BBOARDS(1)

NAME
bboards - the UCI BBoards facility

SYNOPSIS
bbc [-check] [-read] bboards ... [-help]

DESCRIPTION
The home directory of bboards is where the BBoard system is kept. This documentation describes some of the nuances of the BBoard system.
BBoards, BBoard-IDs
A BBoard is just a file containing a group of messages relating to the same topic. These files live in the ~bboards home directory. Each message in a BBoard file has in its header the line “BBoard-Id: n”, where “n” is an ascending decimal number. This id-number is unique for each message in a BBoards file. It should NOT be confused with the message number of a message, which can change as messages are removed from the BBoard.
BBoard Handling
To read BBoards, use the bbc and msh programs. The msh command is a monolithic program which contains all the functionality of MH in a single program. The `-check' switch to bbc lets you check on the status of BBoards, and the `-read' switch tells bbc to invoke msh to read those BBoards.
Creating a BBoard
Both public, and private BBoards are supported. Contact the mail address PostMaster if you'd like to have a BBoard created.
BBoard addresses
Each BBoard has associated with it 4 addresses, these are (for the ficticious BBoard called ``hacks''):
hacks : The Internet wide distribution list.
dist-hacks : The local BBoard.
hacks-request : The people responsible for the BBoard at the Internet level.
local-hacks-request : The people responsible for the BBoard locally.
^$HOME/.mh_profile~^The user profile ^$HOME/.bbrc~^BBoard information ^Path:~^To determine the user's MH directory ^bboards:~^To specify interesting BBoards ^mshproc:~^Program to read a given BBoard bbc(1), bbl(1), bbleader(1), msh(1) The default bboard is “system” None