JoySoft Development - Johnny Sjöö presents:

             PktMail - Text-To-Pkt-Converter with GUI-interface.

               Support: BBS oXen Systems - 0270-54268  14k4/DS

   Fidonet 2:205/207.0  AmigaNet 39:162/118.2  UseNet johnny@oxen.multi.se

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Installation:
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  Copy PktMail to C: or any other place where it can be started without
path. Assign IN: to your inbound-dir. DONE!


Usage:
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  PktMail allows you to send messages to other nodes, or to an echo-area.

  What PktMail does? Well, it takes a specified textfile, and turns it to
a fido-packet. Your mailscanner will belive it was a mailer that did send
this packet to you, and doesn't really care about that it was PktMail's
work. Problems may occur, if your mailer doesn't like that a packets
origin is the same node as the packer itself, but this can be solved!
Just post the message from a point under you. This point can be used
whenever you want to post automaticly by PktMail, or something like that.

  Template, step by step, look like this:

FILENAME/A = The path and name of the file that will be processed.

TO/A      *= The TO-name of the message.

TONODE/A   = The TO-node of the message. Should be destinating BBS's node
             when posting echomail. 

FROM/A    *= From-name (Default: 'All').

FROMNODE/A = From-Node.

SUBJECT/A *= The subject.

AREATAG/K  = TAG NAME of the echo. If posting netmail, skip the AREATAG-
             keyword.

ORIGIN/K  *= Origin-line. Skiped when posting netmail.
             Behöver inte anges.
             Nyckelordet måste anges.

CHARSET/K *= The contents in the ^CHRS:-kludge. (Default: "LATIN-1 2")

INTL/S     = Switch. If posting netmail, the ^INTL-kludge is included.
             inte är ett nätbrev.

KILL/S     = Switch. Will kill the original textfile when the *.PKT-
             file is generated.

EDITOR/K  *= Your editors path and name. If given, PktMail loads an
             editor for you, to edit the original text before processing
             it. The textfile doesn't need to exist, before editing it.

 *: Underscore ('_') will be translated to a space (' ').
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The GUI-interface (font adaptive)
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  A GUI-interface will pop up, if not satisfied with the arguments.

  The gadgets has the same functions as the template, described above,
so it shouldn't be any problem using it.

  If you want the GUI-interfade directly - just run PktMail without any
agruments.

  The GUI-interfase offers nodeaddress-checking, just after the gadget
was inactivated (return). If the nodeaddress was invalid, PktMail will
DisplayBeep() and the gadget will be activated again.

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  Not mutch of a manual, but i figure that if you are using fidonet-
mailers and tossers, you MUST have experiences enough to use a simple
and tiny text-to-pkt-converter! Am I wrong? :-)

  If you find any bugs - please contact me!! My addresses should be
at the top of this document....




                   Other programs from JoySoft Development:

  IF you are using Excelsior! BBS - FREQ these files from me:


  ETOP         - Excelsior-specific TopList generator! Fast, up to date
                 and nice!

  JOYLIST      - Excelsior-specific Filelist generator! *FAST* (6000 files/
                 second!). FILE_ID.DIZ-support, AmigaGuide-support,
                 Self-describing, autopacking, AUTOPOSTING to echo-areas!!
                 etc, etc...

CU