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                      2: .TH BBOARDS 1 "April 22, 1986" MH [mh.6]
                      3: .UC 6
                      4: .SH NAME
                      5: bboards \- the UCI BBoards facility
                      6: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      7: .in +.5i
                      8: .ti -.5i
                      9: bbc
                     10: \%[\-check]
                     11: \%[\-read]
                     12: bboards ...
                     13: \%[\-help]
                     14: .in -.5i
                     15: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     16: The home directory of \fIbboards\fR is where the BBoard system is kept.
                     17: This documentation describes some of the nuances of the BBoard system.
                     18: 
                     19: .in +.5i
                     20: .ti -.5i
                     21: \fBBBoards, BBoard\-IDs\fR
                     22: .br
                     23: A BBoard is just a file containing a group of messages relating to the same
                     24: topic.
                     25: These files live in the ~bboards home directory.
                     26: Each message in a BBoard file has in its header the line
                     27: \*(lqBBoard-Id: n\*(rq,
                     28: where \*(lqn\*(rq is an ascending decimal number.
                     29: This id-number is unique for each message in a BBoards file.
                     30: It should NOT be confused with the message number of a message,
                     31: which can change as messages are removed from the BBoard.
                     32: 
                     33: .ti -.5i
                     34: \fBBBoard Handling\fR
                     35: .br
                     36: To read BBoards, use the \fIbbc\fR and \fImsh\fR programs.
                     37: The \fImsh\fR command is a monolithic program which contains all the
                     38: functionality of \fIMH\fR in a single program.
                     39: The `\-check' switch to \fIbbc\fR lets you check on the status of BBoards,
                     40: and the `\-read' switch tells \fIbbc\fR to invoke \fImsh\fR to read
                     41: those BBoards.
                     42: 
                     43: .ti -.5i
                     44: \fBCreating a BBoard\fR
                     45: .br
                     46: Both public, and private BBoards are supported.
                     47: Contact the mail address \fIPostMaster\fR if you'd like to have a BBoard
                     48: created.
                     49: 
                     50: .ti -.5i
                     51: \fBBBoard addresses\fR
                     52: .br
                     53: Each BBoard has associated with it 4 addresses,
                     54: these are (for the ficticious BBoard called ``hacks''):
                     55: .in +.75i
                     56: .br
                     57: .ti -.5i
                     58: \fBhacks\fR\0: The Internet wide distribution list.
                     59: .br
                     60: .ti -.5i
                     61: \fBdist-hacks\fR\0: The local BBoard.
                     62: .br
                     63: .ti -.5i
                     64: \fBhacks-request\fR\0:
                     65: The people responsible for the BBoard at the Internet level.
                     66: .br
                     67: .ti -.5i
                     68: \fBlocal-hacks-request\fR\0:
                     69: The people responsible for the BBoard locally.
                     70: .in -.75i
                     71: .in -.5i
                     72: .Fi
                     73: ^$HOME/\&.mh\(ruprofile~^The user profile
                     74: ^$HOME/\&.bbrc~^BBoard information
                     75: .Pr
                     76: ^Path:~^To determine the user's MH directory
                     77: .Ps
                     78: ^bboards:~^To specify interesting BBoards
                     79: .Ps
                     80: ^mshproc:~^Program to read a given BBoard
                     81: .Sa
                     82: bbc(1), bbl(1), bbleader(1), msh(1)
                     83: .De
                     84: The default bboard is \*(lqsystem\*(rq
                     85: .Co
                     86: None
                     87: .En

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