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   @X0EWelcome to @X0FPCBWave@X0E!  PCBWave is THE offline mail door for PCBoard,
   setting standards that the @X0FBlue Wave@X0E mail system has set on other BBS
   packages, but that have never been seen in PCBoard mail doors until
   now!

   You may ask -- what advantages DOES PCBWave have?  Well, quite simply,
   it offers FULL support and compatibility with the Blue Wave offline mail
   system.  Unlike other mail doors, who claim to be Blue Wave doors, but
   really only provide you with a small fraction of the power of the Blue
   Wave mail system, PCBWave contains ALL the features of the "real" Blue
   Wave Mail Doors (by Cutting Edge Computing) that you may have seen on
   BBS's running software other than PCBoard, and adds a few original ones
   as well.

   @X0EThe Blue Wave Mail System is quickly becoming the most user friendly
   and powerful mail system available, while other standards are dying
   out due to either lack of an up-to-date standard (such as QWK), or due
   to lack of support and proprietary message formats.


   @X0FBefore you begin:

   @X07Your sysop has probably chosen to use the PCBWave mail door on this
   system for one or more of the following reasons:

      @X0B@X0A@X0B1) @X03@X07@X03@X09@X03PCBWave allows you to dynamically build a custom mail packet
         from the BBS's message base, using it's powerful bundling
         command features.  This makes the mail downloading process much
         more interactive than regular QWK offline mail doors.

         In essence, you are given statistics about all the message areas
         you've selected for download (the @X0Bscan table@X03), and provided with
         a set of tools (@X0Bbundling commands@X03), which you can use to dynam-
         ically and interactively customize your mail packet.

      @X0B2) @X03The Blue Wave mail system offers easier, more powerful, and more
         flexible offline configuration features than QWK.

      @X0B3) @X03For convenience, PCBWave allows you to download BOTH QWK and Blue
         Wave packets.  Even if your sysop isn't a fan of the Blue Wave
         system, PCBWave offers features that have never been seen before
         in QWK compatible mail doors.

      @X0B4) @X03One of the many other features that are transparent on your end,
         such as user-friendly easy to install and configure setup on the
         sysop end, as well as some of it's many features.


  @X0FBefore you begin:

@X07  In order to view mail packets created by the PCBWave door, you will need
  to download an offline mail reader.  We strongly recommend the Blue Wave
  (or a compatible) mail reader -- it is inexpensive, easy to use, and
  works extremely well with PCBWave.  Look for the filename BWAVE*.ZIP on
  this BBS for the latest version.  The Blue Wave reader comes in three
  flavours: a regular DOS version, an OS/2 version and a 386 DOS protected
  mode version.  Additionally, there is a third party Windows Blue Wave
  compatible reader, an Amiga Blue Wave reader, as well as several others.

  Your sysop has defined a default archiver (ZIP, ARC, LZH, PAK etc.) and
  a default protocol (Zmodem, Xmodem etc.) for you to use in the PCBWave
  door.  You will now be shown which protocol and which archiver the
  sysop has selected.  If you do not wish to use the default settings,
  you may change them from the (C)onfiguration menu.

  Thank you for trying out PCBWave!

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