And now, for something completely different.......... Today we have the Node Manager. Please open your hymnal to afsetup | node manager and sing along.... Υ 1/11 ΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝ Node manager Έ ³ ³ ³ System 1:999/9 ³ ³ Sysop John Doe ³ ³ Route via ³ ³ File echo password ώώώώώώώ ³ ³ AreaMgr password ώώώώώώώ ³ ³ Authorized groups 3 ³ ³ Use aka Setup/Aka matching ³ ³ Mail archive status None ³ ³ Direct Yes ³ ³ TIC file mode Normal TIC file ³ ³ Packing mode No packing ³ ³ Include template file No ³ ³ Send notify list No ³ ³ Forward requests No ³ ³ Allow Auto-add No ³ ³ Remote maintenance No ³ ³ Compression type ZIP ³ ³ Cost sharing ³ ³ ³ ΤΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΎ How do you like this screen? I've known how to use the ASCII codes to draw for a long time. As a matter of fact before I know that there was a program called THEDRAW I drew batchfile menus using the ASCII codes and Ansi esc codes in DOS's EDIT.COM. Slow but very educational. That was to much trouble for this project so I've just been using = and | and - to draw these screens in the first 5 messages. Yesterday though, I came across this really neat little .COM file call SNIPPER that is a TSR and you can capture any part of a screen and hold it in a buffer and insert it into your editor. This is a direct screen capture of asetup | node manager. Instead of typing this out I just loaded asetup and activated SNIPPER, drew a box around the part of the screen I wanted to capture, quit ASETUP and fired up SEdit, positioned the cursor where I wanted to draw the screen and hit the keys to execute the re draw and voila! there it was. Cool, huh? Anyway, Back to the node manager. Pretty straight forward. System address and Name of the SysOp are just what you'd think, the name address of the node that you will be sending to or receiving files from. You should put all your uplinks and your downlinks in here. Route via If you want to send the files and announcements directly to this node or hold them for the node to pick up leave this line blank. File echo password and AREAmgr password are passwords that you and your link setup to allow him access to your ALLfix and AREAMgr or you to his if he is your uplink. They can be the same or you don't have to use both or either on for that matter, as long as you both do the same. I don't usually use File echo passwords but I do use AREAMgr passwords. When the Downlink sends an ALLFIX request the AREAMgr password is what goes in the SUBJECT line of the header. Authorized Groups are the groups that this node is allowed access to. In this case this is my uplink for Fido file echos which is group 3 that we set up in the Group manager the other day. Aka Matching Set this way and allfix will look in the System Data file to match AKA (This was one of the first things we set up the other day) Mail Archive Status is for mailers other than PCBfido and QFront, which so set it to none. Direct Should any netmail generated by AllFix for this system be sent directly or routed. Yes sets the Direct flag. You need to be sure that the set up for these nodes in PCBFido has the Absolute hold flag set if you are setting this toggle to yes. That way the netmail is held until they call you. TIC file mode There are 3 choices here. None, Normal or Advanced. None is for nodes that don't use a file tosser at all. Normal is the regular TIC file and Advanced has a lot more information included in it. This node must have advanced set in his node manager also if you choose advanced here. packing mode Three choices here also. No packing send each tic and it's file as a separate file. Pack TICS sends separate files but packs all the tics into an archive. Pack All Files packs all the files and all the Tics into one archive to send to this node. I don't pack because most other nodes don't. the tics are small and the files are already zipped for the most part. Include Template. Answer yes if you want to send a netmail notification along with the tic and its file. Warning. it generates a separate netmail message for each file/tic that it sends. It annoys me to get a bunch of little netmail notifications when I knew the files came in anyway cause I've already looked at the logs. Some File echo tossers (DWTIC) generate a message in the main message base when they receive files so this is double annoying for those sysops. Send notify list. If you set this to yes then Allfix will generate a list of all new files on you system to this node. This notify list will include all files, not just the files in File echos he is subscribing to. I usually set this to no because they can set it to yes themselves by sending a %NOTIFY request to AREAmgr. Forward Requests. If this node sends an AREAMGR request to your system for an file echo that you don't already carry do you want your system to forward the request to your uplink? Allow auto add. If this system requests a file echo that you don't currently carry and it is forwarded by your system to you uplink should ALLFIX create a new file area on your system for the file echo or treat it as a pass through area. Remote maintenance. Do you want to allow this node to do file echo maintenance on you system? Compression Type. if you choose to pack the tic or all the files in the switch above what kind of compression program do you want to use? Cost sharing. I don't know anything about this cause I don't charge any of my downlinks for my services. (yet) Until we meet again.... Mark