-=> Ian Segers wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-   
      
    -=> Bill McGarrity wrote to Sneaky <=-   
      
    Sn>   doesn't have to be this just samething I can use for file announcemet   
    Sn> and for just   
    Sn>   bulk message posting   
      
    BM> What program are you using for your files?  TinyTic, htick, Tickit?   
      
    IS> I use tossfile to toss from inbound to sbbs files areas (the same as   
    IS> tinytic) and another batch file with   
      
   I'm not familiar with "tossfile" as I use htick and when I receive incoming   
   mail I check it with my fidoin batch file.  The section looks like this...   
      
   CD c:\husky   
      
   htick -c htick.cfg scan   
      
   if not exist c:\fd\secure\*.tic goto end   
      
   CD c:\husky   
      
   htick -c htick.cfg toss   
      
   cd c:\sbbs\exec   
      
   addfiles * -sznf   
      
   :end   
      
   The first command scans looking for any filefix netmail   
      
   The second looks to see if there's any .tic in my secure folder... if there is,   
   then it will toss them into the proper area I configured in htick's cfg file.    
   Htick will then more said tic files into an "announce" area for process later.   
      
   The third will scan all the fileareas, adding any new files to the sbbs   
   database.    
      
      
   At 11:59PM I run an announce batch which is as follows:   
      
   @echo off   
      
   echo ***** Process TIC files   
      
   cd c:\husky   
      
   del c:\husky\announce.txt   
   del c:\husky\final.txt   
      
   c:\husky\htick -c htick.cfg announce   
      
   cd c:\sbbs\exec   
      
   echo.   
   echo ***** Combines header-announcement-footer together   
   copy c:\husky\header.txt+c:\husky\announce.txt+c:\husky\footer.txt   
   c:\husky\final.txt   
   echo.   
   echo.   
   echo ***** Creating new files announcement for FidoNet Allfix_Files...   
   smbutil ic:\husky\final.txt c:\sbbs\data\subs\2allfixfi.shd <   
   c:\husky\fidoreq.hdr   
   echo.   
   echo.   
   echo ***** Creating new files announcement for FidoNet FDNANNOU...   
   smbutil ic:\husky\final.txt c:\sbbs\data\subs\2FDNANNOU.shd <   
   c:\husky\fidoreq.hdr   
   echo.   
   echo.   
   echo ***** Creating new files announcement for FidoNet FIDO-REQ...   
   smbutil ic:\husky\final.txt c:\sbbs\data\subs\2FIDO-REQ.shd <   
   c:\husky\fidoreq.hdr   
   echo.   
   echo.   
   echo ***** Creating new files announcement for MicroNet MINGENAN...   
   smbutil ic:\husky\final.txt c:\sbbs\data\subs\4mingenan.shd <   
   c:\husky\fidoreq.hdr   
   echo.   
   echo.   
      
   echo ***** Process outbound mail (to include file announcements)   
   sbbsecho /linf   
      
      
   The "htick announce" will look at the announce folder, create a file called   
   "announce.txt".  I then merge that with header.txt and footer.txt that creates   
   "final.txt".  smbutil is then used to import the final.txt into each message   
   base.   
      
      
   The fidoreq.hdr looks just like this...   
      
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