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THE
File Area Manager

for

RemoteAccess 0.04a/1.11
Maximus 1.02/2.00
Tubbs 1.00áeta
Opus 1.1x
QuickBBS 2.6x/2.7x
SuperBBS 1.1x









Copyright (c) 1990-92 by FenrisUlven Data & Patrik Sj”berg















In memory of Birgit Lindstr”m.







Table of contents


Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

What is FEBBS ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

How to get Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

SETUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
BBS System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
General Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Flag toggle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Colours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
The Filelists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Areas to list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Files to ignore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
External Support programs . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
The external viewers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
The Archive programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
The free of choice external utilities . . . . . . 22
The Text "macros" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Keyboard setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Entering the registration code . . . . . . . . . . 24
Editing the control files . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Compile helpfile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Save the changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

EDITOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
How to Edit Your Files.Bbs . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
How to read the function part of the manual . . . 28
The functions that can be used inside the editor . 29

Avatar Control Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Runtime Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

The Filelists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Avatar Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
General items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
The Directory list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
When, How, Where? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Headers/Footers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Area header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Sample batch file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Different Filelists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Memory Swapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

FEBBS VS Viruses and EXE packers . . . . . . . . . . 52

The overlay buffer and slow machines . . . . . . . . 53



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Commandline parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Multitaskers and Share . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

The future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Copyright, Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
















































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Disclaimer


The FEBBS-Package is subject to the following license
terms and conditions.

The FEBBS-package is supplied as it is. The author
disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including,
without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and
of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no
liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may
result from the use of the FEBBS-package.

The FEBBS-package is a "shareware program" and is provided
at no charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to
share it with your friends, but please do not give it away
altered or as part of another system. The essence of
"user-supported" software is to provide personal computer
users with quality software without high prices, and yet
to provide incentive for programmers to continue to
develop new products.

The FEBBS-package, all programs, the documentation and
support files are copyrighted 1991 by Patrik Sj”berg. All
rights are reserved. You may copy this package for backup
purposes. You may also copy and share unmodified copies of
the whole package, providing that the copyright notice is
reproduced and included on all copies.

You may not sell the product for a fee and/or distribute
the product along with other products without written
permission, nor may you modify or remove the Copyright
Notices from the programs or the documentation files. User
clubs, if they are NOT commercial, are allowed to ask a
small amount of money for distribution and storage when
they want to share this package amongst their members.

It is forbidden to modify, adapt, translate, reverse
engineer, decompile and/or disassemble the software in the
FEBBS-package. Patching the medium at places that carry
the software is seen as a program change and is also
forbidden.

Non-commercial users can get a licence for the usage up to
this release of the FEBBS-package for a small amount of
money. Look into the details in HOWTO.REG. Previous
registered users will receive a big reduction to upgrade
to the newer versions. These users should also look into
the details in HOWTO.REG. For Non-commercial users there
is a POSSIBILITY to submit to one of the special contracts
as explained in the same file.

Commercial usage of FEBBS will cost somewhat more. Also, a
so called 'closed' Bulletin Board System (a system where



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the user must pay direct to the SysOp to get full access)
has to pay more than a Non-commercial user. Usage of the
Febbs-Package on a BBS with 3 (three) lines or more is
considered as 'closed BBS' usage also. You'll find the
details of all this in the file called HOWTO.REG.




















































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What is FEBBS ?


Febbs is a File Area Manager for your favourite BBS. It
will help you keep your file areas in shape and create
Your daily filelists. How many times have you not edited
those Files.Bbs files. And how many times have you not
been "running" around in your directory-"tree" just to get
to each of them. Copying files cross drives just to forget
to move descriptions as well.

This is where Febbs comes in. Just sit tight and edit each
and everyone of the Files.Bbs files from a directory of
your choice. No more changing directories and
unloading/reloading your editor. Hurl files and
descriptions easily between areas. Look inside Your

archived files to determine what is in them, create Your
daily filelists and statistical files and much much
more...

Febbs will save You, the busy System Operator, countless
of hours as You would have spent maintaining the file area
part of Your system. It is a small investment that will
repay itself with a couple of weeks. (If You value Your
own time in any way).
































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Features



* Support for Remote Access 0.04a to 1.11 / Maximus 1.02
and 2.00 / Tubbs 1.00áeta / Opus 1.1x / QuickBbs 2.6x to
2.7x / SuperBbs1.15.
* Edit all Your Files.Bbs from one spot.
* Full screen editor with standard edit Commands.
* Fully user definable keys for allmost all functions.
* Enter Avatar / control codes within the Editor.
* Supports SAA/CUA in program design.
* Adopt missing files to Files.Bbs.
* Add GIF info to the description automatically when
adopting files.
* Add GIF resolution easily to files already in Files.Bbs.
* Create Your daily lists.
* Create overView of all Your areas ASCII/ANSI/AVATAR
flavour.
* Create a list over frequable directories for Your
Mailer.
* Create a list over the 50 most downloaded files.
ASCII/ANSI/AVATAR flavour
* Strip Avatar codes from filelists.
* Tag files randomly ( not random tag though 🙂 ) in the
editor.
* Tag missing files that exist in Files.Bbs.
* Tag dupe entries in Files.Bbs.
* Delete tagged files.
* Hurl/copy files to other areas. Description moved as
well.
* When hurling/copying place the hurled/copied files at
Position you like in the new Area, or if you wish hurl
without changing area.
* Hurl files to any directory you wish.
* Sort tagged blocks inside editor.
* Look inside all major archives and at files inside
archives.
* Look at GIF files resolution.
* DOSshell with built in swap to EMS, XMS or Disk.
* Support for internal viewers of Archives, Text- and
Binary Files
* Support for external viewers of Archives, TextFiles,
Binary files and GIF Files.
* Delete missing files from Files.Bbs
* Mouse support.
* Search for files local and if not found local, global.
* Touch files to make your users notice "new" files.
* Rename files.
* Date format configurable in filelists and in editor, or
use DOS date style.
* 5 slots for any external support program.

And more ...



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How to get Started


1 Unpack the Archived file containing FEBBS.

2 Read all the documentation files contained in the
Archive.

3 Put FEBBS in a directory you fancy.

4 Fire up FEPPLA (The Febbs Setup Utility).Feppla will now
create a file called FEBBS.CTL. This file contains the
setup info needed for FEBBS.

If your upgrading from an version older than 1.00 of
FEBBS you must delete the old FEBBS.CTL then redo the
Setup. And if You are upgrading from version 1.80 to
1.90 then You simply run FEPPLA and save the
configuration file to upgrade to the new format.

And if you wish to create different setup files for
different occasions just add the switch /S: to the
Commandline and the config file will be used
instead. Just remember to do the same with Febbs when
you wish to use it later on.

Why would You want a different Setup?

Imagine that You wish to create different lists for
different areas. Lets say you have One List containing
PC programs and one containing Amiga programs. Then in
Your batchfile simply state...

FEBBS N F : This one uses standard config
Febbs.ctl
FEBBS N F /S:Amiga.Ctl : This one uses the Non
Standard Amiga.Ctl

And, you can create Different Filelists. Just remember
to name them differently in the Config so that they do
not use the same name when creating the lists. More on
the filelists later on in this document.















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SETUP


The configuration program is the heart of the Febbs-
Package. If it is not set up properly it will not work
properly either. So it is essential that you take your
time and walk through the whole set up program.

Through out the Setup program You can always press F1 for
some On-Line help. All items, except the most obvious, has
some On-Line help. The Setup program also tries to adapt
to the SAA/CUA (Common User Interface) interface that most
new programs use nowadays. That means that F1 will always
be help and F2 will always be save. Except when You leave
the program.

Well, time to fire up Feppla - The Setup Utility for the
Febbs-Package.

Have a look at the magnificent entry screen (Made by
Ludvig Norin) and then press any key...

What you will see is this :


ebbs ®¯ Febbs ®¯ Febbs ®
FeÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿bs
F³ BBS System ³bbs
¯ ³ General Items ³ebb
®¯³ Toggle Flags ³Feb
®³ Colours ³ Fe
s ³ List Setup ³¯ F
bs³ Areas to List ³®¯
bb³ Files to ignore ³ ®¯
eb³ Xternal Support ³s ®
Fe³ text "Macros" ³bs
F³ Keyboard Setup ³bbs
¯ ³ Registration ³ebb
®¯³ cOmpile help ³Feb
®³ eDit ctl files ³ Fe
s ³ Save Setup ³¯ F
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bbÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ ®¯
ebbs ®¯ Febbs ®¯ Febbs ®

Fig. 1.


