Hi Benny!

On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 18:22:50 -0500, Benny Pedersen wrote:

> 25 Dec 07 09:18, Jame Clay wrote to Benny Pedersen:
> 
>  JC> What I normally use for situations like that is a script that
>  JC> runs the "hpt post" command with the appropriate options for
>  JC> what I want the netmail to do.
> 
> sounds silly

   Unless I misunderstood what you're trying to do?  


> but i will try to doit this way until i find another way of
> have it back in msged control

   Well, that's the thing;  I got tired of manually writing an areafix or
filefix netmail using a message editor when I wanted to send such a
message:  for the common netmails like requesting a list of connected
echos, the only thing that changes are the AKAs and the passwords;  so I
just have a short script that posts such netmails...

   Here's an example of what I do:
========================================================================
#!/bin/sh
NT=Areafix
AF=1:120/501
AT=1:120/544
SUBJ=PASSWORD
MSGTXT=/usr/local/lib/f501/n120/afquerymsg.txt
#
/usr/bin/hpt post -nt $NT -af $AF -at $AT -s $SUBJ -f pvt loc k/s $MSGTXT  
                            

========================================================================

   In this case, the "afquerymsg.txt" file basically just contains
"%QUERY".  For a system with multiple uplinks, all of the scripts (which
already have the respective AKAs & password defined for whichever uplink
it is) all point to the same file for querys & for other common commands.
   For when I need to make changes to connected echos, I have similar
scripts that point to an editable file that contains the changes (for
$MSGTXT); then it only takes running the script (one key press, when
using something like mc) to post the netmail...  (I also do similar
things with a BBBS & and an MBSE system...)



Jame


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