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Check Mail At Login ……… Determines whether ProBoard should check

for new mail and files upon login. If set
to "Ask", ProBoard will ask the user if
they want to check for waiting mail and/or
personal files.

Allow One-Word Names …….. Determines whether a user's name can be a

single word.

Date Format …………….. Determines if ProBoard should display all

dates in European format (DD/MM/YY) or
American format (MM/DD/YY).

Use File Sharing ………… Set this option to “Yes”, if you want to

share the message base with FrontDoor or
any other utility that uses the same
locking scheme as RemoteAccess/FrontDoor

Swap to Disk ……………. Determines the default shelling mode. If

this option is set to ON, ProBoard will be
swapped to disk/EMS, leaving only 2000
bytes resident!

Fast Mode ………………. When this option is enabled, ProBoard will

use about 10Kb more memory (depending on
the number of file-areas), but the system
will run faster.

Kill Netmail When Sent …… Controls whether netmail will be killed

after a message has been exported from the
message base.

Confirm Validate ………… If this is set to “Yes”, ProBoard will

prompt you to confirm any validation on a
user record when applying a validation
template. If set to "No", no confirmation
will be required once a validation template
is selected to be applied to a user record.

Activity Log Size ……….. ProBoard creates and maintains a file

called BINLOG.PB in your ProBoard System
Directory. This file contains information
for generation of system graphs etc. Set
the number of days worth of data the file
BINLOG.PB should contain. Entering a 0
(zero) means the BINLOG.PB file will grow
forever.

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Log Local Activity ………. If set to “Yes”, ProBoard will add your

local login activity to the BINLOG.PB file.

I/O Buffer Size …………. Specifies the amount (in bytes) that

ProBoard will use for it's internal serial
communication buffering. Recommended
buffer size is 32 for single line systems.
If you are running a multi-node system
under a multi-tasker such as DESQview,
OS/2, or Windows, you probably will want to
increase this value. To disable I/O
buffering completely set this field to the
value of 1.

Default language file ……. Name of the language file to be loaded when

ProBoard starts. This language will also
be loaded when a user logs in who's
language could not be found.

Inactivity Limit ………… Number of seconds a user is allowed to

remain idle. If the user hasn't typed
anything when this limit is exceeded, they
will be logged off.

Quote String ……………. This string is used to when ProBoard quotes

a message for a reply. A '@' character is
replaced by the initials of the user who
wrote the message quoted from.

Password Display ………… Enter the character that you want ProBoard

to display to users, as they enter their
password. The character you enter here
will also be used in place of displaying
the password if you have "Hide Password"
(below) set to "Yes". You may use any
ASCII character (1-255) as a Password
Display character.

Hide Password …………… If this option is set to yes, when you

bring up user records in the User Editor,
the users password will not be displayed.
Instead, the character you entered in
"Password Display" (above) will be shown.
If this option is set to "No" then you will
see each users password when using the User
Editor.

Screen Blanking …………. Enter the number of seconds that should

elapse before ProBoard's built-in screen
saver should blank your screen.

Fuzzy Search Rate ……….. Determines how extensive ProBoard's fuzzy

search feature should work. The fuzzy
search will help your users locate other
users from your user file when posting
messages and a misspelled name is
encountered. It is also used in the User
Editor when you perform searches. The
higher the value you enter here, the closer
a user record must match the search

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criteria before it is considered a find by
the fuzzy search engine.

RIP Graphics ……………. Determines if ProBoard will display RIP

Graphics (both internal and user created)
to the user or not. If set to "Disabled"
(use the space bar to toggle the setting)
RIP Graphics will not be displayed to the
user even if RIP is detected when the user
logs in.