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Pancake features:
Connection/network features
- Serial
- TCP/IP
- Has TCP/IP telnet in, out and finger in and out
Mail
- UUCP Mail in and out supported
- STMP Mail out, and POP mail retrieval
Newsgroups
- Local groups
- Usenet groups (via UUCP, MacSlurp or NNTP Sucker)
- True RFC compliance
- Long subject lines, not the abhorent truncations made by some other
systems
- Message length limited only to memory (binary newsgroups work fine)
- Fidonet groups
- Supports TabbyNet Generic Import file
- News tosser/importer Parse News runs in the background leaving bbs free
Program Features
- Shareware not some $500 add on
- No huge memory hit ! (Uses 320k comfortably for 2-3 nodes)
- If you have any problems,compalints or a huge wish list of features author
is easily available (ferrari@netaxs.com)
- Launches selected terminal package
- Why use anything else when Zterm works so well :-)
- Automatically grabs port back after term program quits
Chatting
- Will request reason for chat (sysop selectable)
- Will beep (sysop selectable)
- Will 'speak' reason (sysop selectable) (Speech Manager required)
- Sysop available check menu
- Full screen 2 way chat
Sysop Use
- Full screen editing with cut/copy/paste functions (HOORAY!)
- Has Local node for sysop use
- Built in screen saver
Administration Features
- User definable of what should be put into the General Log
- Separate General, Error, Mail, News, and other logs
- Files in Bulletin folder displayed to users once
- User base less likely to become corrupted (all pref files seperate)
User Features
- Has both a hotkey shell and a waffle style CLI
- You don't have to hang up to re-login (friends want next turn)
- VMS style configurable help system
Cavets
- No file section (yet!)
Future features
- Full screen editor from remote (3rd party)
- Appletalk ADSP support
- GUI
Try it out
- Telnet to: alamut.st.hmc.edu