›  To make sure that your access gets saved, log off of your BBS by typing "Logoff" (or ctrl-L) and pressing RETURN. The BBS will then ask you if you are sure and then ask you if you want to save your password. Obviously, answer "YES" to both prompts. Your password should now be created on the drive on which you specified it to be created. Press "L" again to log on locally. When you get to the "Name or Account #" prompt, you can either enter your name or your account number (now that you have one). CARINA II will find your account faster if you enter your account number, but if you enter your name, it will still find it very quickly. CARINA II will then ask you for your password. Hopefully you will have remembered it. Enter it in and you should be on your way. Incidentally, you could have entered your account number directly after your name or account number by either typing:››         Your Acct.#/PASSWORD››                  or››          Your NAME/PASSWORD››  However, it will not mask out your password with underline characters when you it like this. At the Command prompt, you should have full access to all of the SysOp/SigOp commands. There are six different SysOp commands you can now access. These are:››Edit [Ctrl-E]    Edit bulletin file (or                  any text file when in                   electronic mail)›U-Edit [Ctrl-l]  Edit a user's status                    within a section                        allows editing of all                   status items when in                    electronic mail›Compact [Ctrl-W] Compact a file area                     (physically remove all                  files that have been                    tagged to be deleted)›Ext-Sys [Ctrl-Z] Extended SysOp                          commands. You should                    only give access to                     system SysOp's, not›                 SigOps. A user can go                   into BASIC, DOS, and›                 do a lot of other›                 things you wouldn't›                 want a SigOp to do.›Make-Vote  [&]   Make a voting poll                      within a section (you                   can make up to 26                       polls within one                        sector)›Validate   [@]   Validate any files                      uploaded to the                         section in which the                    SigOp is currently                      located (files in                       electronic mail are                     automatically                           validated)›››     CREATING ADDITIONAL SECTIONS››  Before you start to make more sections, let me first explain how a section is created on your drive. As many as four folders are created when you create a section. These folders are named MODSEC_?, DATSEC_?, MSGSEC_? and FLESEC_? where the "?" is replaced with by the section's reference letter. For example, the next section will be your second section (electronic mail was your first). This section's reference letteris "B", on the MSGSEC_? folder (for example) would be called MSGSEC_B. CARINA II will create B under this name. Incidentally, MODSEC_B would be short for MODule folder for SECtion B, DATSEC_B would be DATa folder for SECtion B, MSGSEC_B would be MeSsaGe folder for SECtion B, and FLESEC_B would stand for FILE folder for SECtion B. The MODSEC folder is where on-line games would reside (and any menus for entering these games [if you used any]). The DATSEC folder is where the SEction's bulletin's file, vote polls, and datdbases are located. The MSGSEC folder is where your message base would be located, and your FLESEC folder would be where your downloaded files, descriptions, and upload files would be located. Each section is divided like this so that your system can take advantage of your computer hadware. For instance, if you have a very large ramdisk, you may find your system may run more efficiently if you put your games in your ramdisk. You may also decide that you want all of your message base in one drive, and all of your download files in another.›s With all of this in mind, we are now going to make some new sections. To do this, you need to access the command Ext-Sys by typing Ctrl-Z followed by a RETURN (or you can type out the command, or just simply type "Z" followed by a RETURN. Now you should be shown the menu for the extended SysOp commands. The command you want to access is the "Create/Edit a section" command. Press "S" to access this command. It will then display the one section that you have created, section A (electronic mail). Don't concern yourself with all of the things displayed at the prompt, these will be explained later, just press "C" for "Create New Section".›  We are now going to move your "General Information" section. It would be wise to create a section somewhere along the lines of this theme; however, you can call it anything you'd like. There is no requirement for calling it "General Discussion". Actually, there is no NEED to create it all, but I would recommend it. The first question you will be asked is, "Create SubProgram Area?"  