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Once you are a confirmed netter, you might want to
put some net-related buttons in your DOpus config.
One that springs to mind is a button for the Aminet
Index. You'll have to make sure you always put it in
the same place, like Text:Index, or something similar_
but you can make a button which lust needs a
command to 'Read Text:Index' and Robert is your
father's brother.
You can also set up buttons for uuencoding and
decoding, although not for compress (well, I
haven't yet figured a way of doing it - if you have
then let me know.) For uuencoding you will need
we are initially interested on - dialscript
and NewsStamp. You can edit your
dialscript to change the number of
retries you wish to perform when trying
to connect, your modem settings, and
what number your modem will dial.
The NewsStamp script merely
contains the exact date and time you
last downloaded news. This is
extremely important. If you go away
for a couple of days, or go on holiday,
make sure you check this script before
you get back on the net - if you don't
you could be looking at several thousands
of articles to be downloaded for
news and an enormous phone bill.
The way the script reads goes like
this:
ritus,demon.co.uk 950305 10l014
Your news server, year-month-day, hour-min-sec
On the other hand, the usr directory is a
real can o' worms. There are files galore in
here that we might want to change, For
starters you should see directories named:
lib. mail, news, spool, and also one named
after your username, in my case Ben. Let's
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an 'AmigaDOS' command like this:
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for uudecoding you need:
C:euttr (o )
and for uudecoding with LHA decompression you can put:
tiinat u (o)
Remember to make sure that the flags for output window,
no filename gotes and cd source are ticked for all
of these. You might also want to put a button in to allow
you quick and easy access to your AmITCP directory,
scandir AmiTCP: for instance
go into that directory first of all. In it you
should find a directory called .tin and several
files all starting with - _newsrc, _signature,
etc. Come back out and have a look in lib.
This will contain an aliases file, a Config file
and a newsgroup file, among others, The
aliases file is for working with Mail and lets
you lust type someone's name rather than
their entire e-mail address.
VARIABLES
Config is where all your environment variables
are set: what your username is, what
your host is, what tirriezone you are in, etc.
Lastly, but by no means least, there is the
newsgroups file, This sets what newsgroups
nntptransfer goes looking for when you link
up_ The number at the end of each line is
the amount of days before the articles in that
group will be able to be trimmed, so don't
set it too high otherwise your hard drive will
soon fill up. Because I am usually on every
day, I set it for one day for most groups.
Come back out of lib into the usr directory.
The mail directory you should see is
where any mail addressed to you will go, the
news directory is where all your unbatched
news articles will go, and the spool directory
is where any mail or articles you send go
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