›  CARINA II has a facility that will allow you to run a batch file (as frequently as every hour and as infrequently as every 255 hours) to backup any files that you may have in your ramdisk that change frequently. If you are just now setting up your CARINA II BBS, don't concern yourself with this option until you have successfully set up the program. Refer to the section on 'Creating a Backup File' for more information about this function. When you do feel that you want to use the batch file facility, option K will allow you to configure the frequency of the backup. Setting this value to zero will turn this function off.›  The AT command (option L) is a definable command that the BBS will send to your modem. This command defaults to ATS10=255. The AT command tells the modem to stay off-hook whenever someone hangs up. This will keep the line busy while the board is resetting. If you are using an Avatex 1200 HC (and possibly some other modems as well), this AT command will not work with your modem. The Avatex 1200 does not support the S register and, although the Avatex 1200 HC is supposed to support it, it does not work with this modem either. It does workwith the Avatex 2400, however. If your modem does not need a carrier when it picks up the phone, or possibly anything else out of the ordinary, try turning this AT command off by selecting this option and pressing RETURN when it asks you for the new AT commands. You will need to do this if you have an Avatex 1200 HC modem.››  You can have up to a 10-character AT command. If your modem supports it, you can also check AT commands (refer to your modem's manual for more information about AT commands). If you decide to later change this AT command field, you will need to reRUN the BOOTBBS module (since this is the module that sends this AT command to the modem); however, when placed at the configuration menu automatically (when first setting up the BBS, the BOOTBBS module will be run automatically.››CONTINUING TO SET UP YOUR CARINA II BBS››  After you have set up your BBS's configuration, press RETURN to save it to disk. BOOTBBS will then again be run. If at any time you feel that you may have made a serious mistake in configuring your BBS, simply go to DOS and ERASE the file CONFIG.DAT from drive one and reRUN BOOTBBS in your MODULE folder.›  Next, the BBS should display the statement "No sections created" and it should then begin asking you a few questions.››  CREATING THE ELECTRONIC MAIL SECTION››  Sections are referred to by the BBS by the letters A through Z (which gives you up to 26 sections). Usersm however, refer to a section by a SysOp definable keyword. Section A is reserved by the BBS for 'Electronic Mail' section---a special section devoted to private mail and private files (E-Mail and F-Mail). When a user in electronic mail, they can upload a file to a specific user and only that user receiving the file will be able to download it. Electronic mail is a section that MUST be created.›  You will now be asked a series of questions regarding your electronic mail section. The first question will be "Create Message Area?"  Answer 'YES'. It will then ask you for a drive in which you would like to store the folder that this E-Mail message will be kept. To help you make your decision, you can create a message base containing anywhere from 25 to 255 messages. Each message will take up approximately 600 bytes of storage (about 5 single-density sectors per message). Make sure you have enough room on the drive in which you plan to create this message base. After entering this drive number, you will then be asked, "Create File Area?"  If you answer 'YES', it will again ask you for a drive number, A folder will eventually be created on this drive that will contain your F-Mail file area.›  You will then be asked to enter a section name. This name can be anything so long as it is less than 25 character in length. An appropriate name would be "Electronic Mail"; however, you may can call it anything you'd like ("Private Mail" could be another). You will then be asked to enter a keyword for this section. A keyword can be up to 10 characters in length. Keywords are used by users to identify a section. An appropriate keyword for this section would be "Private" or "Email", etc.  For example, if a user wanted to switch to the electronic mail section, the user would type "Go Private" (if you selected 'private' as a keyword) and CARINA II would then switch to electronic mail.›  After entering a keyword and pressing RETURN, the appropriate message and file folders will then be created. You will then be asked how many messages you would like your message base to hold. With the figure of approxiamtely 5 sectors per message in mind, select a reasonable value. The bigger, the better, but if you are limited on space, you will have to be conservative. "Creating Message Directory" and "Creating Message Text Area" will then be displayed.›  Next, "Creating File Area" will be displayed (if you decided to create this area). You will be asked if you would like to create a mandatory keyword field. Don't worry about what this means, just answer "NO". The file area in electronic mail does not use keywords.