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- Changes for RBBS 3.1:
-
- 1. User now receives the message ">>>ACCESS DENIED<<<" if he attempts
- to enter CP/M and there is an asterisk next to his entry in USERS.
-
- 2. The Kill Command reprompts for another message to kill in the same
- fashion as the Read command.
-
- 3. A ^K during a forward sequential Read just skips the rest of the
- current message being displayed and goes on to the next one.
- --------------------
-
- RBBS 3.0 Preliminary Documentation
-
- RBBS Version 3.0 is based on RBBS 2.4 and incorporates several mods
- from RBBS-RTN.001. However, it goes far beyond those mods to fix many
- longstanding bugs as well as add many new features.
-
- The major new feature is a working user password scheme which
- minimally impacts present systems running older versions of RBBS.
-
- The first version of this program has been in use for about a month on
- three RCP/M systems in the El Paso, TX area and has received a
- thorough debugging which led directly to this first public release.
-
- To run this version, you will also need MENURBBS and NEWCOM text
- files, as well as making up your own versions of PWDS, BULLETIN, INFO,
- and ENTERCPM text files. Only MENURBBS and ENTERCPM are new, and
- ENTERCPM may be extracted from your existing RBBS source file to use.
-
- Users running older versions of RBBS will have to edit their USERS
- file to replace the blanks between fields with semicolons and add a
- new field for the initial default password as follows:
-
- JOE USER;ANYCITY, USA;DEFAULT
-
- Be sure to us overwrite rather than insert mode to make these changes.
-
- The only major drawback to bringing this program up in .COM file
- format is that you will not only need BASCOM and L80, but also a TPA
- of at least 54K to run L80. Alternately, if you have access to
- PLINKII, you will not have a problem with linking this program.
-
- You will also have to make some trivial mods to the source to
- customize it for you local implementation:
-
- 1. Change VERS1$ in line 190 to be your own system name.
-
- 2. Change SYS1$ and SYS2$ in line 200 to your (the SYSOP's) first and
- last name, respectively.
-
- 3. Change DSK$ in line 220 to the drive containing all the files read
- or used by RBBS.
-
- 4. Remove the REM in lines 890 and 7140 if you want RBBS to store the
- first four characters of the caller's last name beginning at 40H.
- This information may then be used by other programs, such as special
- versions of XMODEM, to log the caller's name in some file.
-
- 5. Change the value for the OUT statement in line 4290. It is
- presently set up to output a zero in port 82H for a DCHayes modem
- addressed at 80H.
-
- 6. Change your PWDS file to add two new fields, ending up looking
- like the following format:
-
- field1,field2,field3,field4
-
- where:
-
- field1 is the "first name" for direct entry to CP/M
-
- field2 is the "last name" used for the SYSOP login
-
- field3 is the "password" or answer to the prompt in field4 (or NOPASS,
- in which case no password is required of the user)
-
- field4 is the prompt string that the user must answer to match field3.
-
- Enjoy!
-
- --Frank Wancho