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NSYSCNVT.EXE is Copyright 1991 By Reuben Sumner.
10-21-91
Usage of NSYSCNVT is very simple, simply type NSYSCNVT at the prompt and
the program will prompt you with a few questions. If there are any
questions about NSYSCNVT you may contact me (Reuben Sumner) through
NANET in the IBM, Telix, and Pascal conferences. If there is sufficient
interest in the future command line support may be added along with any
other features you may suggest.
For those interested I have also written a library of Telix routines
name TLXUTL20, in this library you will find a program that will
generate totally random passwords for you. Some of you may find this of
interest so that you don't have to come up with passwords for all of the
various BBSs, it will generate them and put a unique one in every
dialling directory entry.
Coming soon to a BBS near you:
Have you ever left a private message to your friend on a BBS and had
someone who's name you have never even heard of before respond? Some of
you may not realise this but when you send out private mail over NANET,
hundreds of sysops can freely read your mail. In order to combat this
dilemma (as well as solve a few others) I am writing a program that will
allow you to send out encrypted mail over any mail network with the
absolute highest level of security.
Neat PCBoard tips and tricks department:
Have you ever wondered if you have mail in the CRS Main conference and
let it scan for hours. The problem is that PCBoard only keeps track of
the last message you have read, if you haven't had any mail in over a
month guess how much mail it has to scan through! The solution is
simple, set your message pointer higher. There are 3 ways to set your
message pointer:
1) Read mail simple enough, but if all mail is private as it is in
the CRS main conference, this isn't going to be easy.
2) Execute the command "R SET" or "Q SET" although not documented
in the PCBoard help files, this command will allow you to set the last
read pointer to any number you like.
3) Often you will just want to set your pointer to the end of the
messages. The command to do this is "R SKIP" this 'skips' over all
remaining messages. If you do scan the conference you may well want to
execute this command afterwards so that next time you scan it won't go
over the same messages again.
As for other tricks, while I still never remember to do this, after you
reply to a message you probably don't want to read the original message
again which is what the normal "S"ave will do. The solution is simple
however, just type "SK" instead and it will SKip over to the next
message and save your reply. For months, when I wanted to quote someone
in the full screen editor, I pressed ESC, then Q, then selected what I
wanted and then I had to get back into full screen mode. The solution is
simple enough though, simply use Control-O instead of ESC and then Q.
Unfortunately there are some disrespectful QMail users out there that
insist on over sized lines, and when you try to quote them in PCBoard
you run into trouble, because what used to be 1 line is now 2. The
solution again is simple, when in the full screen editor type Control-_
(underscore), that will put you into 79 column mode.
BBS Ad:
Call The Haig Zone BBS at (416)225-6997 2400 baud, 24 hours a day,
run by me (Reuben Sumner) with the generous help of Ashraf Michail.