Remote sysop's manual to Xenolink XAreaFix by Bart Schraa


Where should XAreaFix be used for ?
-----------------------------------

   Your  sysop  has decided to install another Areafix clone, XAreaFix.  It
has been installed for your convenience, you can now turn on and off areas,
whether  they  are file related areas or just plain message areas.  Lots of
other features are supported too, they will be explained later.

   Write  a  MATRIX  message to your sysop's fidonet address, and write the
message to username AreaFix.

TO: AreaFix
Subject: secret
%QUERY
---

   After  you've  send  the message to your feed, and it has been unpacked,
XAreaFix will scan your message, if you've set all things correct, XAreaFix
will scan your message and send you the list of area's you're connected to.
If  you  want  to add additional notes in the message, not for XAreaFix but
the  sysop,  add '---' on a new line and start writing.  XAreaFix will stop
reading  your  message  if  it comes to a line beginning with '---' or when
end-of-message is reached.

   When  a  remote  system  wants  to  write to AreaFix he must specify his
password  on the subject line. 

       These are the commands currently supported (there will be more), they
    have to be preceeded by a '%' like '%LIST:

        *  LIST                 : List of all available area's.

        *  QUERY                : List of all connected area's.

        *  UNLINKED             : List of all available but not connected
                                  area's.

        *  AVAIL                : List all area's at your uplink(s).

        *  +ALL                 : Connect all available area's.

        *  -ALL                 : Disconnect all connected area's.

        *  HELP                 : Send help file.

        *  PAUSE                : Disconnects all active area's and saves them
                                  to a temporary file for later use

        *  RESUME               : (re)Connects all area's listed in the
                                  temporary file saved by the 'PAUSE' command.

        *  FROM <address>       : Changes the address used as origin address
                                  into <address> which is used to process the
                                  areafix message.

        *  COMPRESS <arc>       : changes archiver in systems.config to <arc>;
                                  'COMPRESS ?' will list all possible archivers
                                  at your system

        *  PASSWORD <password>  : will change the areafix password to
                                  <password> in the XAreaFix.config

        *  LINKPW <password>    : will change the linkup password to <password>
                                  in the systems.config

        *  TICKPW <password>    : will change the tick password to <password>
                                  in the XAreaFix.config

        *  TICKMSG <YES/NO>     : will change TickSend to (NO)TICKSEND in the
                                  XAreaFix.config

        *  SEND <YES/NO>        : will change Send to (NO)SEND in the
                                  XAreaFix.config


    NOTE:

        All commands are available from the subject line also (except (+/-)ALL
    and FROM):

        LIST     : -L
        QUERY    : -Q
        UNLINKED : -U
        HELP     : -H
        PAUSE    : -P
        RESUME   : -R
        AVAIL    : -A

        The originating (your) message must look something like:

    From    : Bart Schraa      2:285/312.1
    To      : XAreaFix         2:285/312
    Subject : SECRET
    --------------------------------------
    XENOLINK_SYSOP
    +XENOLINK_INFO
    -XENOLINK_UTIL
    %UNLINKED
    NLA*
    ---

    This will result in a message like:

    From    : XAreaFix         2:285/312
    To      : Bart Schraa      2:285/312.1
    Subject : Auto Reply
    --------------------------------------
    
            TagName             Action
    ------------------------ ------------
    XENOLINK_SYSOP            connected.
    XENOLINK_INFO             connected.
    XENOLINK_UTIL             disconnected.
    NLA_SYSOP                 connected
    NLA_TEST                  connected

    Unlinked message area's :

            TagName                             Description
    ------------------------ -------------------------------------------------

    XENOLINK_UTIL_NL          Nederlandse utility support
    XENOLINK_UTIL             Intenational utility support

    Generated by XAreaFix 1.0, (c) 1992-1994 Bart Schraa, XEcho Development.


   Switches in front of the commands or tagnames that are valid are:

       *  %  a command to be processed by XAreaFix
       *  +  Connect an area for the requesting system
       *  -  Disconnect an area for the requesting system
       *     (Nothing) is the same as the '+'

       Wildcards are supported in the same way as AmigaDOS handles them. So
    NLA* will connect all area's that begin with NLA.