Well, as promised, here is the first installment of "Deacon Blue's Allfix<->PCBoard Installation Guide". Hope it helps. 1. First thing to do is add a line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to set the environmental for ALLFIX. You know the drill, I'm sure. Just add the line SET ALLFIX=C:\ALLFIX or whatever the path is to your allfix directory. The next thing is to reboot (I know you know that but there may be someone else reading this that might have forgotten that you have to reboot before any changes in your AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS take effect). 2. Change to the ALLFIX directory and type: FCOMP 8 C:\PCB\MAIN The 8 tells it you are using a PCBoard and the path is the path to the directory where the @X0ECNAMES.@@@ @X03file is. This is just to let ALLFIX know What file directories you have set up and where they are. It also will process any messages bases that you have set up to scan for the FILEFIND feature and the REPORT feature (these will be defined later so we'll have to run FCOMP again) Any time you add or delete or rename a file area you must run FCOMP so Allfix can find it. 3. Still in the ALLFIX directory, type ASETUP and enter the System Data | Address Maintenance | Network Addresses screen. Here's what mine looks like: @X0C------------------------------------------------------------------------ Main 1:3825/21 ;This, of course is my main FIDONet address Fake 1:3825/21.999 ;See below ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I don't really understand the Fake address bussiness, to be honest with you. It has something to do with the way Allfix interacts with PCB's message bases. All I know is that you need to use an address that you are sure doesn't really exist. A point off of your Board is perfect because you know it isn't there. 4. The Next Screen is the System Data | Address Maintenance | Site Information screen. No big deal here. Mine looks like this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBS name Deacon Blue's Phone 1 806-857-3501 Phone 2 Phone 3 Location Fritch, TX SysOp Mark Elliott Max baud 14400 Flags V42B,V32B,CM ;Same as in the nodelist Reg key xxxxxxxxxxxx ;Sorry, can't print that! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Now the System Data | Address Maintenance | AKA Matching @X03screen The 0 are like a wild card inicating all the nets in a Zone. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Zone:Net AKA 1. 1:0 1:3825/21 2. 2:0 1:3825/21 3. 3:0 1:3825/21 4. 4:0 1:3825/21 5. 5:0 1:3825/21 6. 6:0 1:3825/21 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Now the System Data | Address Maintenance | Domain names screen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Main 1:3825/21 || Zone Domain Name AKA 1 914:806/1 || --------------------------------- || 1 NWTNet || 2 NWTNet || 3 NWTNet || 4 NWTNet || 5 NWTNet || 6 NWTNet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NWTNet is our local FidoNet net. 7. And, the final screen in this installment, the System Data | Address Maintenance | Uplink Manager screen These are the addresses of people that you've made arrangements to poll the file echos from. Most of the time, if the File Echo is listed in the FILEBONE.NA you can get the echo from the same hub you get your Fido Echos from. For some of the echos you'll have to contact the Hub listed in the FILEBONE.NA. BTW, if you don't have the FILEBONE.NA yet get one. You'll need it to set up your file echos with. If your hub doesn't have it then you can FREQ FILEBONE from me and get it. Hope this gets you started. Mark