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look up user account information from any prompt; become
"invisible" when you need privacy; enable and disable menu
options quickly and easily; modify, move, approve, or delete
messages and files; create, delete and manage forums,
libraries, polls, doors, etc.  From the Remote Operator Menu,
choose from over 30 privileged commands: view real-time system
statistics, maintain user account and security status, change
the log-on message, start a timed event, issue basic DOS
commands, and more.  You'll be able to manage the sytem
effectively whether you're across town or across the world.

Eight unique screens at the main console of the BBS provide
information and special capabilities such as user account
details; in-depth demographic and usage statistics and graphs;
online user summary by channel; an audit trail of system
activities; monitoring of channel input and status; and
technical information about the system hardware and software.
Use the "emulate" feature to peek over a user's shoulder, or to
step in and offer a helping hand. You can log on locally to
jump into a chat with a caller or write a memo to your staff.

With The Major BBS, your online service can have a different
look and feel from any other system. You can change almost
every prompt, menu and message displayed to users. The
multi-lingual/multi-protocol architecture lets callers select
the interface of their choice.  The English language interface
for ANSI and RIPscrip comes standard. Use the built-in Menu
Tree designer to organize the menus presented to your users:
each selection can lead to another menu, or to a file display,
or to a specific module such as e-mail, file libraries, logoff,
etc.

Create as many "classes" of users as you need, each with a time
limit per cal, time limit per day, options for billing, an
expiration date, security, "keyring," and much more.  generate
printed reports on demand, such as user account listings,
distribution of "keys," mailing labels, and system Audit Trail.


Add-on Products
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Although The Major BBS supports "doors" to a second computer,
you're probably not going to need this feature.  Hundreds of
add-on options are available from Galacticomm and over 150
third-party developers that integrate as a DLL directly with
The Major BBS.  You plug them in and they seamlessly become
part of your BBS!

Many exciting products are available.  We'll be debuting the
Internet Connectivity Option in October, which will be the
first fully integrated Internet connectivity application for a
DOS platform BBS. All you'll need is a SLIP connection to your
favorite Internet provider.  Or, for greater bandwidth, you can
hook up a direct 56K, fractional T1, or full T1 line using a
router that connects your BBS over an Ethernet LAN.  This
application will support FTP in and out, Telnet in and out,
Anonymous FTP, and WWW Server.  You'll have the power to
support up to 64 simultaneous Internet connections and over 100
dial-up users -- all on a single Pentium-class machine.

Galacticomm has committed to providing SMTP and NNTP support to
the Internet Connectivity Option by the end of the year.  These
are the Internet's protocols for mail and newsgroups.  Until
that time, Galacticomm is including a free copy of The Major
Gateway/Internet, which provides dial-up UUCP access to mail
and newsgroups.


Other options
---------------
Advanced photographic databases, multi-user games, game-link
software for playing multi-user modem games -- such as the
tremendously popular Doom -- online, fax server, mail links,
chat links, and much more are available as add-on products.  We
also make the C source code available, so you can design your
own applications.


Contact Information
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To receive more information, or order Galacticomm products,
contact your favorite Galacticomm dealer, or call Galacticomm's
Sales Department at 1-800-328-1128, or 1-305-583-5990 outside
the U.S. and Canada. You can also contact Galacticomm's Sales
Department over the Internet at [e-mail]. You can
telnet or FTP to Galacticomm's Demo System at gcomm.com. The
Demo System can also be reached via modem at 1-305-583-7808.


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[2.1.02] - SEARCHLIGHT BBS

by, Tom Snider-Lotz

We (my co-conspirator Nancy, and I) operate a two-line BBS from
our office in order to provide files and other information to
our customers.  We've been using Searchlight BBS (SLBBS)
software since the beginning, about 3 years ago, and have never
regretted the decision.

