The CONTROL.DAT file
Control.Dat is a normal ASCII text file with the following lines in
exactly the order shown.
BBS name
BBS City, BBS State
BBS phone number AAA-EEE-NNNN
Sysop name,Sysop Sysop name in upper case followed
by the literal ',Sysop'
Serial number, BBS ID Serial Number, UpperCase BBSID
Date of mail packet, time of packet MM-DD-YYYY, HH:MM:SS
Caller's name Uppercase
blank
0
0
Number of conferences in additon to conference 0 which is main
ie use number of conferences minus one
Conference number
Name of Conference should be limited to maximum length of 12 characters
: : : : : :
Conference number
Name of Conference
Name of BBS welcome file
Name of NEWS file
Name of BBS goodbye file
Other optional data may occur after the Goodbye file line, but the trend
is to omit this data. If included it is as follows:
0 Unknown
Screen Length
USER NAME Upper case
FirstName Proper case
CITY, ST Upper case
Data Phone AAA EEE-NNNN
Voice Phone AAA EEE-NNNN
Security Level
Expiration Date MM-DD-YY
Last On Date MM-DD-YY
Last On Time HH:MM
Number of calls
0 Unknown
DownLoaded Bytes
DownLoaded Count
Uploaded Bytes
Uploaded Count
Time Limit Per Day Minutes
Time Remaining Minutes
Time Used Today Minutes
DownLoad Limit/Day Kilobytes
DownLoad Bytes Remaining Today Bytes
DownLoaded Today Bytes
Current Time HH:MM
Current Date MM-DD-YY
System Tag Line