BBS System SETUP


BBS type. What type of BBS Software do you use?
RemoteAccess, Maximus, Tubbs, Opus, QuickBBS
or SuperBBS? This menu option let you tell



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FEBBS what Area files it should be looking
for. Either Config.Ra/Files.Ra for Remote
Access, Area.Dat for Maximus, Axaareas.dat
for Tubbs, a Bunch of SystemXX.Dat files for
Opus (where XX is a Hexadecimal Number),
FlSearch.Ctl for QuickBBS 2.6x or FilCfg.Dat
for QuickBBS 2.7x. Or why not Flsearch.Bbs
for SuperBBS. Would have been nice with some
sort of standard.
















































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General Items SETUP


Path to
BBS files. This is where your area files reside. That
is where your Config.Ra/Files.Ra, Area.Dat,
Axaareas.Dat, SystemXX.Dat, FlSearch.Ctl,
FileCfg.Dat or Flserach.Bbs resides.
(Depending on if your BBS software is Remote
Access, Maximus, Tubbs, Opus, QuickBbs or
SuperBbs). Febbs can handle up to 300 areas
in Your BBS. Most of the BBS packages can't
handle any more either.


Adopted
files. This is the comment that will be added to
files adopted to Files.Bbs by Febbs. Febbs
can handle one meta string in the adopt
description. This meta string is ~D (tilde
D) and it will insert todays date. (A meta
string is a small string that when Febbs
finds it he will replace it with something
more relevant). An adopted file would look
like this after it has been adopted if You
had entered '[0] (v0.00)' in the setup.


ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
ANYFILE.ZIP [0] (v0.00) ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Ordinary ZIPfile
ÀÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÙ
ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Comment chosen by You.
Fig. 2.


Adopted
GIF Files. This is the comment that will be added to
adopted GIF files. It works the same way as
the above adopt function. But it also
honours the ~G meta (GIF information) string
as well as the ~D meta string. If You had
entered '[0] ~G Adopted : ~D' in the setup
and the file was adopted on the first of
december the adopted GIF would get the
following description. The date style is of
course configurable (later on in this
document).


ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Ordinary GIF
file.
ANYFILE.GIF [0] (640*480*256) Adopted : 91-12-01
ÀÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
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ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Resulting description.
Fig. 3.


The DownLoad
counter. This is used when you when you add the DL
counter manually inside the editor. That is
if you use any. Febbs does NOT do any
download counting of its own. You must
install another third part utility to handle
the counters. Febbs only reads them when
creating the list of most downloaded files.


Date style. To be able to make the whole world happy the
date style is configurable. Choose the style
you fancy and all lists and all dates inside
the editor will look like that. Or let Febbs
figure it out from what You normally use in
Your daily DOS environment.


Name of
Swap file. This option there to let you place the
Swapfile that Febbs creates when swapping to
execute an external program or just shelling
to DOS on a RAM disk or maybe a disk that is
fast to speed up the Swapping. Febbs has the
ability to Swap most of itself out of memory
when accessing external programs or just
Shelling to DOS. If you have EMS or XMS
memory then of course it doesn't matter what
you write on this line since no physical
swap file is generated. All swapping is done
via memory. Which is also a whole lot
faster. Read more about swapping in the
"Memory swapping" section of this manual.


Indent
value. This is how many spaces that Febbs will pad
to the left of the description when you
press inside the editor. Read more
about the function in the "How to edit Your
Files.Bbs" section of this manual.


Logfile. When you are running Febbs in batchmode to
create your daily filelists Febbs can keep a
log file of what has happened during this
unattended event. This is good if you wake
up one morning to find that your nightly
events didn't work as you thought they
would. I have tried to keep the log file as
trimmed as possible so that it won't grow to


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much. Here You specify what to call the log
file and where to place it.


GIF
Information. When adopting GIF files or when using the
"Add GIF information" function Febbs will
add the HEIGHT, WIDTH and PALETTE of the GIF
image. This is Your opportunity to design
the style of this information. You can use
three meta strings to design the style of
the information. The default is (~W*~H*~P).
That is an ordinary SuperVGA image would
look like this (640*480*256).

But if you wish to have some other style use
the following meta-strings and create your
own info style.

~W = Width of GIF Image.
~H = Height of GIF Image.
~P = Number of Colours in GIF Image.

Where ~ is a Tilde (#126).



Temporary
directory When extracting files from archives or
performing other functions Febbs might need
to put some temporary files somewhere. This
is where You tell Febbs to store thoose
files. This directory that You specify here
will not be erased when Febbs is done so
Febbs can share this directory with other
programs that also needs a temporary
directory.


Flag toggle SETUP

Exploding
Windows Do you wish to use Exploding windows when
inside Febbs? Just some aesthetic stuff, but
nice for the Eye.


Date/Size
Display Febbs has the ability to show date and size
of the file on the line that the cursor is
on at the moment. The size and date will be
displayed on the statusline. This option
sets the default start value for this
option. This can later be toggled ON / OFF
from inside the editor.


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Backup
Files. Do you wish to keep BAK files of your
Files.Bbs. That is Files.Bak of every saved
Files.Bbs or not. FEBBS always creates a BAK
file when saving. This option only chooses
wether or not to delete that Bak file after
completed save of the current Files.Bbs.
This option has no affect when you use
Remote Access 1.00 new CD-Rom support since
all Files.Bbs resides in the same directory
and is called the same except for the
extension. So when Febbs renames the current
Files.Bbs to Files.Bak it will overwrite the
last Files.Bak that was in the same
directory.


Noise when
Explode. This will let you choose wether or not to
use some sound effects when exploding the
windows onto the screen. This flag has
absolutely no meaning if the Exploding
windows option is set to OFF.


Swap. Swap out of memory when Shelling is a very
powerful feature that Febbs has that allows
almost any program to be run in a DOS Shell
from inside Febbs. Here you decide if you
wish to use this feature. On an old machine
with little memory and a slow disk it can be
painfully slow to swap out Febbs. So if you
know that you will never use any large
programs (The PAK and ARJ archivers are
considered to be large programs) you may
turn this feature off.


Columns in
Area list. When choosing area from the File Area pick
list you can select how many columns that
you wish to have displayed on the screen at
the same time. Possible values for this item
is 1-3.



Delay When
Explode. When Exploding windows is set to true then
this item also effects the way this is
displayed. You can fine tune the way you
wish your Windows to Explode. This is all
depending on how fast machine you have got.
So try what settings you prefer on your


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machine.


In Area list
from start. Mostly you wish to end up in the Area Pick
List when you fire up Febbs. Set this option
to ON and Febbs will push an enter into the
keyboard buffer and thereby leaving you in
the Area Pick List when you enter Febbs.
This option has only been tested on AT
machines and upwards. It may not work on
older machines.


Virus check. If you rest assure that no virus will ever
get near your machine You may want turn of
the Virus check at the start up of Febbs.


Screen mode. This option will let you choose if you wish
to run Febbs in a higher line mode then 25
rows. This only works on EGA/VGA adapters
and monitors. Febbs also supports other
modes of Screen length as long as you do not
shell to DOS and reset the screen to an
other mode. If you do that you are on your
own! Febbs will when exiting after completed
task try to restore the screen mode to what
it was before you entered Febbs. And if You
wis to run Febbs in any non standard video
mode be sure to set this option to AUTO then
Febbs will not set the vidoemode upon
execution rather simply adopt to the mode
You have when You start Febbs.


Pause after
DOS Shell. You may configure if you want Febbs to pause
before returning from a shell to let you see
the last screen of the program that you
shelled to. This function however does not
affect the "look inside archives" function.


Empty lines
last in Files.Bbs This option lets You tell Febbs how many
empty lines You wish to have last in the
Files.Bbs file when saving it.


Fast move
Between Drives. When hurling (moving) files Febbs can
move files fast by simply renaming the
files. This works well as long as You
are on the same drive or You rename


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across substituted or assigned drives.
But this does not work to well on some
LANs. So if You do not use the DOS
commands SUBST or ASSIGN i suggest that
You have this switch set to NO to
prevent any problems.


Use long
areanumbers in
Maximus mode. You can, as Maximus 2.00 sysop, choose
if You want to use the long areanumbers
or if You want to stay with the old 3
character style. This switch has no
effect in any other mode then Maximus 2
mode.



Colours SETUP


After this it's time to be creative.
Choose Colours, This is your change to get seasick 🙂
Have Fun.

Remember that if you are upgrading from version 1.50 (or
prior versions ) then you need to set the Colours of some
new items. Otherwise these will be black on black. Not to
viewable i must say.

If you wish to temporarily use Febbs on a monochrome
monitor and you have no wish to change the setup then fire
up Febbs with the parameter /M.

C:\> FEBBS /M

Will temporarily put Febbs in a monochrome mode.



















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The Filelists SETUP



Total List. This is the name of the global filelist that
will be created for you when you either in
batchmode (see later on in this document) or
from the menu order a filelist.


