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 The CONTROL.DAT file

 Control.Dat is a normal ASCII text file with the following lines in
 exactly the order shown.

 BBS name
 BBS City, BBS State
 BBS phone number                      AAA-EEE-NNNN
 Sysop name,Sysop                      Sysop name in upper case followed
                                        by the literal ',Sysop'
 Serial number, BBS ID                 Serial Number, UpperCase BBSID
 Date of mail packet, time of packet   MM-DD-YYYY, HH:MM:SS
 Caller's name                         Uppercase
 blank
 0
 0
 Number of conferences in additon to conference 0 which is main
                                  ie use number of conferences minus one
 Conference number
 Name of Conference     should be limited to maximum length of 12 characters
  : : : : : :
 Conference number
 Name of Conference
 Name of BBS welcome file
 Name of NEWS file
 Name of BBS goodbye file

 Other optional data may occur after the Goodbye file line, but the trend
 is to omit this data.  If included it is as follows:

 0                                    Unknown
 Screen Length
 USER NAME                            Upper case
 FirstName                            Proper case
 CITY, ST                             Upper case
 Data Phone                           AAA EEE-NNNN
 Voice Phone                          AAA EEE-NNNN
 Security Level
 Expiration Date                      MM-DD-YY
 Last On Date                         MM-DD-YY
 Last On Time                         HH:MM
 Number of calls
 0                                    Unknown
 DownLoaded Bytes
 DownLoaded Count
 Uploaded Bytes
 Uploaded Count
 Time Limit Per Day                   Minutes
 Time Remaining                       Minutes
 Time Used Today                      Minutes
 DownLoad Limit/Day                   Kilobytes
 DownLoad Bytes Remaining Today       Bytes
 DownLoaded Today                     Bytes
 Current Time                         HH:MM
 Current Date                         MM-DD-YY
 System Tag Line