›  CARINA II should then run BOOTBBS and then display the message, "Setting Up Message/File Pointers", display the name of your electronic mail section, and then say "Programming Modem". You should notice your modem lights flashing around a bit (if your modem has lights) and eventually your CARINA II's waiting-for-call screen should be displayed and at the bottom of the screen it should say, "Status: Waiting for Call".››    LOGGING ONTO YOUR CARINA II BBS››  Pressing the L key will log you on locally to your BBS. It will ask you to press RETURN. When you do, an introduction screen should be displayed followed by the prompt, "Name or Account #.". Since you don't, as of yet, have an account number, enter your name. You will then be asked for your phone number, password you would like to use, and a bunch of questions regarding your terminal settings. They're all very straight-forward questions; however, if there is a question that you don't understand, pressing RETURN at the prompt will configure that setting for the most likely configuration. More about these settings will be discussed later.›  The BBS will display a header and ask if you would like to change it. The header will be displayed just before every command prompt (unless the user decides to turn it off). It is really just a cosmetic feature. Just answer "NO" at this prompt. Let's get to the good stuff.›  The BBS should then check for your mail (of which, of course, you have none), check for any files waiting (of which, of course, you have none), and then, under normal circumstances, would place you in the next section that you have access to (but, of course, there is no next section and you have no access). Do you see a pattern developing?  Yes, that's right, you need to do some more work. If you are not able to get this far, make sure your USRVAL.DAT file is on the correct drive (the same drive that your password file is going to be created).››    PREPARING TO DO SOME MORE WORK››  The first thing you are going to have to do is get yourself some access so you can do some 'more work'. You will then be creating some more sections (i.e., Special Interest Groups) for your users to access. You should create at least one section that all users should have access to (even new users), although you don't have to. Name this section something along the lines of "General Discussion" or something similar. How you will be doing this will be discussed a little later. First we need to give your account the ability to do this.››        USING THE STATUS WINDOW››  One of CARINA II's nicer features is the status window. This window can be toggled between three positions. The first position is the non-sexistent position, the second is the 5-line position (which approximately displays 5 lines of the current user's status), and the third position is the full-page position. These three positions can be toggled by pressing the OPTION key.›  The full-page position is a particularly useful position. When the full-page of a user's status is displayed, a cursor is displayed also. You can move this cursor around by holding down the CONTROL key and using your arrow keys to move the cursor. Using the up and down arrows will move the cursor between items of the user's status. Using the left and right arrows will move you around within one particular item. The RETURN key also works the same as a down-arrow. One of the good things about the window is that you can modify the user's status even while they are on-line. What is even better about it is that they won't even know you are doing it!›  The first version of the full-page status window informs you of the position of each individual field. Eventually, you will be shown how access each individual field of this window. When referencing an item in a window, the item is referred to by its position number (1 through 49).›  The second version of the full-page status window shows the length of each individual field. It will be important to know this if you ever decide to modify your CARINA II or make your own programs for it.›  As of now, you don't need to concern yourself with the position of the length of each field; however, you should concern yourself with the meaning of each field. Here are the definitions of what each filed means:››[Nm] User's name›[Ac] User's account number›[Mu] Multi-User flag (on when modem I/O           redirection is active)›[Pn] User's phone number›[Pw] User's password›[Ch] Chat bell on or off›[Tl] User's time limit on the BBS›[Tr] User's time remaining on the BBS›[Lc] User's last call (date)›[At] On when user is in ATASCII mode›[Cl] Number of times user has called›[Ul] Number of files user has uploaded›[Lt] User's last call (time)›[Cd] Carrier detect›[Ms] Number of messages posted by user›[Dl] Number of files downloaded by user›[Fl] Current file being accessed›         (or last file accessed)›[Cn] Caller number›[Bd] Baud rate user is currently›             logged on at›[Ct] Total number of calls your BBS has›              had today›[Tm] Time this user has logged on››Sections:  ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ››  Sections this user has access to and determines what the user is able to do within each section.