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- OPUS
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- (c) Copyright 1986, Wynn Wagner III, All Rights Reserved
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- WHEN SYSOP IS AT THE KEYBOARD
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- 9 October 1986
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- "He's crazy!"
- "Yeah, but he has all the machine guns."
- --- Miami Vice
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- Opus has four basic modes:
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- * When the system is waiting for a call or an event
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- * Sysop "calling" the system from the keyboard
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- * When a user is on-line
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- * Chat mode
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- This document describes the use of the local keyboard in
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- WAITING FOR A CALL
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- This is going to be real simple. You can only do two things.
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- * To quit Opus and return to DOS, type CONTROL-C.
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- * To log onto the system in keyboard mode, type
- CONTROL-K. This is sometimes called "testmode"
- in other<tm> systems.
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- KEYBOARD MODE
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- "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
- --- Hunter S. Thompson
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- Begin keyboard mode by typing `A' while a caller is on-line.
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- This is real simple, too. The keyboard during Keyboard Mode
- works just like it would if you were calling in using a
- modem.
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- There is only one primary difference. When Opus asks for your
- first name, you can quickly get back to DOS by pressing ENTER
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- 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
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- You will find a rich assortment of keyboard commands available
- while a user is on-line.
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- <up arrow>......... Add 1 minute to the user's time
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- <down arrow>....... Subtract 1 minute from the
- user's time
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- C.................. Go into chat mode
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- CONTROL-X.......... Ignominiously hang up on the caller
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- 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.
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- <ESC> turns off the local keyboard.
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- - ("dash")......... Lower the privilege level of the
- user by a notch.
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- + ("plus")......... Raise the caller's privs
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- O (or CONTROL-O)... Turn off SNOOP (the video monitor).
- Only status type messages appear when
- the monitor is turned off.
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- N (or CONTROL-N)... Turn on SNOOP mode. Your monitor will
- show everything the user's monitor
- shows.
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- 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.
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- ?.................. Show a detailed chart of the caller's
- statistics.
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- <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).
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- 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"
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- CHAT MODE
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- "You speak treason."
- "Fluently."
- -- Dr. Who
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- To get to chat, use C when a user is on-line.
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- There are only three commands available to you:
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- <ESC>.............. End chat mode
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- CONTROL-C.......... Turn on the capture buffer
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- CONTROL-C.......... Turn off the capture buffer
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- 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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