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- Fnordadel Skip Command Tutorial
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- If someone has entered a message in a room since you were last in that
- room, the system will consider it to be new to you. You can use [G]oto to go
- to the room automagically, or .G(oto) ROOMNAME to go to it manually. See
- .H(elp) GOTO.
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- Having done this goto operation, if for some reason you decide that you
- want the system to think that you HAVEN'T been in that room, the [S]kip
- command is available to accomplish this. It is identical in usage to the
- [G]oto command usage -- just hit "S" and you'll be taken to the next room with
- new messages. However, as you leave the current room, the system will mark it
- as "skipped", and not update any new messages in it with "old" status. If you
- keep using [G]oto or [S]kip long enough, you'll eventually be brought back to
- the current room again, and its new messages will still be new.
-
- To skip the current room and go directly to a specific room, use the
- extended command ".S(kip) ROOMNAME", where "ROOMNAME" can be a partial room
- name. The system will look for a matching room and take you there.
-
- If you are in floor mode, you can skip an entire floor of rooms using the
- ;S(kip) command. This command skips all the rooms on the current floor and
- takes you to the first room with new messages on a later floor.
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- If you get to the point where there are no more rooms with unread messages
- besides the one(s) that you've skipped, the system will print out the list of
- rooms that you've skipped. Terminating with rooms on the skipped list simply
- leaves them with unread messages for the next time you call.
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- %%SEE ALSO:
- %FLOORS About floors
- %FORGET How to forget rooms (a sort of permanent skip)
- %ROOMS What's a room?
- %TOPICS Main help topics list
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