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                                ERSION 7.37

                               BY REG FOUNTZ

                             OPYRIGHT 1985, 1987






                       OR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:


                              IMOTHY . LLEN
                              (A.K.A. YNAMITE)

                           1222 . SH VE., PT. 
                             ESA, RIZONA 85281

                              WILIGHT ONE 
                                (602)827-2706


                                      OR


                             ICHARD . UNNINGHAM
                               (A.K.A. ANDERER)

                              8632 . INDSOR VE.
                               HOENIX,  85037

                                ESERT ASIS 
                                 (602)849-2892













                                    

HE OLOR 64  PROGRAM HAS UNDERGONE MANY CHANGES SINCE IT'S FIRST INCEPTION 
IN THE EARLY 1980'S. T STARTED OUT WITH VERY LITTLE CAPABILITIES AND QUITE A 
FEW PROBLEMS.  T'S EVOLUTION THROUGH 1993 SAW ITS COMPATIBILITIES WITH 
EXISTING AND NEW HARDWARE BECOME REALITY. OMETIME PRIOR TO 1993, RED GLE 
AND NTHONY OLLE (WITH PERMISSION FROM REG FOUNTZ) RELEASED ANOTHER VERSION 
CALLED OLOR 64 ERSION UPER .

HIS VERSION, 7.37, IS THE LAST VERSION DONE BY REG FOUNTZ HIMSELF. E MADE 
A CONTRACT WITH RED GLE SOMETIME DURING LATE 1992 OR EARLY 1993 TO TRANSFER 
THE "RIGHTS" TO OLOR 64. RED GLE NEVER PAID REG FOUNTZ FOR OLOR 64 (OR 
THE SUBSEQUENT SALES OF OLOR 64) WHICH MADE THAT CONTRACT NULL AND VOID. 
ATER ON, RED GLE (WITH THE HELP OF A VERY GOOD 64 PROGRAMMER BY THE NAME OF 
NTHONY OLLE) RELEASED A NEW VERSION OF OLOR 64 CALLED "OLOR 64 ERSION 8". 
8 IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE PREVIOUS VERSION. F HE HAD HELD UP HIS PART OF 
THE BARGAIN, HE WOULD HAVE PAID A PORTION OF THE SALES OF THE NEW VERSION TO 
REG FOUNTZ FOR THE USE OF THE OLOR 64 TRADEMARK. S OF EPTEMBER 16, 1995 
HE HAD NOT PAID A SINGLE CENT TO REG FOUNTZ FOR 7.37, THE SALES OF 7.37, 
OR THE USE OF THE TRADEMARK IN 8.

HROUGH THE GRAPEVINE (CONFIRMED),  AND MY FELLOW SYSOPS HAVE LEARNED THAT 
RED GLE HAS TURNED OVER 8 TO ANOTHER SYSOP ( THINK THE NAME IS IKE 
APETA).

N REACTION TO ALL THIS, REG FOUNTZ MADE THE FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT ON 
EPTEMBER 16, 1995:

    "OLOR 64 ERSION 7.37 IS NOW FREEWARE.  DO NOT EXPECT OR DESIRE PAYMENT 
FOR IT ANY LONGER. AKING IT AVAILABLE TO ANYONE WHO WANTS IT, AND SEEING THAT 
MORE PEOPLE ARE ENJOYING THE USE OF IT, IS ENOUGH REWARD FOR ME.  MAKE NO 
CLAIMS AGAINST OLOR 64 ERSION 8 BECAUSE  HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. N THAT 
REGARD,  DO NOT SUPPORT IT IN ANY WAY.  TASK IMOTHY . LLEN AND ICHARD . 
UNNINGHAM WITH PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR OLOR 64 ERSION 7.37 AS LONG AS THEIR 
INDIVIDUAL 'S REMAIN IN SERVICE."

HE COVER PAGE HAS THE ADDRESSES AND TELEPHONE NUMBERS. EEL FREE TO CALL OR 
WRITE AT ANY TIME. EMEMBER, WE ALSO WORK FOR A LIVING AND CANNOT RESPOND 
IMMEDIATELY -- PATIENCE ON YOUR PART IS REQUIRED.

N SUMMARY, THIS LAST VERSION BY REG FOUNTZ ENDED WITH SUPPORTING 2400 BAUD 
MODEMS. E ARE TRYING TO PERSUADE A COUPLE OF GOOD PROGRAMMERS TO WRITE THE 
NECESSARY MODIFICATIONS TO ALLOW THE USE OF A . T MAY OR MAY NOT COME 
ABOUT, SO YOU'RE ENCOURAGED TO FIND ANYONE WHO CAN DO IT.


                       ICHARD . UNNINGHAM - EPTEMBER 24, 1995








                           



  


          

         

           

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HIS  PROGRAM IS WRITTEN IN  WITH JUST ENOUGH MACHINE CODE TO ALLOW A 
300-2400 BAUD MODEM TO TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE AT FULL SPEED. HE MAIN PURPOSE 
FOR WRITING A  IN  IS TO MAKE IT EASY FOR YOU, THE , TO DO YOUR 
OWN MODIFICATIONS. F YOU CAN DO A LITTLE PROGRAMMING, YOU CAN MAKE ALMOST ANY 
DESIRED CHANGES TO THE . OWEVER, IF YOU NEED OR WANT HELP AT ANY TIME, 
FEEL FREE TO ASK.

HE  SUPPORTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MESSAGES WITH OR WITHOUT  GRAPHICS, 
FILE TRANSFERS USING  OR UNTER PROTOCOL (INCLUDING MULTI-RECEIVE MODE) 
FROM ANY NUMBER OF DRIVES, ON-LINE TEXT FILES, ON-LINE HELP FILES, VARIABLE 
BAUD RATES (300-2400), A SELF-MAINTAINING CALLER LOG, DATE AND TIME STAMPING 
ON ALL TYPES OF MESSAGES, DAILY TIME LIMITS, VARIABLE ACCESS LEVELS INCLUDING 
FULL REMOTE  CAPABILITIES, VOTING, CHAT MODE, FEEDBACK STORED ON DISK IN 
YOUR PRIVATE MAILBOX, AUTOREPLY TO MESSAGES, AUTOMATIC DELETION OF OLD UNREAD 
MAIL, AUTOMATIC PURGING OF MEMBERS WHO HAVE NOT CALLED FOR A CERTAIN NUMBER OF 
DAYS, HIDDEN FILE TRANSFERS,  TERMINAL MODE WITH PUNTER UPLOAD AND 
DOWNLOAD CAPABILITIES (FOR CALLING OTHER BOARDS), LOCAL MODE (FOR CALLING YOUR 
OWN BOARD) AND DOWNLOAD DIRECTORIES THAT KEEP ALL FILES DATED AND IN A 
CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. HE PROGRAM IS WRITTEN TO BE AS CRASH RESISTANT AS 
POSSIBLE, BUT IF A CALLER HAPPEN TO FIND A WAY TO CRASH THE SYSTEM (CAUSING A 
 ERROR), A SMALL MACHINE CODE ROUTINE WILL AUTOMATICALLY RERUN THE  
PROGRAM. HIS  PROGRAM WILL OPERATE WITH ALMOST ANY COMBINATION OF DISK 
DRIVES. F COURSE SOME DISK DRIVES WORK BETTER THAN OTHERS. ITH THE BUGS IN A 
LOT OF THE 1581 DISK DRIVES, IT'S RECOMMENDED THAT THEY BE USED ONLY AS 
UPLOAD, DOWNLOAD, AND TEXT FILE DRIVES. OLOR 64 WILL SUPPORT MOST ANY TYPE OF 
OMMODORE PRINTER (OR OTHER PRINTER WITH A OMMODORE INTERFACE), BUT A PRINTER 
IS NOT REQUIRED.

HIS PROGRAM SUPPORTS 1541 LASH (ON DEVICE NUMBER 8 ONLY). HIS  SPEEDUP 
KIT, FROM KYLES LECTRIC ORKS, TRIPLES THE SPEED OF A 1541 MAKING THE  
MUCH MORE RESPONSIVE. F YOU HAVE 1541 LASH, THE  PROGRAM WILL 
AUTOMATICALLY DETECT ITS PRESENCE AND INSTRUCT THE COMPUTER TO SWITCH TO SLOW 
MODE WHEN TALKING TO ANY DRIVE OTHER THAN DEVICE 8. 

S THE PROGRAM IS WRITTEN, IT WILL WORK VERY WELL AT 110-500 BAUD WITH A 
OMMODORE 1650 UTO-ODEM, OTAL ELE. 64-ODEM, ESTRIDGE, OR ANY OTHER 1650
EQUIVALENT MODEM AS WELL AS THE OMMODORE 1660 ODEM 300 (UNITS WITH SERIAL 
NUMBERS GREATER THAN 100,000).

OR 1200 BAUD OPERATION, A AYES MARTMODEM 1200 (OR COMPATIBLE), 1670, OR 
OTHER 1200 BAUD MODEM CONNECTED THROUGH A SUITABLE INTERFACE IS REQUIRED. F 
YOUR MODEM DOES NOT SUPPORT THE AYES  COMMAND SET, IT MUST BE AN 
AUTO-ANSWER, AUTO-BAUD-SELECT TYPE MODEM THAT SUPPORTS  ON PIN 20, CARRIER 
DETECT ON PIN 8, AND HIGH SPEED INDICATION ON PIN 12 AND IS CONNECTED THROUGH 
AN MNITRONIX INTERFACE. CTUALLY THERE ARE MANY MODEM/INTERFACE COMBINATIONS 
THAT WILL WORK. ATHER THAN TRYING TO LIST ALL THE ONES THAT WILL WORK, WE'LL 
ATTEMPT TO GROUP THE DIFFERENT MODEM TYPES INTO CATEGORIES.

1) HE FIRST AND THE BEST TYPE OF 1200 BAUD MODEM TO USE IS ONE THAT CAN BE 
PROGRAMMED TO NOT AUTOANSWER (0=0) AND WHEN THE PHONE RINGS WILL ACCEPT THE 
COMMAND  TO ANSWER THE PHONE. HIS GIVES US THE SAME POSITIVE CONTROL OVER 
THE MODEM THAT WE WOULD HAVE WHEN USING A 1650 TYPE MODEM (THAT IS, IT ONLY 
ANSWERS WHEN WE TELL IT TO ANSWER).  AYES MARTMODEM 1200, OLKSMODEM 12, 
THE  OMMODORE 1670 MODEM (THE VERSION THAT HAS 4 SWITCHES ON THE BACK OF 
IT) AND MOST OTHER AYES COMPATIBLES MODEMS WILL OPERATE IN THIS MODE. F YOU 
ARE USING A AYES MARTMODEM 1200, SET THE INTERNAL  SWITCHES 3, 5, AND 8 
DOWN; ALL OTHERS UP. F YOU ARE USING THE  1670, WITCH 3 UP AND ALL OTHER 
SWITCHES DOWN.

2) HE NEXT BEST TYPE OF 1200 BAUD MODEM TO OPERATE YOUR  ON IS AN 
AUTO-ANSWER MODEM THAT'S CONTROLLED BY . HEN  IS FALSE, THE MODEM WILL 
DISCONNECT THE PHONE LINE AND NOT ANSWER ANOTHER CALL UNTIL  IS MADE TRUE. 
HIS FUNCTION IS LARGELY DEPENDENT ON THE INTERFACE AND CABLE YOU ARE USING. 
LSO, THIS MODEM/INTERFACE MUST EITHER SAY "1200" ON THE SCREEN OR SET  
BIT 32 HIGH (E.G. MODEM'S  PIN 12 CONNECTED TO AN MNITRONIX INTERFACE) WHEN 
RECEIVING AN INCOMING 1200 BAUD CALL.

3) HE THIRD BEST 1200 BAUD MODEM TO OPERATE YOUR  ON IS THE  
OMMODORE 1670 MODEM (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE NEWER 1670 MODEM THAT HAS 4 
SWITCHES ON THE BACK OF IT). HIS MODEM DOES NOT SUPPORT EITHER OF THE 
PREVIOUS MODES, BUT WILL CONNECT UP VERY EASILY TO THE  (NO EXTRA INTERFACE 
OR CABLE NEEDED), IS REASONABLY PRICED, HAS A GOOD CLEAN 1200 BAUD SIGNAL AND 
WORKS REASONABLY WELL. HE 1670 IS SLIGHTLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO GIVING YOUR CALLERS 
A FALSE CONNECTION. HAT IS, IF A CALLER IS ON-LINE THE  AND HANGS UP 
WITHOUT PROPERLY LOGGING OFF, AND IF A SECOND CALLER IS AUTODIALING THE , 
AND IF THIS SECOND CALLER GETS A CONNECTION VERY QUICKLY, THEY MAY BE 
TEMPORARILY CONNECTED TO THE  (BUT THEY WONT SEE ANYTHING ON THEIR SCREEN). 
HIS CAN ALWAYS BE AVOIDED BY HAVING ALL OF YOUR CALLERS PROPERLY LOGOFF.

OR 2400 BAUD OPERATION, A AYES MARTMODEM 2400 OR GOOD COMPATIBLE IS 
REQUIRED. HE 64 IS JUST BARELY ABLE TO SUPPORT 2400 BAUD AND THE QUALITY OF 
MODEM AND PHONE LINE ARE VERY IMPORTANT. LEASE REFER TO THE END OF THIS 
MANUAL FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON SETTING UP FOR 2400 BAUD USE.

HIS  USES PROGRAM OVERLAYS. N ORDER TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THE OMMODORE 
64'S LIMITED AMOUNT OF MEMORY, THE  PROGRAM IS DIVIDED INTO SEVERAL 
PROGRAM OVERLAYS. HE "BBS.INIT 7.35" PROGRAM IS RESPONSIBLE FOR INITIAL 
VARIABLE SETUP, CALLER LOGON, PASSWORD MAINTENANCE, AND  TERM MODE. 
"BBS.MSGS 7.35" IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MESSAGES. 
"BBS.XFER 7.37" IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL UPLOADS, DOWNLOADS, AND DIRECTORY 
MAINTENANCE. "BBS.OVL 7.35" IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CHAT MODE, VOTING, HELP AND 
TEXT FILES. "BBS.OV2 7.35" AND "BBS.OV3 7.35" ARE BOTH EMPTY SKELETON FILES. 
OU DO NOT NEED THE LAST TWO FILES, UNLESS YOU WANT TO ADD SOME USER WRITTEN 
CODE AND STORE IT IN THERE. LL OF THESE PROGRAMS ARE CAPABLE OF CHANGING BAUD 
RATE, GRAPHICS MODE AND LOGOFF. HESE OVERLAY FILES ARE ABOUT 100 BLOCKS EACH 
AND WOULD REQUIRE CLOSE TO 75 SECONDS TO LOAD ON AN UNMODIFIED 1541. O IT'S 
REQUIRED THAT YOU USE AN PYX ASTLOAD CARTRIDGE, CCESS ACH 5 CARTRIDGE, 
1541 LASH, ETC. ON A 1541 OR 1571 IN 1541 MODE;  LASH ON AN  RIVE; 
OR HIP EVEL ESIGNS URST ODE ERNAL  REPLACEMENT ON A 1571 IN 1571 
MODE,  HARD DRIVE ( 7.1 OR LATER), OR 1581 DISK DRIVE; ETEC HARD DRIVE 
WITH ITS OWN OST DAPTER (MAKE SURE YOU SET THE  TRAP ON - 01 - IN THE T. 
ERNAL SETUP);  HARD DRIVE; OR SOME OTHER SIMILAR HIGH SPEED DISK LOAD 
SETUP. ITH ANY OF THESE EXAMPLES, OVERLAYS WILL LOAD IN LESS THAN 15 SECONDS. 
OADS ANY SLOWER THAN THIS WILL TEND TO RAISE COMPLAINTS FROM YOUR CALLERS.

NOTHER SOLUTION TO THE SHORTAGE OF MEMORY IN THE OMMODORE 64 IS TO ADD A 
1700, 1764 OR 1750 AM XPANSION NIT. HESE UNITS ADD 128, 256 AND 512 
(RESPECTIVELY) OF EXTERNAL  TO YOUR 64 AND WILL COMPLETELY ELIMINATE THE 
NEED FOR PROGRAM LOADING DELAYS IN THE . O USE THE 1700, 1764 OR 1750, 
YOU JUST LOAD "START 1700" INSTEAD OF "BBS" OR "RESTART 1700" INSTEAD OF 
"REBOOT". O SPEED UP THE INITIAL TRANSFER OF THE PROGRAMS INTO THE RAM 
MODULE, THE 1700 LOADER ROUTINE WILL LOOK FOR A FASTLOADER PROGRAM CALLED 
"TURBODISK64 3.0". F IT'S NOT ON THE DISK, THE LOADER WILL STILL WORK FINE, 
JUST SLOWER. HIS FASTLOAD PROGRAM WAS IN THE UGUST 1986 ISSUE OF OMPUTES 
AZETTE! OMPUTE HAS A VERY STRICT POLICY STATING THAT ANY PROGRAMS PUBLISHED 
IN THEIR MAGAZINE ARE NOT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. O WE ARE NOT ABLE TO INCLUDE 
A COPY OF "TURBODISK64 3.0" ON YOUR   DISK.  NYWAY, IF YOU HAVE 
"TURBODISK64 3.0" AND IF THE DRIVE YOU ARE LOADING YOUR PROGRAMS FROM SUPPORTS 
IT, JUST ADD IT TO YOUR   DISK.

S YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED, EACH OF THE PROGRAM OVERLAY FILENAMES BEGAN WITH A . 
O TYPE THIS CHARACTER, YOU MUST PRESS AND HOLD EITHER SHIFT KEY, THEN PRESS 
THE @ KEY. HIS WILL PRODUCE A CHARACTER THAT LOOKS LIKE A CHECK MARK. HIS 
SPECIAL CHARACTER IS USED TO HIDE ALL OF THE SYSTEM FILES FROM BEING SEEN OR 
DOWNLOADED BY YOUR CALLERS.

NYWAY, AFTER YOU HAVE GATHERED TOGETHER ALL YOUR HARDWARE AND ASSEMBLED YOUR 
SYSTEM, IT'S TIME TO RUN THE OLOR 64   PROGRAM. OU'LL NEED A BLANK 
FORMATTED DISK IN EACH OF THE DRIVES YOU PLAN TO USE ON THE SYSTEM (WITH THE 
EXCEPTION OF DRIVES THAT ARE UPLOAD/DOWNLOAD ONLY).

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HE FIRST THING YOU'LL NEED TO DO WHEN SETTING UP YOUR  IS TO DEFINE A FEW 
 SELECTABLE PARAMETERS. O DO THIS, PUT THE " " DISK INTO 
DRIVE 0, DEVICE 8 AND LOAD"SETUP",8,1.  OU MAY WANT TO RUN  THE FIRST 
TIME WITH ASTLOAD DISABLED. N SOME SYSTEMS, YOU WILL GET A " " 
ERROR WHEN CREATING  FILES WHILE ASTLOAD IS ENABLED. F AT A LATER DATE 
YOU RERUN  TO JUST CHANGE A PARAMETER, IT'S OKAY TO LEAVE ASTLOAD 
ENABLED. T SEEMS TO BE SAFE TO READ AND WRITE  RECORDS WITH ASTLOAD 
ENABLED, JUST DON'T CREATE A NEW FILE.

FTER LOADING IS COMPLETE, INSERT AN ALREADY FORMATTED BLANK DISK INTO DRIVE 
0, DEVICE 8. HIS DISKETTE WILL BE USED AS YOUR " " DISK AND MUST 
ALWAYS BE IN DRIVE 0, DEVICE 8. AKE SURE YOU LABEL IT APPROPRIATELY. OU'LL 
PROBABLY WANT TO START WITH A BRAND NEW HIGH QUALITY DISKETTE SINCE IT WILL 
GET A LOT OF USE ONCE YOUR BULLETIN BOARD GOES ON-LINE. FTER YOU PRESS 
, YOU WILL SEE THE FIRST SCREEN OF .

UILT INTO THIS  PROGRAM IS A SIMPLE PRINT SCREEN UTILITY. SE -F1 TO 
ACTIVATE IT. HIS ONLY WORKS IN . OU MAY WANT TO PRINT EACH SCREEN AFTER 
FILLING THEM IN FOR FUTURE REFERENCE.

HE FIRST QUESTION IS FOR THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF LINES TO LIMIT EACH MESSAGE. 
HE DEFAULT IS 100 WITH A RECOMMENDED RANGE OF 20 TO 100. HE SMALLER MESSAGES 
WILL TAKE UP LESS DISK SPACE, LEAVING MORE ROOM FOR MORE MESSAGES OR OTHER 
FILES, WHILE LONGER MESSAGES CAN SAVE A LOT OF "CONTINUED" MESSAGES.

HE NEXT QUESTION IS FOR THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF COLUMNS PER LINE. T DEFAULTS 
TO 38. HAT WILL WORK BEST FOR CALLERS USING A 64 WITH ITS 40 COLUMN SCREEN. 
HIS WILL KEEP OMMODORE'S SCREEN EDITOR FROM THROWING IN THAT ANNOYING EXTRA 
LINE WHEN THE CURSOR REACHES THE 40TH COLUMN. NOTHER THING TO KEEP IN MIND IS 
THAT THE PROGRAM WAS WRITTEN TO HANDLE A MAXIMUM OF 4000 CHARACTERS PER 
MESSAGE. HE PRODUCT OF THE PREVIOUS VALUE AND THIS VALUE SHOULD BE LESS THAN 
4000. F YOU SET UP YOUR LINE LENGTHS AND NUMBER OF LINES TOO LARGE, THE  
WILL AUTOMATICALLY LOWER THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF LINES PER MESSAGE TO KEEP THE 
SYSTEM FROM GETTING AN "OUT OF MEMORY" ERROR. T'S POSSIBLE TO SET THE LINE 
LENGTHS TO 78 IF YOU WANT TO CATER TO 80 COLUMN MACHINES.

HE NEXT QUESTION IS FOR THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PUBLIC MESSAGES THE SYSTEM WILL 
KEEP ON-LINE AT ANY ONE TIME. HE PROGRAM WILL AUTOMATICALLY REMOVE THE OLDEST 
PUBLIC MESSAGE WHEN A NEW MESSAGE IS POSTED AND THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PUBLIC 
MESSAGES ON-LINE EXCEEDS THIS VARIABLE. HE DEFAULT IS 50 WITH A RECOMMENDED 
RANGE OF 25 TO 232. HE OMMODORE 1541 AND 1571 DISK DRIVES WILL ALLOW UP TO 
144 FILES TO BE STORED ON ONE DISKETTE, WHILE AN  1001 ALLOWS 224 FILES AND 
THE 9060 AND 9090 HARD DRIVES CAN HAVE AN UNLIMITED NUMBER OF FILES IN THE 
DIRECTORY. F YOU DO SETUP FOR MORE THAN 135 MESSAGES, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT 
MAXIMUM NUMBER OF LINES PER MESSAGE WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE REDUCED. ACH 
MESSAGE IN THE SYSTEM REQUIRES SEVERAL POINTERS IN MEMORY. HE MORE POINTERS 
ALLOCATED, THE LESS MEMORY THAT WILL BE LEFT FOR ENTERING A MESSAGE. 232 IS 
THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PUBLIC MESSAGES THAT OLOR 64 CAN HANDLE AT ANY ONE 
TIME.

