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OPUS
(c) Copyright 1986, Wynn Wagner III, All Rights Reserved
WHEN SYSOP IS AT THE KEYBOARD
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9 October 1986
"He's crazy!"
"Yeah, but he has all the machine guns."
--- Miami Vice
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Opus has four basic modes:
* When the system is waiting for a call or an event
* Sysop "calling" the system from the keyboard
* When a user is on-line
* Chat mode
This document describes the use of the local keyboard in
all of those modes.
WAITING FOR A CALL
-------------------------------------------------------------
This is going to be real simple. You can only do two things.
* To quit Opus and return to DOS, type CONTROL-C.
* To log onto the system in keyboard mode, type
CONTROL-K. This is sometimes called "testmode"
in other<tm> systems.
KEYBOARD MODE
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
--- Hunter S. Thompson
Begin keyboard mode by typing `A' while a caller is on-line.
This is real simple, too. The keyboard during Keyboard Mode
works just like it would if you were calling in using a
modem.
There is only one primary difference. When Opus asks for your
first name, you can quickly get back to DOS by pressing ENTER
by itself.
WHEN A USER IS ON LINE
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"One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps
and a lion to frighten wolves."
-- Machiavelli
You will find a rich assortment of keyboard commands available
while a user is on-line.
<up arrow>......... Add 1 minute to the user's time
<down arrow>....... Subtract 1 minute from the
user's time
C.................. Go into chat mode
CONTROL-X.......... Ignominiously hang up on the caller
A (or CONTROL-A)... Turn on the local keyboard. Opus
will take commands from your keyboard
or from the modem, but your keyboard
had priority.
<ESC> turns off the local keyboard.
- ("dash")......... Lower the privilege level of the
user by a notch.
+ ("plus")......... Raise the caller's privs
O (or CONTROL-O)... Turn off SNOOP (the video monitor).
Only status type messages appear when
the monitor is turned off.
N (or CONTROL-N)... Turn on SNOOP mode. Your monitor will
show everything the user's monitor
shows.
Z.................. Zero the cumulative daily time for
a user. This has NO EFFECT on the
time for the current call ... only
the total time spent on-line for
the day. Use <up> and <down> to
change the caller's time limit for
the call that is in progress.
?.................. Show a detailed chart of the caller's
statistics.
<unknown key>...... If you press any other key... on that
Opus can't cope with, you will get a
short status screen and a brief menu
of these commands.
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The NIEL KEYS are sometimes called
"function keys" by those who don't
live in Dallas. The Niel Keys are
a set of keys that work like photon
torpedoes. You can send any one of
ten files to the user at the press
of a button. These files are of the
BBS/GBS class... which means they can
have ANSI graphics and embedded codes
to do everything from greet the user
with the user's own name, send a
quote of the day, or even hang up
on the user (or all of the above).
F1................. Send "F1.BBS" or "F1.GBS"
F2................. Send "F2.BBS" or "F2.GBS"
F3................. Send "F3.BBS" or "F3.GBS"
F4................. Send "F4.BBS" or "F4.GBS"
F5................. Send "F5.BBS" or "F5.GBS"
F6................. Send "F6.BBS" or "F6.GBS"
F7................. Send "F7.BBS" or "F7.GBS"
F8................. Send "F8.BBS" or "F8.GBS"
F9................. Send "F9.BBS" or "F9.GBS"
F10................ Send "F10.BBS" or "F10.GBS"
CHAT MODE
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"You speak treason."
"Fluently."
-- Dr. Who
To get to chat, use C when a user is on-line.
There are only three commands available to you:
<ESC>.............. End chat mode
CONTROL-C.......... Turn on the capture buffer
CONTROL-C.......... Turn off the capture buffer
Control-C is an on/off switch. When the buffer is on, everything
you or the caller types in chat is sent to a disk file called
OPUSCHAT.TXT. It lives on the current default directory. The
file is appended, so you should never lose previously stored
material.
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