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- V7.20e (and later versions) of C-BBS now support FBB protocol.
-
- This means that C-BBS also now supports the use of Message IDs (MIDs) because
- FBB requires that any message have a BID on it and the BID on a personal
- message is called a MID.
-
- The problem with compression that existed in V7.20e has been solved. You can
- now send and receive compressed files of any size.
-
- There was also a problem with FBB ASCII forwarding in V7.20e and V7.20f
- which has also been fixed.
-
- Transmission and reception of compressed messages must use transparent mode
- and so I have retained the ability to turn off the use of FBB compression
- with the #C option just in case anyone has problems with transparent mode on
- their TNC. You must NOT set the X parameter in your port's config.mb
- line to get transparent mode for FBB compression. If you do not turn
- compression off with the option #C then C-BBS assumes that your TNC has
- transparent mode.
-
- If compression is turned off, C-BBS will still use the FBB ASCII protocol if
- it is talking to another system that understands FBB protocol.
-
- When C-BBS uses the FBB protocol for forwarding, it puts an asterisk in front
- of the FBB comands that it sends to FBB - the asterisk is only sent to the
- local console. So a sequence such as:
-
- [M_CBBS-7.20f-BFMH$]
- FF
- *FQ
-
-
- indicates that the local system sent the FQ command.
-