HAM Radio 3/hamradioversion3.0examsandprograms1992.iso/packet/pt-109/pt-109.exe/pak/BBS-CMDS.DOC

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             All commands on the PBBS generally consist of a letter a space
and then the qualifier and then a Carriage Return or on some computers the
Return key. eg.   N Joe<C/R)    will place your name into the system as Joe.
For most of the commands if you send just the letter without any qualifier,
you will get an explanation back on the use of the command. Sending the
letter D plus <C/R> for example you will get back from the PBBS;
Use: D directoryname\filename.ext


Summary of COMMANDS on BBS:

[B] ---------- to LOG off from BBS. (DISCONNECT). Sending the letter B plus
               a carriage return will disconnect you from the PBBS.

[CB] --------- this BBS keeps a running log of 'H' addresses of anyone
               who's bulletin or message passes through it. If you want to
               send a message to someone and you don't know what BBS they
               get their mail on, this feature may help. It will give you
               the BBS's call plus the 'H' address for it. The file that
               holds this information is allowd to grow to a half a million
               bytes before it is reduced.

[? or H] ----- to get HELP, these instructions. Sending the ? or the letter
               H will get you the Summary of commands list. (short version).

[HA] --------- to get instructions on how to address mail to be forwarded.

[F] ---------- to FIND any file on the PBBS. Send an F to the BBS and then at
               the prompt you get back you can enter the first name of the
               file you are looking for, eg., MORSE, MORS, MOR, CODE, COD,
               etc. The shorter the string you enter the less selective the
               search will be. If you entered MORSE you would get back a
               listing of all the files on the BBS that has the string MORSE
               in it and what directory it is in.

[L] ---------- to LIST LAST 20 messages on BBS. Sending just the letter L
               will list only the last 20 messages on the PBBS. To list more
               than that you can use LL #, L>, L<, LB or L ALL.

[LB] --------- to LIST only msgs. addressed to ALL. Sending LB to the PBBS
               will get you a list of all the messages addressed to ALL only.

[L ALL] ------ to LIST ALL the msgs. on the BBS. Sending L ALL will get you
               a list of every message on the PBBS except those that were
               sent as private mail with the SP command.

[L>] --------- to FIND mail addressed to you.  L> your callsign. Use this to
               find a particular message or group of messages, for example,
               if you saw in the BEACON that there was mail on the PBBS for
               N3XYZ OR SALE, you can list only mail addressed to them by
               the L> command. eg.   L> SALE   will get you a list of all the
               mail addressed to SALE and nothing else.

[L<] --------- to FIND mail addressed from you.  L< your callsign.
               This command is just the opposite of the L> command, this one
               will find and list mail from someone rather than to someone.
               if for example you wish to see how many messages are on the
               the PBBS from you, you would send   L< yourcallsign.

[LC] --------- to LIST messages by catagory, eg., < LC DX, LC ARRL >, etc,
               This command will search the TO and @BBS fields and also
               the SUBJECT field for the STRING you enter for search.

[LM] --------- to LIST msgs. addressed to you. If you have mail on the BBS,
               when you first connect to the system,  you will be notified
               you do. It is only at this time you can use the following:
               LM, RM, KM. These commands eliminate the need for you to deal
               with message numbers at this point.

[LL #] ------- to LIST # of messages. This command will list the number of
               messages you desire, eg.    LL 7    will list the last 7 msgs.

[LT] --------- to LIST messages for TODAY only.

[I] ---------- to read INFOrmation file about this station. Sending a letter
               I to the system will download to you the Information file con-
               taining all the pertinent information about the PBBS system
               and radio station.

[N] ---------- to put your NAME into the system. <N yourname>. This command
               puts your name in the system permanently so that the system
               may address you by name.

[NH] --------- to Enter your HOME PBBS into the system. This puts your home
               PBBS in the system files so the sysop will know where to notify
               you in the event you have mail here or he can forward it if
               need be.

[R] ---------- to READ a message, <R messagenumber>, <R 5>.  You may also
               stack this command, for example if you wanted to read more
               than 1 message you could send: <R 2 234 236 305>. This syntax
               would result in the BBS sendin you message 2, 234, 236 and
               305 with just the one command.

