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- Channel Configuration
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- VBBS 6.12 Documentation -- 2-D-1
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- ║ CHAPTER TWO ANNEX D 2. CHANNEL CONFIGURATION ║
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- In this section of VCONFIG, you can configure the multi-
- user communications aspects of VBBS and define the correct modem
- port for single-line installations.
-
- ╔═╗ If you have only one line, you won't spend much time in
- ╚═╝ this section of VCONFIG. You only need to tell VBBS which
- COM port to use for Channel 1.
-
- When you bring up the CHANNEL configuration screen, you
- will see a long list of channel numbers and their current charac-
- teristics. To edit a particular line, use the arrow keys to move
- the highlight bar to the channel you want to edit, then press
- [Enter]. This will bring up a second screen with the following
- information:
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- 1) Serial Port
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- This setting can range from COM1 to COM8 for communica-
- tions ports. Whichever COM port you specify is what this
- channel will use.
-
- If set to LOCAL, then no COM port at all is used for this
- channel. By using the LOCAL setting, VBBS could be used
- as the interoffice mail system on a LAN.
-
- 2) Base Address (Hex)
- 3) IRQ (Hex)
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- For unique addressing, you may configure the port base ad-
- dress and IRQ directly. Both entries should be entered in
- hexadecimal format.
-
- 4) Baud Rate
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- This field sets the baud rate of the COM port.
-
- 5) Init String
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- The modem commands needed to properly initialize your mo-
- dem for VBBS go here. For initialization strings for sev-
- eral of the more popular modems, see MODEM.DOC.
-
- ╔═╗ There are several message bases on VirtualNET from which
- ╚═╝ you can get help in "tweaking" your init string to fit
- your exact setup. These include the "VBBS Modem
- Technical Support Sub" and "Modem Mania". Run VAREA
- to see the latest subslist entries.
-
- 6) Locked Baud Rate
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- If you are using a standard 2400-baud modem without error
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- VBBS 6.12 Documentation -- 2-D-2
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- correction, this should be set to NO; if you are using a
- high-speed modem, or a modem with error correction, this
- should be set to YES.
-
- 7) Hardware (RTS/CTS) Handshake
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- If you are using a standard 2400-baud modem without error
- correction, this should be set to NO; if you are using a
- high-speed modem, or a modem with error correction, this
- should be set to YES.
-
- Yes, this says the very same thing as 6); I had to check
- the original documentation myself to make sure I hadn't
- made a typo! :-)
-
- 8) Minimum Baud Rate Allowed
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- This feature can be used to "lock out" users using slower
- modems, should you desire to do so. This can be config-
- ured independently for each active channel. For example,
- a sysop running a single-channel installation might wish
- to lock out 300-baud callers; she would enter a value of
- 1200 in this field. A value of 0 in this field disables
- the minimum-baud-rate feature.
-
- A text file called TOOSLOW.TXT (found in your \TXT direc-
- tory) is displayed to the user immediately upon connect
- if his modem is at a disallowed speed. This ASCII text
- file may, of course, be customized to suit your needs.
-
- ╔═╗ If you're running more than one channel, one of which
- ╚═╝ uses a high-speed modem, you may wish to use the minimum-
- baud-rate feature to reserve the high-speed channel for
- the exclusive use of high-speed callers.
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