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==== Post text files to message bases ==== | ==== Post text files to message bases ==== | ||
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- | xx | + | This can be a useful tool if you wanted to automate an announcement to an Echomail area. For example a weekly posting of an advertisement about your Mystic BBS to a message base(s) of your choosing. |
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+ | **Note:** If you wish to use this function to post ANSI files to a message base, the ANSI file must be saved with a line length of 79 characters or less. Not all ANSI editors have this capability, but Mystic BBS has a built in ANSI editor that does. Load the ANSI into the Mystic ANSI editor and then save it, setting the "Line Length" | ||
To enable this function you modify the ' | To enable this function you modify the ' | ||
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[general] | [general] | ||
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- | PostTextFiles | + | PostTextFiles = true |
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+ | You begin by defining the total number of text files to be posted when MUTIL is run. | ||
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+ | totalfiles = 2 | ||
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+ | There are a number of switches to define when setting this function up. This needs to be done for each file you have defined in the line above. Let's have a look at the switches in detail: | ||
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+ | The name of the file you wish Mystic to post. | ||
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+ | file1_name = myfirstfile.txt | ||
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+ | The permanent index of message base to post to. | ||
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+ | The baseidx is the permanent index of the message base to post the message into (shown as Index at the top of the message base editor in Mystic' | ||
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+ | file1_baseidx = 2 | ||
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+ | Who the post is from. | ||
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+ | file1_from = Sysop | ||
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+ | Who the post is addressed to. | ||
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+ | file1_to = All | ||
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+ | The subject of the post. | ||
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+ | The network address | ||
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+ | file1_addr | ||
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- | ; permanent index of message base to post to | + | Should Mystic auto delete the source text file after posting it's contents to the message base? |
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- | + | file1_delfile = false | |
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- | file1_from | + | You repeat this format within the stanza for each file you wish Mystic |
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- | ; who this post it ' | + | file2_name |
- | file1_to | + | |
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- | ; the subject of the post | + | |
- | file1_subj | + | |
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- | ; network address of the sender | + | |
- | file1_addr | + | |
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- | file1_delfile | + | |
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mutil_post_text_files.txt · Last modified: 2019/03/24 04:56 by g00r00