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Thank you for trying the best bulletin board software available today.
The goal of this document is three-fold: 1) to highlight just a few
of the features that set PCBoard apart from the competition. 2) to
accompany you in a guided tour of PCBoard's features. 3) illustrate
how the interface can be tailored to the level of your callers.
NOTE: The full ASCII documentation for PCBoard is available on our
support BBS under the filename 150ASCII.ZIP. The full documentation is
over 700 pages and covers a wealth of information about how PCBoard
operates. You can reach our support system at 801-261-8976 or through
the Internet by telneting to either 199.67.41.2 or 199.67.41.252.
Leading The Pack
===============================================================================
PCBoard is an excellent value for your money. The combination of
powerful features and flexibility of system configuration will knock
your socks off. To show you what sets PCBoard apart from other BBS
packages, we'll talk about some of the powerful features included in
every PCBoard package and then how PCBoard can be tailored to match
your performance and budget expectations.
The Complete Package
--------------------
A complete BBS package is one that provides the features you need
right out of the box. PCBoard is that complete package because many
features other companies charge extra for are included in every
package. Let's examine a few:
Connectivity
~~~~~~~~~~~~
The name of the game is connectivity. You must be able to
effectively connect with the outside world and the inside world.
Furthermore, this should be done at a minimal cost to you. PCBoard
meets both of these requirements as the following list describes.
1. Internet Access: The Internet is the fastest growing aspect of
computer communications today. Contrary to what many believe,
the Internet and bulletin board packages are complementary
technologies. Bulletin board software can be used to give focus
to the wealth of information on the Internet. In fact, PCBoard
includes a program in every package for getting e-mail and
newsgroups from an Internet provider. Your users can tap the
wealth of information available from the Internet by using
PCBoard's extensive message reading capabilities.
2. Fidonet: For several years, thousands of bulletin board systems
have bonded together and formed a world-wide message and file
network. Connecting to Fidonet used to mean buying another
software package, letting it answer the phone and finally pass
control to the BBS. With PCBoard, however, all of the required
software is built-in. Because of this fact, you will not have to
worry about messy batch files nor will your users have to endure
a two staged login. PCBoard does all of this seamlessly.
3. LAN Logins: Whether you are running a system with just a few
concurrent users (nodes), or a large corporate system with a
large number of nodes, it is important to be able to support
local logins. You will not believe how easy it is to setup
PCBoard to allow logins across the LAN by simply running PCBoard
from a workstation. Some companies will charge you extra for
such capabilities. We do not.
4. Intelligent Serial: The higher demand for speed in online
communications has pushed the spotlight over to high-speed
communications equipment like intelligent serial ports. PCBoard
supports this newer hardware from several different angles: 1)
PCBoard can talk to any serial device that has an OS/2 or FOSSIL
driver. 2) We provide a communications driver capable of talking
to the most popular boards while running under DESQview or
Windows.
Microsoft Windows(R) Mail Reader
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
One of the unique features of PCBoard is inclusion of a Windows mail
reader called PCBMail in every package. The combination of PCBMail
and PCBoard is a complete solution both in and out of the office,
providing access to your e-mail, files, conferences, discussions,
databases, etc.
Business type environments where the primary focus is on messages is
where PCBMail really excels. Your dial-up customers can continue to
access the dedicated machines while employees within the company use
PCBMail on their own machine. The net effect is that the employees
reading mail do not affect the performance of the dial-in nodes.
PCBMail's easy-to-use interface makes what may appear to be a complex
task a simple one. For example, PCBMail adds the functionality of
mailing lists allowing messages to be quickly sent to departments or
groups of employees in the company.
PCBMail is not just for company BBSs. SysOps of any size system can
benefit from its use since reading messages is something they do quite
often. Messages on the system are easily composed and replied to.
PCBMail is an innovative and exciting addition to PCBoard.
Other Built-In Features
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There are other powerful and exciting PCBoard features you should be
aware of. In this section, we'll highlight just a few of these
features.
1. Multiple Languages: We communicate in a global community. As
such, it is important for your BBS package to support multiple
languages. When a user logs on, PCBoard prompts the user which
language to use. If your needs require you to support English,
Spanish, French, or many other languages, you can do it! This is
possible because we have been fine-tuning our multi-lingual
support for nearly 10 years. An additional feature PCBoard has
over other packages is that it also observes the language
characteristics of DOS and can use the fonts and characters
specific to a particular country. That's right, support for
double-byte character sets and right-to-left languages is
inherited from DOS.
2. dBASE Access: The industry standard database format--dBASE
III--is a great way to store and retrieve information. PCBoard
can access dBASE files using applications written with the
PCBoard Programming Language (PPL).
3. Credit Accounting: With the increasing demand for information,
many services are finding that charging for the information is
beneficial. PCBoard allows users to pre-pay their accounts, or
for you to charge on a pay-to-play basis where they are charged
for each item they access or each minute they spend online. You
control the rates and define your own peak times and holidays.
4. Multiuser Chat: The ability to communicate real-time is
important in a society where information is becoming available
on-demand at an increasing rate. PCBoard's chat feature allows
several people to communicate in real-time. There are 255
separate channels or topic areas. Furthermore, each channel can
be configured to be either public or private depending on your
needs.
After Your Purchase
-------------------
When you purchase PCBoard, you always have access to technical
support. This section discusses what you can expect in the way of
support and u