The Equipment
The only equipment REQUIRED are
one disk drive, and a auto answer modem
(that the BBS program has been modified
to support). Optional are: Printer
(device 4), and extra drives (devices
8 - 11).
Disks??
Your complete BBS system will have
one SYSTEM disk (containing the BBS,
boot file, editors, configurer, and all
ML files. This disk should not be in
any drives while the BBS is on-line and
should be set aside when the BBS is
on-line.
When you set up your BBS, you can
have up to 3 drives with anything you
like to be stored on them. The
exception is your MAIN data disk.
This disk will be in device 8 and will
hold all main files.Other file types
(UD section, Msg base, Mail, Text
files) can also be set to device 8 but
are optional.
The disks you have set in any other
drives act as data disks and can have
other functions of the BBS rerouted to
them (individual sigs, mail, etc.).
GETTING STARTED!
Included on your system disk is a
program to set up some example files
for your MAIN and data disks. These
files can be edited as needed.
LOAD "CONFIG 2.0" ,8

SEARCHING FOR CONFIG 2.0
LOADING
READY.
RUN
You will now see an opening screen
and a prompt to press RETURN. Because
this does not configure to your personal
desires and only sets some example
values, it will only set up for 1 or 2
drives. Turn on drive 8. If you have a
second drive, turn on drive 9. Make
sure drive 9 has a FORMATTED disk
inside. Drive 8 can either have a
formatted or unformatted disk inside.
When this is done, press return and
answer the questions very carefully.
Your handle is up to 17 characters,
name: 17 chars, fone: 8 chars, pass: 8
chars. The password will be any
combination of upper or lowercase
letters that should be known to YOU
only and not given out.
Now the program should begin creating
the main files, menus, msg base, and
vote section respectively. Lastly, it
will ask you to swap between your
system disk and MAIN data disk in
drive 8 while it copys 2 of your main
system files.
Off-line editor!
LOAD "EDITOR 2.0" ,8

SEARCHING FOR EDITOR 2.0
LOADING
READY.
RUN
NOTE: Any reference to the "DATA DISK"
refers to all data disks being put in
their proper drives!
From this program you can change any
of the example values. Lets look
around... hit 1 from the main menu.
1) Edit main level options
This option alows you to change the
command letter (letter pressed) for the
functions available from the main menu
as well as the access level required
(or higher) to use the option. To edit
any option, press the number next to it
and answer the questions. REMEMBER: Any
time you change options, MAKE SURE you
change the coresponding menus. In this
case, "(pound)mainmenu x" (x = access
level 0 - 9) will hold the main level
options. Type "q" when done editing.
2) Edit msg mkr options
This alows you to edit the command
letters for the BBS message writer
options. These functions are typed as
*(letter) (RETURN)
The functions not listed that are set
in permanently are:
*w (word wrap toggle)
*u (uppercase/lowercase toggle)
*h (help file)
A list of these commands should be
included in the file "(pound)msg mkr
help"
3) Edit msg base options
This section is devoted to the
command letters for your msg base and
the access level required to use them.
Msg delete and resp delete should be
reserved for those with a higher
access.
4) NAME OF BBS
5) Mail Device
Here is the device number (8-11) for
all personal user-to-user mail. This
is also the device for your TEXT or
LIBRARY files.
6) Sig System
This is a very important part of
your BBS system and should be edited
ONLY ONCE. The only changes that may
not affect the current status of your
msg base would be the adding of sigs.
Maximum Messages refers to the number
of individual subjects that will be
accepted in a sig at one time. Each msg
has its own file on the disk and all
responses are tagged to the end of the
subjects and should not be considered
in this option.
7) UD Editor
8) Time/Calls editor
This is where you edit the number of
calls per day, hours on-line allowed
per call, and tens of minutes allowed
on-line per call. All new users (first
time callers) are given level 0.
Q) Quit- USE THIS OPTION ONLY IF YOU
DON'T WANT YOUR CHANGES STORED!!!
