EleBBS
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[edit] Overview
The ELEBBS Bulletin Board System Is a Internet enabled BBS program that will run on Windows, OS2, DOS, and Linux. EleBBS is a feature rich BBS program with support for multi-users, external events and applications and even web integration.
Many legacy BBS's ran ELEBBS on Dos and Windows computers, adding to the thousands of interconnected Bulletin Board Systems around the Globe. EleBBS is still in use on some legacy BBS's such as StarDoc 134.
[edit] Software
Ele Suite is broken up into 4 main applications, including EleBBS, EleWeb, EleCom, and EleXer.
[edit] EleBBS
EleBBS is the Text interface portion of the EleSuite
EleBBS is the main core that provides the classic BBS text interface opening up access to email, message bases, external applications, games, newsgroups, and mult-user chat. EleBBS is the primary and original use for package. The program has evolved to support it's own telnet servers, internal IRC chat support and internal databases for message bases and user control.
- Features:
- Available for the DOS, OS/2, Win9x/NT and Linux operating systems in native versions
- Support up-to 65,000 seperate messageareas, fileareas, filegroups and messagegroups
- Define up-to 65,000 seperate security levels with seperate online and download limits as well as access to menus and file/message areas
- Supports up-to 250 seperate language modules to fully customize your BBS
- Support up-to 250 nodes
- Internal Zmodem, Ymodem, Xmodem protocols
- Very powerful Pascal-like scripting language as well as traditional scripting
- ANSI and AVATAR is locally supported as well as displayed, remote support for RIP
- Internal support for archive viewers with support for all popular archive formats (ZIP, ARJ, RAR)
- "Lightbar" support -- control your BBS using your cursor keys
- Connect your BBS to any IRC server on the internet
- Read and post to newsgroups from within your BBS
- Built-in TELNET server
- Send and receive e-mail in your EleBBS
- Take over the console from anywhere in the world
[edit] EleWEB
EleWEB is the HTML interface to EleBBS, fully script driven, fast and flexible.
EleWEB integrates seamlessly with EleBBS, uses the same userbase, messagebases and filebases. By using the EleXer scripting language, it gives you an immense flexibility in the setup.
EleWEB can be fully configured by using templates, offering multiple levels of flexibility
- Features
- Available for the OS/2, Win9x/NT, FreeBSD and Linux OS in native versions
- Pascal-like scripting language
- Integrates seamlessly with your EleBBS
- Uses HTML based templates
- All scripts come with full source
[edit] EleCOM
EleCOM is a tool for programmers to use serial communication in their programs for either Windows (Win32), OS/2 or DOS. By offering both an OOP layer, as well as an generic procedural interface to these routines, it allows for fast deployment in your programs.
EleCOM is completely royalty free to use, and comes with full source, but without any support whatsoever
[edit] EleXER
EleXer is part of the Ele Suite. It's provides a scripting language that's fast, and powerful enough to power add ons for EleBBS, power the whole of EleWEB, run dynamic websites and even usable as an standalone scripting language for several tasks
By using a syntax close to Pascal, it features a very clean and easy to use syntax, while having a small learning curve for many BBS enthusiast's .
After several years of development, EleXer was first introduced in EleBBS 0.09, and not long after that a completely revised EleWEB followed - also powered by EleXer. In the meanwhile, several advanced features are being added to EleXer among database integration, and special built modules for running internally to certain webservers
[edit] Future Development
Development appears to be slow, several sites and individuals are dedicated to the continued development of the Ele Suite.
