旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 � InterBBS Version 1.2 � 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴켸 InterBBS version 1.2 is released. This software has been written in its entirety by Ron Pierce. The InterBBS Development Team consists of Ron Pierce, Mike Delaney, Tom Kis and James Clouser. This file contains information TOO recent to be placed in the documentation for InterBBS version 1.2. o Added Multiple SIG (Special Intrest Group or FORUM) Support - Up to 4096 (0-4095) SIGs are supported which totals 134,205,440 conferences possible if all 4096 sigs had the maximum possible conferences. No features of the the conferences have been removed, thus, all other functions are increased by 4,096 also. Note: The Main SIG is Sig "0" and users are automatically placed in this SIG during the logon sequence. When changing SIGs the user is always placed at the SIG's Main Menu. A user may type "SIG" (No quotes) at the MAIN, FILE, MESSAGE and QWK menu and the SIG Menu will be shown to the user (provided you have created one). SIG Setup is located on FILE LOCATIONS 3 in IBBSCFG. See the InterBBS Documentation. o Increased conferences to 32,765 per SIG/Forum. o Implementation of PCBoard 15.x style message and index Files. This implements InterNet style long TO: and SUBJECT: Fields also. Changes have been made the the SECOND page of the CONFERENCE SETUP to encompass InterNet handling areas and also to FORCE ECHO on msgs. o Alt-V Toggles the display mode from 25 lines to 43 lines (if supported). This permits much more information about the caller to be displayed on the bottom portion of the screen o Converted IB-NET.EXE for SIG Use. It *MUST* be started for EACH SIG you want scanned. A new command line paramater passes the SIG # to IB-NET: IB-NET SIG:2 SCAN The above command line would cause the high message pointers of SIG #2 to be written to a file named "IB002.PTR". CAUTION: You must create a POINTER file for each SIG that you create! To do this, the FIRST time that IB-NET.EXE is run, use the "SCAN" parameter as shown above. This *MUST* be done before IB-NET.EXE will function properly. IB-NET SIG:2 QWK The above command line would cause SIG #2 to be scanned with no delay upon completion ("QWK"). The "IB-NET.LOG" file entries now includes the SIG #. o CONFUTIL has been updated to support SIGS (Forums). The only command-line paramater change is that "/SIG:###" must be the first part of the command line for Confutil. Then follows the old command-line paramaters: CONFUTIL /SIG:2 5 3 /DELETE The above command line would cause 3 conferences in SIG #2 to be deleted with the first conference being #5. Note that conference numbers begin at 0. Before you ask; NO, you can not copy conferences across SIGS. Note: The default is SIG:0 o Added support for copying/moving messages within the BBS between SIGs. Use the copy/move command as before and you will be prompted for a SIG, then the conference within that SIG. o Added SIG support to IBBSPACK. Added more options to IBBSPACK. "/SIG:###" must be the first part of the command line for IBBSPACK. Then follows the old command-line parameters: IBBSPACK /SIG:4 /IN etc. Note: The default is /SIG:0 NEW FEATURES OF IBBSPACK 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� IBBSPACK will search to see if you have a RAMDISK. If it finds one and the message file is small enough to use it, it will. This will dramatically boost IBBSPACK's performance (although it performs well on a hard disk). 1) /FAST = Less screen output resulting in quicker completion times. 2) /NORAM = Disables RAM DISK usage by IBBSPACK. This should normally NOT be used since RAM DISK usage provides for maximum efficiency when IBBSPACK is working. 3) /DATE: = Added support in IBBSPACKfor removing messages older than a specified DATE or number of DAYS: IBBSPACK 14 /DATE:03-31-94 (removes messages with a date before 03-31-94) IBBSPACK 14 /DATE:90 (removes messages older than 90 days) Note that the date may be entered as: MM-DD-YY, MM-DD-YYYY, MM/DD/YY, MM/DD/YYYY, MMDDYY 4) /NOBACK = If "/NOBACK" is included in the command line to start IBBSPACK, then no backup files will be left when the message packing is done. o Added SIG support to IBFILER. Added new options. "/SIG:###" must be the first part of the command line for IBFILER. Then follows the old command line paramaters: IBFILER /SIG:5 (Enters IBFILER Editor Mode in SIG:5) IBFILER /SIG:4 /LIST C:\FILES\ALLFILES 0,3-5 (Creates All files list of SIG:4, Conferences 0, 3, 4 & 5) Note: The default is SIG:0 if not specified, as shown below. IBFILER /LIST C:\FILES\ALLFILES 0,8-10 (Creates All files list of SIG:0, Conferences 0, 8, 9, & 10) 1) Added support for EXCLUDING directories within a conference while building an ALLFILES list has been added to IBFILER. IMPORTANT: You *MUST* NOT have any spaces on the command line after the conference information begins. Example: IBFILER /SIG:1 C:\FILES\ALLFILES 0/2/4/,1-2,5/6/55/ In the above example, SIG:1 is being processed. The conferences being processed are 0, 1, 2 & 5. File Directories 2 & 4 are being excluded from conference 0's listing, no file directories are being excluded from conferences 1 or 2, and file directories 6 & 55 are being excluded from conference 5's listing. The first conference to process is 0. The forward slashes ("/") are used to specify directory numbers in the conference to EXCLUDE. NOTE: The excluded directory number is sandwiched between the slashes. There can be NO RANGE of file directories between slashes (You can't use a /2-5/ to exclude directories 2 through 5, you must use the format: /2/3/4/5/ IBFILER looks for the commas "," to distinguish the start of a new conference and those numbers sandwiched between slashes "/" to denote directories to exclude from the processing conference. IBFILER /SIG:23 /LIST C:\FILES\ALLFILES 3-6,9/2/3/4/22/27/,11 In the above example SIG:23 is being processed. Conferences 3-6 will be done first, there are no exclusions. Conference 9 will be done next, file directories 2, 3, 4, 22, & 27 will be excluded from it. Finally, conference 11 will be processed. o New MACROS. @LFIRST@ = lowercase first name of caller. @LLAST@ = lowercase last name of caller. Note: If user has a single word name, @LLAST@ will return the same information as @LFIRST@. @DNAM:####@ = Returns the DOOR Name for the door specified. @DNAM:0133@ would return the doorname for door 133 as it is in the IBBSCFG door.lst file. @CSIG@ = Returns the name of the Current SIG/Forum. @SIG:####@ = Returns the name of the SIG/Forum specified. @SIG:0000@ would return the name of SIG 0, usually "Main Board". o The "!" redirection command. If you do not understand redirection, please please look in the manual for the basics of the command for files. The "!" redirection command works in exactly the same fashion as the "%" redirection command, except that it tells InterBBS that you do NOT want to display a file, but instead RUN a program. This means that you can redirect any prompt to run a DOOR program with a .BAT file or also run a .EXE or .COM file as specified as long as the program supports com routines. o You can now perform an AND search with an OR search for the ANDed text. Example: T BBS & (InterBBS | Mail) 1 Y The above commands will search thru every available message in ALL conferences areas you are set to scan for any message that has both the text "BBS" AND either the text "InterBBS" OR the text "Mail" in it. The parenthesis tell InterBBS how you want to group your criteria if you have a complex search request such as the one above. o Added support for SHELLING (F9) when performing a text search of messages. o Modified the F9 DOS SHELL command in that it no longer re-reads the SRCONFIG file upon returning from the SHELL. Use the F6 IBBSSM\IBBSCFG shell to alter the configuration and SRCONFIG and the USER's record are re-read upon InterBBS regaining control. o Modified the code which COPIES files from a cd-rom/slow drive so it does not re-copy any file after (E)diting the batch. o Drastically increased the efficiency of the Message Text Search. Re-wrote the Message (T)ext Search algorythm from scratch. It is now more than 3x faster than previous versions of InterBBS. o Noticeably increased the Zippy search of the File Directories. All (Z)ippy searches are now faster. The search algorythm has been "rethunk" and re-coded. The increase is nothing like the above Message (T)ext Search performance jump. Modified the (Z)ippy search in the file transfer section (for file names or text in the descriptions) to achieve better performance (it wasn't very shabby to start with). Now, if an AND (&) search is directed and the first phrase is a frequent flyer such as "the" or "well", and the second phase is a hermit such as "wahoozie", the search is much faster than in previous versions of FeatherNet. o Modified InterBBS's "seconds since midnight" function. It is now 7x faster than the previous one. Please keep an eye out for any weirdness around the witching hour but I don't expect to hear any feedback on this. o Increased the speed of the conference information display when performing a (U) command