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Let's continue our look at the R commands with one that mystifies a lot
of users! It's RM which means (R)ead (M)ine. It's used when a bbs says
it has a message for you. You don't bother getting the message number
so you grab the easy way. You enter RM on your keyboard, and sit back
while a message from Aunt Tillie floats by on your screen. "Hey, this
is neat!" you say. "Lemmee read it again!" So you punch RM on the
keyboard and the bbs replies "Nothing found" or words to that effect.
What happened? Well, beating on the keyboard or throwing your TNC out the
window won't help. What the bbs is telling you is that nothing NEW has
been found since your previous message, AND YOU'VE ALREADY READ THAT so
the bbs has tagged it as being "read." To read it again you have
to enter R (MESSAGENUMBER). Forgotten it? Enter LM (List Mine) to get
it. Incidently, when you're done reading your messages, it a courtesy
to the sysop to kill them with KM (Kill Mine).
Want some more? Okay, let's look at the R< and R> commands. Remember,
the symbol "<" means FROM and ">" means TO. Let's say KC4ZZZ has put a
local bulletins on the bbs, and you want to read it. The bulletin is
addressed to HAMS @ PODUNK but you don't know the message number.
Enter R< KC4ZZZ (Read FROM KC4ZZZ) and you'll get it. You could also
use R> HAMS (Read TO hams). Another way would be to enter R@ PODUNK.
(Read AT Podunk). WARNING! If there's more than one bulletin from
KC4ZZZ, or more than one addressed the same way, you're going to get
ALL of them with these commands! It might be better to use the (L)ist
command (covered in bulletin #2) to spot the one you want.
Otherwise you might get a very long string of messages from the bbs
while the frequency gets tied up and your brain turns to mush.
Next time we'll take a look at some more R commands, including some
good ones that aren't used too often. Questions or comments on this
series are welcome.
73...Bill, KB4VOL @ KB4VOL