ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ͸ ³ ³ ³ ÜÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ³ ³ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ³ ³ ÛÛÛÛÛß ÛÛÛÛ ÜÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÜ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÜ ÜÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÜ ³ ³ ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÛÛÛÛÛßßßßß ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ ³ ³ ÛÛÛÛÛÜ ßßÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛß ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÞÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ ³ ³ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛßßßßßß ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ ³ ³ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÜ ÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÜ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ ³ ³ ßÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ßÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ³ ³ ßßÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ßßÛÛÛÛß ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ³ ³ ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³ A Step-By-Step Visual Guide to setting up GEcho v1.00 ³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ By: Mark Kukla (Eternal Heaven BBS) Written: May 17, 1995 Release: 1 This file is (c) CopyRight of Eternal Heaven BBS 1994 ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ COPYRIGHT ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ This document has been made a copyright of Mark Kukla (Eternal Heaven BBS). Please do not modify this document, or distribute it and take credit for it. I have worked hard to make this documentation, and wish it to be left and distributed as it is. Thank You. ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ Simple disclaimer ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ There is no executable file here, other than a COM file of my Bulletin Board advertisement (ETERNAL.COM) and a COM file of this document so that you can simply run it and scroll through it with PgDn, PgUp, and arrow keys. I cannot be held responsible if any changes that you make to your GEcho screw up other things on your system. GEcho does NOT add anything to any file, and this only changes your configuration of it, and if you're reading it, you have no configuration so no harm done anywhere, no backing up necessary. :) I cannot guarantee this to work like my Front Door does, as I wrote this now, and I haven't used this version for a while, but upgraded myself to a newer version of GEcho. Hopefully if you use this, quite a good version, this should work. Table of Contents What is GEcho ....................................... Page 1 Setting it up ....................................... Page 1 Step 1: System Data Menu ............................ Page 1 Step 1.1: Network Addresses ....................... Page 2 Step 1.2: User Maintenance ........................ Page 3 Step 1.3: Pathnames ............................... Page 3 Step 1.4: Filenames ............................... Page 5 Step 1.5: Compression Programs .................... Page 6 Step 1.6: Area Group Names ........................ Page 6 Step 1.7: AreaMgr Uplinks ......................... Page 6 Step 1.8: Origin Lines ............................ Page 7 Step 1.9: AKA Matching ............................ Page 7 Step 2: Miscellaneous Menu .......................... Page 8 Step 2.1: Global Options .......................... Page 8 Step 2.2: Log Options ............................. Page 9 Step 2.3: GEcho Options ........................... Page 10 Step 2.4: Netmail Options ......................... Page 10 Step 2.5: Mgr Options ............................. Page 11 Step 2.6: MBUTIL Options .......................... Page 11 Step 2.7: PM Colors ............................... Page 12 Step 3: Area Manager Menu ........................... Page 12 Step 3.1: Area Manager Entry ...................... Page 13 Step 3.1.1: Options Submenu ..................... Page 15 Step 4: Node Manager ................................ Page 15 Step 5: Pack Manager ................................ Page 15 Step 6: Export Data ................................. Page 16 Step 7: Information ................................. Page 16 Important Information ............................... Page 17 Donation Information ................................ Page 17 ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ PAGE 1 ³ What is GEcho ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ [Taken from GEcho.DOC] GEcho is a very advanced FTSC-compatible one-pass echomail and netmail processor for the Hudson and *.msg message bases. It uses ECHOMAIL.BBS and NETMAIL.BBS, simultaneously exports both netmail and echomail, unpacks compressed mail files, tosses and forwards inbound mail, imports netmail, routes and packs outbound netmail, processes and forwards AreaFix requests, and compresses the created outbound mail packets, all in one single pass. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ Setting it up ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Setting it up is simple. I will go through EVERY screen visually along with a worded explanation. Of course, GEcho is not required unless you have Front Door setup and working, and as long as you have joined a net. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ Step 1: System Data ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ In this section, you define the main information needed by your GEcho, as in your net addresses, your pathnames, logfile names, compression to use, etc. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ PAGE 2 ³ Step 1.1: Network Addresses ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ This is where you define your net addresses. There is room for a total of 11 addresses, one being your MAIN address and the rest being AKAs, but just as important. ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ Addresses ¸ ³ ³ ³ Main 88:88/200 ³ ³ Aka 1 ³ ³ Aka 2 234:500/105 ³ NOTE: These addresses will differ ³ Aka 3 85:896/563 ³ depending on what nets you join. ³ Aka 4 94:94/200 ³ ³ Aka 5 ³ This example simply shows how ³ Aka 6 ³ they should be entered and also ³ Aka 7 ³ shows that they do not have to be ³ Aka 8 ³ one after the other. You can leave ³ Aka 9 ³ blanks. ³ Aka 10 ³ ³ ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ PAGE 3 ³ Step 1.2: User Maintenance ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Here you basically have to do nothing. The first number should say SysOp or System Manager, whatever, doesn't matter. Hitting ENTER on that option, you get a sub-listing. Quite straight forward. This is what you see: ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ 1 ¸ ³ ³ ³ Sysop name SysOp ³ Not much really to ³ Copy personal mail No ³ change as none of ³ Personal mail board 0 ³ it is used. The ³ Use AKA board No ³ last option is for ³ Netmail board 0 ³ registered GEcho ³ Access password No ³ ONLY! ³ ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ Step 1.3: Pathnames ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ In this section you will be defining your pathnames for use with GEcho. Simply stating what is to be found or stored where. ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ Pathnames ¸ ³ ³ ³ Message base C:\ECHOES\ ³ ³ Netmail C:\FD\NETMAIL\ ³ ³ Inbound mail C:\FD\INBOUND\ ³ ³ Outbound PKTs C:\FD\OUTBOUND\ ³ ³ Outbound mail C:\FD\OUTBOUND\ ³ ³ Bad echomail C:\FD\BADECHO\ ³ ³ Secure mail C:\FD\SECURE\ ³ ³ Personal mail ³ ³ Rcvd netmail C:\FD\ECHOES\ ³ ³ Sent netmail ³ ³ Nodelist C:\FD\NODELIST\ ³ ³ Swapping C:\FD\ ³ ³ Semaphore ³ ³ ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; PAGE 4 Message Base - The MAIN subdirectory where you will be storing your echomail subdirectories. You can use a simple pathname or a longer one (ie. C:\RENEGADE\MSGS\ECHOES\) Just a note to remember, you have to MANUALLY enter the pathname for EVERY echo base you join, so the longer it is, the more you have to write. Can be quite a pain with say 90 bases to add. :) Netmail - Quite simple. This points to where you store incoming and outgoing netmail, usually within your Front Door. Inbound mail - Where the mail packets are stored, again, usually in your Front Door. Outbound PKTs - Same as the one above, but where to store the packets YOU create to send. Outbound mail - Outbound compressed files. I have no idea why this really exists, same as above. Bad echomail - This is where messages defined for a CORRECT echoname or simply a mistyped echoname of your own will be stored. (NOTE: This doc is for v1.00, not the latest one which doesn't have this option.) Secure mail - Simply, if you have some networks running with a security system in place (to know it's YOU sending, and not someone else) this is the directory they will be stored in, although I don't think it works at all. Personal mail - Well, if you are getting private netmail, and have your BBS importing it, then it goes into your EMAIL on you BBS, otherwise, it simply stays as NETMAIL. No need to fill this one out. Rcvd netmail - Again, where to move received netmail, although I do not think this item works at all. Sent netmail - Just the opposite of the above, what you want to send. Nodelist - Where your network nodelists are located. Usually they are in your Front Door nodelist directory. Swapping - Where to store the swap file is disk swapping is enabled. Semaphore - Where the semaphore files should be located. