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<META name="author" lang="en" content="Michiel Broek">
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<TITLE>MBSE BBS Programs - mbaff - Announce new files and Filefind processor.</TITLE>
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<h5>Last update 30-Jan-2001</h5>
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<H1>mbaff - Announce new files and FileFind processor.</H1>
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<H3>Synopsis.</H3>
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<code><strong>mbaff</strong> [command] <options></code>
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<H3>Description.</H3>
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<strong>mbaff</strong>
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is the new files report generator and filefind server for mbsebbs.
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In order to run <strong>mbaff</strong>
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you must first start <strong>mbsed</strong>,
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this is the deamon which controls all bbs activities.
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When <strong>mbaff</strong>
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is run with the commandline command <strong>announce</strong>
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the first thing it does is to scan all the file databases for files
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from which the announced flag is not yet set, and that area has a valid
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newfiles groupname. These files are uploads for example.
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If such a file is found the announced flag is set and
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the file is added to the
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<strong>toberep.data</strong>
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file. This file may already contain
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new files who were received as .tic files and processed by the
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<strong>mbfido</strong> program.
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After this is done the <strong>toberep.data</strong>
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file is compared against the newfiles
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reports to see if there is anything to report. If that's the case the
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creation of reports begins in the echomail areas specified. After that the
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<strong>toberep.data</strong>
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file is erased and the mailout semafore set. <br>
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The files to announce are divided into groups, the names of the groups are
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set in the file download areas. If you plan this well, you can make seperate
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announcements for several networks, announce files bij groups of file, ie. HAM
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or .jpg pictures, Linux etc.
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When
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<strong>mbaff</strong>
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is run with the commandline command
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<strong>filefind</strong>
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it will search each echomail area for unreceived messages addressed to
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<strong>allfix</strong> or <strong>filefind</strong>.
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It will read the message header and mark the message as received. The
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search options are set on the subject line. All file areas for which the
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filefind flag is set to true will be searched for the requested search
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patterns. If there are files found a reply will be generated for the
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user who wrote the request. If the reply area is different from the scan
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area, the reply is placed in the reply area. If it's not set, the reply
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goes into the same area. If the netmail option is set, the reply will
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be sent by netmail. To prevent echomail overflow the replies in the same
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area are limited to 15 found files, replies in the other echomail area
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are limited to 50 files. Netmail replies will contain up to 100 files.
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<P> <P>
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<H3>Environment.</H3>
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In order to run <strong>mbaff</strong> you need to set one global environment variable
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<strong>$MBSE_ROOT</strong>.
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This variable must point to the root of the bbs directoy structure. The
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main configuration file
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<strong>config.data</strong>
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must be present in the ~/etc subdirectory.
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<P> <P>
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<H3>Commands.</H3>
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<code><strong>mbaff announce</strong></code> - Announce new files.<br>
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<code><strong>mbaff filefind</strong></code> - Process filefind requests.
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<P> <P>
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<H3>OPTIONS</H3>
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<code><strong>mbaff [command] -quiet</strong></code> - Quiet mode, no screen output.
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Use this switch if you run <strong>mbaff</strong> from the crontab.
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