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- @CLS@Welcome to the TriBBS multinode TeleChat system. You may have chatted
- with your sysop in the past using the system's normal chat mode. Unlike
- the system's normal chat mode, which is a real time chatting system where
- keypresses are sent in both directions almost instantaneously, the TeleChat
- system uses a series of special disk files to send lines of text between two
- or more nodes a line at a time.
-
- The TriBBS TeleChat system offers two distinct types of multinode chat: node
- chat and group chat. Node chat is where two nodes chat back and forth
- between each other. To page another caller to enter node chat, you simply
- enter the desired caller's node number at the TeleChat menu. As soon as you
- enter the node number, TriBBS will send the other caller a special message
- which states that you wish to chat with him. You should be aware that it can
- often times take the other caller a minute or two to quit what they are
- currently doing, go to the TeleChat Menu, and enter your node number to begin
- chatting with you. As soon as the caller enters node chat, TriBBS will send you
- a message to that effect. As stated above, text is sent back and forth between
- the two nodes a line at a time. When entering text, TriBBS will automatically
- word wrap each line at sixty characters. Because of this relatively short line
- length, lines of text are sent back and forth at a fairly quick rate and aid in
- the flow of the conversation. You should note that while you are actually
- entering text TriBBS will not scan for any chat text from the other node until
- you have stopped entering text either by pressing the <ENTER> key or erasing
- whatever text is on the current line with the <BACKSPACE> key. This is done
- so that the text you are typing won't be garbled by incoming messages. You
- may leave chat mode by simply entering the word EXIT by itself. As soon as
- you leave chat mode, the other caller will be informed by an appropriate
- message.
-
- Group chat is very similar to node chat except for any caller on any node can
- enter group chat at anytime. Therefore, the number of callers in group chat
- at any one time is only limited by the BBS's number of nodes. You should note
- that unlike node chat nobody is paged when you enter group chat. However, like
- node chat, appropriate messages are sent to all nodes in group chat whenever a
- caller either enters or exits group chat. Text entry is performed exactly as
- with node chat.
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