Short: GUI for selecting files of Fidonet boxes
Type: comm/fido
Uploader: steppler@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Author: steppler@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

NAME

    MUI Fido File Request 1.1

DESCRIPTION

    MUI Fido File Request is a GUI for selecting files from a filelist,
    which almost every Fidonet mailbox provides for download.

    The list of selected files is written to a .REQ-file in your
    outbound directory.

    The next time you call up your Fido Boss these files are
    automatically downloaded by your Fidonet communications software.

CHANGES

    1.0 Initial release (23.01.94)

    1.1 (17.02.94)

    - clipboard support
    - 4D addressing is used for the request file
    - multiple nodes
    - download of the selected files
    - XPK support
    - appending of passwords to the selected filenames

HARD- AND SOFTWARE-REQUIREMENTS

    - Amiga OS 2.04
    - WB 2.1 (if you want to make use of localization)
    - Stefan Stuntz' Magic User Interface 2.0 or better

INSTALLATION

    Installer script supplied.

DOCUMENTATION

    MUIFFR 1.1 is pretty much self-explanatory.

    Configuration window:

    - For every node you can define an alias, a node number,
      a telephone number, a password, a filelist associated
      with this alias and a font compatible with this filelist.
      MUIFFR automatically recognizes, if this list has been
      packed with an XPK-packer, and unpacks it, when nescessary.

    - When you press the 'Download' button of the main window,
      your Fido communications software, e. g. TrapDoor,
      is invoked. If you did not specify a phone number
      for the current node, the contents of the 'Via Node'
      string gadget (otherwise 'Via Number') are used for
      invoking your Fido software.

      Following format specifiers are recognized.

        %t  telephone number
        %n  node number
        %l  nodelist directory
        %p  password

      Examples:

      The current node has a telephone number:

        TrapDoor Call %t Boss %n Password %p

      The current node does not have a telephone number. It is
      extracted out of the nodelist by your Fido software.

        TrapDoor Call %n Password %p Nodelist %l

    - The outbound directory is the placed, where the .REQ-file is to
      be stored to.

    - Termination: Is every line of the .REQ-file to be terminated with
      a linefeed character (dec.: 10) or with an carriage return (dec.: 13)
      and a linefeed?

    - Filename position: Which word of the selected line is to be extracted
      as the filename?

    Main window:
    - Password: Select one or more files and then press this button.
      The password is now appended to each of them. Do not mistake
      this password, which gives you download access to certain files,
      by your personal password, with the help of which you are allowed
      to download at all.

    - Filenames can be im- or exported via the clipboard (RAmiga-C/V/X).

    - Insert: The contents of the string gadget beneath the 'selected
      files' listview gadget is appended to the list of these files.

    - Delete: One or more filenames are deleted from the list.

    - Load: The .REQ-file is loaded, if it exists.

    - Save: The .REQ-file is saved to the outbound directory using
      4D addressing. If no file has been selected, but a .REQ-file
      already exists, then this file is deleted.

DOWNLOAD

    Any Aminet site, e.g.

      Switzerland  litamiga.epfl.ch       128.178.151.32  pub/aminet/
      Scandinavia  ftp.luth.se            130.240.18.2    pub/aminet/
      Germany      ftp.uni-kl.de          131.246.9.95    pub/aminet/
      Germany      ftp.uni-erlangen.de    131.188.1.43    pub/aminet/
      Germany      ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de    130.149.17.7    pub/aminet/
      Germany      ftp.uni-paderborn.de   131.234.2.32    pub/aminet/
      USA          ftp.wustl.edu          128.252.135.4   pub/aminet/
      USA          ftp.cdrom.com          192.153.46.2    pub/aminet/
      USA          merlin.etsu.edu        192.43.199.20   pub/aminet/

DIRECTORY

    comm/fido

FILE NAME

    MUIFFR11.lha

FURTHER SOURCES

    FIDO:
        Mowgli 2:242/7     +49-(0)241-40 59 49
               2:2452/107

DISTRIBUTABILITY

     Freely distributable, but copyrighted.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

    Thanks to Klaus Melchior for suggestions and beta-testing.

AUTHOR

    Martin Steppler

    Internet: steppler@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
    ADSP:     steppler@cookies.adsp.sub.org
    Fido:     2:242/7.12 Martin_Steppler@mowgli.fido.de
    FidoLite: 2:2452/107.12