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the conference elects their permanent host(s).

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The conferences may change or merge based on traffic.

NUMBER:         1
NAME:           SNIPPETS
DESCRIPTION:    BASIC Snippets Conference
  This area is for the discussion of good BASIC programming along with the
  how to accomplish your programming goals.  You can contribute to this
  area--regardless of your skill.  It may be asking a question that's
  stumping other users, too.  Or it may be helping me to get rid of an
  old programming prejudice/flaw.  Or...

  We hope for a spirited, argumentative conference; though deplore personal
  attacks and will vehemently react to such discourtesy.  However, attacks
  on ones code is fair game and highly encouraged.  If you can't live with
  that, don't contribute a new snippet.
HOSTS:     Bobby Morgan
ACTIVITY:  Light to Medium

NUMBER:         2
NAME:           DISCUSS
DESCRIPTION:    Chat about any BASIC Topic
  This area is for casual discussion about programming using BASIC.  It
  is the conference that allows for general discussion of about any QB
  related topic.  It is a much more relaxed area than the Snippets area
  where actual code and coding practices are the _only_ topic allowed.

  Vendors are also welcome to discuss there wares--within reason.
HOSTS:
ACTIVITY:       Medium

NUMBER:         3
NAME:           Novice
DESCRIPTION:    Novice Programmers Conference
  We all need someplace to start; ask that dumb question that everybody
  says really isn't; and, commiserate.  This spot is it, folk...

  Be sure to take a look at the bulletins they have answers for all
  those FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) I could think of.  I'm sure
  it will be expanded often.
  HOSTS:          Nicholas Nowinski
ACTIVITY:       Light to Medium

NUMBER:         4
NAME:           VB
DESCRIPTION:    Visual BASIC
   Discussion concerning programming using Visual BASIC for Windows and
   the new Visual BASIC for DOS.
HOSTS:
ACTIVITY:       Light

NUMBER:         5
NAME:           QBASM
DESCRIPTION:    Low Level and Asm
   Discussion concerning programming of interrupts, hardware via ports
   and all those things that you can either access using QB
   INP/OUT/INTERRUPT or do from Assembler.  You can also discuss any
   asm problems or techniques.
HOSTS:
ACTIVITY:       Light

NUMBER:         6
NAME:           Comm/Doors
DESCRIPTION:    Door and communications programming
    Programming communications is different.  The way things are echoed
    controlling operation of the UART hardware and more make this a
    new challange. Additionally, bbs door software requires specific
    interfacing.   Discuss the problems and pitfalls associated with
    all aspects of bbs and other modem communication
HOSTS:          Robert Church
ACTIVITY:       Light

NUMBER:         7
NAME:           Consulting
DESCRIPTION:    A place for those who work in a commercial environment
                or make their livlihood from programming to discuss
                situations relating to their specific problems or the
                field.
HOSTS:
ACTIVITY:       Light

NUMBER:         8
NAME:           Utilities
DESCRIPTION:    System programming and utilities have been considered
                the bailiwick of Assembly language or "C" programmers.
                But, recent changes and alternate libraries have made
                BASIC programmers a competitive force.  We all need
                to write the occasional utility.  Chat here about it
                becoming a world class tool.

                Participants will find information about programming
                at the system level.  Others are sure to accrue benefits
                from such knowledge in their applications.
HOSTS:
ACTIVITY:       Light

NUMBER:         9
NAME:           Hardware
DESCRIPTION:    Hardware as it relates to software.
                Why a hardware conference on a programmer's echo?
                Hardware is the "necessary evil" and, the more we know
                about, it the better our software.
HOSTS:
ACTIVITY:       Light

NUMBER:         10
NAME            Reviews  (All mesages should include: "REPLY IN DISCUSS")
DESCRIPTION:    After you buy or use a product for a while, you may
                wish to let others know about its strength and weakness.
                You are invited to enter an ARTICLE that gives your
                views on any BASIC related products.  These will be
                retained on a long term basis on most systems.

