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TO: All Sdn Users
FROM: Charlie Smith
SUBJECT: TAPCIS-x.SDN
This is the COMPLETE and UNABRIDGED documentation for the TAPCIS
CompuServe Access Program.
CompuServe is designed to be an interactive communications service.
Using a terminal, a caller manually enters the account number and
password. From that moment on, the CompuServe clock is running at
$6.00 to $12.50 an hour or more. If you read and reply while that
meter is running, you are paying CompuServe based on your reading and
typing speed (which is far slower I'm sure than the maximum speed of
your modem!).
TAPCIS automates the use of CompuServe and, in the process, reduces
connect time to a minimum. The time consuming tasks of reading or
replying are done using the facilities of your own computer where the
computer time is free. This efficiency can save you a great deal of
money. Let's say it takes you 10 minutes to compose a message online;
it might cost you $2 or more. Prepared offline and sent with TAPCIS,
the cost might be as low as 22 cents for the same message. Multiply
this by 100 messages over the course of a year (or even a month!) and
you start to get a feel for the savings the automated TAPCIS system
offers you. TAP makes it possible for you to actively participate in
the forum without busting your budget!
TAPCIS Features
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MAJOR MESSAGE FEATURES
* Split-screen text editor for preparing messages offline with
WordPerfect-like cursor and editing and true word wrap and many
WordStar editing commands for those used to that interface
* Address book, which you can compile as you read messages, that
allows you to send to other users based on their names without having
to remember user IDs
* Print messages, save messages to a master file or an individual DOS
file, retrieve a file into the message you're writing, and search for
strings in other files
* Reply to a message, start a new thread with a message to the sender
or recipient of the current message, or change the reply to a
different forum or EasyPlex
* Skip forward/backward by message or thread, jump to a message, or
read messages that contain a search string
* View messages previously saved
* Messages that are private, to your user ID, or from your user ID
have highlighted headers to bring them to your attention during
reading
FORUM SUPPORT
DATA LIBRARIES
COMMUNICATIONS FEATURES
OTHER IMPORTANT FEATURES
As with all SDN files, you may change the extension to ARC after
downloading and extract the files using PKWare's extractor (PKXARC or
PKUNPAK).
This program comes in two parts. TAPCIS-A.SDN - the system files and
TAPCIS-B.SDN - the documentation (approx 150 pages).
Charlie Smith
System Coordinator
SDNet/Works!(tm)
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