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- Let's continue our look at the R commands with one that mystifies a lot
- of users! It's RM which means (R)ead (M)ine. It's used when a bbs says
- it has a message for you. You don't bother getting the message number
- so you grab the easy way. You enter RM on your keyboard, and sit back
- while a message from Aunt Tillie floats by on your screen. "Hey, this
- is neat!" you say. "Lemmee read it again!" So you punch RM on the
- keyboard and the bbs replies "Nothing found" or words to that effect.
-
- What happened? Well, beating on the keyboard or throwing your TNC out the
- window won't help. What the bbs is telling you is that nothing NEW has
- been found since your previous message, AND YOU'VE ALREADY READ THAT so
- the bbs has tagged it as being "read." To read it again you have
- to enter R (MESSAGENUMBER). Forgotten it? Enter LM (List Mine) to get
- it. Incidently, when you're done reading your messages, it a courtesy
- to the sysop to kill them with KM (Kill Mine).
-
- Want some more? Okay, let's look at the R< and R> commands. Remember,
- the symbol "<" means FROM and ">" means TO. Let's say KC4ZZZ has put a
- local bulletins on the bbs, and you want to read it. The bulletin is
- addressed to HAMS @ PODUNK but you don't know the message number.
- Enter R< KC4ZZZ (Read FROM KC4ZZZ) and you'll get it. You could also
- use R> HAMS (Read TO hams). Another way would be to enter R@ PODUNK.
- (Read AT Podunk). WARNING! If there's more than one bulletin from
- KC4ZZZ, or more than one addressed the same way, you're going to get
- ALL of them with these commands! It might be better to use the (L)ist
- command (covered in bulletin #2) to spot the one you want.
- Otherwise you might get a very long string of messages from the bbs
- while the frequency gets tied up and your brain turns to mush.
-
- Next time we'll take a look at some more R commands, including some
- good ones that aren't used too often. Questions or comments on this
- series are welcome.
- 73...Bill, KB4VOL @ KB4VOL
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