News List. The same as the above is valid for Newslist.
Although this is a list of New files the
"Days for News list" number of days.


How old. Enter how old files that should be included
in the list of new files.


Condensed
list. This list is a mix between the News list and
the Total list. All files are included just
like the Total list but only the names and
the descriptions after the names. Any
descriptions between two files will be
omitted.



Areas
DIR list. This is a list containing the directories of
all your areas that is included in the
filelist (and the areas that are tagged for
a password). This is to create a directory
over Frequable directories for your mailer.
See the list part of this manual for more
information.


Style of
Areas DIR
List. Febbs supports two styles of Areas DIR list.
The styles supported are called FrontDoor and
Binkley. The names are taken from then both
programs that uses the different types of
list. When in FrontDoor mode Febbs will
write each line in the following Style :

C:\FILES\FEBBS

and when in Binkley mode it will write the
following :

C:\FILES\FEBBS\*.*




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Missing
files. If a file is Missing this will be displayed
instead of Date and Size in the filelist.
(or if a file has Zero length).


Overview
of areas. The overviw list is a little overview of all
your areas. Nothing fancy but it still an
overview. ASCII Version


Overview
ANSI. This is the ANSI version of the area
overview list. Maybe nice to have on display
in your bbs so that all those twit users
will see how much files there really is and
upload something (for a change) to get hold
of the other areas.


Overview
Avatar. Avatar version of the area overview list.
The same list as the above but with Avatar
colour codes instead of ANSI colour codes.



Best download
lists. When creating the Total filelist Febbs can
also take a look at what files that have
been downloaded most. Nice to have online to
show your users what files that are the most
popular. You can create both an ASCII,ANSI and
AVATAR version of this list. The 50 most
downloaded files on your system can be
placed in this list. For this to work you
have to have a program that maintains
download counters in your files.bbs.

NICENICE.GIF [10] (640*480*256) Really nice picture.

The part of the description with the digits
10 is the download counter. And it has to
start at position 14 in your Files.Bbs. But
if it doesn't Febbs will adjust this for You
at runtime. Both when creating lists in
batchmode and when loading a Files.Bbs for
editing. Febbs can handle Download counters
of a variety of styles. [](){}<>0123456789
are all valid as download counters. Note
that also just numbers works.

NICENICE.GIF 10 (640*480*256) Really nice picture.



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The list is created when you run a total
list and you have named the ASCII, ANSI or
AVATAR versions in the Setup. Febbs does NOT
do any download counting on its own. You
must use another program to maintain your
DownLoad counters. Febbs simply use them
when it creates this list.


Number of
items. You can decide how many items you wish to
appear in the "Best Download" list. Values
between 5 and 50 are valid.


Messages to
the users. The messages that appear under the head in
the Filelist is configurable. The two
messages the appear is linked with the areas
that you tag as password areas (see below)
and those that you don't. It doesn't have to
be solely for file request that you can use
these little messages. It works just as well
if you just want to inform that this area is
only for registered users or something like
that.


Header of
Total list. This option let You specify if You want to
have a header of the total list. Perhaps a
textlogo of some description about the
containts of the list.


Header of
News list. This option let You specify if You want to
have a header of the list of new files.
Perhaps a textlogo of some description about
the containts of the list telling the user
how old files are included or something like
that.

Footer of
Total list. This option let You specify if You want to
have a footer of the total list of files.
Perhaps the ASCII version of the area
overview. Or just some advertisment about
You and Your system.

Footer of
News list. This option let You specify if You want to
have a footer of the list of new files.
Perhaps the ASCII version of the area
overview. Or just some advertisment about


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Areas to list SETUP


Areas to list. This item will bring up a list of all
the areas specified in your areafile(s).
Here you tag which areas that will be
included in the lists, to have the
password string under the header or to
be included in the list of frequable
directories for Your mailer. To toggle
the different selections ON/OFF use the
following keys :

L Toggle include in lists.
P Toggle password string.
F Toggle include in list of directories.


Include in lists This option selects wether or not this
particular area should be included in
all the lists that Febbs can produce.


The Password
areas The Password item will let you tag those
areas that needs a password to be accessed.
Either for file request (via Your mailer) or
On-Line. This will put the text that You
already has specified above in the list
setup under the header of the filelists. If
an area is tagged then the text from the
"Password Freq message" will be put under
the header and if not tagged then the "Freq
Possible message" will be put there instead.
And as mentioned above you can put any
message that you find suitable there. There
is no need for it to be a password message.


Directory list Febbs has the ability to create a list
of directories that Your areas reside
in. This option toggles wether or not to
include this particular area or not in
this list.













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Files to ignore SETUP


You can define up to 10 filenames that You want Febbs to
ignore when adopting files and in some other functions.
This has the advantage that if You have any files needed
by Your BBS that Febbs is not aware about then You can
teach Febbs to become aware that these files are system
files. From start Febbs is aware of all .BAK and .BBS
files.



External Support programs SETUP


All external programs can be accessed via the DOS Path. If
a program is in the path then simply write same command in
the config as you would from the dos command line. But if
not in the path please state full path and name! Ex.
D:\PATH\PKUNZIP.EXE. Please read the part about swapping
and turn it on if you are accessing any large programs
from inside Febbs.



The external viewers SETUP


The external viewers are accessed like this :

If You have specified an external viewer then that one
will be loaded when you press the appropriate key (see "How
to edit Your Files.Bbs" later on in this manual). It will be
loaded with a commandline which is the name and full path
to the file you where standing on inside the editor.



Ex. of CommandLine : C:\DIV\DP.EXE C:\FILE\FENRIS.ZIP
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À Your Setup À Part added by FEBBS.

Fig. 4.



If no viewer has been specified in the setup then Febbs
will use the built in viewer. This goes for all viewers
except the GIF viewer.

Febbs supports the following types of viewers :

- Archive viewer.



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- Text file Viewer.
- Binary file viewer.
- GIF viewer.



The Archive programs SETUP


Febbs has the ability to peek inside all major archive
types to look at the files that reside inside the
archives. What Febbs can't do is to unpack a file inside
an archive that you wish to look at. This is where the
external archive programs comes in. If you do not want to
look at files inside archives then you won't have to
configure any archive programs. There is NO need for any
parameters for the Archivers. Febbs will, when executing
them, supply the needed parameters.

Febbs supports the ability to look at files inside the
following archive types.

Archive Type Version SFX

PKZIP 1.10 Yes
LHA 2.13 Yes
LHArc 1.13 Yes
AR 0.20 Yes
LARC 3.30 Yes
Hyper 2.50
ARC 6.02
PAK 2.51
PKPak 3.61
ARJ 2.21 Yes

Please note that LHA 2.13 is used to unpack LHarc 1.13, AR
0.20 and
LArc 3.30 archives. And PAK 2.51 is used to unpack any ARC
and PAK files.

The Archivers marked with a 'Yes' on the SFX option can
Febbs also look inside the so called Self Extracting
Archives that these archivers can produce.

Please, take a look at the Swap option if you intend to
use either PAK or ARJ since both of these packers require
a lot of memory to operate properly.

If you are missing an Archive type then please let me
know. And if you supply me with the technical info about
archives i will be able to add that archive type in a
later release.


The free of choice external utilities SETUP


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There are five slots for external support programs. These
programs can be anything you like. Just like all the other
external programs these can be accessed via the DOS path.
And if not in the path please supply full path name.

The following meta strings are available on the command
lines:

~C = Current directory
~P = Path and Name of Current files.bbs
~N = Name and full path to file on current line
~@ = Text list containing full names of all
tagged files in area
~D = The description of the file on the current
line.
~A = Area name of current Area as found in
areafile.

The first character in the meta strings is a so called
tilde (#126).
The meta strings can occur more than once on the same
line.

Ex1.
Febbs has been executed from C:\FEBBS. And the commandline
in the setup for Your external program looks like this :

MTA /@~@

If You execute this, the commandline would expand to :

MTA /@C:\FEBBS\FBTAGG.TMP

The FBTAGG.TMP file is the file where Febbs puts the list
of all tagged files in the editor.

* Make Them Anything (MTA) is an Archive converter by Rob
Van.Hoeven

Ex2.
If your standing on a line looking like this:

FENRIR.GIF Nice Picture of Your SysOp.

And the Commandline in the setup looked like this :

HATCH /cTIC.CFG /f~N /d~D

Then his would expand to :

HATCH /cTIC.CFG /fFENRIR.GIF /dNice Picture of Your SysOp.

Allowing you to easily hatch files into different File
echos.


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* Hatch is a part of the FileEcho package called TICK by
Bary Geller.



