Hi John,
 >        Can anyone throw some light on the mysteries, (to me),
 > of FREQing. I understand a script is needed to connect to
 > the front end mailer of the BBS you are logging on to.
 > Beyond that I am in the dark. I have recently written
 > mail run scripts which are working successfully for me.
Well, yes....sorta.  At the moment, I just don't know of any way
to use TM for FReq's although somebody out there may have already
figured it all out.  :-))
Basically, your software has to be able to support the EMSI standards which 
are normally associated with systems that use
a frontend mailer program, ie, FrontDoor, InterMail, Binkley,
D'Bridge, and others.
But exactly HOW and WHAT little "bits 'n bytes" you need to make
that happen is well beyond me.  I personally use the program
called FrontDoor as my frontend mailer simply because I happen
to like it and feel comfortable with its reliablity.
The term FReq stands for F-ile Req-uest which is a slick way of
grabbing 'n transferring files from one system to another by
"file requesting" either a defined "magic" filename or the true
filename.  For example, I can easily define not one, but all 4
of the Telemate files simply by using a "magic" file list like
so:
FReq name      True Filename
   TM          I:\TELEMATE\TM???-?.ZIP
And since we all know that Telemate is TM420-1.ZIP, TM420-2.ZIP,
TM420-3.ZIP, and TM420-4.ZIP what you would actually receive if
you FReq'd the "magic" filename  TM  would be all FOUR of the
files since the "?" mark is a variable just like the "*" is.
Or, if you only wanted say, the TM420-3.ZIP file, you could do a
FReq for  TM???-3.ZIP  and you would then get only that file since
it is the only one that matches the file mask.
All in all, its pretty slick, even if I do say so myself.  And, it
does all of this without ever logging onto a BBS system at all.  The
frontend mailer handles the whole thing.....
Does this perhaps help explain what you were asking??  If not, lemme
know and we'll try again from a different angle, Ok?
 >  * OFFLINE 1.56 * ... Telemate V4.2 ! ... What better way to
 > tell a mate !
"Telemate V4.2"....??  And you have this, right??  :-))
Best Regards,
     ---- Jim
--- GEcho/386 1.11+
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