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THOR has a menu strip accessable from all windows, except for the
section THOR Full Screen Editor which has its own menu strip.
From the left of the screen:
Project
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About
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Shows information about THOR and registration info.
Leave System
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Exits from the current system and returns you to the section Startup window.
Iconify
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Closes the THOR screen and generates an AppIcon on the WorkBench
screen. Double-clicking on this icon will open THOR again. This item
is only available from the section Startup window and the section Main reader window.
Public Screen
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Pops up a window where you can choose which public screen THOR should
be run on.
Print Message
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Dumps current message in the main window to the printer.
Save Message
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Save current message to disk.
Quit
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Quits THOR.
External
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MLManager
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Starts the MLManager program. MLManager is available separately from
Aminet.
ThorStat
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Starts the section ThorStat program. By setting the screen for this
program to Thor.1 in MUIPrefs, this program can also be opened on the
THOR screen.
PackBBS
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Runs the external shell program "packbbs" located in bin/ in a output
window on the THOR screen. This program will pack all conferences on
all systems based on your global and conference settings.
See section Packing and purging window, and section PackBBS for more info.
ListEvents
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This program lists all events outstanding in a output window on the
THOR screen, using the program bin/listevents. See section ListEvents.
ConnectTHOR
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Will start the section The ConnectTHOR Internet module program for getting Internet news and
mail on the screen THOR is running on.
FilterThor
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Will start the FilterThor program for configuring SortMail triggers
using a graphical interface. FilterThor will allow you to setup
filters for incoming email, allowing you to perform various actions on
incoming mail.
Configuration
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Config
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Starts the ConfigTHOR program in the main startup window.
Systems Config
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Starts the ConfigTHOR program in the Systems Configuration window.
Conf Config
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Starts the ConfigTHOR program in the Conference Configuration window.
Not available from the startup window.
Visual Options
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Opens the section Visual configuration window or brings it to front if it is
already open.
General
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Search
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Opens the section Search window which will allow you to search for
specific strings based on what you select in this window.
See section Search window.
ROT-13
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Applies ROT-13 to the current message in the main window. ROT-13 is
also know as the "Caesarian encryption" and is basically a rotation of
each character 13 places up, with wrapping if the ascii value gets
past the 'Z'.
Show ScriptMsg
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Shows the file "Scriptmsg.txt" which the script can create for various
purposes, like error messages from the script.
Delete Dups
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Scans through the message database and deletes duplicate messages with
the same message number on the system. The message text will be
deleted, but the reference information will be kept.
KeepMsg On/Off
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Toggles the KEEP flag on a message so that this message will not be
deleted when packing the conference. If the KEEP flag is already set,
this option will clear this flag.
DeleteMsg On/Off
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Toggles the DELETE flag on a message so that this message will be
shown as deleted/not deleted. Once you leave the conference the
message can no longer be undeleted. Use this function with caution!
SuperUnread On/Off
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Toggles the SUPERUNREAD flag used to avoid a message being marked as
read. Neat for important messages.
CatchUp
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All
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Mark all messages in current conference as read.
Upto
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Mark all messages upto the current messages as read.
Pack/Purge Msgs
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Opens the section Packing and purging window.
Move Messages
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Will let you move the current or all select messages in the message
list window to another conference. If the conference do not exist, it
can be created by typing in a new name in the string gadget.
Show >>
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Will let you select the read mode to read messages in.
See section Show Unread/All/Search result.
Group by >>
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Will let you select which method is to be used to group messages.
See section Grouping of messages.
Windows
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Conflist
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Opens the section Conference overview window or closes it if it is already open.
Not available from the startup window.
Msglist
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Opens the section Message overview/list window or closes it if it is already open.
Not available from the startup window.
Dock
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Opens the section Function dock window or closes it if it is already open. Not
available from the startup window.
File Database
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Opens the section File database window window or brings it to front if it is
already open. Not available from the startup window.
User Database
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Opens the section User database window window or brings it to front if it is
already open. Not available from the startup window.
Kill Database
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Opens the section Kill/emphasize window window or brings it to front if it is
already open.
Newfiles
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Opens the section Newfiles window or brings it to front if it is already
open. Not available from the startup window.
Marking of msgs
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Opens the section Mark window.
Events Editor
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Opens the section Event window or brings it to front if it is already
open.
Event Commands
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Script Command
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Will let you enter a string that will be sent to the system by the
script. This allows for custom commands to be sent whenever you want
to automate an operation. This option is only available if the system
type supports this event.
Get Newfiles
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Will request a list of new files from the system the next time you
call. This option is only available if the system type supports this
event.
Autologoff
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Lets you choose whether you want the script to log you off
automatically from the system after the script session is ended. This
option is only available if the system type supports this event.
Retract File
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Lets you retract a file on the remote system. This option is only
available if the system type supports this event.
Cancel Message
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Lets you retract (cancel) a message/article on the remote system.
This option is only available if the system type supports this event.
Get Conflist
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This option will request a list of all conferences from the remote
system. It's typically used for getting a list of newsgroups. This
option is only available if the system type supports this event.
Download
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Lets you enter a filename for a file to be obtained from the remote
system. This option is only available if the system type supports
this event.
Upload
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Will open a window with options that will let you upload a file to the
remote system. See section Upload a file. This option is only available if the
system type supports this event.
Resign Conf
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This option will let you select a conference to resign (drop) from the
conferences you receive messages in. This option is only available if
the system type supports this event.
Join Conf
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This option will let you select conferences to join so that you will
start getting messages in these conferences. This option is only
available if the system type supports this event.
Send Userinfo
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This option will let you enter some information about yourself that
will be entered on the remote system. This option is only available
if the system type supports this event.
Configure System
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This option will configure some parameters for you on the remote
system. This option is only available if the system type supports
this event.
Forward Message
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This is used to forward the current message to another user. This
option is only available if the system type supports this event.
ARexx Scripts
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Add Script
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This option will let you choose a ARexx script to put on a given
function key. Several useful scripts are included in the THOR package
for this purpose.
Edit Definition
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Will let you edit a macro previously assigned to a function key.
Save Definitions
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Will save your macro definitions to the file 'THOR.macros' as pure
ascii text.
Execute Script
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Will let you execute an ARexx script which isn't assigned to a
function key. A file requester will come up, and you can choose a
script file from this requester.
F1 - F20
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This is where your macros will show up. To execute a macro, you can
choose the macro from the menu with the mouse, or press the
corresponding function key (F11 = SHIFT + F1.)
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