to set conference scans and hmr's. o Added support for SIG Specific Conference Listings. o Added support Off-line file tagging. Your users can now compile a list of files offline and then log on to the BBS and upload the list using the UF command from the file menu. All files in the list will automatically be tagged for download. The file name the users use *MUST* be IBFILES.FLG and it has to be used with the UF command. This file *MUST* be a straight ASCII, CrLf delimited list of file names to flag. i.e. One filename per line. Column | v 11 0123456789012 Example: 0+------------ ROW 1 -> |BNU170.ZIP 2|X00130.ZIP 3|ANSIART.ZIP 4|MENUS.ZIP 5| o Added a file named UFLG to the \DISP sub-directory where your PREUP (or PREUL) file is located. This will be displayed to users before they upload the IBFILES.FLG file. In this file you should make it clear that ONLY the file IBFILE.FLG may be upload there. o Some of you may not understand the concept of a SIG or FORUM. For you we add this section in to the file. A SIG/FORUM is a GROUPING of conference areas. The conferences do NOT change in the least. What this does is allow you to place certain conferences together by mail network, similar intrests (i.e. Programming) or nature (i.e. All Adult conferences). A basic structure outline is as follows; NOTE: All names are for example only!) Logon | | | Main Menu SIG 0 ----------- CONF 0 MAIN BOARD | | ;This is where a user starts from when logging on. | ------ CONF 1 GENERAL CHATTER | | | ------ CONF 2 User Help | From here a user has a choice. They may either Join a conference within SIG 0 or switch to a new SIG. Keep in mind a user MUST join a SIG to download QWK mail from conferences within that SIG. | |---- SIG 1 -------- CONF 0 Introductions | Adult --- CONF 1 Singles | --- CONF 2 Swingers | |---- SIG 2 -------- CONF 0 Basic Programming | Programming --- CONF 1 Pascal Programming | --- CONF 2 C Programming | |---- SIG 3 -------- CONF 0 COFFEKLATCH | FidoNet --- CONF 1 BBS_STANDARDS | --- CONF 2 BBS_CARNIVAL | ---- SIG 4 -------- CONF 0 What's It Mean? Religion --- CONF 1 Alien Or Spirit? --- CONF 2 Who Wrote the Book? o Added a scrollback buffer which functions in LOCAL MODE. The buffer allows a local user to view text which has scrolled off the screen. Additionally, when editing messages in either the line editor or the full screen editor, text can be blocked by pressing the spacebar (to mark the beginning and again to mark the end of the block). Pressing ESC to terminate the scroll back buffer viewing causes any blocked text to be entered entered into the message being edited. (Copy and Paste for those of you who do DTP ) If the scrollback buffer size is configured for less than 25 lines, then it is effectively disabled. The Scroll Lock key will allow viewing of the scrollback buffer from any command prompt as well as in the full screen message editor. The UP ARROW also allows viewing of the scrollback buffer when at a command prompt. The scroll back buffer is a circular one. The last line is incremented until the maximum number of lines is reached. Then the pointer for the last line points to the first line in the buffer. The cursor is always positioned on the last line when viewing of the scrollback buffer begins. Thus, when you have finished viewing your maximun scroll back buffer lines it starts again at the beginning. Added the ability to shell to dos when viewing the buffer. F9 will do this for you. Added a "timeout" after 10 minutes in the scroll back buffer. During the final minute the "noisemaker" will twang at you at 15 second intervals. Once this noise beings it is time to wrap-up loose ends and bail out (block any text you want transferred upon exit). o InterBBS will now properly re-size a MSGS.IDX file (new message index) if it is determined to be too small when opened. This would only be necessary for those using mail tossers which do not yet support the new .IDX message index files (IP for example). o The caller log naming convention has changed. In IBBSCFG, you now specify the path & name of the caller log. This is not exactly the TRUE name of the caller log anymore. InterBBS *will* append the node number to the name you have specified in IBBSCFG. Example IBBSCFG entry for caller log: D:\IBBS\IBSYS\CALLER Node #1 caller log file is: D:\IBBS\IBSYS\CALLER1 Node #2 caller log file is: D:\IBBS\IBSYS\CALLER2 ... etc If you configure more than 99 nodes, ensure your caller log name is 5 or fewer characters. i.e. D:\IBBS\IBSYS\CALOG Each node on a multi-node system *should* use the same caller log path & name. This allows any node's caller log to be viewed from other nodes. o Added support for a conference KEYWORD or PHRASE search. The command to perform this function is "CS" from a CONFERENCE MENU prompt. It will take a command-line argument: CS INTERBBS Added a KWD menu which must be placed in the directory your MENUs are in. You must add the "CS" command to your Message/Conference Menu. o Changed the DOS Errorlevel which InterBBS sets when running under a front door program to "notify" your bbs startup batch file that new mail has been saved while the last caller was online. Some SysOps prefer to do a re-scan of mail after each caller if any new messages have been written. The OLD errorlevel was 255. The NEW errorlevel is 254. o Changed the DOS Errorlevel which InterBBS terminates with when NOT running under a front door program and a FAX call is received when at the WFC screen. The OLD errorlevel was 254. The NEW errorlevel is 253. o IF you are using a Front End mailer... Change your IBRUN.BAT files to reflect the new errorlevels. IF ERRORLEVEL 255 GOTO RESTART IF ERRORLEVEL 254 GOTO EXTRACT_MAIL (Or whatever you currently use for getting mail from the BBS now) IF ERRORLEVEL 253 GOTO GET_FAX (Or whatever label you currently use to call your FAX Modem program) o The DOOR.SYS & CALL BACK VERIFIER problems should be solved. o Changed the logoff sequence when running under a front door. After a caller is logged off, InterBBS now resets the modem before terminating and returning control to the front door program via batch file processing. o Found and corrected the problem with using @Xbf color codes in prompts. (The caller's Prompt was actually one line below the prompt text) o Added a MENU to the "L" command from the conference menu. This is now configurable in File Locations #1 in IBBSCFG (4th item from the bottom). o Modified IBBSSM so it will properly size the *.USR files if they are found to be incorrect. o Included some Utility Programs with the package. IBBSMSG - A text or file echo utility by Ron Pierce. This will echo text to a caller (and/or local screen). The text may be a single string you pass as a command-line paramater or the path and name of a text file to send to the caller. IBBSMSG You must wait until the door is not in use. IBBSMSG D:\IBBS\DISP\DOORBUSY.TXT UREC - This is a program by Ron Pierce to support callers viewing essentially the same information a SysOp views when Alt-V is used to toggle the display mode. Add the path and name of UREC.EXE to you CMD translation configurations (Main, Conference, File Transfer) in IBBSCFG and when UREC is typed, UREC.EXE is run. Urec also comes with LISTUREC.TXT which *must* be in your bbs' \DISP sub-directory (D:\IBBS\DISP\ for example). Urec lets the caller type in "H" to view this text file. Urec has a 30 second timer for the "Press ENTER" prompt and a 10 second delay for the other prompts. The one hitch is that you *must* make sure you have the IBDIR and IBDRV environment variables properly set for each node you operate o Added support for a "TO" command. This allows a caller to specify both a SIG to join and a conference to join in the newly joined SIG. Examples: TO;5;875 or TO 5 875 Joins SIG 5, then Conference 875 in SIG 5. TO;4096;3 or TO 4096 3 Joins SIG 4096, then Conference 3 in SIG 4096. Invalid SIG or Conference numbers are ignored. o Modified the code to force subscription checking when the "quick" login feature is used (*FIRST LAST). Before, callers who used the quick login feature bypassed the subscription expiration check during the logon process, thus remaining at the unexpired security level they had before calling. o Added a configuration option in IBBSCFG for a modem off-hook string. Some modems will not go off-hook with the string previously "hard-coded" (ATM0H1). This is added to the MODEM / SUBSCRIPTION / NODE configuration. You MUST edit IBBSCFG Modem Screen and add the Hangup string if you want your modem going OFFHOOK! o Placing a Y in the DOOR.SYS column of DOOR.LST also creates a DORINFO1.DEF FILE. o Added a configuration option in IBBSCFG, General Information #1 which allows the Personal Mail Waiting Check at login to be skipped. It is recommended this NOT be done since callers generally expect to be notified of new mail waiting for him/her when logging into a BBS or other telecommunications service. o Added support for 2 more modem initialization strings in IBBSCFG. These are located on the MODEM / NODE / SUBSCRIPTION configuration screen. o Added support for the CNAMES.ADD file in CNAME120.EXE. o Event "BATCH" File Search