HE NEXT QUESTION IS FOR THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PASSWORDS YOU WANT TO SET THE 
SYSTEM UP FOR. T DEFAULTS TO 100 WITH A RECOMMENDED RANGE OF 25 TO 999. 
CTUALLY 999 IS NOT THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PASSWORDS, THE  WILL SUPPORT AS 
MANY PASSWORDS AS YOUR DISK DRIVE WILL HANDLE (UP TO 32767). F A NEW CALLER 
APPLIES FOR A PASSWORD CAUSING THIS VALUE TO BE EXCEEDED, THEN THE  WILL 
SEND A MESSAGE ("MEMBERSHIP FULL") TELLING THE CALLER THAT THE MEMBERSHIP IS 
TEMPORARILY FULL AND TO CALL BACK AT A LATER DATE. OU'LL WANT TO MAKE SURE 
YOU GIVE THIS VALUE SOME REAL CONSIDERATION AS IT WILL DETERMINE THE SIZE OF 
THE PASSWORD FILE TO INITIALLY CREATE (APPROXIMATELY 120 BLOCKS FOR 250 
MEMBERS). OU CAN'T MAKE THIS FILE LARGER BY RE-RUNNING  AND ENTERING A 
LARGER VALUE. F YOU DO LATER CHANGE THIS VALUE IN  TO A LARGER VALUE, 
THE PASSWORD FILE WOULD GROW ONE RECORD AT A TIME, SCATTERING ITSELF ALL OVER 
THE DISKETTE AND INCREASING THE TIME IT TAKES TO SEARCH THROUGH THE FILE. F 
YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE ENOUGH DISK SPACE, WE RECOMMEND YOU SET THE PASSWORD 
FILE FOR 250 TO 500 MEMBERS (DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF THE CITY YOU'RE IN). 
HIS WILL CONSUME ABOUT 120 TO 240 BLOCKS OF DISK SPACE, BUT IN THE LONG RUN 
THE SYSTEM WILL RUN FASTER. F YOU DID CREATE THIS FILE TOO SMALL AND LATER 
DECIDE TO INCREASE ITS SIZE AND IF YOU FIND THAT THE PASSWORD FILE GETS 
SCATTERED, YOU COULD USE "BAK PSWD 7.00" TO MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR PASSWORD 
FILE. HEN ON A NEW BLANK DISK, RERUN SETUP TO MAKE A NEW LARGER PASSWORD FILE 
AND USE "RESTOR PSWD 7.01" TO RESTORE ALL YOUR PASSWORDS INTO THE NEW PASSWORD 
FILE. HEN COPY ALL OTHER FILES (USING UPER FER) FROM THE OLD DISK ONTO THE 
NEW ONE. HIS WILL MAKE THE FILES CONTIGUOUS ONCE AGAIN, GREATLY SPEEDING UP 
DISK ACCESS TIME. N  SCREEN 3 YOU WILL BE DECIDING WHICH DRIVE TO PUT 
YOUR PASSWORD FILE ON.

HE NEXT QUESTION IS FOR THE MINIMUM NUMBER OF BLOCKS FREE ALLOWED ON THE 
" " DISK BEFORE THE MESSAGES START CYCLING. OU DO NOT WANT TO 
LET THIS DISK COMPLETELY FILL UP, ESPECIALLY IF IT WILL ALSO BE STORING 
PRIVATE MESSAGES ON IT.  VALUE OF 50 IS DEFAULTED WITH A RANGE OF 25 TO 75 
RECOMMENDED. F BLOCKS FREE ON THIS DISK EVER FALL BELOW THIS VARIABLE, EVERY 
TIME ANY NEW MESSAGE IS POSTED, THE OLDEST PUBLIC MESSAGE WILL BE DELETED EVEN 
IF THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF MESSAGES IS NOT EXCEEDED.

HE NEXT QUESTION IS FOR THE MINIMUM NUMBER OF BLOCKS FREE TO ALLOW UPLOADS.  
VALUE OF 75 IS DEFAULTED WITH A RANGE OF 10 TO 75 RECOMMENDED. F YOU ARE 
GOING TO BE STORING PRIVATE MESSAGES ON THE SAME DISK, THEN YOU'LL NOT WANT TO 
SET THIS VALUE LESS THAN 25. HE  WILL NOT ALLOW PRIVATE MESSAGES TO BE 
SENT IF THE DIRECTORY FALLS BELOW 25 BLOCKS FREE. OU WILL NEVER WANT TO SET 
THE VALUE BELOW 10. HIS IS TO ALLOW SPACE FOR THE "DIRECTORY" FILE TO BE 
PROCESSED AFTER AN UPLOAD. OTE THAT THE FREE SPACE MESSAGE GIVEN AT THE END 
OF THE DIRECTORY LIST AND BEFORE AN UPLOAD WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE DECREMENTED 
BY THIS VALUE.

HE NEXT QUESTION ASKS FOR THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF DOWNLOADS YOU'LL ALLOW PER 
CALL. F YOU ENTER "999", THEN FOR ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES THERE WILL NOT BE A 
LIMIT TO THE NUMBER OF DOWNLOADS PER CALL. HEN A CALLER REACHES THEIR MAXIMUM 
DOWNLOADS PER CALL, THEY MUST LOGOFF AND LOGON AGAIN BEFORE THEY CAN DOWNLOAD 
MORE. HIS APPLIES TO ALL CALLERS WITH AN ACCESS LEVEL OF 1 THROUGH 5.

HE NEXT 3 LINES ON THIS SCREEN ARE WHERE YOU'LL SET UP YOUR DOWNLOAD CREDIT 
SYSTEM. HE FIRST OF THESE 3 LINES IS FOR THE NUMBER OF BLOCKS OF DOWNLOAD 
CREDIT YOU WILL GIVE PER BLOCK UPLOADED. HE NEXT LINE IS HOW MANY FREE CREDIT 
BLOCKS YOU WILL GIVE EACH NEW CALLER. FTER THESE FREE CREDITS ARE USED UP, 
YOUR CALLERS WILL HAVE TO UPLOAD TO EARN MORE DOWNLOAD CREDITS. HE THIRD LINE 
IS THE ACCESS LEVEL AT WHICH YOUR CALLERS BECOME EXEMPT FROM THE CREDIT 
SYSTEM. F YOU DO NOT PLAN TO USE THIS CREDIT SYSTEM, JUST SET THIS VARIABLE 
TO 1 (MAKING ALL YOUR CALLERS EXEMPT).

HILE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE CREDIT SYSTEM, LET'S GO OVER A FEW MORE THINGS. 
F ONE OF YOUR CALLERS UPLOADS A PROGRAM THAT YOU DO NOT WANT TO COUNT AS A 
CREDIT, YOU'LL NEED TO USE ASSWORD AINTENANCE TO CHANGE THEIR NUMBER OF 
BLOCKS UPLOADED VARIABLE TO LESS THAN WHAT IS CURRENTLY IN THAT FIELD 
(DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF BLOCKS UPLOADED). ETS SAY FOR EXAMPLE THEY 
ALREADY HAD 100 BLOCKS UPLOADED AND THEY UPLOADED ANOTHER 50 THAT YOU DO NOT 
WANT THEM TO GET CREDIT FOR. O INTO ASSWORD AINTENANCE AND CHANGE THE 
BLOCKS UPLOADED FROM 150 TO 100. F THEY HAD ALREADY DOWNLOADED BLOCKS BASED 
ON THAT UPLOAD CREDIT, THEN WHEN THEY CALL NEXT TIME, THEY'LL HAVE TO UPLOAD 
THAT MANY MORE BLOCKS BEFORE THEY CAN DOWNLOAD AGAIN. HIS IS IMPORTANT, AS 
SOME CALLERS WILL TRY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SYSTEM BY UPLOADING THE SAME 
FILES OVER AND OVER (WITH DIFFERENT NAMES) OR BY PADDING NORMAL FILES TO GET 
MORE CREDIT FOR THE UPLOAD (OFTEN YOU CAN SEE THE PADDING IN YOUR TRANSFER 
WINDOW DURING AN UPLOAD/DOWNLOAD).

N THE UPDATE DISK IS A PROGRAM CALLED "CLR CREDITS 7.00" THAT CAN BE USED TO 
RESET ALL OR YOUR CALLER'S UPLOAD AND DOWNLOAD COUNTERS, OR OPTIONALLY JUST 
ONE CALLER'S COUNTERS. HIS WOULD BE USEFUL IF YOU DECIDE TO START THE CREDIT 
SYSTEM OVER AFTER YOUR  HAS BEEN IN OPERATION FOR A WHILE.

HE WAY THIS  PROGRAM TRACKS CREDITS IS BY A MATHEMATICAL FORMULA BASED ON 
THE CALLER'S NUMBER OF BLOCKS UPLOADED AND DOWNLOADED. HE FORMULA USED TO 
CALCULATE DOWNLOAD CREDITS IS:

  (FREE CREDITS) + ((UPLOADS) X (CREDITS PER UPLOAD)) - DOWNLOADS

HIS FORMULA CAN CALCULATE A NEGATIVE CREDIT IF YOU IMPLEMENT THIS CREDIT 
SYSTEM ON AN OPERATIONAL  WITHOUT FIRST CLEARING THE UPLOAD AND DOWNLOAD 
COUNTERS, IF YOU REMOVE ANY UPLOAD CREDITS FROM A CALLER WHO HAD ALREADY 
DOWNLOADED BLOCKS BASED ON THAT UPLOAD'S CREDIT, OR IF AT A LATER DATE YOU 
CHANGE THE NUMBER OF CREDITS PER UPLOAD OR NUMBER OF FREE CREDITS VARIABLES. 
F THE NUMBER IS LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO 0, THEN THAT CALLER WILL NOT BE ABLE TO 
DOWNLOAD UNTIL THEY UPLOAD ENOUGH BLOCKS TO MAKE THEIR CREDIT STATUS POSITIVE 
AGAIN.

HE NEXT QUESTION ON THIS SETUP SCREEN IS ASKING FOR THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF 
DAYS THAT YOU WANT THE  TO HOLD PRIVATE MAIL BEFORE DELETING IT. HIS 
VARIABLE IS ACTUALLY AN APPROXIMATION WITH A MAXIMUM ERROR RATE OF 3 DAYS PER 
MONTH (ALWAYS IN YOUR CALLER'S FAVOR). F SOME OF YOUR CALLERS DO NOT CALL FOR 
A LONG PERIOD OF TIME, THERE COULD BECOME A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MAIL ON-LINE 
THAT REALLY DOESN'T NEED TO BE THERE. OST LIKELY IF A CALLER DOES NOT READ 
MAIL FOR MORE THAN 30 DAYS, BY THE TIME IT'S READ IT'S NO LONGER IMPORTANT. 
HEN MAIL IS DELETED, AN ENTRY IS MADE IN THE CALLER LOG AT MIDNIGHT 
INDICATING THE MEMBER'S NUMBER WHO HAD THEIR MAIL DELETED. HIS COULD BE 
USEFUL IN DETERMINING IF THIS VALUE IS SET TOO LOW AND DELETING TOO MUCH MAIL. 
HERE'S A SAFETY CHECK BUILT IN TO PREVENT EVERYONE'S MAIL FROM BEING DELETED 
IF YOU SHOULD ACCIDENTALLY TYPE IN THE WRONG YEAR OR MONTH WHEN LOADING THE 
. HEN THE SYSTEM CALCULATES HOW MANY DAYS A PIECE OF MAIL HAS BEEN 
ON-LINE, IF THAT NUMBER EXCEEDS THE PURGE MAIL VARIABLE BY 7 DAYS, THAT MAIL 
WON'TE BE DELETED. OU SHOULD REMEMBER THIS IF IN THE FUTURE YOU DECIDE TO 
CHANGE THIS PURGE MAIL VARIABLE. O NOT CHANGE IT BY MORE THAN 4 DAYS AT A 
TIME (ALLOWING FOR THE 3 DAY APPROXIMATION ERROR) AND THE SYSTEM WILL NEVER 
MISS ANY MAIL THAT NEEDS TO BE PURGED.

HE NEXT QUESTION IS FOR THE ACCESS LEVEL YOU WANT TO GIVE TO YOUR NEW 
CALLERS. HERE ARE NINE ACCESS LEVELS ALLOWED. ACH LEVEL WILL HAVE A CERTAIN 
AMOUNT OF ACCESS AND CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME AS DEFINED BY YOU, THE . E 
LIKE TO START ALL OUR NEW CALLERS AT ACCESS LEVEL 1 AND INCREASE THEIR ACCESS 
ONLY AFTER VALIDATION. UT YOU MAY FEEL DIFFERENTLY, SO THIS IS WHERE YOU 
WOULD SET THE NEW CALLER ACCESS VARIABLE.

OW WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS ACCESS LEVELS AS THEY ARE 
DEFAULTED. OU'LL BE ABLE TO REDEFINE MUCH OF THIS BY CHANGING THE INFORMATION 
ON APPROPRIATE  SCREENS. UT IF YOU DON'T, THIS IS WHAT THE DIFFERENT 
ACCESS LEVELS WILL LOOK LIKE.

EVEL 1 CALLERS WILL ONLY HAVE THE ABILITY TO READ SYSTEM MESSAGES AND HELP 
FILES. HEY'LL NOT BE ABLE TO HOLD ANY MAIL IN THEIR MAILBOX, READ PUBLIC 
MESSAGES, DO ANY DOWNLOADS OR UPLOADS OR READ ANY TEXT FILES. HIS IS A GOOD 
PLACE TO START ALL NEW CALLERS UNTIL YOU HAVE VERIFIED THE INFORMATION LEFT IN 
THEIR APPLICATION.

EVEL 2 CALLERS HAVE ALL THE ABILITIES OF LEVEL 1 PLUS THEY CAN READ ALL THE 
PUBLIC MESSAGES AND TEXT FILES. HIS ACCESS LEVEL ALLOWS YOUR NEW CALLERS TO 
LOOK AROUND AND DECIDE IF THEY WANT TO JOIN THE . ND SINCE THEY CANNOT 
POST ANY MESSAGES OR UPLOAD/DOWNLOAD, YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT HACKERS 
GETTING ON-LINE AND POSTING OR UPLOADING OFFENSIVE MATERIAL. HIS ALSO IS NOT 
A BAD PLACE TO START ALL YOUR NEW CALLERS OR TO GIVE ACCESS TO UNPAID CALLERS 
ON A PAY SYSTEM.

EVEL 3 CALLERS HAVE ALL THE ACCESS OF LEVEL 2, PLUS THE ABILITY TO POST 
PUBLIC MESSAGES AND DO UPLOADS AND DOWNLOADS. HEY STILL DON'T HAVE THE 
ABILITY TO SEND PRIVATE MESSAGES. HIS MAY BE A GOOD LEVEL TO GIVE TO YOUR 
CALLERS IF YOU ARE TRYING TO GET VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS. OU COULD ALSO SET 
THE CREDIT SYSTEM EXEMPTION LEVEL TO 4, SO THAT LEVEL 3 CALLERS HAVE SOMETHING 
TO GAIN BY SENDING IN A FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION.

EVEL 4 AND 5 CALLERS HAVE FULL USE OF THE SYSTEM. HAT IS THEY HAVE ALL THE 
ABILITIES OF A LEVEL 3 PLUS THE OPTION TO SEND AND HOLD PRIVATE MAIL. INCE 
BOTH OF THESE LEVELS HAVE THE SAME ABILITIES, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SETUP THE 
DIFFERENT MESSAGE CATEGORIES, DOWNLOAD DIRECTORIES, TIME LIMITS, ETC., AND 
MAYBE GIVE SOME OF YOUR MOST CONTRIBUTING CALLERS MORE ACCESS.

EVEL 6 CALLERS HAVE THE SAME ACCESS AS LEVEL 4 AND 5 CALLERS, BUT THEY ARE 
EXEMPT FROM THE "PER CALL" TIME LIMIT, MAXIMUM DOWNLOADS PER CALL AND THE TIME 
BETWEEN CALLS LIMITATION. OU MAY WANT TO GIVE THIS ACCESS LEVEL TO ALL YOUR 
LONG DISTANCE CALLERS OR PERSONAL FRIENDS, SO THEY'LL NOT BE DISCONNECTED 
BEFORE THEIR DAILY TIME LIMIT HAS BEEN EXCEEDED. ND IF YOUR "PER CALL" TIME 
LIMIT IS THE SAME AS THE DAILY TIME LIMIT, THEN JUST USE LEVEL 6 AS ONE MORE 
VARIATION OF LEVEL 4 AND 5.

EVEL 7 HAS ALL THE ACCESS OF LEVEL 6, PLUS THE ABILITY TO SCRATCH ANY PUBLIC 
MESSAGE, SCRATCH ANY DOWNLOADS, EDIT DOWNLOAD DESCRIPTIONS, AND RELEASE 
UPLOADS FOR PUBLIC ACCESS. HIS ACCESS IS FOR YOUR REGULAR S. HEY CAN BE 
OF HELP IN MAINTAINING THE DOWNLOAD DIRECTORIES AND BY SCRATCHING OFFENSIVE 
OR NO LONGER NEEDED PUBLIC MESSAGES.

EVEL 8 IS A HIGH LEVEL . N ADDITION TO HAVING ALL THE ACCESS OF LEVEL 
7, THEY CAN SET THE CLOCK AND DATE, CHANGE ANOTHER CALLER'S NAME, ACCESS LEVEL 
(BUT THEY CANNOT MAKE A CALLER A  OR CHANGE A S LEVEL) AND READ THE 
CALLER LOG. HIS LEVEL GIVES ENOUGH ACCESS TO ALLOW SOMEONE TO RUN THE  FOR 
A WEEKEND OR SO WHILE YOU MAY BE AWAY.          
  . INCE A LEVEL 8 WILL BE ABLE TO SEE ANYONE ELSE'S 
PASSWORDS, YOU OWE IT TO YOUR CALLERS TO MAKE SURE THE PEOPLE YOU SELECT FOR 
LEVEL 8 ARE TRUSTWORTHY!

EVEL 9 HAS THE SAME ACCESS AS LEVEL 8 PLUS THE ABILITY TO DO FULL PASSWORD 
MAINTENANCE, AND FULL  CAPABILITIES. HIS ACCESS LEVEL SHOULD ONLY BE GIVEN 
TO YOURSELF AND POSSIBLY ONE OTHER USER IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE GONE FOR A LONG 
WHILE. HERE REALLY IS NOT MUCH YOU CANNOT DO WITH THIS ACCESS LEVEL, SO YOU 
SHOULD BE VERY CAUTIOUS WHO YOU GIVE LEVEL 9 ACCESS. 

HE NEXT QUESTION ON THIS SETUP SCREEN IS ASKING FOR THE ACCESS LEVEL YOU WANT 
THE  TO ASSIGN TO A CALLER WHEN THEIR MEMBERSHIP HAS EXPIRED. N EACH 
CALLER'S PASSWORD RECORD THERE'S A FIELD THAT CAN CONTAIN A DATE. OU WOULD 
USE THE ASSWORD AINTENANCE OR THE ()ALIDATE OPTION TO EDIT THIS DATE. T 
MIDNIGHT, A COMPARE OF THIS DATE TO THE CURRENT DATE WILL BE MADE AND IF THERE 
IS A MATCH, THAT CALLERS ACCESS LEVEL WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE CHANGED TO THE 
LEVEL YOU DEFINE HERE. HIS ALLOWS US TO GIVE A CALLER A CERTAIN NUMBER OF 
DAYS ON THE SYSTEM AND NOT HAVE TO TRY TO REMEMBER TO LOWER THAT CALLERS 
ACCESS LEVEL ON ANY CERTAIN DAY. ND SINCE THE SYSTEM AUTOMATICALLY LOWERS 
YOUR CALLER'S ACCESS LEVEL, THERE MAY BE LESS HARD FEELINGS TOWARDS YOU 
AFTERWARDS. PTIONALLY, THIS FIELD CAN HOLD A SHORT 8 CHARACTER NOTE ABOUT THE 
CALLER THAT WILL BE PRINTED ON THE ASSWORD AINTENANCE REPORT. F THIS FIELD 
DOES CONTAIN A DATE (IN THE PROPER // FORMAT), THE CALLER WILL BE 
REMINDED EACH TIME THEY LOG ON THAT THEIR MEMBERSHIP EXPIRES ON //.

HE NEXT QUESTION ASKS IF YOU WANT TO SAVE THE CALLER LOG WHEN THE SYSTEM IS 
SHUT DOWN. F YOU HAVE THE DISK SPACE AVAILABLE, WE RECOMMEND YOU ANSWER "" 
TO THIS QUESTION. F YOU DO ANSWER "", THE CALLER LOG WILL BE SAVED AT 
SHUTDOWN AND RELOADED WHEN THE SYSTEM IS BROUGHT BACK UP. HIS WILL GIVE YOU 
AND YOUR LEVEL 8 S THE ABILITY TO SEE ALL THE CALLERS THAT HAVE CALLED 
DURING THE LAST FEW DAYS. HE CALLER LOG IS STORED IN AN 8K AREA OF MEMORY 
UNDER THE  . T'S TOTALLY SELF-MAINTAINING, THAT IS, AS INFORMATION 
IS ADDED, THE OLDEST INFORMATION IN THE LOG IS REMOVED. ACH CALLER LOG FILE 
ON DISK WILL TAKE 33 BLOCKS OF DISK SPACE. VERY TIME ONE CALLER LOG IS SAVED, 
A BACKUP IS MADE. HIS CAN BE HANDY IF FOR SOME REASON THE FIRST FILE IS LOST 
BECAUSE OF A DISK ERROR OR POWER OUTAGE. N ADDITION TO 66 BLOCKS FOR "CALLER 
LOG" AND "CALLER LOG.BAK", EACH NIGHT AT MIDNIGHT A DATED COPY OF THE CALLER 
LOG IS MADE. HESE DATED LOGS CAN BE SAVED FOR ARCHIVE PURPOSES, SHOULD YOU 
EVER WANT TO LOOK THROUGH THEM. EFORE THE SYSTEM MAKES A DATED LOG FOR 
ARCHIVE PURPOSES, IT CHECKS TO MAKE SURE THE BLOCKS FREE WILL NOT DROP BELOW 
THE MINIMUM BLOCKS TO ALLOW UPLOADS, SO YOU'LL WANT TO PUT YOUR CALLER LOGS ON 
A DRIVE WITH PLENTY OF SPACE AND PURGE THE ARCHIVES OFTEN.

