System Options

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.

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.