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    27-Mar-86 01:13:30
Sb: #12812-#BBS-prog
Fm: Ewan Edwards 72667,2743
To: Ewan Grantham 76314,664

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Hi again Ewan. I am currently running MSS's BBS-PC 4.04. It's got a few problems but after seeing it run, I can say that you'll want to supply more than 9 areas. I have 16 from BBS-pc and that's not enough! Mostly cause each computer I'm supporting has it's own section. You'll want to allow the sysop set up all the menus and prompts if possible, it's one complaint I've had from my first users (BBS-PC is one of a kind in my area, and nobody can understand the prompts when they first see them [they're actually easy, but confusing at first sight], and BBS-PC won't let you make up your own prompts except at the bottom of menus. This feature would help for sysops with imagination, say setting up a bbs based on magic, like C: Cast message spell for READ, or something like that, but not being able to have P: Pour on the elixir for more, to see the next message (all you get with BBS-PC is (RE UA T): or something similar. Let me know if you want to bash heads on this one, as I'm just setting up and bugging MSS about all the little probs… Bye for now….Ewan (E-Squared!)