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T h e F i d o G a z e t t e! Volume III Number VII September 2009
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Contents: .................................................(i)
Editorial..................................................(ii)
Region 11 News!............................................(1)
New SysOps!................................................(1)
FidoGazette BBSList........................................(2)
The Slightly Crusty Sysop..................................(3)
Food.......................................................(4,5)
Dr.Debug...................................................(6)
INFO:Where to Send Articles................................(7)
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Editorial: Zone Meanderings
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There has been some discussion of Zone activity/Inactivity in one
particular echo where Z2 members hang out :)
A South American ISP seems to cut out access to a ZC's site now and
again to some Z2 members, meanwhile the site is able to poll my system
consistenly and send and receive mail from my system in the U.S. more
often than not.
So what does this mean?
To some in the echo, because some router may be down between their
system and Z4, Z4 therefore must be "MIA", or at least near to
extinction (geez).
I disagree, since I can see quite literally LIFE and connectivity
here with Z4C's system, and with at least one other node from Zone 4
who polls my system daily... hardly MIA. Proof of Z4's
"soon-to-be-demise" was also commented on since a returning node in
Brazil is having a little trouble getting the attention of the Z4C,
et. al. in order to get nodelisted. Meanwhile, I was quickly able to
crash Z4Cs system and ask him about that returning node.. which he
already knew about, and said would be nodelisted 'shortly'. That was
all I needed to hear.
Now does that mean that this node will be listed in this week's
nodelist? I don't know, as I don't know what complications Z4C and
others in Z4 may have encountered with this returning node or with
their own software that particular week ... which
is the main point here :) WE don't live there. WE don't know what is
going on. It's NONE of our business in Zone 1, nor is it the business
of Zone 2 sysops. [note: the node was listed that week (grin)]
Some would be quick to say that a system that is Down, is always
their business because it affects his system (meanwhile neither Z4C
nor the returning node connect to these detractors for direct or
routed mail, so I have to ask, why make such a stink ? about a node
who is at the mercy of his ISP.. about a node who can still receive
mail that is routed, and crash mail from his uplink... I understand
that they do have a "thing" in Z2 about Direct mail... and I also know
that is one of the differences between Z1 and Z2.. meanwhile NO where
in policy 4 is Crash mail mentioned as a requirement for membership.
Netmail, yes. Crash Mail, No. As a matter of fact, there is no
mention of having to receive mail from 'any' system in Fidonet in
Policy 4, unless you have promised to route mail for a node. Then we
are talking something altogether different.. but that is not what
these detractors had been speaking about.
This month I was helping another sysop to get reconnected to Fidonet..
he's from New Zealand and his problems were not ISP related.. but the
system he was trying to connect to might as well have been 'down' from
the returning sysop's side of things... no response, week after week
from the system he was polling (one of the RCs near to where he
lives). The problem was 'no one's fault' to speak of.. just a set of
circumstances that existed "over there".. which people in Z2 (and
people like those in this echo could know nothing about because they
weren't involved... This node in Z3 was sent to me by some people who
knew I ran Linux like he did.. He needed simply to be brought up to
speed on current internet protocols, and he needed some information
from his RC to connect there, which he obviously didn't know about. So
I was kind of the 'middle-man' helping to pass information between the
two systems until they could communicate directly.
Which brings me to my final point... Yes, it is important to mark
nodes/regions/nets down if they are MIA.. but if you don't live in an
area, your knowledge of the problems in an area so large as Z4 must be
_minimal_... unless you speak to someone from that zone directly..
someone knowledgable yet (g). Certainly, you cannot know all of the problems in an area
unless you make a telephone voice call to that nodes' internet
provider... which I doubt very much was done. AND certainly you can
not know what is involved in problems with connections unless you are
personally involved in a situation.
Final great note.. this evening a young Chinese woman spent the better
part of an hour with me helping her get set up as point over here...
could it be the return of Zone 6 on the way?? I sure hope so!!!
What will those sourpusses in that echo say should Zone 6 return I
wonder :) :) Ok, not getting my hopes up yet, really, but I'm really
happy to have this point setting up here.
Ed.
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|Region 11 News|
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Don Plesky, R11C, has resigned his position, but will be missed by all
in the region. Don was appointed to this position during some very
rough times for R11, and Don agreed to help out when I asked him to
take this on this job. I appreciate his taking on the job when he
did, and sticking with it as he did. Thanks for your dedication to
Fidonet, Don!
