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 2.20á, 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 A Product of Betalgeuse III Software. All Rights everywhere Reserved. --- * Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-838-8539 (1:270/615) .