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- .TOPIC:
- Text Sections Configuration
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- VBBS 6.12 Documentation -- 2-O-1
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- ║ CHAPTER TWO ANNEX O E. TEXT SECTIONS CONFIGURATION ║
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- Text files from within various directories on your system
- may be configured here for display. Types of text files commonly
- configured here include (but are not limited to):
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- ∙ game scoreboards
- ∙ general information about your BBS
- ∙ standard operating procedures / rules for your BBS
- ∙ information about viruses
- ∙ rules of "netiquette"
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- and so on.
- To add a new entry to the text section configuration,
- press [F1] at the scrolling-window screen. You will be prompted
- for the following information:
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- 1) Name
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- The name of the text section, as it will appear to the
- user.
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- 2) Path
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- The full pathname to the directory in which the text
- file(s) is located.
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- 3) Security Level
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- The MSL needed to access this particular text section.
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- 4) Access Flag
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- The access flag needed to access this particular section
- (please see "The User Editor" for more on access flags).
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- To edit an entry, move the highlight bar to the desired entry
- and press [Enter]. You will have a chance to edit the above
- information.
- In VCONFIG, you can define any directory on your system as
- containing text for a defined subject area. Text directories may
- be networked by using a script maintaining a database for text
- files.
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- TIP ─────> It might be wise to keep these text files fairly
- short since they are read on-lie. Longer text files
- may be zipped up and made available for download.
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