HE NEXT QUESTION ASKS IF YOU WANT THE  TO RERUN ON ERRORS. F A CALLER 
DOES FIND A WAY TO CRASH THE  (CAUSING A  ERROR) OR IF YOU HAVE MADE A 
CHANGE TO THE  CODING AND ACCIDENTALLY LEFT AN ERROR IN THE PROGRAM, THE 
SYSTEM WILL AUTOMATICALLY RERUN ITSELF. ORMALLY YOU  WANT THIS OPTION 
ENABLED. E ALL SLEEP BETTER AT NIGHT, KNOWING THE  WILL STILL BE RUNNING 
WHEN WE GET UP IN THE MORNING. HE ONLY TIME YOU MAY WANT TO DISABLE THIS 
OPTION IS WHEN YOU'RE MAKING MODIFICATIONS TO THE  PROGRAMS AND ARE STILL 
TESTING THEMS. OTE THAT WHEN RERUN IS ENABLED, THE  KEY WILL BE DISABLED.

HE NEXT QUESTION ON THIS SCREEN ASKS IF YOU WANT THE SCREEN TO BLANK WHEN A 
CALLER IS READING OR WRITING A PRIVATE MESSAGE. HERE ARE SOME THAT FEEL THAT 
A PRIVATE MESSAGE SHOULD BE TOTALLY PRIVATE, NOT EVEN READ BY THE . HILE 
OTHERS FEEL THE  IS TOTALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING ON THE , EVEN 
THE PRIVATE MESSAGES. HIS OPTION ALLOWS YOU TO SETUP YOUR SYSTEM THE WAY YOU 
FEEL IS BEST. F YOU DO ANSWER "" TO THIS QUESTION, THE SCREEN WILL BE 
BLANKED WHEN A CALLER IS READING THEIR MAIL OR SENDING MAIL TO ANYONE ELSE ON 
THE SYSTEM. HE SCREEN WILL  BE BLANKED WHEN A CALLER IS SENDING FEEDBACK 
OR PRIVATE MAIL TO YOUR MAILBOX OR WHEN YOU ARE ACCESSING THE SYSTEM FROM THE 
CONSOLE.

HE NEXT FEW QUESTIONS ARE ASKING ABOUT THE TYPE OF MODEM YOU ARE USING. HE 
FIRST ONE IS ASKING IF YOUR MODEM USES NORMAL OR INVERTED HOOK CONTROL BITS. 
F YOU ARE USING A 1650 OR COMPATIBLE, YOU ANSWER NORMAL. F YOU ARE USING A 
1660, YOU WOULD ANSWER INVERTED. Y THE WAY, ONLY 1660 MODEMS WITH SERIAL 
NUMBERS GREATER THAN 100,000 SUPPORT CARRIER DETECT. O NOT ATTEMPT TO USE A 
1660 THAT DOES NOT HAVE CARRIER DETECT IN IT.

HE NEXT ONE ASKS IF SER IT 32 IS CONNECTED TO YOUR MODEM'S HIGH SPEED PIN. 
HIS IS KIND OF A TECHNICAL QUESTION, BUT NO OTHER WAY TO WORD IT COULD BE 
FOUND. OU WOULD ANSWER  TO THIS QUESTION IF YOU ARE USING THE NEW 4 SWITCH 
VERSION 1670, AN MNITRONIX INTERFACE OR A IC1011 INTERFACE THAT HAS BEEN 
MODIFIED TO CONNECT  BIT 32 TO 232 PIN 12. F YOU ARE USING A DIFFERENT 
TYPE OF MODEM INTERFACE, YOU MAY NEED TO DO A LITTLE RESEARCH TO DETERMINE IF 
IT HAS THE ABOVE CONNECTION. F YOU ARE USING A 1650, ESTRIDGE, 64 ODEM, 
1660 OR THE OLD 1670, ANSWER  TO THIS QUESTION. F YOU ANSWER "" TO THIS 
QUESTION WHEN YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE, THE  WILL SWITCH TO 1200 BAUD ON ALL 
CALLS, EVEN THE 300 BAUD CALLS. F YOU ANSWER "" TO THIS WHEN YOU SHOULD 
HAVE ANSWERED "", THE  WILL NEVER SWITCH TO 1200 EVEN WHEN IT WAS SUPPOSED 
TO. Y THE WAY, IF YOU ARE USING AN MNITRONIX 232 INTERFACE, MAKE SURE THE 
SWITCHES ARE SET TO NORMAL AND MODEM (AS OPPOSED TO INVERTED AND PRINTER).

HE NEXT QUESTION ASKS IF YOUR MODEM SUPPORTS THE AYES  COMMAND SET. NSWER 
"" FOR THE AYES 1200, OLKSMODEM 12, 1670, ETC. NSWER "" FOR THE 1650, 64 
ODEM, ESTRIDGE, 1660, ETC. F YOU ARE USING A AYES MARTMODEM 1200, SET THE 
SWITCHES INSIDE AS FOLLOWS; 1 UP, 2 UP, 3 DOWN, 4 UP, 5 DOWN, 6 UP, 7 UP AND 8 
DOWN.

HE LAST 2 QUESTIONS WILL ONLY BE ASKED IF YOU ANSWERED "" TO THE  COMMANDS 
QUESTION ABOVE. HE FIRST ONE ASKS IF YOUR MODEM AND INTERFACE BOTH SUPPORT 
 (ATA ERMINAL EADY) AND IF YOU HAVE ALL SWITCHES SET SO THE PHONE LINE 
WILL DISCONNECT IF  IS FALSE. OST AYES COMPATIBLE MODEMS AND INTERFACES 
DO SUPPORT , HE OLKSMODEM 12 WHEN USED WITH CABLE  DOES NOT SUPPORT , 
NOR DOES THE 1670 (ACTUALLY THE  1670 DOES SUPPORT , BUT SEEMS TO WORK 
BETTER IF WE DISABLE THIS FEATURE). F YOU ARE UNSURE, ANSWER  TO THIS 
QUESTION.

HE LAST QUESTION ON THIS SCREEN IS SPECIFICALLY FOR AYES COMPATIBLE MODEMS. 
HIS IS WHERE YOU'LL DEFINE THE INITIALIZE COMMAND TO BE SENT TO YOUR MODEM 
BEFORE ACCEPTING A CALLER. Y ALLOWING YOU TO ENTER THE INITIALIZE COMMAND 
HERE (INSTEAD OF HAVING IT HARD CODED INTO THE PROGRAM), OLOR 64  IS ABLE 
TO SUPPORT MANY MORE TYPES OF MODEMS. UT THIS ALSO MEANS YOU WILL NEED TO 
KNOW A LITTLE ABOUT YOUR MODEM BEFORE YOU CAN ANSWER THIS QUESTION. E ARE NOT 
GOING TO ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN EACH SETTING IN THE INIT STRING, PLEASE LOOK IN 
YOUR MODEM MANUAL IF YOU WONDER WHAT THEY DO. E DO WANT TO SAY A FEW THINGS 
THOUGH. IRST, THE INIT STRING MUST BEGIN WITH "AT" (LOWER CASE). HIS STANDS 
FOR ATTENTION AND NEEDS TO BE ENTERED ONLY ONCE EVEN THOUGH MANY COMMANDS ARE 
IN THIS ONE STRING. ECOND, IF YOUR MODEM WILL ACCEPT IT, IT'S BEST TO FOLLOW 
THE ATTENTION WITH A RESET (Z). HIS RESET IS REQUIRED FOR MANY TYPES OF 
MODEMS TO KEEP THEM FROM GETTING LOCKED UP. UT ON THE AYES MARTMODEM 1200 
AND BOTH OMMODORE 1670 MODEMS, A RESET WILL CAUSE THE REMAINDER OF THE INIT 
COMMAND TO BE CLEARED. O DON'T USE THE "Z" RESET WITH THESE MODEMS. N 
SUMMARY, USE "ATE1X1S0=0S10=30F1Q0V1M0" FOR THE AYES MARTMODEM 1200 AND MOST 
COMPATIBLES. F YOU ARE USING A OLKSMODEM 12 OR SOME OTHER AYES COMPATIBLE 
THAT DOES NOT CLEAR THE COMMAND BUFFER WHEN IT EXECUTES AN "ATZ", YOUR MODEM 
MAY WORK BETTER IF YOU ADD A "Z" JUST AFTER THE "AT" AND JUST BEFORE THE "E1". 
HANGE THE MODEM INIT COMMAND TO "ATE1X1S0=1S10=30F1Q0V1M0" FOR THE NEW (4 
SWITCH) VERSION 1670 OR "ATE1X1S0=2F1Q0V1M0" FOR THE ORIGINAL 1670 (THE 
VERSION WITH ONLY 3 SWITCHES). F YOU HAVE THE 17 RAM EXPANSION MODULE WITH 
AN OLD 1670, IT'S SAFE TO CHANGE THE "S0=2" ABOVE TO "S0=1". F YOU'RE USING A 
AYES 300, JUST TAKE THE "X1" OUT OF THE INIT STRING LISTED ABOVE FOR THE 
AYES 1200. F YOUR MODEM DOESN'T SUPPORT ANY OF THE COMMANDS IN THIS INIT 
STRING (SUCH AS THE S10=30), JUST TAKE THAT PART OF THE COMMAND OUT. ND IF 
YOU'RE HAVING A PROBLEM FINDING WHICH PART OF THE INIT STRING IS CAUSING YOU 
A PROBLEM, YOU CAN LOAD UP A TERMINAL PROGRAM AND TRY TYPING IN THE COMMAND. 
F YOU GET AN "OK", THEN YOU'RE ALL SET. F IT SAYS "ERROR", YOU NEED TO FIND 
WHICH PART OF THE COMMAND IS NOT SUPPORTED. LSO, IF AFTER LOADING THE , 
THE WAITING FOR CALLER SCREEN DOES NOT COME UP (JUST PRINTS LAST CALLER = ), 
THEN THERE'S SOMETHING IN THIS MODEM INIT STRING THAT'S NOT SET CORRECTLY. 

OW YOU'LL BE ASKED "S THIS CORRECT?" F YOU NEED TO CHANGE ANY OF THE 
PREVIOUS ANSWERS, ANSWER "" AND YOU WILL BE TAKEN THROUGH ALL THE QUESTIONS 
AGAIN. F YOU'RE SURE EVERYTHING IS CORRECT, JUST ENTER A "" AND PRESS 
. HEN YOU WILL BE TAKEN TO THE NEXT SCREEN OF THE  PROGRAM.


 3:   -   

HIS SCREEN WILL BE USED TO ASSIGN WHICH GROUPS OF FILES WILL BE STORED ON 
WHICH DISK DRIVES. T'S HERE THAT YOU'LL BE ABLE TO BALANCE THE LOAD BETWEEN 
YOUR DRIVES TO MAKE THE MOST EFFICIENT USE OF YOUR HARDWARE. F AT FIRST 
YOU'RE NOT SURE WHERE TO PUT WHICH FILES, DON'T WORRY TOO MUCH. NCE THE 
SYSTEM STARTS RUNNING AND IF YOU SEE THAT ONE DRIVE HAS TOO MANY FILES, YOU 
CAN RERUN , CHANGE THE APPROPRIATE VARIABLES, THEN MOVE THE AFFECTED 
FILES.

HE FIRST QUESTION ON THIS SCREEN IS FOR THE DEVICE AND DRIVE NUMBER OF THE 
DISK DRIVE THAT WILL BE STORING THE  PASSWORD FILE. OU'LL SEE "8, 0, I0". 
HE FIRST NUMBER IS THE DEVICE NUMBER OF THE DESIRED DRIVE AND THE SECOND 
NUMBER IS THE DRIVE NUMBER (0 OR 1 FOR DUAL DRIVES OR 0 OR 1 FOR THE T. 
ERNAL HARD DISK DRIVE). OU CAN "POINT" THIS TO ANY DRIVE YOU WANT, BUT IF 
YOU POINT IT TO A DRIVE OTHER THAN A 1541, MAKE SURE THE DRIVE IS CAPABLE OF 
HANDLING RELATIVE FILES (THE  1001 DOES A FINE JOB WITH RELATIVE FILES). 
HE THIRD ENTRY (THE I0) IS THE COMMAND TO BE SENT TO THE COMMAND CHANNEL 
WHENEVER THIS GROUP OF FILES ARE REQUESTED. "I0" IS WHAT YOU SHOULD ENTER IF 
YOU'RE USING 1541S, 1581S,  1001S, 2031S, 9060S, 9090S, ETC. F YOU'RE 
ACCESSING DRIVE ONE OF A DUAL DRIVE (LIKE THE 4040S, 8050S, 8250S, ETC.), YOU 
WOULD ENTER "I1". UT IF YOU'RE USING A 1571, YOU HAVE 3 CHOICES. F YOU WANT 
TO USE THE 1571 IN 1541 MODE, SINGLE-SIDED, 664 BLOCKS PER DISK, THEN YOU CAN 
JUST ENTER "I0" JUST LIKE A 1541. UT SINCE THE 1571 IS A DOUBLE-SIDED DRIVE, 
IT'S CAPABLE OF STORING 1328 BLOCKS IN ONE DIRECTORY IN 1571 MODE, OR 664 
BLOCKS IN SEPARATE DIRECTORIES ON EACH SIDE OF THE DISK. HE LATTER 
ARRANGEMENT IS PREFERRED SINCE YOU WILL HAVE TWICE THE SPACE IN THE DIRECTORY 
(144 FILES ON EACH SIDE) AND MOST 1571'S RUN MORE RELIABLY IN THIS MODE. 
NYWAY, IF YOU WANT TO HAVE ONE DIRECTORY OF 144 FILES/1328 BLOCKS FREE, 
ENTER "U0>M1". F YOU WANT TO HAVE TWO DIRECTORIES OF 144 FILES/664 BLOCKS 
EACH, ENTER "U0>H0" FOR THE NORMAL SIDE, OR "U0>H1" FOR SECOND SIDE. LSO, 
WHEN USING A 1571 IN ONE OF THESE TWO MODES, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A DISKETTE 
PROPERLY FORMATTED. F YOU DON'T ALREADY HAVE A DISKETTE FORMATTED, YOU CAN 
USE THE  WEDGE IN FASTLOAD, THE  , OR THE  AND ENTER IN THE 
SAME DRIVE COMMAND FOLLOWED BY THE COMMAND TO FORMAT THE DISK. 

XAMPLES:   1571 MODE - >U0>M1
                        >N0:DISKNAME,ID

            1541 MODE SIDE 0 - >U0>H0
                               >N0:DISKNAME,ID

            1541 MODE SIDE 1 - >U0>H1
                               >N0:DISKNAME,ID

HEN ENTERING YOUR INFORMATION ON THIS SCREEN,        
     . HEN YOU PRESS THE  KEY, THE CURSOR WILL 
AUTOMATICALLY MOVE FROM THE DEVICE NUMBER TO THE DRIVE NUMBER, THEN TO THE 
DRIVE COMMAND BEFORE GOING ONTO THE NEXT LINE. HIS MAY SEEM CONFUSING AT 
FIRST, BUT IT DOES ALLOW MORE INFORMATION TO BE ENTERED ON ONE SCREEN. F YOU 
MAKE A MISTAKE AND ARE STILL ARE ON THE SAME FIELD, CURSOR LEFT (INSTEAD OF 
DELETE) AND TYPE OVER THE ERROR. HEN PRESS  TO GO ONTO THE NEXT FIELD. 
F YOU REALIZE YOU'D MADE A MISTAKE IN A PREVIOUS FIELD, DO NOT USE THE DELETE 
KEY OR CURSOR KEY TO GO BACK. UST ANSWER THE REST OF THE QUESTIONS AND AT THE 
END OF THIS SCREEN YOU'LL BE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO CORRECT YOUR MISTAKES. 
F FOR SOME REASON, YOU GET TOTALLY MESSED UP, JUST PRESS /  AND 
TYPE RUN TO START OVER. HE REST OF THE DRIVE ASSIGNMENTS ARE JUST LIKE THE 
PASSWORD FILE. HEY ARE FOR THE YSTEM ESSAGES (WELCOME MESSAGES, LOGOFF 
MESSAGES, MENUS, INFORMATION FILE, MEMBERSHIP LIST, MEMBERSHIP FULL MESSAGE, 
VOTE MESSAGES, OR ANY MESSAGE THAT DOES NOT FALL INTO ONE OF THE OTHER 
CATEGORIES), ELP ILES, UBLIC ESSAGES, RIVATE ESSAGES, EXT ILES, ALLER 
OG AND ROGRAM ILES. S YOU CAN SEE, THIS ALLOWS YOU TO MOVE YOUR FILES 
AROUND ANYWAY YOU NEED TO BEST BALANCE THE LOAD BETWEEN YOUR AVAILABLE DRIVES. 
HE  WILL ALWAYS HAVE TO INITIALLY BE LOADED FROM DEVICE 8, BUT IF IT'S 
MORE CONVENIENT, YOU CAN HAVE THE OVERLAYS LOADED FROM A DIFFERENT DEVICE 
NUMBER. HIS MAY BE BENEFICIAL IF YOU HAVE A HARD DISK DRIVE SETUP AS DEVICE 
NUMBER 9, AND WANT TO LOAD YOUR OVERLAYS FROM THE HARD DRIVE FOR THE HIGHER 
SPEED.

 : F YOU'RE USING THE PYX ASTLOAD CARTRIDGE YOU  ALWAYS 
USE "UI" AS THE DRIVE COMMAND FOR PROGRAM FILES OR YOU'LL EXPERIENCE 
INTERMITTENT SYSTEM LOCKUPS. 

OW IS A GOOD TIME TO MAKE SURE THE DRIVE THAT YOU ASSIGNED TO THE PASSWORD 
FILE IS ON-LINE AND HAS A FORMATTED DISK IN IT. HIS DISK SHOULD BE BLANK. HE 
 PROGRAM WILL CREATE A RELATIVE FILE LARGE ENOUGH TO HOLD THE NUMBER OF 
CALLERS YOU DESIGNATED. HE SYSTEM WILL RUN FASTER AND MORE RELIABLE IF THIS 
FILE IS CONTIGUOUS.

HE NEXT QUESTION ON THIS SCREEN IS ASKING FOR THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF FILES 
THAT YOU WANT TO HAVE ON THE PUBLIC MESSAGES DRIVE. F YOU'RE USING A 1541, 
135 IS SUGGESTED. F YOU ARE USING AN  1001, 210 IS SUGGESTED. HE WAY THIS 
WORKS IS THAT AFTER A CALLER LOGS OFF, THE SYSTEM WILL GO TO THE PUBLIC 
MESSAGES DRIVE AND COUNT THE TOTAL NUMBER OF FILES ON THAT DRIVE. HIS ROUTINE 
COMES IN REAL HANDY IF YOU'RE STORING BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MESSAGES ON THE 
SAME DRIVE, OR IF YOU'RE ALLOWING UPLOADS TO GO TO THE PUBLIC MESSAGES DRIVE. 
INCE THERE'S NO WAY OF PREDICTING JUST HOW MANY UPLOADS OR PRIVATE MESSAGES 
WILL BE ON THIS DISK, WE CAN PROGRAM THE SYSTEM TO SCAN THAT DIRECTORY AND IF 
THE DIRECTORY IS GETTING CLOSE TO FILLING UP, SCRATCH SOME PUBLIC MESSAGES. 
HIS ALLOWS US TO RUN OUR SMALL 1541S NEAR CAPACITY (MAKING THE MOST USE OF 
THE DRIVE ALL THE TIME).  1541 WILL HANDLE 144 FILES. O A SETTING OF 135 
LEAVES SPACE FOR 9 NEW MESSAGES/UPLOADS TO BE STORED ON THIS DISK DURING ANY 
ONE CALL. NE MORE THING, IF YOU'RE ONLY STORING PUBLIC MESSAGES ON THE DRIVE 
(NOTHING ELSE) OR YOU'RE USING A 9060, 9090, OR ANY OTHER HARD DISK DRIVE THAT 
HAS AN UNLIMITED DIRECTORY, THERE'S NO NEED FOR THE SYSTEM TO SPEND ALL THAT 
TIME COUNTING FILES. F THIS IS THE CASE, ENTERING A 0 HERE WILL TELL THE 
SYSTEM TO NOT COUNT FILES AFTER EACH LOGOFF. 

GAIN YOU'LL BE ASKED "S THIS CORRECT?". F YOU NEED TO CHANGE ANY OF THE 
PREVIOUS ANSWERS, ANSWER "" AND YOU'LL BE TAKEN THROUGH ALL THE QUESTIONS 
AGAIN. F YOU'RE SURE EVERYTHING'S CORRECT, JUST ENTER A "" AND PRESS . 
HEN YOU WILL BE TAKEN TO SCREEN THREE OF THE  PARAMETERS ROUTINE.

 4:   - / 

N THIS SECTION OF SETUP, YOU'LL GO THROUGH A SERIES OF SCREENS DEFINING EACH 
OF YOUR UPLOAD AND DOWNLOAD DIRECTORIES. OU'RE ABLE TO SETUP UP TO 26 
DIFFERENT DIRECTORIES ON ANY NUMBER OF DRIVES. ACH DIRECTORY WILL BE ASSIGNED 
A DESCRIPTION, DOWNLOAD STATUS, UPLOAD STATUS, ACCESS LEVEL, DEVICE NUMBER, 
DRIVE NUMBER AND A DRIVE COMMAND.

