BFE v1.30a, the flexible BBS front end system from Cairo Research Labs is
now available!

BFE is a BBS front-end system that was designed to provide sysops with a
method of running more than one BBS from the same line.  In addition, it has
a wealth of other options available to put in on the front-end of your BBS,
such as allowing file transfers, ANSI/ASCII file viewing, shelling to DOS
from remote, running external programs and batch files, and much more!

BFE was designed to be called from a front-end mailer, such as Frontdoor or
Binkleyterm.  Instead of spawning directly to the BBS system, it presents
a menu to the user, which details his immediate options.  These options can
range from several different BBS systems, remote jobs, literally anything
you can think of!  The BFE system can also be configured to be called
straight from your BBS software itself, in essence, running as a normal
door, using one of several popular BBS dropfile formats.  Read onward....

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        * Complete support for ANSI/ASCII/AVATAR users (Auto ANSI detect!)
        * *TRUE* Multinode/Multiuser Compatibility!
        * DESQview aware!
        * Configurable for security concerns!
        * Custom multi-level menus with item-level password protection!
        * Complete carrier monitoring and timeout checking
        * Use any of 11 standard dropfiles, or define custom ones!
        * Run as a normal door or as a frontend!  Dropfile not required!
        * Complete BBS carousel - run multiple BBS systems
        * ASCII/ANSI/AVATAR file support
        * File transfer system with support for external protocols
        * Run remote jobs, such as batch files, programs, other doors, etc.
        * Remote OS shells!
        * Built in chat mode
        * Much more!
        
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        o Generic File Transfer System now in place!  The new system allows
          the use of configurable external protocols (no more hardcoded DSZ!)

        o WELCOMESCREEN option added, to provide a global intro screen to be
          displayed upon entering the BFE system (shown once only).  As with
          all of the file display capabilities of BFE, the file can be in
          ASCII, ANSI, or in AVATAR formats.  BFE will display the one which
          best fits the user's terminal settings.

        o The "time to next event" option has been put back into the system,
          and is now passed via a new "-t" switch. (i.e. -t60, -t%3, etc).
          This value is passed to external procedures (Type "R").

        * The "O" type (Remote OS Shell) now utilizes the COMSPEC environment
          variable to locate the command processor.  The command processor
          was formerly specified in the SECONDARY field.  Previously, if
          this value was keyed in wrong, it resulted in BFE locking up
          the system.  Using COMSPEC should make this a bit cleaner.

        o Still more documentation changes!