Since Don had some serious hardware problems this summer, he found it
necessary to retire as RC, and so I've appointed Jame Clay as the new
R11C. Again, many thanks to Don for persevering as long as he was
able to, and to Jame for agreeing to take over this position.
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New & Returning Members
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By Janis Kracht
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In the Works:
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Christopher Wilson, Missouri, Region 14
Brian McSweeney, Florida, Region 18
Daniel Roberts, Warwickshire, UK Z2
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Returning SysOps:
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Welcome Back!
Eric Oulashin, Oregon, Region 17
Don Pezet, Florida, Region 18
James Kelly, New Zealand, Z3
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!!! G A Z E T T E B B S L I S T !!!
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By bbslist @ filegate.net
Send updates, changes to address above or to janis @
filegate.net.
System.......Prism BBS
FidoAddress..1:261/38
Phone........607-655-5652
Software.....BBBS LiI v4.01 Flag #
OS...........Linux (Gentoo)
C/B Verify...None
Access.......First Call access to Msg bases,
and file areas.
Telnet.......filegate.net
telnet access offers full features
of the standard bbs such as doors,
qwkmail, BWmail,Files, etc.
www:.........http:/www.filegate.net:8090/bbbs
[web interface is limited really
to reading messages and replying
online, or downloading messages
in qwk packets, but not uploading
them], and file download access.
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System.......Time Warp of the Future BBS
FidoAddress..1:14/400
Phone........none
Software.....sbbs 3.15a (very beta)
OS...........win. (xp pro. sp3)
C/B Verify...None
Access.......First Call access to Msg bases, and file areas.
Telnet.......time.synchro.net:24 or time.darktech.org:24
or timewarpfuture.dyndns.org:24
telnet access offers full features
of the standard bbs such as doors,
messages or file area etc.
www:.........http://time.synchro.net:81
Web interface is limited really
to reading messages and replying online, or
downloading messages in qwk packets, but not
uploading them, and file download access.
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System.......Lionsden BBS
FidoAddress..1:224/303
Phone........613-392-8896
Software.....Sunchronet
OS...........Windows XP
C/B Verify...None
Access.......First Call access to Msg bases, and file areas.
Telnet.......lionsden.darktech.org
telnet access offers full features
of the standard bbs such as doors,
qwkmail, Files, etc.
www:.........http:/www.lionsden.darktech.org
You will redirected to a menu where you can
choose one of three sites. The first one is
private and requires PW to get into.
FTP...........FTP://lionsden.darktech.org Files only
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System.......Christian Fellowship
FidoAddress..1:266/512
Phone........1-856-933-7096
Software.....PCBoard 15.3
OS...........Windows XP pro
C/B Verify...Manually via email or voice
usually within 24 hours.
Access.......Read only
until verified. Once
verified write access
to Msg bases, file
areas, chat and
doors/games.
Telnet.......cfbbs.dtdns.net
or cfbbs.no-ip.com
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System.......Lightning BBS
FidoAddress..1:311/2
Software.....Virtual Advanced
OS...........Windows XP
C/B Verify...None
Access.......First call access to doors, files and
message reading. Message posting requires
validation.
Telnet.......lightningbbs.com
www:.........http:/www.lightningbbs.com/index.php
Thanks to VADV-PHP you can access almost
everything the BBS has to offer from the
web, with the exception of door games.
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The Slightly Crusty Sysop
Sean Dennis
1:18/200
September 2009
Wow, August flew by. I certainly won't miss the heat and humidity we
had to suffer from here as the days are turning cooler and the nights
just a little crisper. I turned 37 on the 27th and quite frankly, I
don't feel any older. Good things are afoot here at the Dennis
household and it's nice to have something positive to look forward to,
especially in today's socioeconomic climate.
I do actually have something Fidonet-related to talk about in this
column-the "deadwood" in the Fidonet nodelist. By "deadwood", I mean:
all of the systems that seem to be on auto-pilot and that don't
actually contribute anything to Fidonet in the way of messages or
activity; systems that no longer even answer when called; systems that
are marked "down" with no real plans to come back online or sysops who
have just killed their systems with no notice.