OU'LL WANT TO GIVE EACH DRIVE A UNIQUE NAME SINCE YOUR CALLERS WILL REFERENCE 
THIS NAME WHEN SELECTING DRIVES. HE FIRST DRIVE THAT HAS A "" IN THE 
DOWNLOAD STATUS FIELD WILL BE THE SYSTEM'S DEFAULT DOWNLOAD DRIVE AND THE 
FIRST DRIVE WITH A "" IN THE UPLOAD STATUS FIELD WILL BE THE SYSTEM'S DEFAULT 
UPLOAD DRIVE. HIS CAN BE THE SAME DRIVE (SIMPLY BY ENTERING "" IN BOTH 
DOWNLOAD AND UPLOAD STATUS FIELDS) OR TOTALLY SEPARATE DRIVES. OU NEED TO 
MAKE SURE THE ACCESS LEVEL ASSIGNED TO THESE DRIVES IS FOR THE LOWEST LEVEL 
CALLERS. OU WOULD NOT WANT THE SYSTEM TO DEFAULT TO ONE OF YOUR RESTRICTED 
DOWNLOAD DIRECTORIES! NE LAST THING TO ALWAYS REMEMBER IS THAT ALL LEVEL 7, 
8 AND 9 S WILL BE ABLE TO SWITCH TO ANY DRIVE DEFINED HERE, WHETHER OR 
NOT IT'S AN UPLOAD OR DOWNLOAD DRIVE. HIS ALLOWS YOUR REMOTES TO MOVE FILES 
OFF OF AN UPLOAD ONLY DRIVE AND UPLOAD FILES ONTO A DOWNLOAD ONLY DRIVE. OR 
EXAMPLE, SAY WE HAVE 4 DRIVES ON OUR . RIVE 8 HAS THE PRIVATE MESSAGES AND 
THE OVERLAY PROGRAMS ON IT. RIVE 9 HAS PUBLIC MESSAGES AND HELP FILES. RIVE 
10 HAS ALL THE NEW UPLOADS AND WE WANT TO ALLOW CALLERS TO DOWNLOAD FROM HERE 
TOO. RIVE 11 HAS THE TEXT FILES AND THE MAIN DOWNLOADS. OU WANT DRIVE 11 TO 
BE THE DEFAULT DOWNLOAD DRIVE AND DRIVE 10 TO BE THE DEFAULT UPLOAD DRIVE AS 
WELL AS AN OPTIONAL ALTERNATE DOWNLOAD DRIVE (FOR DOWNLOADING NEWLY UPLOADED 
PROGRAMS). ERE'S HOW YOU'D FILL IN THE  SCREENS. NTER "3" FOR THE 
NUMBER OF UPLOAD/DOWNLOAD DIRECTORIES TO BE DEFINED. OR IRECTORY  (OUR 
DEFAULT DOWNLOAD DRIVE), ENTER "LL OWNLOADS" AS THE DESCRIPTION. ON'T ENTER 
ANY COMMAS, COLOR CODES, REVERSE CODES, OR SPACES FOR CENTERING. NTER "Y" TO 
ALLOW DOWNLOADS AND "N" TO ALLOW UPLOADS. NTER 1 FOR THE ACCESS LEVEL (ALWAYS 
WANT THE DEFAULT DOWNLOAD DIRECTORY TO HAVE AN ACCESS LEVEL OF 1). HEN ENTER 
"11" FOR DEVICE NUMBER. OW ENTER "0" FOR THE DRIVE NUMBER AND "I0" FOR DRIVE 
COMMAND. N THE NEXT SCREEN, DO THE SAME THING FOR DRIVE 10 BUT NAME THIS ONE 
"EW PLOADS". NSWER "" TO BOTH DOWNLOADS AND UPLOADS. N THE NEXT SCREEN, 
ENTER "ELP ILES ( )" FOR THE DESCRIPTION. NSWER "N" TO BOTH 
DOWNLOADS AND UPLOADS AND SET THE ACCESS LEVEL TO 7. HIS DIRECTORY WILL ONLY 
BE SEEN BY YOUR S (LEVEL 7 OR HIGHER) WHEN THEY ENTER "#" TO CHANGE 
DRIVES. NSWERING "" TO BOTH UPLOADS AND DOWNLOADS STILL ALLOWS LEVEL 7 AND 
ABOVE S TO BE ABLE TO SWITCH TO THAT DRIVE AND UPLOAD/DOWNLOAD/SCRATCH 
FILES (HELP FILES IN OUR EXAMPLE). HERE WAS NO NEED TO ACCESS DRIVE 8, EVEN 
AS A , SO WE DID NOT ENTER IT ON THIS SECTION.

FTER ENTERING THE THIRD SCREEN (REMEMBER WE SAID WE WERE DEFINING 3 DOWNLOAD 
DIRECTORIES), YOU'LL BE PROMPTED FOR "IRECTORY TO DIT (-)"? F YOU NEED TO 
CHANGE ANY INFORMATION PREVIOUSLY ENTERED, PRESS THE APPROPRIATE LETTER. 
THERWISE, PRESS  TO GO ON TO THE NEXT SCREEN.

HIS NEXT SCREEN ONLY ASKS 3 QUESTIONS. HE FIRST ONE IS "PLOAD AUTO-RELEASE 
LEVEL (1-10)?" HEN A CALLER UPLOADS A FILE TO THE SYSTEM, DO YOU WANT THAT 
FILE TO AUTOMATICALLY BE RELEASED AS A PUBLIC DOWNLOAD, OR WOULD YOU PREFER IT 
TO BE HELD FOR A  TO REVIEW BEFORE IT'S RELEASED? ITH OLOR 64 , YOU 
CAN HAVE IT SO THAT LOWER LEVEL CALLER'S UPLOADS ARE HELD FOR "SYSOP RELEASE", 
WHILE HIGHER LEVEL CALLER'S UPLOADS WILL "AUTO-RELEASE". AKE SURE YOU NEVER 
SET THIS COMMAND HIGHER THAN THE ()ELEASE  OWNLOAD COMMAND OR YOUR S 
WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RELEASE ANY UPLOADS. OU MAY WANT TO SETUP YOUR SYSTEM SO 
THAT JUST YOUR 'S UPLOADS WILL AUTO-RELEASE. F SO, ENTER 7 HERE. R YOU 
MAY WANT ALL UPLOADS TO AUTO-RELEASE. F SO, ENTER A 1 HERE.

HE NEXT QUESTION ASKS IF YOU WANT TO USE THE "PLOAD DESCRIPTIONS" FEATURE OF 
OLOR 64 . OST OF YOU'LL WANT TO ANSWER "Y" TO THIS QUESTION. HE ONLY 
TIME YOU MAY WANT TO SAY "N" IS IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH DISK SPACE AND ALL 
THE EXTRA FILE DESCRIPTIONS WILL FILL UP THE DIRECTORY OR DISK. HE POPULAR 
 1001 DISK DRIVE HAS A LIMITATION OF ONLY 224 FILES IN IT'S DIRECTORY. HIS 
SOUNDS LIKE A LOT UNTIL YOU REALIZE THAT EACH DOWNLOAD REQUIRES A SECOND FILE 
FOR THE DESCRIPTION. O IF YOU'RE USING AN  1001 AND YOU WANT TO USE UPLOAD 
DESCRIPTIONS, YOU'LL BE LIMITED TO 111 FILES IN THE DOWNLOADS (ALLOWING FOR 
THE "DIRECTORY" AND "DIR.TMP" FILES). HIS GETS EVEN WORSE IF YOU'RE ALSO 
PUTTING SYSTEM FILES, MESSAGES, HELP FILES, AND/OR TEXT FILES ON THE SAME . 
NYWAY, THAT'S WHY IT'S SET UP TO RUN EITHER WAY. LSO, IF YOU ANSWER "N" TO 
DOWNLOAD DESCRIPTIONS, IT'S POSSIBLE FOR YOU OR YOUR S TO MANUALLY ENTER 
A DOWNLOAD DESCRIPTION ON ANY SPECIFIC FILE. UST USE THE ()DIT NLD ESC 
COMMAND TO CREATE THE DESCRIPTION FILE. LSO, ALL DOWNLOAD DESCRIPTIONS WILL 
BE STORED ON THE DISK AS "@DNLDNAME". XAMPLE, THE DESCRIPTION FILE FOR 
"CCGMS TERM 4.0+" IS "@CCGMS TERM 4.0+". EFORE STARTING AN UPLOAD, A CHECK IS 
ALWAYS MADE TO MAKE SURE A DOWNLOAD UNDER THAT NAME AND A DESCRIPTION UNDER 
THAT NAME DOES NOT EXIST. F YOU EVER SEE A "FILE EXISTS" ERROR AND CANNOT 
FIGURE OUT WHY, REMEMBER ABOUT THE DOWNLOAD DESCRIPTIONS (EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT 
USING THEM).

HE LAST QUESTION ON THIS SCREEN ASKS IF YOU'LL HAVE MULTIPLE DIRECTORIES ON 
ONE DISK DRIVE. HIS IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR LARGE DISK DRIVES WHICH HAVE 
MULTIPLE PARTITIONS OR DIRECTORIES OF THEIR OWN. HIS OPTION IS MAINLY FOR 
OTHER LARGE DISK DRIVES (LIKE A 5, 10 OR 20 MEGABYTE HARD DISK DRIVE) AND WILL 
ALLOW YOU TO DIVIDE THAT LARGE AREA OF DISK SPACE UP INTO MORE MANAGEABLE, 
SMALLER AREAS. OU COULD ACTUALLY USE THIS OPTION ON ANY DISK DRIVE, BUT IT 
MAY NOT BE WORTH THE EFFORT UNLESS YOU HAVE A LOT OF FILES ON ONE DISK DRIVE. 
F YOU DO ANSWER  TO THIS QUESTION, EVERY FILE UPLOADED TO THE SYSTEM WILL 
AUTOMATICALLY HAVE A LETTER (-) ADDED TO THE BEGINNING OF IT'S FILENAME. HE 
CALLERS DO NOT SEE THIS LETTER, IT'S JUST USED BY THE  TO GROUP THE FILES 
INTO DIFFERENT DIRECTORIES. F YOU MANUALLY COPY A FILE ONTO YOUR DOWNLOAD 
DISK, YOU WILL NEED TO RENAME THE FILE SO THE PROPER CAPITAL LETTER IS THE 
FIRST CHARACTER OF THE FILENAME. HERE'S A UTILITY ON YOUR   DISK 
TO HELP YOU RENAME YOUR CURRENT DOWNLOADS CALLED "DIR RENAME 7.00". HEN YOU 
USE IT, THE DELETE KEY DELETES THE FIRST CHARACTER OF THE FILENAME, ANY OTHER 
KEY PRESSED BECOMES THE FIRST CHARACTER OF THE FILENAME. EMEMBER, IF YOU 
ANSWER  TO THIS MULTIPLE DIRECTORY QUESTION, YOU WILL NOT NEED TO RENAME ANY 
FILES. HEY'LL BE DISPLAYED TO YOUR CALLERS EXACTLY AS THEY ARE ON THE DISK, 
WITH ALL THE FILES ON ONE DRIVE IN THE SAME DIRECTORY.

OW YOU'LL BE ASKED "S THIS CORRECT?" F YOU NEED TO CHANGE ANY OF THE 
PREVIOUS ANSWERS, ANSWER "" AND YOU'LL BE TAKEN THROUGH ALL THE QUESTIONS 
AGAIN. F YOU'RE SURE EVERYTHING IS CORRECT, JUST ENTER A "" AND PRESS 
. HEN YOU'LL BE TAKEN TO THE NEXT SCREEN OF THE  PROGRAM. F AFTER 
ANSWERING "", THE PROGRAM STILL JUMPS BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF THE 
PLOADS/OWNLOADS  SCREENS INSTEAD OF GOING ON TO THE NEXT SCREEN, MAKE 
SURE YOU HAVE ASSIGNED AT LEAST ONE DOWNLOAD DIRECTORY AND AT LEAST ONE UPLOAD 
DIRECTORY. VEN IF YOU DON'T WANT TO ALLOW UPLOADS OR DOWNLOADS, YOU MUST 
ASSIGN AT LEAST ONE OF EACH (JUST SET THE ACCESS LEVEL TO 7 IF YOU WANT).

 5:   - '  

HIS SCREEN WILL BE USED TO SET THE TIME LIMITS FOR THE DIFFERENT ACCESS 
LEVELS. IRST YOU'LL BE ASKED TO SET THE MAXIMUM TIME ALLOWED "PER CALL" FOR 
LEVELS 1-5 DURING  HOURS AND AGAIN DURING  HOURS. HIS IS DIFFERENT THAN 
THE MAXIMUM ALLOWED PER DAY IN THAT A CALLER MAY GET 60 MINUTES PER DAY, BUT 
ONLY BE ALLOWED 30 MINUTES PER CALL DURING  HOURS, FORCING THEM TO NOT TIE 
UP THE  FOR A CONTINUOUS AMOUNT OF TIME DURING WHAT IS NORMALLY THE BUSIER 
HOURS. HIS VARIABLE APPLIES TO ALL CALLERS WITH ACCESS LEVELS 1 THROUGH 5. 
CCESS LEVELS 6 AND ABOVE ARE EXEMPT. NY VALUE FROM 0 TO 900 IS OKAY. OTE 
THAT IF YOU DO NOT WANT A "PER CALL" TIME LIMIT, THEN SET EITHER OR BOTH OF 
THESE VALUES TO 900.

HE NEXT QUESTION IS ASKING FOR THE TIME REQUIRED TO PASS BEFORE A LEVEL 1-5 
CALLER CAN GET BACK ONTO THE SYSTEM. OU WOULD USE THIS VALUE TO PREVENT ONE 
CALLER FROM STAYING ON-LINE FOR THE MAXIMUM "PER CALL" TIME LIMIT, THEN 
IMMEDIATELY CALLING BACK FOR ANOTHER SESSION. NY VALUE FROM 0 TO 30 IS OKAY. 
F YOU DON'T CARE TO USE THIS "BETWEEN CALLS" FEATURE, JUST PUT A 0 IN THIS 
LOCATION. GAIN, ACCESS LEVEL 6 CALLERS AND ABOVE ARE EXEMPT FROM THIS 
VARIABLE.

HE REMAINING QUESTIONS ON THIS SCREEN ARE FOR THE DAILY TIME LIMITS FOR 
ACCESS LEVELS 1 THROUGH 9. NY VALUE FROM 1 TO 900 IS OKAY. ET THEM ANYWAY 
YOU SEE FIT. HE SYSTEM WILL NOT DISCONNECT A CALLER IF THEY ARE IN THE MIDDLE 
OF A DOWNLOAD OR ENTERING A MESSAGE AND THEIR TIME EXPIRES. UT THE SYSTEM 
WILL "BORROW" THE EXTRA TIME USED FROM THE NEXT DAY. O IF A CALLER HAS A 20 
MINUTE PER DAY TIME LIMIT AND SPENDS 60 MINUTES TYPING YOU FEEDBACK, THE 
SYSTEM WILL ENTER -40 MINUTES IN THAT CALLERS MEMBERSHIP RECORD. HEN EVERY 
NIGHT AT MIDNIGHT, THIS TIME WILL BE INCREMENTED BY 20 MINUTES. O THIS CALLER 
WOULDN'T BE ALLOWED BACK ONTO THE SYSTEM UNTIL THEIR DAILY TIME LIMIT GOES 
POSITIVE AGAIN (3 DAYS IN THIS EXAMPLE).

T THE END OF THIS SCREEN, ONCE AGAIN YOU'LL BE ASKED "S THIS CORRECT?" F 
YOU NEED TO CHANGE ANY OF THE PREVIOUS ANSWERS, ANSWER "" AND YOU'LL BE TAKEN 
THROUGH ALL THE QUESTIONS AGAIN. F YOU'RE SURE EVERYTHING'S CORRECT, JUST 
ENTER A "" AND PRESS .

 6:   -   

HE NEXT SCREEN IS WHERE YOU'LL ASSIGN THE NUMBER OF DAYS THAT MUST PASS 
BEFORE THE 'S PURGE ROUTINE WILL AUTOMATICALLY DELETE A MEMBER THAT HASN'T 
CALLED IN A WHILE. HEN THE  DELETES A MEMBER, THEY ARE  DELETED. 
HERE'S NO WAY TO BRING THEM BACK UNLESS YOU HAVE A "BACKUP PASSWORD" FILE 
YOU CAN USE TO RESTORE THEIR RECORD. N EXAMPLE MIGHT BE TO SET THE SYSTEM TO 
AUTOMATICALLY DELETE ANY LEVEL 1 NOT CALLING IN 25 DAYS, LEVEL 2 NOT CALLING 
IN 31 DAYS, OR LEVEL 3 NOT CALLING IN 62 DAYS. ND SET ALL OTHER LEVELS TO 999 
DAYS SO THE SYSTEM WILL NOT AUTOMATICALLY DELETE THEM (COULD USE THE 
MEMBERSHIP EXPIRES FEATURE TO LOWER THEIR ACCESS LEVEL TO A 2 AFTER A SET 
NUMBER OF DAYS OR WHEN THEIR FEES RUN OUT).

HE WAY THIS ROUTINE WORKS IS EVERY NIGHT AT MIDNIGHT, EACH PASSWORD RECORD IS 
EVALUATED AND IF THAT CALLER HAS NOT CALLED IN THE DEFINED NUMBER OF DAYS, 
THEY ARE DELETED. N ENTRY IS MADE INTO THE CALLER LOG (THEIR RECORD NUMBER 
FOLLOWED BY AN ASTERISK TO DIFFERENTIATE FROM A MEMBERSHIP EXPIRED STATUS). S 
A SAFETY CHECK, WHEN THE SYSTEM CALCULATES THE NUMBER OF DAYS SINCE THE LAST 
CALL AND COMPARES IT TO THE CURRENT DATE, IF THE CALCULATION EXCEEDS THE PURGE 
VARIABLE BY MORE THAN 7 DAYS, THE SYSTEM WILL NOT DELETE THAT CALLER. ITHOUT
THIS SAFETY CHECK, IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY ENTERED THE WRONG YEAR WHILE LOADING 
THE  AND THE SYSTEM PROCESSED ITS "END OF DAY" ROUTINES,  OF YOUR 
MEMBERS WOULD HAVE BEEN DELETED! N ADDITION, THE SYSTEM DOES SOME 
APPROXIMATIONS WHEN MAKING CALCULATIONS INTO A PREVIOUS MONTH. NY ERROR 
(ALWAYS IN YOUR CALLER'S FAVOR) CAN POSSIBLY BE AS MUCH AS 3 DAYS. OR THIS 
REASON, IT'S RECOMMENDED THAT IF IN THE FUTURE YOU CHANGE ANY OF THE PURGE 
VARIABLES, ONLY CHANGE THEM BY 4 DAYS PER "END OF DAY" PROCESSING RUNS SO THE 
SYSTEM WON'T SKIP OVER ANY CALLERS THAT SHOULD BE PURGED. OU'RE STRONGLY 
URGED TO USE THIS FEATURE SINCE IT'LL MAKE THE LONG TERM MAINTENANCE OF THE 
 MUCH EASIER.

T THE END OF THIS SCREEN, ONCE AGAIN YOU'LL BE ASKED "S THIS CORRECT?" F 
YOU NEED TO CHANGE ANY OF THE PREVIOUS ANSWERS, ANSWER "" AND YOU'LL BE TAKEN 
THROUGH ALL THE QUESTIONS AGAIN. F YOU'RE SURE EVERYTHING'S CORRECT, JUST 
ENTER A "" AND PRESS .

 7:   -  

HIS SCREEN WILL BE USED TO ENTER THE MESSAGE BASE CATEGORIES. OU CAN HAVE 
ANYWHERE FROM 2 TO 18 CATEGORIES. HEN A MESSAGE IS POSTED, THE CALLER WILL 
BE ASKED TO SELECT FROM ONE OF THESE CATEGORIES FOR THEIR MESSAGE. ND WHEN A 
CALLER READS THE MESSAGES, THEY'LL BE GIVEN THE OPTION TO READ JUST THE 
MESSAGES IN ONE CATEGORY OR THE MESSAGES IN ALL OF THE CATEGORIES THAT THEY 
HAVE ACCESS TO. ON'T USE ANY COMMAS OR COLONS IN YOUR MESSAGE CATEGORY 
TITLES. HEY'LL BE READ IN FROM DISK USING A STANDARD INPUT STATEMENT, BOTH 
THE COMMA AND COLON WILL CAUSE EVERYTHING AFTER ITSELF TO BE IGNORED. ACH 
CATEGORY WILL HAVE AN ACCESS LEVEL ASSIGNED TO IT. NY CALLERS WITH A LEVEL 
LOWER THAN THE CATEGORY'S LEVEL WON'T SEE ANY MESSAGES IN THAT CATEGORY. T'S 
RECOMMENDED YOU ASSIGN YOUR CATEGORY LEVELS IN ORDER WITH THE LOWEST LEVELS AT 
THE TOP OF THE SCREEN AND THE HIGHEST AT THE BOTTOM. HAT WAY WHEN A LOWER 
LEVEL CALLER SEES THE LIST OF CATEGORIES, THEY WON'T SEE LETTERS MISSING FROM 
THE LIST. HE LESS THEY KNOW THEY'RE MISSING, THE LESS THEY'RE GOING TO 
COMPLAIN.

GAIN YOU'LL BE ASKED "S THIS CORRECT?". F YOU NEED TO CHANGE ONE OF THE 
PREVIOUS CATEGORIES, ANSWER "" AND YOU'LL BE TAKEN THROUGH ALL THE QUESTIONS 
AGAIN. F YOU'RE SURE EVERYTHING'S CORRECT, JUST ENTER A "" AND PRESS .

 8:   -    1   2

HE NEXT 2 SCREENS ARE WHERE YOU CAN REALLY START TO CUSTOMIZE YOUR SYSTEM. 
VERY COMMAND THAT YOUR CALLERS TYPE FROM THE MAIN COMMAND PROMPT AND THE 
LEVEL REQUIRED TO EXECUTE THAT COMMAND ARE  DEFINED. NCE AGAIN, DON'T 
USE THE CURSOR KEYS TO MOVE FROM FIELD TO FIELD, USE . F YOU DON'T LIKE 
"" FOR LOGOFF, YOU CAN CHANGE IT TO "". UT REMEMBER TO ASSIGN SOMETHING 
DIFFERENT FOR THE GRAPHICS COMMAND. ND IF YOU LIKE LEVEL 1 CALLERS TO BE ABLE 
TO READ ALL MESSAGES, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO ADJUST THAT HERE TOO. HE FIRST SCREEN 
COVERS HALF OF THE COMMANDS AND THE SECOND SCREEN COVERS THE OTHER HALF OF THE 
COMMANDS. HE COMMANDS MARKED "SPARE 1" THROUGH "SPARE 9" ARE FOR FUTURE 
EXPANSION. OR NOW, SETTING THE ACCESS LEVEL FOR THESE COMMANDS TO 10 WILL 
COMPLETELY ELIMINATE THEM FROM THE SYSTEM. URRENTLY, IF ANYONE PRESSES 1-9 
(AND HAS A HIGH ENOUGH ACCESS LEVEL), THE  WILL LOAD IN THE APPROPRIATE 
MODULE AND THEN JUST RETURN TO THE COMMAND PROMPT. HEY WERE LEFT THIS WAY SO 
YOU'LL BE ABLE TO EASILY ADD YOUR OWN MODULES TO OLOR 64  USING THESE 
COMMANDS. F YOU'RE NOT A PROGRAMMER, DON'T DESPAIR. E ALREADY HAVE DOZENS OF 
MODULES WRITTEN THAT YOU CAN JUST MERGE INTO YOUR SYSTEM. ANY OF THEM ARE 
AVAILABLE FROM OLOR 64 AND 128 'S AS WELL AS INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOW TO ADD 
THEM TO YOUR SYSTEM. NYWAY, THE SPARE COMMANDS ARE SOMETHING YOU CAN MAKE USE 
OF LATER, AFTER YOU'RE MORE FAMILIAR WITH OLOR 64 .

