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GAP COMMUNICATIONS STATISTICS
For The Current Production Version 6.0
MESSAGES
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- Up to 1.3 billion messages per file.
- Up to 800 lines per message.
- Up to 72 characters per message line.
- Message numbers to 999,999.
- Interactive message editor.
- User changeable subject field when replying to messages.
- Messages can be moved from one "area" to another.
- Message headers can be "edited" after save.
- A single message can be found in less than 1/2 second.
- Messages show the date and time they were received.
- Import and export messages from / to text files.
- "Thread" reading does not interfere with "last message read".
- Full (message text) or partial (subject) text search with the
ability to "remember" up to 300 messages for later reading.
- 4 indexes per message file which are contained in one single
index file. The messages are indexed on the following fields :
TO - FROM - SUBJECT - MESSAGE NUMBER
USERS
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- Up to 2 billion users.
- Less than 1/2 second to find any user.
- Complete user database which holds, among other things, total
bytes downloaded and uploaded, total number of files
downloaded and uploaded, total number of messages left and
read, total number of forums joined, total number of bulletins
read, and total number of doors opened.
- Users can update their complete statistics.
- Three indexes which allow viewing users by name, security level
and name, or handle.
GENERAL
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- ISAM for messages and user files.
- Unlimited Forums.
- 999 File Directories per Forum.
- 999 Bulletins per Forum.
- 999 Questionnaires per Forum.
- Supports 24 separate events.
- Unlimited number of doors.
- Detailed caller logging including every possible system error.
- Separate Files system for more user friendly support.
- Complete file archive manipulation including Listing archive
file contents, reading text files from within an archive, and
transferring a single file from within an archive.
- "Intelligent" questionnaires.
- Supports directory uploads for easier sysop maintenance.
- Full support for Doors authors.
- Allows any file to override the "more" prompt.
- Sysop can perform DOS commands from within the program.
- Sysop can activate a special function which gives him/her
complete control while a user is on line.
- Instant user notification of new mail at log on.
- Detailed sysop status line.
- The ability to force bulletins at log on.
- Internal support for the most popular transfer protocols
including Ymodem batch and Zmodem.
- Supports 20 external transfer protocols.
- Sysop configurable upload time credits.
- Sysop determines the maximum number of files that can be batch
downloaded at one time.
- Full support for the PCRelay Echo Mail system.
MISCELLANEOUS DETAILS
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GAP Messages and User Files use the B-Tree ISAM "keyed access"
method. This allows for quick retrieval of data records and in most
cases a record can be found with one disk access.
For Uploads and Downloads, GAP uses file buffers as large as 16k. If
the sysop has enough memory to spare, then the default file buffer
will be 16k bytes, decreasing in size until GAP can find free memory
to work with. The minimum size is 1k. What this means to the
person downloading or uploading files, is that GAP makes fewer disk
reads/writes and that the file transfers will be less dependent on
the hardware or the network traffic (if the BBS is multi-user). It
also means the fastest file transfers of any BBS system.
GAP utilizes a POWERFUL script processor that allows it to "think"
the way a sysop thinks while GAP processes a questionnaire.
The sysop is NOT limited to a simple set of "display
prompt, get answer" scenarios. With a limited but very
powerful script language, the sysop can set up his
questionnaires and determine what to do with the answers.
The sysop is no longer dependent on an external "event"
program to analyze his questionnaires.
The sysop is now completely in control of his
questionnaires and his BBS. Nothing is "hard coded"
except for the actual script language.
Yes/No answers, "anything" answers, required answers,
multiple choice answers are among the few features. Two
special commands allow for gathering fully formatted dates
and phone numbers. GAP even allows the sysop to direct the
"flow" of a questionnaire to another area depending on the
answer the user gave.
Not only can the sysop upgrade a user's level based on the
answers given, but the sysop can also register users in
specific forums!
GAP is a full multi-user system which allows "reading" a record while
it is locked. There is a special version which can be run on the
Alloy "Slave" card which eliminates the "jerkiness" caused from
protecting a part of the local screen (sysop status line).
The sysop is free to change any and all fields in a user
file while the user is on-line with another node. All of
the sysop's changes will remain intact. GAP works with the
user's file record, not with some "variables" held in
memory. With MS-DOS and UNIX, and with GAP, there is no
such thing as an "exclusive" record lock!!!
GAP allows the sysop to set up forums that allow handles. In this
respect, the sysop can force valid user registration and still allow
people to "cut loose" while in a specific forum.
When manipulating archive files, GAP does not create any temporary
files on the sysop's hard drive. All archive functions are performed
internally for faster access.
The sysop, from remote or local, has full control over how he/she
views a text file or the callers files.
Sysops which support users with a variety of hardware configurations
can elect to "close" off the main board file system and restrict
certain files to specific forums. In this manner the sysop can
accommodate IBM, APPLE, COMMODORE, TANDY and a host of other hardware
specific files
GAP includes interactive configuration and user file editors.
A Caller Analyzer program is included with GAP which creates and
maintains a data base based upon the information it reads from the
caller logs and the user file. At the sysop's discretion, the main
board bulletins can be updated with