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PBBS
General
Your
TNC
contains
the
Kantronics
Personal
Mailbox
system
which
will
allow
you
to
leave
messages
for
others
which
may
be
retrieved
later.
The
personal
mailbox
is
compatible
with
the
large
community
bulletin
board
systems
(RLI,
MBL,
etc)
and
will
allow
them
to
forward
mail
for
you
directly
into
your
TNC.
You
may
also
place
Personal
or
NTS
type
messages
into
your
mailbox,
and
if
the
local
Community
BBS
system
allows,
your
TNC
mailbox
will
forward
these
messages
from
your
personal
mailbox
into
the
community
system
on
request.
Configuring your PBBS
In
order
to
enable
your
PBBS,
you
must
set
the
MYPBBS
callsign
to
be
a
unique
callsign
—
that
is,
it
cannot
be
the
same
as
any
other
callsign
in
your
TNC.
You
must
also
set
the
PBBS
size,
to
allocate
some
RAM
memory
to
the
mailbox.
This
is
accomplished
with
the
PBBS
command.
The
maximum
setting
allowed
will
depend
on
the
amount
of
memory
available.
NUMNODES,
MAXUSERS,
and
NAVSTA
(KAM)
will
affect
the
amount
of
memory
available.
If you change the size of the mailbox, the TNC will not renumber any existing
messages.
If
the
new
size
is
large
enough
for
all
existing
messages,
no
messages
will
be
lost.
To
renumber
the
messages,
specify
PBBS
n
with
n
being
the
current
size.
All
messages will be renumbered starting with the number 1.
At times, you may be away from your computer, and would like to switch a user into
your mailbox automatically if he connects to your MYCALL. This can be accomplished
by
setting
the
CMSG
command
to
PBBS.
In
order
for
this
to
operate,
you
must
also
have some message in the CTEXT. When this is done, a user who connects to your
MYCALL will be sent your CTEXT first. Then, when the TNC receives the acknowl-
edgment for the CTEXT, the user will be automatically connected to the PBBS. The
TNC will then send the normal PBBS sign on message, the PTEXT (if any) and the
PBBS prompt. The sign-on message is enclosed in square brackets and consists of the
unit name, firmware version, and an H for support of hierarchicial forwarding.
Example: [KAM-3.0-H].
If it becomes necessary to disconnect a station from your PBBS, you can use the local
terminal connected to your TNC to accomplish this (see DISCONNECT MYPBBS).
If a station connects to your PBBS and no activity occurs on that connection for
15 minutes, the PBBS will automatically disconnect the user, in order to make your
PBBS available to other users.
Using the PBBS
In order to use any TNC PBBS (even your own) first, get the cmd: prompt on your
TNC, and then connect to the callsign of the PBBS. For instance, if MYPBBS is
WK5M-3, I would simply type C WK5M-3. Since the PBBS is in my own TNC, no
packets would be transmitted, but I would connect to the PBBS and receive the same
prompt as if I had connected to someone elses PBBS.
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