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- Pancake features:
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- Connection/network features
- - Serial
- - TCP/IP
- - Has TCP/IP telnet in, out and finger in and out
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- Mail
- - UUCP Mail in and out supported
- - STMP Mail out, and POP mail retrieval
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- Newsgroups
- - Local groups
- - Usenet groups (via UUCP, MacSlurp or NNTP Sucker)
- - True RFC compliance
- - Long subject lines, not the abhorent truncations made by some other
- systems
- - Message length limited only to memory (binary newsgroups work fine)
- - Fidonet groups
- - Supports TabbyNet Generic Import file
- - News tosser/importer Parse News runs in the background leaving bbs free
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- Program Features
- - Shareware not some $500 add on
- - No huge memory hit ! (Uses 320k comfortably for 2-3 nodes)
- - If you have any problems,compalints or a huge wish list of features author
- is easily available (ferrari@netaxs.com)
- - Launches selected terminal package
- - Why use anything else when Zterm works so well :-)
- - Automatically grabs port back after term program quits
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- Chatting
- - Will request reason for chat (sysop selectable)
- - Will beep (sysop selectable)
- - Will 'speak' reason (sysop selectable) (Speech Manager required)
- - Sysop available check menu
- - Full screen 2 way chat
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- Sysop Use
- - Full screen editing with cut/copy/paste functions (HOORAY!)
- - Has Local node for sysop use
- - Built in screen saver
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- Administration Features
- - User definable of what should be put into the General Log
- - Separate General, Error, Mail, News, and other logs
- - Files in Bulletin folder displayed to users once
- - User base less likely to become corrupted (all pref files seperate)
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- User Features
- - Has both a hotkey shell and a waffle style CLI
- - You don't have to hang up to re-login (friends want next turn)
- - VMS style configurable help system
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- Cavets
- - No file section (yet!)
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- Future features
- - Full screen editor from remote (3rd party)
- - Appletalk ADSP support
- - GUI
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- Try it out
- - Telnet to: alamut.st.hmc.edu
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