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- Lora Bulletin Board System and
- Electronic Mail Interface
-
- Version 2.34 (OS/2)
-
- Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 by Marco Maccaferri
- All rights reserved
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-
- Main features
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-
- - Supporting up to four different message bases at the same time
- (with no differences seen by the users). Presently Lora supports
- the standard Fido-Base (*.MSG), the QuickBBS (also known as Hudson
- message base), the PIP-Base and the new Squish made by Scott J.
- Dudley.
-
- - Supporting a virtually unlimited number message/file areas.
-
- - Hyper-Scan function for fast user and message/file areas search.
-
- - Compatible built-in Front-End Fidonet Mailer, FTSC-0001, WaZOO and
- full EMSI capable.
-
- - Supporting three and four dimension points at the same time.
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- - Supporting Aka's and ZoneGates.
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- - Supporting Janus bidirectional protocol for mail transfer.
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- - Supporting multitaskers, leaving not used time to the active task,
- and local networks.
-
- - Supporting many tasks with one directory and one configuration file
- only.
-
- - Integrated multiline chat.
-
- - Supporting up to twenty different languages, for a full
- international system.
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- - Memory swap in EMS, XMS or disk during the execution of external
- doors (leaving in memory only 1.6K for the recovery code).
-
- - Supporting AVATAR/0+ protocol in alternative to ANSI-BBS
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- - Userlist features 12 access levels and 32 configurable flags.
-
- - Support for RemoteAccess 1.11, Maximus CBCS 2.00 and SuperBBS 1.16
- compatible Embedded Commands.
-
- - Built-in TimeBank, FileBank, BBS List and UserVote doors.
-
- - Support for off-line mail readers compatible with the QWK packet
- format, as well as human readable ASCII format.
-
- - Remote clock synchronization in WaZOO and EMSI sessions.
-
- - Automatic clock synchronization with an Atomic Clock, compatible
- with the Galileo Ferraris Institute of Torino, Italy.
-
- - User limits (such as on-line time, download limits, etc.) overrides
- in a single user basis.
-
- - Exclusive ZModem auto-upload feature, your users can upload files
- at any menu prompt.
-
- - Support for new 16800, 19200, 21600 (V32terbo), 28800 (V.fast)
- connection speeds and fax modems.
-
- - Supporting ISDN connection speeds (32000, 48000 and 64000 baud).
-
- - Integrated ANSI/VT100 and Avatar terminal emulation, awareness of
- downloading and uploading files using all the protocols, including
- Puma and HS/Link.
-
- - IEMSI (Interactive EMSI) for user's automatic login and parameter
- settings.
-
- If you register Lora you will have the following additional features:
-
- - Keyboard lock by password. The local use of the keyboard will be
- possible, but all functions like Alt-x, Dos Shell, etc. will be
- disabled.
-
- - Possibility of disabling the internal front-end mailer to use Lora
- with other programs (FrontDoor, D'Bridge, BinkleyTerm, etc.).
-
- - Multitasking allowed. Without registration it's possible to use
- only task 1.
-
- - Possibility of using the internal Areafix function for the
- automatic management of echomail links.
-
- - Possibility of including key sequences in the internal keyboard
- buffer during the execution of BBS commands.
-
- - Possibility of using file-semaphores for certain operations in
- multitasking environments.
-
-
- Installation
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-
- To install Lora you need a 386/486 computer with at least 8Mb of
- RAM, OS/2 2.0/2.1 or later versions, at least one free serial port
- and 3MBytes of Hard disk space.
-
- Here is the right procedure to install Lora in your system:
-
- 1. Create a directory called C:\LORA and uncompress inside it the
- original archives, LORA234S.ZIP.
-
- 2. Run LORA234S.EXE
-
- The program will create all the necessary directories and will copy
- the files inside them.
-
- If you have installed Lora in C:\LORA, you can begin using it; if
- not, you have to change all the references at C:\LORA using the
- configuration program LSETUP.
-
- Lora has been tested with the Ray Gwinn's SIO/VSIO drivers (1.20)
-
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- Upgrade from previous versions
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-
- Since there isn't a previous OS/2 release, you can upgrade only
- from the previous DOS versions. The installation program can
- upgrade from one operating system to another.
-
- Here is the right procedure to upgrade Lora in your system:
-
- 1. Change to you system directory (usually called C:\LORA) and
- uncompress inside it the original archives, LORA234S.ZIP.
-
- 2. Run LORA234S.EXE
-
- 3. Run UPDATE.EXE.
-
- The program will upgrade the files that are changed with this
- release. If you are using two or more configuration file (for two or
- more lines), you can specify the name of those configuration files on
- the command line. For example: UPDATE config1.dat config2.dat
-
- If you are upgrading a Lora version older than 2.30, part of the
- configuration must be made again. Use LSETUP to insert the
- configurations you put in the LORA.CFG file.
-
- Anyway, to update the binary files, the LSETUP program must be run
- following the new format.
-
- From Version 2.30 you don't need to keep the LORA.CFG, SYSTEM.CFG,
- SCHED.CFG and NODES.CFG files, as well as LORACOMP.EXE.
-
- Each configuration can be done using the LSETUP program.
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