As mentioned above, this is for any games that you may plan to put on-line. Answering "YES" to this prompt will make CARINA II create your MODSEC folder for this section. If you  don't plan on putting any games in this section, you can answer "NO" at this prompt. If you later change your mind, you can always create the MODSEC_? folder manually and if you later decide to use it, you can make it recognize its existence again, however, having this folder on your system will take up unused space (but not much).›  If you answered "YES" at this prompt, you will then be asked for a drive number on which the MODSEC folder should be created. Again, if you have a big rsmdisk, this may be a good folder to place on it; however, keep in mind that you will have to create an identical folder manually on a physical drive placing your games in it after you are done. You will then have to have your initialize batch file create the MODSEC directory in your ramdisk and copy its contents from a disk area into the ramdisk. That way, every time you boot your BBS, the MODSEC folder will be created in your ramdisk and all the games belonging in that folder will be placed in it. If you are serious of how this done, I would recommend placing this folder on a physical disk to avoid confusion.›  The prompt, "Creating Message Area, Drive to Create Folder." will be displayed. This is a folder that MUST be created. It does not take up much room and it contains data for many section-related functions (as mentioned before). Select a drive number for this folder (DATSEC) to be created.›  Next you will be asked, "Create Message Area?"  You do not need to create a message base for each section. You could devote a section totally to download files (for instance); however, for your "General Information" section, you will definitely want a message base. Answer "YES" at this prompt and place file areas there. This way, different files for different computers won't be combined within the same area; however, if you do decide to create a file area, you will again be asked for the drive on which you would like the folder (MSGSEC) to be created.›  Finally, you will be asked, "Create File Area?"  For your "General Discussion" section, you will most likely not want to create a file area. It would be better to dedicate a section to a computer type (for example, make an ATARI 8-bit section, and an ATARI ST section) and place file areas there. This eay, different files for different computers won't be combined within the same file area; however, if you do decide to create a file area, you will again be asked for the drive on which you would like this folder (FLESEC) to be created.›  Now that CARINA II knows how you want your section to be set up, it is ready to ask for the section's name. You can enter up to a 24-character section name. Inverse, lower-case, and even special characters are allowed in this field. An example section name might be "General Discussion". Next you will be asked for the section's keyword. The keyword is what users will type when they want to identify a section. An example keyword to go along with the sample section name might be "General". If a user wanted to enter into your "General Discussion" section, he would type "Go General" (for example). This is what this keyword will be used for. A keyword can be up to 10 characters in length.›  CARINA II will now create the MODSEC folder (if you specified it to be created) and your DATSEC folder. After it has been done this, it will then ask you the maximum number of messages that your message base will hold (if you specified that section will have a message base). Keep in mind that each message takes up about 600 bytes (about 5 sectors) of storage space. Create this message base with your system's storage capacity in mind. When you press RETURN, it will then say, "Creating Message Directory" followed by "Creating Message Text Area". It will also, of course, create the MSGSEC folder where these two files will reside. It will take a few minutes to initialize a large message base.›  If you created a file area within this sig, next will be displayed, "Creating File Area". This is where tje FLESEC folder and a dew other folders within the FLESEC folder are created. You will then be asked, "Assign a Mandatory Keyword Field?"  First, an expalnation is in order. When a file is uploaded, keywords can be entered (that will help a person searching for a file find the file he is looking for in the download area. For instance, if someone was looking for a game in your download area, he could browse for the Keyword of "Game". The problem with this is that when someone is uploading a file, the user might not enter this as a keyword. This file would definitely be a game, but CARINA II would not recognize it as one. A clearer example might be someone who is searching for telecommunications programs. The uploader might enter just "communications" as a keyword. Here the user is on the right track, but it will still not be a match when someone does a search by keyword. To avoid this confusion, mandatory keywords can be set that will create some sort of standard. You can have anywhere from zero to ten mandatory keyword fields. Keep in mind that there a maximum of 10 keywords per download file, so 10 mandatory keywords would inhibit any real descriptive keywords from being entered by the uploader. You should keep in mind your mandatory keyword fields to around two per section.