HERE ARE A COUPLE OF VARIABLES THAT ARE NOT REDEFINABLE. NE IS THAT LEVEL 6 
IS STILL AND ALWAYS WILL BE EXEMPT FROM MAXIMUM DOWNLOADS PER CALL, MINIMUM 
TIME BETWEEN CALLS AND THE PER CALL TIME LIMIT. HIS LEVEL IS USUALLY RESERVED 
FOR FULL ACCESS MEMBERS WHO ARE LONG DISTANCE. NOTHER FIXED VARIABLE IS FOR 
S. EVEL 7 AND ABOVE ARE  LEVELS. HEN READING MESSAGES, THEY'LL BE 
ABLE TO SCRATCH AND EDIT OTHER PERSONS MESSAGES. ND LEVEL 8 S WILL 
ALWAYS HAVE THE OPTION TO VALIDATE A MEMBER WHEN SENDING THEM A PRIVATE 
MESSAGE (THEY HAVE ACCESS TO EVERYONE ELSE'S PASSWORDS ON THE SYSTEM). OU'LL 
BE ABLE TO MOVE AROUND SOME OF THE  COMMANDS BETWEEN LEVEL 7, 8, AND 9, 
BUT THESE LEVELS MUST BE USED FOR YOUR S ONLY.

HIS LEAVES YOU LEVELS 1 THROUGH 5 TO REDEFINE ANY WAY YOU WANT. LSO, 
REMEMBER TO MODIFY YOUR MENUS TO MATCH YOUR NEW CUSTOM DESIGNED COMMAND 
CHARACTERS AND ACCESS LEVELS.

 9:   -   

HE NEXT SCREEN IS WHERE YOU'LL DEFINE THE 8 COLORS THAT OLOR 64  WILL 
USE. HROUGHOUT THE PROGRAM, WHENEVER WE WANT TEXT IN A DIFFERENT COLOR, THE 
 WILL SELECT THE NEXT COLOR FROM THIS SEQUENCE. OU'LL SEE 9 REVERSE BARS 
OF NUMBERS ON THE SCREEN. O CHANGE THE COLOR FOR BAR 1, JUST TYPE 1 THEN TYPE 
THE CONTROL CODE FOR THE DESIRED COLOR. OR EXAMPLE TO MAKE BAR 1 MEDIUM BLUE, 
YOU'D TYPE 1 FOLLOWED BY OMMODORE-7. HE BAR WILL CHANGE COLORS RIGHT AWAY. 
HIS GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF WHAT THESE COLORS WILL LOOK LIKE NEXT TO EACH OTHER. 
EEP ADJUSTING THE COLORS UNTIL YOU HAVE THIS SCREEN LOOKING THE WAY YOU LIKE, 
THEN JUST PRESS .

 10:   -  

HE LAST SCREEN IN  NOW TELLS YOU TO MAKE SURE YOUR MODEM IS CONNECTED, 
TURNED ON AND READY TO RECEIVE A CALL, BUT TO MAKE SURE THAT NO ONE IS 
ACTUALLY CONNECTED TO IT. T'S RECOMMENDED THAT YOU ACTUALLY UNPLUG THE PHONE 
LINE FROM THE MODEM TO MAKE ABSOLUTELY SURE NO ONE IS CONNECTED OR THAT A DIAL 
TONE WILL NOT GENERATE A FALSE CARRIER DETECT STATUS. HE  WILL NOW LEARN 
THE CARRIER STATUS OF YOUR MODEM. F AT ANYTIME IN THE FUTURE YOU CHANGE MODEM 
TYPES OR SWITCHES INSIDE YOUR MODEM, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT YOU RERUN  WITH 
THE MODEM CONNECTED SO THE NEW CARRIER DETECT CAN BE DETERMINED. HEN YOU'RE 
READY, PRESS .

 11:    -  

OW THE  PROGRAM WILL GO TO WORK. HEN FINISHED, THERE SHOULD BE 2 NEW 
FILES ON YOUR SYSTEM. HE FIRST FILE IS "BBS.PARMS" AND MUST ALWAYS BE ON 
DEVICE 8, DRIVE 0. HIS IS THE FILE THAT STORES THE DRIVE ASSIGNMENTS, AND 
UNTIL IT'S READ IN, THE  PROGRAM HAS NO WAY OF KNOWING WHERE TO FIND ANY OF 
YOUR OTHER FILES. HE SECOND FILE JUST CREATED IS THE "PASSWORD FILE" AND IT 
WILL BE CREATED ON THE DISK ASSIGNED BY THE   SCREEN. HIS 
PASSWORD FILE IS WHERE ALL YOUR CALLER'S NAMES, PASSWORDS, ACCESS LEVELS, TIME 
REMAINING TODAY, LAST MESSAGE READ, ETC. ARE STORED. IGHT NOW, THERE'S ONLY 
ONE PASSWORD IN THE PASSWORD FILE. T'S MEMBERSHIP NUMBER 2, NAME , AND 
PASSWORD . HE  HAS CREATED THIS PASSWORD FOR YOU. OU, AS , MUST 
ALWAYS HAVE MEMBERSHIP NUMBER 2. LL FEEDBACK WILL BE PUT INTO MAILBOX NUMBER 
2 AND ALL FEEDBACK REPLIES WILL COME FROM MEMBERSHIP NUMBER 2. OU'LL WANT TO 
USE THE ASSWORD AINTENANCE ROUTINE (F6 FROM THE CALL WAITING SCREEN OR "<" 
WHILE ON-LINE) TO CHANGE YOUR NAME AND PASSWORD (SEE DESCRIPTION BELOW) BEFORE 
PUTTING THE  ON-LINE FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO CALL.

OTICE THAT ALL THESE FILENAMES HAVE A CHECK MARK IN FRONT OF THEIR NAME. HIS 
SAME CHECK MARK (SHIFTED @) WILL PRECEDE ALL  FILENAMES. HIS SPECIAL 
CHARACTER PREVENTS ANYONE FROM BEING ABLE TO DOWNLOAD ANY OF THESE FILES AND 
POSSIBLY READING YOUR PASSWORD FILE, FEEDBACK OR SOMEONE ELSE'S MAIL.

HERE ARE 6 FILES THAT NEED TO BE COPIED ONTO THE DISK ASSIGNED TO STORE 
PROGRAM FILES IN THE   SCREEN. O ANSWER "" TO THE "OAD  
(Y/N)?" QUESTION. HEN USING UPER FER (OR ANY SUITABLE FILE COPY PROGRAM), 
COPY "BBS.PUNT 7.36", "BBS.XMO 7.36", "BBS.INIT 7.35", "BBS.MSGS 7.35", 
"BBS.XFER 7.37" AND "BBS.OVL 7.35" ONTO THE DISK YOU DESIGNATED FOR PROGRAM 
FILES. O HELP MINIMIZE THE DELAYS WHEN AN OVERLAY IS CALLED, THESE FILES NEED 
TO BE NEAR THE BEGINNING OF THE DIRECTORY AND CONTIGUOUS (NOT SCATTERED ALL 
OVER THE DISK). F YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE ENOUGH DISK SPACE AND YOU'RE STORING 
YOUR PROGRAM OVERLAY FILES ON YOUR   DISK AS RECOMMENDED, YOU MAY WANT 
TO CONSIDER COPYING ALL OF THE OTHER PROGRAM FILES FROM THE   DISK 
ONTO YOUR   DISK JUST AFTER THE 6 OVERLAY FILES. HIS WOULD ELIMINATE 
THE NEED TO SWAP DISKS WHEN REBOOTING THE SYSTEM OR LOADING ONE OF THE  
UTILITIES. OU WOULD EFFECTIVELY ALWAYS HAVE BOTH THE   AND THE  
 DISKS ON-LINE ALL THE TIME AND WOULD JUST PRESS  WHEN ASKED TO 
INSERT ONE OR THE OTHER. NOTHER IDEA WOULD BE TO PUT "BBS" AND "BBS.ML 7.34" 
(THE ONLY OTHER PROGRAMS REQUIRED TO LOAD AND RUN THE ) ONTO THE " 
" DISK, ALLOWING YOU TO RELOAD THE SYSTEM WITHOUT SWAPPING DISKS BY JUST 
LOADING "BBS",8,1 (%BBS WITH ASTLOAD). LSO, "BBS.OV2 7.35" AND 
"BBS.OV3 7.35" ARE NOT CURRENTLY NEEDED ON YOUR PROGRAM DISK AS AN OVERLAY. 
IGHT NOW, THESE FILES ONLY CONTAIN A SKELETON OF CODING AND WILL BE USED IN 
THE FUTURE TO STORE "USER WRITTEN MODULES". NCE YOU START ADDING YOUR OWN 
ROUTINES TO OLOR 64 , YOU MAY SOON FIND YOU'RE RUNNING OUT OF SPACE AND 
WILL WANT TO PUT SOME OF YOUR CODING IN THESE EXTRA OVERLAY FILES. NYWAY, FOR 
NOW YOU DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THESE 2 FILES.

F AT ANY TIME YOU DECIDE THAT YOU NEED TO CHANGE ANY OF THE ABOVE PARAMETERS, 
JUST LOAD THE "" PROGRAM AGAIN AND THEN PUT IN YOUR " " DISK. HE 
EXISTING "BBS.PARMS" FILE WILL BE READ INTO MEMORY AND YOU'LL BE ABLE TO STEP 
THROUGH  ONE SCREEN AT A TIME WITH ALL PREVIOUS DATA ENTERED ALREADY ON 
THE SCREEN. EEP HITTING  UNTIL YOU GET TO THE PARAMETER YOU WANT 
CHANGED. FTER YOU HAVE COMPLETED ALL THE SCREENS, A NEW "BBS.PARMS" FILE 
WILL BE WRITTEN TO DISK. OTE THAT THE "PASSWORD FILE" WILL NOT BE AFFECTED 
IF IT ALREADY EXISTS, EVEN IF THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PASSWORDS PARAMETER HAS 
BEEN CHANGED. UT IF THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF MEMBERS PARAMETER WAS INCREASED, 
THEN THIS FILE WILL BE ALLOWED TO GROW AS NEW CALLERS CALL AND ADDITIONAL FILE 
SPACE IS NEEDED.

OW THAT YOU'VE DEFINED ALL YOUR PARAMETERS AND COPIED ALL OF THE OVERLAY 
FILES ONTO THE PROPER DISK, IT'S TIME TO CREATE YOUR SYSTEM MESSAGES. HIS IS 
WHERE YOU GET TO LET YOUR CREATIVE IDEAS FLOW.  FULL SET OF EXAMPLE MESSAGES 
IS INCLUDED THAT YOU CAN USE AS IS OR EDIT TO SUIT YOUR OWN TASTES. GAIN, USE 
UPER FER (OR ANY OTHER FILE COPIER) AND COPY ALL OF THE SAMPLE "SYSTEM 
MESSAGES" ONTO THE DISK YOU HAVE ASSIGNED TO STORE YOUR SYSTEM FILES. S 
EXPLAINED EARLIER, ALL THESE FILENAMES MUST ALWAYS HAVE THE CHECK MARK 
(SHIFTED @) IN FRONT OF THE FILENAME. HERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS FOR YOU TO WRITE 
YOUR SYSTEM MESSAGES. OU CAN USE ANY WORD PROCESSOR THAT CREATES  TEXT 
FILES (LIKE ASY CRIPT), THE STANDALONE MESSAGE EDITOR PROGRAM ON THE  
 DISK, OR THE MESSAGE EDITOR ROUTINE BUILT INTO THE  SECTION OF THE 
. 

O CREATE/EDIT MESSAGES WITH THE  MESSAGE EDITOR, PUT IN THE   
DISK IN DRIVE 0, DEVICE 8 AND LOAD "MSG EDITOR",8,1 (OR TYPE %MSG EDITOR WITH 
ASTLOAD). HEN PROMPTED, PUT THE   DISK INTO DRIVE 0, DEVICE 8 AND 
HIT . N A FEW SECONDS, YOU'LL SEE A MENU WITH 4 CHOICES. HE FIRST IS 
THE MESSAGE EDITOR ITSELF, THE SECOND IS A  WEDGE ROUTINE, THE THIRD WILL 
LOAD AND RUN THE  AND THE FORTH WILL END THE   PROGRAM AND 
RETURN TO . O EDIT A MESSAGE ON ANY DRIVE, PRESS F1 AND YOU'LL SEE AN 
INPUT PROMPT FOR THE DEVICE NUMBER OF THE DRIVE THAT CONTAINS (OR WILL 
CONTAIN) THE MESSAGE FILE. N BRACKETS IS A NUMBER, JUST PRESS  IF THIS 
NUMBER IS CORRECT, OTHERWISE ENTER THE DESIRED DEVICE NUMBER AND PRESS . 
HEN YOU'LL SEE A PROMPT ASKING FOR THE DRIVE NUMBER WITH A ZERO IN BRACKETS. 
GAIN, IF THIS IS CORRECT, JUST PRESS , OTHERWISE ENTER A 1 (FOR DUAL 
DRIVE NUMBER 1 OR 1 OF THE T. ERNAL HARD DISK DRIVE) AND HIT . EXT 
YOU'LL SEE A PROMPT ASKING FOR THE DRIVE COMMAND TO BE SENT TO THE DRIVE. 
ORMALLY YOU'LL JUST HIT , UNLESS YOU'RE WANTING TO ACCESS THE BACK SIDE 
OF A 1571 (U0>H1), PUT A 1571 IN 1571 MODE (U0>M1), OR WHATEVER. HE LAST 
QUESTION IS FOR THE FILENAME TO EDIT. NTER THE DESIRED FILENAME REMEMBERING 
TO ADD THE  OR @ SYMBOL, AS REQUIRED. F THE FILE ALREADY EXISTS, THEN IT 
WILL BE LOADED INTO MEMORY FOR YOU TO EDIT. F IT DOESN'T ALREADY EXIST, THEN 
ONE WILL BE CREATED AFTER YOU ENTER AND SAVE THE MESSAGE. HIS MESSAGE EDITOR 
WORKS JUST LIKE THE MESSAGE EDITOR ON THE  FOR ENTERING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE 
MESSAGES, BUT HAS ONE ADDITIONAL OPTION. F YOU ENTER A "" AT THE EDITOR 
COMMAND LINE, GRAPHICS MODE WILL BE TOGGLED OFF OR ON. HIS IS HANDY FOR 
DESIGNING MESSAGES THAT NEED TO LOOK GOOD IN BOTH GRAPHICS AND  MODES. 
HIS MESSAGE EDITOR WILL ALLOW YOU TO CREATE/EDIT MESSAGES ALMOST AS LARGE AS 
500 LINES, IN FULL COLOR. HE ON-LINE MESSAGE EDITOR IS LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM 
NUMBER OF LINES PER MESSAGE AS DEFINED IN THE "BBS.PARMS" FILE. OMETHING 
ELSE YOU'LL NOTICE IS THAT WHILE THE  IS "WRAPPING" A WORD, IT MAY MISS A 
KEYSTROKE FROM THE KEYBOARD. HIS DOESN'T HAPPEN OVER THE MODEM, JUST WHEN 
ENTERING MESSAGES FROM THE KEYBOARD (WHO SAID LIFE AS A  WOULD BE EASY?).

ETS START BY EDITING THE WELCOME MESSAGES. OR NOW, LETS USE   TO 
EDIT THE SAMPLE MESSAGES. HEN LATER IF YOU DECIDE TO TOTALLY REWRITE THE 
MESSAGES, YOU CAN USE WHATEVER  FILE EDITOR YOU WANT. HE  HAS 
PROVISIONS FOR 2 DIFFERENT WELCOME MESSAGES ("WELCOME1" AND "WELCOME2"). HE 
FIRST ONE WILL BE SENT BEFORE THE PASSWORD PROMPTS AND THE SECOND ONE WILL BE 
SENT AFTER THE PASSWORD PROMPTS AND BEFORE CHECKING YOUR MAILBOX. HE  
EXPECTS BOTH OF THESE FILES TO BE PRESENT ON THE SYSTEM MESSAGES DRIVE. F 
EITHER ONE IS MISSING, THERE'LL BE A SHORT DELAY, THEN EVERYTHING WILL 
CONTINUE LIKE NORMAL.

N ADDITION TO THE 2 WELCOME MESSAGES, THERE'S AN OPTIONAL "SYSOP NEWS" FILE. 
HIS FILE WILL BE DISPLAYED TO YOUR CALLERS AFTER "WELCOME2" AND JUST BEFORE 
CHECKING THEIR MAILBOX. F THIS FILE DOESN'T EXIST, THERE'LL BE A SLIGHT 
HESITATION, THEN THE  WILL CONTINUE ON WITH CHECKING THEIR MAILBOX. HERE 
ARE 2 WAYS THIS FILE DIFFERS FROM "WELCOME2". IRST THE FILE CAN'T BE ABORTED 
BY THE CALLER. T MUST BE READ TO COMPLETION. ECOND, YOU CAN SET A DATE IN 
THE FILE AND ONLY CALLERS WITH THEIR LAST CALLED DATE LESS THAN THIS DATE WILL 
READ THE MESSAGE. HIS IS A HANDY PLACE TO POST MESSAGES THAT YOU WANT ALL OF 
YOUR CALLERS TO READ. ET'S TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO EXPLAIN HOW THE DATE WORKS. 
IRST OF ALL, IF YOU DON'T ENTER A DATE, THE WHOLE FILE WILL BE READ TO EACH 
CALLER EVERY TIME THEY CALL. F THE FIRST LINE OF THE FILE IS A DATE (MUST BE 
IN THE FORMAT // AND BE THE ONLY CHARACTERS ON THAT LINE), THEN THE FILE 
WILL BE READ ONLY TO CALLERS WHOSE LAST CALLED DATE IS LESS THAN THIS DATE. F 
WHILE READING THE FILE, IT FINDS A SECOND DATE LINE (OR THIRD OR FOURTH), IF 
THAT DATE IS LESS THAN THE CALLERS LAST DATE CALLED, THE FILE WILL STOP 
READING. HIS ALLOWS YOU TO COMBINE SEVERAL MESSAGES IN ONE FILE AND ONLY HAVE 
YOUR CALLERS READ THE FILE ONE TIME. F THEY EVER WANT TO REREAD THE "SYSOP 
NEWS" FILE, THEY CAN DO IT BY RE-READING ()ELCOME MESSAGES. NE MORE 
IMPORTANT POINT TO MAKE. HEN READING THIS FILE, THE CURSOR WILL SKIP DOWN 2 
LINES ONLY WHEN IT SEES A DATE IN THE FILE AND THAT DATE IS GREATER THEN THE 
CALLER'S LAST CALLED DATE. O IF YOU CREATE A "SYSOP NEWS" FILE THAT DOES NOT 
HAVE A DATE IN IT, YOU'LL WANT TO BEGIN THE FILE WITH A COUPLE BLANK LINES TO 
SEPARATE IT FROM THE "WELCOME2" TEXT. ND WHEN ADDING A SECOND DATE IN THE 
FILE, YOU DO  WANT TO PUT ANY BLANK LINES BETWEEN THE FIRST MESSAGE AND THE 
DATE JUST BEFORE THE SECOND MESSAGE.

LSO, THERE'S A LOGOFF MESSAGE THAT WILL BE SENT JUST BEFORE THE CALLER IS 
DISCONNECTED. GAIN THIS MESSAGE IS EXPECTED TO BE THERE, BUT NO DAMAGE IS 
DONE IF IT'S MISSING.

HE NEXT MESSAGES YOU SHOULD LOOK AT ARE THE NEW MEMBER MESSAGES. HERE ARE 2 
OF THEM AGAIN ("NEW USER MSG1" AND "NEW USER MSG2"). HE FIRST ONE IS JUST A 
SHORT NOTE TELLING THE NEW CALLER TO MAKE SURE TO MAKE A NOTE OF THEIR 
PASSWORD INFORMATION AND LEADS THEM INTO THE APPLICATION SECTION OF THE . 
HIS MESSAGE SHOULD BE SHORT SO THAT THE NEW MEMBER'S MEMBERSHIP NUMBER AND 
PASSWORD ALREADY PRINTED ON THE CALLER'S SCREEN WON'T SCROLL OFF THE TOP 
BEFORE THEY'VE HAD A CHANCE TO WRITE DOWN THE INFORMATION. HE SECOND MESSAGE 
IS THE FIRST MESSAGE YOU'LL SEND TO ALL NEW CALLERS JUST AFTER COMPLETING THE 
APPLICATION. T SHOULD TELL THEM HOW TO START AND STOP MESSAGES AND TELL THEM 
WHAT (IF ANYTHING) ELSE THEY'LL NEED TO DO TO GAIN FULL ACCESS TO YOUR SYSTEM.

PEAKING OF APPLICATION, OLOR 64  ALLOWS YOU TO FULLY CUSTOMIZE THIS AREA 
OF THE . OU MAY JUST WANT THE CITY AND STATE THEY ARE CALLING FROM, OR YOU 
MAY WANT TO ASK THEM EVERYTHING. E RECOMMEND YOU KEEP QUESTIONS TO A MINIMUM. 
EALIZE THAT ANY INFORMATION GIVEN IS QUITE OFTEN FALSE. F YOU'RE GOING TO 
ASK STRANGE OR UNUSUAL QUESTIONS, MAKE A NOTE IN "NEW USER MSG1" THAT THEY 
ONLY NEED TO ANSWER AS MUCH AS THEY'RE COMFORTABLE WITH. NYWAY, THERE'S A 
SAMPLE APPLICATION ALREADY ON THE DISK. AKE A LOOK AT IT. IRST, EACH LINE OF 
THE APPLICATION FILE IS A PROMPT. HE  WILL READ IN ONE LINE FROM THE 
APPLICATION, PRINT IT ON THE SCREEN (WITHOUT A RETURN) AND INPUT YOUR CALLER'S 
ANSWER. HEN IT WILL READ IN THE SECOND LINE, PRINT IT ON THE SCREEN AND GET 
THE SECOND ANSWER. T REPEATS THIS AGAIN AND AGAIN UNTIL IT REACHES THE END OF 
THE APPLICATION FILE. HEN IT PRINTS EVERYTHING BACK TO THE CALLER AND ASKS IF 
THIS IS CORRECT. F THEY ANSWER "N", THEN THE APPLICATION ROUTINE WILL BEGIN 
AGAIN. THERWISE THE ANSWERS ARE STORED IN THE CALLER LOG AND IN YOUR MAILBOX. 
OU'LL BE ABLE TO PRINT YOUR MAILBOX FOR A HARD COPY WHILE ALL YOUR REMOTE 
S WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THE SAME ANSWERS IN THE CALLER LOG. HE SECOND 
THING TO BE AWARE OF IS THAT EACH LINE IN THE APPLICATION IS A PROMPT. EEP 
THEM SHORT! AKE SURE YOUR CALLERS HAVE ENOUGH SPACE TO THE RIGHT OF THE 
PROMPT TO ANSWER THE PROMPT. OU WOULD NOT WANT TO HAVE "OUR REAL FIRST AND 
LAST NAME?" AS THE PROMPT. HAT'S 31 CHARACTERS LONG, AND WOULD ONLY LEAVE 7 
CHARACTERS FOR THEIR ANSWER. F YOU WANT HONEST ANSWERS IN YOUR APPLICATION, 
TELL THEM AT THE END OF "NEW USER MSG1". ND THEN USE PROMPTS LIKE "IRST 
NAME?", "AST NAME?", "TREET ADDR?", ETC. AND YOU WILL FIND THIS APPLICATION 
MEETS YOUR NEEDS.

