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; Helpfile for Portal of Power                  Last changed: 02.10.93  JS 
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;                         (C) Copyright 1989-93 by                         
;       Dan Wulff, Jens Sandalgaard, Steen Christensen & Sren Ager        
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;                        (C) Copyright 1998-2000 by                        
;                          The German Portal Team                          
;          Carsten Brandt, Michael Kleefeld and Marcus Roeckrath           
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; Changes made                                                             
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; By                : Carsten Brandt, Marcus Roeckrath                     
; First Modification: 21. September 1998                                   
; Last Modification : 16. March 2000                                       
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; Look at HISTHELP.TXT for exact information about all changes made to     
; the original P063B9 help files!                                          
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; DIRECTORIES AND FILES
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!TOPIC 160 Inbound
!NOINDEX

Here you specify in which directory files received by your system should be
placed. This option specifies both files send during a mail-session, and
files received in Dumb Terminal mode.
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!TOPIC 161 Outbound
!NOINDEX

Here you specify the name of the directory you want to use as your holding-
directory, i.e. where compressed mail-bundles are kept.

NOTE: The name of this directory CANNOT have an extension, because the
extension is used for designating a different outbound area for each Zone.
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!TOPIC 162 Nodelist
!NOINDEX

Here you specify the name of the directory where your nodelist files can be
found.

See also: 173Nodelist type
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!TOPIC 163 User filename
!NOINDEX

Here you specify the path and filename of the User file for your BBS.

See also: 171BBS type   169BBS path
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!TOPIC 164 Log filename
!NOINDEX

Here you specify the path and filename of your log file.
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!TOPIC 165 Log level
!NOINDEX

Here you specify how much information you want written to the log file.

Log level can be anything from 1 (least) to 5 (most).
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!TOPIC 166 Use year in log
!NOINDEX

With this option set to 'N' the log will look like this:

  # 24 Dec 00:36:11 PORTAL CONNECT 2400

And if it is set to 'Y' the log will look like this:

  # 24 Dec 92 00:36:11 PORTAL CONNECT 2400
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!TOPIC 167 Default macros
!NOINDEX

Here you can specify a file, containing 23keyboard macros that you want
Portal to load at startup.
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!TOPIC 168 Editor
!NOINDEX

This option is a command to invoke your favorite message editor (ALT-E from
the 10Main screen), it may be an .EXE, .COM or .BAT file.
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!TOPIC 169 BBS Path
!NOINDEX

This should be pointing to the directory where your BBS system keeps its data
files, i.e. where SYSINFO is for QuickBBS/RA, or where SYSTEM*.* is for OPUS.

See also: 171BBS Type   163User filename
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!TOPIC 170 Swap path
!NOINDEX

This should be pointing to a directory where Portal may swap itself to, when
executing various programmes, such as your message editor, to free up maximum
space for the called program to run. It could point to a RAM Disk, or a HD, or
even a diskette, but this would be too slow to work with.
If you have enough EMS or XMS memory, Portal will use it to swap to instead of
this entry.
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!TOPIC 171 BBS type
!NOINDEX

BBS type is important for various reasons. Firstly to be able to determine
which user was last online, how to find the file areas, and so on.

Use '+' and '-' to select your BBS type.

Supported BBS types are:

  None         No bbs, just a mailer. (or no compatible
               system)
  QuickBBS     QuickBBS 2.7x style FILECFG.DAT
  R.Access     Remote Access style FILES.RA
  Opus 1.10    SYSTEM*.DAT files
  Opus 1.73+   Partly implemented.......
  SuperBBS     SuperBBS FLSEARCH.BBS style
  Maximus 3.0  AREA*.*
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!TOPIC 172 Banner file
!NOINDEX

This file is shown to users, logging on to the system. If you are using more
than one BBS under Portal, you should list the choices here.
The file must be kept in plain ASCII, to avoid confusing other mailers.

Press F3 to edit the file, using the built-in text editor.
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!TOPIC 173 Nodelist type
!NOINDEX

Here you select which type of nodelist you are using.

Use '+' and '-' to select your nodelist type.

Supported nodelist types are:

  Version 6
  QuickBBS
  RemoteAccess
  Version 7
  SuperBBS
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!TOPIC 174 External Outbound manager
!NOINDEX

This option is a command to invoke your favorite outbound manager
(CTRL-O from the 10Main screen), it may be an .EXE, .COM or
.BAT file.
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