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Welcome to the SuperBBS 1.16 ! !!! If you are converting from SuperBBS 1.15 (or older) to 1.16, be sure to run 115TO116.EXE to convert message area informatrion from config to BOARDS.BBS file. !!! This official 1.16 is only a minor update for registered SysOps who have been running 1.16 Gamma-3, but when compared to 1.15 this version could be regarded as a major upgrade. We have already started to program 1.17, so stay tuned! There has been some problems with understanding the meaning of the ????????.SCC files. I hope that the following will describe the ????????.SCC files : --- Starting from SuperBBS 1.15 official release we are using our new registration validation technology. SBBS checks first the registration key, if it's valid then SBBS will scan through the ????????.SCC file to find SysOps name from there. If the name is not found, SBBS will _not_ work at all (a lockup happens). The new releases will always include the newest ????????.SCC file which includes _every_ SysOp who have registered SBBS before the release. When some new SysOp registers SBBS he/she will get the registration code _AND_ an updated ????????.SCC file. Also, the newest ????????.SCC file is always available from 2:220/620 as SBBSREGS.ZIP (.SCC file _must_ always be distributed in packed format and then extracted to the main SBBS directory). So once you have got an updated ????????.SCC file you never have to worry about it anymore. If someone is using a different code than listed in our code generator (of course, nobody should do that) SBBS will _not_ start. --- And now the list of the new features compared to SuperBBS 1.15 : - New message boards configuration The message base config is now separated from the CONFIG.BBS. This means that multinode systems need only to edit one message base config and the changes will affect all the nodes. There is an option in config (in the paths submenu) to keep separate BOARDS.BBS files for single nodes. There are also some new options configurable for each message area : - Short QWK name = 12 characters long QWK name. If empty, area is not available via the QWK system - Minimun age = Minimum age required to access the area - Group = To which group the area belongs - Allow delete = Allow users without SysOp access to delete their own messages - Allow taglines = Allow taglines in the area - Template = Is the area available via menu templates - 8Bit to 7Bit = Convert 8Bit characters to 7Bit ones in the area. - Force mail chk = Always include this area in the mail checi - Reply status = 1) Normal. 2) Netmail. Replies must be posted via as netmail messages, not to current echo mail area. 3) Netmail/normal. The user might select whether he/she wants to post a normal reply or a netmail reply. 4) No replies at all are allowed. When using netmail reply options, be sure that you have defined a netmail board from config and that your users have at least write access to that area. There is also BOARD2CF.EXE included in this package. This little program can be used to insert infromation from BOARDS.BBS to CONFIG.BBS (for the 3rd party programs). CONFIG.EXE also updates the current CONFIG.BBS (the one in the directory where BOADRS.BBS was loaded from) file always when message areas are edited. - Added a node chat Now SuperBBS has a built-in node chat! This chat is really easy to install. First you should use menutype 100 (without any parameters) to create one permanent conference. Then by using menutype 99 without any parameters it's possible to chat between nodes. Menutype 100 (without parameters) can be used to create conferences. Only users with SysOp access are allowed to create permanent conferences (which are NOT removed when the last user has exited chat). There should be at least one permanent conference. Menutype 100 with /D parameter is used to deleted conferences. - Added an option to disable hotkeys It's now possible to use SBBS in "non-hotkeyed" mode. There is a new menutype 98 which can be used to toggle hotkeys ON/OFF. New control code ctrl-f-/ shows whether hotkeys are enabled or not. It's also config defineable whether hotkey are forced ON/OFF or asked from new users. - Added file flagging It's now possible to flag files for download while looking the file list. That can be done simply by pressing "F" in the filelist more prompt. A new menu type has been added, too : Menutype 95 : Without data it can be used to remove files from the "flag to download list". With optional parameter "/S" (without quotes) menutype 95 just shows a list of flagged files - Added an option for a separate upload path in template menues : It's now possible to use a separate path for uploads in template menues. If you want to use an own path for uploads (not same path as for downloads) start list name field with a '*' character and then insert the full path. For example : Directory : C:\FILES\SUPERBBS List path : *C:\FILES\UPLOADS Files for download would be searched from directory C:\FILES\SUPERBBS but uploaded files would be placed to C:\FILES\UPLOADS directory. - Added an option to show any text files at logon It's now possible to show any text files to your users at logon. If you create an ASCII file named ANSIF.CTL then SBBS will show all text files listed in ANSIF.CTL to user at logon. If SBBS detects string WAITENTER, then SBBS asks user press enter. Your ANSIF.CTL could look like : LOGON IMPORT WAITENTER C:\SUPERBBS\SBBSHQ.TXT If you don't include the extension, then SBBS shows ANSI file (ie. LOGON.ANS) if user has ANSI, otherwise ASCII file (ie. LOGON.ASC) is shown. - Added an option to check NEWS.A?? file date There is now an option in config to enable NEWS.A?? date checking. If this option is enabled, then NEWS.A?? is shown only if it has been updated since user last call. - Added support for default protocol Your users can now choose a default protocol which is always automaticly used when the user performs a file transfer. The default protocol can be selected with new menutype 97. Also, a new control code CTRL-F-& has been added to show users default protocol. There is also an option to ask the default protocol from new users automaticly. - Developed line editor quoting a lot of further Line editor quote mode is now configurable from the config. There are three different options : 1) No quote = Never allow quote in the line editor 2) Normal = As it was before 1.16. The whole message will be quoted automaticly. 