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FILES - The FILE submenu is where you define your file
areas. Full information on security levels and flags can
be found in the SECURITY section.
Name : NAME is the name of the file area as the
user will see it.
Path : The PATH is a fully qualified directory path
that points to where the files in this area
are stored, for example C:\FILES\IBM\GAMES\.
Note that the trailing backslash is
optional.
New files : This option determines whether to include
this file area in a new files scan, and may
be overridden by the use of optional
parameters when using the "new files" menu
command. (see MENU COMMANDS for more
information.)
Upload : When a user uploads a file, RemoteAccess has
dupes the capability to search for the file
before allowing the user to upload it. If
this option is disabled, RemoteAccess will
not scan this area for dupes.
Long : If you would like to have long descriptions
desc for your files, ie. more than one screen
line, then you should enable the LONG DESC
option. This enables RemoteAccess to handle
the descriptions correctly. When editing
your FILES.BBS file it is not necessary to
put a [CR] in the description as the text
will be wrapped when displayed.
Access to the file areas is controlled in a similar fashion
to that of the message areas, by the DL, LIST and UL
security levels and access flags.
DL : This determines the minimum security level
security and flag combination at which a user can
download files from this area.
List : This determines the minimum security level
security and flag combination at which a user can
list the files in this area.
UL : This determines the minimum security level
security and flag combination at which a user can
upload files into the area.
The list of files that your users see for a particular area
is generated from a textfile that you can edit yourself. By
default, this file is called FILES.BBS and is located in the
same directory as the files it describes. When a file is
uploaded to a file area, RemoteAccess creates a new
FILES.BBS if it doesn't already exist, and then appends a
single line entry for the file. The format of FILES.BBS is
simple:
<FILENAME.EXT> <Description>
Filenames that contain wildcard / pattern match characters
are expanded to full filename specs. A separate entry is
displayed for each matching file found.
The <Description> field may be up to 255 characters long.
When displayed to the user the description is automatically
word wrapped to the width of the user's screen.
If you have some kind of read-only mass storage device
online such as a CD-ROM, then it usually isn't possible to
have a FILES.BBS in each file directory. To get around this
problem simply create a separate directory to hold all of
the FILES.BBS files. The individual files should be named
FILES.n, where n is the file area number. For example -
C:\RA\CDROMLST\FILES.33
Is the file that would be read in place of FILES.BBS for
area number 33. In this example, the FILE LIST path (in the
PATHS section of RACONFIG) has been set to C:\RA\CDROMLST.
The EXTERNAL SUPPORT FILES section contains information
on marking files as free and/or password protected under
the subheading FILES.CTL.
See Also: MANAGER - SECURITY
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