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Menus

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
About
Shows information about THOR and registration info.
Leave System
Exits from the current system and returns you to the section Startup window.
Iconify
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
Pops up a window where you can choose which public screen THOR should be run on.
Print Message
Dumps current message in the main window to the printer.
Save Message
Save current message to disk.
Quit
Quits THOR.
External
MLManager
Starts the MLManager program. MLManager is available separately from Aminet.
ThorStat
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
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
This program lists all events outstanding in a output window on the THOR screen, using the program bin/listevents. See section ListEvents.
ConnectTHOR
Will start the section The ConnectTHOR Internet module program for getting Internet news and mail on the screen THOR is running on.
FilterThor
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
Config
Starts the ConfigTHOR program in the main startup window.
Systems Config
Starts the ConfigTHOR program in the Systems Configuration window.
Conf Config
Starts the ConfigTHOR program in the Conference Configuration window. Not available from the startup window.
Visual Options
Opens the section Visual configuration window or brings it to front if it is already open.
General
Search
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
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
Shows the file "Scriptmsg.txt" which the script can create for various purposes, like error messages from the script.
Delete Dups
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
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
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
Toggles the SUPERUNREAD flag used to avoid a message being marked as read. Neat for important messages.
CatchUp
All
Mark all messages in current conference as read.
Upto
Mark all messages upto the current messages as read.
Pack/Purge Msgs
Opens the section Packing and purging window.
Move Messages
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 >>
Will let you select the read mode to read messages in. See section Show Unread/All/Search result.
Group by >>
Will let you select which method is to be used to group messages. See section Grouping of messages.
Windows
Conflist
Opens the section Conference overview window or closes it if it is already open. Not available from the startup window.
Msglist
Opens the section Message overview/list window or closes it if it is already open. Not available from the startup window.
Dock
Opens the section Function dock window or closes it if it is already open. Not available from the startup window.
File Database
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
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
Opens the section Kill/emphasize window window or brings it to front if it is already open.
Newfiles
Opens the section Newfiles window or brings it to front if it is already open. Not available from the startup window.
Marking of msgs
Opens the section Mark window.
Events Editor
Opens the section Event window or brings it to front if it is already open.
Event Commands
Script Command
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
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
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
Lets you retract a file on the remote system. This option is only available if the system type supports this event.
Cancel Message
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Add Script
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
Will let you edit a macro previously assigned to a function key.
Save Definitions
Will save your macro definitions to the file 'THOR.macros' as pure ascii text.
Execute Script
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
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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