Lora Bulletin Board System and
                             Electronic Mail Interface

                               Version 2.33-1 (OS/2)

          Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 by Marco Maccaferri
                                All rights reserved


       Main features
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       - Supporting up to four different message bases at the same time
         (with no differences seen by the users). Presently Lora supports
         the standard Fido-Base (*.MSG), the QuickBBS (also known as Hudson
         message base), the PIP-Base and the new Squish-Mail<Tm> made by
         Scott J. Dudley.

       - Supporting up to 500 message/file areas, and allowing fast
         extension if necessary.

       - Hyper-Scan function for fast user and message/file areas search.

       - Compatible built-in Front-End Fidonet Mailer, FTSC-0001, WaZOO and
         full EMSI capable.

       - Supporting three and four dimension points at the same time.

       - Supporting Aka's and ZoneGates.

       - Supporting Janus bidirectional protocol for mail transfer.

       - Supporting  multitaskers, leaving not used time to the active task,
         and local networks.

       - Supporting many tasks with one directory and one configuration file
         only.

       - Integrated multiline chat.

       - Supporting up to twenty different languages, for a full
         international system.

       - Memory swap in EMS, XMS or disk during the execution of external
         doors (leaving in memory only 1.6K for the recovery code).

       - Supporting AVATAR/0+ protocol in alternative to ANSI-BBS

       - Userlist features 12 access levels and 32 configurable flags.

       - Support for RemoteAccess 1.11, Maximus CBCS 2.00 and SuperBBS 1.16
         compatible Embedded Commands.

       - Built-in TimeBank, FileBank, BBS List and UserVote doors.

       - Support for off-line mail readers compatible with the QWK packet
         format, as well as human readable ASCII format.

       - Remote clock synchronization in WaZOO and EMSI sessions.

       - Automatic clock synchronization with an Atomic Clock, compatible
         with the Galileo Ferraris Institute of Torino, Italy.

       - User limits (such as on-line time, download limits, etc.) overrides
         in a single user basis.

       - Exclusive ZModem auto-upload feature, your users can upload files
         at any menu prompt.

       - Support for new 16800 baud and fax modems.

       - Integrated ANSI/VT100 and Avatar terminal emulation, awareness of
         downloading and uploading files using all the protocols, including
         Puma and HS/Link.

       - IEMSI (Interactive EMSI) for user's automatic login and parameter
         settings.

       If you register Lora you will have the following additional features:

       - Keyboard lock by password. The local use of the keyboard will be
         possible, but all functions like Alt-x, Dos Shell, etc. will be
         disabled.

       - Possibility of disabling the internal front-end mailer to use Lora
         with other programs (FrontDoor, D'Bridge, BinkleyTerm, etc.).

       - Multitasking allowed. Without registration it's  possible to use
         only task 1.

       - Memory swap during external doors.

       - Possibility of using the internal Areafix function for the
         automatic management of echomail links.

       - Possibility of including key sequences in the internal keyboard
         buffer during the execution of BBS commands.

       - Possibility of using file-semaphores for certain operations in
         multitasking environments.


       Installation
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       To install Lora you need a 386/486 computer with at least 8Mb of
       RAM, OS/2 2.0/2.1 or later versions, at least one free serial port
       and 3MBytes of Hard disk space.

       Here is the right procedure to install Lora in your system:

       1. Create a directory called C:\LORA and uncompress inside it the
          original archives, LOS233-1.ZIP.

       2. Run LOS233-1.EXE

       The program will create all the necessary directories and will copy
       the files inside them.

       If you have installed Lora in C:\LORA, you can begin using it; if
       not, you have to change all the references at C:\LORA using the
       configuration program LSETUP.

       Lora has been tested with the Ray Gwinn's SIO/VSIO drivers (1.00
       and 1.02).


       Upgrade from previous versions
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       Since there isn't a previous OS/2 release, you can upgrade only
       from the previous DOS versions. The installation program can
       upgrade from one operating system to another.

       Here is the right procedure to upgrade Lora in your system:

       1. Change to you system directory (usually called C:\LORA) and
          uncompress inside it the original archives, LOS233-1.ZIP.

       2. Run LOS233-1.EXE

       The program will upgrade the files that are changed with this
       release.

       If you are upgrading a Lora version older than 2.30, part of the
       configuration must be made again. Use LSETUP to insert the
       configurations you put in the LORA.CFG file.

       Anyway, to update the binary files, the LSETUP program must be run
       following the new format.

       From Version 2.30 you don't need to keep the LORA.CFG, SYSTEM.CFG,
       SCHED.CFG and NODES.CFG files, as well as LORACOMP.EXE.

       Each configuration can be done using the LSETUP program.