Short: V1.2, a file echo processor with many features Author: billing@df.lth.se (Johan Billing) Uploader: billing@df.lth.se (Johan Billing) Version: 1.2 Type: comm/fido Replaces: comm/fido/CrashTick* Introduction ============ Welcome to CrashTick, my favourite tick program for the Amiga! :-) CrashTick is a program for handling file echos, the method used for distributing files in Fidonet. Such a program is normally called a tick program, since Tick was the name of the first program that used this method. CrashTick has the functions you find in most tick programs plus a few others which are not as common on the Amiga. For example CrashTick can handle packed tick files and has a built-in Raid which lets your downlinks connect to areas themselves withour having to bother you. As an extra bonus, CrashTick also has a comfortable settings editor called CrashTickPrefs. Main features ============= o Powerful Announce function o Built-in Raid o Comfortable settings editor o Can handle packed tick files CrashTick is absolutely free to use. This version ============ This is the long-awaited updated version of CrashTick. There now finally exists an official version with the stack problem fixed. This version also contains equivalents to some features in later versions of CrashMail like the SEND#? commands. CrashTick 1.11 was never really released, but was only available as a beta version on my homepage. Only some of these changes will be new to those who downloaded that beta version. - CrashTick and CrashTickPrefs now allocate a larger stack and will now work with newer versions of gtlayout.library without any problems. - If you tried to do a "CrashTick maint" and your Filebase directory didn't exist, CrashTick would give you a wrong error message and tell you that the Inbound directory didn't exist. Fixed in this version. - The Group selection window in CrashTickPrefs didn't have the correct window title. Fixed. - When "Max wait before pickup" was changed in CrashTickPrefs/General, the new value would be copied to the maximum buffer values for the logfile too. This has now been fixed. - When a file or a directory was selected with the file requester in CrashTickPrefs/Areas or CrashTickPrefs/Announce, CrashTickPrefs would forget to tell you that the config had been changed. - Now you can set a group to "Incoming only" for a node. - A new option called "No .tic files" has been added. If this switch is set for a node, the node will receive the files without the accompanying tick files. - It is now possible to specify a "Magic" name when hatching a file. - RaidHelp.doc has been updated, mostly layout changes. - A new tool called CrashTickHatch has now been included. This tool lets you hatch files comfortably with a GUI. These changes are new since the CrashTick 1.11 beta: - Five new ARexx commands and command-line arguments have been introduced: SENDQUERY, SENDLIST, SENDUNLINKED, SENDINFO and SENDHELP. The NOTIFY ARexx command and command-line argument still works, but is just an alias for SENDQUERY. - The %UNLINKED command used to send a list of all areas the node was not connected to, this unfortunately also included those areas the node didn't have access to. Now %UNLINKED only includes the areas that the node actually has access to. - When CrashTick passes on commands to another copy of CrashTick, it now prints the sent ARexx command on the screen and displays the result when the command has been executed. Users of TrapDispatcher will recognize it from that program. - You can now configure a maximum number of lines in the Raid responses created by CrashTick. This was introduced since many programs can't handle too long netmails. You can set this in CrashTickPrefs/General. - Because of a bug, CrashTick didn't sort the files before creating an announcement. Fixed. ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 632 277 56.1% 30-Nov-95 16:05:24 CrashTick.info 17200 5307 69.1% 07-Jul-96 16:59:36 +crashtick.cd 16589 5283 68.1% 07-Jul-96 16:59:44 +empty.ct 12512 4914 60.7% 02-Nov-97 19:08:24 +CrashTick.catalog 79596 39380 50.5% 02-Nov-97 20:34:56 +CrashTick 58303 19054 67.3% 05-Nov-97 14:49:58 +CrashTick.guide 503 258 48.7% 05-Nov-97 14:53:32 +CrashTick.guide.info 17224 9182 46.6% 05-Nov-97 16:11:44 +CrashTickHatch 943 325 65.5% 05-Nov-97 14:53:32 +CrashTickHatch.info 101796 45520 55.2% 02-Nov-97 20:48:42 +CrashTickPrefs 954 210 77.9% 05-Nov-97 14:53:32 +CrashTickPrefs.info 16960 9579 43.5% 02-Nov-97 19:07:34 +CrashTickStats 5472 1620 70.3% 05-Nov-97 14:54:46 +Install 707 361 48.9% 05-Nov-97 14:53:32 +Install.info 632 278 56.0% 05-Nov-97 14:53:32 +libs.info 100848 56301 44.1% 22-Oct-95 17:44:52 +gtlayout.library 43628 28530 34.6% 07-Aug-94 12:31:32 +reqtools.library 2518 1028 59.1% 19-May-97 23:52:22 +RaidHelp.doc 247 141 42.9% 05-Nov-97 14:53:32 +RaidHelp.doc.info 632 281 55.5% 05-Nov-97 14:53:32 +rexx.info 3389 1449 57.2% 08-May-96 23:44:18 +NotifyErrors.rexx 4411 1825 58.6% 27-May-96 21:37:22 +RaidUMS.rexx 9375 1676 82.1% 08-May-96 21:46:14 +TickStatsFormat.doc 247 144 41.7% 05-Nov-97 14:53:32 +TickStatsFormat.doc.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 495318 232923 52.9% 21-Nov-97 00:49:30 24 files