O·M·N·I^™ Online/Internet BBS
Standard Features List

• Highly Customizable: Every part of your O·M·N·I Online Information System can be made to look and feel … exactly the way you want. You even have complete control over the way your message/conference and file areas will look (which is not possible in many BBS software applications). O·M·N·I's extraordinary flexibility gives you all the freedom you need for developing the online system you want.
  
  
• Secure Dial-up & Internet Access: O·M·N·I provides every tool necessary to set up a secure full-service Windows/GUI-based Internet BBS with direct dial-up access and Internet connectivity. That means you have the option of letting callers anywhere in the world connect to your O·M·N·I Windows BBS over the Internet … just as easily as they do the World Wide Web.
  
  
• Multiple Caller Support: O·M·N·I supports more nodes (telephone lines and/or simultaneous connections) on a single computer than most other BBS software—in packages ranging from 2 to 128 nodes.
  
  
• User Friendly: O·M·N·I Term (the O·M·N·I custom client) is an easy-to-use Microsoft® Windows-based application. Customers, prospects, members, clients … even experienced company workgroups will enjoy the ease and simplicity of installing it then connecting to your Windows-based O·M·N·I server. They'll actually feel like they're using a Windows application installed on their own machine when connected.
  
  
• O·M·N·I Term Accessories: The O·M·N·I Term is also useful for doing things other than connecting to an O·M·N·I Server. For example, file viewers for many of today's popular image formats, text files, and RTF files are included. The O·M·N·I Term can even open a ZIP file and decompress it for you!
  
  
• Window Editor: The O·M·N·I Window Editor is a unique and powerful application in itself. It is used to include the objects and create all the windows that make up your system's GUI (graphical user interface). System task teams and designers will find the Window Editor a real joy to work with. And it comes complete with your O·M·N·I software package … at no additional cost.
  
  
• Object-oriented Communications: You can choose which objects are sent live and which ones will be automatically stored on your caller's computer. By storing commonly used information on the user's end, your entire system will remain much more responsive. For example, when you make changes to a window … only the changes are sent—not the entire window—so callers get them much faster.
  
  
• Permanent Forums: You can set up special windows and/or forums on your online service which will be sent and stored on your user's computer the first time they enter the area (instead of being sent during the initial windows download at first sign-on). This saves valuable time and disk space for those who may not want to enter a certain area … and adds significantly to the seamless performance of your system.
  
  
• Exports Windows & Objects: O·M·N·I allows you to import and export windows and objects you've created in the Window Editor for sharing between (or distribution to) other O·M·N·I Systems. This makes it possible for system designers to conduct development at completely different locations and (for instance) send their work back and forth via e-mail.
  
  
• Resizeable Windows: O·M·N·I makes it possible for you to create a window with a resizeable border … and will automatically resize the contents of the window for you! No programming or script writing is required—the window will automatically resize the elements on its own.
  
  
• Transparent Hot Spots: The Window Editor is capable of creating invisible areas on a window that will carry out specific commands when clicked. This makes it possible, for instance, to create a single image on which you can place multiple hot spots that the user can click to carry out various functions on your system.
  
  
• Rich Text Documents: In O·M·N·I you have the ability to create and display "rich text" documents in any of your system's windows. This means that your special online messages can contain multiple typefaces, sizes, colors, and paragraph alignments … not just plain text (although you still have that option too). Your users will take pleasure in scrolling through your uniquely styled messages online.
  
  
• Image Formats: In O·M·N·I you have a wide range of options for controlling graphic image quality and transfer speeds. You can use JPEG, GIF, CMP, WMF, BMP, and ICO images anywhere in you system's windows … in 4, 8, 16, or 24-bit color.
  
  
• Live Image Preview: O·M·N·I gives you the capability of offering live online image file previews … which gives callers a chance to see a quick "thumbnail" of an image before downloading the actual file. The commercial applications for image file previewing—from stock photo previews to full-color ads—are endless. O·M·N·I supports all major formats, including GIF, JPEG, TIF, TGA, PCX, CMP, BMP, and PCD.
  
