EleBBS

Overview

The EleBBS Bulletin Board System is an Internet enabled BBS program designed for Windows, OS/2, DOS, and Linux. EleBBS started as a clone of RemoteAccess BBSwhich was one of several very popular BBS packages in the 1990s. EleBBS includes all the features and feel of RemoteAccess, including FileDataBases and the JAM Message Base Format in addition to offering Internet specific features including Telnet, FTP, Email, NewsGroups, IRC, and Web integration.

EleBBS is still in use on several legacy BBSes today, and is still activley developed as Open Source Software.

Software

The EleBBS Suite is broken up into 4 main applications, including EleBBS, EleWeb, EleCom, and EleXer.

EleBBS

EleBBS is the main core that provides the classic console mode BBS interface providing access to email, message bases, external applications, games, newsgroups, and mult-user chat. The program has evolved to include it's own telnet server, 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 separate messageareas, fileareas, filegroups and messagegroups.
**Define up-to 65,000 separate security levels with separate online and download limits as well as access to menus and file/message areas.
**Supports up-to 250 separate language modules to fully customize your BBS.
**Support up-to 250 nodes.
**Internal Zmodem, Ymodem, Xmodem protocols, and external 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.
**Remotely control the EleBBS console from anywhere in the world.

EleWEB

EleWEB is the HTML interface to EleBBS, fully script driven, and compatible with several Web Servers for Windows and Linux, including Apache.

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

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 code.

EleXER

EleXer is part of the EleBBS Suite. It's provides a scripting language that's both fast and powerfull. It can be used to enhance the main BBS, the EleWeb interface, or a standalone scripting language for several tasks

By using a syntax which is a subset of Pascal, it features a very clean and easy to use syntax, while having a small learning curve for many BBS enthusiast's .

Future Development
Development is currently active, but is no longer being maintained by the original author Maarten Bekers.

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