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TS - Message Text Search - Function Help
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Subcommands:

  (F)    selects only messages left by you
  (Y)    selects only messages left for you
  (S)    selects messages above the last one you have read
  (A)    scan messages in all SELECTed conferences
  (ALL)  scan messages in all conferences in which you are registered
  (L)    read in backwards order from the last message to the first
  (C)    capture the messages found to a file for download
  (D)    implies a (C)apture and immediately downloads
  (Z)    implies a (D)ownload but compresses the file before
  (NS)   displays text in non-stop mode
  (RM+)  re-read "memorized" message number plus forward read
  (RM-)  re-read "memorized" message number plus backwards read
  (##+)  scan messages from a selected number forward
  (##-)  scan messages from a selected number backward
  (USER) selects only those message to or from the specified user

Description:

  Allows searching the messages on the system to find messages
  that match the search criteria that you provide.

Examples:

  * TS A 1+ <enter>
    PCBoard & LANtastic <enter>

    The above commands will search thru every available message in ALL
    conferences areas you are set to scan for any message that has both
    the word "PCBoard" AND the word "LANtastic" in it.

  * TS A 1+ <enter>
    PCBoard & (LANtastic | DESQview) <enter>

    The above commands will search thru every available message in ALL
    conferences areas you are set to scan for any message that has both
    the word "PCBoard" AND either the word "LANtastic" OR the word
    "DESQview" in it.

    The parenthesis tell PCBoard how you want to group your criteria if
    you have a complex search request such as the one above.  It will
    allow for nearly any number of parens and any combination of AND's
    (using the "&" character) and OR's (using the "|" character).

  * TS A 1+ USER JOHN DOE <enter>
    PCBoard & Help <enter>

    The above command (similar to examples above) adds the keyword USER
    to the command line specifying that only messages that are either
    TO or FROM John Doe should be displayed if they are found to have
    both the words PCBoard and Help in them.

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