The Text "macros" SETUP

Macros. Often used text strings can be entered here
to speed up editing of Your Files.Bbs files.
These texts will be inserted at cursor
position inside the editor. That is if you
have pressed the appropriate "HotKeys".
Febbs does not support any real macros. That
is recording of keyboard strokes.



Keyboard setup SETUP

Keyboard
redefinition. All key assignments of functions in
Febbs can be defined by the user on
which keys he would like them. This has
the advantage that You can streamline
Febbs into Your computer environment.
This also affects the manual that will
not refer to functions via their key
assignments rather their functions.

All functions can have to key sequences that
assigned to them. But You do not have to
assign more then one if You do not wish. To
assign a key simply place the cursor on the
key You wish to reassign and press .
A small box will pop up and then You press
the key You want to assign to the function.
If The key sequens is already occupied You
will be notified. To remove an assignment
press and then press to
remove the assigned key sequence.



Entering the registration code SETUP


Keynumber. If you decide to use Febbs after the trial
period you must register (see the HOWTO.REG
doc) and this is where you enter the
registration Info after you have received
your Keynumber.


Your Name. Your Name must be exactly as you spelled it



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in the registration form and remember that
it is case sensitive.


BBS Name. The name of your BBS is the Background that
is used in Febbs. This one can be changed
after registration without the need of a new
Keynumber.


General info. Febbs has a dual key system. That is it
has both a key You enter above and a
file on disk that contains Your
registration information. When You
register You will therefore be forced to
both enter a code given to You in the
setup and make sure the keyfile (named
FEBBS.KEY) resides in the same directory
as FEBBS.EXE.


Evaluation. To be able to evaluate Febbs You have to
enter an evaluation key number in the setup.
This key is valid for 6 months from every
release of Febbs. And the key will therefore
be different for every new Febbs release.
You will allways find the evaluation
keynumber for this perticular version of
Febbs in the file called FEBBS.NEW that is
shipped with every new release.



Editing the control files SETUP


The area header. This option You choose to edit the area
header control file. The file has been
named allready under the list setup.


Total list header. This is the top header of the
total list and the condensed
list. And as with all the other
files they have been named
under the list setup.


Total list footer. The footer of the total and
condensed list.



News list header. The header of the list of new files.



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News list footer. The footer of the list of new files.


Edit any textfile. Here You can edit any textfile
smaller then 64Kb of size. All
You have to do is input the
full path and name of the file
You want to edit.



Compile helpfile SETUP


Compile. When You have made changes to Your key
assignments You will most likely be wanting
to update the help in Febbs to reflect Your
new key assignments. To do this You have to
have the file called FEBBS.TXT in the same
directory as Feppla-The setup program.
FEBBS.TXT is the source code of the binary
helpfile that Febbs uses. When You select
"Compile" in the menu, Feppla will first
create a temporary file wich it inserts all
Your key assignements in and then it will
compile the binar helpfile from this
temporary file. It is beyond the scope of
this manual to describe how to program the
helpfile. But if You are interested contact
FenrisUlven Data to recive the needed
information.



Save the changes SETUP

Save. You have now reached the final decision. To
Save or Not to Save. Do as you please but
hurry up ! Febbs is Waiting to be tested 🙂


















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EDITOR


The maintenace menu in Febbs is not much to talk about.
And this is so on purpose. Now all you have to do is press
Enter twice to find yourself in the first area.

If we look at the Choose Area list you will see a list of
the areas represented in your Areafile. From the list
presented to you can choose which area to work on.

Use either your cursor movement keys (PgUp/PgDn/Arrows),
the mouse or press a number. If you press a number watch
the lower left corner of the window, Press for example 19
to be transferred to area no 19. This will greatly
improve the speed when choosing area if you are at the
bottom of the list and want to go to area 1. Then just
press "1" and enter. Sometimes, if you wish to go to an
area that is in the range 1 - 9 then maybe you need to
press so that Febbs understands that
you wish to go to area 4 and not to an area in the range
40 - 49.

A small mark in the Area Pick List, between the areanumber
and the areaname, shows if the area is to be included in
the File lists or not. That way it is easier to see if
some area by accident have been included that shouldn't
have been.

You may also tag and de-tag areas to be included in the
Filelists with from the same list. If you changed
any tagged areas from within Febbs then Febbs will ask you
if you wish to save when you exit the program. If you
answer yes then the changes will be saved to the config
file.






















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How to Edit Your Files.Bbs EDITOR


When you have chosen an area to edit then you will find
yourself inside an "ordinary" ASCII editor with your
Files.Bbs loaded in it. From here it's just plain old
boring editing .

If you are running FEBBS with a BBS package that supports
Avatar codes then perhaps you use them in your Files.Bbs
to make the lists more interesting. Febbs has no problem
with these except for the character #13 which is
considered as carriage return. But any other code just
enter them in the editor as you did before in your old
editor. Or why not use Febbs built in Avatar colour
picker. Choose any colour from a nice colour chart and
have the appropriate Avatar Colour code added at cursor
position.

When inside the editor use either the cursor keys or a
MicroSoft compatible mouse to manoeuvre. Press for an
instant help from anywhere in the editor.



How to read the function part of the manual EDITOR


Febbs has the ability to let You assign all functions to
keys that You prefer. This in return means that there is
no easy way to show You in this manual which keys which
function is assigned to. Therefor we have decided that
only the functions names are used as reference and not the
assigned keys sequences.

But You have all the Key-Function assignments in the
availiable in the Febbs help system. And the Febbs help
system can be updated by You when You make changes to the
Key-Function assignments.


















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The functions that can be used inside the editor EDITOR


Add Avatar colour codes

This is an easy way to add some nice Avatar colours to
your Files.Bbs. You will be able to choose colour from a
colour chart. Press Enter and the Proper Avatar code is
inserted at the cursor position.



Add character literal

Add character literal at cursor position. Execute
Character literal and then Any key (or use Alt-Keypad)
to add any character to the Files.Bbs. Even if it is
occupied by a function usually. Good to have when you
adding Avatar codes or some other Control codes that
your BBS supports. Some control codes can be added
without you using this functions but as more and more
control codes are occupied by functions inside the
editor it is often easiest to use this one all the time.



Add DownLoad Counter as specified in setup

If you execute add download counter it will be added
first to the description. You may specify the style of
the counter in the setup. If no counter specified the
description will be justified at position 14. A check to
see if a DL Counter already is present is performed when
you try to add a DL Counter. The Check is very hard to
do, due to all the different styles of the DL counter.
Hopefully it works satisfactory most of the time. If You
are unable to add a DL counter to a specific line try
inserting a few spaces to the description, just so that
the check for a download counter is temporarily fooled.



Add GIF info to description

If you are editing an area that has GIF files in it and
you are standing at a line with a GIF file that looks
like this ...

NICENICE.GIF A Really nice picture.

and you execute Add GIF info you will get this...

NICENICE.GIF (640*480*256) A Really nice picture.

That is, the Resolution and how many colours will be


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added to the description of that particular file. Nice
if you have GIFs in your Files.Bbs that where there
before FEBBS Adopt function came along to add the
resolution for you. Febbs Supports both the GIF87a
standard and the new GIF89a standard.

The (X*Y*Pal) value will be inserted at cursor position
but if you are standing on the filename it will be
inserted as the first text in the description. And if
you are a registered user have a look at the setup where
You can style the added GIF info the way you like it.



Adopt Missing Files to Files.Bbs

When you press execute the adopt command Febbs will
compare the files in the current Files.Bbs with the
files found in the directory connected with the current
Files.Bbs. Any file found on the disk and not inside the
current Files.Bbs will be added to the bottom of the
Files.Bbs with the description choosen by You in the
setup.



Binary Viewer

If You have specified an external binary viewer then
that one will be loaded when you press the key sequence
that is associated with this function. It will be loaded
with the commandline that exists of name and full path
to the file you where standing on inside the editor.

Ex. of CommandLine : C:\DIV\DP.EXE C:\FILE\FENRIS.ZIP
ÀÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
À Your Setup À Part added by FEBBS.

Fig. 5.

If no Binary viewer has been specified in the setup then
Febbs will use the built in viewer.


Copy description from line Above

This one Copies the description from line your standing
on to file below. Nice when your adding the same
description to multiple files.



Copy tagged Lines/Files to different Area

This option will let you copy the already tagged lines


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to a different area. The select area window comes up
again and all the commands described in this window
above is working. Then, when you have chosen a area to
hurl to the files will be moved there and then the old
files.bbs will be saved and the new one loaded. When the
chosen area has been loaded just move to the position
you would like to give the hurled files descriptions and
press the key again. The descriptions
will now be placed where you where standing on.

Febbs is all the time trying to determine that enough
diskspace is left on the drive that you are hurling to.
If not enough room on the destination Febbs will stop
and only let You hurl the files that will fit. But as
always there can be things that might go wrong if you
are getting short of diskspace so try not to get into
this dilemma.

