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- Date: 930628
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- File: Message Edit
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- How to Use the Message Editor
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- You can change lines, insert, delete, and other commands here while you are
- leaving a message. The message editor is about the same as the editor in
- GE-Mail.
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- First....all commands are preceded with an asterisk. To see a list of all
- commands, at any line number in your message, as the first character, type: *H
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- You might want to buffer this list and print it out for future reference, in a
- handy offline binder!! It'll save you time in the long run!
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- Now, remember, before trying any command, the asterisk MUST be the first
- character in the line.
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- The editor here is a LINE EDITOR. This means you edit only one line at a time,
- AFTER you enter it. Each line is Entered into the system with a RETURN at the
- end. It is best to type up to around 80 characters and then press RETURN.
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- The most often used commands are CHANGE, DELETE and INSERT. Lets take a quick
- look at them first.
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- *CHA
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- Here's the command to change a sequence of characters in a line. You can
- choose to have the line VERIFIED to you automatically by using the command:
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- *CHAV
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- The CHA command needs several arguments within the fields of the syntax:
- -* The LINE Number you want to edit
- -* The OLD STRING you want to correct
- -* The NEW String you want entered
- -* The number of times you want it corrected <<Usually one>>
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- The CHA command is followed by a single comma, the line number and then slashes
- which separate all other fields of the line:
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- *CHAV,39/separaate/separate/1*
- : : : : : :
- : : : : : 1 Time
- : : : : NEW String
- : : : OLD String
- : : Line #
- : Command <change with line verify on>
- ASTERISK
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- *DEL
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- The delete command is very simple....you type in the command, a comma and the
- line number to delete:
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- *DEL,50
- You can also specify a range of lines:
- *DEL,58-60
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- *I <<Insert>>
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- Insert allows you to add lines between previously typed text lines. You will
- need to give it one piece of information, the line number of the text you want
- your new lines to be entered after. Lets say you want to add 3 lines of text
- after line 5, you'd enter:
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- *I,5
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- Then you'd see line 6 come up, and you can enter text until you are done with
- the information you wanted to add. You are automatically placed in INSERT mode
- as you enter each new line. Exit INSERT with a RETURN on a blank line, and
- you'll be placed back where you started in your message.
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- *L <<List>>
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- You can always LIST your message anytime you'd like, with the *L command. Enter
- it as the first characters of any new line. Without any additional parameters,
- it will list the entire messae. You can specify a range of lines, too, tho,
- like this:
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- *L,80-86
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- Well, so much for Editing 101. Any other questions about the message and Mail
- editor, please holler!!!
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