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5 bboards \- the UCI BBoards facility
13 The home directory of \fIbboards\fR is where the BBoard system is kept.
14 This documentation describes some of the nuances of the BBoard system.
16 Note that if your system is configured to use the Network News
17 Transfer Protocol (\fBNNTP\fP) to read BBoards,
18 then there is no local bboards setup; instead, \fIbbc\fP
19 opens an \fBNNTP\fP connection to the local server.
23 \fBBBoards, BBoard\-IDs\fR
25 A BBoard is just a file containing a group of messages relating to the same
27 These files live in the ~bboards home directory.
28 Each message in a BBoard file has in its header the line
29 \*(lqBBoard-Id: n\*(rq,
30 where \*(lqn\*(rq is an ascending decimal number.
31 This id-number is unique for each message in a BBoards file.
32 It should NOT be confused with the message number of a message,
33 which can change as messages are removed from the BBoard.
38 To read BBoards, use the \fIbbc\fR and \fImsh\fR programs.
39 The \fImsh\fR command is a monolithic program which contains all the
40 functionality of \fIMH\fR in a single program.
41 The `\-check' switch to \fIbbc\fR lets you check on the status of BBoards,
42 and the `\-read' switch tells \fIbbc\fR to invoke \fImsh\fR to read
46 \fBCreating a BBoard\fR
48 Both public, and private BBoards are supported.
49 Contact the mail address \fIPostMaster\fR if you'd like to have a BBoard
53 \fBBBoard addresses\fR
55 Each BBoard has associated with it 4 addresses,
56 these are (for the ficticious BBoard called ``hacks''):
60 \fBhacks\fR\0: The Internet wide distribution list.
63 \fBdist-hacks\fR\0: The local BBoard.
66 \fBhacks-request\fR\0:
67 The people responsible for the BBoard at the Internet level.
70 \fBlocal-hacks-request\fR\0:
71 The people responsible for the BBoard locally.
75 ^$HOME/\&.mh\(ruprofile~^The user profile
76 ^$HOME/\&.bbrc~^BBoard information
78 ^Path:~^To determine the user's MH directory
80 ^bboards:~^To specify interesting BBoards
82 ^mshproc:~^Program to read a given BBoard
84 bbc(1), bbl(1), bbleader(1), msh(1)
86 The default bboard is \*(lqsystem\*(rq