Subj : Please.Com
To : Paul Williams
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Sun Oct 20 2002 01:05 pm
Paul Williams wrote in a message to Jerry Schwartz:
PW> Hi Jerry Schwartz, hope you are having a nice day
JS>I used Please for years, and I'm not sure what I did to break it. Anybody
JS>have a suggestion?
PW> What does this program do? I use bink and am always interested in
PW> utils for it.
E:\BINK>please
(TCv0663) Please OOHA Mangler for Binkley by Joe DeRosa 1:141/42
Version 2.20�, Compiled Jul 09 1991 13:33:13
Getting Parameters from Binkley.Cfg - Node 1:270/615
**** Please Syntax Booboo [OOPS] **** Syntax:
To Poll a node, Please POLL|TELL dest [flo mode] [WITH msg]
To Send a file, Please SEND|GIVE [#|^]filename [TO] dest [mode] [WITH msg]
To Get a file, Please REQUEST|GET filename [FROM] dest [mode] [WITH msg]
To Update a file, Please UPDATE [-|+]filename [FROM] dest [mode] [WITH msg]
For Cmd Mode, Please X
Anything between [---] is optional, | means or
On send, WITH msg sends a normal kill after send netmail message
#filename invokes Bang mode so BT will truncate file after send
^filename invokes unlink mode so BT will destroy file after send
+-filename invokes update request only on request
filename can have ?,* wildcard characters.
On get, Filename can be filename!password for passworded request.
Dest may be : [zone:]net/node, converted directly
Firstname Lastname, which gets [zone:]net/node from fidouser.lst
*ID, which searches 'please.all' file for ID list of nodes
The Mode is the ?Lo mode of the send/poll/request Default is N
C|NOW=Crash(CLO), D=Direct(DLO), N|F=Normal(FLO), H=Hold(HLO)
** Warning ** Incorrect Combinations of parameters can cause explosions
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