Getservinfo is a simple program which extracts info from the serverXX.in and
init.srv files and outputs data in a shell readable form. It's meant to
simplify writing servers using shell scripts. Here's an example output:

SENDER='PE1XYZ' ; export SENDER
SUBJECT='test' ; export SUBJECT
HOMEBBS='PI8DAZ' ; export HOMEBBS
BBSCALL='PE1NTP.#TWE.NLD.EU' ; export BBSCALL
SYSTEMDIR='/usr/local/fbb/system/' ; export SYSTEMDIR
MAILDIR='/usr/local/fbb/mail/' ; export MAILDIR
USERSDIR='*,*,/home/ftp/pub/,*,*,*,*,*' ; export USERSDIR
YAPPDIR='/home/ftp/pub/' ; export YAPPDIR
DOCSDIR='/home/ftp/pub/' ; export DOCSDIR
SYSOPCALL='PE1NTP' ; export SYSOPCALL
MAILIN='mail.in' ; export MAILIN

the serverXX.in file looked like this:

SP BLAH < PE1XYZ
test
R:961212/1234Z @PI8DAZ
/EX


A simple example for a server:

--------------------------
#!/bin/sh

eval `getservinfo`

(
echo "SP $SENDER @ $HOMEBBS"
echo "Re: $SUBJECT"
echo "Hello world!"
echo "/EX"
) >> $MAILIN
--------------------------

I've included 4 servers in the getservinfo package:

* 7PREQ  - Request binary files, encoded in 7+ (you can rename it to 7PSERV,
           AUTO7P, whatever) 
* REQFIL - Request text files
* REQDIR - Request directories
* REQZIP - Request text files - reply will be in ZIP/7+

They all take the users dir from $YAPPDIR (yappdir, docsdir and usersdir are
all the same here). They do not accept drive letters (he, this is Linux :-)

They all look for the file $XFBBDIR/servers.info and if it exists append it
to the output. It could look like this:

Available servers at PE1NTP:
7PSERV, MLIST, REDIST, REQCFG, REQDIR, REQFIL, REQLST, REQZIP, WP


All files should be install in $XFBBDIR/bin/


Getservinfo (and more) is available at http://www.xs4all.nl/~tyz/fbb/

Regards, Mathijs PE1NTP@PI8DAZ.#TWE.NLD.EU || tyz@xs4all.nl