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A couple quick post-manual hints here:
When writing bulletins the best way to do it is to:
1. Write the entire bulletin as you normally would with your
favourite ASCII editor.
2. After the bulletin has been completely written and fitted (as
not to extend past the right margin), turn OFF the word wrap
function.
3. Go back through the bulletin and insert NewsFlash tokens (ie.
colours, blink, steady, abort, etc)
4. Save bulletin as bulletin.x <- where 'x' is the number of the
bulletin, either 1-9 or A-F.
5. Use the [pausetime=xxx] token ONLY on important bulletins - you
don't want to piss the user off! 20 seconds is a good maximum.
6. Use the [fname] and [lname] tokens only when it is suitable. It
usually looks phoney.
7. When someone important is logging on and you don't want to make
them read all the bulletins hit function key F5 to force the door
closed!
8. If you want the user to see the bulletin at EVERY login (I don't
know why - it only turns them off and if they really want to read
it again they can re-read it on their own accord) but if you do then
it is recommended you simply use Maximus's normal method of doing it.
Note: BULLETIN.1 has been provided as a sample bulletin.