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- Remote Access 0.04a/1.00
- Maximus 1.02
- TubFile 0.92
- Opus 1.10
- QuickBBS 2.64
- SuperBBS 1.06a
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- █ To my Grandmother Birgit Lindström. █ ░░
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- Disclaimer and Legal Stuff
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- The FEBBS-Package is subject to the following license terms and
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- * The FEBBS-package is supplied as is. The author disclaims all
- warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation,
- the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose.
- The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or
- consequential, which may result from the use of the FEBBS-package.
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- * The FEBBS-package is a "shareware program" and is provided at no
- charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your
- friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of
- another system. The essence of "user-supported" software is to
- provide personal computer users with quality software without high
- prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to continue to
- develop new products.
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- * The FEBBS-package, all programs, the documentation and support
- files are copyrighted 1991 by Patrik Sjöberg. All rights are
- reserved. You may copy this package for backup purposes. You may
- also copy and share unmodified copies of the whole package,
- providing that the copyright notice is reproduced and included on
- all copies.
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- * You may not sell the product for a fee and/or distribute the
- product along with other products without written permission, nor
- may you modify or remove the Copyright Notices from the programs or
- the documentation files. User clubs, if they are NOT commercial,
- are allowed to ask a small amount of money for distribution and
- storage when they want to share this package amongst their members.
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- * It is forbidden to modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer,
- decompile and/or disassemble the software in the FEBBS-package.
- Patching the medium at places that carry the software is seen as a
- program change and is also forbidden.
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- * Non-commercial users can get a licence for the usage up to this
- release of the FEBBS-package for a small amount of money. Look into
- the details in HOWTO.REG. Previous registered users will receive a
- big reduction to upgrade to the newer versions. These users should
- also look into the details in HOWTO.REG. For Non-commercial users
- there is a POSSIBILITY to submit to one of the special contracts as
- explained in the same file.
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- * Commercial usage of FEBBS will cost somewhat more. Also, a so
- called 'closed' Bulletin Board System (a system where the user must
- pay direct to the SysOp to get full access) has to pay more than a
- Non-commercial user. Usage of the Febbs-Packge on a BBS with 3
- (three) lines or more is considered as 'closed BBS' usage also.
- You'll find the details of all this in the file called HOWTO.REG.
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- What is FEBBS ?
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- FEBBS is a File Area Manager for your BBS. It will help you keep your
- file areas in shape. How many times havent you edited those Files.Bbs
- files, and how many times havent you been "running" around in your
- directory-"tree" just to get to each of them. Copying files cross
- drives just to forget to move descriptions as well.
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- This is where FEBBS comes in. Just sit tight and edit each and
- everyone of the Files.Bbs files from a directory of your choice. No
- more changing directories and unloading/reloading your editor. Hurl
- files and decriptions easily between areas. Look inside your archives
- to determine what's in them and much much more...
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- Features in Febbs
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- Theese are some of the Features found in FEBBS...
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- ■ Support for Remote Access 0.04a and 1.00 / Maximus 1.02 /
- TUBFile 0.92 / Opus 1.10 / QuickBbs 2.64 / SuperBbs 1.06a.
- ■ Edit All Your Files.Bbs from one spot.
- ■ Full Screen Editor with standard edit Commands.
- ■ Enter Avatar / control codes within the Editor.
- ■ Supports SAA in program layout.
- ■ Adopt Missing files to Files.Bbs.
- ■ Add GIF Info to the description Automaticly when adopting files.
- ■ Add DL Counters with a touch of a Key.
- ■ Add GIF Resoloution easily to files already in Files.Bbs.
- ■ Create Daily Filelist.
- ■ Create Daily News Filelist.
- ■ Create OverView of all Your Areas ASCII/ANSI Flawor.
- ■ Create a List over Frequable Directories for Your Mailer
- ■ Create a list over the 50 most downloaded files.ASCII/ANSII Flawor
- ■ Strip Avatar Codes from Filelists.
- ■ Tag files randomly ( not random tag though :-) ) in the editor.
- ■ Tag missing Files.
- ■ Tag dupe entries.
- ■ Delete Tagged Files.
- ■ Hurl Files to other areas. Description moved as well.
- ■ When Hurling place the Hurled files at Position you like in the new
- Area, or if you wish hurl without changing area.
- ■ Hurl files to any directory you wish.
- ■ Rearange files and descriptions inside editor.
- ■ Sort tagged blocks inside editor.
- ■ Look inside all Major archives.
- ■ Look at Textfiles inside Archives.
- ■ Look at binary files inside Archives.
- ■ Look at GIF Files Resoloution.
- ■ Dosshell with built in swap to EMS, XMS or Disk.
- ■ Support for Internal viewers of Archives, Text- and Binary Files
- ■ Support for External viewers of Archives, TextFiles,
- Binary files and GIF Files.
- ■ Delete missing files from Files.Bbs
- ■ Mouse Support.
- ■ Easily indent comments in Files.Bbs.
- ■ "Hotkeys" to select area to work on
- ■ Search for Files local and if Not found Local, Global.
- ■ Up to 5 text "macros" for commonly used strings.
- ■ Optionaly Display File-Size / -Date on Statusline.
- ■ Touch files to make your users notice "new" files.
- ■ Rename Files.
- ■ Delete File but leave description ( If your short on diskspace ).
- ■ Date Format Configurable in filelists and in editor.
- ■ 5 slots for any external support program.
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- How to get Started
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- 1. Unpack the Archived file containing FEBBS.
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- 2. Read all the doc files contained in the Archive.
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- 3. Put FEBBS in a directory you fancy.
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- 4. Fire up FEPPLA ( The Febbs Setup Utility ).
- Feppla will now create a file called FEBBS.CTL. This file contains
- the setup info needed for FEBBS.
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- If your upgrading from an version older than 1.00 of FEBBS you must
- delete the old FEBBS.CTL then redo the Setup. This is allthough the
- last time that this is necesary because i've redesigned the
- controll file and put some "air" in it so the next time i need to
- expand the control file i will use the "air" and you won't notice a
- thing. But you must still take a walk through the setup to see
- what has changed and what has been added. A common Error is that
- some new Colour specification has been made availiable and before
- you specify what colour you want, the colour might be anything from
- Black on Black to White on White. Not that easy to read i might
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- And if you wish to create different setup files for different
- occasions just add the switch /S:<Name> to the Commandline and the
- config file <Name> will be used instead. Just remember to do the
- same with Febbs when you wish to use it later on.
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- The reason for this feature :
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- Imagine that You wish to create different lists for different
- areas. Lets say you have One List containing PC programs and one
- containing Amiga programs. Then in Your batchfile simply state...
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- FB N F : This one uses standard config Febbs.ctl
- FB N F /S:Amiga.Ctl : This one uses the Non Standard Amiga.Ctl
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- And <Gasp>, you can create Different Filelists. Just remeber to
- name them differently in the Config so that they doesn't use the
- same name when creating the lists. More on the filelists later on
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- The Configuration
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- Have a look at the magnificent entry screen (Made by Ludvig Norin) and
- then press any key...
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- Febbs «» Febbs «» Febbs «»
- » ┌────────────────────┐s «»
- «»│ BBS Type ... │bs «
- «│ General items. │bbs
- s │ Toggle Flags ... │ebbs
- bs│ Colours ... │Febb
- bb│ List Setup │ Feb
- eb│ Areas to List │» Fe
- Fe│ Password Areas │«» F
- F│ Xternal Support │ «»
- » │ Text "Macros" │s «»
- «»│ Registration │bs «
- «│ Setup Exit. │bbs
- s └────────────────────┘ebbs
- bs «» Febbs «» Febbs «» Febb
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- ■ The first question is the realy hard one :-) What type of BBS
- Software do you use ? Remote Access, Maximus, TubFile, Opus,
- QuickBBS or SuperBBS ? This menu option lets you tell FEBBS what
- Area files it should be looking for. Either Config.Ra/Files.Ra for
- Remote Access, Area.Dat for Maximus, Axaareas.dat for TubFile, a
- Bunch of SystemXX.Dat files for Opus ( where XX is a Hexadecimal
- Number ), FlSearch.Ctl for QuickBBS or Why not Flsearch.Bbs for
- SuperBBS. Would have been nice with some sort of standard :-)
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- ■ Next up is to tell FEBBS some different items that are for for
- Febbs to operate properly
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- ┌─[ General Items]────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
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- │ GIF Files : [0] │
- │ DL Counter Style : [0] │
- │ Date Style : 1 1 = Y M D, 2 = M D Y, 3 = D M Y │
- │ Name of SwapFile : C:\FEBBS.SWP │
- │ Indent to Column : 37 Legal values : 2 - 77 │
- │ Name of Log file : FEBBS.LOG │
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- * Path to BBS files is where your area files reside. That is where
- your Config.Ra/Files.Ra, Area.Dat, Axaareas.Dat, SystemXX.Dat,
- FlSearch.Ctl or Flserach.Bbs resides. (Depending on if your BBS
- software is Remote Access, Maximus, TubFile, Opus, QuickBbs or
- SuperBbs)
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- * Adopted files is the comment that will be added to files adopted
- to Files.Bbs by FEBBS.