If a file that you are copying already exists in the
area you are copying to FEBBS will ask you if you wish
to overwrite the file. If you answer Yes the file will
be overwritten.

To save memory, Febbs will when copying create a
temporarily file called FEBHURL.TMP. This file contains
the descriptions from Files.Bbs that are to be hurled.
Creating this file has an advantages, It adds extra
safety to the copy. What if something happens to your
system before you have had a chance to place the copyied
files and you had to restart your computer ? The
descriptions would be lost forever. But now you can
simply look at the file FEBHURL.TMP in the home
directory of Febbs and there are the descriptions.

If you try to copy a file to a path which does not
exist, FEBBS will ask if you wish to create the
directory. Although the same restrictions as the MD
command in DOS must be observed, that is Febbs can't
create a whole path Ex: C:\FILES\PASCAL\ cant be created
but if C:\FILES\ existed already then the subdir PASCAL
would be added.

See Also : Copy/Hurl Files descriptions Anywhere and
without area change.



Copy Files descriptions Anywhere and without area change

This version of the copy will not let you place the
descriptions in the area that you area copying to. That
is when copying you will NOT be transferred to the new
area. The descriptions of the files will be placed last
in the area you are copying to. Also this version of the
copy will let you copy files and descriptions to any


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directory you wish. Tag as usual the files you wish to
copy and then while browsing the areas of your areafile
press . A new box will appear that let you
type in the full path to where you wish to hurl the
files. If the directory doesn't exist Febbs will ask you
if you wish to create it first. Although the same
restrictions as the MD command in DOS must be observed,
that is Febbs can't create a whole path Ex:
C:\FILES\PASCAL\ cant be created but if C:\FILES\
existed already then the subdir PASCAL would be added.
Febbs will also try to create a new Files.Bbs if one
doesn't exist in the directory your copying to. All the
descriptions will be placed in this Files.Bbs.

See Also : Copy/Hurl tagged Lines/Files to different
Area.


Copy Line

Pressing will Copy the line you are standing
in to a buffer. And pressing again will
transfer the buffer to line you are standing on. A
status indicator in the lower right of the screen will
indicate if something is in the buffer. This function
only works inside the current Files.Bbs. You can not use
this one to copy text between areas.

See Also : Move line





Display Files.Bbs as the BBS would

When you execute this command Febbs will let you look at
the Files.Bbs just like the user would see. It displays
the page your standing at in the editor and it is aware
of some Avatar codes. The Avatar codes that it is aware
of is discussed in the Avatar section later on in this
manual.



Display the External support programs

A display of the External programs that you have
assigned in the setup. It displays a list of all the
external support programs in the setup. Including the
five DOS programs that you have a possibility to
install.





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DOS Shell

This option works just like any other shell, although
the DOS Shell option will only load an extra copy of
Command.Com (or whatever command processor you use) into
memory. No Commandline is passed. You will find yourself
inside the directory you where editing inside the
editor. To return to Febbs simply type EXIT at the DOS
prompt and press return. Febbs will also change the DOS
prompt to remind you of this. And as in all shell you
are not allowed to load any programs that doesn't
release all memory after execution.



External Archive Viewer

This one works just like the binary viewer although the
internal Archive viewer is located on a different key
sequence.

See Also : Binary Viewer, Look Inside Archive/GIF Info.



External GIF Viewer

Febbs has no internal GIF viewer so only the external is
used if you trigger the option. Remember
that if You are in some none standard text mode when You
peek at GIF images then Febbs will not be able to switch
back to that mode after You have finished to look at the
GIF image. As standard text modes are 25,43 and 50 row
modes.

See Also : Binary Viewer.



Global Unmark of tagged Lines

This option clears all tags in the current Files.Bbs

See Also : Tag line for later action.



Hurl tagged Lines/Files to different Area

This option will let you hurl (move) the already tagged
lines to a different area. This function works in most
parts as the Copy version of this function, only the
differences are used.

If the file areas you are hurling between is on the same


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drive no physical moving is done. Only at directory
level are the files moved. This makes the Hurl process
extremely fast.

If a file that you are hurling already exists in the
area you are hurling to FEBBS will ask you if you wish
to overwrite the file. If you answer Yes the file will
be overwritten but the description won't transferred to
the new area. This is to prevent dupe descriptions in
the area. FEBBS simply assumes that the description
already in the area is the correct and simply kills the
new one.

See Also : Copy/Hurl Files descriptions Anywhere and
without area change.



Hurl Files descriptions Anywhere and without area change

This version of the hurl will not let you place the
descriptions in the area that you area hurling to. That
is when hurling you will NOT be transferred to the new
area. The descriptions of the files will be placed last
in the area you are hurling too. This file works just as
the copy version of this function.

See Also : Copy/Hurl tagged Lines/Files to different
Area.



Indent comment to position specified in the setup

Sometimes when descriptions of files that take more than
one line it is nice to be able to indent the following
lines at a position that will look nice when your BBS
displays them. Pressing tab will do that for you with
the line you are standing on. If the line doesn't fit it
well be wrapped to the next line. Please not that you
cannot indent a file. So if the line you wish o indent
is starting at position 1 then Febbs consider that one
to be a file. Inserting a space as the first character
on the line will let you indent it with .



Kill All tagged Lines / Files

Just as the header says this function kills (erases) all
tagged lines (and the associated files) in the editor.
If a file is missing it simply works as -
Remove line.

See Also : Remove Both line and File.


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Look Inside Archive / GIF Info

Febbs has the ability too peek inside most of the major
Archives that are so popular on BBS systems. Archived
files save both time when Downloading and space on the
System Operators disk. And in the same time it sees to
that all files in a package is kept together. That is
documentation and the Executables will never part.

When you execute this function You will see a window
with the contents of the archive you where standing on
with the cursor. If the file is a GIF file instead of an
archive you will see an info-window containing relevant
info about that particular GIF picture.

After Febbs has scanned the entire file you will be able
to scroll around inside the window just like when
choosing a filearea. And if you wish to look at a file
inside the archive just press enter and that particular
file is unpacked and loaded into the either the internal
viewer or external. All depending on wether or not you
have configured any of these in the Setup. Febbs will
load the Binary viewer if the file has an extension of
EXE, COM or OVR. And load the texviewer if any other
extension is found. Febbs will behave just as when you
use the viewers from inside the editor. Please note that
for this function to work you have to install the
external archivers in the Setup. Febbs do NOT do any
unpacking of its own.

Febbs supports the ability to look at files inside the
following archive types.

Archive Type Version SFX

PKZIP 1.10 Yes
LHA 2.13 Yes
LHArc 1.13 Yes
AR 0.20 Yes
LARC 3.30 Yes
Hyper 2.50
ARC 6.02
PAK 2.51
PKPak 3.61
ARJ 2.21 Yes

The Archive programs with the SFX flag are Febbs also
able to peek into the so called SelF-Extracting files
made by these Archives

Please note that PAK 2.51 needs approximately 185 Kb to
work properly. And the ARJ Archiver is also a real
memory hog so consider Febbs abilities to can swap


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itself out of memory if You plan to look at files inside
ARJ,PAK or ARC Archives.

When your looking at Files inside archives Febbs needs
to extract the File to be able to let you have a look at
it. If you do not wish to use the standard temporary
directory that Febbs has hardcoded into itself, then
specify in the setup under GENERAL ITEMS where Febbs
should store the extracted file.

When you are looking inside archives Febbs will use the
viewer that you have defined or not defined if you wish
to use the internal. If you have installed an external
viewer Febbs will, to make this operation as fast as
possible, create a BATCH file in its home directory and
from that batch file execute the programs. Both the
Unpacker and the viewer. Otherwise Febbs would have to
shell twice and if you have not got any XMS or EMS
memory then the swap operation can take a while.

See Also : External Archive Viewer.




Memory Status

The function memory status will display both disk status
and memory status. Also a nice graph over the space left
on current disk versus total Size is Shown.



Menu in editor

If You are not that familiar with Febbs and the Key
assignments You have selected You can rest calmly
because there is a menu in Febbs wich has all functions
that are availiable via "hotkeys". So simply invoke the
editor and browse the menus to decide what function You
want to perform.



Move Line

Move line works just like Copy line although the line
you are standing on will be moved to the buffer instead
of copied. And the next time you press it
will be transferred to the line the cursor was on.
Please note that if you move something into the
movebuffer and then switch filearea the line inside the
buffer will be lost.

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Move tagged Lines inside editor

This function moves the tagged lines inside the editor.
When execute this function all the tagged lines in the
editor will be moved to the line you are standing on.
Nice if you wish to move a number of files. A bit too
much job to do that with Move Line.