3) Intelligent. This one is the suggested mode! If the quote is set to the intelligent mode, user can quote the original message line-by-line when he/she starts replying AND the message can be quoted while writing the reply (either by pressing CTRL-L while writing the message or by choosing <Q>uote from the line editor command line). - Increased AKA limit It's now possible to use up to 10 AKA's with SuperBBS. - New option for mail check There is now an option to use only areas which has been toggled "ON" in combined in mail check. There is new menutype 96 which can be used to choose whether user wants to use combined boards in mail check or not. New control code ctrl-f-% shows whether combined mail check is enabled or not. - New option for new files check It's now possible to use a separate date for new files check. This means that new files check starts scanning from the date when user last time executed the new files check. This option can be toggled ON/OFF from the config. - Added a new user index file SBBS now creates a very little user index file named NAMEIDX.BBS, it is only a few bytes long and it's used to make user file searches a bit faster. !!! If you use any non NAMEIDX.BBS aware program to sort your user files or program which somehow changes users.bbs (ie. packs it) then you _must_ run USERPACK.EXE after that program !!! There is also an option in config to force SBBS not to use NAMEIDX.BBS, this option should only be enabled if you are having some problems with NAMEIDX.BBS searches. - A new parameter for menutype 68 With "/G=?" (without quotes, ?=one character) you can restrict type 68 to use only areas in the "?" group. Ie. menutype 68, data /G=L uses only areas which belong to the group "L". - A new parameter for menutype 68 If you use parameter /N for menutype 68 it immediately asks for the area number (without showing the arealist first). - A new parameter for menutype 68 If you use parameter /3 for menutype 68 then the area list will be shown in three colums. Please note, that this option limits the area names to 20 characters. - A new parameter for menutype 10 If you use /H parameter for menutype 10 you'll get a horizontal usage graph instead of the vertical one. - A new parameter for menutype 87 If you use parameter /R for menutype 87, then the selected door will be executed automaticly. - A new parameter for menutype 94 If you use /S=? (where ? is age) then the defined age will be used as the starting age for the age graph. - Two new parameters for menutype 67 If you use paramter /V for menutype 67, it will ask only for the voice phone number. /D parameter asks only for the data phone number. - Added a keyboard password It's now possible to define a keyboard password from config. If the password is defined, none of the SysOp keys can be used before the correct password is entered. Also, if the password is defined, it's not possible to enter the config without entering the correct password first. - A new option for "the more question" A "non-stop" option has been added to the more prompt. If "=" is pressed in the more prompt then the remaining text will be shown without further more questions. The "continuous character" mustn't always be "=", the character config be configured via Lconfig! - Added support for USERDOES.? file If SBBS locates USERDOES.? (? = node number) in the main SBBS directory then SBBS will show it in "what other users are doing" menutype. This option is very useful if you use external programs and want to add a little bit more infromation to "what other users are doing" menutype. - Added support for PHONENUM.CTL file SuperBBS now supports PHONENUM.CTL file which is used to prevent the users using invalid phone numbers. The following PHONENUM.CTL : 000- -00 would make all numbers which contain "000-" (such as 000-1234-567 or 123-000-567) or "-00" (such as 123-0045-678 or 123-45678-0011) unallowed. Strings starting with ; are handled as comments. The working method for PHONENUM.CTL is quite simple : it listed string is found _anywhere_ in the phone number then the phone number is considered as unallowed. By making too complex PHONENUM.CTL it's easily possible to prevent users using their own, correct phone numbers so please use common sense while making your PHONENUM.CTL - Added support for -P<comport> command line parameter It's now possible to use -P? (? = comport) command line parameter for BBS.EXE to override comport specified in config. If you use -P? parameter when firing the BBS up, be sure to use it when you return from menutype 15 exit, too. - Added "SysOp download" option A new menutype (93) has been added. It's a "SysOp download", which means that it simply ask for full path and filename. Be _very_ careful with this menutype, because it has absolutely _NO_ restrictions, that means that with type 93 you can simply download ie. "c:\superbbs\*.bbs". - Added "SysOp next" mode Now it's possible to force SBBS to SysOp next mode by pressing ALT-N. If SysOp mode is turned ON, then the SBBS will pause for about 45 secs. and make a little sound to inform SysOp that an user has logged off from the BBS. - Added an "age graph" A new menutype (94) has been added. It's a bit like the old system usage graph, but it shows an age graph instead. Age graph starting age is configurable from config. - Made the nodelist browser a bit more user friendly