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Replying to a message from Bob Jones 1:343/41 to Gord Hannah,

About MO Sys, On Mon Oct 22 2001

IRex, which protocols are being used? [FTP, Telnet, BinkP, etc.]

IRex via ftp.

Ok. Two comments.... (1) From my perspective fidonet mail via FTP protocol is a kludge. You can loose mail packets if your scripts,
software and your uplink's scripts don't properly compensate for
file naming issues within fidonet. (2) What ever script you are
using to make the FTP connection, when it exits, you should test for received mail and at that point spawn or startup your squish
processing.

Ok sounds fair enough.

And when you say binkley "exits to do the mail run", is binkley
exiting to bring up your TCP/IP connection, use IRex to transfer
fidonet packets, and then recycle back to binkley when done, or is
binkley exiting because it directly received mail? From the above,
it sounds like the first, not the second, that you are trying to get

First is correct.

Ok. When the FTP session from IREX to your uplink finishes, does
IREX exit? Once IREX exits, does InJoy exit automatically (i.e.
shuts down the modem connection and exits allowing the command file
that started InJoy to contine)? If so, then it is fairly easy to

Yes it does the connection is broken with killjoy via cron, then bink can take over.

If IREX and INJOY are properly exiting, after InJoy exits and you
restart Binkley, you can add a test in your .CMD script similar to
the following as a single line:

As my setup exists now all works as advertised, I have used this combination for just about 1 year now with no failures.

Hope this helps. Keep us posted.

We are a fine board trying to make it better.
http://www.pris.bc.ca/ghannah
ghannah@pris.bc.ca
Cheers! Gord
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Replying to a message from Bob Jones 1:343/41 to Gord Hannah,

About MO Sys, On Mon Oct 22 2001

I just did this one up, seeing that I ma not that good at .cmd and
.bat files look for errors and see if it may be a big
wreck. Timed can be called separately.

mailonly.cmd:

:START
h:
cd\binkley
binkley
if errorlevel 150 goto toss
if errorlevel 99 goto toss
if errorlevel 97 goto toss
if errorlevel 95 goto toss
if errorlevel 25 got to getmail

So far, seems reasonable. binkley is usually BT32 or something like that....

I renamed bt23 to Binkley, I may also need to do some more errorlevel work if memory serves as bink needs them to answer the call and will go to a text file stating that this is a Mail Only system and an alternate way of contacting me.

:TOSS
h:
cd\mail\inbound
if exist *.tic goto tick
if exist nodediff.* goto nodelist

Note: If you get your nodelist with tic's, the if exist nodediff.*
isn't going to get executed, because you will first jump and process
the tic's....

I can change this around sound good to me.

"ECHO ON" and "PAUSE" statements as needed to see what's happening
and help in debugging.

Good advice.

Hope this helps. Keep us posted.

We are a fine board trying to make it better.
http://www.pris.bc.ca/ghannah
ghannah@pris.bc.ca
Cheers! Gord
-=Team OS/2=-
--- timEd/2 1.10.y2k+
* Origin: Marsh BBS (c) [Dawson Creek BC Canada] 1-250-786-7921 (1:17/23.1)

I just did this one up, seeing that I ma not that good at .cmd and
.bat files look for errors and see if it may be a big
wreck. Timed can be called separately.

mailonly.cmd:

...

I renamed bt23 to Binkley, I may also need to do some
more errorlevel work if memory serves as bink needs
them to answer the call and will go to a text file
stating that this is a Mail Only system and an
alternate way of contacting me.

Note: Under OS/2 one typically uses BBS SPAWN option in Binkley instead of the
method that exits with an error level, at least if using the OS/2 native version of software. If your flaged as mail only on all events in Binkley.evt file, the one liner in the Binkley.CFG is sent and I believe you don't have to worry about this issue. But, it is probably better to have the BBS SPAWN option setup right just to be safe.

:TOSS
h:
cd\mail\inbound
if exist *.tic goto tick
if exist nodediff.* goto nodelist

Note: If you get your nodelist with tic's, the if exist nodediff.*
isn't going to get executed, because you will first jump and process
the tic's....

I can change this around sound good to me.

Think it through before you change it. Do you need the TIC files to be processed before you play with the nodelist compilation? If so, the order you are doing things in is correct, it's just that you have a test that under normal situations won't be exercised. On the other hand, if your NC or RC dumps you a nodediff without a .TIC file associated with it, your line will handle that situation. In my case, I need the .TIC file processed first (which
validates my source of the nodediff) and actually moves the nodediff to where the nodelist processing obtains the file. My comment was made to have you think it through, not to necessarily make the change. Sometimes, a line like that is explicitly added by the author to catch special situations. Some times
it is because the author hasn't thought through the processing. Think through the processing order and then decide if you want to keep the line where it is, delete the line or move the line.

"ECHO ON" and "PAUSE" statements as needed to see what's happening
and help in debugging.

Good advice.

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41


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Ok. When the FTP session from IREX to your uplink finishes, does
IREX exit? Once IREX exits, does InJoy exit automatically (i.e.
shuts down the modem connection and exits allowing the command file
that started InJoy to contine)? If so, then it is fairly easy to

Yes it does the connection is broken with killjoy via
cron, then bink can take over.

If IREX and INJOY are properly exiting, after InJoy exits and you
restart Binkley, you can add a test in your .CMD script similar to
the following as a single line:

As my setup exists now all works as advertised, I have
used this combination for just about 1 year now with no
failures.

So, what were you after? Trying to keep from having to kill InJoy via a cron job to get things to recycle to binkley (to restart the fidonet mailer)? If so, two options: (a) Is there a hook you can use when IREX exits (like modifying the command file running IREX to run killjoy instead of the CRON job)? And (b) Is there an idle shutdown setting available in InJoy that would
work for your situation? The later would allow you to use the box for other internet related activity and allow that processing to complete before recycling to Binkley.

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41


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