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- Riverside Premium BBS
-
- This describes the hardware and software environment for a 4 node
- system using two machines, Lantastic, and Taskview/Omniview.
-
- There are 2 Miniscribe 6085 drives on each system and both use the
- Perstor 180-16F controller. This combination results in each drive
- having a capacity of about 130 meg each for a total of 520 meg.
- At present all files are on the ASTAR except for the PCBoard dir
- containing the EXE files for nodes 1 & 2. These are contained on
- the Compustar. Each node has it's own BASE DIR named PCBNx where
- the x is the Node #.
-
- I have included the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT for each machine
- in this ARC file. Note the SET commands both in the AUTOEXEC and
- in each node's BAT file. An environment parmeter is set by each
- board's BAT to pass the node number, drive of the PCBOARD.SYS/DAT
- files. This makes the creating of DOOR BAT files easier. They are
- all the same and the SET parms provide the necessary info so that
- all DOORS can run on each node at the same time.
-
- It took a little time to get it to work right but it makes adding
- doors a snap. I have also included the bat files I use when I add
- a new door to do the copy to each node's SUBDIR. At present, I only
- run 4 nodes with Node 2 a LOCAL for me, but I update all at the same
- time so all I have to do to add a new node is add another machine and
- connect it up to the LAN.
-
- One thing to note is the bat file for NODE 1 which checks for the
- PCBOARD.EXE file on drive S. This is across the LAN and if it is
- not available, a CALL to a BAT to logon to the SERVER is made and
- then the node is brought up. Node 2 is not brought up automatically
- but only when I want to log into the system. Otherwise I use the
- partition to run other things.
-
- An EVENT is run on each node but only NODE 5 actually does anything.
- The others just go into a wait loop until the processing is finished
- then the other nodes come back up. TIMELOOP is a 7 line BASIC
- program that loops for 5 minutes and then ends. A check is made for
- the EVENT.BAT file and if it is there, it just goes back and waits
- again. Nothing fancy but it works.
-
- All files with a CST extention are on the Compustar and those that
- have an AST extention are on the ASTAR. They normally have a SYS or
- BAT extention on their respective machines.
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