›  Your keyword fileds will probably be different for each section. For instance, if you created a mandatory keyword field in an ATARI 8-bit section, you might have a keyword filed that described the language of the file that is being u-loaded (e.g., BASIC, Object, etc..); however, if you were creating a mandatory keyword field in an ATARI ST section, your keywords would probably be something describing TOS, PRG, ST, BASIC, etc. The other thing that you should remember is that keywords mean key-WORDS not key-SENTENCES. An underline character should be used to represent a SPACE character if necessary.›  If you assign a mandatory keyword field, you will be asked, "Enter list of mandatory keywords and press RETURN when done." This means, press RETURN on a blank line when done. You can enter as many keywords as you can (before the computer runs out of memory, of course). After you have created your first keyword field, you will be asked, "Create another level of keywords?"  Keep answering "YES" until you feel you have entered enough levels to describe most any file. The two most common levels used when describing a file are languages and filetypes (an example of a filetype would be a utility, communications program, application, etc...). When you are finished, you will be sent back to the Ext-Sys module's command prompt.›  You've just created a new section. Continue creating as many more sections that you feel you will need (e.g., ATARI 8-bit, ATARI ST, etc...). Once you have created all of the sections that you want, DONT' FORGET--If your SYSTEM folder is in a ramdisk, copy the SECTIONS.DAT file from your SYSTEM folder located on your ramdisk back down to your SYSTEM folder located on your physical disk! If you are using a floppy disk, this will be on one of your boot disks. If you are using a hard drive, it will be on one of your hard-drive partitions. If you forget to do this, you have to recreate all of your SECTIONS.DAT file again, and then it tries to proceed with creating your sections folders. It will find that they are now already created and exit back to the Ext-Sys module's main command prompt.››          SETTING UP DATABASES››  Databases are text files (or groups of text files). You may find, at some point, that you want to place, say, an article of some sort on-line for your users to see. You could, of course, simply place this file in your download area and have them download it ASCII, but that's not really a professional way of doing things. A database area  has been included for just such a purpose. The help database is a good example of how a database can be set up; however, this is a special database (because it resides in the SYSTXT folder). Normal databases are placed in the DATSEC folder for the section that the database will reside. Databases have two different parts: database menus and database files. Database menus are simply text files that display selections for different database files (up to 26 per menu). Database menus can also display selections for other database menus. You can have up to 7 levels of database menus. The last selection (the 7th one) MUST be a database file.›  Each database menu or database file is a separate file within the DATSEC folder and MUST have distinct names. If you plan on having only one file within your database, this database file must be called MAIN (with an optional extender of your choice [e.g., MAIN.TXT]). If your plan on having more than one database file within your database, then again you will still call this file MAIN (with an optional exterder of your choice); however, you will have to do something special to this file to let CARINA II know that this IS a database menu and not a database file. How this is done will be discussed shortly. All other database files (or other database menus) that stem from that menu have the filename of the menu-selection letter (i.e., if your menu has 5 selections (A through E), then your database files/menus stemming from that menu should have the menus A, B, C, D, and E). Again these files (and, in fact all files within a database) can have an optional extender of your choice. Let's assume that the file file "C" was another database menu that had 5 more menu selections. Then the database file/menus stemming from that menu would be called CA, CB, CC, CD, and CE. If CD was a menu that had five menu selections, these files would be called CDA, CDB, CDC, CDD and CDE, and so on...›  As mentioned earlier, there is something special that you must do to database menus. Two special features must be placed at the beginning of each database area. The first character is a Control-A (Ctrl-A) character. This means, while holding down the CTRL key, press the "A" key. The second character must be the last menu selection available for this menu. For instance, if there are five different choice for that menu (A through E), this next character should be the letter "E" (a CAPITAL "E"). Following these two characters should be the text for your database area. This procedure can be performed all within a text editor. FOllow the example of the help database if there is something that you do are confused on. Dissect it if need be.›