Fixation 2.0 Menus Help
Fixation contains the following menus:
Use the File menu to open/close chess server connections, save games or
quit Fixation.
- Connect To Server...
Displays the chess server connection window.
This menu item is disabled while connected to a server or the
connection window is currently displayed.
- Reconnect
Reconnects to the last server used. This menu item is disabled while
connected to a server or the connection window is currently displayed.
- Kill Connection
Forcefully closes the current chess server connection. You should only
use this command if you cannot normally logoff from the server. This
menu item is disabled if there is no current server connection.
- Clear DNS Cache
Clears the DNS cache managed by Fixation. This cache speeds up server
connections as there is no need to query a Domain Name Server (DNS) for
for the IP address of a cached server. Use this command if a server's
TCP/IP address has changed.
- Save Game
Saves the game information for the currently selected game window.
The information will be saved in PGN format in the 'Game Logs' folder
within the Fixation folder. This menu item is disabled until you
logon to a chess server.
- Save Pgn...
Displays a dialog window where you can save the history or library
games of any player to a file on your computer. You can also save your
correspondence games. This menu item is disabled until you logon to a
server or if you are not connected to an ICC server. (i.e. the command
is not supported for FICS, USCL or chess.net).

- Close
Closes the frontmost window if it is a game window or the Seek Graph.
This menu item is disabled if there are no available windows to close.
- Quit
Closes any open server connection and exits Fixation.
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Use the Edit menu to manipulate text and set preferences.
- Cut
Cuts the selected text to the clipboard.
- Copy
Copies the selected text to the clipboard.
- Paste
Places the contents of the clipboard at the insertion point (or
selected text).
- Clear
Deletes the selected text without storing it into the clipboard.
- Select All
Selects all the text in the text window.
- Preferences...
Displays a dialog window that allows you to change preferences
that affect the behaviour of Fixation. See the
Preferences Help for further information.
This menu item is disabled if the dialog is already open.
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Use the Option menu to set Fixation options. This menu is disabled while a
dialog window is displayed.
- Flip Board
Flips the colors on the current game window so if white was on the
bottom, it is now on top and vice versa for black.
- Sound
Toggles sound output. If the item is checked, sounds will be played.
- Auto Flag
If your opponent runs out of time and this item is checked, their flag
will be automatically called by Fixation. If you have set the 'flag'
variable on the chess server to 1, setting the Auto Flag option
is not required.
- Board and Pieces...
Displays a dialog window where you can choose board colors and the
piece set used for game windows.
- Engine
Enables chess engine support (for computer accounts only). You must
manually enable chess engine support before logging onto a chess server.
This menu item is disabled if you are logged to a chess server with a
non-computer account.
- ICC Free Trial
Enables support for ICC's 7 day free trial account. To logon with a free
trial account, register it at ICC's web site, check this item and logon.
Registered users can leave this option enabled but some machine information
is sent to the ICC server when you logon so registered users will probably
want to disable this option.
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Use the Windows menu to set the text window font, and to display various
windows. This menu is disabled while a dialog window is displayed.
- Font
Sets the font used for the text window.
- Size
Sets the size of the font used for the text window.
- Normal Size
Resets the font name and size to the defaults (Monaco, size 12).
- Text
Makes the text window the top window.
- Game One
Makes the first game window the top window.
- Game Two
Makes the second game window the top window.
- Seek Graph
Displays the Seek Graph window when connected
to a chess server. This menu item is disabled until you logon to a chess
server or you logon to chess.net where the Seek Graph is not supported.
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The Game menu contains commands related to game playing and for issuing a seek ad.
- abort
Aborts your current game.
- draw
Offers a draw to your opponent.
- flag
Flags your
opponent. If you set your 'flag' variable to 1, the server will
automatically flag your opponent when he/she runs out of time.
- moretime 60
Adds 60 seconds to your opponent's clock.
- resign
Resigns
your current game.
- Seek...
Displays the Seek Game window where you can enter the options for issuing
a seek ad. Enable balloon help for assistance with this window.

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The Commands menu contains commands that you can send to the chess server
instead of having to type them in the text window. This menu is disabled until
you are connected to a chess server.
- clear messages
Clears all your messages using the
clearmessages command.
- command list
Displays the entire list of commands available on the current chess server.
- finger
Displays your finger information.
- help
Displays general server help.
- history
Displays the games in your
history.
- messages
Displays all your messages sent from other users.
- more/next
Sends "more" to the server.
- variables
Displays your variables.
- who
Displays all the users currently logged onto the chess server. See the
who command
for further information.
- who (titled players)
Displays all the titled users currently logged onto the server. Titled
players include GMs, WGMs, IMs, WIMs and FMs. This command is only
supported on the ICC.
- titled player games
Displays a list of all games involving titled players. This command
is only supported on the ICC.
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Use the Info menu to get information about hidden features, version
history, bugs & suggestions or TCP/IP status. This menu is disabled while
a dialog window is displayed.
- Hidden features
Displays the list of hidden features.
- Bugs & Suggestions
Displays a brief list of current bugs and suggestions for new features.
- Version History
Displays a brief list of changes within each version. More detailed
information can be found in the 'changes' file distributed with Fixation.
- Chess Servers
Displays information about supported chess servers.
- TCP/IP Status
Displays Open Transport version, Ethernet address and the number of
bytes sent and received.
- Version Check
Checks for the availablitity of a newer version of Fixation. This menu
item is disabled until you logon to a chess server.
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Use the Help menu to get help information. The items in this menu are
dependent on which version of Mac OS or System 7 you are running. Under
Mac OS 8.x or System 7.x, you can enable/disable Balloon Help.
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Revised: January 1, 2002