ATPDIAG(1) ATP QWK Mail/News Reader ATPDIAG(1)NAMEatpdiag - checks atp qwk reader configuration.
SYNOPSISatpdiag [ -h | -v | --help | --version ]
DESCRIPTION
A diagnostic script written in Perl, useful during installation of ATP
QWK news/mail reader, and for diagnosing possible configuration prob‐
lems. When started, atpdiag looks for the environment variable ATP.
then searches for the configuration file atprc. If that file can be
successfully opened, atpdiag parses it, checking specified paths and
support programs for existence and accessibility. Informational, warn‐
ing, and error messages are displayed.
Perhaps the most common ATP installation error is the failure to set
and export the ATP environment variable. Normally this should be done
in the user's shell startup file such as the .profile in the user's
home directory. ATP expects the environment variable ATP to point to
the directory where ATP will keep its atprc configuration file,
taglines.atp tagline file, and message bases.
Another possible ATP configuration problem occurs when using Info-Zip
UnZip 5.11 and later. These recent versions of UnZip require the -L
flag when un-zipping certain qwk packets originating in the MSDOS
world. Previous to UnZip 5.11, the default behavior for UnZip was to
translate MSDOS file names to lower case on unzipping. Now you must
request lower case translation explicitly by adding the -L flag to your
unzip command in your atprc. This may also be accomplished by setting
and exporting the UNZIP environment variable.
When run, atpdiag will attempt to detect your UnZip version and report
if the configuration appears wrong.
FILES
/usr/local/bin/atpdiag
$ATP/taglines.atp
$ATP/atprc
SEE ALSOatp(1), perl(1), unzip(1)ATPDIAG 0.92 28 November 1995 ATPDIAG(1)
