I was asked some good questions tonight in an email. I thought I would post my answers as they could bennifit others. I have deidentified the original sender so as not to create the impression that I do not respect privacy.

Was asked some good questions that I though I would post MY answers to.

If anyone has different answers, please feel free to correct me in the thread..

Cross posted from E-Mail (It sender has been deidentified.).

'bows subboard'
'when doing'
'filler (---)'

Also I know of RUN and RUNA (thanks dotoran) but is there a way to

randomly load any file (say systext:sys.welcome) into the Visual Editor.
Do I need to add it as a sysop only gfile and edit it that way or
something?


BOWS subboard: "Base 0 (That is a 0 not an O.. Not trying to be a jerk, I
just come from the days when that actually mattered.. LOL).. Web Server (Could be wrong on what the S stands for.). It was a system Zen Metal Software developed to allow web based access to the message bases. I do not think that was included in the licensing / software that KGUIDE purchased. That is something Ray Akey kept a hold of. So USELESS unles KGuide can reverse engineer it.

'When doing' Is a Free Text field that will display to other users when they
do a (W)ho.. So if you put up a cat feeding simulation Pfile you can have it say "Feeding The Cat's" or if you have using my AR Newsline text file as an example. I can make it say "Reading NewsLine" if someone does a W command.

LOL. I think it is 'Filter' not filler, but don't quote me, I may be having
one of those "Senior" moments. but the best example I can give, is you know when you do an S in a message or UD area, and you see the (---) field either
to the left or between the number of the base and the area name? You can customize what that is.. (Going by memory), and it could look slightly different...........

1) (FDO) Fido Blah blah Echo 2) (RTN) Retronet BLAH BLAH
2) (LOC) Rat's Den Local BLAH BLAH Too lazy to replicate more....

You can put any 3 character abv to denote anything you want, in this example I use it to let users know the message base is networking and what network the message bases are a part of... FDO for FIDO, RTN for Retro Net, LOC for Local..

Hope this helps any new SysOps that might have similar questions.

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