[3198] in comp.os.os2.announce archive
SOFTWARE: BBBS v3.33 Now released!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.Patanen)
Sun Jul 20 13:48:20 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 20 Jul 1997 11:06:00 -0400
From: Jani.Patanen@pp.kolumbus.fi.FuBmEf (J.Patanen)
Reply-To: Jani.Patanen@pp.kolumbus.fi.FuBmEf (J.Patanen)
Reply-to: Jani.Patanen@pp.kolumbus.fi.FuBmEf (J.Patanen)
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BBBS v3.33 How is finally released! BBBS is complete BBS package with full
internal FidoNet and InterNet support. It contains everything you need to run
a BBS!
Some key features:
- Native versions: OS/2, Windows NT, Linux, PC-DOS, Ultrix, HP-UX, IRIX,
SCO OpenServer, FreeBSD, UnixWare, Solaris, SunOS/SPARC, SunOS/Motorola.
- PC-DOS version is DESQview and OS/2 aware, FOSSIL driver is optional.
- ISDN CAPI support (OS/2).
- Full FidoNet support: Mailer (EMSI, FTS-0001), mail processor, TICK
processor, message tracker, AllFix, NameFix, AreaFix, outbound manager,
nodelist compiler and differ, remapping.
- InterNet support: Telnet, FTP, Finger, SMTP (email), POP3 (email),
NNTP (news), IRC, Hunt, Time.
- FidoNet mail sessions over TCP/IP.
- Gating both news and email between FidoNet and InterNet.
- Multilingual support, also national character sets, including ISO and IBM.
- VT320, ANSI, Dummy-ANSI, RIPscript and TTY terminal emulation support.
- Advanced security features, for example encrypted passwords.
- Hypertext help system for both SysOp and user, with ASCII/HTML converters.
- Internal message base compression, saves 50% of your disk space.
- QWK, OMEN, HIPPO, BlueWave and ASCII offline reader support.
- Virtually unlimited number of message areas.
- Fast full screen message editor (FSE), Mg2a (Emacs-clone) and line editor.
- Full multinode and multitasking support.
- Advanced groups-based access control system with regular expressions.
- Accounts for commercial systems.
- IRC-alike groupchat, with feelings and real IRC connection.
- On-line reading made easy: read messages by threads, by number or use the
search features to mark just the messages that you want to read. Automatic
on-the-fly message reformatting.
- Directory-based file system, packing and unpacking, private files/dirs,
viewing files.
- Full CD-ROM support, supports for CD-ROM change on the fly! You can change
CD-ROM and user will see new CD-ROM immediately. CD-ROM changer support.
Easy installation of CD-ROMs with a built-in installer.
- File areas are limited only by your free disk space
- Fast file search by wildcard or keyword.
- Internal protocols: HYDRA, Zmodem, ZedZap, Ymodem Batch, Ymodem, Kermit,
Xmodem CRC, Xmodem checksum, Slow-HYDRA, Slow-Zmodem
- Up to 250 external protocols and packers are supported.
- Long filename support everywhere, including HYDRA.
- Effective BZLink-Lite connection protocol (you can upload and download at
the same time than you use BBS normally).
- Small VT320 terminal emulator.
- Send and receive FAXes and voice calls, you can share one single phoneline
with data/fax/voice.
- Full-featured, powerful C-alike script language. Also supports REXX (OS/2),
Java and perl.
- Easy to customize to suit every need imaginable. Configurable also from the
user's point of view.
- Hundreds of utilities available.
- International support echo areas.
- ...plus much much more...
For more information see:
http://www.bbbs.net, ftp://ftp.bbbs.net/pub/dist/bbbs/
telnet://fix.no, or mailto:b@bbbs.net
or NetMail to Kim Heino @2:22/222.
File request from 2:22/222, filenames are
bbbs_2.zip, (OS/2) bbbs_nt.zip, (NT)
bbbs_l.zip, (Linux) bbbs_d.zip, (dos)
bbbs_uld.zip, (ultrix) bbbs_hp.zip, (HP-UX)
bbbs_irs.zip, (Irix) bbbs_sco.zip, (SCO)
bbbs_fbi.zip, (FreeBSD) bbbs_uw.zip, (Unixware)
bbbs_sos.zip, (solaris) bbbs_sus.zip (SunOs/sparc)
bbbs_sum.zip (SunOs/motorola)
about 1MB each.
Replace '_' with 'r' to get a version with RSA support.
(ie. bbbsr2.zip for os/2 version with rsa support)
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