Ok Folks,
        First my apologies for the lack of documentation, (it will be forth
coming asap !)  This file is aimed at getting you up and running, so you can
take a look at the Qfront System.  What exactly is Qfront ???  It is a front
end loader for PCB 14.5 & 14.5a, that takes care of all of your events, in a
logical, and reliable manner, it allows you to have up to 30 events a day,
and since it has been developed on a Lantastic Ethernet, it will also allow
you to specify a "Critical Event" on the LAN, and when the event is executed
Qfront will notify your users, and make PCBoard boot the users off, and bring
the node down to the call waiting screen, with the phone off hook, until the
critical event is passed, then the nodes are brought back up on line, waiting
to answer the phone. File requesting, and the File Request Door, allow you
to "FREQ" another Qfront system, and request a file list, and or files, from
that system, all from front end, with no need to log on, and yes it's secure
the Sysop must exist in your user file, and have clearance to do this !!! One
added feature is the Freq Door, which allows your users to view a master file
list, from the systems that you are participating with, and if they have credit
in their Freq door account, they can request a file, from any of the systems
that you are associated with, as long as that system is running Qfront, and
you have Freq rights there, the proccess is all automated, and you don't have
to do more than set it up, and add their credit to their account. The Freq's
are done during the time/event that you specify.



        Finally, the Automail part of Qfront !!, after growing sick and
tired of all the crap i have to go thru to make a mail run, useing the stuff
that is available to a pcboard sysop, we added the automail part of qfront
Similar to File Requesting, and just as secure, you set up an event, to make
your mail run, and qfront calls, and gets it for you, providing the system
you are calling also has Qfront, everything is done from the front end, and
is all automated, and secure, once again the sysop must exist on your system
and in your node list, in order to be able to do this. If not they go directly
to your BBS, for log on.

        For those of you who don't worry about security, then you can disable
these functions, and run it wide open.

At present, the automail part, only is fully functional for Qmail & Rosemail
but the support is built in for PCRelay, and Netmail, and will be implemented
as soon as wee have a couple systems willing to test it !! Other Mail Support
can be added by request.


Finally there is the Qaccess Module, this is a door/bbs conversion module
that creates all of the neccessary files on the fly to run many different
bbs door types, and you can chain them together, ie it's a lot like Prologon
with a lot of nifty additions.  This is on the back burnere for the moment
until we get the rest tested, and finished.


Enuff Advertisement !!!  You will find a qfront.sys file that is good
until 07/12/91,  after that you will have to call my system to get a new
key file.  We will register a 90 day evaluation copy to you and take away
the demo crap and register it to your system, if you call and leave us a
note on my bbs, also, you can test your setup on either node depending on
wether you have a Hayes 9600 or a USR 9600, and fiddle around to your hearts
content.  You will notice that the Freq Door, is not included in this Zip,
that is only going to registered sysops, or beta testers.

Support is only available on my system in the Qfront conference, or on Any
QuickLink Network Member's system, I run my Qfront with no validation, so
you can try a file request, or mail run (Qmail 4.0 only at this point) when
ever you are ready.


Ok, now for the dirt !!!
Put Qfront.exe and Qfront.ovr, Qfconfig.exe and Qfconfig.ovr, in your pcboard
directory, along with starter.bat, and spawnbbs.bat, and qfront.ctl.
Qfront gets 90% of its info from your pcboard.dat
so if you are running a Hayes 9600 or USR 14.4 or above, that infor will be
grabbed from there !!  You must set pcboard to drop to dos after every call !!
You must set up a copy, in each of your nodes main directories, and edit the
paths to fit all substitutions, respectively !!

Edit Starter.bat, Spawnbbs.bat, and Qfront.ctl, to reflect your system setup
and pathing !!! (try to leave the basics intact, as "my stuff" doesn't need
to exist, but you will understand things better once you have played with
Qfront.

Now Check PCBSETUP and make sure you are set to drop to dos after every call
and under modem information change your intit string to

For HST:ATZ|~~~S7=45S0=0|


For Hayes 9600:ATZ0|~~~ATS7=45S0=0|


Actually you can use whatever init string you want, remeber that we use the
pipe | to siginify a carriage return, but if you get too wierd, pcb145 may not
init if you try to run it from board.bat.


now run qfconfig.exe  you will be presented with a series of pulldown menus
go thru each option and make certain that the paths reflect your system,

YOU MUST MAKE SURE YOUR PATH IS SET TO DSZ !!!!!!!  and remember to hit
enter to go "thru" the filed before you exit.

go thru the BBS Setup, The Events, and Automail & File Requests, all paths
that you specify, must exist, (you gotta create them) and dsz has to be
where you specify it.



My sincere apologies for the sparsity of these docs, but qfconfig is pretty
self explanatory, and if you have any questions, you can leave me a quick
message on my system, and i will call you back.


Qfront uses a spawn proccess to invoke the system, you use starter.bat to
invoke qfront, qfront sits waiting to answer the phone etc. and creates a
file called bbsbatch.bat to invoke spawnbbs.bat with the correct info, on
a 286 the proccess is fairly quick, and there are banner files that are
diplayed to the user.


I will have docs hammered out in a week or two, and will do whatever is
reasonable to support you, should you decided to run the Qfront System.

Ed Greene


The Shop BBS  Exeter New Hampshire, QuickLink Network H.Q.


Node 1  HST: 603-772-4239

Node 2 Hayes 9600 Smartmodem V.42   603-772-7803