Once, a long time ago, I was Region 11 Coordinator (RC11). At the
time I was starting to go through my section of the Fidonet nodelist
and began to start pruning out the "deadwood". I was suddenly being
yelled at by other sysops in the region for doing my job and removing
systems that were no longer around. Unfortunately, I had to resign
the position immediately before I had the chance to actually complete
what I was doing. A quick look in the current Fidonet nodelist seems
to confirm that no one else has bothered removing the junk cluttering
that region's section of the nodelist either.
It's just not R11 of course. I know of one BBS in my region that is
still listed in the Fidonet nodelist that doesn't exist. All it'd
take is a simple edit job and one less non-existant system would be
gone. This problem seems to be all over Fidonet in each and every
zone. Zone 1 seems to have a lot of deadwood in it. I can't speak
about Zone 2 as I don't call Russia POTS as a matter of financial
impunity. \ But let's all realize the truth of the matter is that
Fidonet is not as big as that nodelist likes to make it.
I think as part of Fidonet's survival, we need to get down to brass
tacks and remove people who are no longer part of Fidonet. What good
is it to someone to send mail to a system that is no longer
maintained? What good does it serve the active part of Fidonet to have
all of this extra weight hanging around its neck (this can also go for
the echo backbone, but that's for another column)?
Alas, this is but a singular opinion, it seems, from discussing this
with other "people of position" in Fidonet. There are some who know
this pruning needs to happen but there are more that can't let go of
Fidonet's illustrious (or infamous, you pick) past with BBS systems
that have long passed the point of just being a rotten, dying branch
on the Fidonet tree trunk.
That's all I have to say on the subject for now. As always, your
opinions, not your flames, are welcomed. You may contact me via
netmail (this is preferred) at 1:18/200 or via email at
sean@nsbbs.info.
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F O O D Even sysops have to eat!
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Want to contribute something here? Send your submission to
fidogazette 'at' filegate.net or email janis at filegate.net,
and it will get published here in the next issue :)
From: Dan Ceppa, 1:138/666
Dan Ceppa sent in this contribution for the Food section this month.
It's a great combination with the article I had prepared already for
the Food Section :) - Good timing Dan! :)
I found this online and it sounded pretty good:
Cinnamon-Cornbread Cobbler with Blueberries
3 X 5
4 X 6
Active Time: 10 Minutes
Total Time: 50 Minutes
Yield: Serves 12
I love the way corn and blueberries taste together. This takes just
minutes to make and is great with vanilla ice cream.
RECIPE INGREDIENTS
For the Filling:
8 cups blueberries, rinsed
1/3 to 1/2 cup sugar, depending on the sweetness of the fruit
2 tablespoons lemon juice
For the Topping:
1 cup cornmeal
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup buttermilk
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1 egg, slightly beaten
Cinnamon-Cornbread Cobbler with Blueberries Recipe at Cooking.com
DIRECTIONS FOR THE FILLING:
Heat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Toss the blueberries with the sugar and lemon juice. Pour into a
13-by-9-inch oval baking dish.
FOR THE TOPPING:
Combine the cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt
in a mixing bowl. Make a well in the center and pour in the buttermilk,
melted butter, and beaten egg. Stir with a wooden spoon to blend and
then mix with a fork only until the batter comes together.
Drop the batter by spoonfuls on top of the blueberries in the pan.
Bake the cobbler for 40 to 45 min, or until the filling is bubbly and
the topping is firm when pressed.
Recipe reprinted by permission of Fine Cooking Magazine. All rights
reserved. Date Added: 01/01/2008
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More Food :)
We All Scream for Ice Cream by Janis Kracht
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It's the middle of August right now and as I'm preparing the September
issue of FidoGazette, all I can think of is ICE CREAM since we're
getting high temperatures of 90+F here this week! So, using my
ancient (well, pretty old.. I'd say it's over 20 years old) ice cream
maker, I am planning on preparing some the following recipes below :)
The Ice Cream maker is made by RICHMOND CEDAR WORKS (or RCW Co.) in
Virginia, USA. The Wooden bucket has an electric motor which rotates
the metal can inside the wooden bucket, and of course in the metal can
is a large beater which stays stationary in the can while the can
revolves. It makes a gallon of GREAT ice cream in about 25 minutes,
and I'm sorry the company has gone out of business. You just don't
get great ice cream from some of the newer electric Ice Cream makers
where you must freeze the bucket before operating ... yep, I have one
of those as well, and that machine makes two quarts of a softer ice
cream in about 20 minutes.
