BBS is a simple communcations program written specifically to contact electronic Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs). It works with Hayes compatible modems with transmission speeds from 1200 BPS to 115200 BPS. File upload and download protocols supported include ASCII, Kermit, Xmodem, Ymodem, Zmodem, 1K Xmodem, 1K Xmodem/G, and Ymodem/G. The program has full mouse support and automatically handles the ANSI screen characters that most BBSs use to display text and graphics. Screen colors can be configured & saved.
Your online session can be saved to a capture file and you can scroll back the last eight screens from the BBS at any time, even after hanging up.
The program keeps track of how long you are connected. The elapse time is displayed in the top line, just to the right of the current time of day. You can quit the BBS program at any time by pressing F3. If you were on-line, the line connection will be broken and the modem will hangup. You can temporarily shell out to DOS while online by pressing F4. Key in EXIT at the DOS prompt to return to the online session. Help is always available by pressing F1 at any time.