Our boss conceived of the idea of having an office BBS, and he
tapped Nancy and I because we were computer literate and had
some experience online (I was a sysop on GEnie at the time).
He had some other requirements, too:  it had to be done
quickly, very cheaply, and without diverting too much of our
time from our "real work."  Though we had plenty of experience
calling BBSs, neither of us had ever had to program one, so
that added one more requirement:  it had to be friendly to
newbie sysops.  And, since most of our callers would also be
new to BBSing, it had to be user-friendly.  We set about
looking for software that was easy to get running,
full-featured, easy to use, and inexpensive. What we chose was
Searchlight.


IT'S EASY TO GET RUNNING
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Setting up SLBBS is a snap.  As it comes "out of the box," it's
ready to run with Mail, Bulletins, and a message area (SLBBS
calls them "subboards") already set up.  Adding one or more
File Directories and additional Subboards is merely a matter of
filling in the blanks on the Setup menus.  If you want to limit
access to Subboards and File Directories, that's easy.  Users
can be assigned any combination of 24 "security attributes" as
well as one of 256 numerical access levels.  You can then use
these attributes as requirements for entry into Subboards and
File Directories.  You can also apply these requirements to any
option on the SLBBS menus.

The default SLBBS menus are pretty much like any other BBS I've
seen -- a couple of columns of commands, with a highlighted
letter for choosing each command (does "G" for "Goodbye" sound
familiar?).  This is easy to change if you want something
different.  For example, we changed the menus so the commands
were selected by a number instead of a letter.  If you wish,
SLBBS will lay out the menu for you -- you tell SLBBS what the
choices are and what the access levels are for each choice, and
SLBBS will figure out how to display the menu.  Users who don't
have proper access level for a menu choice won't even see that
choice.

If you want more creative menus, you can design your own menus
using a text editor -- including special effects like colors,
blinking, underlining, etc.

We haven't tried setting up RIP graphics menus, so I can't
comment too much on that.  I gather from the manual that it's
very similar:  SLBBS will do it for you, or you can customize.


IT'S FULLY-FEATURED
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One of the really nice features of SLBBS is its text editor.
The e-mail system and the message boards both use a full-screen
editor that allows full-screen cursor movement, scrolling, and
the use of function keys.  The user can insert codes for colors
and other special effects, upload text, and insert text from
other files.  For users without ANSI capability, there's also a
standard line editor.

SLBBS supports all the standard file transfer protocols,
including built-in ZMODEM.  You can add external protocols as
well, such as YMODEM-Batch and HS/LINK.  SLBBS can access
CD-ROM drives as well as the hard disk.

The message and the mail system allow uploaded messages and
attached files.  Users also can download entire message
threads. QWK mail support is built in.


Other features include:
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* The ability to be run from a LAN;
* The ability to connect with Fidonet and RIME/UTI-compatible
networks.
* Inter-user chat.
* The ability to run many DOS programs as Doors without using
an intermediate Door program.
* Accurate recognition of connect speeds up to 38.4 Kbps.
* Name completion -- SLBBS will complete a user's name or file
name automatically if you type in partial information.
* Single menu commands that can trigger execution of long
sequences of commands.
* Easy setup of additional nodes (SLBBS is designed to use
DesqView as a multi-tasker when using multiple nodes; others
have used it successfully with OS/2 and Windows NT as well.
* The ability to tag files for future downloading.


IT'S EASY FOR CALLERS TO USE
-----------------------------
As we discovered, whether a system is easy for callers to use
is mostly up to the sysops.  The good news about SLBBS is that
it's so flexible, so adaptable, that we could modify it to fit
our conception of ease of use.  Want to change the colors?  No
problem.  Want to nest the menus five deep?  No problem.  Want
to arrange the menu choices in a circle?  No problem.  Want to
give users a visual map of the entire BBS, available from each
menu? You guessed it.

