These three servers compliment one another and should all be installed together. They
offer more advanced facilities than other servers of the same or similar names. All these
servers respond with messages to a user upon receipt of a correctly formatted private
message addressed to REQDIR, REQFIL or FNDFIL.
REQDIR Server
This server sends the user a listing of files contained within a specified directory. If
the SysOp desires, the return message will contain file descriptions taken from the BBS
YAPPLBL.SYS file. In addition, each message may contain SysOp configurable text designed
to provide help or guidance to the user or perhaps advertise other BBS facilities. A
number of SysOp configurable error messages may be set up to advise the user of
incorrectly formatted requests or unavailable disk drives etc...
REQFIL Server
This server sends the user a requested file. A SysOp configurable footer text may be
appended to the end of each complete file. As above, an number of unique messages may be
set up to advise the sender of errors. One aspect of this server is the ability to split
large files into individual smaller user messages designed to avoid network congestion or
clogging. This also prevents the SysOp from having to manually break up large files before
placing them in a directory and consequently saves the user having to submit several
REQFIL messages to obtain all of them.
FNDFIL Server
This server will scan all files in a user specified directory and search for a certain
search string. The user will be advised of all files containing the string and the list
will contain associated file descriptions. The server is protected so that a malicious
request (e.g. for the word "the") will produce limited response.
All of these programs allow full SysOp customisation, in fact just about every user
message may be configured by the SysOp. Any messages not configured in this way will be
replaced by the servers own built in error help. The servers are compatible with the FBB
multi-drives used for the user files area.
These V2 servers are designed to work with F6FBB V5 software. For F6FBB V7 (DOS and
Windows) software, use my V3 REQDIR, REQFIL and FNDFIL servers.