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The Waiting for Call [WFC] Screen

                                            VBBS 6.12 Documentation --  4-1

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          CHAPTER 4         THE WAITING-FOR-CALL [WFC] SCREEN            
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                VBBS uses a highly-informational WFC.COM screen.  This
         screen not only provides system statistics, the time, available
         drive space, system status and the BBS name; it is also custom-
         izable using any ANSI drawing program (such as TheDraw) that 
         saves screens in the .COM format.
                Note that if your drive space on a given drive drops be-
         low a certain percentage of its capacity, that line will change
         color to let you know that you need to free up some space on
         that drive.

                Options available from the WFC screen include:

         [F]  Fast Login Local           Fast login from the console (make
                                          sure you establish the sysop ac-
                                          count first!).
         [L]  Login Local                Logs a user into the system from
                                          the console (use this to estab-
                                          lish the sysop account!).
         [S]  Shell to DOS               Shells to DOS environment within
                                          VBBS; type EXIT to return to the BBS.
         [U]  User Editor                Allows editing of user information.
         [V]  VConfig                    Brings up the VCONFIG utility.
         [I]  System Info                Displays information about your bbs.
         [C]  Today's Callers            Lists callers since midnight.
         [W]  Who's Online               Shows status of each COM port.
         [/]  Dial NET to Client         Allows a forced NET callout to a
                                          system listed in your remote con-
                                          figuration (if any).
         [N]  Dial NET to Server         Forces a network connect to your
                                          server as defined in VCONFIG.
         [E]  E-Mail                     Allows you to write E-mail to both
                                          local and network addresses from
                                          the WFC screen.
         [M]  Feedback                   Allows you to check the sysop
                                          mailbox from WFC.
         [Scr Lock] Sysop Avail.         Toggles sysop page on/off; may
                                          also be set in VCONFIG to be 
                                          the [A] key.
         [Esc]  Exit BBS                 Quit VBBS and return to DOS.
         [F1] through [F10]              Calls up the functions you have
                                          defined for function keys in
                                          VCONFIG; if you haven't set them
                                          up, don't worry about it yet.

         ͻ    The WFC screen is set up so that most of the sysop's rou-
         ͼ    tine chores may be handled without ever loggin on to the
                BBS.  This, coupled with efficient configuration of the
                <F1> through <F10> keys, can be a real time-saver.  It's
                worth the time spent in initial setup to have access to 
                everything you need from WFC.

              OS/2 Version            : The WFC screen commands differ
                                          in the OS/2 version. Please
                                          refer to Appendix D.  
