Bulletins provide a method with which you can display text files to callers. Text files can be created with text editors or even with word processors that allow you to export to ASCII format. You can use bulletins to list current events, rules of your system, legal information in regards to communications services, etc.

Bulletins are very easy to setup. To configure the bulletins that are available in a particular conference, you need to highlight the following field in the conference configuration screen:

           Path/Name List File

Bulletins :C:\PCB\LST\BLT.LST

Now press F2 to edit the BLT.LST file. You should see a screen which resembles the following:

Conference Name  (#0)       : Main Board

Enter a list of BLT Paths & Names
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 1)   

The number on the left hand side of the screen represents the bulletin number. In the edit field you can specify any filename you wish to display when a user chooses the bulletin number that is listed to the left. As an example, you may want to have the users view C:\PCB\GEN\ORDER when they view bulletin 1. If you do, make the following entry in your BLT.LST file:

Enter a list of BLT Paths & Names
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 1)   C:\PCB\GEN\ORDER

Adding another bulletin can be dine simply by pressing ALT-I. You will now see that there is an entry for bulletin F2 that you may fill in with the filename you wish to display.

Any bulletin(s) can be download as long as the location of the bulletin file is included in the DLPATH.LST for the conference. The B user command provides subcommands and explanations for downloading any bulletin number.

If you want, you may provide compressed versions of the bulletins on your system. PCBoard will look at the Filename EXTENSION for compressed files in PCBSetup > File Locations > Configuration to find the extension for compressed files on your system.

NOTE: If PCBoard can find a file with the same name as the bulletin and with your compression extension, it will pick that file for download instead of the uncompressed version.

To disable bulletins in a conference, you simply clear out the fields that relate to bulletins in a conference configuration screen. For example, if your bulletin fields contain the following information:

            Menu Listing                     Path/Name List

File

Bulletins   : C:\PCB\GEN\BLT               : C:\PCB\GEN\BLT.LST

then you would blank them out making them look like the following:

            Menu Listing                     Path/Name List

File

Bulletins   :                              :

Your bulletins would then be disabled and your users would be warned that no bulletins currently are available on the system if they tried to view any of the bulletins.

Whenever a user presses B and RETURN, a list of bulletins that exist on the system will be displayed. The file that is displayed to your callers is the bulletin menu listing. The filename for this menu or the actual menu itself may be changed by editing the following field in the conference configuration screen:

            Menu Listing

Bulletins : C:\BLT\BLTMENU