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- Fnordadel Held Message Tutorial
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- The [H]eld option in the message editor is a convenient feature. It puts
- your message in a temporary buffer and returns you to the "ROOM>" prompt, or to
- the "more" prompt if you were reading messages using .R(ead) M(ore). You may
- then continue to use the BBS as you normally would. Usually at this point
- you'd either review earlier messages so that the message you've [H]eld could
- be made more incisive, read later messages so that you can add more replies to
- your message, or change rooms if you feel the message belongs elsewhere.
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- Once you're ready to continue editing the message in the held buffer, use
- the ".E(nter) H(eld-message)" command at the room prompt, or the [H]eld command
- at the "more" command prompt. You will be returned to the message editor, to
- proceed with the held message. You can hold and continue a message like this
- any number of times.
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- The temporary buffer used to hold your message is a disk file. If the Sysop
- is a nice person and has lots of free disk space, he or she will hopefully set
- things up so that if you somehow get cut off the system prematurely, your
- message will still be in your held buffer when you call back.
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- Only one message can be held at a time.
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- %%SEE ALSO:
- %ENTER How to enter things
- %TOPICS Main help topics listing
-