See Also : Move Line



Remove Both line and File

This function will Delete the file and description not
only from the list but from the disk as well.

FEBBS will ask you if you are sure when deleting files.
No harm done if you choose the wrong file. Although
Febbs will not ask if the Files is missing and its only
a textline. Then this function works just as if you had
pressed - Delete Line.

See Also : Remove File but leave description in
Files.Bbs.



Remove File but leave description in Files.Bbs

Removes the file but leaves the description. This one
can be used when you are short of diskspace but wish to
leave the description in the list and thereby make it
when your users view your Files.Bbs.

See Also : Remove Both line and File, Kill All tagged
Lines / Files



Remove missing files from Files.Bbs

When you execute this function Febbs will check that all
the files in Files.Bbs really exists. If an entry does
not exist on disk then it is removed from Files.Bbs.

See Also : Tag All Missing Files



Rename File on Current line

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file on the current line. Febbs will automaticaly update
the Files.Bbs file for You as well as renaming the file
on disk.




Save current Files.Bbs

When saving Files.Bbs Febbs will handle any upcomming
errors. If an error should occur then Febbs will prompt
You for a new filename so You may save the file
elsewhere.



Search for Filename

When executed this function will pop up an entry field
where you enter a search string to look for. Please
note, no wildcards or anything like that. If You wish to
find "NICEGIRL.GIF" just enter "GIRL". Then Press
to start search. Febbs will first search in the
current area for the name. Starting at row below the
cursor position and to the end. If Febbs find
"GIRLS.GIF" and stops at that but you know that one is
not the right one use to continue Search.
But if not Found then a Question will pop up on the
screen asking if you wish to search Global. If you
answer yes you will see Febbs strawl down all your Areas
looking for the file. Only Files listed in Files.Bbs is
taken into the search. After completed search or after
you have pressed a key to stop search You will see the
found (if any) Files in a Scrollable window just like
the Choose area window. And if you position yourself
upon a File and press enter you will automatically be
transferred to that file. If in another area, a new
Files.Bbs will be loaded. And the cursor will be placed

on the File you wanted to go to.

See Also : Search again.



Search again

As described under the function
continues the search after the first
"hit".

Ex. A nice way to use search is like this.

You have just received the latest DSZ protocol by Chuck
Forsberg and wants to hurl it from the UL area to its
appropriate area. But you do not remember where the old


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versions area. Simply press enter the
Search argument DSZ press enter and Febbs will start
looking for any DSZ files for you. When you see the old
ones popping up in the search window press any key to
stop search. You Now see where the old file is, what it
is called, what area and area number. You remember the
number and presses Escape to abandon the Search
completely. You tag the New DSZ. Press for
Hurl. Enter the area number where the old ones where.
For example 15 and press Enter. You will find yourself
inside the Files.Bbs of area 15 at the top. Now to get
to the old DSZ files simply press to
Continue search and viola there you are. Press file> to "put down" the new DSZ and use to
get rid of the old one. Simple and Fast. What more could
you want.

See Also : Search for Filename



Sort Block

This one will let you sort a block that you first mark
with the direction keys. The direction keys are Up-
/Down-Arrow and PageUp/PageDown. When You have marked
the block that You wish to sort press . Please
not that Febbs do not support sorting of multiline
descriptions.



Show text "macros"

This will pop up a little box on the screen showing what
macros you have defined in the setup. Good to have when
your memory isn't what it ought to be 🙂


Strip Download counter

A lot of people use download counters in their files.bbs
files to show the users wich files are the most popular.
And Febbs has the ability to add theese counters but not
update them. But what happens when You want to remove
thoose download counters? Well, thats easy. Just use the
following function to have Febbs remove the download
counter on the current line.


Switch Area

When you are inside the editor it would be very clumsy
if you had to leave it and return to the main menu every
time you wished to change area to work on. Therefore


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Febbs has the ability to let you choose a new area to
work on from inside the editor. This function works just
like the choose area item from the main menu. Just
cruise between your areas and select a new one with
enter. (or use the HotKeys ! That is if you wish to go
to area 19 simply press 1, watch the lower left corner
of the window, press 9 and press Enter. As fast as it
can be) You will upon selection be transferred directly
to the new area. The Files.Bbs you leave will
automatically be saved if you have done any changes to
it. If you wish to discard your changes you will have to
choose F3 (or ESC) to abandon your changes. And take of
from the main menu for new adventures in Files Land.



Tag All Missing Files

Maybe is a bit too strong for
you. You wish to have files Off-Line" due to lack of
disk space. But you do not wish to keep all that junk
lying around as Off-Line. Easy, Simply press missing> and all missing files will be tagged and then
untag those you wish to keep and the others use tagged files>

See also : Remove missing files from Files.Bbs, Kill All
tagged Lines/Files.



Tag dupe Entries in Current Files.Bbs

This function will compare all file names in the Current
Files.Bbs to see if any Duplicate entries exist. If any,
they will be Tagged and you are able to see which are
dupes and afterwards take appropriate actions.

See Also : Kill All tagged Lines / Files


Tag files older then date

Use this function to tag files in the current area that
are older then the date You input. Usefull when You want
to get rid of old files lying about and wasting space
that can be used to hold new and exciting files.


Tag Line for later action

Tag line will simply tag the line you are standing on.
It will change colour to the colour chosen by you in the
setup to indicate that it is tagged. If the line is
already tagged then the line will be non-tagged. Simply


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a Tag-Toggler.

See Also : Global Unmark of tagged Lines.



Tagged files status

This function will display how many files that have been
tagged and the total size of the tagged files.



Text Viewer

Febbs internal textviewer has some limitations. It can
only handle 2000 lines and it can only handle as much
lines that can be stored in memory. It can't wrap lines
either. But it is in my opinion fully functional for its
purposes. The external text viewer works just like the
Binary.

See Also : Binary Viewer.



Text "Macros" as defined in Setup

These texts, that you have specified in the setup, will
be inserted at cursor position when you press the
appropriate "HotKey".



Toggle Display File-size / -Date on statusline

This toggles the option to display size and date of file
on current line on the statusline. The default state of
this toggle is already chosen in the setup.



Touch file on current line

If you execute this function the file on the current
line will be stamped with the current date and time.
Nice if you have manually copied in some new files from
floppy and wish to let your users now that these are new
files.

See Also : Touch all tagged files



Touch all tagged files


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Touch all tagged files. Works just like
that touches the file on the current line, although this
one touches all tagged files. By touching i mean setting
current date and time on the file.

See Also : Touch File on Current line



Xpress way out of editor

When your in a hurry to leave Febbs use the Xpress way
out of the editor. When inside the editor and in editing
mode a press of will transfer you
directly to DOS. Although if you have made changes then
Febbs will ask you if you are sure.









































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Avatar Control Codes


Febbs is aware of some Avatar codes. Avatar stand for
Advanced Video Attribute Terminal Assembler and Recreator
and is a of George A. Stanislav. I will not go in to
deep here on the Avatar codes but if you wish to examine
them closer i suggest you get hold of the following
FidoNet technical Standards documentations :

FSC-0025
FSC-0037

They should be available on most Bulletin Board Systems
(BBS) but if you can't find them contact me and i will
supply you with them.


The Following codes are supported by Febbs.

^Y - Repeat Character.
^V^B - Turn Blink on.
^V^A - Change Colour.

Where ^ stands for Control (Ctrl). Press down Ctrl and
then Press the Character after ^ to create the Control
character.

These codes are supported in both the Files.Bbs viewer and
when creating lists.

When looking at the current Files.Bbs with the viewer
Febbs will translate the Avatar codes into proper colours,
blinks and expand any repeat char sequens.

And when creating the filelists Febbs will strip the
Colour and Blink codes and expand the repeat char sequens.
That way your users will get a filelist that looks just
like the list they saw on the screen while they where
online. Well almost anyway. There will be no colours...



Runtime Errors


Built into Febbs is an errorhandler for Runtime Errors
(God forbid that there are any). Febbs will tell you what
is wrong in plain English and will also create a file in
the current directory called FEBBS.ERR with the same info.
Please forward this file with a detailed explanation of
how you managed get the Error to the author. Otherwise i
won't be able to fix it. But before you report it to me
see to that you can reproduce the error on your machine. I



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can not correct any errors if i cant reproduce them.
























































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The Filelists

A very Important feature of Febbs is the ability to create
filelists for your daily maintenance. Febbs is able to
create a variety of lists.

Those are :

- Total Filelist of all chosen areas.
- A Newslist of new files in all chosen areas.
- An Overview list of all chosen areas.
- A list over the physical directories that your areas
resides in.
- A list over the 50 most downloaded files on your BBS.