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- An adopted file would look like this after it has been adopted:
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- ┌─────────────────────┐
- ANYFILE.ZIP [0] (vDate) └───────── Ordinary ZIPfile
- └─────┬─────┘
- └───────────── Comment choosen by You.
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- ANYFILE.GIF [0] (640*480*256) └─── Ordinary GIF File.
- └─┬─┴─────┬───────┘
- │ └──────────── Added by FEBBS
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- └──────────────────── Comment choosen by You.
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- * DownLoad (DL) counter you use is used when you add the DL counter
- manualy inside the editor.That is if you use any. A press of
- <Alt-L> inside the editor will add this to the description.
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- * Date style. To be able to make the whole world happy i have made
- the date style configurable. Choose the style you fancy and all
- lists and all dates inside the editor will look like that.
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- * Path and name of Swap file is there to let you place the Swapfile
- that Febbs creates when swapping to a RAM disk or maybe a disk
- that is fast to speed up the Swapping. Febbs has the ability to
- Swap most of itself out of memory when accessing external
- programs or just Shelling to DOS. If you have EMS or XMS memory
- then of course it doesn't matter what you write on this line
- since no physical swap file is generated. All swapping is done
- via memory. Wich is also a whole lot faster.
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- * The Indent value is how many spaces that Febbs will pad to the
- left of the description when you press <TAB> inside the editor.
- More on this later.
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- * When you are running Febbs in batchmode to create your daily
- filelists Febbs can keep a log file of what has happened during
- this unattended event. This is very good if you wake up one
- morning finding that your nightly events didn't work as you
- thought they would. I have tried to keep the log file as trimmed
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- And the options to set on or off is :
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- * Exploding Windows
- * Display FileInfo
- * Keep *.Bak Files
- * Noise When Explode
- * Swap when Shelling
- * Columns in Area list
- * Delay When Explode
- * In Arealist when start
- * Virus Check when Start
- * 43/50 EGA/VGA Mode
- * Pause after DOS Shell
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- * First, Do you wish to use Exploding windows when inside Febbs ?
- Just som estetic stuff, but nice for the Eye.
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- * Febbs has the ability to show date and size of the file on the
- line that the cursor is on at the moment. The size and date will
- be displayed on the statusline. This option sets the default
- start value for this option. This can later on be toggled ON /
- OFF from inside the editor with the <Alt-1> option that will be
- described later on in the Editor part of this documentation.
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- * Do you wish to keep BAK files of your Files.Bbs. That is
- Files.Bak of every saved Files.Bbs or not. FEBBS always creates a
- BAK file when saving. This option only chooses wether or not to
- delete that Bak file after completed save of the current
- Files.Bbs. This option has no affect when you use Remote Access
- 1.00 new CD-Rom support since all Files.Bbs resides in the same
- directory and is called the same except for the extension. So
- when Febbs renames the current Files.Bbs to Files.Bak it
- overwrites the last Files.Bak that was in the same directory.
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- * Noise when Explode will let you choose wether or not to use some
- sound effects when exploding the windows onto the screen. This
- flag has absollutely no meaning if the Exploding windows option
- is set to OFF.
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- * Swap when Shelling is a very powerfull feature that Febbs has
- that allows almost any program to be run in a DOS Shell from
- inside Febbs. Here you decide if you wish to use this feature. On
- an old machine with litle memory and a slow disk it can be
- painfully slow to swap out Febbs. So if you know that you will
- never use any large programs (The PAK and ARJ archivers are
- considered to be large programs) you may turn this feature off.
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- * Columns in Area list. When chosing area from the File Area pick
- list you can select how many columns that you wish to have
- displayed on the screen at the same time. Possible values for
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- this item also effects the way this is displayed. You can fine
- tune the way you wish your Windows to Explode. This is all
- depending on how fast machine you have got. So try what settings
- you prefer on your machine.
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- * Mostly you wish to end up in the Area Pick List when you fire up
- Febbs. Set this option to ON and Febbs will push an enter into
- the keyboard buffer and thereby leaving you in the Area Pick List
- when you enter Febbs. This option has only been tested on AT
- machines and upwards. It may not work on older machines.
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- * {+} Registered version ONLY. If you rest assure that no virus
- will evere get near your machine You may want turn of the Virus
- check at the startup of Febbs.
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- * 43/50 EGA/VGA Mode. Let's you choose if you wish to run Febbs in
- a higher line mode then 25 rows. This only works on EGA/VGA
- adapters and monitors. Febbs also supports other modes of Screen
- length as long as you doesn't shell to DOS and reset the screen
- to an other mode. If you do that you're on your own! Febb will
- when exiting after completed task try to restore the screen mode
- to what it was before you entered Febbs.
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- * Pause after DOS Shell. You may configure if you want Febbs to
- pause before returning from a shell to let you see the last
- screen of the program that you shelled to. This function however
- does not affect the "look inside archives" function.
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- ■ After this it's time to be creative.
- Choose Colours, This is your change to get seasick :-) Have Fun.
- Remember that if you are upgrading from 1.50 (or prior versions )
- then you need to set the Colours of some new items. Otherwise these
- will be black on black. Not to viewable i must say. If you wish to
- temporarily use Febbs on a monochrome monitor and you have no wish
- to change the setup then fire up Febbs with the parameter /M.
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- ■ The Filelist setup.
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- ┌─[ List Setup]───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
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- │ Total List Name : FENRIS.TXT░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │
- │ News List Name : FENRIS.NEW │
- │ Condensed List Name : FENRIR.CND │
- │ Days for News List : 30 │
- │ Area Overview ASCII : FSTATS.ASC │
- │ Area Overview ANSI : FSTATS.ANS │
- │ Areas Dir List : │
- │ Missing Files : ( It's Gone ) │
- │ Best Download ASCII : BDL.ASC │
- │ Best Download ANSI : BDL.ANS │
- │ # items in the above : 50 Valid # 5-50 │
- │ Freq Possible Msg : ( Matrix FileRequest Possible ) │
- │ Password Freq Msg : ( You need a Password to FileRequest ) │
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- * Total List name is the name of the global filelist that will be
- created for you when you either in batchmode ( se later on in the
- docs ) or from the menu order a filelist.
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- * The same goes for Newslist. Allthough this is a list of New
- files the past number of days.
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- * The condesed list is a mix between the News list and the Total
- list. All files are included just like the Total list but only
- the names and the descriptions after the names. Any descriptions
- between two files will be omited.
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- * How old files should be included in the newslist ?
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- * The next list is a little overview of all your areas. Nothing
- fancy but it still an overview. ASCII Version
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- * ... and the ANSI version. Maybe nice to have on display in
- your bbs so that all thoose twit users will se how much files
- there realy is and upload something (for a change) to get hold of
- the other areas.
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- * Areas Dir list is a list containing the directories of all
- your areas that is included in the filelist. This is to create a
- directory over Frequable directories for your mailer. More about
- this later.
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- * If a file is Missing this will be displayed instead of Date
- and Size in the filelist. (or if a file has Zero length).
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- * When creating the Total filelist Febbs can also take a look at
- what files that have been downloaded most. Nice to have online to
- show your users what files that are the most popular. You can
- create both an ASCII and an ANSI version of this list. The 50
- most downloaded files on your system will be placed in this list.
- For this to work you have to have a program that maintains
- download counters in your files.bbs.
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- NICENICE.GIF [10] (640*480*256) Realy nice picture.
