Presented By The PHOENIX BBS!
                       Located In Boca Raton, Florida
                       (407) 451-9845 300-19,200 HST
                       Running On GAP BBS Ver. 4.3/M
                       Sysop : John Stephens


   Those of you who read the manual for GAP realize that Kenny Gardner
   (GAP Author) does'nt really want to explain the operation of how
   to run multinode BBS with GAP. This is a basic drawing of how it is
   done and what must be done.

   This just explains the outline of how it is done, and what must
   be placed where on your harddrive.

   To start off, I am running a IBM PC/AT with a 300-19,200 HST Robotics,
   EGA monitor, and 120 megs of drive space. This is just to let you know
   that I am not using one of those fancy/expensive networks/LANs.

   First thing is first. You must have a registered version of GAP,
   at least about 10 megs of hard drive space, (by all means), at least
   more than 640k of memory. As you go through set up, you will notice
   that in the manual that is does not explain much about setting up
   nodes with GAP. Though, he did mention that you need at least ONE
   copy of the needed files for GAP.  Now, the set up..

   On your hard drive, you've probably got, C:\GAP with all the files
   that GAP needs in thier proper directory?, if this is correct,
   then you probably are running a functional GAP BBS at this time.
   If so, then you must start off by going to C:\. (Root Dir). Next
   make a directory, name it anything you'd like, off the root.
   (prefered C:\GAPEXEC). Go to C:\GAP, the GAP root dir, and copy
   all EXE's, COM's, and any executable files over the C:\GAPEXEC.
   Now, edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT and add C:\GAPEXEC on the path.
   Now, go back to your C:\GAP (GAP root dir) and delete ALL EXE
   and COM files.   Therefor, you will have only data, batch, config
   files located in C:\GAP. Not executable files will be in C:\GAP.

   Now, we are fairly done. This is where we are going to create
   the second node directory/needings. Go to the root, prefered,
   make a directory called C:\GAP2. (GAP2 prefered!) Next, go over
   to C:\GAP, copy to C:\GAP2, FILES.CNF, REMOTE, GAPSYS.DAT,
   NODES.BBS, and GAPBBS.CNF.  Next, make a copy of your GAP.BAT
   file and name it GAP2.BAT. Edit GAP2.BAT to switch over to the
   right directorys and to move over the the correct area of your
   hard drive. Now, we are getting somewhere! Next, you must run
   GAP2.BAT from the C:\GAP2 directory, causing GAP to load up
   thinking it is node 1. It will initialize the modem, and then
   you will be at the waiting screen. Now, go into config. Config
   it for NODE2, and change the NODE status to NODE2! MUST MAKE
   SURE TO ARE SAVING IT AS NODE2!  Don't forget to change
   the comport's, the security levels etc.. etc.. that you would
   like to have. Now, make a C:\GAP2\GEN, and a C:\GAP2\MAIN
   directory. Any file off of C:\GAP\GEN, C:\GAP\MAIN that you
   would like to be different, for instance, Security Level screens,
   file menus, main menus, etc.. etc.. (If you want it to say node2
   copy them over to node 2 directorys like node 1 has them set, and
   just edit them and your all set!)  So, that pretty much
   covers it. This might be hard to understand, then again,
   I'm trying my best to explain it in good detail. If you've got
   any questions, please leave me a message on Crow's Nest.

        Now, the copyright gibberish.
        PHOENIX BBS (C) 88,89,90
        GAP Is A Registered Trade Mark Of Kenny Garder.
        I hope that about covers it.

Notes:

A: Please use this at your own risk

B: If you've got any problems from this, please report any problems
to me on either A: Crow's Nest, or B: PHOENIX BBS.

C: Please use this at your own risk. John Stephens is not responsible
for any damages caused from this text file.