These files can be created from the menu or by calling
FEBBS with commandline parameters. The Overview of chosen
areas and the best download list is available in both ANSI,
ASCII and AVATAR flavour.



Avatar Codes The Filelists

If you are running Febbs with a BBS package that handles
Avatar codes, or with the Files.Bbs Browser from
FenrisUlven Data then maybe you use Avatar Codes in your
Files.Bbs to increase the viewability. Febbs will when run
strip all Avatar codes from the lists and expand any
Repeat Char Codes. (See the Avatar part of this manual)
Thereby make the lists very viewable in text also. Gone is
all those happy faces that the users hate when they tried
to read the lists or even worse, Print them! Have you ever
seen what Avatarcodes does to a Printer? It isn't a pretty
sight i might tell you. Well Febbs will take care of it
all, so Happy Filelisting and to your users Have a Nice
Reading!



General items The Filelists

Febbs wraps the descriptions in the fileslists if they are
to long. This is done i all three list types (Full, news
and condensed).

When running in batchmode Febbs has now the ability to
create a logfile. This log file lets you know a thing or
two about your unattended operations. If you do not want a
log file then simply leave the LogFile field in the setup
empty. Today the logfile is in a FrontDoor style but
if you feel that you need a different style let me know.





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The Directory list The Filelists

The directory list is meant to keep your Frequable
directories up to date. That is this file that is used by
Your mailer to determine which directories that are
frequable. Haven't you sometime redesigned the physical
location of your file areas? And did you, at that time,
remember to modify to modify the list over frequable
directories?

The answer is most likely to be NO.

Well, Febbs will now take care of that for you. But maybe
you got a few areas that you do NOT want to be included in
the filelist but you wish to be frequable anyway. An
example is my Beta directory where i keep Beta versions of
my software. I Still wish this directory to be frequable
but i do not wish to display to the public what is going
on here.

So therefore you simply create a file called FEBBOK.TXT !

This file will automatically at creation time for the
directory list be added to the above mentioned list.

Mine looks like ...

C:\FEBBETA

... Nothing Fancy at all.

Another way of doing this, if you have the directories
that you wish to include in this list set up in Your area
file, is to tag areas in the list of areas that should
have the password message added to them. And not tag them
in the areas to list option. Febbs will include the areas
that are tagged in the areas to list as well as those that
also those that has the password tag set. This is so that
areas not in the filelist can be accepted as frequable by
Your mailer.



When, How, Where? The Filelists


Three files, Overview list, Directory list and most
Downloaded files, will automatically be created when you
choose the Total list from either the main menu or via the
commandline (of course also the Total list will be
created). If you do not wish to create these lists simply
leave them out of the setup. That is do not give them a
name just leave the input field blank.




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The commandline parameters are "N", "F" and "C". Where "N"
stands for Newslist, "F" for Full list and "C" for the
Condensed list.

Ex. C:\FEBBS> FEBBS N

Would create a newslist. And ...

C:\FEBBS> FEBBS F

Would create a Full list over all your areas. An overview
list and a directory list. Of course can you do it like
this ...

C:\FEBBS> FEBBS F N C

This is my recommendation if you wish to create both a
Full list, a news list and a condensed list. Since all
lists area created at the same time. That way Febbs
doesn't have to scan all your areas twice this way.



Headers/Footers The Filelists

But what is a filelist without some nice advertising in
the beginning? Yes let's have some nice info about your
BBS in the beginning of the Filelists. So simply create a
header in a style you fancy and enter the the filename of
the header in the setup. You can put different headers
into the Total list and the news list. Still the Total
list, and the condensed list,uses the files the same
header and the News list will use its own header.

Put the header files at the same location as FEBBS.CTL,
FEBBOK.TXT and the rest of FEBBS and it will automatically
be inserted at the beginning of your file lists.

The same goes for the footer files. Febbs has the ability
yo put textfiles as footers the same way that it can put
headers in the filelists.


Area header The Filelists


Above each new area Febbs will put a so called area
header. This header contains some information about the
particular area (like areaname and so on). Febbs has one
predefined header that will be used if You do not specify
a header. The area header is specified in a normal
textfile that You can edit from within Feppla, the setup
program. You can design the header that comes before each
area in the filelist. This is done in a text file that You



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can call anything You want. Just make sure to in the
setup, under list setup -> Headers/footers to set "Area
header ctl file" to point at this text file. Included as
an example is HEAD.FEB that also explains the metastrings
availiable.

The meta strings that You can use in the area header are
the following :


~A = Area name left justified [40 characters]
~B = Area name right justified [40 characters]
~# = Area number [3 characters] [9 characters
if full Maximus 2
area numbers enabled]
~L = Access level to this area [10 characters]
~F = Number of files [5 characters]
~S = Size of all files in Kbytes [6 characters]
~D = Number of downloads in this particular
area [4 characters]


Headstart starts header information and Headend ends
header information Up to 10 lines can be used for a header
and they can be up to 80 chars wide. If You have several
headers in this file all You have to do is comment out the
headstart/headend commands. No need to comment out the
header. A line starting with a ";" character is treated
like a comment.

Example :


; Febbs standard header
;
HEADSTART
ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÑÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ͸
³ #~# ³ ~A Privilegie : ~L ³
ÃÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ´
³ °°°°°±±±±±²²²²²ÛÛÛÛÛ ³ ~S KBytes in ~F Files ³ ÛÛÛÛÛ²²²²²±±±±±°°°°° ³
ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÏÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÏÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ;
HEADEND



Sample batch file The Filelists


Now you are ready to start creating those nice lists that
everyone just loves to download. I would recommend that
you somewhere in your nightly maintenance add the command
to create the lists and then simply after creation Zip
them up and copy them to your Filelist area. Maybe
something like this :



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CD\FEBBS
FEBBS F N
PKZIP FENRIS FENRIS.TXT
COPY FENRIS.NEW D:\FILE\TEXT
COPY FENRIS.TXT D:\FILE\TEXT
COPY FENRIS.ZIP D:\FILE\TEXT
CD\RA

This is my batchfile for creating my lists. Nothing Fancy
at all.



Different Filelists The Filelists


But wait a second! I want to create different lists for
different users. That is the PC users doesn't like to
download filelist that contain Amiga files and vice versa.
That's easy! Simply create a new config file with Feppla
like this.

FEPPLA /S:Amiga.Ctl

Set up the areas you wish to include and name the
filelists.
Then Run ...

FB N F /S:Amiga.Ctl

and that Setup file will be used. For more info see the
setup part of this document.

























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Memory Swapping

When shelling Febbs has the ability to swap itself out of
memory to make room for other programs to run. When
swapping, Febbs can swap to Disk, EMS and XMS. FEBBS will
check for the presence of EMS and use that for the swap
file. If there is no EMS or not enough free EMS, FEBBS
will try to allocate XMS memory, and if there is no XMS or
not enough Febbs will try to swap to disk.

You have the ability to toggle swapping on or of in the
setup. If you are using a system with slow disks and no
extra memory then it can be good to turn of swapping to
speed things up. Please keep in mind that PAK for instance
needs approximately 185 Kb of memory to operate and ARJ
even more, so therefore check how much memory you have
when shelling from Febbs before you decide to turn
swapping off.

FEBBS leaves only approx. 10k resident when swapping. This
will give you maximum ram to do whatever you wish from
within FEBBS. Please note that you must not load any TSRs
or other programs that doesn't give back all memory when
you are finished with them. And also be aware of quirks
that exists if you are using DesqView and have set the
"Writes text directly to screen" option to false. See the
DesqView section of this text for more info.

The path and name of the swap file that FEBBS creates is
configurable. Go into FEPPLA and select General Setup and
set the full path AND filename of the swap file. Just make
sure you don't set it to a filename that already exists on
your drive or that file WILL be overwritten.

A good place for the swap file would be a ram drive. This
will speed up the swapping process if you don't have any
EMS or XMS, but be advised that the swap file size is
around 220k so set your ram drive size accordingly.

If you have extended memory and wish to be able to use it
as XMS memory install the Device driver called HIMEM.SYS
that MicroSoft supplies with most of their programs. Edit
the file called CONFIG.SYS to look like this in the
beginning of the file

DEVICE=C:\HIMEM.SYS

And also see to that the HIMEM.SYS file is located in your
root directory (or change the path above to where the file
is located). Or if you own a 386 then you can use any
other memory manager (QEMM, 386Max) to create XMS memory.
But then you can just as well use the EMS memory to swap.
Febbs will check the memory like this: First EMS second
XMS and last DISK. Shelling to memory is a whole lot



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faster then to shell to disk. Since i feel i must give my
registered users some value for their money i have decided
to make the XMS and EMS swap only available to those that
have registered. The DISK swap works just the same in both
registered and unregistered version.




















































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FEBBS VS Viruses and EXE packers


The versions before 0.06 of FEBBS was packed with LZEXE
(c) 1989 Fabrice BELLARD. This to prevent the program from
being attacked by viruses since LZEXE performs a CRC check
of the file upon execution. But with the release of the
unpacker for LZEXE this is not a reliable method any
longer. And also LZEXE isn't all that reliable on programs
that has to shell to DOS to execute other programs.