- ^^^^
- That is the download counter and it has to start at position 14
- in your Files.Bbs. Febbs can handle Download counters of a
- variety of styles. [](){}<>0123456789 are all valid as download
- counters. Note that also just numbers works.
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- NICENICE.GIF 10 (640*480*256) Realy nice picture.
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- The list is created when you run a total list and you havenamed
- the ASCII and ANSI version in the Setup. Febbs does NOT do any
- download counting on its own. You must use another program to
- maintain your DownLoad counters. Febbs simply use them when it
- creates this list.
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- * You can decide how many items you wish to appear in the "Best
- Download" list. Values between 5 and 50 are valid.
-
- * The messages that appear under the head in the Filelist is
- configurable. The two messages the appear is linked with the
- areas that you tag as password areas (below) and those that you
- don't. It doesn't have to be solely for file request that you can
- use these litle messages. It works just as well if you just want
- to inform that this area is only for registered users or
- something like that.
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- ■ Areas to list will bring up a list of all the areas specified in
- your areafile(s). Here you tag which areas that will be included in
- the lists.
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- ■ Password areas will let you tag those areas that needs a password
- to be accessed. Either for Freq or On-Line. This will put the text
- that You allready has specified above in the list setup under the
- header of the filelists. If an area is tagged then the text from
- the "Password Freq message" will be put under the header and if not
- tagged then the "Freq Possible message" will be put there instead.
- And as mentioned above you can put any message that you find
- suitable there. There is no need for it to be a password message.
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- ■ Next up is the external support programs...
-
- ┌─[ Xternal Support Programs ]────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ │
- │ Archive Viewer : C:\AM\SHEZ.EXE░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │
- │ Text File Viewer : │
- │ Binary Viewer : C:\TP\FB\DP.EXE │
- │ GIF Viewer : C:\SYSTEM\VPIC.EXE │
- │ ZIP UnPacker : C:\AM\PKUNZIP.EXE │
- │ LZH/LZS/AR UnPacker : LHA │
- │ ARJ UnPacker : C:\AM\ARJ.EXE │
- │ ARC/PAK UnPacker : C:\AM\PAK.EXE │
- │ HYP UnPacker : C:\AM\HYPER.EXE │
- │ Ctrl - F1 : MTA /@~@ │
- │ Ctrl - F2 : │
- │ Ctrl - F3 : │
- │ Ctrl - F4 : │
- │ Ctrl - F5 : │
- │ │
- └─[ F2 - Save ]───────────────────────────────────[ Esc - Exit ]─┘
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- All external programs can be accessed via the DOS Path. If a program
- is in the path then simply write same command in the config as you
- would from the dos command line. But if not in the path please state
- full path and name! Ex. D:\PATH\PKUNZIP.EXE. Please read the part
- about swapping and turn it on if you are accessing any large programs
- from inside Febbs.
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ The external viewers │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- The external viewers are accessed like this :
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- If You have specified an external viewer then that one will be loaded
- when you press the apropriate key (see later on in this document). It
- will be loaded with a commandline wich is the name and full path to
- the file you where standing on inside the editor.
-
- Ex. of CommandLine : C:\DIV\DP.EXE C:\FILE\FENRIS.ZIP
- └──┬──────────┴────────┬──────────┘
- └ Your Setup └ Part added by FEBBS.
-
- If no viewer has been specified in the setup then Febbs will use the
- built in viewer. This goes for all viewers except the GIF viewer.
-
- The viewers to configure are.
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- * Archive viewer.
- * TextViewer.
- * Binary viewer.
- * GIF viewer.
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- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ The Archive programs │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Febbs has the ability to peek inside all major archive types to look
- at the files that reside inside the archives. What Febbs can't do is
- to unpack a file inside an archive that you wish to look at. This is
- where the external archive programs comes in. If you do not want to
- look at files inside archives then you won't have to configure any
- archive programs. There is NO need for any parameters for the
- Archivers. Febbs will, when executing them, supply the needed
- parameters.
-
- Febbs supports the ability to look at files inside the following
- archive types.
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- Archive Type Version SFX
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~
- PKZIP 1.10 Yes
- LHA 2.05 Yes
- LHArc 1.13d Yes
- AR 0.20 Yes
- LARC 3.30 Yes
- Hyper 2.50
- ARC 6.02
- PAK 2.51
- PKPak 3.61
- ARJ 1.00 Yes
-
- Please note that LHA 2.05 is used to unpack LHarc 1.13, AR 0.20 and
- LArc 3.30 archives. And PAK 2.51 is used to unpack any ARC and PAK
- files.
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- The Archivers marked with a 'Yes' on the SFX option can Febbs also
- look inside the so called Self Extracting Archives that theese
- archivers can produce.
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- Also take a look at the Swap option if you intend to use either PAK or
- ARJ since both of theese packers require a lot of memory to operate
- properly.
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- If you are missing an Archive type then please let me know. And if you
- supply me with the technical info about archives i will be able to add
- that archive type in a later release.
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- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ The free of choice external utils. │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Five slots for external support programs installed. These programs can
- be anything you like. They are assigned the <Ctrl-F1> to <Ctrl-F5>
- keys. Just like all the other external programs these can be accessed
- via the DOS path. And if not in the path please supply full path name.
-
- The following meta strings are availiable on the command lines:
-
- ~C = Current directory
- ~P = Path and Name of Current files.bbs
- ~N = Name and full path to file on current line
- ~@ = Text list containing full names of all tagged files in area
- ~D = The description of the file on the current line.
- ~A = Areaname of current Area as found in areafile.
-
- The first character in the meta strings is a so called tilde (#126).
-
- The meta strings can occur more than once on the same line.
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- Ex1.
- If Febbs is executed from C:\FEBBS with this commandline
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- MTA /@~@
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- Would execute MTA with a commandline looking like :
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- MTA /@C:\FEBBS\FBTAGG.TMP
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- The FBTAGG.TMP file is the file where Febbs puts the list of all
- tagged files in the editor.
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- Make Them Anything (MTA) is an Archive converter by Rob Van.Hoeven
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- Ex2.
- If your standing on a line looking like this:
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- FENRIR.GIF Nice Picture of Your SysOp.
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- And the Command line looked like this :
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- HATCH /cTIC.CFG /f~N /d~D
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- Then his would expand to :
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- HATCH /cTIC.CFG /fFENRIR.GIF /dNice Picture of Your SysOp.
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- Allowing you to easily hatch files into different File echos.
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- Hatch is a part of the FileEcho package called TICK by Bary Geller.
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- ■ Up next are the so called text macros. These texts will be inserted
- at cursor position inside the editor. That is if you have pressed
- the appropriate "HotKeys".
-
- ┌─[ Text "Macros" ]──────────────────────────────┐
- │ │
- │ Alt-F1 : (vDate)░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │
- │ Alt-F2 : ( Description Missing ) │
- │ Alt-F3 : Nr3 │
- │ Alt-F4 : Nr4 │
- │ Alt-F5 : Detta är ett Jättelångt Macro! │
- │ │
- └─[ F2 - Save ]──────────────────[ Esc - Exit ]─┘
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- ■ If you decide to use Febbs after the trial period you must register
- (see the HOWTO.REG doc) and this is where you enter the
- registration Info after you have recieved your Serialnumber.
-
- ┌─[ Registration Setup ]─────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ │
- │ Your Name : Patrik Sjoberg░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │
- │ Name of Your BBS : │
- │ Your Serialnumber : 0 │
- │ │
- └─[ F2 - Save ]──────────────────────────────────[ Esc - Exit ]─┘
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- Your Name must be exactly as you spelled it in the registration form
- and remember that it is case sensitive. The name of your BBS is the
- Background that used in Febbs. This one can be changed after
- registration without the need of a new Serialnumber.
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- ■ You have now reached the final decision. To Save or Not to Save.
- Do as you please but hurry up ! Febbs is Waiting to be tested :-)
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- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- Time to Enter FEBBS
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
- The Maintenance menu have been simplified from earlier versions of
- Febbs. Gone is everything exept choose file area. Now all you have to
- do is press Enter twice to find yourself in the first area.
-
- If we look at the Choose Area list you will see a list of the areas
- represented in your Areafile. (see above for info about the Area
- file). From the list presented to you you can choose wich area to work
- on. The choosen area will also be shown in the square in the lower
- right of the main screen.
