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[% HORIZONTAL RULE CYAN %][% BOLD %][% B_CYAN %][% BLACK %] INTRODUCTION[% RESET %]

[% JUSTIFIED %]Way back in the late 1980s, I wrote a BBS program on the Timex/Sinclair 2068 (in BASIC and Z80 machine code) and called it
[% ITALIC %]The Looney Bin![% RESET %].  It was briefly feature on an issue of BYTE Magazine and was a message only BBS. Later
I ran a BBS on an Atari 800XL with a single 1050 floppy drive.  Then I coded a BBS program from scratch called [% ITALIC %]Spiffy BBS[% RESET %].
It was written in compiled GFA BASIC on an Atari 1040 ST.  It was the most advanced BBS I ever wrote, and ran for a few years.
It was ASCII, VT-52 and ATASCII.[% ENDJUSTIFIED %]

[% JUSTIFIED %]Now I reflected on the past and got interested in retro-computers.  I noticed they were becoming popular again.  Some people ran
serial to TCP/IP adapters and running old BBS programs on them.  Quite ingenious.  PCs have ANSI BBS programs, one being [% ITALIC %]SBBS[% RESET %].[% ENDJUSTIFIED %]

[% JUSTIFIED %]I decided to make this program, [% ITALIC %]BBS::Universal[% RESET %] to accommodate plain ASCII, ANSI, ATASCII, and PETSCII formats.
Instead of a redirected modem program like many of the others, this one is written to be a network server.[% ENDJUSTIFIED %]

[% BOLD %][% B_YELLOW %][% BLACK %] COMMANDS VERSUS TOKENS [% RESET %][% YELLOW %]🭬[% RESET %]

The system bifercates the SysOp system from the user system.  This means SysOp tokens and commands will not work when a user is using the system.

Commands are typically used in menus as a choice.  Tokens are macros that are embedded in text.  They can be colors, cursor controls, BBS system data.