Therefore FEBBS scans itself upon execution and checks if
any changes were made to the EXE files. If there were,
FEBBS will halt with an error message. Please note that
due to the CRC check of the EXE file you can *NOT* pack
this program with LZEXE. And you can't alter the code in
any way. (Which the license forbids you to any way).

Another reason why you can't pack Febbs is because it is
overlayed to save memory. And LZEXE can't pack overlay
files. But PKLite by PKWare can do so and so has been
done.



































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The overlay buffer and slow machines


Since a lot of persons still use XT machines to run BBS
systems they usually do not like the overlay part of
Febbs. Overlays slow down the program since not all of the
code are kept in memory, only the parts that area needed.
The reason for saving memory is that larger Files.Bbs can
be loaded into Febbs for editing. But since XT machines
usually haven't got that big disks and thereby not that
big Files.Bbs files i have made the Overlay buffer size
configurable. The larger Buffer, the less disk access by
Febbs. That is if You do not have EMS memory, then Febbs
will use EMS for the overlays.

If you have EMS then you most certainly never want to
tamper with the overlay buffer size.

So if you wish to reduce disk access by Febbs use the
following switch to set the amount of memory that Febbs
should allocate for the overlay.

/O:

The size of the original buffer size is displayed when you
try to change the size of the Buffer. Now it is up to you
to configure the buffersize that is the best for Your
system. But make sure that You have saved enough of memory
to load Your largest Files.Bbs.




























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Commandline parameters


There are several command line parameters that Febbs
accepts. Most of them has already been discussed in the
documentation but this is a specification of all of them
in one place.

/M Use the monochrome colour set of Febbs.

/S: Use as setup file.

F Create a Full Filelist

N Create a News Filelist

C Create a Condensed Filelist

/X Leave out the name of the registered user
from the different lists that Febbs creates.

/O: Used when changing the overlay buffer in
RAM.

/D Debug mode. When this mode is set Febbs
displays more info on the status line when
in the area pick list. This is useful when
trying to determine if it is Febbs or Your
setup that is not working.

? Display a helpscreen of the avaliable
command line parameters.

























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Multitaskers and Share



Febbs is Multitasker- and Share-Aware. That means that
Febbs will when opening files try to allow others to
access the Files at the same time. All files, except
textfiles, are opened in Deny-Write-mode. That is, other
programs are allowed to read but not write to files opened
by Febbs while Febbs is reading them. Febbs will never
have a file open longer than necessary to get the needed
information from it.

The Screen writes in Febbs is aware about DesqView and
asks DesqView (DV) for an alternative video buffer.
Thereby you can set the Direct screenwrites option in DV
to NO. But be aware that if You shell from inside Febbs to
a program that uses direct screenwrites, then when you
return to Febbs you will most likely not be able recognise
the program that you left. This is because the other
program that you executed from inside Febbs has fooled DV
into changing vidoebuffer. So in most cases i recommend
that you have the Direct Screenwrites option set to yes
inside DV. And also that you assign at least 2 or more
text and graphics pages to the Window that you run Febbs
in. Not that Febbs needs it but if you shell to an
external program it might.

How much memory you give to Febbs is all up to you but
check the memory status with when you decide how much to
give to Febbs.

Please Keep in mind that every line in a Files.Bbs
occupies approximately 162 Bytes of Memory inside Febbs
Editor. So a 300 Lines Files.Bbs occupies approx 48,600
Bytes in memory.

Try be not to stingy when you assign memory to Febbs. Give
the program Elbow room to work.

Febbs will also, when idle waiting for a keystroke, slice
away CPU time to other tasks running under DesqView, Windows
3.xx or OS/2. This has the advantage that Febbs allows other
tasks to execute faster and smother while Febbs isn't
doing anything in particular.

If Access is Denied to a Files.Bbs then Febbs will inform
You of so. Access Denied can occur on multiline systems
when several tasks try to access the same files. For this
to work you must have loaded the DOS util SHARE.EXE before
you start.

If a Files.Bbs is missing then Febbs will ask you if You
wish to create it or not. Febbs will not report that a



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Files.Bbs file is missing just because it is locked at the
moment.
























































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The future


The Febbs-package is under constant development. And most
of the items that are added, or changed to become more
userfriendly, have been made possible only because of the
close relationship between the users and the developers of
the Febbs-package. That is one of the many advantages of
the ShareWare concept (wich this package is distributed
under). So if You have any questions or suggestions to
further enhance the program that You have been kind enough
to support by buying a license, please drop me a line via
electronic mail or standard mail at an address found later
on in this documentation.

Some functions that are pending to be implemented are the
following.


* Import text files into Files.Bbs
* Add headers in Files.Bbs while creating filelists.

But when You ask for new functions, try to be realistic
and remember that I am not doing this for a living. If i
would have done that i would have starved to death by now.

So try to be realistic. I will not implement Fossil
support and i will not turn it into a complete BBS system!
Yes, people have asked this of me 🙂 But maybe, The name
fits (FE-BBS) so who knows what will happen .




























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Support


If You wish to contact the development team of Febbs You
can always reach us at the following addresses.



The World
except
the USA. FenrisUlven Data
Attn: Patrik Sj”berg
S”rbygatan 69B
S-802 55 Gefle
Sweden
E-Mail : 2:205/208@Fidonet
US Robotics DS 14.4 42b
Data Line : +46-26-628057
FAX : +46-26-652101

The USA Febbs Support
Attn : Paul Williams
701 Laurel Drive
Aiken, South Carolina 29801-3391
E-Mail : 1:3624/1@Fidonet
US Robotics DS 14.4 42b
Data Line: (803) 649-9612

The United
Kingdom Febbs Support
c/o Simon Gledhill
37 Arleston Drive
Wollaton
Nottingham
NG8 2FR
E-Mail : 2:250/413@Fidonet
US Robotics 14.4
Data Line: 602-855607

The latest version and support in Your country is
availiable at the following sites. Most only availiable
via E-Mail or by logging on to their BBS systems.



The Netherlands Daniel Docekal
+31-10-4157141
E-Mail : 2:285/608









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Copyright, Trademarks


PKPAK, PKUNPAK, PKZIP and PKUNZIP are trademarks of PKWare Inc.
PAK is a trademark of NoGate Consulting.
ARC is a trademark of SEA inc.
LZH and LHarc are trademarks of Yoshi;
LZS and LARC are trademarks of K.Miki H.Okumura, K.Masuyama
ARJ is a trademark of Robert K. Jung
HYPER is a trademark of Peter Sawatzki and Klaus Peter
Nischke
AR is a trademark of Haruhiko Okumura
ZOO is a trademark of Rahul Dhesi.
QuickBBS is a trademark of Pegasus Software.
RemoteAccess is a trademark of Continental Software
FrontDoor is a trademark of Joaquim H. Homrighausen
Tubbs is a trademark of Mats Bj”rk
TubFile is a trademark of J”rgen Olsson
Opus is a trademark of Wynn Wagner III
Maximus is a trademark of Scott Dudley
Desqview is a trademark of Quarterdeck Systems
Qemm is a trademark of Quarterdeck Systems
386Max is a trademark of Qualitas
MS-DOS is a trademark of Microsoft corporation
MTA is a trademark of Rob Van.Hoeven
TICK is a trademark of Barry Geller
GIF is a trademark of CompuServe Inc.
Avatar is a trademark of George A. Stanislav
LZEXE is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard.


The FEBBS-Package is written in Turbo Pascal 6.0 and Turbo
Assembler 2.01, with help of the Turbo Debugger 2.01 and
makes use of Turbo Professional v5.11, Object professional
1.12 and PSCF v0.07. Also included are some routines of
Anders Brink's fine tools called
ABUnit which is Public Domain. Borlands System unit has
been replaced by Eagle Performance Sys unit 6.20.


Turbo Pascal is a trademark of Borland International
Turbo Debugger is a trademark of Borland International
ABUnit is a trademark of Anders Brink
Turbo Professional is a trademark of TurboPower Inc.
Object Professional is a trademark of TurboPower Inc.
PSCF is a trademark of Patrik Sj”berg
SpeedPack I is a trademark of Eagle Performance Software.










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  3 Responses to “Category : BBS Programs+Doors
Archive   : FEBBS192.ZIP
Filename : FEBBS.DOC

  1. Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!

  2. This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.

  3. But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/