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- Use either your cursor movement keys (PgUp/PgDn/Arrows), the mouse or
- press a number. If you press a number watch the lower left corner of
- the window, Press for example 19 <Enter> to be transfered to area no
- 19. This will greatly improve the speed when choosing area if you are
- at the bottom of the list and want to go to area 1. Then just press
- "1" and enter. Sometimes, if you wish to go to an area that is in the
- range 1 - 9 then maybe you need to press <AreaNumber><Space> so that
- Febbs understands that you wish to go to area 4 and not to an area in
- the range 40 - 49.
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- How to Edit Your Files.Bbs
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
- As said before, when you have chosen an area to edit then you will
- find yourself inside an "ordinary" ASCII editor with your Files.Bbs
- loaded in it. From here it's just plain old booring editing <Smile>.
-
- If you are running FEBBS with a BBS package that supports Avatar codes
- then perheps you use them in your Files.Bbs to increase the
- viewability. Starting with v1.00 of FEBBS there is no problem with
- theese. Just enter them in the editor as you did before in your old
- editor.
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- Commands availiable
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Below you will find a list of the availiable commands inside the
- editor.
-
- Alt-A ................ Adopt Missing Files to Files.Bbs
- Alt-O ................ Tag Dupe Entries in the Editor
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- Alt-B ................ Binary Viewer
- Alt-P ................ External GIF Viewer
- Alt-V ................ Text Viewer
- Alt-Z ................ External Archive Viewer
- Alt-D ................ DOSShell
- Alt-C ................ Copy Line, Current Area
- Alt-M ................ Move Line, Current Area
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- Alt-G ................ Add GIF Info to Description
- Alt-F ................ Look Inside Archive / GIF Info. Currentline
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- Alt-S ................ Switch Area. Fast Switch to New Area.
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- Alt-R ................ Remove Both line and File
- F8 ................... Remove File but leave description in Files.Bbs
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- Alt-T ................ Tag Line for Hurl.
- Alt-H ................ Hurl tagged Lines/Files to different Area
- F10 .................. Same as Alt-H but No change of area
- F4 ................... Move tagged Lines inside editor
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- Alt-L ................ Add DownLoad Counter as specified in setup
- Alt-W ................ Sort Block. KeyUpd/KeyDown Block. Enter Sort
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- Ctrl-D ............... Remove missing files from Files.Bbs
- Alt-Q ................ Tag All Missing Files
- Alt-K ................ Kill All tagged Lines / Files
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- Alt-U ................ Global Unmark of tagged Lines.
- TAB .................. Indent comment to position 32
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- Alt-E ................ Search for FileName
- Alt-I ................ Continue Search
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- Alt-N ................ Touch File on Current line
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- Alt-F1,F2,F3,F4,F5 ... Text "Macros" as defined in Setup
- Alt-F10 .............. Show "Macros"
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- Alt-1 ................ Toggle Display File-size / -Date on statusline
- F6 ................... Rename File on Current line
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- Alt-X ................ Xpress way out of editor
- Ctrl-F10 ............. Display the Xternal support programs
- F9 ................... Memory Status
- Ctrl-L ............... Copy description from line Above
- Alt-F9 ............... Add Avatar colour codes
- Ctrl-P ............... Add character literal
- F5 ................... Display Files.Bbs as the BBS would
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- Ctrl-BackSpace ....... Delete Word to the left
- Ctrl-End ............. Delete to the end of the line
- Ctrl-LeftArrow ....... Word Left
- Ctrl-PgDn ............ End of File
- Ctrl-PgUp ............ Beginning of File
- Ctrl-RightArrow ...... Word Right
- Ctrl-U ............... Insert Line
- Ctrl-Y ............... Delete Line
- F2 ................... Save Current FILES.BBS
- F3,ESC ............... Abandon Changes. FILES.BBS NOT saved
- Home / End ........... Beginning / End of line
- Insert ............... Toggle Insert mode ON/OFF
- PgDn / PgUp .......... One Page down/Up
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- I will below describe the different commands that i think needs
- describing. The elementary ones like " F2 - Save Current Files.Bbs "
- will not be mentioned in this text.
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- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-A - Adopt Missing Files to Files.Bbs │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- When you press <Alt-A> Febbs will then compare the files in the
- current Files.Bbs with the files found in the directory connected with
- the current Files.Bbs. Any file found on the disk and not inside the
- current Files.Bbs will be added to the bottom of the Files.Bbs
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- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-O - Tag dupe Entries in Current Files.Bbs │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- <Alt-O> will compare all file names in the Current Files.Bbs to see if
- any Duplicate entries exist. If any, they will be Taged and you are
- able to see wich are dupes and afterwards take apropriate actions.
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- See Also : Alt-K - Kill All tagged Lines / Files
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- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-B - Binary Viewer │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- If You have specified an external binary viewer then that one will be
- loaded when you press <Alt-B>. It will be loaded with the commandline
- that exists of name and full path to the file you where standing on
- inside the editor.
-
- Ex. of CommandLine : C:\DIV\DP.EXE C:\FILE\FENRIS.ZIP
- └──┬──────────┴────────┬──────────┘
- └ Your Setup └ Part added by FEBBS.
-
- If no Binary viewer has been specified in the setup then Febbs will
- use the built in viewer.
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- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-Z - External Archive Viewer │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- This one works just like the binary viewer allthough the internal
- Archive viewer is located on the <Alt-F> key sequence.
-
- See Also : Alt-B - Binary Viewer
- Alt-F - Look Inside Archive / GIF Info
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- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-V - Text Viewer │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Febbs internal textviewer has some limitations. It can only handle
- 2000 lines and it can only handle as much lines that can be stored in
- memory. It can't wrap lines either. But it is in my oppoinion fully
- functional for its purposes. The external text viewer works just like
- the Binary.
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- See Also : Alt-B - Binary Viewer
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- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-P - External GIF Viewer │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Febbs has no internal GIF viewer so only the external is used if you
- trigger the <Alt-P)eek> option.
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- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-D - DOSShell │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- This option works just like any other shell, although the DOSShell
- option will only load an extra copy of Command.Com (or whatever
- command processor you use) into memory. No Commandline is passed. You
- will find yourself inside the directory you where editing inside the
- editor. To return to Febbs simply type EXIT at the DOS prompt and
- press return. Febbs will also change the DOS prompt to remind you of
- this. And as in all shell you are not allowed to load any programs
- that doesn't release all memory after execution.
-
- See Also : Alt-B - Binary Viewer
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- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-C - Copy Line │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Pressing <Alt-C> will Copy the line you are standing in to a buffer.
- And pressing <Alt-C> again will transfer the buffer to line you are
- standing on. A status indicator in the lower right of the screen will
- indicate if something is in the buffer. This function only works
- inside the current Files.Bbs. You can not use this one to copy text
- between areas.
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- See Also : Alt-M - Move line
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- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-M - Move Line │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Move line works just like Copy line although the line you are standing
- on will be moved to the buffer instead of copied. And the next time
- you press <Alt-M> it will be transfered to the line the cursor was on.
- Please note that if you move something into the movebuffer and then
- switch filearea the line inside the buffer will be lost.
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- See Also : Alt-C - Copy Line
- F4 - Move tagged Lines inside editor
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- │ Alt-G - Add GIF Info to Description │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- If you are editing an area that has GIF files in it and you are
- standing at a line with a GIF file that looks like this ...
-
- NICENICE.GIF A Realy nice picture.
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- ... and you press Alt+G you will get this...
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- NICENICE.GIF (640*480*256) A Realy nice picture.
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- That is, the Resoloution and how many colours will be added to the
- description of that particular file. Nice if you have GIFs in your
- Files.Bbs that where there before FEBBS Adopt function came along to
- add the resoloution for you. This version of Febbs Supports both the
- GIF87a Standard and the new GIF89a.
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- The (X*Y*Pal) value vill be inserted at cursor position but if you're
- standing on the filename it will be inserted as the first text in the
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- │ Alt-F - Look Inside Archive / GIF Info │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Febbs has the ability too peek inside most of the major Archives that
- are so popular on BBS systems. Archived files save both time when
- Downloading and space on the System Operators disk. And in the same
- time it sees to that all files in a package is kept togheter. That is
- documentation and the Executables will never part.
-
- When you press <Alt-F> You will see a window with the contents of the
- archive you where standing on with the cursor. If the file is a GIF
- file instead of an archive you will see an info-window containing
- relevant info about that paticular GIF picture.