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ PAGE 5 ³ Step 1.4: Filenames ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ This section, although probably not needed, is to define the NAME and LOCATION of your log files, if you decide to use them. You come to a screen like so: ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ Filenames ¸ ³ ³ ³ GEcho log C:\FD\GECHO.LOG ³ ³ Mgr log C:\FD\AREAMGR.LOG ³ ³ MBUTIL log C:\FD\MBUTIL.LOG ³ ³ Areas file C:\FD\AREAS.BBS ³ ³ ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; There's not much that needs to be explained here, simply store the logs where ever you wish. You could even put them in your LOGS directory of your BBS. It's entirely up to you, and as for the names, well, you can use whatever, simpler though to use the names that tell you what it actually is logging. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ PAGE 6 ³ Step 1.5: Compression programs ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Quite simple again, simply put the YELLOW dot to the compression format that you wish to use as a DEFAULT compression. Most of the time it will be PKZIP. To move the dot, go to where you want it, and hit F10. This is the screen of the compression programs, I believe they are all correct. ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ Compression programs ¸ ³ ³ ³ ARC PKPAK -a ARCE ³ ³ ARJ ARJ a -e -m1 -s -t0 -y ARJ e -c -y ³ ³ LZH LHA a /mt LHA e /cm ³ ³ PAK PAK A /L /ST PAK E /WA ³ ³ ZIP PKZIP -ao PKUNZIP -o -ed ³ ³ ZOO ZOO a: ZOO eO ³ ³ SQZ SQZ a /q0 /z3 SQZ e /o1 ³ ³ 8 ³ ³ 9 ³ ³ 10 ³ ³ GUS {+} ³ ³ ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; The ARJ and ZIP are basically guaranteed to be right, the ZOO is probably wrong with that "a:". ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ Step 1.6: Area group names ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Quite simple, you can define up to 26 ( A - Z ) names for your area groups. You could do it any way you wish. Perhaps grouping things to do with support under one name, things like General Chatter under another, or simply split just the network itself to differ from other networks. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ Step 1.7: AreaMgr uplinks ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ One of the simplest steps in GEcho. DON'T TOUCH A THING! GEcho is not like Allfix, where you need to add your uplinks into it, this can and should be left BLANK. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ PAGE 7 ³ Step 1.8: Origin lines ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ As mentioned in my other documents about Front Door and most likely Allfix as well, this is kinda pointless. I'm not even sure where it adds the origin line, as your BBS already adds one of it's own to every echo base. It might simply over write the BBS one, it might not, not actually sure, I never used them, everything works fine, so I see no need for them. This is your choice, use at your OWN risk. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ Step 1.9: AKA matching ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ This is quite simply, as the name says, you are to MATCH your AKAs here. You get a screen like this: ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ AKA matching ¸ ³ Zone:Net AKA ³ ³ 1 88:88 88:88/0 ³ ³ 2 1:250 1:250/144 ³ ³ 3 ³ ³ 4 ³ ³ 5 ³ ³ 6 ³ ³ 7 ³ ³ 8 ³ ³ 9 ³ ³ 10 ³ ³ . ³ ³ . ³ ³ . Not gonna bother listing 20 lines ³ ³ . ³ ³ 20 ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; As shown in the example above, that's all you do. Every address you have for a network contains three parts. (ZONE:NET/AKA) I'm not sure if the last is called AKA, but for this example it's good enough. The first two go in the left column, then you should get a listing of your system addresses previously entered, and one of them SHOULD match the first two. If they don't, you have a typo somewhere. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ PAGE 8 ³ Step 2: Miscellaneous ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ In this section, you set things like what parts of processing mail to log, etc... basically a WHOLE submenu of options for many parts. EASY! ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ Step 2.1: Global options ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ This is quite a simple submenu, as are all of them in this section. ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ Global options ¸ ³ ³ ³ Mailer type FrontDoor ³ ³ Semaphore mode No ³ ³ Log file style FrontDoor ³ ³ ARCmail compatibility No ³ ³ HMB share mode No ³ ³ HMB write buffering No ³ ³ Swapping method XMS/EMS/Disk ³ ³ Tear line GEcho 1.00 ³ ³ ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; Mailer type - Basically, you have options by hitting ENTER on this option. (FrontDoor, D'Bridge, BinkleyTerm) Set this to what you are using, and you will notice some other options may change. Semaphore mode - Same as above, hitting ENTER gives you several selections. (No, FrontDoor, InterMail, D'Bridge, BinkleyTerm) Usually a setting of No should be good enough. Log file style - Simplest. Whatever you put as your mailer type will be your log file type as well. ARCmail compatibility - If the ARCmail 0.60 naming should be used for out-of-zone mail. Usually, why bother. HMB share mode - How Hudson Message Base should be opened or shared. Unless your BBS is Remote Access 1.01/1.10 this should be set to No. PAGE 9 HMB write buffering - This requires 100K of memory, and is simply a buffer to be used. It might speed things up, but it's up to you is you have that extra memory to spend. Swapping method - You have MANY options here, chosen by hitting ENTER. The best selection I have found to be useful is the XMS/EMS/Disk. This is basically ALL you options, whatever is available in that order is used for swapping. Tear line - If you know the meaning of tear line (you must have seen it in another network) well, this is where it is defined. Usually keeping it the same is good enough. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ Step 2.2: Log options ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Quite simple, what parts of processing you want to be logged. Either nothing, some parts, or everything. The only thing that SHOULD be set to NO is the 'DEBUG: All of the above'. No one really knows what this is for, it is everywhere, but set it to No. You get a screen such as: ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ Log options ¸ ³ ³ ³ Inbound activities Yes ³ Log of decompressing files ³ Outbound activities Yes ³ Outbound activities (newmail, etc) ³ Inbound packet info Yes ³ Inbound pkt filename, address ³ ÀÄExtended packet info Yes ³ Inbound pkt program, type, password ³ Unexpected passwords Yes ³ Log of unexpected passwords received ³ AreaMgr messages Yes ³ Log of AreaMgr messages ³ Exporting of netmail Yes ³ Log of importing netmail ³ Importing of netmail Yes ³ Log of exporting netmail ³ Packing of netmail Yes ³ Log of packing netmail (deletion) ³ Moving Sent/Rcvd mail Yes ³ Log of moving sent/rcvd netmail ³ GEcho's statistics Yes ³ GEcho's stats ³ MBUTIL's activities Yes ³ MBUTIL's activities ³ DEBUG: All of the above No ³ Apparently log everything plus more ³ ³ without losing custom settings ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ PAGE 10 ³ Step 2.3: GEcho options ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Again, simple configuration of GEcho options. You get a screen like so: ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ GEcho options ¸ ³ ³ ³ Badecho board 0 ³ Storing of badecho ( 0 = path ) ³ Duplicates board 0 ³ Storing of dupes ( 0 = path ) ³ Kill duplicates Yes ³ Kill dupes ( Yes / No ) ³ Dupe database entries 10000 ³ Dupe database (not sure what for) ³ Maximum packet size 150 ³ Max outbound PKT size ( in KB ) ³ Maximum archive size 0 ³ Max outbound archive size ( in KB ) ³ Maximum file handles 20 ³ Max no. of DOS file handles to use ³ Maximum outgoing QQQs 300 ³ Max no. of packets to store info on ³ Check end of archives Yes ³ Check for valid end before unpacking ³ Check PKT destination Yes ³ Check if it is for you ³ Strip Soft-CRs Yes ³ Strip soft-CRs ³ Strip PID kludges Yes ³ Strip PID kludges ( ?? ) ³ ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ Step 2.4: Netmail options ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Yet again, another simple setup. The screen is like so: ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ Netmail options ¸ ³ ³ ³ Kill empty msgs Yes ³ Delete empty Rcvd messages ³ Keep netmail No ³ Keep your netmail after being sent ³ Scan USERS.BBS Yes ³ If import needs to be in USERS.BBS ³ Set Pvt on import No ³ Set private on all imported netmail ³ Rcvd netmail board 0 ³ Where to move Rcvd netmail ³ Sent netmail board 0 ³ Where to move Sent netmail ³ ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ PAGE 11 ³ Step 2.5: Mgr options ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ The screen is as shown below: ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ Mgr options ¸ ³ ³ ³ Keep requests No ³ Keep requests after processing ³ Keep receipts No ³ Keep receipts after being sent ³ Allow passive Yes ³ Allow %PASSIVE by nodes ³ Allow rescan Yes ³ Allow %RESCAN by nodes ³ Auto-disconnect Yes ³ See below ³ Auto-add nodes Yes ³ See below ³ Public