Copyright: SV2AGW AGWBBS @1990-1996
Citation: AGWBBS @ SV2AGW 1990-1996


Copyright Notes

© Rossopulos George (SV2AGW) 1990-1995

The program  is free for use only by Radio Amateurs in Radio Amateur Stations. You don’t have the right to change any aspect of the program that  violates the copyright, that belongs only to me. You have  the responsibility to use the program according to your local law. I don’t have any responsibility for any damages that may occur from the program use even if the program has Bugs.

SV2AGW@SV2DXC.TSL.GR.EU

sv2agw@the.forthnet.gr

http://users.forthnet.gr/the/sv2agw (WWW page to Download updates)


What The Program Does

That program is the companion of AGWFWD.EXE. It displays the bbs List and let you Play with it!

Here you write your messages you send multimedia files as messages snd 7Plus files as messages.

It Has two Windows The first is the window that holds all the messages you sent and the second is the BBS list as received from your local BBS.

The program needs proper configuration to work at its full!.

So do it now.

See Also Send Window

               Bbs Window


Send Window

Here we have the messages you sent. When this window is active you can compose a new message or you can send any other file as follows.

 Write A new Message

Write Here The message and fill the Address for the recepient.

See Also Write A New Message Dialog

Send A File As Message

You Can send any Kind Of File text ,programs,multimedia,images,video….

See Also Send A File As Message Dialog

Pop Up Menu

Select a Message and press The Right Message Button. Select the desired action from the menu

See Also Actions On Messages


Bbs Window

This window displays the BBs list as is received with AGWFWD.EXE from your local BBS.

This window is divided in two Parts The Left is the Messages Folders and the right the actual list.

Message Folders

BBS message List


Write A New Message Dialog

Message Kind

Select the Private or Bulletin. Private means that the message can be read only by the Recipient

Bulletin means a message that is send to everyone, like an announcement etc.

OemToAnsi

Check this box if your language is other than English Especially Greek!!! It actually converts all the characters in your message from the Windows character Set to DOS character set so the message can be read also by DOS programs . To do this you must have installed in system.ini (of windows) the desired driver. For Greek Language is the file XLAT737.BIN.

Destination

Enter the call of the station to whom the message is for

@BBS

enter its address as follow

) 	Only its home BBS (SV2DXC) for SV2AGW@SV2DXC

) 	Full address  (SV2DXC.TSL.GR.EU) for SV2AGW@SV2DXC.TSL.GR.EU

) 	In many cases you can leave it blank. The program will fill it for you with your local bbs address and then the bbs will change it from its white pages.

Title

Enter The Message Title.

Editor Window

Here you Write The message The Editor works exactly as all the windows Editors.

You must press Enter at every Line End.

Be careful to write about 60 characters per line.

When you press Enter The program asks you how to save the message leave the default filename if it Informs you that a file with that filename exists press overwrite it. Your message will be also saved in the message list as a message. You can press the right mouse button for the menu (edit,cut,paste etc).

Header/Footer

See The Header/Footer


Send A File As Message

Select first the desired file.

Fill Correctly The Message Properties as Described in Write A New Message

Send File Type

TEXT

If the file is a text file (file with an extension of .TXT) then the file will be send as Text.

*** The file will NOT  be Translated To DOS Character Set!!

File Bin

The file will be send in a special binary format much more effective than 7Plus. The file need Not to be COMPRESSED The Advantage of this special format is that when the other station receives that message will auto read it Lets see an Example Suppose that you write a message to a friend with the Word (@) and you enter in it also an image and  speech. When your friend receives that message his AGWBBS program will auto invokes the Word. The same is done with any file kind. If you send a program ,say, AGWBBS.EXE then that program will be rebuild and stored in the directory \Files.

SEE ALSO

7PLUS

The selected file will be converted with the Well Known 7PLUS program. The only difference is that you must have my 7PLUSWIN version for windows. The operation is done Asynchronously.

The preferred method is to first Compress the file to send.!!!


Actions On Messsages
Actions On Messages

All the actions are for a message or for a message Group.

Read

Reads the messages. If your language is other than English use the supplied read program AGWEDIT.EXE and select from it the dos terminal character font to read it!!

Kill

Kills the messages by removing them from disk. The messages that are not killed are not removed from the list even they are too old.

Get/Unget

Marks a message for downloading from your Local BBS. The operation starts in the next 2 seconds if the AGWFWD.EXE is Running or after two minutes the AGWFWD.EXE is invoked.

Move

Copy the messages as text files with a suitable filename for further processing!!

Reply

Auto invokes the Write New Message Dialog All the fields are suitably filled and the message is in the Editor Window with ‘>’


Message Folders

The message Folders are like the Directory tree in your disk except that instead of files holds messages. The messages holded are sublist of the main message list selected with certain criteria.

So it is very easy to search the list with the press of a button.

Now lets see how this mechanism works.

Suppose that we want to have a sublist with all the messages about the DX. We create first a new folder from the Folders Dialog then we create another folder as a subfolder for the DX folder with the Name 50MHZ. Selecting the DX folder the program creates a sublist with all the messages about DX selecting then the 50MHZ folder the program creates another sublist with all the messages for the 50MHZ but searching only the DX sublist.

Power mechanism ee!!!

How to Create a New Folder


Bbs Message List

The list behaves exactly like the right explorer panel. Select messages using the mouse and the [SHIFT] or [CTRL] button to select a message group.

Press the right button to see the popup menu.

Press the toolbars buttons.

Pressing the header titles the list is sorted. Pressing ,say, the destination title the list is sorting with the destination field.


Folders Dialog

Name

The Folders name

Source

Enter here the source searching string separating each string from the other with a space

. EgSV2AGW SV searches the list for messages sending from SV2AGW or any station with a call starting with ‘SV’

Destination

 same as before but for Destination Field eg DX DXNEWS

AtBBS

same as before

Title

 same as before

Date

This is usefull only for Today messages enter just the keyword TODAY.If you wish to see the messages of ‘today’

NEW BUTTON

Creates a new subfolder .The new folder is a subfolder of its parent.


Header/Footer

When a message is prepared for TX the program automatically inserts the header file in the beginning of the message and the footer file at the end of the file. If no file is defined nothing is added or if only a header or footer file is defined only that file is inserted. Write here your station definition or other information.


List

Active Msg Number is the number of messages the bbs list will hold. It truncates the list be removing killed messages or inactive messages (never downloaded) If a message is received it is hold until you kill it.

Multimedia file size

Is the size of each message that will be created from splitting a large file for short distances a value of 30000 is good, for hflinks reduce that value to 5000. Kbytes


Read Write Messages

You select here the programs to use for read and write messages. For the moment only the read editor option works. If your language is other than English write here “AGWEDIT.EXE”. This is a special read editor that uses the dos charcter set. That way you can read messages written from others in dos format.


Not Read Msgs

The kind of messages you define here will not Auto Downloaded from the bbs.

E.g. You wish to download all the messages @AMSAT but you dont want messages to @AMSAT send from SV2AGW because they are large and contain only pictures!! Fill  the source field in that dialog with SV2AGW. That way you will never auto download messages from SV2AGW.


SEND Num