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- \?
- C H A N G E S E T T I N G S
-
- N ... Change your NAME
- A ... Change your ADDRESS (City, State)
- P ... Change your PASSWORD
- H ... Change your HELP Level
- W ... WIDTH of screen (Columns)
- L ... LINES on your screen
- M ... Turn "MORE?" on and off
- T ... TABS on/off
- F ... Number of FILLER-Nulls
-
- Here is where you change information about yourself (name,ì
- address, password, etc.) as well as about your terminal program.
-
- Fido will remember these settings each time you log in.
-
- * Enter "N?" for help with the N)ame command
- * Enter "P?" for help with the P)assword command
- .
- .
- * And so on for all the commands you see in the menu.
-
- (Don't enter the quotes, just the command letter and theì
- questionmark.)
-
- \N
- N)ame. Enter a new Name, up to 3 words; you may now enter aì
- middle name or initial with your first and last names. Fidoì
- checks that the name you select isn't already in the callerì
- database.
-
- \A
- A)ddress. Enter a new Address (max. - 35 characters.); minimum isì
- the City, State from which you are calling.
-
- \P
- P)assword. Enter a new one-word Password; use 4 or moreì
- characters.
-
- \H
- H)elp-level. Enter a new Help level; there are three levels ofì
- help. When you first log in, you get LEVEL 3.
-
- LEVEL 3: FULL HELP. All prompts show the full command names;ì
- various commands display information as you use them; in general,ì
- Fido is more "wordy".
-
- LEVEL 2: SOME HELP. Prompts show only the first letter of eachì
- command; Fido is a lot less "wordy", but you are still promptedì
- for each item needed.
-
- LEVEL 1: NO HELP. Prompts are single, unhelpful prompts, such as:ì
- "Command (?=help: )" . It is assumed you that understand Fidoì
- completely.
-
- \W
- W)idth. Set your Screen Width, the number of characters yourì
- screen can show on one line. Fido initially assumes that you haveì
- 80 columns.
-
- \L
- L)ength. Set you Screen Length, in lines. Fido initially assumesì
- your screen has 24 lines.
-
- \M
- M)ore. If set "ON", Fido pauses every screenful when displayingì
- text and prompts "More[Y,n]"; you can press "Y" or [CR] toì
- continue, "N" or Control-C to stop.
-
- Fido "toggles" between "ON" and "OFF" every time you use thisì
- command. Fido initially assumes "ON".
-
- \T
- T)abs. If set "ON", Fido expands tab characters (ASCII 8 ì
- decimal) into the proper number of spaces, assuming tab stops atì
- every 8th column. "OFF" causes Fido to issue the tab charactersì
- as-is. Many terminal programs cannot handle tab charactersì
- properly.
-
- Fido "toggles" between "ON" and "OFF" every time you use thisì
- command.
-
- \F
- F)iller-Nulls. Prompts you for the number of null characters ì
- (ASCII 0 decimal) that your terminal program needs after each newì
- line. Fido initially assumes none needed.
-
- This is needed only for very special cases; if you are ì
- consistently missing text at the left edge of your screen, tryì
- changing this value.