Groups ³ See below ³ ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; Auto-disconnect - Automatically disconnect passthru areas that have only one node requesting them. Auto-add nodes - Automatically add nodes requesting areas in a public group. Public groups - Areas in these groups can be connected by undefined nodes. (usually left blank) ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ Step 2.6: MBUTIL options ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Simple. See screen shot below: ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ MBUTIL options ¸ ³ ³ ³ Auto renumber 0 ³ Auto renumber messages ( 0 = always ) ³ Default days 7 ³ Default days to keep old messages ³ Default rcvd 7 ³ Default days to keep received messages ³ Default msgs 0 ³ Default max of messages to keep ³ Recovery board 200 ³ Recovery board ( I dunno why 200 ) ³ File buffer 47 ³ Size of file I/O buffer ( in KB ) ³ Use areas file No ³ Use AREAS.BBS style ³ ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ PAGE 12 ³ Step 2.7: PM colors ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ This is YOUR choice, not mine. Simple define what colours you want to use. Remember, this is GEcho, something you don't see non-stop like Front Door or whatever Front End program you are running. You can either spend some time customizing the colours of it, choose the default color set, or the default mono set for those with B/W monitors. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ Step 3: Area manager ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ This is the MOST tedious part of the entire GEcho setup, and also the most CRUCIAL. If you enter the areaname wrong when reading it off the list of areas of the network you are joining, you will find yourself in loads of BADECHO mail. If you defined a LONG pathname to your echoes directory, well, you have a lot of typing ahead of you, as there are no macros, unfortunately. I will give one sample of a filled out area, and explain it as much as I can. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ PAGE 13 ³ Step 3.1: Area manager entry ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Õ View 1/1 ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ Area manager ¸ ³ ³ ³ Area name GENERAL ³ ³ Comment General Chatter ³ ³ Area type Echomail ³ ³ Format *.MSG ³ ³ Path C:\ECHOES\GENERAL\ ³ ³ Group A - MAGIC ³ ³ Options Security No Disconnected No Notified No ³ ³ Check SB No Import SB No Tiny SB No ³ ³ Mandatory Yes No %PASSIVE No Visible No ³ ³ Allow Pvt No Del future n/a Keep SysOp n/a ³ ³ Purge info Days old 0 Days rcvd 0 Max msgs 0 ³ ³ Origin line ³ ³ Origin AKA 88:88/0 ³ ³ Seen-By 88:88/0 ³ ³ Export list 88:88/1 2 3 ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; ENTER-Edit INS-Add DEL-Delete F2-Global F4-Find F5-Browse ESC-Exit ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Area name - This is where most people make their mistakes. Sometimes people think the owner of the net made a typo in the name of the network, other times, they simply don't understand the importance of this item. This MUST be EXACTLY as written in the network area listing of the network you are joining. (if it says ADDS, put ADDS, not ADS) Comment - This is simple. You can make this say ANYTHING you want. It is not used at all by GEcho. It is simply there for your personal identification of what that echo base is supposed to be for. Area type - You have options of ECHOMAIL, NETMAIL, LOCAL, BADECHO, PERSONAL. For general purposes, you are joining an ECHO type network, and thus you really only need to have it set to Echomail. PAGE 14 Format - Options are *.MSG, PASSTHRU, HUDSON. Simple, normal and most networks for the standard BBS type use the *.MSG format. This is the standard 'Fido Style' message format as it is called. Passthru is used if you are a hub, but then again, if you're a hub you don't really need this help file. :) Path - Well, this is what I have warned earlier about. This is where you specify EACH INDIVIDUAL pathname. Of course, they will be DIFFERENT for EVERY single echo base you join. The longer you defined as your pathname, the more you have to type out here. Group - Earlier we defined group names, a few sections back. This is where you simply define what group this echo base belongs to. Options - See next section below, as I will do them as a sub section. Purge info - This is usually pointless, as it is your BBS that is purging the actual messages so the defaults of 0 can be left for all three options. Origin line - Well, if you defined any in the Origin Line section explained earlier, then this is where you choose which one to use. (I personally find this pointless) Origin AKA - Quite simple. This is YOUR origin address. The ONLY thing you can screw up on this part is that you define the WRONG address for this echo base of a particular network. (ie. base belongs to net 88, you use net 250) Seen-By - I believe you don't have an option to change this. It is automatically done for you, and will be EXACTLY the same as the origin line. Export list - Simple. If you are simply a node, this will have one address only. That address will by your HUBS address, as you are exporting NEW MAIL from your BBS to him directly, not to anyone else. