Fill in this registration form and mail it along with your $10-$15 registration fee to me as follows... Mail to: Glenn J. Schworak 1710 Lee St SE Salem, Or 97302 If you are simply updating your key file, you may fill in the form and net mail it to me and I will get you a new key file. Or you may upload it to my BBS! Upgrades: Glenn's World BBS (503) 581-6524 Glenn Schworak 1:3406/32 FidoNet glenn@g-world.com PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY -----------------------< Start Of Registration Form >-------------------------- Software Information Program: AmiNet Utilities V2.0 --------------------- Your Information Name: _____________________________________________ Address: _____________________________________________ City: __________________ State: _____ Zip: ________ Phone: _____________________________________________ Your BBS Information Name: _____________________________________________ Software: _____________________________________________ Min Baud: ________________ Max Baud: ________________ Phones: _____________________________________________ Your Network Information Net #1 Name: _________________ Address _________________ Net #2 Name: _________________ Address _________________ Net #5 Name: _________________ Address _________________ Net #6 Name: _________________ Address _________________ Net #7 Name: _________________ Address _________________ (feel free to list any other networks you are connected to) How should I deliver your KEY file? ___ Hold it on your BBS for me please... I will log on and get it. ___ Crash Mail! (only on FidoNet, E!Net) ___ UUENCODED with PGP (send your public key to me at glenn@g-world.com) ___ Network HOLD Mail! (Fido like network only) ------------------------< End Of Registration Form >--------------------------- ______ _____ / / / / / / \ / /_____/ /____ / /______/ / / / / / / / / / /______ /_____ / o AmiNet Utilities - By: Glenn J. Schworak ------------------------------------------ Version 2.0 Overview: This software is a collection of programs designed to allow systems with InterNet EMail access to offer the complete AmiNet to their users without having to have a huge hard drive deticated to AmiNet or buying every AmiNet CD-ROM. How it works: Put simply, users of this software are accessing the BITFTP service from Princeton University. This is an EMail FTP program that allows users to FTP without having a live InterNet link. You or your users simply move throught the AmiNet directories selecting the files that are of intrest to you. The software does all the work of building the proper message to be sent out to BITFTP. Within a short while, your file comes back to you. Requirements: Of course, you need to have AmiUUCP set up and running. You also need a feed site for your UUCP mail. You will need some way to get the UUENCODED files that come back to your system out to the users who have requested them. These files will sent to the users directly in EMail. So if your system is already getting mail out to your users, you are fine! Installing: 1) Unpack all files to the directory Doors:AmiNet (if you use another directory, things will work but you need to modify the rexx scripts) 2) If you have the full archive, you may be able to skip this step. You will know because you will have a bunch of subdirectories filled with file lists. But if they are missing, do this... Get a copy of INDEX from the aminet site of your choice. IE: ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/INDEX if your system can handle large (1meg) messages in a single block, you may simply run the AmiNetUpdate.rexx program and this file will be requested and processed automaticaly. For information on a manual update and using AmiNetBreak, see step 5. NOTE: If you are going to use this option, copy UUBREAK to your UUCP:C/ directory so it is in the normal search path. 3) If you store the program in Doors:AmiNet, you can skip this step. If you put the program in another directory do this... In your USER-STARTUP add the line... SetEnv FTP-AmiNet -or- Create a file in ENVARC named FTP-AmiNet with one line containing . (sample file included) NOTE: Replace with the full path to the FTP site list file want to use for your AmiNet feed sites. This list can hold 1 or more AmiNet sites for your users to choose from. I recommend using Doors:AmiNet/FTP-SiteList as your list name. ------------------------- 4) Create (or use the included) site list. This list will be made up of single line entries with the 1st word being the internet address of the AmiNet site, and the remainder of the line (if desired) is the description of that site. Please see the included FTP-SiteList file to get a feel for the format. 5) If the archive unpacked with FILENOTES attached to the directories, or you simply don't want to have file area descriptions, you can skip this step. Run the script TREE to give all the AmiNet directories proper descriptions. You can modify these descriptions by simply changing the FILENOTE for the directory or file you are after. The script may need to be modified if you didn't use Doors:AmiNet. 6) Set your BBS up to call AmiNetSearch as a CLI program. If you need, you can modify AmiNetSearch.rexx to do this for you. The version included in this package is designed for Excelsior BBS but is easily modified. Format: AmiNetSearch [chunksize] Max rows per screen (normaly 24) Where all the AmiNet Utilities are (Doors:AmiNet/) The users address without domain -- If the full address is glenn@g-world.com -- only use the information left of the @ symbol -- this would be glenn in this case. [chunksize] The largest message size your system can handle. If your system can only handle 100k files, this would be set to 100. If your system accepts files of any size, leave this variable out, or set it to 0. Example: AmiNetSearch 24 Doors:AmiNet/ glenn 200 7) If your system can handle files of any size, you can set up your CRON program to call the script AmiNetUpdate.rexx each night. This script will keep your AmiNet data base up to date each month. Calling it nightly insures the files required are requested if needed and installed when they come in. And if the files don't need updating little time is lost while things are checked. Check the script for more information if you need to. (skip to step 7) 8) If you don't want to automaticaly update the files, or you are limited to the size of the files you can accept, you will need to update the database manualy from time to time as you see fit. Once you have the index file on your system (ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/INDEX) you can run AmiNetBreak which creates the data files used by AmiNetSearch. Format: AmiNetBreak Where all the AmiNet Utilities are (Doors:AmiNet/) The full path to the index file you are using. Normaly this would be INDEX, but if you are only getting the RECENT files, you can run them through this same program and they will update the database just as a complete INDEX would. This is recomended if you are doing the updates manualy as it saves a lot of time. Example: AmiNetBreak Doors:AmiNet/ Temp:INDEX -or- AmiNetBreak Doors:AmiNet/ Temp:RECENT 9) Once you have an INDEX file and the data base had been created, you are done and you are all set to use the program. Enjoy! 10) If you so desire, you can add filenotes to the directories and files that make up the database within the work directory. These file notes will be used as added descriptions by the AmiNetSearch program and will help you and your users find the files they are looking for. This has been made much easier by the addition of the TREE script. Simply execute the TREE script and all your existing AmiNet directories and files will be given official descriptions. Examine the first line or two of this script to be sure the path is set correctly for your system. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at glenn@g-world.com and I will do what I can to help you out. How To Get Updates ================== You can get updates by calling my BBS from time to time at 1-503-581-6524 or you can get on the auto update list. To get on the auto update list, simply become a registered user and give me your internet EMail address. Once on the list, you will get the newest upgrades within a day or two of it being completed.