I think you can still find RCW's ice cream maker on sites like EBay,
but once the parts wear out, I doubt you'll be able to find them :(
Luckily, my RCW ice cream maker and all of it's parts have held up
really well all these years. This ice cream maker uses the old
fashioned way of making ice cream with ice and rock salt, in layers in
the wooden bucket surrounding the can and beater.
Instructions for the RCW Ice Cream maker:
Use crushed ice cubes or crushed store-bought ice. The finer the
ice is crushed, the better it is since the machine is made to
operate with crushed ice.
A. In packing, put about three inches of ice in
tub all around can, and sprinkle about 3 oz. of
tablesalt. or 5 oz. of rock salt, evenly over ice.
B. Continue adding ice and salt (in the above
proportions) layer by layer, until tub is filled
up to, but not over, top of can.
C. When tub is half full, (approx. 2 layers of ice
and salt) pour one cup of cold water over the ice
and salt mixture. This will help the ice to melt
and settle, which will shorten freezing time, and
will help keep ice from jamming and causing
stops. After tub is filled, pour another cup of cold
water over the ice and salt.
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[ ] --- ice
[ ] ---------- salt
[ ] --- ice
[ ] ---------- salt
[ ] --- ice
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[Cooking, Continued.]
On to the Recipes!
These are from RCW's instruction book.. all great recipes.
LEMON SHERBET
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2 cups sugar
1 quart milk
juice of 6 lemons
1 qt. light or table cream
juice of 2 oranges
4 egg whites
Chill the lemon and orange luice and sugar in the
freezer. Add the milk and cream. Fold in the stiffly
beaten egg whites. Churn in freezer per instructions.
Makes approx. 3 quarts.
VANILLA ICE CREAM (Philadelphia)
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No Cooking!
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 quart thin cream
1 cup sugar
4 cups thin cream (Half and Half)
l/8 teaspoon salt
Mix all ingredients well, then churn in freezer per instructions.
Makes approx. 4 quarts.
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These are some other ice cream recipes I've found and used over the
years, great as well.
Old-Fashioned Favorite Chocolate Ice Cream Recipe
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2 c Sugar
2/3 c Hershey's Cocoa
1/4 c All-purpose flour
1/4 ts Salt
2 c Milk
2 Eggs, slightly beaten
1 tb Vanilla extract
1 qt Light cream
1/2 pt Whipping cream
In medium saucepan, combine sugar, cocoa, flour and salt; stir in
milk and eggs. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until
mixture boils; boil and stir 1 minute. Remove from heat. Stir in
vanilla, light cream and whipping cream. Refrigerate until cold.
Freeze in ice cream freezer according to manufacturer's directions.
About 2-1/2 quarts ice cream. Courtesy of the Hershey Kitchens.
Diabetic-Ice Cream Recipe
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8 oz Pet Lite Milk
4 pk Sugar Substitute
1 ts Vanilla
** ADD ONE OF THE FOLLOWING **
2 ea Peach, peeled and diced
1 ea Banana, mashed
4 sl Pineapple with juice
8 oz Orange Juice
2 c Strawberries, crushed
Mix all together and put in freezer of refrigerator
until hardened. Remove - break up - put in blender and whip until
creamy. Serve. Can also be made in one of the small electric
machines, or one of those that goes in freezer. Calories: 75 cal.
Exchanges: 1/2 Milk and 1/2 Fruit
Low Fat Rum Raisin Ice Cream Recipe
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1 Very ripe banana
1 ts Lowfat yogurt
1/4 ts Rum extract
1 tb Raisins
Peel banana, wrap in plastic. Thaw slightly, combine in blender with
remaining ingredients except raisins. Blend until smooth. Stir in
raisins. Serve.
Old Fashioned Strawberry Ice Cream Recipe
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1 pt Strawberries
1 c Sugar
1 Egg
1 c Half and half
1 t Vanilla
3 c Heavy cream
Hull the berries and cut the larger ones in half. Place the berries
in a double boiler and add 1/2 cup sugar. Heat for 10-15
minutes,stirring occasionally, until thefruit is very soft. Puree the
fruitin a blender. Transfer puree to a bowland cool in the
refrigerator.Put the egg, half and half, remaining sugarand vanilla
extract in the blender and blend on medium speed till mixture is
smooth and thesugar is dissolved. Slowly add the cream and continue
blending on low speed for 30 seconds. Transfer the mixture to your
icecream freezer and freeze according to manufacturer's instructions.
