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" Welcome to Pete & clyde's 4D Point System "," "," Using the <up><dn> keys, or by pressing the letter in the (), select: "," ","Configure Point This option allows you to set the options for your point. ","Configure Areas This option allows you to select your echos. ","Setup Files This option sets up all of the necessary .cfg files. "," ","Each of these areas will have their own help screen. "," "
"Remember to run SETUP after you make any changes, so that the configuration ","files will be up to date. "," ","Oh, and the QUIT option quits the program. Just in case you weren't sure. "," "," "," "," "," See next page for Version history..."," "
"This section is pretty simple: Fill in the blanks. "," ","COM Your COM port BAUD Your MAX baud Prefix Either ATDT or ATDP "," ","Name of Point: Be creative Your Name: Look on birth certificate "," ","BOSSPASS // ADDRESS // BOSS ADDRESS // PACKING // PHONE Check with boss "," ","Primer on FIDONET on next page... "," "
"FIDONET is simply a network run by pompous goons. (Sorry.) FIDONET is a ","network that allows users to interchange messages and files. This is done ","through something called the MATRIX or the WEB. "," ","Plainly put, the MATRIX is a bunch of computers strung together. ","These computers call each other _every_ bloody day, and exchange mail packets.","(Beware of fast talking modems.) "," ","These computers identify each other by means of an ADDRESS. "," "
"An ADDRESS consists of four parts (hence 4D [groovy eh?]) : "," ","ZONE signifying a geographic area like North America. Looks like 1: ","NET signifying a grouping in an area like Kingston. Looks like 249/ ","NODE signifying a single system in the NET. Looks like 69 ","POINT this is you -- an associated computer. Looks like .1 "," ","The BBS that you badger (Umm... ask politely) to let you poll off of is called","your BOSS node. Your BOSS will assign your POINT number, as well as any "," "
"passwords that may be required. In addition, they will tell you what packing ","program they are using (ZIP,ARJ,ARC etc). Get them on the phone while you set","this up. It makes it easier. "," ","POLLing simply means that you call this BBS using BINK(tm). To do this from ","the commandline, type: POLL "," ","A NODELIST is a machine-readable list of NODES in FIDONET. "," "," "
"The cheat bar up at the top explains it all. "," ","ESC to quit ","<up><dn> to select the echotag ","<Home><End> selects the beg/end of the list ","<CR> brings up the edit menu for that tag ","<A> adds a blank line onto the end of the list (MAX: 20) ","<D> deletes the currently highlighted tag "," "," "
"Remember: "," ","EchoTAGS must be in ALL caps. Otherwise the system will barf. ","Remember also that when you create the areas, you still have to run the ","setup option from the main menu in order to setup the configuration files. "," ","CONFIG-4D will also create the needed directories for you when you run the ","setup option, but to save alot of headaches on my part, directory deletion ","is your job. <evil grin> "," "
"EchoMail needs two things: (well three....) "," ","a TAG: in ALL caps (up to 15 characters long) * ","a DESCRIPTION: this is where you tell yourself what the echo is about ","a DIRECTORY: CONFIG-4D takes care of this on creation, but if you delete the"," area, you need to delete the directory yourself "," (This is done so that you don't accidentally hurt yourself.) "," "," * talk to your BOSS about valid ECHOTAGS "," "
"CONFIG-4D is Copyright(c) 1991,1992 CPU Productions. All rights reserved. "," ","Version History: (From P&c V1.10/Rel) "," ","1.51 Release Version ","1.52 Fixed the 'Bruce Norman' bug :-) "," system would let you edit non-existent areas if there were none. "," got rid of the shareware messages in the help function! Oops! ","2.00b Beta release of the Squish Compatible Config Program "," "
"Be forewarned: "," ","If you forget to run the Setup option after deleting an area, you are in for ","a big suprise when you run GOLDED. Especially if you just deleted the ","directory. "," ","Bovines carrying spoons are dangerous. "," "," "," "
" ","2.01b Added automatic deletion of messages over 100. Keeps *.SQ clean. ","2.03b Changed Netmail / Dupes / BAD / Local to Squish. "," Deletion now set to 150 / del in Dupes and Bad ","2.04b Aborted Windows detection version... waitforit! ","2.05b Fixed 'Via' line in template. ","2.06b Windows detection now on-line... :-) ","2.07 Release version. Look-out eh! ","2.10 Added 'MaxMsgs' keyword. "," "