-
- After Febbs has scanned the entire file you will be able to scroll
- around inside the window just like when choosing a filearea. And if
- you wish to look at a file inside the archive just press enter and
- that particular file is unpacked and loaded into the either the
- internal viewer or external. All depending on wether or not you have
- configured any of these in the Setup. Febbs will load the Binary
- viewer if the file has an extension of EXE, COM or OVR. And load the
- texviewer if any other extension is found. Febbs will behave just as
- when you use the viewers from inside the editor. Please note that for
- this function to work you have to install the external archivers in
- the Setup. Febbs do NOT do any unpacking of its own.
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- Febbs supports the ability to peek inside the following archive types.
-
- Archive Type Version SFX
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~
- PKZIP 1.10 Yes
- LHA 2.05 Yes
- LHArc 1.13d Yes
- AR 0.20 Yes
- LARC 3.30 Yes
- Hyper 2.50
- ARC 6.02
- PAK 2.51
- PKPak 3.61
- ARJ 1.00 Yes
- ZOO 2.01 Yes
-
- The Archive programs with the SFX flag are Febbs also able to peek
- into the so called SelF-Xtracting files made by these Archives
-
- Please note that PAK 2.51 needs aptoximately 185 Kb to work properly.
- And the ARJ Archiver is also a real memory hog so consider Febbs
- abilitys to can swap itself out of memory if You plan to look at files
- inside ARJ,PAK or ARC Archives.
-
- When your looking at Files inside archives Febbs needs to extract the
- File to be able to let you have a look at it. If you do not wish to
- use the standard temporary directory that Febbs has hardcoded into
- itself, then specify an environment variable called FBTMP and use the
- DOS command SET to set it to a directory that Febbs will create and
- afterwards delete. From the DOS command line type the following before
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- executing Febbs. or put it into your Autoexec.Bat.
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- SET FBTMP=C:\TMP\
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- The example above would force Febbs into using the directory C:\TMP\
- as the directory where files that where temporarily unpacked would be
- stored.
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- When you're looking inside archives Febbs will use the viewer that you
- have defined or not defined if you wish to use the internal. If you
- have installed an external viewer Febbs will, to make this operation
- as fast as possible, create a BATCH file in its home directory and
- from that batch file execute the programs. Both the Unpacker and the
- viewer. Otherwise Febbs would have to shell twice and if you haven't
- got any XMS or EMS memory then the swap operation can take a while.
-
- See Also : Alt-Z - External Archive Viewer
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- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-S - Switch Area. │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- When you are inside the editor it would be very clumsy if you had to
- leave it and return to the main menu everytime you wished to change
- area to work on. Therefore Febbs has the ability to let you choose a
- new area to work on from inside the editor. This function works just
- like the choose area item from the main menu. Just cruise between your
- areas and select a new one with enter. (or use the HotKeys ! That is
- if you wish to go to area 19 simply press 1, watch the lower left
- corner of the window, press 9 and press Enter. As fast as it can be)
- You will upon selection be transfered directly to the new area. The
- Files.Bbs you leave will automaticaly be saved if you have done any
- changes to it. If you wish to discard your changes you will have to
- choose F3 (or ESC) to abandon your changes. And take of from the main
- menu for new adventures in Files Land.
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-R - Remove Both line and File │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Pressing <Alt-R> will Delete the file and and description not only
- from the list but from the disk as well.
-
- FEBBS will ask you if you're sure when deleting files. No harm done if
- you choose the wrong file. Alltough Febbs will not ask if the Files is
- missing and its only a textline. Then <Alt-R> works just as if you had
- pressed <Ctrl-Y> - Delete Line.
-
- Reason: Why would you want to delete a file ?
- Imagine, You have just recived the latest DSZ and now you have put it
- in its apropriate directory. But there resides the old DSZ as well.
- Now you can choose the add missing files function to make your
- Files.Bbs up to date and then while your at it delete the old version
- from inside FEBBS. Now there's no risk that you will forget to delete
- the old files and therefore you save diskspace.
-
- See Also : F8 - Remove File but leave description in Files.Bbs
-
-
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- Febbs - The File Area Manager Page 24
-
-
-
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ F8 - Remove File but leave description in Files.Bbs │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Remove the file but leave the description. This one is to be used when
- you are short of diskspace but wish to leave the description in the
- list and thereby make it <MISSING> when your users view your
- Files.Bbs.
-
- See Also : Alt-R - Remove Both line and File
- Alt-K - Kill All tagged Lines / Files
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-T - Tag Line for later action. │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Tag line will simply tag the line you are standing on. It will change
- colour to the colour chosen by you in the setup to indicate that it is
- tagged. If the line is already tagged then the line will be
- non-tagged. Simply a Tag-Toggler.
-
- See Also : Alt-U - Global Unmark of tagged Lines.
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-U - Global Unmark of tagged Lines. │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- This option clears all tags in the current Files.Bbs
-
- See Also : Alt-T - Tag line for later action.
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-H - Hurl tagged Lines/Files to different Area │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- This option will let you hurl (move) the already tagged lines to a
- different area. The select area window comes up again and all the
- commands described in this window above is working. Then, when you
- have chosen a area to hurl to the files will be moved there and then
- the old files.bbs will be saved and the new one loaded. When the
- chosen area has been loaded just move to the position you would like
- to give the hurled files descriptions and press <Alt-H> again. The
- descriptions will now be placed where you where standing when you
- pressed <Alt-H>.
-
- If the file areas you are hurling between is on the same drive no
- physical moving is done. Only at directory level are the files moved.
- This makes the Hurl process extremly fast.
-
- Febbs is all the time trying to determine that enough diskspace is
- left on the drive that you are hurling to. If one file doesnt fit then
- Febbs will try the next until all tagged files have been tried. (maybe
- the first was a 5Mb file and the rest only 5K files). But as allways
- there can be things that might go wrong if youre getting short of
- diskspace so try not to get into this dilemma.
-
-
-
-
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- Febbs - The File Area Manager Page 25
-
-
-
-
- If a file that you are hurling already exists in the area you are
- hurling to FEBBS will ask you if you wish to overwrite the file. If
- you answer Yes the file will be overwritten but the description won't
- transfered to the new area. This is to prevent dupe descriptions in
- the area. FEBBS simply assumes that the description already in the
- area is the correct and simply kills the new one.
-
- To save memory, Febbs will now when hurling create a temporarily file
- called FEBHURL.TMP. This file contains the descriptions from Files.Bbs
- that are to be hurled. Creating this file has two advantages :
-
- 1) It saves memory when hurling. Because the descriptions are no
- longer kept in memory.
-
- 2) It adds extra safety to the hurl. What if something happens
- to your system before you have had a chance to place the
- hurled files and you had to restart your computer ? The
- descriptions would be lost forever. But now you can simply
- look at the file FEBHURL.TMP in the home directory of Febbs
- and there are the descriptions.
-
- If you try to move a file to a path which does not exist, FEBBS will
- ask if you wish to create the directory. Allthough the same
- restrictions as the MD command in DOS must be observed, that is Febbs
- can't create a whole path Ex: C:\FILES\PASCAL\ cant be created but if
- C:\FILES\ existed already then the subdir PASCAL would be added.
-
- See Also : F10 - Hurl Files descriptions Anywhere and without area
- change
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ F10 - Hurl Files descriptions Anywhere and without area change │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- This version of the hurl will not let you place the descriptions in
- the area that you area hurling to. That is when hurling you will NOT
- be transfered to the new area. The descriptions of the files will be
- placed last in the area you are hurling too. This behavior is nice if
- you for instance is cleaning up your UpLoad area and all files goes to
- different areas. Simply empty the UL-Area and then go to the separate
- areas and arrange them later.
-
- Also this version of the hurl will let you hurl files and descriptions
- to any directory you wish. Tag as usual the files you wish to hurl and
- then while browsing the areas of your areafile press <Ctrl-Enter>. A
- new box will appear that let you type in the full path to where you
- wish to hurl the files. If the directory doesn't exist Febbs will ask
- you if you wish to create it first. Allthough the same restrictions as
- the MD command in DOS must be observed, that is Febbs can't create a
- whole path Ex: C:\FILES\PASCAL\ cant be created but if C:\FILES\
- existed already then the subdir PASCAL would be added. Febbs will also
- try to create a new Files.Bbs if one doesn't exist in the directory
- your hurling to. All the descriptions will be placed in this
- Files.Bbs.
