-=> 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...

All
TequilaMockingbird Online
New Files Received

This is the way I do it... 


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