AmigaPoint version 2.1
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Stuart Grier
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Setup.DOC
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Note - This file is NOT an in depth document on how to set up each program.
       It is designed to help new users to set up their system, to make the
       appropiate directories, to install Trapdoor and April, to make the 
       appropiate changes to the trapdoor.cfg file, basically to set up 
       their system to start to send mail on a BBS.  Individual problems
       can be sorted out by reading the appropiate manuals or by contacting
       myself at 2:250/364.4

This file describes how to MANUALLY install AmigaPoint, This is now not 
necessary as an automatic installation program is now included.  This text
can be used as a reference to what the installation does.  More experienced 
users can, if they wish, follow this text and install everything manually.


The important files included in this disk are :

       -  April.lha  - point software archive.
       -  Trapdoor.lzh - mailer software archive.   
       -  Nodelist.322 - Fido Nodelist for UK for day 322.
       -  SGTrapdoor.config - Edited trapdoor.cfg file. 
       -  Fido.cfg - TrapList config file - Do not edit.
       -  AmigaPoint.Install - Automatic installation program.


A.  Setting up Mailer software - Trapdoor
    -------------------------------------

1.  Make directory "MAIL" from your root directory - SYS:MAIL
    Make directory "APRIL" in your root directoty - SYS:APRIL

    Make directory "INBOUND" in directory "MAIL" - SYS:MAIL/INBOUND
    Make directory "OUTBOUND" in directory "MAIL" - SYS:MAIL/OUTBOUND
    Make directory "ARCHIVE" in directory "MAIL" - SYS:MAIL/ARCHIVE
    Make directory "TEMP" in directory "MAIL" - SYS:MAIL/TEMP
    Make directory "FILES" in directory "MAIL" - SYS:MAIL/FILES
    Make directory "BACKUP" in directory "MAIL" - SYS:MAIL/BACKUP
    Make directory "TRAPDOOR" in directory "MAIL" - SYS:MAIL/TRAPDOOR
    Make directory "NODELIST" in directory "MAIL" - SYS:MAIL/NODELIST


2.  Copy file NODELIST.322 to directory SYS:MAIL/NODELIST

3.  Dearchive file TrapDoor.lzh to directory SYS:MAIL/TRAPDOOR

4.  Copy file SGTrapdoor.config to SYS:MAIL
    rename file SGTrapdoor.config to trapdoor.cfg

5.  Edit file trapdoor.cfg

       - NODE => Enter your FidoNET address

       - AKA =>  Leave blank...

       - NAME => Enter the name of YOUR system, DO NOT enter the
                 name of the BBS you poll from.

       - SYSOP => Enter Your own name here.

       - PASSWORD => Enter your session password here, it is NOT your 
                     password to log on to the BBS normally.

       - BOSS => This is the FidoNET address of the BBS, it is the same
                 as yours but without the point number.

       - CALL => This is the data phone number of the BBS.  


NOTE - Due to the method in which the automatic installation works, the 
       above commands are NOT present in the file SGTrapDoor.config, they
       are, however, present in the file TrapDoor.cfg found in the 
       directory "TRAPDOOR:EXAMPLES"

6. Copy file fido.cfg (This can be found in SYS:MAIL/TRAPDOOR/EXAMPLES)
   to SYS:MAIL

7. Run TRAPLIST - Found in SYS:MAIL/TRAPDOOR/BIN        


B. - Setting up Point software - APRIL
     ---------------------------------

8. Dearchive file April.lha to directory SYS:APRIL

9. READ APRIL.DOC FOR SETTING UP OPTIONS FOR APRIL


C. - General System Corrections
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Edit File user-startup and add the fllowing lines :

    assign APRIL: SYS:APRIL/
    assign Mail: SYS:MAIL/
    assign TrapDoor: SYS:MAIL/TRAPDOOR/BIN/
    path TrapDoor:
    assign Nodelist: SYS:MAIL/NODELIST/


If you have any problems setting up the options for April, send me a NetMAIL
message, my FidoNET address is 2:250/364.4

Don't worry, you may think that getting your point system set up is almost
impossible, but you'll get there in the end, I had to spend a week sorting 
out my system, 8-)


Credits :

John Keniry - Without his enspired knowledge of the Amiga Installer 
              script, AmigaPoint would still be as difficult as ever 
              to install.  Now all that is required is a simple double 
              click - Many thanx and well done that man.

Harry Genery - For final installation testing - and finding a fault which 
               I didn't know was there.

Simon Cansick - SysOp of Guru-ten BBS, and the person who started me 
                off on this expedition of misadventure and late nights 
                swetting over my poor humble A500.

Good Luck I'll see you on FidoNET.


Stuart Grier.           Fido 2:250/364.4