  
• Online Sound: You can make your graphical online service come alive with sound! You can associate any standard Windows WAV file to a button click, a window opening, a window closing … and many other events in O·M·N·I. In addition, MIDI sound is fully supported … with complete control over how many times a file is played.
  
  
• O·M·N·I Basic: Available with some O·M·N·I software packages (or as an add-on) is an easy-to-use programming and scripting language which significantly extends the range your design and command capabilities—such as adding online forms and animation to your system!
  
  
• Message-Conference & File Areas: In O·M·N·I you have complete control over how each message board and file area on your system is set up. You have the option of using either buttons or directory-tree listings for user access to each conference or file area on your system. Because you may also control the way each area will look … you can give a highly professional appearance to all your online forums.
  
  
• Multi-tasking File Transfer: Your users can be uploading and downloading a file and still maintain full use of the rest of your system. Not only that, but they can "line up" numerous file selections at once for transferring in sequence, and sign off automatically at the end of the process. This assures the most cost-effective use of your system … by allowing anyone who's connected to perform other important tasks, or even leave their terminal, while files are being transferred.
  
  
• Live ZIP File Preview: Your callers can see what's inside a ZIP file in your file listing with just the click of a button—so they can actually decide whether or not they want to download a file.
  
  
• E-mail: O·M·N·I's advanced, built-in e-mail system allows for complete centralized management of your business, institutional, or personal mail. Internet connectivity is available, and a simple name-based addressing system allows for multiple mailboxes at both the server and user's terminal. Mail may be composed offline then saved for editing or mailing later. E-mail message status (for both incoming and outgoing messages) is indicated with easy-to-read color-coded icons, which makes tracking volumes of e-mail daily … just a breeze.
  
  
• Multiple E-mail Attachments: O·M·N·I's e-mail system also allows you to attach multiple files to your e-mail messages. O·M·N·I even automatically compresses all attachments for you! You no longer have to be concerned about ZIPping up all your files before you send them … or wondering if the recipient will know how to unZIP the files once they get them. It's all done automatically for both the sender and the recipient.
  
  
• Multi-node Chat: O·M·N·I features a complete built-in chat engine, with user paging and whispering. Chat sessions may also be initiated, entered, or "invisibly" monitored from the server.
  
  
• Multiple Chat Rooms/Teleconferencing Areas: With O·M·N·I you can set up multiple (private or public) chat rooms on your system, with the ability to page other users on the system and to "whisper" privately to someone else in the same teleconference area.
  
  
• Ready-to-use Windows: You have the option of installing a fully operational "sample" online system with O·M·N·I—complete with predesigned objects and windows which you may also use as templates for designing new ones. (The O·M·N·I Window Editor Tutorial, included with your software package, is also based on this sample system.) So setting up O·M·N·I can be a simple, turnkey operation!
  
  
• Optimized System Management: O·M·N·I puts complete user, e-mail, message board, and file area management right at your fingertips … with many simple but powerful tools. One of O·M·N·I's most important advantages is the way it is organized. Everything is fully integrated to make the operation and management of your graphical online service as easy as possible.
  
  
• Extensive Accounting Plan Options: O·M·N·I offers extensive time- and connection-based accounting plan options for setting up different types of user accounting plans on your system—allowing you to charge users for the specific way they use your system.
  
  
• MS-Access Database Format: The user, e-mail, message board, and file area databases are all stored in MS-Access 2.0 database files making it easy to write add-on utilities in Access and Visual Basic—lending even greater versatility to your system.
  
  
• ANSI Support: O·M·N·I internally supports ANSI Text dial-up callers, making it easy for your new users to download their FREE copy of O·M·N·I Term using their standard comm or modem program. The O·M·N·I ANSI System Editor is included for designing ANSI Text menus.
  
  
• Custom Dialog/Message Text Editing: O·M·N·I allows you to edit various dialog messages that users see when they sign on to your system … making the caller's experience on your system as personalized as possible.
  
  
• O·M·N·I Imager: The O·M·N·I Imager is a full-featured image viewing and conversion utility that includes many standard image filters, such as sharpen, blur, and emboss. You can also adjust brightness, contrast, color hue, and saturation—among many other things.