8 date 94.04.15.23.10.56; author jromine; state Exp;
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44 @note NNTP interaction, but mostly, just make
45 this page a little longer to work-around a troff
50 .\" @@(#)$Id: bboards.rf,v 1.5 1990/04/05 15:11:40 sources Exp jromine $
53 bboards \- the UCI BBoards facility
61 The home directory of \fIbboards\fR is where the BBoard system is kept.
62 This documentation describes some of the nuances of the BBoard system.
64 Note that if your system is configured to use the Network News
65 Transfer Protocol (\fBNNTP\fP) to read BBoards,
67 (your system does seem to be configured this way),
69 then there is no local bboards setup; instead, \fIbbc\fP
70 opens an \fBNNTP\fP connection to the local server.
74 \fBBBoards, BBoard\-IDs\fR
76 A BBoard is just a file containing a group of messages relating to the same
78 These files live in the ~bboards home directory.
79 Each message in a BBoard file has in its header the line
80 \*(lqBBoard-Id: n\*(rq,
81 where \*(lqn\*(rq is an ascending decimal number.
82 This id-number is unique for each message in a BBoards file.
83 It should NOT be confused with the message number of a message,
84 which can change as messages are removed from the BBoard.
89 To read BBoards, use the \fIbbc\fR and \fImsh\fR programs.
90 The \fImsh\fR command is a monolithic program which contains all the
91 functionality of \fIMH\fR in a single program.
92 The `\-check' switch to \fIbbc\fR lets you check on the status of BBoards,
93 and the `\-read' switch tells \fIbbc\fR to invoke \fImsh\fR to read
97 \fBCreating a BBoard\fR
99 Both public, and private BBoards are supported.
100 Contact the mail address \fIPostMaster\fR if you'd like to have a BBoard
104 \fBBBoard addresses\fR
106 Each BBoard has associated with it 4 addresses,
107 these are (for the ficticious BBoard called ``hacks''):
111 \fBhacks\fR\0: The Internet wide distribution list.
114 \fBdist-hacks\fR\0: The local BBoard.
117 \fBhacks-request\fR\0:
118 The people responsible for the BBoard at the Internet level.
121 \fBlocal-hacks-request\fR\0:
122 The people responsible for the BBoard locally.
126 ^$HOME/\&.mh\(ruprofile~^The user profile
127 ^$HOME/\&.bbrc~^BBoard information
129 ^Path:~^To determine the user's MH directory
131 ^bboards:~^To specify interesting BBoards
133 ^mshproc:~^Program to read a given BBoard
135 bbc(1), bbl(1), bbleader(1), msh(1)
137 The default bboard is \*(lqsystem\*(rq
158 @put things back, do .NA stuff another way
172 .TH BBOARDS 1 @@(MHCENTERFOOT) @@(MHLEFTFOOT)
182 @fixup for makewhatis
187 .TH BBOARDS 1 [mh.6] MH