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Turbo Board ST
ShareWare Version 1.0
by
William J. Miller
Copyright 1990-1991
Bitblit Systems
1580 Liveoak Dr.
Mississauga, Ontario
Canada L5E 2X6
Documentation by
John P. Miller
Limited Warranty
The Turbo Board ST programs are provided "as is" without warranty of any
kind either expressed or implied, including but not limited to the implied
warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The
entire risk as to the quality and performance of the programs is with you.
Should the program prove defective, you assume the entire cost of all
necessary repair or corrections. Bitblit Systems does not warrant that the
functions contained in the program will meet your requirements or that the
operation of the programs will be uninterrupted or error free.
Shareware Version of Turbo Board ST
This Version of Turbo Board which you have just downloaded, is a special
Shareware version of our software. We have released our Version 1 of Turbo
Board ST as Shareware, in the hopes of attracting more sysops to Turbo
Board, and to show what we are capable of accomplishing.
You are allowed to try out this software for a period of 30 days, at which
time you can decide to register your copy with us, or to delete it from your
system. We also have a printed Version 1 Turbo Board manual to send to you
if you register. The registration price? $45.00.
Please see the registration documents at the end of this doc for more
information.
Though version 1 of Turbo Board is very powerful as you will see, we have
progressed now from Version 1 of Turbo Board on to Version 2. Turbo Board
Version 2 has many more enhanced features over our original Version 1, and
we hope that you will consider upgrading your system to it. Please see the
special offer on upgrading to Turbo Board Version 2, later in this document.
We sincerely hope that you decide to register with us, or upgrade to Version
2 of our software.
Thanks for looking us over,
John Miller at ///Turbo Board Support - 416-274-1225
Turbo Board 1.0 Shareware Version Page 1 July 21, 1991
SETTING UP TURBO BOARD
UnLZHing Turbo Board
Turbo Board is contained in a FULL PATHNAME LZH file and if you are reading
this document, it means that you successfully uncompressed it with LHarc.
If you found this file in a folder called Turbo, then it was uncompressed
properly. If you didn't found this DOC file with a jumble of other files,
then you must use an LHarc program that will create subdirectories for you.
LHA 1.3 or XLHARC 1.2 both support subdirectories. Unlzh 1.7+ also supports
full pathnames, just make sure that you turn OFF create folders. If the
Turbo folder is not on your C: drive, then you will have to edit the drive
field in TURBO.OPT later on.
If all goes well, there will be a new folder on your hard disk called TURBO.
Enter the Turbo folder and you will be in the main TURBO bbs directory.
This file called TURBO.DOC should be located in the TURBO folder.
Modifying TURBO.OPT
Note: When editing files for use by Turbo Board it is important that the
editor NOT add any blank lines and that you not use special characters, such
as the TAB key or formatting commands, if the editor inserts those
characters in the text. If you use a word processor program, make sure that
you save the message as a text file.
Load the file TURBO.OPT from the main TURBO bbs directory into any suitable
text editor you have available. View the TURBO.OPT file as you read the
entry descriptions here. As you can see there are many 'options' for Turbo
Board available to you.
The first line is labelled BAUD. The following entries may be placed on
this line:
300 1200 2400 9600 HST
The above rates are the Connect rates recognized by Turbo Board. If your
modem's highest connect rate is 2400, then you would place 2400 on this
line. Turbo Board will set the BBS to the modem's connect rate on an
incoming call.
There is one further option that you may wish to use here, and it is known
as the HST option. If you place HST on the BAUD line, then Turbo Board will
assume the following conditions:
You are using a high speed, error checking modem and you wish to use the BBS
set at a fixed link of 19200 bps, running under RTS/CTS Flow Control, to
control the data flow to the modem.
Turbo Board 1.0 Shareware Version Page 2 July 21, 1991
All 9600 modems that we have seen will operate under this mode. The most
popular 9600 error checking modem in use by SysOps seems to be the US
Robotics HST modem. V.32 9600 modems can also use this method of control.
For the HST modem, you must set the modem's Nram using a terminal program
set at 19200. Enter the following codes and hit Return to set the HST up
properly:
AT &H1 &R2 &B1 &A0 V0 E0 Q0 S7=15 S15=8 &W
The above codes will set up the flow control and also make sure that
the HST is reporting back the proper codes to the BBS. Read your modem
manual for more details on these commands.
HARD DISK - If you are using a hard disk and will be booting Turbo Board
from the HD, then change the OFF in line two to ON. If OFF, Turbo Board
will ask you to insert your Data disks when the system boots.
RESET LOG - Line three is used in conjunction with the Log-to-disk feature.
If your log is being kept on the disk and you want the log to be reset each
time Turbo Board is run then leave the word ON in place. If you wish the
log to be continuous, with the new data appended to the old, then replace ON
with OFF.
SET TIME - If you wish to be prompted to set the time and date when the
board intializes, enter ON here.
DRIVES - On this line place the drives you desire Turbo Board to use, and in
the order you wish Turbo Board to search them for files. Example: If you
have two drives, A and B, for use with Turbo Board, then change line five to
AB. If you were using a HD and a floppy, you would probably want Turbo
Board to search the HD first, so you would enter a search order similar to
CDA for a single floppy and two partition HD.
LOG DRIVE - is the drive identifier of the drive you want Turbo Board to
save the user log to when you are not using a printer.
REMOTE SYSOP - is a master switch of whether Turbo Board will allow users
with the SysOp privilege to activate the SysOp mode when calling in.
Replace the OFF with ON if you will be allowing this feature.
GRAPHICS - For now leave this OFF. Alternate Graphics menus is discussed in
the Turbo Manual and will not be dealt with here.
COM PORT - Turbo Board ST users leave this set to 1.
NOT IN USE - This is a flag for future use. It is not currently implemented
and should be left OFF.
ADDRESS FILE - Turbo Board can automatically ask for user's street, city,
state and zip code. If you wish your users to be queried for this
information, change the OFF to ON.
Turbo Board 1.0 Shareware Version Page 3 July 21, 1991
CHAT - Enables/disables the chat request function of the BBS. (See the Main
Menu and SysOp sections for more information.)
CHAT ON TIME - If you have Chat enabled the actual time Chat will be active
is controlled by the CHAT ON and CHAT OFF TIMEs. Enter the start time for
chat to be active. While chat is active and a user requests a chat the BBS
will ring the system bell and the bell on the printer if the system LOG