IT'S INEXPENSIVE
-----------------
One thing that kept bothering me as we were "interviewing"
potential software was why SLBBS was so inexpensive compared to
many of the big-name BBS programs?  What did they have that
SLBBS didn't?  We still haven't figured that one out!

As I write this, SLBBS comes in four versions, priced according
to how many lines (nodes) the software will support.  For a
single line, the price is $99; one to three lines,  $179; one
to ten lines, $299; and an unlimited number of lines, $399.


EXCELLENT PRODUCT SUPPORT
--------------------------
The people at Searchlight Software are very helpful.  We've
never been disappointed.  The primary source of support is the
main Searchlight BBS in Cleveland (numbers are given below).
The program's author, Frank LaRosa, is active on the BBS, and
you can also get input from the sysops of lots of other
Searchlight systems.  If the BBS-based support isn't enough,
you can talk to real live people by telephone.


RIP GRAPHICS
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Everything I've described so far refers to SLBBS's standard
text- based interface.  However, in the minds of the
Searchlight Software folks, their most impressive feature is
their built-in RIP graphical interface.  RIP technology, if you
aren't aware, provides your BBS with an attractive graphical
user interface (GUI).  Every SLBBS program sold, if called by
RIP-capable communications program, can provide a full GUI
interface, including scroll bars, push buttons, and dialog
boxes.  You can also have eye-catching logon screens,
mouse-able online games, and even animation.  Many BBS software
programs are jumping on the RIP bandwagon, but (I'm told) SLBBS
offers more complete built-in support for RIP graphics than any
other BBS software.

We haven't activated the RIP interface feature on our BBS,
primarily because our most of our users don't use a mouse with
their computer, and don't use a communications program that
supports RIP.  Also, my experience is that, at 2400 bps (our
maximum) and with a slow monitor, RIP graphics can be a bit
slow. To me, the current RIP technology is sort of like the
early versions of Windows -- the concept is there, but its time
hasn't come quite yet.  (Others would disagree with me.)


CALL SEARCHLIGHT
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The best introduction to Searchlight is first-hand experience.
If you call the main Searchlight BBS, you can;

*  see SLBBS in action.
*  see RIP graphics in action (if you've got RIP-capable
communications software)
*  get a freeware RIP-capable communications program
(RIPterm, from TeleGrafix)
*  get a list of Searchlight BBSs in your geographical area.
*  get a feel for the support available from Searchlight
Software.
*  download a demo copy of Searchlight to try out on your own.

After you've seen SLBBS in action, and tried it out for
yourself, you can decide whether it's what you want.  We're
very happy with it.

Searchlight Software
6516 Detroit Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44102
voice:    [phone]
fax:      [phone]
BBS:      [phone]
orders:   (800) 988-LITE.

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[2.1.03] - PC BOARD BBS


FEATURES:
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- Packet switch support
- Full Internationalization of dates & code page
- FOSSIL support for virtually any intelligent serial card(/M
  code)
- File attachment to messages
- Multiple daily events
- Full support for 2 byte international character sets
- Built-in .QWK message packet support
- Jukebox & "slow" CD-ROM support
- Incoming Fax support
- Carbon-Copy list support
- Return Receipt message support
- Caller-ID support
- ALIAS support by conference area
- RIPscrip support for remote callers
- PPL (PCBoard Programming Language Compiler) (Optional)
- Automatic 16550 UART recognition & support
- Intelligent & non-intelligent multi-port serial card support
- Full screen text editor
- ANSI graphics support
- Full color operation
- Thread reading of messages
- Supports up to 65,535 conference (message base) areas
- 36 file transfer protocols supported
- Supports 37,767 DOORS per conference
- Real-Time 255 channel node chat (CB chat)
- Long message headers for all NetMail programs including
  Internet, Usenet & others.
- Local network logins for in-house e-mail support
- Direct connect support for in-house serial networks & PADS
- Communicates directly with OS/2 COMM drivers to allow large
  number of multiple nodes under OS/2