F YOU WANT TO SETUP YOUR SYSTEM TO NOT ACCEPT ANY NEW CALLERS, YOU CAN CREATE 
A FILE NAMED "BBS CLOSED". HENEVER A CALLER ENTERS "" TO ACCESS THE NEW 
USER ROUTINES A QUICK CHECK IS MADE FOR THE PRESENCE OF THIS FILE. F IT'S 
PRESENT, THE FILE WILL BE DISPLAYED TO THE CALLER THEN THEY'LL BE 
DISCONNECTED. OME PEOPLE FIND THIS HANDY WHEN GOING OUT OF TOWN FOR A PERIOD 
OF TIME AND OTHERS MAY JUST WANT TO RUN A  FOR A SELECT GROUP OF PEOPLE 
(E.G.. A USERS GROUP). NE EXCEPTION IS WHEN YOU LOGON LOCALLY (AT THE 
CONSOLE), YOU CAN ALWAYS TYPE "" AND GET INTO THE NEW USER SECTION. HIS 
ALLOWS YOU TO EASILY ENTER IN ANY NEW CALLERS WITHOUT HAVING TO REMOVE OR 
RENAME THE "BBS CLOSED" FILE.

NOTHER MESSAGE YOU NEED TO HAVE FOR THE NEW CALLERS IS THE "LEVEL 1 MSG". 
T'S SENT JUST AFTER "WELCOME2" FOR EACH CALLER THAT'S STILL AT AN ACCESS 
LEVEL OF 1. T'S TO REMIND THEM THAT THEY HAVEN'T BEEN VALIDATED YET AND/OR 
WHAT THEY NEED TO DO BEFORE THEY CAN GAIN HIGHER ACCESS ON YOUR SYSTEM. F 
COURSE, IF YOU'RE NOT STARTING NEW CALLERS AT A LEVEL OF ONE, YOU WON'T NEED 
THIS MESSAGE.

LSO, YOU CAN HAVE A "LEVEL  MSG" FOR ANY LEVEL. HEN THE SYSTEM IS LOADED 
UP, IT LOOKS ON THE SYSTEM MESSAGES DRIVE FOR "LEVEL 1 MSG", "LEVEL 2 MSG", 
"LEVEL 3 MSG", ETC., AND SETS A FLAG FOR EACH ONE IT FINDS. O IF YOU WANT TO 
SEND A MESSAGE TO ALL LEVEL 3 CALLERS, AND ALL LEVEL 7 AND 8 SYSOPS, JUST 
CREATE THE APPROPRIATE MESSAGE FILES AND NAME THEM "LEVEL 3 MSG", "LEVEL 7 
MSG", AND "LEVEL 8 MSG", RESPECTIVELY. F THE  IS ALREADY RUNNING WHEN YOU 
CREATE OR REMOVE ANY OF THESE MESSAGES, USE (F4) OR "^" TO RESET THE DATE AND 
TIME. HIS ROUTINE ALSO INCLUDES THE CODE TO RESET THE LEVEL MESSAGE FLAGS. 

NOTHER MESSAGE YOU MIGHT NEED FOR NEW CALLERS IS "MEMBERSHIP FULL". HIS 
FILE WILL BE USED TO NOTIFY A CALLER THAT MEMBERSHIP TO YOUR  IS CURRENTLY 
FULL AND ASK THEM TO CALL AGAIN AT A LATER DATE. HE REASON FOR HAVING A 
MEMBERSHIP FULL STATUS INSTEAD OF AUTOMATICALLY CYCLING OLD PASSWORDS IS TO 
ELIMINATE THE CHANCE OF A "HACKER" REPEATEDLY LOGGING ON AS A NEW USER WHILE 
YOU'RE AWAY ON A WEEKEND AND CYCLING EVERYONE'S PASSWORD OFF THE SYSTEM.

NOTHER MESSAGE YOU MAY WANT TO EDIT IS CALLED "MEMBER LIST MSG". HIS SHORT 
LITTLE MESSAGE EXPLAINS TO THE CALLERS WHY THEIR NAME MAY NOT BE IN THE 
MEMBERSHIP LIST EVEN THOUGH THEY MAY BE A NEW MEMBER. E NEED TO HAVE SOME 
CONTROL OVER WHAT NAMES ARE PUT IN THE MEMBERSHIP LIST. O RATHER THAN HAVE 
THE SYSTEM AUTOMATICALLY LIST ALL NAMES FROM THE PASSWORD FILE, WE MAINTAIN A 
SECOND SEQUENTIAL FILE CALLED "MEMBERSHIP LIST". ND THERE'S AN OPTION IN THE 
ASSWORD AINTENANCE ROUTINE TO MAKE A NEW MEMBERSHIP LIST. HIS GIVES YOU A 
CHANCE TO REMOVE ANY OFFENSIVE WORDS IN MEMBERS NAMES (YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO 
SEE THEM IN THE CALLER LOG) BEFORE MAKING A PUBLIC LIST THAT YOUR CALLERS WILL 
SEE. HE "MEMBER LIST MSG" IS SENT JUST BEFORE THE MEMBERSHIP LIST TO EXPLAIN 
WHY A NEW CALLER MAY NOT SEE THEIR NAME LISTED UNTIL AFTER THE SYSTEM OPERATOR 
HAS HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW ALL THE NEW APPLICATIONS.

NOTHER MESSAGE YOU'LL NEED TO EDIT IS THE "INFORMATION" FILE. HIS SHOULD 
TELL YOUR CALLERS A LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR SYSTEM LIKE WHERE YOU'RE 
LOCATED, PURPOSE OF THE SYSTEM, ETC. LEASE KEEP A NOTE IN THE INFORMATION 
FILE THAT THIS IS OLOR 64  ERSION 7.37 WRITTEN BY REG FOUNTZ SO THAT IT 
WON'T BE CONFUSED WITH , 8, OR 128. 

NOTHER COUPLE MESSAGES YOU'LL WANT TO PERSONALIZE IS "SYSOP NOT HERE" AND 
"STILL NOT HERE". HE FIRST ONE SHOULD BE A SHORT LITTLE MESSAGE THAT YOU 
SEND TO YOUR CALLERS AFTER THEY ATTEMPT TO CHAT AND IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO 
THE PAGE. HE SECOND ONE IS READ IF A CALLER ATTEMPTS TO CHAT WITH YOU A 
SECOND TIME EVEN THOUGH YOU'D NOT ANSWERED THE FIRST PAGE. HIS PREVENTS 
CALLERS FROM WASTING A LOT OF TIME RINGING THE PAGER OVER AND OVER AGAIN. 
ND SINCE THE BORDER ON YOUR CONSOLE IS HIGHLIGHTED WHENEVER A CALLER WANTS 
TO CHAT, THERE'S REALLY NO REASON TO PAGE THE  MORE THAN ONCE.

N THE UPLOADS ROUTINES, THERE ARE A COUPLE MORE MESSAGES YOU MAY WANT TO 
PERSONALIZE. HE FIRST IS "UPLOAD MSG". HIS FILE NOW SIMPLY SAYS "O NOT 
UPLOAD ANY COPYRIGHT SOFTWARE". HIS IS A CONSTANT REMINDER TO YOUR CALLERS 
THAT IT'S ILLEGAL TO UPLOAD ANY COPYRIGHTED SOFTWARE TO ANY . OU MAY WANT 
TO MENTION WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF THE RULES ARE BROKEN, OR REWORD IT IN SOME WAY. 
HE SECOND FILE YOU MAY WANT TO LOOK AT IS "UPLOAD HELD". HIS IS THE FILE 
THAT TELLS A CALLER THAT THEIR UPLOAD WILL BE HELD UNTIL A  RELEASES IT. 
HIS FILE IS ONLY SENT TO CALLERS WHO HAVE AN ACCESS LEVEL BELOW THE 
"AUTO-RELEASE" LEVEL DEFINED IN THE / SECTION OF .

F YOU INTEND TO USE THE VOTE OPTION, YOU'LL NEED TO CREATE TWO MORE MESSAGE 
FILES ON THE SYSTEM MESSAGES DISK. HE FIRST IS "VOTE MSG" AND SHOULD BE A 
FULL MESSAGE DESCRIBING WHAT YOU ARE VOTING ABOUT AND WHAT THEIR CHOICES ARE. 
HERE AREN'T ANY LIMITS ON THIS FILE, OTHER THAN IT SHOULD INSTRUCT YOUR 
CALLERS TO VOTE BY ENTERING A NUMBER. OU COULD SAY SOMETHING LIKE VOTE (1) 
FOR , (2) FOR , (3) FOR . HE OTHER FILE NEEDED BY THE VOTE 
ROUTINE IS "VOTE BALLOT"        . F YOU HAVE 
3 CHOICES IN YOUR VOTE, THEN THERE MUST BE EXACTLY 3 LINES IN YOUR BALLOT 
(MAKE SURE THERE AREN'T ANY BLANK LINES AT THE BEGINNING OR END). HE FIRST 
LINE SHOULD COMPLETE THE SENTENCE "% VOTED..." OR EXAMPLE, IF YOUR VOTE IS 
A YES/NO TYPE VOTE, LINE 1 MAY BE "YES.", LINE 2 MAY BE "NO." AND LINE 3 MAY 
BE "UNDECIDED.". O WHEN A CALLER SEES THE RESULTS, THEY'LL SEE:

 % VOTED YES.
 % VOTED NO.
 % VOTED UNDECIDED.

NLY LEVEL 3 AND ABOVE CALLERS WILL BE ABLE TO VOTE (UNLESS YOU CHANGE THAT 
IN ). ACH CALLER HAS ONE VOTE AND CAN CHANGE THEIR VOTE SIMPLY BY VOTING 
AGAIN. F YOU DON'T CARE TO HAVE THE VOTING OPTION ENABLED, SIMPLY DON'T 
CREATE THE "VOTE MSG" AND VOTE BALLOT FILES. LSO, WHEN CHANGING THE VOTING 
BALLOT, YOU'LL NEED TO SCRATCH ALL FILES MATCHING THE PATTERN "VOTE*" SE THE 
 64   ROUTINE TO DO THIS. ESIDES THE 2 FILES YOU CREATE FOR A 
VOTE, THERE'S ONE MORE FILE AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY THE  TO STORE THE 
CURRENT VOTES (CALLED "VOTES"). ND MAKE SURE YOU "" THE  BEFORE 
ATTEMPTING TO CREATE A NEW VOTE OR YOU WILL GET A "REDIM'D ARRAY" ERROR. N 
ADDITION TO THE OTHER SYSTEM FILES, YOU'LL ALSO NEED TO EDIT EACH OF THE MENU 
FILES. HEY ARE 9 MENU FILES NAMED, "MENU1", "MENU2", "MENU3", ETC., ONE 
FOR EACH ACCESS LEVEL. XAMPLE MENUS ARE INCLUDED. OU'LL AT LEAST NEED TO 
EDIT THE LINE THAT SAYS "OUR  NAME" AND REPLACE IT WITH YOUR  NAME. UT 
HOPEFULLY YOU'LL BE ABLE TO COME UP WITH SOME DIFFERENT MENUS THAT WILL MAKE 
YOUR SYSTEM REALLY UNIQUE!

EFORE MOVING ONTO THE OTHER FILES, LET'S COVER ONE MORE THING ABOUT SYSTEM 
FILES. FTEN WHEN YOU USE A LOT OF GRAPHICS IN YOUR SYSTEM FILES, NON-GRAPHIC 
CALLERS WILL HAVE A DIFFICULT TIME READING THE FILE (SOMETIMES IT'S JUST 
IMPOSSIBLE). HIS IS ESPECIALLY TROUBLESOME IN THE MENUS AND WELCOME MESSAGES. 
HERE ARE PROVISIONS IN OLOR 64  TO HAVE ALTERNATE SYSTEM FILES JUST FOR 
 CALLERS. UT THIS IS TOTALLY OPTIONAL. F YOU SKIP ONTO THE NEXT 
PARAGRAPH, ALL CALLERS WILL READ THE SAME MESSAGES (WHICH IS NORMALLY JUST 
FINE). NYWAY, THE GOAL OF THIS SYSTEM WAS TO COME UP WITH A METHOD WHERE IT 
WOULD NOT FORCE US TO MAINTAIN 2 COMPLETE SETS OF SYSTEM FILES. ND TO HAVE 
THE SYSTEM AUTOMATICALLY SEND THE RIGHT FILE WITHOUT HAVING TO WAIT FOR THE 
SLOW 1541 DRIVES TO TRY TO OPEN ONE FILE AND IF NOT FOUND THEN OPEN THE OTHER. 
ERE'S HOW IT WORKS. OU CREATE ALL YOUR GRAPHIC MESSAGES FIRST AND SAVE THEM 
ON YOUR SYSTEM MESSAGES DRIVE SO THEY ARE AT THE TOP OF THE DIRECTORY. HEN 
YOU RENAME THE FILES THAT YOU WANT TO HAVE SEPARATE GRAPHIC AND NON-GRAPHIC 
VERSIONS SO THAT THEY HAVE A "+" AT THE END OF THE FILENAME (EX. MENU1 WOULD 
BE RENAMED TO MENU1+). OW YOU CREATE THE NON-GRAPHIC FILE AND SAVE IT ON THE 
DISK USING THE NORMAL NAME (EX. MENU1). HAT'S ALL THERE IS TO IT. HE ONLY 
TRICK WILL BE TO KEEP ALL THE "+" FILES IN THE DIRECTORY AHEAD OF THE NON-"+" 
FILES. F THEY GET OUT OF ORDER, THE SYSTEM WILL THEN SEND THE SAME 
NON-GRAPHIC FILE TO BOTH GRAPHIC AND NON-GRAPHIC CALLERS. NE MORE THING, THIS 
DOES NOT WORK ON WELCOME1. HIS FILE IS ACTUALLY READ FROM THE DISK BEFORE 
THE CALLER TELLS THE  IF THEY ARE USING A GRAPHIC TERMINAL PROGRAM OR NOT. 
O MAKE SURE YOU DESIGN WELCOME1 SO THAT IT LOOKS GOOD IN BOTH GRAPHIC AND 
NON-GRAPHIC MODES. LSO, ANY SYSTEM FILE THAT IS NOT ACTUALLY "READ" TO THE 
MODEM CAN'T HAVE SEPARATE NON-GRAPHIC VERSIONS (EX. APPLICATION, VOTE 
BALLOT, ETC.). OR THE TECHNICALLY-MINDED PERSON, HERE'S EXACTLY HOW THE 
SYSTEM WORKS. HENEVER A SYSTEM FILE IS OPENED TO BE READ, IF THE  IS IN 
GRAPHICS MODE, IT ADDS A "*" TO THE END OF THE FILENAME. HIS TELLS THE DRIVE 
TO FIND THE FIRST FILE MATCHING THE PATTERN, SO MENU1+ WILL BE FOUND BEFORE 
MENU1. ND NON-GRAPHIC CALLERS WOULD STILL JUST SEE MENU1.

 FULL SET OF HELP FILES ARE INCLUDED, BUT NO TEXT FILES. HE HELP FILES AND 
TEXT FILES WORK EXACTLY THE SAME. O USE THE HELP FILES AS A GUIDE WHEN 
SETTING UP YOUR TEXT FILES. HERE NEEDS TO BE A FILE ON THE   DISK 
CALLED "@HELP FILES". UT INSTEAD OF HAVING A CHECK MARK AS THE FIRST 
CHARACTER OF THE FILENAME, IT HAS AN @ SYMBOL. HIS SYMBOL WILL PREVENT THE 
FILE FROM SHOWING UP IN THE DOWNLOAD DIRECTORY, BUT STILL ALLOW YOUR REMOTE 
S TO DOWNLOAD, SCRATCH AND RE-UPLOAD THESE FILES AS NECESSARY. S A 
MATTER OF FACT, ANYONE CAN DOWNLOAD THESE HELP FILES (YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO TELL 
THEM HOW). HIS IS AN EASY WAY FOR YOUR CALLERS TO DOWNLOAD THEM IF THEIR 
TERMINAL PROGRAM DOES NOT SUPPORT AN  FILE CAPTURE.

HE "@HELP FILES" FILE IS A MENU FILE THAT WHEN READ SHOULD TELL YOUR CALLERS 
WHAT NUMBER TO ENTER TO READ THE DESIRED FILE. HIS MENU FILE CAN BE IN ANY 
FORMAT YOU WANT, EVEN USE GRAPHICS IF DESIRED AND YOU CAN USE ANY AMOUNT OF 
NUMBERS IN ANY ORDER YOU WANT. ACH HELP FILE ON DISK SHOULD HAVE THE FILENAME 
FORMAT OF "@HELP1", "@HELP2", "@HELP3", ETC. HEN YOUR CALLER ENTERS "1", 
THEY'LL READ "@HELP1".

EXT FILES WORK EXACTLY THE SAME ONLY YOU USE "@TEXT FILES" TO DESCRIBE 
"@TEXT1", "@TEXT2", ETC. F THE "@TEXT FILES" FILE IS NOT ON THE DISK WHEN A 
CALLER ASKS FOR THE TEXT FILES, THEY'LL SEE A MESSAGE SAYING THAT THERE AREN'T 
ANY TEXT FILES ON-LINE. AME GOES FOR THE "@HELP FILES" FILE. HERE ISN'T ANY 
LIMIT TO THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF HELP FILES OR TEXT FILES ALLOWED OTHER THAN 
THE AMOUNT OF FREE SPACE ON YOUR DISK DRIVE.

FTER EDITING ALL THE SYSTEM MESSAGES, YOU SHOULD USE UPER FER (OR ANY 
SUITABLE FILE COPIER) TO COPY ALL OF THE SAMPLE HELP FILES ONTO THE DISK YOU 
ASSIGNED ON THE DRIVE ASSIGNMENTS SCREEN OF . HEN USE   TO READ 
(AND IF NECESSARY EDIT) EACH OF THESE HELP FILES. HEY'LL TELL YOU AND ALL 
YOUR NEW USERS HOW TO USE THIS  TO ITS FULLEST. HE INFORMATION IS NOT 
REPEATED HERE, SO MAKE SURE YOU TAKE THE TIME TO READ THEM. N THE 
/ FILE, THERE'S A SENTENCE SAYING THAT YOU'LL BE GLAD TO MAKE A 
COPY OF A UNTER COLOR/GRAPHICS TERMINAL PROGRAM FOR ANY CALLER NEEDING ONE 
AND FOR THEM TO CONTACT YOU THROUGH FEEDBACK IF THEY'RE INTERESTED.   
4.0+ AND -128 V3.3 ARE INCLUDED WITH THE  PROGRAM. HESE ARE JUST A 
COUPLE GOOD COLOR/GRAPHIC TERMINAL PROGRAMS FOR YOU TO GIVE TO YOUR CALLERS. 
HEY EACH SUPPORT MANY KINDS OF MODEMS, VARIABLE BAUD RATES UP TO 1200, 
PUNTER,  UPLOADS AND DOWNLOADS AND MUCH MORE. F YOU'D RATHER HANDLE 
CALLERS NEEDING A UNTER TERMINAL PROGRAM A DIFFERENT WAY, YOU'LL NEED TO EDIT 
THIS HELP FILE AND MAKE THE APPROPRIATE CHANGES.

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T THIS POINT, YOU SHOULD'VE ALREADY CREATED YOUR PARAMETERS FILE, PASSWORD 
FILE, SYSTEM MESSAGES AND HELP FILES. ACH DRIVE ASSIGNED IN YOUR PARAMETERS 
FILE SHOULD HAVE A DISK IN IT WITH THE PROPER FILES ALREADY ON IT. F YOU WANT 
TO START YOUR SYSTEM WITH SOME FILES IN THE DOWNLOAD DIRECTORY, MAKE SURE YOU 
PUT THEM IN THE PROPER DRIVE NOW. 

OW YOU ARE READY TO LOAD OLOR 64  FOR THE FIRST TIME (THE BIG MOMENT). 
UT THE " " DISK IN DRIVE 0, DEVICE 8 AND ENTER LOAD"BBS",8,1 (OR 
%BBS WITH ASTLOAD). HEN THE PROGRAM HAS COMPLETED LOADING, YOU'LL SEE A 
MESSAGE ON THE SCREEN TELLING YOU TO INSERT YOUR   DISK N DRIVE 0, 
DEVICE 8. HIS IS THE DISK THAT HAS YOUR "BBS.PARMS" FILE ON IT AND WILL TELL 
OLOR 64  WHAT MODEM YOU'RE USING, WHICH DRIVES CONTAIN WHICH FILES, ETC. 
FTER THE   IS INSERTED, PRESS THE  KEY. HE PARAMETERS FILE 
WILL BE LOADED INTO MEMORY, THEN YOU'LL BE TOLD TO SWITCH YOUR MODEM TO 
DATA/ANSWER. F YOU'RE USING A AYES TYPE MODEM, YOU DON'T NEED TO DO ANYTHING 
(IT'S AUTOMATIC), BUT IF YOU'RE USING A 1650 OR 1660, YOU'LL NEED TO MAKE SURE 
AT THIS TIME THAT YOUR MODEM IS SET AND READY TO RECEIVE A CALL.

