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User's Guide SAFRE Contents tquthem Re urce Exchange User's Guide SAFRE Contents 1. Overview, features and terms 5 2. The main menu 9 3. Reading received messages 11 Control keys in message reader/editor Parts of amessage 4. Creating messages 15 4.1 Message Status 4.2 Importing a file into a message Importing a WordPerfect file 4.3 Replying to amessage 4.4 Tips cn using the Front Door message editor Commands Hard carriage returns Cut and paste Carbon copies 5. Sending messages running the 25 network mailer 5.1 Attaching files using the message editor 5.2 Sending multiple files 5.3 Receiving a file 5.4 Dialer - helpful notes on the message sender/dialer User'sManual I SAFIRE 6. Conference Mail 33 6.1 The conference manager Quick start Finding conferences ofL-iterest Configuration 7. Requesting a file 37 8. Making files requestable 39 from your system 9. Messagebase management 41 Mass-deleting messages 10. Nodelist maintenance 43 11. Logs and statistics 45 Appendix A - Hints on using 47 Front Door effectively and conveniently 2 User'sMaanua SAFME Prologue This manual is intended primarily as a reference manual. The user may, of course, read it in order from start to end. However, the user can usually read alater section without needing to first read any of the earlier sections. The only exceptions are sections 1and 2. The user must be familiar with the concepts presented in section 1,and must know how to get to the main menu as explained in section 2 (which is only one page long). Sections 3 and higher consist largely of sample "walk-thrus" and "reference sheets". This manual is not intended to be acomplete substitute for the manuals of FrontDoor and the other programs used in this kit. The purpose of this manual is to assist new users in quickly becoming proficient with the software, without going into esoteric details. User'sManual 3 SAFIRE sectionl 1: Overview, features and teiflM0l0gy What is network mailer software? basic There are many varieties of network mailer software. The files and messages from com­ function of these mailers isto transfer and ordinary phone lines. puter to computer using modems read and write your messages off-line. With a "mailer" package, you completing calls and delivers the messages, The "mailer" automatically it can hold the in aminimum of time. Alternatively, the transfer to pick them up. Messages until another system calls yours messages in one call. files can be transferred both ways and and messages can be totally automated, The whole process of sending needs very little human interaction. system include: The advantages of this kind of costs thereby minimizing phone bill * Routing* Miimumconect of messages time, and files through participating relays who on a certain area thus cutting down combine all messages going to bill costs to all users- phone prior to connecting to most No need to purchase asubscription other network mailer systems. we are using, evolved retwork mailer software that Front Door, the called FidoNet. from a cooperative, PC-based, global network used on numerous other networks However, the software iscommonly and private. besides FidoNet, both public isVidoNet? What mes­ PC-based network that transfers FidoNet is just the name of a User'sManual P~ViOu5 Pare Blank SAFME sages and files fbr a vast number of people, using book which iscirculated a "nodelist" phone to systems around the world. The software that all people use to connect NONproprietary to FidoNet conforms to a standard commonly referred technology." There to as "FidoNet are many other, competing software which also conform packages to these standards, and with which you have obtained will the software communicate via modem. The FidoNet Technology mailer that we will be using is called FrontDoor, which included in a set of is FidoNet programs called The PerManNet (The elements of the PerManNet Kit Kit are discussed in the Sysop's Manual.) What can this software package do? This software package allows users to: * Send private E-Mail messages * Send public "conerence" messages (i.e., group discussions) *Send fles * Receive files sent by others Request files from others or from ageneral-access databank None of the above requires any "real time" interaction with people. In other words, the people other you are sending the mail to do not have to be on the other end to receive your messages. The user interacts with the network, without the need to interrupt any other human user at the moment Concepts/terms you need to know to get started 1.Mailer Asoftware module which operates the modem and interacts with remote systems using FidoNet technology. 2. Message Reader Also know as a "message editor" is the software module used to read and create messages. 