››Commands:  ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ›           ?-=+*!#$%&@()<>››  Which commands user has access to. If you don't want a user to access a certain command, you can turn it off for this user.››The next item (32) is the current header. The next item (33) is the memo area. You can use this field for anything you'd like. It is the address field by default (the prompt for this field is stored in the MEMOINFO.DAT file. Change it if you would like this field to mean something else).››[V52] VT-52 mode on or off for VT-52›        terminals (e.g., ST users)›[Clr] VT-52 Color mode-off for users›        with monochrome monitors›[Hdr] Header on/off-Header won't be›        displayed if turned off›[Lnf] Line Feeds on/off/ASCII mode›        only-Not used in ATASCII›[Mor] More prompts (Page breaks) on/off›[80c] 80 Columns toggle›[Cls] Clear screens on/off›[Cnt] Continuous read/browse-Automatic›        next-message/file›[Scr] Screen size-number of lines›        displayed per page›[Ulr] Upload ratio›[Csc] ASCII clear screen code››  Items 45 and 47 are not currently used. Item 46 is a user-definable macro. It will allow the user to make the "$" key print any 30-character (or less) string at the Command prompt.››[Sec] Section name (that the user is›         currently in)›[Cmd] Commands that the user has              executed at the command prompt››  Giving yourself full SysOp access requires that you modify four fields. Tl, Tr, Sections and Commands. Move the cursor to the Tl field by using your cursor control keys and type the number 255. This will give you 255 minutes on-line (the maximum ammount). This is over four hours. That should be plenty of time. Move over to the Tr field and type 255 again (this is how many minutes you have left on-line today).›  Next, move down to the Sections field. Each portion within the sections field (there are 26 of these [A-Z] can take on one of four different values: no access to this section (space), read-only access (lower case o), full-access (ctrl-T), and SysOp status (capital S). You can change this value by pressing the SPACE bar. Each time you press the SPACE bar over the same section, it will rotate between these four settings. When you press the SPACE bar, you will immediately move to the next section. If you want to go back and hit a space over that section again, use your left arrow key. Also, if a user is on-line (including yourself), and you change the access level in a section that the user is currently in, the user will need to exit that section reenter it before the new access level will take effect).›  To give yourself SysOp access within each section, keep pressing SPACE bar over each section until an "S" appears under each section's letter. Even if you only intend to create a few sections, (say A through E), it will not hurt to tag the other sections with "S" as well. That way, if you decide to create another section later, you will automatically be given SysOp access to it.›  You will notice that your electronic mail section (section A) has an inverse tag. When a section tag is inversed, it means that when a user is doing a Real ALL (all meaning all sections) or a Browse ALL, to omit this section. Electronic mail should always be inversed so that when a user does a Read All (or Read All anything), it will not go back and check that user's electronic mail again. Electronic mail has already been checked. To untag a section (i.e., to make it inverse), press the TAB key while the cursor is over the section you would like to untag. Your sections field should now have all "S's" and the first "S" should be inverse.›  Now move on to the command field. This field works something like the sections field except there is only one level of access associated with a command. You either have access to a command or you don't. Pressing the SPACE bar over a command will toggle it between on (a ctrl-T) or off (a space). Give yourself access to every command. Each command is represented by one of the characters in the command line. Any command having a macro key that is a special character (e.g., percent sign, number sign, etc..) is represented in this command field as that special character. For instance, if you wanted to turn off the Status command, you would untag the percent sign. All commands having a macro key that is a control character is represented in this command field as the letter of the control-letter macro. For example, untagging "R" would disable a user from being able to read messages (because ctrl-R is the macro for Read).›  Keep in mind that not all of these characters represent commands in use. Some of them are extra to be used for future implementation or for your own implementation of commands. The following characters are not used:››            A N Y / - $ ( )››The following are SysOp/SigOp Commands:››              E I W Z & @›