EXT, YOU'LL BE ASKED TO ENTER THE CORRECT DATE. OU MUST ENTER IT IN THE 
FORMAT OF //.  IS THE NUMBER OF THE CURRENT MONTH AND MUST BE 2 DIGITS 
IN LENGTH.  IS NUMBER OF THE CURRENT DAY AND MUST ALSO BE 2 DIGITS IN 
LENGTH.  IS THE NUMBER OF THE CURRENT YEAR AND ALSO MUST 2 DIGITS IN LENGTH. 
EPARATE THE MONTH, DAY AND YEAR WITH A DIAGONAL SLASH (/). ORMALLY, YOU WILL 
NEVER NEED TO ENTER THIS DATE AGAIN. HEN THE SYSTEM IS SHUT DOWN (USING F8) 
AND MANY TIMES DURING THE DAY, A FILE IS WRITTEN TO DISK ("VARIABLES") THAT 
CONTAINS THE CURRENT DATE. UST ABOVE THE QUESTION ASKING FOR THE DATE IS A 
LINE DISPLAYING THE CURRENT DATE AND TIME. F THE DATE IS ALREADY CORRECT, YOU 
WOULD JUST HIT . F THE DATE IS CHANGED (FOR WHATEVER REASON), THEN THE 
 FIGURES IT WAS "ASLEEP" WHEN MIDNIGHT PASSED AND DID NOT GET A CHANCE TO 
RESET ALL THE TIME LIMITS. F THAT'S TRUE, THEN ANSWER  TO THE QUESTION 
ASKING TO RESET THE TIME LIMITS. HIS WILL SET A FLAG AND EACH CALLER'S TIME 
LIMITS WILL BE RESET AFTER THE  PROGRAM HAS FINISHED LOADING UP. F THIS IS 
YOUR FIRST TIME TO BRING UP THE SYSTEM, THEN JUST TYPE AN "", SINCE THERE 
REALLY AREN'T ANY MEMBER'S TIME LIMITS TO BE RESET.

HE NEXT QUESTION YOU'LL BE ASKED IS FOR THE CURRENT TIME. E'RE USING ONE OF 
THE CLOCKS BUILT INTO THE  CHIPS, SO YOU SHOULD FIND THE CLOCK KEEPING VERY 
ACCURATE TIME. NCE THIS CLOCK IS SET AND AS LONG AS THE COMPUTER HASN'T BEEN 
TURNED OFF, THE CLOCK  BE CORRECT (EVEN IF YOU DON'T SET IT AGAIN FOR 
MONTHS). F THE TIME IS ALREADY CORRECT, JUST PRESS THE  KEY. UT IF THE 
CLOCK NEEDS TO BE CHANGED, YOU NEED TO ENTER THE CORRECT TIME IN TWO STEPS. 
IRST ENTER THE CURRENT HOUR USING 24 HOUR MILITARY FORMAT. 12 MIDNIGHT WOULD 
BE 0, 10 AM WOULD BE 10, 12 NOON WOULD BE 12, 2 PM WOULD 14, 8 PM WOULD 20, 
ETC. EXT YOU WILL BE ASKED TO ENTER THE CURRENT MINUTE. O SURPRISES HERE! 
UST ENTER 0 TO 59, AS REQUIRED. HIS IS A LITTLE CONFUSING, BUT IT SAVES A 
FEW BYTES OF PRECIOUS MEMORY THAT CAN BE PUT TO BETTER USE WHEN A CALLER IS 
ON-LINE.

FTER A BRIEF PAUSE, YOU'LL SEE A QUESTION ASKING IF YOU WANT TO REGENERATE 
THE MESSAGE INDEX. HEN THE SYSTEM IS SHUT DOWN, A FILE IS SAVED ON THE 
MESSAGE DISK THAT CONTAINS THIS MESSAGE INDEX. AVING THIS FILE ON DISK CAN 
GREATLY SPEED UP RELOADING THE . F THE  SHOULD GO DOWN BECAUSE OF A 
POWER FAILURE, THEN WHEN RELOADING, THE MESSAGE INDEX WON'T BE PRESENT ON THE 
MESSAGE DISK AND THE  WILL AUTOMATICALLY REGENERATE IT. UT IF FOR ANY 
OTHER REASON YOU WANT TO REGENERATE THIS INDEX (MAYBE YOU SCRATCHED A FEW 
FILES WHILE OFF-LINE OR YOU HAD A DISK ERROR AND LOST SEVERAL MESSAGES OR YOU 
WENT INTO  AND CHANGED THE NUMBER OF MESSAGES ON THE SYSTEM), ANSWER A 
"" TO THIS QUESTION AND IT'LL SCRATCH THE INDEX FILE, FORCING THE  TO 
RECREATE A NEW INDEX A LITTLE LATER.

FTER YOU ANSWER THIS LAST QUESTION, THE DISK DRIVE(S) WILL GO TO WORK FOR A 
MINUTE OR TWO AND THEN THE SYSTEM WILL BE READY TO USE. FTER YOUR SYSTEM HAS 
COLLECTED A LOT OF PUBLIC MESSAGES AND IF YOU ANSWER "Y" TO REGENERATE A NEW 
MESSAGE INDEX OR A POWER OUTAGE CAUSED THE SYSTEM TO SHUT DOWN WITHOUT SAVING 
THE OLD INDEX, THIS WORKING TIME CAN BE AS LONG AS 45 MINUTES. F YOU DIDN'T 
NOTICE, ALL OF THE QUESTIONS WE JUST ANSWERED HAD DEFAULTS. RESSING  
WOULD HAVE USED THE DEFAULT INSTEAD OF HAVING TO TYPE IN THE ANSWER. OST OF 
THE TIME, IF YOU TAKE THE  DOWN TO RUN ANOTHER PROGRAM, WHEN YOU RELOAD THE 
SYSTEM, ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS PRESS  4 TIMES AND THE PROGRAM WILL BRING 
ITSELF BACK UP. NE EXCEPTION IS THE TIME, IF THE  WAS POWERED OFF AT ALL 
WHILE THE  WAS OFF-LINE, THE CLOCK WILL HAVE TO BE RESET. NYWAY, IF YOU 
KNOW YOU WANT TO ACCEPT ALL DEFAULTS, YOU CAN LOAD "REBOOT",8,1 INSTEAD OF 
"BBS",8,1. HIS REBOOT FILE IS ALSO HANDY IF YOU'RE RUNNING ON A 128 AND WANT 
TO USE ONE OF THE AUTOBOOT-64 UTILITIES AVAILABLE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.

HEN YOU SEE A SCREEN THAT'S DISPLAYING THE CURRENT TIME AND DATE ABOVE A 
TIMER WITH A LINE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN DISPLAYING THE LAST CALLER'S 
NAME, THEN THE  IS LOADED AND WAITING FOR A CALLER. HEN THE PHONE RINGS, 
THE  WILL INSTRUCT THE MODEM TO ANSWER, THEN WAIT FOR A CARRIER SIGNAL AND 
FOR THE CALLER TO TYPE A . F THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN, THEN THE MODEM WILL 
DISCONNECT AND BEGIN WAITING FOR THE NEXT CALL. F YOU'RE TALKING VOICE TO 
SOMEONE AND WANT TO CONNECT THEM DIRECTLY WITHOUT THEM HAVING TO CALL BACK, 
JUST HOLD DOWN THE OMMODORE KEY FOR A COUPLE SECONDS AND THE MODEM WILL PICK 
UP THE LINE JUST AS IF IT HAD DETECTED A RING. IKEWISE, IF YOU PRESS THE 
OMMODORE KEY JUST AFTER THE MODEM ANSWERS THE LINE, IT'LL HANG UP WITHOUT 
WAITING THE FULL 30 SECONDS FOR A CARRIER DETECT. LSO, AFTER THE FIFTH 
INVALID SIGN-ON WITHIN 24 HOURS, THE  WILL GO INTO A WAIT LOOP AND NOT 
ANSWER THE LINE FOR ABOUT 3 MINUTES. HIS SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT TO DISCOURAGE 
CALLERS FROM ATTEMPTING TO GUESS ANOTHER CALLER'S PASSWORD. F YOU'RE NEARBY 
AND WANT TO ABORT THIS DELAY, YOU CAN PRESS THE OMMODORE KEY TO ALLOW THE  
TO RETURN TO THE WAITING FOR CALLER STATUS WITHOUT WAITING THE FULL AMOUNT OF 
THE INVALID SIGN-ON TIMER.

HILE THE  PROGRAM IS WAITING FOR A CALLER, IF YOU PRESS ANY OF THE 
FUNCTION KEYS, YOU'LL SEE A  MENU. F1 ON THIS MENU IS LOCAL MODE. HIS 
ALLOWS YOU TO GO ON-LINE THE  JUST AS IF YOU CALLED UP OVER THE PHONE LINE, 
EXCEPT "WELCOME1" WILL NOT BE SENT, GRAPHICS MODE WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE 
TURNED ON AND TEXT WILL SCROLL ACROSS THE SCREEN AT A MAXIMUM RATE (UNLESS YOU 
PRESS AND HOLD THE SHIFT KEY TO SIMULATE A CHARACTER RATE OF 300 BAUD). OU'LL 
STILL NEED TO TYPE IN YOUR MEMBERSHIP NUMBER AND PASSWORD AND EVERYTHING ELSE 
ACTS JUST LIKE YOU'RE ON-LINE OVER A MODEM. HEN STARTING A NEW SYSTEM, IT'S 
 THAT YOU ENTER AT LEAST ONE PUBLIC MESSAGE BEFORE LETTING ANY OTHER 
CALLERS LOGON. HERE ARE TWO REASONS FOR THIS. IRST, THIS WILL FORCE THE LAST 
MESSAGE READ VARIABLE TO BE INCREMENTED BY ONE (ALLOWING NEW CALLERS TO READ 
THEIR MAILBOXES THE NEXT TIME THEY LOGON TO YOUR ). ECOND, IT'S CRITICAL 
THAT WHEN THE FIRST MESSAGE IS POSTED ON A NEW SYSTEM THAT YOU ALWAYS ANSWER 
 TO THE QUESTION "TART A NEW SUBJECT (/)?". HEN YOU TYPE  FOR LOGOFF, 
THE  WILL SAVE YOUR LAST MESSAGE READ VARIABLE ALONG WITH SEVERAL OTHER 
STATISTICS AND THEN BEGIN WAITING FOR THE NEXT CALLER.

F2 ON THE  MENU WILL TAKE YOU TO THE BUILT IN  SECTION. OU'LL 
SEE ANOTHER MENU ALLOWING ERMINAL MODE, HANGE RAPHICS/AUD ATE, UTODIAL, 
 EDGE (REQUIRES AN OVERLAY), PLOAD, ROTOCOL (UNTER OR ), OWNLOAD 
AND ETURN TO  MODE. HIS SIMPLE TERMINAL PROGRAM SUPPORTS FULL COLOR 
CAPABILITIES WITH THE ^B BACKGROUND MOD IN PLACE. NCE IN TERMINAL MODE, YOU 
PRESS F1 TO EXIT BACK TO THE  MENU TO START AN UPLOAD OR DOWNLOAD OR 
RETURN TO THE .

F3 ON THE  MENU ALLOWS YOU TO PRINT THE CALLER LOG ONTO THE SCREEN OR A 
PRINTER (OMMODORE OR COMPATIBLE SETUP AS DEVICE #4 ONLY). HE CALLER LOG IS 
STORED UNDER THE BASIC  AND IS CONTINUOUSLY UPDATING ITSELF. HE LOG IS 
LIMITED TO 8K OF MEMORY AND AS MORE INFORMATION IS ADDED, THE OLDEST 
INFORMATION IS REMOVED. OU'LL FIND THAT THIS LOG WILL USUALLY HOLD THE LAST 
DAY OR TWO OF CALLERS. HEN SOMEONE CALLS, THEIR NAME AND THE TIME THEY CALLED 
ARE ADDED TO THE LOG. HEN A "TRAIL" IS MADE OF THEIR ACTIVITY. HIS CAN BE 
HELPFUL IN DETERMINING WHAT AREAS OF THE  ARE MOST FREQUENTLY ACCESSED OR 
WHICH DOWNLOADS ARE MOST POPULAR. LSO IT CAN BE USEFUL IN TRACKING DOWN A 
PROBLEM USER. RESS THE HOME KEY TO PAUSE (IT GENERATES THE SAME CODE AS A 
-) OR   TO ABORT.

F4 ON THE  MENU ALLOWS YOU TO RESET THE DATE AND CLOCK AND RE-INITIALIZE 
THE "LEVEL  MSG" VARIABLES AND "VOTE" STATUS. HERE WILL BE LITTLE NEED TO 
CHANGE THE TIME OR DATE, BUT IF YOU EVER ADD OR REMOVE A "LEVEL  MSG" OR IF 
YOU SHOULD OPEN OR CLOSE THE VOTING BOOTHS, MAKE SURE YOU SELECT THIS OPTION 
(OR USE THE ^ COMMAND ON-LINE) TO RESET THE APPROPRIATE VARIABLES.

F5 ON THE  MENU ALLOWS YOU TO PRINT YOUR MAILBOX TO THE SCREEN OR 
PRINTER. (F YOU'RE USING AN  WITH THE  ONNECT 400 INTERFACE TO STORE 
YOUR PRIVATE MESSAGES, YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PRINT YOUR MAILBOX TO THE PRINTER 
DUE TO A BUG IN THAT INTERFACE). SE THE  KEY TO PAUSE OR   TO 
ABORT. FTER READING YOUR MAIL, YOU'LL BE GIVEN THE OPTION TO SEND A PRIVATE 
MESSAGE IN RESPONSE AND CLEAR YOUR MAILBOX FILE. LL REPLIES FROM THIS 
SELECTION ARE ADDRESSED AS SENT FROM MEMBERSHIP NUMBER 2.

F6 ON THE  MENU WILL TAKE YOU INTO THE PASSWORD MAINTENANCE ROUTINE. HIS 
ROUTINE IS USED TO DISPLAY (OR PRINT) AND EDIT YOUR PASSWORD FILE. GAIN, IF 
YOU'RE STORING YOUR PASSWORD FILE ON AN  WITH THE ONNECT 400 INTERFACE, 
YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PRINT. SE THE  KEY TO PAUSE AND THE   TO 
ABORT. T THE END OF THE LISTING, YOU'LL BE TOLD HOW MANY PASSWORDS ARE ON 
FILE. F YOU SEE THIS VALUE APPROACHING THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PASSWORDS THAT 
YOU SET YOUR SYSTEM UP FOR, YOU'LL KNOW IT'S TIME TO EITHER REMOVE SOME 
CALLERS THAT HAVEN'T CALLED IN A LONG TIME OR TO INCREASE THE SIZE OF THE 
PASSWORD FILE. HEN THE LISTING IS COMPLETED OR ABORTED (ABORT WITH THE SPACE 
BAR - YOU MAY HAVE TO HOLD IT DOWN FOR A FEW SECONDS), YOU WILL BE GIVEN THE 
OPPORTUNITY TO EDIT ANY OF THE PASSWORD RECORDS. NTER THE MEMBERSHIP NUMBER 
OF THE MEMBER TO EDIT AND THAT MEMBER'S INFORMATION WILL BE PRINTED TO THE 
SCREEN (ACCESS LEVEL, NAME, PASSWORD, NUMBER OF BLOCKS UPLOADED, NUMBER OF 
BLOCKS DOWNLOADED, TIME REMAINING TODAY). OU'LL NOTICE THAT NOT EVERY 
STATISTIC IS AVAILABLE FOR EDITING. T'S NOT ANTICIPATED THAT YOU'LL EVER NEED 
TO EDIT THE DATE LAST CALLED, TIMES CALLED, ETC. UT IF YOU NEED TO ADD OR 
SUBTRACT FROM THE NUMBER OF BLOCKS UPLOADED/DOWNLOADED, CHANGE THE CALLERS 
NAME/HANDLE, PASSWORD, ACCESS LEVEL, OR TIME REMAINING TODAY, YOU'LL BE ABLE 
TO DO THAT HERE. NE BY ONE, YOU'LL BE ALLOWED TO ENTER NEW INFORMATION OR 
JUST PRESS  TO LEAVE THE INFORMATION UNCHANGED. O DELETE A MEMBER FROM 
THE MEMBERSHIP LIST, CHANGE THEIR ACCESS LEVEL TO A 0. OU'LL BE ASKED "ARE 
YOU SURE?". HIS'LL ALSO AUTOMATICALLY DELETE ANY OLD MAIL THAT STILL MAY BE 
ON THE SYSTEM ADDRESSED TO THIS MEMBER.

NE FUNCTION YOU'LL NEED TO PERFORM REGULARLY IS TO CREATE A NEW "MEMBERSHIP 
LIST". HIS IS THE LIST THAT THE CALLERS WILL SEE WHEN THEY SELECT 
()EMBERSHIP LIST. AVING A MEMBERSHIP LIST SEPARATE FROM THE PASSWORD FILE 
THAT'S UPDATED ONLY BY THE SYSOP ALLOWS US TO REMOVE ANY EMBARRASSING WORDS OR 
PHRASES FROM THE PASSWORD FILE BEFORE MAKING A NEW PUBLIC MEMBERSHIP LIST. 
FTER YOU'VE LISTED AND POSSIBLY EDITED THE PASSWORD FILE, YOU'LL BE GIVEN THE 
OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE A NEW MEMBERSHIP LIST. F YOU'RE JUST SETTING UP YOUR 
SYSTEM FOR THE FIRST TIME AND HAVE NOT YET MADE A MEMBERSHIP LIST, THEN NOW IS 
A GOOD TIME TO EDIT YOUR NAME AND PASSWORD. HEN YOU LIST THE PASSWORD FILE, 
YOU'LL ONLY SEE ONE MEMBER. T HAS THE PASSWORD THAT THE  AUTOMATICALLY 
SETUP FOR YOU, THE . NTER 2 FOR THE RECORD NUMBER TO EDIT. HEN PRESS 
 UNTIL YOU'RE PROMPTED FOR YOUR NAME. YPE IN YOUR NAME. HEN PRESS 
 UNTIL YOU'RE PROMPTED FOR YOUR PASSWORD. OW TYPE IN YOUR NEW PASSWORD. 
HEN TYPE  A FEW MORE TIMES AND YOUR PASSWORD INFORMATION WILL BE SAVED 
TO DISK. EXT, PRESS  WHEN ASKED FOR THE RECORD NUMBER TO EDIT AND 
ANSWER "" TO CREATE A NEW MEMBERSHIP LIST. HEN THE ROUTINE IS FINISHED, THE 
PROGRAM WILL AUTOMATICALLY RETURN TO THE WAITING FOR CALLER SCREEN.

F7 ON THE  MENU WILL TAKE YOU TO THE   EDGE ROUTINE. HIS ROUTINE 
IS IN "BBS.XFER 7.37", SO THERE WILL BE A 15 SECOND DELAY AFTER PRESSING F4 
(UNLESS YOU ARE USING A 17 RAM EXPANSION MODULE). T OPERATES EXACTLY LIKE 
THE ONE IN THE   PROGRAM. HE  COMMAND FORMAT IS AS FOLLOWS:

 @ - READ ERROR CHANNEL
 $ - DISPLAY A DIRECTORY (PATTERN MATCHING ALLOWED - $0:*)
 # - CHANGE DEVICE NUMBER (#9 - SELECT DRIVE 9)
 N - FORMAT DISK (EXAMPLE - N0:DISKNAME,ID)
 S - SCRATCH FILE (EXAMPLE - S0:FILE1)
 C - COPY FILE (EXAMPLE - C0:FILE1=FILE2)
 R - RENAME FILE (EXAMPLE - R0:FILE1=FILE2)
 F - READ FILE (EXAMPLE - F0:FILE1)
 P - PRINT FILE (EXAMPLE - P0:FILE1)
 % - REGENERATE DIRECTORY
 ! - MESSAGE EDITOR
 X - TWO DRIVE FILE COPIER

N EXTRA ADDED TO THE DIRECTORY ROUTINE IS THAT IT COUNTS THE NUMBER OF FILES 
SELECTED. OR EXAMPLE, IF YOU WANT TO SEE HOW MANY CALLERS HAVE MAIL WAITING 
FOR THEM, YOU COULD SWITCH TO THE DRIVE THAT HOLDS THE PRIVATE MESSAGES AND 
THEN DO A $0:PRIVATE* AND HIT RETURN. LL FILENAMES MATCHING THAT PATTERN 
WILL LIST ON THE SCREEN AND AT THE END, YOU'LL SEE A LINE SAYING HOW MANY 
FILES WERE SELECTED. HIS FEATURE CAN BE VERY HANDY WHEN TRYING TO BALANCE 
FILES BETWEEN DRIVES. HEN READING A DIRECTORY OR SEQUENTIAL FILE, PRESS THE 
 KEY TO PAUSE, OR THE   TO ABORT. F8 WILL SAVE THE MESSAGE INDEX, 
CALLER LOG, SYSTEM VARIABLES AND EXIT TO . HIS IS THE    
PROPER WAY TO SHUT THE SYSTEM DOWN. F YOU HIT THE STOP KEY BY ACCIDENT WITH 
THE STOP KEY ENABLED (RERUN ON ERRORS TURNED OFF), TYPE "CONT" AND HIT RETURN. 
F THAT DOESN'T WORK, TYPE GOTO9999 AND LET THE SYSTEM SHUT DOWN, SAVING THE 
MESSAGE INDEX, CALLER LOG AND VARIABLES. TOPPING THE SYSTEM WITHOUT USING F8 
(OR GOTO9999) WILL LEAVE FILES OPEN AND SOME VECTORS POINTING TO THE 'S  
ROUTINES. N ANY CASE, USING THE COMPUTER FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSES IN THIS 
CONDITION WILL MOST DEFINITELY CAUSE A SYSTEM CRASH. LSO, THE MESSAGE INDEX 
WILL NOT BE SAVED TO DISK, CAUSING THE SYSTEM TO HAVE TO REGENERATE THAT INDEX 
(CAN TAKE AN EXTRA 15 TO 45 MINUTES) WHEN THE SYSTEM IS RESTARTED. 

 13:   -   

HE KEYBOARD IS ALWAYS ACTIVE, EVEN WHEN A CALLER IS ON-LINE. HIS ALLOWS YOU 
TO ENTER A COMMAND FOR A NEW CALLER, LOG A CALLER OFF, ETC.

FL FROM ALMOST ANYWHERE IN THE  WILL ENABLE  MODE. F3 WILL EXIT. HEN 
YOU EXIT  MODE, A - WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE PLACED INTO THE KEYBOARD 
BUFFER. O IF YOUR CALLER IS READING A LONG TEXT FILE, YOU'LL WANT TO AVOID 
BREAKING IN UNTIL THEY REACH A GOOD STOPPING POINT. URING THE TIME YOU ARE IN 
 MODE, THE  TIMER STOPS. HE CALLERS TIME ON-LINE AND TIME USED TODAY 
WILL NOT REFLECT THIS TIME IN  MODE.