3. Conference Mail a. versus Netmail NetMail ­ private messages between only two people md seen by no one else. This is the deffnlt fIder that you will enter when you first start up Front Door. You will see "NETMAIL" written in the top right comer of your screen. *Note: netmail does not refer to all networked mail, but only to private mail. 6 UsersManual SAMnE b. Conference Mail ­ public messages for group called discussion, also "echomail" and "newsgroups". Conference organized messages are by topic (also called a "folder"). When in a conference you write a message folder area, then prepare the message will go to to be sent out, it all the people who are a part of that conference. that you This means don't have to carbon copy (c.c.) the message you don't have to know to a group, and them personally. An example is the Africa Drought Southern Conference. It goes to the Canadian International Development Agency, PVO's, USAID and interested groups all over the southern Africa region. 4. Addressing An address in netmail issimilar to azip code. Each code tells number in a zip the post office where in the country, state, your letter county and city should go. Ifyou address you letter in-correctly, not go then it will to the right address. It is the same in netmail. An Address commonly looks like the following, and has 4 parts: 3:683/15.7 zo-= T T -T Net Node Point number The four parts of the address are called: Zone (3): The zone number is the first number followed in every address by a ':'. There are 6 zones in the FIDONET system which correspond addressing with 6 parts ofthe world. They are as follows: Zone 1: North America Zone 2: Europe and the CIS Zone 3: Australia and New Zealand Zone 4: Latin America Zone 5: Africa Zone 6: Asia Nct (683/) The number following the zone number is the Net number which indicates a local calling area. Node (1.5) A PC with asystem operator, who as ageneral rule operates 24 hours a day. Point (. 79), which is aPC with a s/stem operator which is notin the aser'sManual 7 SAFIRE nodelist, and uses anode as relay. (In this example, node 15.) On a mailer network, each Personal Computer (PC) has an electronic can be mail address, and each address is represented by one PC. There For one or multiple users at aparticular address using one PC. drought example, the Country Director can be a user, as well as the machine, coordinator in Zambia. However, if they are using the same The and 1phone line, they will have on'y one address for that site. addressing isone for every distinct site, not per user per site. 8 User'sManad SAFIRE Section 2: The main menu To start the program from your DOS prompt by typing- CD \FD START You will then be presented with the following menu: Main Mtenu Frequent off-line actions: B Bundle/unbundle coafercace mail F File maMgement progran futmated on-lin actions: II hetwork mode - dial and answer Occaionl off-line actions: C Copf lguration P Periodic aaintenasca L Logs and statistics H Help QQuit elanatlon of Item hi-lighted !2 aurso. bar: Perflanhet Startup lit, Veralon 3.01 The menu is split up into three kinds of functions. You can choose a function by: 1. typing the letter for the particular function, cr by 2. moving the highlight bar over the desired sedcidon using the up and down arrow keys ("cursor keys"). Then hit -Enter> to choose the selection. User'sManual 9 SANE "NOTE: When a selection is highlighted, aline of further explana­ don of that item is given at the bottom of the screen. The following sections will explain how to use each of these functions. 10 User'sMaual SAFIRE Section 3: Reading received messages menu, you select M for Mail reader/editor. 1. From the START editor. (Altema­ This will place you in whjt is called the message tively, you could run the message reader/editor by running hit Alt E from the network FnMEXE from the \FD directory, or mailer screen.) mail) section. start off in the Netmail (private You will <Alt H> for Help" then the message "Press Ifyou hit an invalid key, screen. will flash up on the bottom line of your initially is the last netmail What will come up on your screen 2. on. To move from message to message that you were working messages right cursor (arrow) keys. The message, press the left and is the fashion, meaning "to the left" are stored in "left to right" also message 2,3, and so on. This is message 1,and "to the right" is and created messages. the order in which you received amessage conference, such Conference mail: To change to *Note: which are kept in as the Southern Africa Drought Conference, hit-<Ctrl F> to get a list ofavailable separate areas called "folders," down the list to the one you want, conference folders.
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