[RM] --------- to READ your message(s). This applies only if you have mail on
               the system. RM will read ALL your messages.

[S] ---------- to SEND a msg to someone. <S callsign>, <S N3XYZ>.

[SP] --------- to SEND PRIVATE MAIL.  Use this command to send mail to
               someone that you want to be private. It will be only able to
               read by the sender or the person it is addressed to.

[S ALL] ------ to SEND a message or bulletin addressed to ALL. <S ALL>.

[S xxx @ xxx]  to SEND a message or bulletin to another PBBS or USER at
               another PBBS. eg., <SB ALL @ ALLBBS>, <S N3ABC @ W3XYZ>.

[JH] --------- to SHOW LOG.(Who has connected to BBS).

[J] ---------- to show what stations the TNC has heard.

[G] ---------- to access the Gateway if it is available.

[KM] --------- to KILL your message(s). Kills ALL mail addressed to you.

[W] ---------- to see WHAT directories/files are on the PBBS.  Files of info-
               rmation and computer software are stored on the disk in SUB-
               DIRectories. When you send the command W to the system, what
               you get back is a list of what's in the various directories.
               You may see files there and also SUB-DIRectories. A file will
               have a name like, BBS-CMDS.DOC followed by its size in bytes.
               If you see a name like BASIC <DIR>. then you know that BASIC
               is a SUB-DIRectory and in it are probably computer pgms written
               in BASIC. If you wanted to download any files that might be
               there, you must first be able to see what's there and you may
               do this by sending the command  W BASIC  and this will show you
               what's in the BASIC DIRectory. then if you wish you may down
               load any file you see there by sending the following command:
               D BASIC\MINITERM.BAS, if indeed that is the file or pgm you
               wanted.

[WH] --------- to find someones Name, Home PBBS and when they last logged
               into the PBBS.  <WH callsign>.

[D] ---------- to DOWNLOAD a file. (D dir\filename.ext).(CTRL-Z to ABORT).
               After starting a download you may Abort it at any time by the
               sending of the CTRL-Z character. Upon the PBBS receiving the
               CTRL-Z the pbbs will immediately stop sending data to the TNC.
               However there may be up to 3k of data still left in the TNC
               that will be sent to you so you won't see an immediate cease
               of incoming data, but be assured it will stop as soon as the
               TNC has purged itself. It's rather like trying to stop a woman
               from completing a tirade in mid stream, it'll never happen
               unless your prepared to shoot her.  BINARY dowloads can ONLY
               be done if you are using BACKTALK-100 or PACKTALK, version
               1.0.4 and the filename extension ends in .EXE, .COM or .ARC.

[V] ---------- to show what VERSION of software and author.


[U] ---------- to UPLOAD a file. (U dir\filename.ext). You can upload ASCII
               or BINARY files to this system. Just do the same as you would
               for a download except you replace the D with a U, for example,
               if you wanted to upload a pgm to the BASIC directory and the
               programs name was MINITERM.BAS then you would type the fol-
               lowing:  U BASIC\MINITERM.BAS.  BINARY uploads can ONLY be
               done if you are using BACKTALK-100 or PACKTALK, ver. 1.0.4.
               and as long as the filename extension ends in .EXE, .COM or
               .ARC.

[T] ---------- to TALK to SYSOP. Sending a T to the PBBS you sets in motion a
               series of events that take place in the shack where the PBBS is
               located. The PBBS pgm moves to an area in its pgm that will
               allow whatever the sysop types on the keyboard to be sent to
               the TNC for transmission and whatever comes in from you to be
               read by him and having no effect on the PBBS. When you sent
               that T it made the computer BEEP rather loudly to catch the
               attention of the sleeping sysop, so if he comes back to you a
               little disoriented don't be too concerned. If he does not reply
               you will be put back to the PBBS in about 15 seconds.

[X] ---------- to get the command list for remote SYSOP's.

[CTRL-Z] ----- This control character is used for closing files and also to
               ABORT any download, this also includes messages you are
               reading.