S) Save and Quit- Save the file
"(pound)variables" with all of the
information in this section. This file
along with all menus are MAIN data disk
files.
OPTION 2 from the main menu
This is the editor for the userlog
on your Main data disk.
1) Create new user log
This completely erases and
re-writes the userlog as done in the
configurer.
2) Edit userlog
This is the option to edit an
individual user. This off-line editor
allows you to edit EVERY aspect of a
users information. The varaibles
mentions (of which only 0 and 1 are
used now) are numbers up to 4 chars.
The Message base uses variables 0 and 1
to hold the last msg read. (each msg
posted in your message base is assigned
a consecutively higher number which
is compared with these variables).
3) Display users
4) Add a User
This is used to add a user wherever
there is an opening. Openings are
assigned as follows.
1) Any record that has not been
written to already.
2) Any record which has a handle
of "EMPTY".
5) Exit
MAIN OPTION 3
EACH SIG YOU HAVE CREATED IN THE MSG
BASE EDITOR MUST HAVE A SIG FILE RECORD
CREATED FOR IT. ANY SIG FILE CREATED
WILL ERASE PREVIOUS RECORDS FOR THAT
SIG!
Whats What.
Put your MAIN data disk in drive 8
and load the directory. Here are the
names of files you should see with a
description of what they are. Depending
on how you've configured your system,
some files will or will not be present.
All files on your Main data disk should
be preceded with the english pound sign
as a reminder that they are BBS data
disk files and they should not be
allowed to be downloaded.
userlog - all user information.
This file will grow as your number of
users grows
calls - this holds the number of
calls made by each user for that day.
This file should be reset (by the BBS
monster mode) every 24 hours. The BBS
(when on-line) will go into monster
mode automatically any free time
between 11:00 pm and 12:59 am.
opening msg - this file will be
displayed as soon as a caller has made
connection and has identified himself
as a STANDARD ASCII or COMMODORE ASCII
user.
closing msg - this file is
displayed whenever a user logs off or
the BBS throws him off (because he has
dropped carrier ,ran out of time, or
the SysOp thrown him off.)
variables - mentioned above
last caller - A VERY IMPORTANT
FILE. This file holds information as
precious to the well being or your msg
base as the varaibles file is to the
BBS itself. If this file is erased and
not rewritten by the logoff sequence
before information is lost, your msg
base is done for and should be re-done.
This file is correctly erased and
re-written in the logoff sequence. If
this file is erased, reset your Sig
files and set variables 0 and 1 for all
users back to 0.
info - this file contains some
basic information about your BBS and is
available from the main command level.
newuser - this file is shown to
those logging on to your BBS for the
first time, after they have given the
BBS their personal user information.
mainmenu (0-9) these are the main
menus for each access level, they are
read fron the main command level.
msg mkr help - mentioned above
sysopmenu - this is the menu read
from the private sysop editing section
of the BBS
msgmenu - this is the menu for your msg
base, you should not include the
sysop functions on this menu.
emailmenu - this is the menu for
the Electronic user-to-user mail
section.
udmenu - this is read from the
Upload/Download section
Sig (0-X) This hold the number of
msgs, message pointer, and for each
msg: number of replys and the msg
number.
sigmsg (0-X) this is shown apon
entering a sig.
vote - this file holds the basic
information for the voting section.
question - this holds a more
detailed explanation of the voting
section question.
vote box - this holds the accual
votes, along with the id# of the person
that voted for it.
v2.0 ml1 - main system ml file
p.protocol - punter ml
Files that will pop up later:
feedback - mail left for the
SysOp's reading.
txt (0-X) text file. NOTE: Text
file 0 is accually the text file menu
msg (0-X) (0-X) - posted messages
Log! - a seq file holding the calls of
the day as well as a general look at
what they did. This file can fill up
your data disk and should be erased
periodically.
Now your ready to look at the BBS
program itself!