When the ice cream is about half frozen, add the strawberry puree to
the mixture. Continue freezing. Makes Makes slightly more than 1
quart. slightly more than 1 quart.
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Dr. DeBug Answers Your Questions!
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By drdebug @ filegate.net
If you'd like your question to appear here, just send an email to
drdebug at filegate.net, or netmail to drdebug at 1:261/38.100.
How do I add my software to the FileGate Distribution?
======================================================
The FileGate Distribution system feeds files to all of Fidonet's
zones so that everyone in Fidonet can enjoy them. If you have a
hobby of collecting certain types of files, for instance, utilities
for Windows, or utilities for DOS or utilities for Linux, photographs
of horses, etc. etc .. then perhaps some other people would also
like to share your collection. This is the basis of the IFDC
Filegate Distribution network (sm). BTW, sm is an abbreviation of
"service mark", not an abbreviation for a smile as I was once asked :)
One person collects files of interest most likely to them, such
as programming files... For instance, I started my very first bbs in
1981 or so, when I was teaching myself to program computers.
Having a bbs let me share the files I created with others in the
community (this was before I even heard of Fidonet) and it allowed me
to collect programming files I found across the country. It was
rough doing that though back then, because at the time most of those
other sites required you to UPLOAD a C source code file in order to
DOWNLOAD one.. quite painful if you are just learning C (a
programming language). With my bbs running (it was some mono-colored
Unix bbs software, who's name I'll never remember :) ), I was able to
get some of my code online and offered it to the public ...
eventually people started coming to my site for code, tutorials, and
the like.
And so if you have some files of interest to you, chances are they
will be of interest to someone else. As far as caveats, you must
agree to the following:
No XXX rated stuff, and no copyrighted material which you don't have
permission to distribute from the matierial's authorized agent.
All software or images you send should be tested with a good virus
program. My system uses f-prot for instance :)
Anything which you send through your FDN must be "removable" by you..
in other words, you should be willing to track it down (with our help
of course) to remove any 'illegal' files which might find their way
into the system which may happen now and again (not often!). The way
we take care of such problems is to release a file with the same name
as the offending file, but with 0 length (no content) and with a
file_id.diz that simply says, "Please remove this file".
And lastly, files that you send through your FDN should go through
only your FDN, not also sent out to three other Photo or doornet
FDN's for instance (g) This is important because even though a lot
of us use the internet these days, bandwidth is still bandwidth..and
multiple instances of files wastes bandwidth no matter how you cut it
(smile).
We put an archive header on our files telling people where they came
from, here's what it looks like:
=====================================================================
IFDC FileGate Project Archive (c) 1994-2009
Distributed by The IFDC FileGate Project (sm)
For more information about the Project please visit
http://www.filegate.net
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The last line wrapped in the archive comment due to the margins of
this newsletter, but hopefully if you examine the archives that arrive
from your filegate feed, you will see the entire header if you type
unzip -v filename.zip on a command line. From what I understand, some
archivers like winzip don't display archive headers, though. You may
also notice that some FDN Coordinators append their own comment file
to the IFDC FileGate comment file, and that's just fine as well..
These archive comments just provide more information. They are
applied to common archivers like so:
zip:
zip -z filename.zip \< [\path\commentfile.txt]
rar:
rar c filename.rar -z[\path\commentfile.txt]
Now you just need to decide what files you will distribute. Let's say
you or a friend loves to make impressive digital designs and
wants to get them "out there". All you'd need to do is contact me at
1:261/38 or email me and we set you up over here to start delivering
files to FileGate HQ. From 1:261/38, the files go to the FileGate
HUBs and BACKBONE Stars (see filegate.zxx for the complete list).
IFDC FDN members use a "one way in" approach, rather than letting
anyone in Fidonet release files because that offers the most
protection from duplicate files going through our systems, and also
keeps virus and trojans out.
The IFDC FileGate has a policy document you can download an read.
It's located here: http://www.filegate.net/info/FGPOL006.TXT
It essentially says about the same thing as above (g).
Processing HATCH:
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You'll need software to release your files as well. There are a
number of packages to do so. BBBS includes a hatch with replace or
just hatch command..
