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The GetAscii front-end interface can be used to poll a directory for Ascii text files that contain messages. An Ascii text file is simply a file containing text only. The DOS EDIT and Window Notepad programs create Ascii text files by default. Ascii text files can also be created from within virtually any programming environment. In order for GetAscii to pick-up Ascii text file messages, the file must be put in the Polled Directory specified in PageGate's Admin program. GetAscii will only look for files with the .asc extension (see 'Advanced ascii polling' for other polling options). If more than one file with a .asc extension exists in the polled directory, the files are sorted alphabetically and then processed in alphabetical order. The format of the .asc files is as follows:
to
from
message
Please note that each line must have a carriage return terminating it (or carriage return and line feed).
'to' should be replaced with the recipient's name of who the message is to (can not be blank)
'from' should be replaced with who the message is being sent from (can not be blank)
'message' should be replaced with the actual message text (can not be blank). The 'message' area is actually everything after the 'from' line. Therefore multiple lines of message data is valid.
Example file named test.asc:
Chris
Peter
This is a
test.
Only a test.