                Dave Cleary may select some for electronic publication
                in his BASIC newsletter.  If you place a message in this
                conference, you are giving Dave authority to append his
                publisher's copyright to any existing copyrights.
HOSTS:
ACTIVITY:

NUMBER:         11
NAME            Software Engineering (Group Projects)
DESCRIPTION:    A place for programmers to jointly develop software
                projects.  The topic will vary from time-to-tim
HOSTS:          Dave Cleary
ACTIVITY:       New 12/92

NUMBER:         12
NAME            ILINK  (ILINK prime distributor)
DESCRIPTION:    This is the BASIC conference from ILINK.  Due to an
                agreement between the two networks, we share our
                BASIC conferences and both distribute the other's
                conferences
HOSTS:          Mike Cocke
ACTIVITY:       Moderate to Active

NUMBER:         13
NAME            MicroHelp (ILINK prime distributor)
DESCRIPTION:    A commercial library vendor.  They offer a number of
                libraries to BASIC programmers
HOSTS:          MicroHelp Support
ACTIVITY:       ???


NUMBER:         14
NAME            Crescent Software
DESCRIPTION:    A commercial library vendor providing support for their
                products which include PDQ, QPak, GraphPak, QScreen, XREF
HOSTS:          Dave Cleary, Crescent BBS Sysop
ACTIVITY:       New 11/92

NUMBER:         15
NAME            EllTech (Tony Elliot)
DESCRIPTION:    A commercial library vendor providing support for their
                products which include E-Tree Plus, Printer Plus, Compression
                Plus, QuickNet, DynaMenu, Virtual Form Manager, and GUI
                Toolkit.
HOSTS:          Tony Elliot
ACTIVITY:       New 12/92

NUMBER:         16
NAME            Hanlin Shareware
DESCRIPTION:    Meet and discuss with fellow programmers and the author
                any of the shareware products of Tom Hanlin.
HOSTS:          Tom Hanlin
ACTIVITY:       Medium

NUMBER:         17
NAME            PowerBASIC by Spectra
DESCRIPTION:    Meet and discuss with fellow programmers and the tech
                support department of that excellent BASIC alternative
                POWER BASIC.  PowerBASIC is a very powerful alternative
                BASIC!
HOSTS:          Lloyd Smith, Spectra Tech Support
ACTIVITY:       Pending

NUMBER:         18
NAME:           Vendor
DESCRIPTION:    General Vendors Conference
  A place to meet with and discuss any QB products.   If a conference
  exist for the product you wish to discuss, please use it instead.
  Any programmer may use this area for support of any product of his
  commercial or shareware BASIC library or utility.  Press releases,
  price lists etc., if kept reasonably limited, are welcome.
  Vendors Available:   Christy Gimmel
                       DSE Software Publishing
HOSTS:          Each vendor will host his portion.  The network will
                provide generic hosting as necessary.
ACTIVITY:       Light

NUMBER:         19
NAME            Off-Topic
DESCRIPTION:    Sometimes we want to chat about a topic that's not
                allowed in the conferences we participate in.  Well,
                here's where to come to discuss it.

                One can also try to peddle that clunker software,
                hardware, whatever, and/or insert an advert for your
                bbs. (ANSI adverts are not overly appreciated!)

HOSTS:
ACTIVITY:       Light

NUMBER:         20
NAME:           HUB
DESCRIPTION:    This is a conference that will be used to iron out the
                details associated with this network.  Each hub will
                echo this conference as their "local" conference for
                their hub family to work out network problems.
                During startup, this conference will originate and pass
                through the NETHub.  Future plans may change.
HOSTS:          Your Hub sysop
ACTIVITY:       Permanent Net Business

Note:   ILINK cross distributes conferences with BASNet.  In the ILINK
        originating conference (12 - 13), ILINK rules apply and ILINK
        moderators host and control conference activity.