BBBS
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You would set up the area in BBBS as normal:
F PDNJAVA /home/ftp/pub/pdn/pdnjava/ 1:261/38 VA 1:10/3 1:123/500 1:140/1
You'd make sure that your links (10/3, 123/500 and 140/1) had the F
flag in external.bbb [nodes] section.
[nodes]
1:123/500 password password password password F C 2
[...]
Put the file to release in the directory where you defined the
area (here, home/ftp/pub/pdn/pdnjava). Log into the bbs and import
the file with des -a filename.zip. Then you'd simply type:
./bbbs bhatch -oldfile.zip /home/ftp/pub/pdn/pdnjava/newfile.zip
The - tells bbbs to hatch with replace. If you don't need to replace
a file, you can leave the -oldfile.zip out.
TICK
====
Tick v210 is still being used in fidonet today by
a number of sysops (see http://www.filegate.net/mail/tick210.zip).
Setting up tick to run under a DOS box is pretty easy. Here's an
example of a config file that should work for you with just a few
changes:
===================clip====TIC.CFG====
IN c:\tick\inbound
ZONE 1 c:\tick\outbound
NET 261
NODE 38
HOLD c:\tick\holdir
QDIR c:\tick\qdir
ListFmt %3:-13 %1
ListName Files.Bbs
QUIET
TEMP c:\tick\ramdisk
LOGPATH
LOGSEEN
CRC
LogCRC
Crc2Dup
DupByCRC
NoWait
Local
MailerKills
REPLACE
FDLog
ForceINTL
FIDO
AREA c:\tick\files\nodelist NODELIST
Local Listname c:\tick\files\nodelist\files.bbs
1:261/1 PASSWORD &*
AREA c:\tick\files\lordfile LORDFILE
Local Listname c:\tick\files\lordfile\files.bbs
1:261/1 PASSWORD &*
=====Clip===End=TICK.CFG====================
Make you sure you note the changes needed above: Your node number,
all paths/directories where you want files, etc., and downlinks and
their passwords :)
ALLFIX
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Allfix is also still in use by a good number of people.
ALLFIX File Manager
Allfix file echo processor, is stand-alone shareware program and
can be used with most BBS Systems. AllFixuses a config program
(ASETUP) that you run to make changes to the config file. ASETUP's
interface is much like the FrontDoor mailer's config program - the set
up cannot be done in an ASCII config file.
The ASETUP main screen leads you to different manager menus for
different parts of the program, such as node manager, file echo
manager, and group manager, etc. In each of these managers, you enter
information for that manager.
In Node manager, you enter the node numbers, passwords and mail flavor
of those who will be calling your system.
The File Echo Manager allows you to view or change the actual tag
names, add description of the tags and indicate where the files are to
be stored.
If you want to use them, the Groups manager will allow you to remove
or change similar file echos, or groups of echos.
Allfix saves all the information in a database. One thing you
might want to do often is backup your allfix directory... after
entering all of that information, you sure wouldn't want to lose it
and have to re-enter it .
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INFO:
Where to Send Your Articles
Unlike most editors, I surely do not mind running my mouth when
there is a sparcity of articles for the 'zine. I'd MUCH rather
you sent in material but I think until someone starts a
discussion you feel like commenting about, you evil dullards
(just kidding!!!) will no doubt complain about "no issues" (grin)
So I will fill these issues with my meanderings and thoughts and
hopefully we will grow into something of consequence here :)
Don't be offended.. write an article!
If you WOULD like to submit an article and prove me wrong about
the dullard aspect of you guys and gals (bg), feel free to drop
your article off at:
By email attach to address: janis@filegate.net
Fidonet attach: Janis Kracht 1:261/38 Modem: 607-655-5652
1:261/100 filegate.net via telnet mailer
filegate.net via binkp mailer (don't send
articles as routed attaches, send them
direct to filegate.net).
Give it a title, sign your name and network address if you have
one and send it along!
Don't worry about the format, I can take anything you send me
and mutilate it further as you can see above. Linux is nice
that way \. Spell checking your own work will help though
(something I'm typically guilty of \).
More specifics with this issue :)
To send a question to Dr. Debug, email a question to drdebug at
filegate.net, or netmail drdebug at 1:261/38.100, or post in the
fidogazette echo! :)
To send a listing to the fidogazette internet bbs list, send your
bbs listing to bbslist@filegate.net or post it in the fidogazette
echo! :)
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