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Lora Bulletin Board System and
Electronic Mail Interface
Version 2.32
Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 by Marco Maccaferri
All rights reserved
Main features
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- Supporting up to four different message bases at the same time
(with no differences seen by the users). Presently Lora supports
the standard Fido-Base (*.MSG), the QuickBBS (also known as Hudson
message base), the PIP-Base and the new Squish-Mail<Tm> made by
Scott J. Dudley.
- Supporting up to 500 message/file areas, and allowing fast
extension if necessary.
- Hyper-Scan function for fast user and message/file areas search.
- Compatible built-in Front-End Fidonet Mailer, FTSC-0001, WaZOO and
full EMSI capable.
- Supporting three and four dimension points at the same time.
- Supporting Aka's and ZoneGates.
- Supporting Janus bidirectional protocol for mail transfer.
- Supporting multitaskers, leaving not used time to the active task,
and local networks.
- Supporting many tasks with one directory and one configuration file
only.
- Integrated multiline chat.
- Supporting up to twenty different languages, for a full
international system.
- Memory swap in EMS, XMS or disk during the execution of external
doors (leaving in memory only 1.6K for the recovery code).
- Supporting AVATAR/0+ protocol in alternative to ANSI-BBS
- Userlist features 12 access levels and 32 configurable flags.
- Support for RemoteAccess 1.11, Maximus CBCS 2.00 and SuperBBS 1.16
compatible Embedded Commands.
- Built-in TimeBank, FileBank, BBS List and UserVote doors.
- Support for off-line mail readers compatible with the QWK packet
format, as well as human readable ASCII format.
- Remote clock synchronization in WaZOO and EMSI sessions.
- Automatic clock synchronization with an Atomic Clock, compatible
with the Galileo Ferraris Institute of Torino, Italy.
- User limits (such as on-line time, download limits, etc.) overrides
in a single user basis.
- Exclusive ZModem auto-upload feature, your users can upload files
at any menu prompt.
- Support for new 16800 baud and fax modems.
- Integrated ANSI/VT100 and Avatar terminal emulation, awareness of
downloading and uploading files using all the protocols, including
Puma and HS/Link.
- IEMSI (Interactive EMSI) for user's automatic login and parameter
settings.
If you register Lora you will have the following additional features:
- Keyboard lock by password. The local use of the keyboard will be
possible, but all functions like Alt-x, Dos Shell, etc. will be
disabled.
- Possibility of disabling the internal front-end mailer to use Lora
with other programs (FrontDoor, D'Bridge, BinkleyTerm, etc.).
- Multitasking allowed. Without registration it's possible to use
only task 1.
- Memory swap during external doors.
- Possibility of using the internal Areafix function for the
automatic management of echomail links.
- Possibility of including key sequences in the internal keyboard
buffer during the execution of BBS commands.
- Possibility of using file-semaphores for certain operations in
multitasking environments.
Installation
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To install Lora you need a PC/XT/AT computer with at least 384K of
free RAM, DOS 3.30 or later versions, at least one free serial port
and 3MBytes of Hard disk space.
Here is the right procedure to install Lora in your system:
1. Create a directory called C:\LORA and uncompress inside it the
original archives, LORA232E.ZIP.
2. Run LORA232E.EXE
The program will create all the necessary directories and will copy
the files inside them.
If you have installed Lora in C:\LORA, you can begin using it; if
not, you have to change all the references at C:\LORA using the
configuration program LSETUP.
Lora needs a FOSSIL driver for serial communications in order to
work. If you have not yet got it, you can find a FOSSIL driver in the
nearest BBS (on node 2:332/402 you can find the newest versions of
the available FOSSIL drivers).
Lora has been successfully tested with the BNU 1.70 FOSSIL driver
Dr.Comm 0.4 and X00, but it can work also with different kind of
drivers.
With the operating system OS/2, Lora has been tested with the Ray
Gwinn's SIO drivers (beta 0.65f and 0.70) using the VX00.SYS driver
in the DOS window.
Upgrade from previous versions
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Here is the right procedure to upgrade Lora in your system:
1. Create a directory called C:\LORA and uncompress inside it the
original archives, LORA232E.ZIP.
2. Run LORA232E.EXE
The program will upgrade the files that are changed with this
release.
If you are upgrading a Lora version older than 2.30, part of the
configuration must be made again. Use LSETUP to insert the
configurations you put in the LORA.CFG file.
Anyway, to update the binary files, the LSETUP program must be run
following the new format.
From Version 2.30 you don't need to keep the LORA.CFG, SYSTEM.CFG,
SCHED.CFG and NODES.CFG files, as well as LORACOMP.EXE.
Each configuration can be done using the LSETUP program.