where you got this file from. And it is REQUIRED for D'BRIDGE operation. Next unzip the release file, DB-154.ZIP into a subdirectory of your choice. Assuming that the ZIP file is on a floppy in Drive B: type the following DOS commands: ie. C:\>MD DB C:\>CD DB C:\>PKUNZIP B:DB-154 At this point, you should have three files in the C:\DB directory that came from the release ZIP file: DB-154.EXE DB-154.DOC READ.ME To install or upgrade D'Bridge, simply type the command DB-154 in the \DB directory: C:\DB\DB-154 The Installation program will walk you thru the installation process. Once the installation is complete, the file DB-154.exe will be erased. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WILDNODE v1.51 Nodelist Compiler Wildnode is used to process a fidonet compatible St. Louis style raw nodelist and create the necessary database files so Wildcat! v3+ can properly make use of the NetMail features. Wildnode! does this by making use of a special control file to define pricing, nodelist(s) to process and zone usage information. This file can be obtained from: Online Computer Resources 2036 Columbus Parkway #450 Benicia, CA 94510 Voice: (707)552-1122 BBS: (707)552-0602 Installation: Setup and configuration of WILDNODE! is relatively simple and straight forward. Outlined below is the recommended procedure when initially installing WILDNODE! 1) Using PKNZIP, uncompress the WNODE151.ZIP into a temporary directory. 2) Copy WILDNODE.EXE into the WC30\DATA directory, that is also where your WILDNODE.CFG File should be placed as well. This is where you will compile the nodelist once after you compile it in D'Bridge. 3) After you have compiled the nodelist in D'Bridge you will copy the nodelist as is to the C:\WC30\DATA dir and execute WILDNODE by entering the command WILDNODE.EXE then you will see the raw nodelist being compiled...That's it for that! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WilMail v3.01 WM310-1.ZIP, WM310-2.ZIP, WM310-3.ZIP Your WILDMAIL! installation kit is distributed in three seperate compressed files. The names and contents of these files are listed below: WM310-1.ZIP - WILDMAIL! Executable/Documentation README.1ST Last minute changes not included in WM30.DOC WM.EXE The Executable File WM.OVR overlay file WM30.DOC DOC WM310-2.ZIP - Configuration Program/ Online Help WMCONFIG.EXE Configuration Program WMCONFIG.HLP Online Text sensitive help file WM310-3.ZIP - Upgrade Utility/ Sample Batch Files WMINSTAL.EXE Upgrade Prog. WMUTIL.EXE Database Repair, Config. Report WMUTIL.HLP Help File WMUTIL.DOC Doc File for WMUTIL! REGISTER.DOC Mail in Regist. Form FD-CFG.ZIP BI-CFG.ZIP Sample Batch Files DB-CFG.ZIP <-----(This is the one you should be interested in) ^^^^^^^^^^ D'Bridge Sample Batch File If you are missing anyone of the files listed above call the WILDMAIL! Support BBS at the number listed above O.C.R. All of the files listed can be found on: Online Computer Resources BBS (707)552-0602,2344,0659 Unzip each of the WILDMAIL! files into a directory called C:\WM30 and then run WMCONFIG.EXE, follow all of the Prompts in WILDMAIL! and you should be almost well on your way to having it all set up! in order to run WILDMAIL! you must first obtain a 30 Day demo key of which you can only obtain one per registration number at the above number which means unless you have some good ole excuse you aint getting another...so please be nice and register the WILDMAIL! mail tosser or you'll be left in the DARK! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- X.00 A Low Level Serial I/O Communications Driver Fossil Driver X00150.ZIP for MS-DOS and like Operating Systems. D'Bridge comes with X00.EXE but I prefer X00.SYS cause it works best with QEMM v7.3 and doesn't HOG up MEMory like X00.EXE Quick Start: Unzip X00150.ZIP into a temp directory, Copy X00.EXE to the root directory of you Boot drive or Diskette If you are going to use standard comm ports, either COM1 or COM2 on a PC or AT, or COM1 thru COM8 on a PS/2, then add the following line to your CONFIG.SYS File: DEVICE=X00.SYS E If you wish to have more than one COMM port active simultaneously, then modify the command line to include the number of simultaneously active ports you wish to support. For example, if you are using DESQview and you wish to run a BBS in twp different windows, then add the following to your CONFIG.SYS file: DEVICE=X00.SYS E 2 It should be noted that the above command tells X00 how many ports that are to be used simultaneously, not which ports. The application program may use ANY 2 serial ports in any order. If your setup is more complex, you must refer to the X00.DOC for more info. This File can be obtained from: Raymond L. Gwinn 12469 Cavalier Drive WoodBridge, Virginia 22192 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The NODELIST.* you can obtain from any NC for Fido in your area as well as the FIDONET.NA File....Follow the intsructions here abd you should have D'Bridge up and running by Dinner!!! (of the same day of course)... If you feel that I've lifted a burden off of your shoulders and want to Donate a little something this way, I won't argue at all...! the address is listed above for that purpose.... If you think that you might need more help let me know, drop me a line at my BBS and I'll help you out..........COLLECT if Long Distance!..