-
- See Also : Alt-H - Hurl tagged Lines/Files to different Area
-
-
-
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- Febbs - The File Area Manager Page 26
-
-
-
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ F4 - Move tagged Lines inside editor │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- <F4> Moves the tagged lines inside the editor. When you press <F4> all
- the tagged lines in the editor will be moved to the line you are
- standing on. Nice if you wish to move a number fo files. A bit too
- much job to do that with <Alt-M>.
-
- See Also : Alt-M - Move Line
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-L - Add DownLoad Counter as specified in setup │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- If you press <Alt-L> a Download Counter will be addded first to the
- description. You may specify the style of the counter in the setup. If
- no counter specified the description will be justified at position 14.
- A check to see if a DL Counter already is present is performed when
- you try to add a DL Counter. The Check is very hard to do, due to all
- the different styles of the DL counter. Hopefully it works
- satisfactory most of the time.
-
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-W - Sort Block. KeyUpd/KeyDown Block. Enter Sort │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- This one will let you sort a block that you first mark with the
- direction keys. The direction keys are Up-/Down-Arrow and
- PageUp/PageDown. Please not that Febbs do not support sorting of
- multiline descriptions.
-
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Ctrl-D - Remove missing files from Files.Bbs │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- When you press <Ctrl-D> Febbs will check that all the files in
- Files.Bbs realy exists. If not the description in Files.Bbs is
- removed.
-
- See Also : Alt-Q - Tag All Missing Files
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-Q - Tag All Missing Files │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Maybe <Ctrl-D> is a bit too strong for you. You wish to have files
- Off-Line" due to lack of disk space. But you do not wish to keep all
- that junk lying around as Off-Line. Easy, Simply press <Alt-Q> and all
- missing files will be tagged and then untag those you wish to keep and
- the others use <Alt-K>
-
- See also : Ctrl-D - Remove missing files from Files.Bbs
- Alt-K - Kill All tagged Lines / Files
-
-
-
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- Febbs - The File Area Manager Page 27
-
-
-
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-K - Kill All tagged Lines / Files │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Just as the header says <Alt-K> Kills all tagged lines (and the
- associated files) in the editor. If a file is missing it simply works
- as <Ctrl-Y> - Remove line.
-
- See Also : Alt-R - Remove Both line and File
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ TAB - Indent comment to position specified in the setup │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Sometimes when descriptions of files that take more than one line it
- is nice to be able to indent the following lines at a position that
- will look nice when your BBS displays them. Pressing tab will do that
- for you with the line you are standing on. If the line doesnt fit it
- well be wrapped to the next line. Please not that you cannot indent a
- file. So if the line you wish o indent is starting at position 1 then
- Febbs consider that one to be a file. Inserting a space as the first
- character on the line will let you indent it with <TAB>
-
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-E - Search for Filename │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- <Alt-E> will pop up an entry field where you enter a searc string to
- look for. Please note, no wildcards or anything like that. If You wish
- to find "NICEGIRL.GIF" just enter "GIRL". Then Press <Enter> to start
- search. Febbs will first search in the current area for the name.
- Starting at row below the cursor position and to the end. If Febbs
- find "GIRLS.GIF" and stops at that but you know that one is not the
- right one use <Alt-I> to continue Search. But if not Found then a
- Question will pop up on the screen asking if you wish to search
- Global. If you answer yes you will see Febbs strawl down all your
- Areas looking for the file. Only Files listed in Files.Bbs is taken
- into the search. After completed search or after you have pressed a
- key to stop search You will se the found (if any) Files in a
- Scrollable window just like the Choose area window. And if you
- position yourself upon a File and press enter you will automaticly be
- transfered to that file. If in another area, a new Files.Bbs will be
- loaded. And the cursor will be placed on the File you wanted to go to.
-
- See Also : Alt-I - Continue Search
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- Febbs - The File Area Manager Page 28
-
-
-
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-I - Continue Search │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- As said pressing <Alt-I> continues the search after the first "hit"
- with <Alt-E>. See "<Alt-E> - Search for Filename" for info about
- global search.
-
- Ex. A nice way to use search is like this.
-
- You have just recieved the latest DSZ protocol by Chuck Forsberg and
- wants to hurl it from the UL area to its appropriate area. But you do
- not remember where the old versions area. Simply press <Alt-E> enter
- the Search argument DSZ press enter and Febbs will start looking for
- any DSZ files for you. When you see the old ones popping up in the
- search window press any key to stop search. You Now see where the old
- file is Whats it called and what area and area number. You remember
- the number and presses Escape to abandon the Search completely. You
- tag the New DSZ. Press <Alt-H> for Hurl. Enter the area number where
- the old ones where. For example 15 and press Enter. You will find
- yourself inside the Files.Bbs of area 15 at the top. Now to get to the
- old DSZ files simply press <Alt-I> to Continue search and viola there
- you are. Press <Alt-H> to "put down" the new DSZ and use <Alt-R> to
- get rid of the old one. Simple and Fast. What more could you want.
-
- See Also : Alt-E - Search for Filename
-
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-N - Touch File on Current line │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- If you press <Alt-N> the file on the current line will be stamped with
- the current date and time. Nice if you have manualy copied in some new
- files from floppy and wish to let your users now that these are new
- files.
-
- See Also : Ctrl-N Touch all tagged files
-
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Ctrl-N Touch all tagged files │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- <Ctrl-N> Touch all tagged files. Works just like <Alt-N> that touches
- the file on the current line, allthough this one touches all tagged
- files. By touching i mean setting current date and time on the file.
-
- See Also : Alt-N - Touch File on Current line
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-F1,F2,F3,F4,F5 - Text "Macros" as defined in Setup │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- These texts, that you have specified in the setup, will be inserted at
- cursor position when you press the appropriate "HotKey".
-
-
-
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- Febbs - The File Area Manager Page 29
-
-
-
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-F10 - Show "Macros" │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- This will pop up a little box on the screen showing what macros you
- have defined in the setup. Good to have when your memory isn't what it
- ought to be :-)
-
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-1 - Toggle Display File-size / -Date on statusline │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- This toogles the option to display size and date of file on current
- line on the statusline. The default state of this toggle is allready
- choosen in the setup.
-
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ F6 - Rename File on Current line │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- When pressing F6 you will be able to Rename the file on the current
- line.
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ {+} F5 Display Files.Bbs as the BBS would │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- When you execute this command Febbs will let you look at the Files.Bbs
- just like the user would see. It displays the page your standing at in
- the editor and it is aware of some Avatar codes. The Avatar codes that
- it is aware of is discussed in the Avatar section later on in this
- manual.
-
- Please note that this function is only availiable to registered users.
-
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Ctrl-P Add character literal │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- <Ctr-P> Add character literal at cursor position. Press <Ctrl-P> and
- then Any key (or use Alt-Keypad) to add any character to the
- Files.Bbs. Even if it is occupied by a function usaly. Good to have
- when you adding Avatar codes or some other Control codes that your BBS
- supports. Some control codes can be added without you using this
- functions but as more and more control codes are occupied by functions
- inside the editor it is often easiest to use this one all the time.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- Febbs - The File Area Manager Page 30
-
-
-
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-F9 Add Avatar colour codes │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Added an easy way to add some nice Avatar colours to your Files.Bbs.
- Simply press <Alt-F9> and choose colour from the colour chart. Press
- Enter and the Proper Avatar code is inserted at the cursor position.
-
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Ctrl-L Copy description from line Above │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- This one Copies the description from line your standing on to file
- below. Nice when youre adding the same description to multiple files.
-
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Ctrl-F10 Display the Xternal support programs │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- A display of the Xternal programs that you have assigned in the setup.
- <Ctrl - F10> displays a list of all the external supportporgrams in
- the setup. Including the five DOS programs that you have a
- possibillity to install.
-
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ F9 Memory Status │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- The former "Hidden" function F9 - Memory Status has been enhanced to
- include disk status as well. Also a nice graph over the space left on
- current disk versus total Size is Shown.
