messages only, “static” meaning that no one can post or
upload, or RPG, and NET (see chapter 18).
P Password. If you select a password for your subboard, a user
must supply the password each time he wishes to enter.
System operators will have the password displayed to them when
they enter the subboard.
E Entry access. The list of access groups which may enter the
subboard.
W Write access. The list of access groups which may upload to
post on the subboard.
Y Youngest age in years of a user to be able to enter this
subboard.
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O Oldest age in years of a user to be able to enter this
subboard.
I Inactive days. This determines the number of days that a post
may go un- responded to, or a file may go un-downloaded before
it is automatically deleted by auto-maintenance. Files that
have been “protected” are excluded (see the ‘Y’ command
in the last section).
C Closed. You may temporarily close the subboard for maintenance
operations. Note that system operators and sub-
operators are always allowed entry.
V Verification. If you select that you wish new uploads to
require validation first before other users may use them, you
will need to use the ‘V’ maintenance command to
validate new files. Users will not be given credit for
files unless they are validated. A user privilege exists which
override this for his uploads in the access group setup.
DE Storage status. Using this “storage status” system of the subboard,
the subboard operator is able to control exactly how many disk blocks
his subboard will occupy. Disk space here is measured in “lines” (a
line here is not necessarily analogous to a line in the editor -- it
may consist of 1-80 column line, 2-40 column lines, or even 40-2
character lines.). In the case of message bases, this “storage status”
may expand as required for new messages (such as is the case for
networked message bases). That means that if you have set the size of a
networked subboard to say 2000 lines, if the subboard needs more room to
post new messages received from a network call, the subboard will expand
in increments of 200 lines.
For each subboard, a MAXLINES setting specifies how many lines maximum a
subboard may contain (each 100 lines in MAXLINES is approximately equal to
33 disk blocks). A second measure, LINES USED, tells you how many lines
have actually contained text at some point. LINES USED is never more than
MAXLINES. LINES USED does not decrease. LINES USED may actually be a
misnomer, because USED lines are not necessarily IN USE at all times --
some may currently be DELETED (no longer part of a message) lines. This
brings us to a third storage status measure, DELETE LINES, which tells you
how many lines out of the LINES USED are not currently occupied by valid
subboard message text. DELETED LINES, therefore will never exceed LINES
USED. DELETED LINES are now available for new text posts or responses.
When a message is deleted, the number of lines that it occupied is added to
DELETED LINES. When a message is added to a subboard, it must be placed