The nodelist browser command format has been changed. Here are some examples how to use the new format : Z = Display list of zones 2:? = Display nets in zone 2 220/? = Display nodes in net 220 - SuperBBS now creates SBBSBUSY.??? (? = node number) file to common directory. That file is also created in single node systems, so please check your common directory path even if you aren't running a multinode system. - Connect 7200, 12000 and 14400 strings have been added to the barefoot answer mode. - It's now possible to edit ECHOORIG.CTL origin lines with CONFIG.EXE. CONFIG.EXE tries to find ECHOORIG.CTL from same directory as BOARDS.BBS. - Added more DESQview support code, SBBS should now run smoother under DESQview. - Added an option to view archive contents in more question. Please note that this option is only enabled when file flagging is allowed from config. - Added an option to ask combined boards settings from new users automaticly. - Added an option to enable time left checking (or next event checking) when downloading free files. - Added an option to disable 8bit characters completely. I don't suggest enabling this option if you don't have some special reason to enable it. - Adden an option to use "page reason" as the message subject if an user decides to leave a message to SysOp after page. - Added an option to show real names in group mail messages. - Added an option to automaticly open CHAT.LOG capture file when chat is started. - Added an option to handle local file attaches as free files. - Added an option to define needed logon flags from config. If user doesn't have needed flags then LOGONFLA.A?? will be displayed (if present) and user will be logged out. - Added an option to disable remote SysOp logons. You should enable this option if you know you aren't ever going to call your BBS remotely. If system is configured not to allowed SysOp remotely and someone tries to logon as sysop then NOREMOTE.A?? is shown (if present). - Added an option to load OVRSBBS.OVR path from a different path. With this option you can load OVRSBBS.OVR file ie. from a ramdrive. You can set the OVRSBBS.OVR file path by using SBBSOVR environment variable (ie. SET SBBSOVR=E:\OVRSBBS.OVR). If you use ramdisk to store the .OVR file, then you shoud add -* and -O0 to your BBS.EXE command line. - Added support for MSGAREA.A?? file. If SBBS is able to locate MSGAREA.A?? file then that file is shown instead of the internal message area list in menutype 68. - Added a new metacharacter @G, which works similar as @N, @M, @F, @S, @D did it prevous versions, but @G is replaced with current message area group letter. - Added a new parameter for menutype 7. *J is replaced with the current users screen length. - Added a new auto display file XFERPROT.A?? which is displayed (if present) instead of the built-in protocols list. If user is selecting a default protocol the DEFPROT.A?? is shown instead of XFERPROT.A??. - Added a new auto displat file ALTNEWS.A?? which is displayed (if present) if user has elected to not view NEWS.A?? in his/her IEMSI profile. - Added a new auto display file NEWS1.A?? which is displayed (if present) immediately after NEWS.A?? file. - Added a new .CTL file NOYELL.CTL. If users name is found from NOYELL.CTL (the format is similar to ie. trashcan.ctl format) then the user is never able to page SysOp for chat. If the name is found NOYELL.A?? file is displayed (if present). - Added a new .CTL file NOCHAT.CTL. If users name is found from NOCHAT.CTL (the format is similar to ie. trashcan.ctl format) then the user is never able to use node chat. If the name is found NOCHAT.A?? file is displayed (if present). - Added a mew .CTL file NOAGECHK.CTL. If users name is found from NOAGECHK.CTL (the format is similar to ie. trashcan.ctl format) then user is still able to logon even though if he/she were not old enough to logon. - It's now possible to use CTRL-C??? (change color to ???) in the text fields of menues. With this option it's very easy to make multi colored text lines to menues! - If SBBS isn't able to find .LNG file chosen by current user then the default language will be used instead. - SBBS now correctly converts CTRL codes in NEWS.A??, GOODBYE.A?? and WELCOME.A?? files before adding those files to QWK packets. - SBBS now correctly converts ISO standard scandinavian charcters when converting 8bit -> 7bit in message areas. - The colors of the full screen message reader are now configurable from config. - "Replying to a message originally to ... " string is now configurable from config. - Unreceived personal messages are now high lighted in full screen message viewer. - Birthday verification can now be disabled from users listed in NOBCHECK.CTL file (the format is similar to ie. TRASHCAN.CTL format). - BFAILED.A?? is shown (if present) if an users fails to ented a correct day in birthday check. - It's now possible to disable the enter waiting from the "show aphorism" menutype by adding /N after the aphorism file name. - It's now possible to define seconds before the screen blank in the bare-foot answer mode. - Increased external protocol limit to 20 (please note that every installed external protocol will increase SBBS memory requirement about 650 bytes). - USERSORT.EXE has been updated to sort also the LASTREAD.BBS, so now it's safe to use USERSORT again. - Added alias search support to SBBSUSER. - In this package there is included an archive named CONVERT.ZIP. It contains two files : 1) CVT2SBBS. CVT2SBBS is written by Bob Henderson and can be used to automaticly convert from RemoteAccess <tm>, QuickBBS <tm> or from Maximus <tm> to SuperBBS. 2) S2R. S2R is written by Richard Faasen and can be used to run almost any door made for RemoteAccess with SuperBBS. And as usual, all comment should be netmailed (if you send crashmail, please poll for a reply in 24-48 hours) to 2:220/620 or sent via SUPERBBS echo. Aki Antman & Risto Virkkala