-
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-X Xpress way out of editor │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- When youre in a hurry to leave Febbs use the Xpress way out of the
- editor. When inside the editor and in editing mode a press of Alt-X
- will transfer you directly to DOS. Allthough if you have made changes
- then Febbs will ask you if you're sure.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- Febbs - The File Area Manager Page 31
-
-
-
-
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- Avatar Control Codes
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
- Febbs is aware of some Avatar codes. Avatar stand for Advanced Video
- Attribute Terminal Assembler and Recreator and is a <TM> of George A.
- Stanislav. I will not go in to deep here on the Avatar codes but if
- you wish to examine them closer i suggest you get hold of the
- following FidoNet technical Standards documentations :
-
- FSC-0025
- FSC-0037
-
- They should be availiable on most Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) but if
- you can't find them contact me and i will supply you with them.
-
-
- The Following codes are supported by Febbs.
-
- ^Y<Char><Repeat> - Repeat Character.
- ^V^B - Turn Blink on.
- ^V^A<Colour> - Change Colour.
-
- Where ^ stands for Control (Ctrl). Press down Ctrl and then Press the
- Character after ^ to create the Control character.
-
- These codes are supported in both the viewer <F5> and when creating
- lists.
-
- When looking at the current Files.Bbs with the viewer Febbs will
- translate the Avatar codes into proper colours, blinks and expand any
- repeat char sequens.
-
- And when creating the filelists Febbs will strip the Colour and Blink
- codes and expand the repeat char sequens. That way your users will get
- a filelist that looks just like the list they saw on the screen while
- they where online. Well allmost anyway. There will be no colours...
-
-
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- Runtime Errors
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
- Built into Febbs is an errorhandler for Runtime Errrors (God forbid
- that there are any). Febbs will tell you what is wrong in English and
- will also create a file in the current directory called FEBBS.ERR with
- the same info. Please forward this file with a detailed explanation of
- how you managed get the Error to the author. Otherwise i won't be able
- to fix it. But before you report it to me see to that you can
- reproduce the error on your machine. I can not correct any errors if i
- cant reproduce them.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- Febbs - The File Area Manager Page 32
-
-
-
-
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- What about the Filelists ?
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
- A very Important feauture in Febbs is the ability to create filelists
- for your daily maintenance. Febbs is able to create a variet of lists.
-
- Thoose are :
-
- * Total Filelist of all chosen areas.
- * A Newslist of new files in all chosen areas.
- * An Overview list of all chosen areas.
- * A list over the physical directories that your areas resides in.
- * A list over the 50 most downloaded files on your BBS.
-
- These files can be created from the menu or by calling FEBBS with
- commandline parameters. The Overview of chosen areas and the best
- download list is availiable in both ANSI and ASCII flawor.
-
- Avatar Codes.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- If you are running Febbs with a BBS package that handles Avatar codes
- then maybe you use those codes in your Files.Bbs to increase the
- viewability. Febbs will when run strip all Avatar codes from the lists
- and expand any Repeat Char Codes. (See the Avatar part of this manual)
- Thereby make the lists very viewable in text also. Gone is all thoose
- happy faces that the users hate when they tried to read the lists or
- even worse... Print them! Have you ever seen what Avatarcodes does to
- a Printer? It isn't a pretty sight i might tell you. Well Febbs will
- take care of it all, so Happy Filelisting and to your users Have a
- Nice Reading!
-
-
- General Stuff.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Febbs wrapps the descriptions in the fileslists if they are to long.
- This is done i all three list types (Full, news and condensed).
-
- When running in batchmode Febbs has now the ability to create a
- logfile. This log file lets you know a thing or two about your
- unattended operations. If you do not want a log file then simply leave
- the LogFile field in the setup empty. Today the logfile is in a
- FrontDoor <Tm> style but if you feel that you need a different style
- let me know.
-
-
- The Directory list.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Maybe the directory list needs a little explaining. The directory list
- is meant to keep your Frequable directories up to date. That is this
- file that is used by Your mailer to determine wich directories that
- are frequable. Haven't you sometime redesigned the physical location
- of your file areas? And did you, at that time, remember to modify to
- modify the list over frequable directories?
-
- The answer is most likely to be NO.
-
-
-
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- Febbs - The File Area Manager Page 33
-
-
-
-
- Well, FEBBS will now take care of that for you. But maybe you got a
- few areas that you do NOT want to be included in the filelist but you
- wish to be frequable anyway. An exampel is my Beta directory where i
- keep Beta versions of my software. I Still wish this directory to be
- frequable but i do not wish to display to the public what is going on
- here.
-
- So therefore you simply create a file called FEBBOK.TXT !
-
- This file will automaticly at creation time for the directory list be
- added to the above mentioned list.
-
- Mine looks like ...
-
- C:\FEBBETA
-
- ... Nothing Fancy at all.
-
-
- When, How, Where ?
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Three files, Overview list, Directory list and most Downloaded files,
- will automaticly be created when you choose the Total list from either
- the main menu or via the commandline (Of course also the Total list
- will be created). If you do not wish to create theese lists simply
- leave them out of the setup. That is do not give them a name just
- leave the input field blank.
-
- The commandline parameters are "N", "F" and "C". Where "N" stands for
- Newslist, "F" for Full list and "C" for the Condensed list.
-
- Ex. C:\FEBBS> FEBBS N
-
- Would create a newslist. And ...
-
- C:\FEBBS> FEBBS F
-
- Would create a Full list over all your areas. An overview list and a
- directory list.
-
- Of course can you do it like this ...
-
- C:\FEBBS> FEBBS F N C
-
- This is my recomendation if you wish to create both a Full list, a
- news list and a consed list. Since all lists area created at the same
- time. That way Febbs doesn't have to scan all your areas twice this
- way.
-
-
- Headers.
- ~~~~~~~~
- But what is a filelist without some nice advertising in the beginning?
- Yes let's have som nice info about your BBS in the beginning of the
- Filelists. So simply create a header in a style you fancy.
-
- Call it FEBBHEAD.TXT.
-
-
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- Febbs - The File Area Manager Page 34
-
-
-
-
- You can put different headers into the Total list and the news list.
- Still the Total list, and the condensed list,uses the files
- FEBBHEAD.TXT as a header but the News list will use a file called
- FEBBHEAD.NEW as header.
-
- Put the header files at the same location as FEBBS.CTL, FEBBOK.TXT and
- the rest of FEBBS and it will automaticly be inserted at the beginning
- of your file lists.
-
-
- Sample batch file.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Now you're ready to start creating those nice lists that everyone just
- loves to download. I would recomend that you somewhere in your nightly
- maintenance add the command to create the lists and then simply after
- creation Zip them up and copy them to your Filelist area. Maybe
- something like this :
-
- CD\FEBBS
- FEBBS F N
- PKZIP FENRIS FENRIS.TXT
- COPY FENRIS.NEW D:\FILE\TEXT
- COPY FENRIS.TXT D:\FILE\TEXT
- COPY FENRIS.ZIP D:\FILE\TEXT
- CD\RA
-
- This is my batchfile for creating my lists. Nothing Fancy at all.
-
-
- Different Filelists.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- But wait a second ! I want to create different lists for different
- users. That is the PC users doesn't like to download filelist that
- contain Amiga files and vice versa. Thats easy! Simply create a new
- config file with Feppla like this.
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- FEPPLA /S:Amiga.Ctl
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- Set up the areas you wish to include and name the filelists.
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- FB N F /S:Amiga.Ctl
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- and that Setup file will be used. For more info see the setup part of
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- When shelling Febbs has the ability to swap itself out of memory to
- make room for other programs to run. When swapping, Febbs can swap to
- Disk, EMS and XMS. FEBBS will check for the presence of EMS and use
- that for the swap file. If there is no EMS or not enough free EMS,
- FEBBS will try to allocate XMS memory, and if there is no XMS or not
- enough Febbs will try to swap to disk.
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- You have the abilty to toggle swapping on or of in the setup. If
- you're using a system with slow disks and no extra memory then it can
- be good to turn of swapping to speed things up. Please keep in mind
- that PAK for instance needs aproximately 185 Kb of memory to operate
- and ARJ even more, so therefore check how much memory you have when
- shelling from Febbs before you decide to turn swapping off.
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- FEBBS leaves only aprox. 12k resident when swapping. This will give
- you maximum ram to do whatever you wish from within FEBBS. Please note
- that you mustn't load any TSRs or other programs that doesn't give
- back all memory when you are finished with them. And also be avare of
- quirks that exists if you're using DesqView and have set the "Writes
- text directly to screen" option to false. See the DesqView section of
- this text for more info.
