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- This is the "help file" for the message system.
-
- The functions supported are: Enter, Kill, Scan, and Read.
-
- E: Enter: (requires access level 2 or higher - new users are level 1)
- - Aborts if message table is full: you must delete messages
- before you can enter any new messages;
- - Requests all information (addressee, section, etc.) to fill
- in the message header;
- - Accepts the message text, up to 20 lines of 80 characters per
- line;
- - NOTE: due to the "No-wrap" terminal width feature of this
- system, the end of an edited line MOST LIKELY will not correspond
- to the end-of-line on a reader's terminal! To force a new line in
- a message, place a period (".") in the FIRST position of an
- editor input line. No-wrap can be defeated by saving a
- "preformatted" message using the editor "P" command;
- - Editor subcommands:
- A - Abort message and return to BBS command level;
- C - Continue entering lines in message;
- D - Delete a given line from message;
- E - Edit string in a certain line;
- L - List message starting at a certain line;
- P - Save message as formatted in editor;
- R - Replace a line entirely;
- S - Store message in No-wrap format.
- - POLICY: keep it clean and legal (ie. no cursing, exchanges of
- stolen programs, etc. There are plenty of other systems dedicated
- to such behaviour).
-
- K: Kill:
- - Asks for message number;
- - Deletes message if user is in either the "To" or "From" field;
- - Updates message table.
-
- S: Scan:
- - Scans the messages starting at message number entered. Lists
- only those messages you have access to.
- - '*' can be used to start scanning at new messages since last
- call.
-
- R: Read:
- - Allows selective or individual message reading;
- - Read Subcommands:
- A - Read All messages starting from given number;
- I - Read individual messages (prompts for number);
- F - Read messages from a certain user;
- T - Read messages to a certain user;
- S - Read messages in a certain message section.
- - '*' can be used as a message number, representing new messages
- since previous call. eg. A* will read all new messages.
-
- Sections:
- Due to the number of special interests represented on this
- board, the messages can be put into any one of several sections.
- If you have a favourite (computer-related) topic you would like
- to see in its own section, leave a non-private message to me
- (SYSOP or BOB MAXWELL) about it. If someone else likes the idea,
- he/she should also send me a message (Poor man's public opinion
- poll).
-
- Any ideas, suggestions or complaints cannot be acted upon if they
- aren't presented to me!
-
- Regards, from Bob Maxwell, System Operator.
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