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- RiscBBS User Editor sysop's guide.
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- Loading.
-
- To load the RiscBBS user-editor, double-click on its icon in a filer.
- It will immediately pop up a window in which you can edit the various items
- in any user's record.
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-
- Editing.
-
- Normally, there will be 'New User' as username for the first (0-th) record.
- Its password should be 'blank' (ie. a null-string) after clicking on the
- Reveal icon! This 0-th record (user 'New User') is taken as the default for
- every new user that logs on to the system.
-
- It should be very easy for any sysop to use the editor, as nearly every
- record-item has a trivial meaning...
-
- Username : The name of the user (any number of lowercase words with
- uppercase capital, separated by a space). Eg. 'Bilbo Baggins'.
-
- Password : The user's password (up to 9 characters long, case insensitive).
-
- Userkeys : Up to 47 characters on which's presence/absence RiscBBS may
- be configured to act.
-
- Level : Level of the user (the lower this number, the less access the
- user may have to the system).
-
- Lines : Number of lines on the user's remote terminal (asked for with
- 1st logon).
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- Daytime : Number of minutes the user may be online daily.
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- Today : Today's number of minutes the user was online (exclusive the
- time of a possible current logon). Updated everytime the user
- logs off!
-
- Calls : Number of calls the user has made to the system.
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- Download : Number of Kb the user has already downloaded from the system.
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- Upload : Number of Kb the user has already uploaded to the system.
-
- D/U Ratio : Factors that set the ratio which limits the download/upload
- amount in Kb.
- Eg. If a user has D/U Ratio set to 5:1, he is allowed to
- download 5 times as much as he has uploaded.
-
- ANSI : User's ANSI graphics flag. If set, the system will/may send ANSI
- escape sequences for setting colours, cursor positioning etc...
-
- More? : User's More? prompts flag. If set, the system will pause each
- time his set number of lines has scrolled past.
-
- Deleted : Marks whether the user's record may be overwritten (deleted) the
- next time a new user logs on.
-
- Action icons:
-
- Update : Updates (writes) the current user's record to the system user-
- file.
-
- Find : Tries to find the record of the user who's name is entered in
- the Username icon.
-
- Read ï N è : Reads the (next/previous) record of which the number is inside
- the record-number icon.
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- Creating a new user.
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- To create a new user with the user-editor, go to the last record in the
- user-file, click on ï once and just enter his details into the icons...
- afterwards, click on the Update icon!
- You can also re-edit a still existing 'deleted' user, but don't forget to
- unset the Deleted option before clicking on the Update icon!
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- Quitting.
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- The RiscBBS user-editor may be quit by clicking on its window close icon (ä),
- or by selecting the 'Quit' option from its main menu.
-
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- Hotlink with RiscBBS server.
-
- Note that the RiscBBS server and RiscBBS user-editor are 'hot-linked', this
- means that when any changes to the user-file are updated by one of the
- programs, the other one will immediately re-read the updated user-record if
- necessary!
-
-
- Carl Declerck.
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