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ PAGE 15 ³ Step 3.1.1: Options Submenu ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ On this menu, you will get a vertical column of simple selections. The screen is as follows: ÕÍÍÍÍ Area options ¸ ³ ³ ³ Check SB No ³ Use Seen-By lines for dupe prevention ³ Import SB No ³ Import the ugly Seen-By lines into the msg base ³ Tiny SB No ³ Strip all nodes not in Seen-By from export ³ Security No ³ Check in origin of inbound is in export list ³ Visible No ³ Make base visible to those without access to it ³ Mandatory No ³ Disallow disconnection (hub use only necessary) ³ No %PASSIVE No ³ Disallow use of the %PASSIVE command ³ Allow Pvt No ³ Allow Private (Pvt) messages ³ Disconnected No ³ Set this to YES if it has been disconnected ³ Notified No ³ Set this to YES if sysop notified ³ ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ Step 4: Node manager ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ I will not be going through this section as this text file is here for the purpose of helping a NODE setup. This section, if you are a NODE, should simply be ignored. In this section, as the name says, you define the NODES that you MANAGE. Being a simple node and not a HUB or higher, you have no nodes that you manage. Simply put, you have no one other than your hub that you send to. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ Step 5: Pack manager ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Again, as above, this needs NO work if you are a node. Simply leave it BLANK. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ PAGE 16 ³ Step 6: Export Data ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ This section has a lot of submenus, but unless you are exporting your configuration to standard text files, it does not need to be changed. One option (create areas file) is already set to a predefined setting as configured far back in this document. The rest, well, they all ask you for a filename. You can call them anything you want, and put them anywhere you want. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ Step 7: Information ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Simply, this is information about the author of GEcho, what is was created on, when it was created, where, etc. ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Well, that's all of it. After going through this whole document, a lot shorter than other ones I have written, you should now have a fully working GEcho. All you need now, is the commands to use with it, simply type GECHO on the DOS command prompt and it will tell you the toggles for it, and of course, you need Renemail or some other form of tosser if you are using Front Door and in this case Renegade. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ PAGE 17 ³ Important Information ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ As with all my documentations that I have written, if you notice any errors, or mistakes made in this document, please notify Zeus or Mark Kukla at: Eternal Heaven BBS (416) 752-6275 or through any one of these nets: Magic Net 88:88/0 Fido Net 1:250/144 ITC Net 85:896/904 Silly Net 234:416/104 If you find something configured incorrectly, or would like to add, and be credited for it, hints and procedures of how to setup sections that I did not cover, feel free to reach me with the information. Thank you for your time in reading this, or printing this document, and may you put it to good use, and good luck. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ Donation Information ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Although this is not required, I would like to ask for some donations, as small as they may be, to be sent to the address given below, to reward me of my hard time and hours of typing this documentation. If it has helped you, please donate. Even if it is just a dollar. A dollar from everyone who uses this can really add up. Canadian and US funds accepted. Send checks to: Mark Kukla 80 Wyndcliff Cres. Toronto, ON CANADA M4A 2K2 Thank you for any donations on their way, or still to come. It is only fair to reward for being rewarded yourself with Front Door, the first step to networking.