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- Fnordadel Goto Command Tutorial
-
- The basic method of navigation in Fnordadel is the "goto" command. In
- its simplest form (the single-key [G]oto command), it takes you to the next
- room in the system which has new messages. When there are no more new
- messages in the system, you're returned to Lobby> (which is where you started).
-
- (New messages are ones which you haven't seen yet -- it doesn't matter
- whether you've called a couple of times without getting to those messages.
- The BBS only considers messages as having been read if you've been to the room
- and [G]oto'ed out of it -- even if you didn't actually read the messages!)
-
- The extended command ".G(oto) ROOMNAME" allows you to go directly to any
- room in the system, new messages or not. "ROOMNAME" can be just a partial room
- name if you don't want to type the whole thing out; the BBS will take you to
- the first room which matches the supplied text. For example, typing
-
- .G(oto) games
-
- will take you to a room called "GAMES", or "Games People Play", or "SiLlY
- gAmEs", or whatever.
-
- .G(oto) can also be used to "unforget" public or normal private rooms that
- you have used the [Z] command to forget about. You need to specify the exact
- room name. See .H(elp) FORGET.
-
- .G(oto) [?] will accomplish the same thing as the [K]nown command.
-
- If you are in floor mode, you can use the ";G(oto) FLOORNAME" to go to the
- first room in the named floor. "FLOORNAME" can be a partial floor name. The
- command can't be used to unforget an entire floor forgetten using ;Z,
- unfortunately.
-
- As mentioned above, when you use [G]oto to leave a room, all messages in
- that room are assumed to have been read, even if they haven't been. If you
- accidentally hit [G]oto and want to pretend you didn't, use the [B]ackup
- command (or its older clone, [U]ngoto, which may not be available). It takes
- you backwards, and makes the messages in the last room new again. You can use
- [B]ackup up to 16 times to reverse your steps.
-
- There is also an extended ".B(ackup) ROOMNAME" command (and its clone,
- .U(ngoto), which may not be available). "ROOMNAME" may be just a partial room
- name, as with .G(oto). This command takes you directly to a room (which you
- presumably left earlier using .G(oto) and returns the appropriate messages in
- it to "new" status.
-
- %%SEE ALSO:
- %FLOORS Information on floors
- %FORGET How to be forgetful
- %HIDDEN Info on private rooms
- %ROOMS What's a room, anyway?
- %SKIP Tutorial on the Skip command
- %TOPICS Main help topics list
-