If you have the Postlink Mailstore (required of the Relaynet International
Message Exchange), it will be much easier to participate in P&BNet. If
you are interested in purchasing Postlink, it is $50.00 American, and
available through Dr. Bonnie Anthony.



If you are already a Relaynet participant, this is how to set up
for P&BNet using your existing Postlink software:

1.  Copy your entire postlink directory into another directory, let's
say, c:\P&BPOST.

2.  Make sure you make postcore.exe read only.

3.  Go into the postlink.cfg file, and change all the directory
names to correspond to the c:\P&BPOST name (and subdirectory names).
The most important one to watch out for is SHARED-DIR=  because
if you leave the directory name as is, every change you make to
one network will also apply to the other.

4.  Edit your dialing program (such as postcall.scr) so that it has the
right phone number and password to your new P&BNet HUB.

5.  Copy over OUR channels.nme and dict.net files into c:\P&BPOST.
If you don't have copies, you can always download them from Pen and Brush.
They are not listed in the files directories, but they're there and
up-to-date for you whenever the need arises.

6.  Load up TMANAGE and choose UPDATE FROM BBS.  Now that all
your bbs conferences have been searched, choose EDIT.  For every
conference you see that is a P&BNet conference (ONLY), select
the proper channel number. Our channels begin at 1100 and go up.

7.  Now go over (still in TMANAGE) to SITES.  Delete them all.

8.  Still in SITES, add YOUR OWN, give it a number, and HUB YOU CALL,
give it this number 1742 if you call Pen and Brush, or the special
number your HUB gave you if you call a different P&BNet HUB.  You 
don't need a default site unless other sites start calling you.  
We can do that one later.

Allowed channels for both hub and you:  1-100  1100-1199
Taken channels for both hub and you:  1-100  1100-1199

9. Publish yourself.

10.  QUIT.  Quit saves everything and creates whatever directories
did not exist before (the directories that are specified in your
postlink.cfg file).

Good luck!!!  

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A few Postlink notes:

In your postlink config file, please make sure the very last
entry that says "Administrative sites" has a 1742 next to it,
not a "2" (from RIME).

DICTIONARY-ADMIN-SITES=1742

This way your updates will come from here, not RIME. <g>


Also, while we're at this, the following entries will make your
software memory requirements behave better, just add them to your
postlink config anywhere, for P&BNet and for RIME if you have RIME:

PROTO-OPTIONS-Z=FULLSCREEN
COMPRESS-OPTIONS-ZIP=FULLSCREEN


If you have nodes who call you using .QWK exchange, please
turn bridge import ON so that their .QWK messages are exported
with the postlink mail. Do this in both the postlink config 
file, and for every single conference in TMANAGE EDIT mode....

DEFAULT-BRIDGE-EXPORT=YES
DEFAULT-BRIDGE-IMPORT-NO


If you are a PCBoard BBS, add the following in your config file:

HONOR-PCB-RESERVED=NO
IGNORE-PCB-ECHO-FLAGS=YES


If you are just receiving your new Postlink software, please
be advised that there are a couple of typographical errors
in the postlink.cfg file.  They are easy to find, they're right
near the beginning of the file:

Change  DUP  to DUPE
        PUB  to PUBLIC