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- The Waiting for Call [WFC] Screen
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- VBBS 6.12 Documentation -- 4-1
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- ║ CHAPTER 4 THE WAITING-FOR-CALL [WFC] SCREEN ║
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- VBBS uses a highly-informational WFC.COM screen. This
- screen not only provides system statistics, the time, available
- drive space, system status and the BBS name; it is also custom-
- izable using any ANSI drawing program (such as TheDraw) that
- saves screens in the .COM format.
- Note that if your drive space on a given drive drops be-
- low a certain percentage of its capacity, that line will change
- color to let you know that you need to free up some space on
- that drive.
-
- Options available from the WFC screen include:
-
- [F] Fast Login Local Fast login from the console (make
- sure you establish the sysop ac-
- count first!).
- [L] Login Local Logs a user into the system from
- the console (use this to estab-
- lish the sysop account!).
- [S] Shell to DOS Shells to DOS environment within
- VBBS; type EXIT to return to the BBS.
- [U] User Editor Allows editing of user information.
- [V] VConfig Brings up the VCONFIG utility.
- [I] System Info Displays information about your bbs.
- [C] Today's Callers Lists callers since midnight.
- [W] Who's Online Shows status of each COM port.
- [/] Dial NET to Client Allows a forced NET callout to a
- system listed in your remote con-
- figuration (if any).
- [N] Dial NET to Server Forces a network connect to your
- server as defined in VCONFIG.
- [E] E-Mail Allows you to write E-mail to both
- local and network addresses from
- the WFC screen.
- [M] Feedback Allows you to check the sysop
- mailbox from WFC.
- [Scr Lock] Sysop Avail. Toggles sysop page on/off; may
- also be set in VCONFIG to be
- the [A] key.
- [Esc] Exit BBS Quit VBBS and return to DOS.
- [F1] through [F10] Calls up the functions you have
- defined for function keys in
- VCONFIG; if you haven't set them
- up, don't worry about it yet.
-
- ╔═╗ The WFC screen is set up so that most of the sysop's rou-
- ╚═╝ tine chores may be handled without ever loggin on to the
- BBS. This, coupled with efficient configuration of the
- <F1> through <F10> keys, can be a real time-saver. It's
- worth the time spent in initial setup to have access to
- everything you need from WFC.
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- ▒▒ OS/2 Version : The WFC screen commands differ
- in the OS/2 version. Please
- refer to Appendix D.
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