Methodology: 1) The node directory for a NODE SPECIFIC event "batch" file. The name *must* be the event name plus the node number padded left with zeros. Example: MYEVENT.001 (For Node 1) 2) The subdirectory where the EVENT.LST file is kept. The event "batch" file *must* be named the event name: Example: MYEVENT 3) The node subdirectory is the last sub-directory checked for the event "batch" file. The event "batch" file *must* be named the event name: Example: MYEVENT o Added support for (L)ocate file from the file transfer area. This command caused support for (L)ist "logged" dir file to be dropped. The (L)ocate command is a "stackable" command like the zippy search and almost all InterBBS commands. Wildcards are automatic and need not be used (they are stripped if entered). Only one filespec can be used. The "|" and "&" operators are not currently abailable when locating a FileName. o Added a parameter in IBBSCFG.EXE (File Locations #1) to specify the InterBBS SYSTEM subdirectory. This was defaulting to "\IBBS\IBSYS\" 旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� 쿢LTester v5.02 Upload Processor for InterBBS � 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� ULTester version 5.02 comes with a new look. It also includes a DOS "window" for SysOp viewing of "shelled" tasks. ULTester v5.02 now terminates with some error codes to indicate the reason a file was rejected or why ULTester terminated the test prematurely. The error codes are as follows: 1 - Incorrect Command Line to start ULTester. Possibly incorrect ULTx.CFG file path & name. 2 - The file to be tested does not exist. This will be a rare occurrance (a local "test" of ULTester with the "/L" command line parameter). 3 - Archive failed the integrity check. PKUNZIP, LHA or ARJ reports that the archive has errors. Check your ULTester "log" file routinely for new entries. The file was moved to your HOLD directory. 4 - A VIRUS is suspected! This could be a false alarm if your virus scanning program returned an errorlevel due to a non-viral condition. Perform a "scan" of the file contents "manually" to confirm or dismiss the virus alert. The file was moved to your VIRUS HOLD directory. 5 - A file is being rejected because it is not an allowed archive format. Example: Someone uploads a .ARJ file and you do not accept .ARJ files. Keep in mins ULTester will convert all uploads to either ZIP, ARJ or LHA format if you configure it to do so. 6 - A .GIF file has failed the miniimum acceptable resolution you specified when configuring ULTester (ULTCFG.EXE). The file was moved to your HOLD directory. 7 - A .GIF file has failed the GIF integrity test. The file was moved to your HOLD directory. 8 - A file has failed age constraints. The percentage of "overage" files in the archive equals or exceeds that which you specified in the configuration. The file was moved to your HOLD directory. 9 - A file has failed the Teledisk integrity test. These files are rarely used today. The file was moved to your HOLD directory. 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴 You can use Ron Pierce's FNPMSG.EXE utility to send a "text" file to the caller when one of these errors occurs. After the ULTester entry in your IBBSTEST.BAT file you could add entries such as: if errorlevel 9 goto e9 if errorlevel 8 goto e8 if errorlevel 7 goto e7 if errorlevel 6 goto e6 if errorlevel 5 goto e5 if errorlevel 4 goto e4 if errorlevel 3 goto e3 if errorlevel 2 goto e2 if errorlevel 1 goto e1 if errorlevel 0 goto e0 :e9 fnpmsg D:\IBBS\DISP\TDFAIL.TXT goto end1 :e8 fnpmsg D:\IBBS\DISP\AGEFAIL.TXT goto end1 :e7 fnpmsg D:\IBBS\DISP\GIFINTEG.TXT goto end1 :e6 fnpmsg D:\IBBS\DISP\GIFREZ.TXT goto end1 :e5 fnpmsg D:\IBBS\DISP\FILEFMT.TXT goto end1 :e4 fnpmsg D:\IBBS\DISP\VIRUS.TXT goto end1 :e3 fnpmsg D:\IBBS\DISP\INTEGFAL.TXT goto end1 :e2 fnpmsg D:\IBBS\DISP\NOFILHER.TXT goto end1 :e1 fnpmsg D:\IBBS\DISP\ULTCMDLN.TXT goto end1 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� The above are examples of what you CAN do with the errorlevels. InterBBS uses its own method of determining a file's upload status and sends the appropriate text file to the caller after each upload. 旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 � MKIBTEXT.EXE - InterBBS Prompt Editor � 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴켸 You should run MKIBTEXT.EXE and edit any of the prompts which have a "%" (include) parameter at the beginning followed by a path and file name. Ensure the DRIVE and PATH/FILE names are correct for your configuration. Example: MKIBTEXT D:\IBBS\IBSYS\IBBSTEXT