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- The path and name of the swap file that FEBBS creates is configurable.
- Go into FEPPLA and select General Setup and set the full path AND
- filename of the swap file. Just make sure you don't set it to a
- filename that already exists on your drive or that file WILL be
- overwritten.
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- A good place for the swap file would be a ram drive. This will speed
- up the swapping process if you don't have any EMS or XMS, but be
- advised that the swap file size is around 220k so set your ram drive
- size accordingly.
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- If you have extended memory and wish to be able to use it as XMS
- memory install the Device driver called HIMEM.SYS that MicroSoft
- supplies with most of their programs. Edit the file called CONFIG.SYS
- to look like this in the begining of the file
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- DEVICE=C:\HIMEM.SYS
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- And also see to that the HIMEM.SYS file is located in your root
- directory (or change the path above to where the file is located). Or
- if you own a 386 then you can use any other memory manager (QEMM,
- 386Max) to create XMS memory. But then you can just as well use the
- EMS memory to swap. Febbs will check the memory like this: First EMS
- second XMS and last DISK. Shelling to memory is a whole lot faster
- then to shell to disk. Since i feel i must give my registered users
- some value for their money i have decided to make the XMS swap only
- availiable to those that have registered. The EMS and DISK swap works
- just the same in both registered and unregistered version.
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- FEBBS Versus Viruses and LZEXE
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- The versions before 0.06 of FEBBS was packed with LZEXE (c) 1989
- Fabrice BELLARD. This to prevent the program from being attacked by
- viruses since LZEXE performs a CRC check of the file upon execution.
- But with the release of the unpacker for LZEXE this is not a reliable
- method any longer. And also LZEXE isn't all that reliable on programs
- that has to shell to DOS to execute other programs. Therefore FEBBS
- scans itself upon execution and checks if any changes were made to the
- EXE code. If there were FEBBS will halt with an error message. Please
- note that due to the CRC check of the EXE file you can *NOT* pack this
- program with LZEXE. And you can't alter the code in any way. (Wich the
- license forbids you to any way).
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- Another reason why you can't pack Febbs is because it is overlayed to
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- There are several command line parameters that Febbs accepts. Most of
- them has already been discussed in the docementation but this is a
- specification of all of them in one place.
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- /M - use the monochrome colour set of Febbs.
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- /S:<FileName> - Use <FileName> as setup file.
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- F - Create a Full Filelist
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- N - Create a News Filelist
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- Febbs is DesqView-/Share-Aware. That means that Febbs will when
- opening files try to allow others to access the Files at the same
- time. All files except textfiles are opened in Deny Write mode. That
- is, other programs are allowed to read but not write to files opened
- by Febbs while Febbs is reading them. Febbs will never have a file
- open longer than necesary to get the need information from it.
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- The Screen writes in Febbs is also aware about DesqView and asks
- DesqView (DV) for an alternative video buffer. Thereby you can set the
- Direct screenwrites option in DV to NO. But be aware that if You shell
- from inside Febbs to a program that uses direct screenwrites, then
- when you return to Febbs you will most likely not be able recognise
- the program that you left. This is because the other program that you
- executed from inside Febbs has fooled DV into changing vidoebuffer. So
- in most cases i recomend that you have the Direct Screenwrites option
- set to yes inside DV. And also that you assign at least 2 or more text
- and graphics pages to the Window that you run Febbs in. Not that Febbs
- needs it but if you shell to an external program it might.
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- How much memory you give to Febbs is all up to you but check the
- memory status with <F9> when you decide how much to give to Febbs.
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- Please Keep in mind that every line in a Files.Bbs occupies
- aproximately 162 Bytes of Memory inside Febbs Editor. So a 300 Lines
- Files.Bbs occupies aprox 48,600 Bytes in memory.
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- Try be not to stingy when you assign memory to Febbs. Give the program
- Elbow room to work ...
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- Febbs will also, when idle waiting for a keystroke, slice away CPU
- time to other tasks running under DesqView. This has the advantage
- that Febbs allows other tasks to execute faster and smother while
- Febbs isn't doing anything in particular.
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- If Access is Denied to a Files.Bbs then Febbs will Wait for
- aproximately 30 Seconds and then try again. If still access Denied
- then Febbs will give up. Access Denied can occur on multiline systems
- when several tasks try to access the same files. For this to work you
- must have loaded Share.Exe before you start. Also if a Files.Bbs is
- missing then Febbs will ask you if You wish to create it or not. Just
- so that no one cries Virus when a Files.Bbs is missing/or Access is
- Denied, Febbs will say that "Zaphod Beeblebrox has Stolen/Is holding
- on to Your Files.Bbs". These are one of the famous personalities in
- Douglas Adams - The hithchikers guide to the galaxy.
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- FEBBS --- In the future.
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- New functions are being implemented as soon as I have the time and get
- some good idea that's worth implementing.
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- A good idea is this ...
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- ■ Rewrite Feppla totaly.
- ■ Import text files into Files.Bbs
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- What would you like to see in FEBBS?
- It is only my imagination that holds me back, and of course spare
- time. I am not doing this for a living. If i would have done that i
- would have starved to death by now.
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- So try to be realistic. I will not implement Fossil support and i will
- not turn it into a complete BBS system! Yes, people have asked this of
- me :-) But maybe, The name fits (FE-BBS) so who knows what will happen
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- The last Request ...
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- Any comments of what you think of FEBBS and suggestions of future
- enhancements you would like to see can be sent via E-Mail or Ordinary
- SnailMail to me. Or log on to my BBS, where you'll find a local
- support conference for Febbs. Somehow there has never been a need for
- a echomail support conference. Perhaps is the program as easy as it
- can be to use...
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- The Telephone number to my BBS :
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- +46-26-62 80 57 FenrisUlven
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- E-Mail Adress : 2:205/208@FidoNet
- 27:5346/102@SIGNet
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- HST v42Bis/v32 Speed and 24Hr open.
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- My adress is as follows...
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- Patrik Sjöberg
- Sörbygatan 69B
- S-802 55 GEFLE
- SWEDEN
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- And if you use Febbs, Please Register.
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- If you don't then this piece of SoftWare will come to a halt in
- development. No one likes to put Hours, Days, Months, Years of work
- into something and not getting something in return.
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- Copyright, Trademarks
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- PKPAK, PKUNPAK, PKZIP and PKUNZIP are trademarks of PKWare Inc.
- PAK is a trademark of NoGate Consulting.
- ARC is a trademark of SEA inc.
- LZH and LHarc are trademarks of Yoshi;
- LZS and LARC are trademarks of K.Miki H.Okumura and K.Masuyama
- ARJ is a trademark of Robert K. Jung
- HYPER is a trademark of Peter Sawatzki and Klaus Peter Nischke
- AR is a trademark of Haruhiko Okumura
- ZOO is a trademark of Rahul Dhesi.
- QuickBBS is a trademark of the QuickBBS group Inc.
- Remote Access is a trademark of Continental Software
- FrontDoor is a trademark of Joaquim H. Homrighausen
- TubFile is a trademark of Jörgen Olsson
- Opus is a trademark of Wynn Wagner III
- Maximus is a trademark of Scott Dudley
- Desqview is a trademark of Quarterdeck Systems
- Qemm is a trademark of Quarterdeck Systems
- 386Max is a trademark of Qualitas
- MS-DOS is a trademark of Microsoft corporation
- MTA is a trademark of Rob Van.Hoeven
- TICK is a trademark of Barry Geller
- GIF is a trademark of CompuServe Inc.
- Avatar is a trademark of George A. Stanislav
- LZEXE is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard.
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- The FEBBS-Package is written in Turbo Pascal 6.0 and Turbo Assembler
- 2.01, with help of the Turbo Debugger 2.01 and makes use of Turbo
- Professional v5.11, Object professional 1.10 and PSCF v0.04. Also
- included are some routines of Anders Brink's fine tools called
- ABUnit wich is Public Domain.
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- Turbo Pascal is a trademark of Borland International
- Turbo Debugger is a trademark of Borland International
- ABUnit is a trademark of Anders Brink
- Turbo Professional is a trademark of TurboPower Inc.
- Object Professional is a trademark of TurboPower Inc.
- PSCF is a trademark of Patrik Sjöberg
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