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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.