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-- card: 9724 from stack: in
-- bmap block id: 0
-- flags: 0000
-- background id: 8603
-- name: Section 533
-- part contents for background part 1
----- text -----
Set-up procedure:
1. Set up the hardware:
A. Assemble the Macintosh and disk.
B. Try running HyperCard.
C. Connect the modem and phone line.
D. Try running a terminal program,
call another BBS with it.
2. Folders:
A. Create a folder for the stacks;
call it "HyperBBS".
B. Create a folder inside the HyperBBS
folder to hold uploaded files;
call it "Uploads".
3. Files:
A. Put all the HyperBBS stacks in the
"HyperBBS" folder.
B. Make four copies of the "Generic
Messages Stack" and name them:
"General Messages"
"What's Cooking"
"Technical"
"HyperCard disc."
-- part contents for background part 2
----- text -----
4. Boot HyperBBS by double-clicking on the
Home stack in the "HyperBBS" folder.
5. Click on the "Begin Local Operation" button
and try out the BBS locally; make sure
everything works OK. You can login with
a new user name or use the name "Sysop"
with the password "Sysop password".
6. Click on the "Go to UserList" button and
change the password for login name
"Sysop" to something only you know.
7. Login locally again, and change the new user
login, pre-login, and post-login messages,
and the titles of the message sections.
8. If you have a 2400 baud modem, check the
checkbox on the second card of the Home
stack.
9. Click on the "Begin On-line Operation" button
to actually start up the BBS.
10. Have a friend call the BBS and check it out.