• FILES.BBS History/Specs

    From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to All on Tue Dec 18 15:45:05 2018
    I'm looking for information (specs, layout descriptions, other appearances in documentation, old source code, and so on...) on FILES.BBS formats. There were many developed and use over the years and I'd like to try to point to some of the originating sources for them as much as possible.

    For example, @akacastor on Twitter pointed me to the Maximus 3.0 documentation (MAX.DOC) that has some blurbs like this about a very basic (single line-per-entry) format:

    ---/snip/---
    Inside files.bbs, you should see a list of the files in the
    directory. If you wish to add a description for a particular
    file, simply add one or more spaces after the filename and
    insert your description there. A description can be up to
    1024 characters long; although only 48 characters can be dis-
    played on one line of the file catalog, Maximus will auto-
    matically wordwrap the rest of the text onto the following
    lines.

    The files.bbs in a hypothetical file area could look like
    this:

    DEMO.LST Description of product demonstration
    INFO.TXT Information about this system
    RESULTS.ZIP Results from the last quarter


    ---/snip/---

    Any help, links, etc. appreciated! I will put this information on GitHub under my ansi-bbs project. There is a small but growing collection of FILES.BBS files
    in various formats there already: https://github.com/NuSkooler/ansi-bbs/tree/master/ancient_formats/files_bbs









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