SUMSTools2_11

Short:        Stuntzi's UMS tools 2.11
Uploader:     Matthias Scheler <mscheler aminet org>
Type:         comm/ums
Architecture: m68k-amigaos



TITLE       : sumsset, sumsprint, sumswrite, sumsfolder, sumsdel, sumsexport
AUTHORS     : Stefan Stuntz <stuntz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
AUTHORS     : Bernhard Moellemann <zza@mhystic.hall.sub.org>
AUTHORS     : Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
AUTHORS     : Klaus Melchior <kmel@eifel.tng.oche.de>
AUTHORS     : Oliver Oster <olio@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
AUTHORS     : Ulrich Sibiller <uli@pizza.tynet.sub.org>
COPYRIGHT   : Public Domain
REQUIREMENTS: Kickstart 2.x, UMS release V10



HISTORY:
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V2.10 (05-Mar-95) [zza]

- sumsdel.c: added
- sumsset.c: warns if Deleted bit is set
- sumstl.h: VERSION introduced for same version in all files
- sumsprint.c: fixed access of arguments via argv
               checking for CTRL-C in PrintMessage, too

V2.11 (03-Aug-95) [kmel]

- sumsexport.c: added [kmel]
- new directory structure [kmel]
- all: change CLI template to stop the problems with USER/A or
       NAME/A [kmel]
- umsfilter: ID_LENGTH, added new filter: TextLength, HeaderLength [SS]
- all, sumstl.h: VERSION has information about the compiler [kmel]
- all: Compiled with SASC 6.51, if compiling with Dice some
       expressions produce an error [kmel]


OVERVIEW:
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'sumstl'  stands  for  "Stuntzi's UMS Tools"  and is a collection of six
useful tools for the UMS message base system:

sumsprint  - extract certain messages from message base to a file.
sumswrite  - create new messages.
sumsset    - set certain bits on certain messages.
sumsfolder - set folder on certain messages.
sumsdel    - deletes certain messages
sumsexport - exports messages in a UMS-specific format

With  the aid of these six tools, you can perform lots of actions,  such
as automatic message archiving, automatic generation of return receipts,
automatic message forwarding, areafix support, user filter, etc.

You  could  e.g.  select all messages about "MUI", extract them from the
message  base  with  'sumsprint'  and forward them to a special MUI-Area
with 'sumswrite'.

Or  you could select all messages from user "Martin Horneffer" and route
them  via 'sumsprint' to a printer. Thus, you will have all his mumbling
on a sheet of paper and can easily create some nice paper planes. :-)

If  you  are  a node that offers some kind of areafix, 'sumsprint' could
extract  all  messages  to  user  "Areafix"  for further parsing with an
areafix tool.

Do  you  need  some  kind  of  expire?   Just  select  all  messages  in
'fidonet.Amiga.ger'  that  are older than 30 days and set the Expire-Bit
with 'sumsset'.

There are simply no limits!