T'S POSSIBLE TO CHANGE A CALLERS ACCESS LEVEL, TIME REMAINING, BLOCKS 
UPLOADED, BLOCKS DOWNLOADED AND ON-LINE STATUS WHILE THE CALLER IS ON-LINE. O 
DO THIS, MAKE SURE THE CALLER IS AT THE MAIN COMMAND PROMPT AND PRESS F5. N 
YOUR SCREEN ONLY (THE CALLER WILL NOT SEE THIS), YOU'LL SEE A SIX PART INPUT 
PROMPT ASKING FOR LEVEL,TIME1,TIME2,DNLD,UPLD,1=LOCAL. EVEL IS THE CALLERS 
ACCESS LEVEL FOR THIS CALL. HANGING THIS VARIABLE IS JUST A TEMPORARY CHANGE, 
THE NEXT TIME THIS CALLER CALLS BACK, THEY'LL BE BACK TO THEIR ORIGINAL LEVEL. 
SE ASSWORD AINTENANCE TO PERMANENTLY CHANGE A CALLERS ACCESS LEVEL. IME 1 
IS THE AMOUNT OF TIME REMAINING ON THIS CALL AND TIME 2 IS THE AMOUNT OF TIME 
CARRIED FORWARD FOR FUTURE CALLS TODAY. IME 2 WILL BE ADDED TO TIME 1 WHEN 
THE CALLER LOGS OFF, GIVING THE AMOUNT OF TIME THAT CALLER HAS REMAINING 
TODAY. HE CURRENT VALUES FOR EACH INPUT ARE ALREADY TYPED ON THE SCREEN, SO 
JUST CURSOR RIGHT AND LEFT TO CHANGE THE DESIRED VALUES AND PRESS . NLD 
IS THE NUMBER OF BLOCKS THIS CALLER HAS DOWNLOADED AND PLD IS THE NUMBER OF 
BLOCKS THE CALLER HAS UPLOADED. F YOU WANT TO GIVE A CALLER SOME MORE 
DOWNLOAD CREDITS WHILE THEY'RE ON-LINE, YOU WOULD EITHER RAISE THE BLOCKS 
UPLOADED OR LOWER THE BLOCKS DOWNLOADED. OCAL IS EITHER A 1 OR 0. F YOU 
ENTER A 1 HERE, THE SYSTEM WILL GO INTO LOCAL MODE. VEN WHEN YOU EXIT THIS 
ROUTINE, THE CALLER WILL NOT SEE WHAT IS GOING ON. HIS ALLOWS YOU TO PUT A 
CALLER ON HOLD, WHILE YOU QUICKLY LOOK AT A PASSWORD IN THE PASSWORD FILE, OR 
CHECK THE CALLER LOG. O PUT THE CALLER BACK ON-LINE, PRESS F5 AT THE COMMAND 
PROMPT, THEN CHANGE LOCAL TO 0. HE CALLER ON THE OTHER END WILL THEN SEE 
ANOTHER COMMAND PROMPT.

HERE'S A SPECIAL MESSAGE MERGE ROUTINE THAT CAN ONLY BE USED WHILE ON-LINE AT 
THE  CONSOLE (NOT FROM REMOTE). F YOU END YOUR MESSAGE WITH "/E" THEN 
PRESS THE OMMODORE KEY WHILE AT THE MESSAGE EDITOR PROMPT, YOU'LL BE ASKED 
FOR THE MERGE FILENAME. HIS ALLOWS YOU TO MERGE ANY EXISTING FILE FROM YOUR 
SYSTEM FILES DRIVE INTO THE MESSAGE (OR MAIL) YOU ARE CREATING WITH ONE OF THE 
MESSAGE EDITORS. HIS IS REAL HANDY FOR SENDING A "FORM LETTER" TO NEW 
MEMBERS.

HERE'S A SPECIAL CARBON COPY FEATURE BUILT INTO OUR PRIVATE MAILBOX EDITOR. 
FTER READING ANY INCOMING MAIL, AT THE ()ELETE, ()EREAD, ()UTOREPLY 
PROMPT, IF YOU PRESS THE OMMODORE KEY YOU'LL SEE A "CARBON COPY" PROMPT. F 
YOU ANSWER , THIS PIECE OF MAIL WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO THE DEFAULT MESSAGE 
SECTION OF THE . HIS IS GOOD FOR WHEN A CALLER LEAVES A QUESTION IN 
FEEDBACK THAT WOULD BENEFIT MORE PEOPLE IF IT WERE IN THE PUBLIC MESSAGES 
AREA. LL YOU WOULD NEED TO DO IS SELECT ()OST A ESSAGE, ANSWER  TO 
PRIVATE, SELECT THE APPROPRIATE CATEGORY AND THEN USE /* TO CARBON COPY THE 
DEFAULT MESSAGE INTO THE MESSAGE EDITOR (MORE ON USING OLOR 64'S DEFAULT 
MESSAGE CAN BE READ IN YOUR HELP FILES).

HERE ARE TIMES WHEN IT MAY BE DESIRABLE TO "BREAK" THE  PROGRAM, EVEN 
THOUGH THE  KEY IS DISABLED. AYBE YOU HAVE A PROGRAMMING ERROR AND NEED 
TO EXAMINE VARIABLES, MAYBE YOUR MODEM LOCKED UP AND THE PROGRAM IS WAITING 
FOR IT TO CLEAR, ETC. F YOU EVER GET INTO THIS SITUATION, JUST PRESS AND HOLD 
THE , , AND  KEYS ALL AT ONCE. F THIS DOESN'T SEEM TO 
WORK, TAP ON THE RESTORE KEY A FEW TIMES WHILE STILL HOLDING DOWN ALL THREE 
SHIFT KEYS (SOUNDS IMPOSSIBLE?) THEN LET GO AND DO A / . HAT 
WILL USUALLY WORK. F NOT, THEN POSSIBLY YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED A HARDWARE OR 
POWER RELATED PROBLEM, LOCKING UP YOUR COMPUTER.

HERE'S A SPECIAL UTILITY PROGRAM ON THE   DISK CALLED "DISPLAY 
CRASH". F FOR ANY REASON THE SYSTEM CRASHES AND RERUNS ITSELF, THE  
PROGRAM WILL TAKE A PICTURE OF THE SCREEN AT THE TIME OF THE SYSTEM CRASH AND 
STORE IT FOR YOU UNDER THE KERNAL . HIS DISPLAY CRASH PROGRAM CAN BE USED 
TO RECALL THAT SAVED SCREEN. LL YOU DO IS SHUT THE  DOWN USING THE F8 
SHUTDOWN PROCEDURE. HEN (WITHOUT POWERING OFF THE 64) PUT IN YOUR  
 DISK AND ENTER LOAD "DISPLAY CRASH",8,1. LMOST IMMEDIATELY THE 
SYSTEM CRASHED PICTURE WILL REAPPEAR. AREFULLY EXAMINE IT TO SEE WHAT KIND OF 
ERROR YOU HAD AND IN WHAT LINE NUMBER. F YOU HAVE AN OLD KERNAL , SOME OF 
THE RECALLED PICTURE MAY BE UNREADABLE. F THIS IS THE CASE, JUST TYPE:

POKE53281,1:PRINT"(HOME/CLR)":POKE53281,0:LOAD"DISPLAY CRASH",8,1

TO SEE THE SCREEN. OU CAN REDISPLAY THE "SYSTEM CRASHED" SCREEN AS OFTEN AS 
NEEDED UNLESS THE 64 HAS BEEN POWERED OFF. 
    
HERE'S ANOTHER UTILITY PROGRAM ON THE   DISK CALLED "DIR CREATE 
7.30". HIS PROGRAM CAN BE USED TO QUICKLY CREATE A NEW DIRECTORY FILE FOR 
YOUR DOWNLOAD DIRECTORIES. T'S TRUE THAT OLOR 64 WOULD AUTOMATICALLY CREATE 
A DIRECTORY FILE THE FIRST TIME A CALLER ASKED FOR A DIRECTORY, BUT THAT 
DIRECTORY REGENERATE CAN TAKE QUITE A WHILE (ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE A LOT OF 
FILES ON THE DISK). "DIR CREATE 7.30" IS A STANDALONE PROGRAM JUST FOR 
CREATING YOUR DIRECTORY FILE THE FIRST TIME (IT WILL NOT WORK IF YOU ALREADY 
HAVE A DIRECTORY FILE ON YOUR DISK), AND AS SUCH IT WORKS VERY FAST. O IF 
YOU ARE WANTING TO START YOUR SYSTEM WITH HUNDREDS OF FILES ALREADY IN YOUR 
DOWNLOAD AREAS, WE RECOMMEND YOU USE THIS DIRECTORY CREATE UTILITY ON ALL YOUR 
DISKS BEFORE YOU LOAD UP YOUR .

E HOPE THIS EXPLAINS MOST EVERYTHING YOU'LL WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THIS  
PROGRAM, BUT IF YOU DO HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT US BY 
FEEDBACK ON THE 'S LISTED ON THE COVER PAGE OR BY SENDING US A LETTER.

 14:   -    

HE FOLLOWING PROCEDURES WILL ALLOW US TO COPY THE DATA OUT OF OUR  
PASSWORD FILE INTO AN EASIER TO HANDLE  FILE FOR BACKUP PURPOSES AND 
RESTORE OUR PASSWORD FILE (ALL OR JUST ONE RECORD) FROM THAT BACKUP FILE WHEN 
NEEDED. ITH THESE TWO UTILITIES, WE CAN SAFELY STORE OUR PASSWORD FILE 
ANYWHERE WE CHOOSE (LIKE ON AN  1001 OR HARD DISK DRIVE), AS LONG AS THAT 
DRIVE IS CAPABLE OF HANDLING RELATIVE FILES.

O  THE PASSWORD FILE, LOAD "BAK PSWD 7.00" AND RUN IT. T WILL ASK FOR 
THE DEVICE NUMBER, DRIVE NUMBER AND DRIVE COMMAND OF THE DRIVE WHERE YOUR 
PASSWORD FILE IS STORED. N YOUR SCREEN, YOU'LL SEE AN " 8, 0, I0". HANGE 
THIS AS NECESSARY AND HIT . HAT'S ALL YOU NEED TO DO. OU SHOULD START 
SEEING A COUNTER INCREMENT, INDICATING THE CURRENT NUMBER OF RECORDS BACKED 
UP. HEN THE PROGRAM IS FINISHED, YOU WILL FIND A NEW SEQUENTIAL FILE ON YOUR 
DISK CALLED "PASSWORD BACKUP". HIS FILE CONTAINS ALL THE INFORMATION 
CURRENTLY STORED IN YOUR PASSWORD FILE, BUT IN AN EASIER TO HANDLE  FORMAT. 
HEN YOU  TO COPY THIS FILE ONTO ANOTHER DISK FOR SAFE KEEPING USING ANY 
FILE COPIER (LIKE UPER FER).

O  THE PASSWORD FILE, YOU FIRST NEED TO MAKE SURE A RELATIVE PASSWORD 
FILE ALREADY EXISTS. HE RESTORE PROGRAM WILL NOT CREATE A PASSWORD FILE, IT 
ONLY FILLS THE PASSWORD FILE WITH DATA FROM THE PASSWORD FILE BACKUP. O IF 
THERE'S NOT ALREADY A PASSWORD FILE ON THE DESIRED DISK, RUN THE  PROGRAM 
AND IT WILL MAKE A NEW ONE FOR YOU. HE PASSWORD FILE DOESN'T HAVE TO BE 
BLANK,  WILL WRITE OVER ANY DATA CURRENTLY IN THE FILE. LSO, YOU NEED 
TO MAKE SURE THE "PASSWORD BACKUP" SEQUENTIAL FILE IS ALSO ON THAT SAME DISK. 
SE A SUITABLE FILE COPIER (LIKE UPER FER) IF NECESSARY TO COPY THE PASSWORD 
BACKUP FILE ONTO THE CORRECT DISK. O BEGIN THE , LOAD "RESTOR PSWD 
7.01" AND  IT. T WILL ASK FOR THE DEVICE, DRIVE NUMBER, AND DRIVE COMMAND 
OF THE DISK DRIVE CONTAINING THE PASSWORD FILE WITH AN " 8, 0, I0 " ALREADY 
TYPED ON THE SCREEN. HANGE THIS AS NECESSARY AND PRESS . EXT IT WILL 
ASK FOR THE RECORD NUMBER TO RESTORE OR 0 TO RESTORE ALL RECORDS. HAT'S ALL 
YOU NEED TO DO. OU SHOULD NOW SEE A COUNTER INCREMENT AS THE BACKUP FILE IS 
RESTORED INTO THE PASSWORD FILE. HIS RESTORE IS MUCH SLOWER THAN THE BACKUP, 
BUT IS NORMAL WHEN WRITING INTO A RELATIVE FILE. OPEFULLY, WE WILL NOT BE 
DOING TOO MANY RESTORES ANYWAY. HEN THE RESTORE PROGRAM HAS FINISHED, THE 
PASSWORD FILE WILL BE READY TO USE.

HERE'S ALSO A SPECIAL UTILITY PROGRAM ON THE   DISK CALLED "FIX 
PSWD 7.00". HIS UTILITY CAN BE USEFUL IF FOR SOME REASON YOU FIND A CALLER'S 
RECORD IS UNREADABLE. HIS PROGRAM WILL  FIX DISK READ ERRORS, IT JUST 
STRAIGHTENS OUT RECORDS THAT HAVE CORRUPTED DATA. ORMALLY YOU WOULD USE 
"RESTOR PSWD 7.01" TO RESTORE A BAD RECORD, BUT IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A "BACKUP 
PASSWORD" FILE, THIS MAY BE THE ONLY OTHER WAY TO SALVAGE WHAT'S LEFT OF YOUR 
PASSWORD FILE.

 15:   64      

OLOR 64  VERSION 7.30 FULLY SUPPORTS THE  ATA HIEF HARD DISK DRIVE 
SYSTEM. LL YOU NEED TO DO IS USE "HM4 11 22" AS THE DRIVE COMMAND FOR 
WHATEVER FILES YOU WANT STORED IN A CHAIN DEFINED AS STARTING AT PARTITION 11 
AND ENDING AT PARTITION 22 OR H10 FOR FILES YOU WANT STORED IN AN INDIVIDUAL 
PARTITION 10. HE ONLY FILES THAT YOU CAN PUT IN CHAIN MODE ARE  
,  ,  ,  AND .  ,  
,  ,   AND   MUST BE ASSIGNED INDIVIDUAL 
PARTITIONS. ND IF YOU ARE USING THE PYX ASTLOAD CARTRIDGE, YOU MUST PUT 
YOUR PROGRAM FILES ON 0 (THE BUILT IN FLOPPY) OR YOU'LL EXPERIENCE 
INTERMITTENT SYSTEM LOCKUPS.

HE  HAS BEEN TESTED WITH THE URST ODE  FROM HIP EVEL ESIGNS AND IT 
WORKS ! HIS  ALLOWS YOUR 64 OR 128 TO ACCESS YOUR HARD DRIVE IN ITS 
BURST MODE OF OPERATION, SPEEDING UP ALL DISK ACCESS BY 2 TO 10 TIMES. LSO, 
IF YOU HAVE A 1764 OR 1750 AM XPANSION MODULE, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF 
OPTIONAL MODULES THAT WILL ALLOW YOU TO DO ALL OF YOUR HARD DRIVE MAINTENANCE 
FROM WITHIN OLOR 64.

S FAR AS DOWNLOAD DIRECTORIES, WE RECOMMEND YOU ANSWER "" TO THE QUESTION 
"ULTIPLE IRECTORIES ER RIVE" IN . S FAR AS OLOR 64  IS 
CONCERNED, EACH DIFFERENT CHAIN LOOKS LIKE A DIFFERENT DRIVE. UNNING ONE 
DIRECTORY PER DRIVE/CHAIN HAS THE ADVANTAGE OF NOT HAVING TO RENAME FILES 
BEFORE THEY CAN BE DOWNLOADED TOO. T WILL WORK EITHER WAY, THIS IS JUST OUR 
RECOMMENDATION.

NE LAST COMMENT. HE SCAN FOR NEW DOWNLOADS IS A LITTLE SLOWER ON THE  
DRIVE THAN ON OTHER DRIVES. HAT'S BECAUSE IT'S NECESSARY TO READ TWO 
DIFFERENT FILES IN 2 DIFFERENT PARTITIONS. O WE'RE HAVING TO OPEN AND CLOSE A 
LOT MORE FILES THAN ON THE  DRIVES. UT ALL IN ALL, IT DOES WORK WELL AND 
IS STILL FAST ENOUGH (ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE THE BURST MODE  IN YOUR 
COMPUTER).

 16:   64    2400  

OLOR 64  VERSION 7.30 SUPPORTS THE AYES MARTMODEM 2400 AND MANY GOOD 
COMPATIBLE MODEMS. OU SHOULD FIND THAT YOUR 64 AND OLOR 64 CAN HANDLE 2400 
BAUD FILE TRANSFERS WITH LESS THAN 10% ERRORS (MANY WILL FIND ERROR FREE FILE 
TRANSFERS DEPENDING ON THE QUALITY OF YOUR MODEM AND PHONE LINES).

ERE IS HOW IT'S RECOMMENDED YOU SETUP YOUR SYSTEM FOR 2400 BAUD. IRST THING 
YOU NEED TO DO IS TO CONFIGURE YOUR MODEM. HEY COME FROM THE FACTORY WITH  
AND   FORCED TRUE. HE 1200 BAUD MODEMS HAD SWITCHES WHILE THE 
2400 MODEMS DON'T. NSTEAD THEY HAVE A SERIES OF COMMANDS THAT ARE ENTERED 
FROM A TERMINAL PROGRAM THEN STORED IN PERMANENT MEMORY. HE FOLLOWING 
COMMANDS ARE WHAT WE RECOMMEND YOU TYPE TO SETUP YOUR MODEM. UST LOAD A 
SIMPLE  TERMINAL PROGRAM, AND AT 300 BAUD TYPE THE FOLLOWING:

&
&3 (SOME COMPATIBLES PREFER &2)
&1
&0
1
0=0
0
0
OW SWITCH YOUR TERMINAL TO 2400 BAUD AND TYPE:  &

 YOU HAVE PERFORMED THE ABOVE, YOU NEED TO RUN  AND IN THE  
 COMMAND, ENTER: +ATS7=15S10=30

HE FIRST STEP ABOVE PRESETS YOUR MODEM TO DISCONNECT AND RESET TO POWER ON 
CONFIGURATION WHEN  IS DROPPED, MONITOR CARRIER LOST AND DISCONNECT IF 
FALSE, FORCE  TRUE, NOT AUTO-ANSWER THE PHONE, TURN OFF THE SPEAKER, TURN 
ECHO OFF AND THEN SAVE THIS CONFIGURATION IN PERMANENT MEMORY WITHIN THE 
MODEM. FTER TYPING THE 0 COMMAND, THE MODEM WILL QUIT ECHOING TO THE 
SCREEN. HIS IS THE ONLY RELIABLE WAY TO SEND "AT" COMMANDS AT 2400 BAUD WITH 
A OMMODORE 64 (E.G.. WITH ECHO DISABLED). T SEEMS THE ECHOED CHARACTERS 
WOULD BOG DOWN THE SOFTWARE DRIVEN  TO THE POINT WHERE IT WOULD CORRUPT 
THE DATA ENTERED. NYWAY, THE  DOES NOT NEED ECHO AND WHEN YOU WANT TO 
AUTO-DIAL ANOTHER , JUST USE THE AUTODIALER BUILT INTO THE TERM.

HE MODEM INIT COMMAND IN  WILL SET THE MODEM TO WAIT FOR A CARRIER FOR 
15 SECONDS. T WAS FOUND THAT 30 SECONDS WAS TOO LONG AND OFTEN THE TELEPHONE 
COMPANIES OFF-HOOK ATTENTION SIGNAL WOULD CONFUSE THE MODEM TO THINK IT HAD 
CARRIER. ESIDES, 15 SECONDS IS PLENTY LONG TO WAIT FOR A CARRIER. HIS S7 
REGISTER IS NOT SAVED IN PERMANENT MEMORY WHEN USING THE & COMMAND, SO WE 
NEED TO ENTER IT HERE IN . HE SECOND PART OF THE MODEM INIT COMMAND WILL 
SET THE CARRIER LOST DISCONNECT DELAY TO 3 SECONDS. HIS WILL HELP MINIMIZE 
THE NUMBER OF CARRIER LOSSES EXPERIENCED ON THE  IF YOUR CALLERS HAVE CALL 
WAITING. EALIZE THAT IF THE CALLER IS USING A MODEM THAT DOES NOT HAVE THE 
ABILITY TO ADJUST THE CARRIER LOST DELAY OR THEY DO NOT HAVE IT SET LONG 
ENOUGH, THEIR MODEM WILL HANG UP IMMEDIATELY AND YOUR MODEM WILL FOLLOW 3 
SECONDS LATER.

 17:  

AUTODIAL
    DIALING WITH A TERMINAL PROGRAM, WHICH AUTOMATICALLY REDIALS THE NUMBER IF 
A NO CARRIER OR BUSY SIGNAL IS DETECTED

AUTOREPLY
    REPLYING TO A MESSAGE WITHOUT HAVING TO ENTER THE DATE, TIME, OR SUBJECT


    EGINNER'S LL-URPOSE YMBOLIC NSTRUCTION ODE


    BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEM OR BULLETIN BOARD SERVICE.

64
    OMMODORE 64 PERSONAL COMPUTER

128
    OMMODORE 128 PERSONAL COMPUTER


    OMMODORE USINESS ACHINES


    ONMASKABLE NTERRUPT



    APID ACCESS MEMORY



    EAD ONLY MEMORY


     EXPANSION UNIT


    OLOR 64 ERSION UPER 

SYSOP (OR )
    SYSTEM OPERATOR

7.37
    OLOR 64 ERSION 7.37

8
    OLOR 64 ERSION 8 (INSTEAD OF THE POPULAR VEGETABLE DRINK OR TYPE OF 
COMBUSTION ENGINE)

128
    OLOR 64 ERSION 128

 18:   64  128

F YOU OWN A 128 (OR PLAN TO) AND WANT TO RUN A  ON IT, WE RECOMMENDED 
THIS  PROGRAM. T'S NEARLY 100 PERCENT COMPATIBLE WITH 7.37 AND HAS MUCH 
MORE MEMORY AND FEATURES. HIS IS NOT THE PLACE TO ADVERTISE, BUT WE FEEL YOU
NEED TO KNOW ABOUT IT.

T'S AVAILABLE FOR $25.00 FROM:

    DAM ANELLO
    4822 ARWIN VE.
    YPRESS,  90630

    ATURE ESERVE 
    (714)828-7296


