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howto:freq [2021/03/19 10:24] – a little refinement wkitty42howto:freq [2021/03/19 10:26] (current) – footnotes instead of notes wkitty42
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 the node 12  : 000c</code> the node 12  : 000c</code>
  
-So we would create or update a file named 0e32000c.flo in our outbound directory for fidonet zone 1. Inside this file we would list myfreq.req. If our default zone is zone 1 and our BSO is outbound, then we would create or update the file like so.+So we would create or update a file named 0e32000c.flo in our outbound directory for fidonet zone 1. Inside this file we would list myfreq.req. If our default zone is zone 1 and our BSO is outbound, then we would create or update the file like so. ((The '^' (caret) tells your BSO mailer to delete the req file after it has been sent. More details about FLO file formatting are available in the original Binkleyterm Mailer documentation.)) ((We used the ">>" method of redirection to add the echoed data to the files. This is so we do not destroy what may already be in them.))
  
 <code>echo ^/sbbs/tmp/myfreq.req >> /sbbs/ftn/outbound/0e32000c.flo</code> <code>echo ^/sbbs/tmp/myfreq.req >> /sbbs/ftn/outbound/0e32000c.flo</code>
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 When your BSO mailer scans its outbound directories and sees the file 0e32000c.flo, it will attempt to connect to 1:3634/12 and deliver the myfreq.req file. If 1:3634/12 has FREQ enabled, it will read the filenames from the .req file, and queue those files to send back to you during the current connection. When your BSO mailer scans its outbound directories and sees the file 0e32000c.flo, it will attempt to connect to 1:3634/12 and deliver the myfreq.req file. If 1:3634/12 has FREQ enabled, it will read the filenames from the .req file, and queue those files to send back to you during the current connection.
  
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-The '^' (caret) tells your BSO mailer to delete the req file after it has been sent. More details about FLO file formatting are available in the original Binkleyterm Mailer documentation. 
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-In the above you will note that we used the ">>" method of redirection to add the echoed data to the files. This is so we do not destroy what may already be in them. 
  
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