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As usual in the data-communication world, there will be a lot of new words for you to learn, but don't let this confuse you. If you just fail to understand something, don't change it or ask someone whether you need it. With TerMail, we have tried to create a powerful mail reader while keeping it as simple as possible. TerMail will practically do all the maintenance for you without you having to think about it. If you want special settings simply just edit the configuration files and follow the instructions. Without further ado, lets get started and get into E-Mailing... /Bo Bendtsen ^hBLIND SUPPORT^n TerMail has, like Terminate, special Blind Support features which are designed for the Visually Impaired. When starting TerMail with the command line parameter /BLIND or the BlindSupport toggle, some extra sounds will be enabled. Furthermore, other special functions will be active such as the removal of unneeded windows, the change of some High ASCII special characters to Low ASCII and the hardware cursor will be enabled. This will make it easier to navigate through the screens. When reading messages, the cursor will always be placed at the position of the To-Name. With Ctrl-ENTER you can cycle between the message text body, from-name and subject. There are additional improvements which you will notice in daily use. ^hMain menu keys^n ^hF1 This help file^n Here you will find help for most of TerMail's functions. ^hF2 List of external utilities^n This displays a pop-up list of user-definable external utilities. You can scroll through the list, select and execute the tool you want to use. ^hF6 Forms^n Predefined forms that you can include in your messages. This could be your details, reports or if you are a moderator for a conference you could put the rules in a form file. ^hF7 Show/create groups^n Displays a list of the current Groups and allows you to change the group for the current area or to create a new one. ^hF8 Nodelist lookup^n Displays the nodelist(s) set up in TM.CFG and allows you to search through it (them) using the arrow keys. ^hENTER Enter message area^n Area 1 is always the Netmail area. Netmail is used to send messages to other users. Only the receiving users will get them. Area 2 is the default area, where mail written to your user name in a conference is stored. Therefore if you have 200 areas, you can always check this area first and see if there is any new messages written to you. Area 3 will save all mail you have written. Sometimes it can be important to remember what you have told to whom at a certain time. ^hFast area selection^n When pressing either A-Z 0-9 . _ these characters will be appended to a searchword and leap to an area that matches the search string. Therefore you can get faster to areas of which you know the name. Only the EchoID will be searched for matches. ^hEsc Exit TerMail^n Exit TerMail. A window will pop up, asking you whether you really want to quit. ^hAlt-X Exit TerMail without asking^n Exit quickly, without asking. ^hAlt-V View log^n Use a list tool to view the logfile. If you use the internal list function, at startup the list tool will immediately display the latest entries to the logfile. ^hAlt-J Shell to DOS^n This allows you to run external programs without quitting TerMail. Do not attempt to load TSR's since this will cause your machine to hang when you exit the DOS-Shell. Type EXIT to return to TerMail. ^hAlt-E Edit configuration and external files^n This menu will allow you to edit the configuration files directly. Please be very careful: Avoid changing or removing things you don't understand. Generally, TerMail works "out of the box" without the need to make manual changes. ^bTM.CFG^n This is the configuration file. Here you can set up everything. The configuration file also contains additional information about TerMail. ^bTM.BBS^n This is the area file. It contains all the TAG NAMES (or conference names) that you have. TerMail will automatically create new areas for you and place the entries in this file. ^bTM.NAM^n TM.NAM is a list of the people you often write to. If you have a friend called Steve Stacher, you could insert the following line: Steve,Steve Stacher,2:443/888,Nice weather today If you then just write "Steve" in the TO-name when you want to write a message to him, the information would be grabbed from this file and inserted, relieving you of the neccessity of remembering his address. If you always want to crash mail your messages to Steve, add a ",Crash" after the subject. ^bTM.LST^n This conference list is used by the Areafix manager. To get more information about this topic, press F1 in the Areafix manager. ^bTM.LOG^n This log file contains information about all the mail tossed and scanned by TerMail. Toss means import and scan means export. Here you can check where your mail has come from and where it went. ^bHISTORY.TXT^n The TerMail History file contains information about the latest updates and enhancements to TerMail. ^bTM.PIC^n The TM.PIC file is a text file with file names of the picture(s) you have on your hard disk of the people whom you are writing to. ^bOther file^n With this option you can edit any other file, using an external editor. ^hAlt-F File/Areafix manager^n The File/Areafix manager is a function that will connect you to conferences (the areas you receive mail in) and file-echoes where you can receive files. Think of Areafix as a friend of your SysOp who checks his/her netmails to see if you want to get connected to certain conferences. Normally you would have to write a manual netmail, but with the help of this unique feature in TerMail, you don't have to do anything other than tag the conferences and send the message. You will always get a reply from Areafix which will tell you if your request was successful. ^hThese special functions are available:^n ^b%LIST^n First you should always request a list of all the conferences that are available to you. Then you can create a TM.LST from this message. Look in TM.LST for more information about how to do this. ^b%QUERY^n Request a small list of the areas you are connected to. ^b%RESCAN^n All newly connected areas will be rescanned, so you will receive all the messages that are immediately available from your uplink. If your uplink does not keep the area you chose in his message base ("passthrough"), you will not receive any old messages, but you will receive messages in the future, perhaps tomorrow. You are not always allowed to rescan, but it will never hurt to try. Beware if you are a new user and you try to rescan 50 areas - if you should do this, you will be flooded with plenty of old messages. ^b%HELP^n Request help information from Areafix. Not all Areafix programs understand the same commands and requests, so getting this message back should be the first thing for you to try. ^b%PAUSE^n Temporarily suspend all connected areas. When you go on vacation, for example, you might not want to have to get all echomail saved up at your boss. Netmails will still be saved and stored for you. ^b%RESUME^n Resume all temporarily suspended areas. ^hEchofile^n Select which echofile you want to use for area tagging. By default an echofile is attached to your user record, but you can select another echofile for the current user if necessary. ^hSelect areas^n Press ^bSPACE^n to toggle a single area. ^b+^n Connect to this conference. ^b-^n Disconnect from this conference. ^bA^n Add this area to list. ^bE^n Edit the area list using the external editor. Gray keys (numeric keypad) ^b+^n Connect to all conferences. ^b-^n Disconnect from all conferences. ^b*^n Toggle the connect/disconnect mark on all conferences. ^hAlt-M Message base maintenance^n TerMail uses the external tool TMUTIL.EXE to perform maintenance work on the message base. This utility was written using the highly optimized Gecho technology created by Gerard J. van der Land. ^m┌─┤^t Message base maintenance ^m├┐ │ ^nPack area(s) ^m│ │ ^nPurge messages ^m│ │ ^nLink area(s) ^m│ │ ^nUnlink area(s) ^m│ │^r Index JAM area(s) ^m│ │ ^nUndelete JAM area(s) ^m│ │ ^nSecure area ^m│ │ ^nConvert area to JAM ^m│ │ ^nTranslation editor ^m│ └─────────────────────────────┘^n ^hPack area(s)^n Remove deleted messages from the message bases. ^hPurge messages^n Delete messages from message bases, depending on the age and the maximum number of messages allowed in the areas. ^hLink area(s)^n Update the reply links, this is also called "message threading". ^hUnlink area(s)^n Remove all reply links. ^hIndex JAM area(s)^n Create new index files for all JAM areas. ^hUndelete JAM area(s)^n If you purged, but didn't pack some JAM areas, you can restore the message(s) with this command. ^hSecure area^n Protect this area with a password, so no one can access the area without entering the password first. With this menu entry you can also remove the protection from the area. ^hConvert area to JAM^n Convert a MSG area to JAM message base. JAM message bases can help you save a lot of harddisk space since they only consist of 4 files each. MSG areas use 1 file per message and are much slower. If you use 8k clusters on your harddisk, an MSG area can use up to 6-8 times the space needed by a JAM area. If you want to convert a JAM area to MSG you first create a new area, mark all messages and select the MOVE command (M). ^hDELete Remove messages or entire area^n You cannot remove the Netmail area, so if you press DEL while the Netmail area is active, you will only be asked whether you want to delete all messages. When you press DEL with any other conference, you will be given three options. ^bRemove area completely^n This will delete the messagebase and remove the area entry in TM.BBS. Warning this will delete all messages even locked messages. ^bDelete all messages^n This option erases all messages from the area. ^bDisconnect with Areafix^n You can automatically send an Areafix request to your uplink to inform him that you don't want to receive mail in this conference anymore. You should choose this option before removing an area. ^hAlt-S Scan all areas^n If you are using a network or if you have pressed ENTER while the areas were being scanned, you might want to scan all areas again to check whether new messages have arrived since you started TerMail. ^hMessage reader^n ^m┌─────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │^bF1 ^m│ ^nHelp system ^m│ │^bF2 ^m│ ^nSelect and run external utilities ^m│ │^bF6 ^m│ ^nView and edit forms available ^m│ │^bF7 ^m│ ^nTemporarily change group or create new group ^m│ │^bF8 ^m│ ^nNodelist lookup ^m│ │^bF10 ^m│ ^nAddress book system ^m│ │^bA, Esc ^m│ ^nLeave area ^m│ │^bB, Ctrl-R ^m│ ^nClean or purge area ^m│ │^bC, Alt-C ^m│ ^nChange message or send local message again ^m│ │^bD, Alt-D, DELete ^m│ ^nDelete message or marked messages ^m│ │^bE, Alt-E, INSert ^m│ ^nEnter new message in area ^m│ │^bF, Alt-F, Ctrl-F ^m│ ^nFind all files in msg/select/make request in outbound ^m│ │^bG, Alt-G ^m│ ^nQuote-reply to message (TO-name) ^m│ │^bH ^m│ ^nUU-encoding/decoding ^m│ │^bI ^m│ ^nKludges and other network information ^m│ │^bJ, Alt-J, Alt-O ^m│ ^nJump to DOS ^m│ │^bK, Ctrl-K ^m│ ^nToggle kludge information shown in messages ^m│ │^bL, Alt-L, F9 ^m│ ^nList area, 1 message per line ^m│ │^bM, Alt-M ^m│ ^nForward message in another area or Copy/Move message(s)^m│ │^bN, Alt-N, F5 ^m│ ^nReply to this message in another area ^m│ │^bO, Ctrl-O ^m│ ^nTemporarily change origin for group ^m│ │^bP, Ctrl-S ^m│ ^nChange attributes of message ^m│ │^bQ, R, F4 ^m│ ^nQuote-reply to message (FROM-name) (Alt-Q) ^m│ │^bS, Alt-S ^m│ ^nExtensive search and mark menu ^m│ │^bT, Ctrl-T ^m│ ^nTemporarily change template for group ^m│ │^bU, Ctrl-U ^m│ ^nTemporarily change user for group ^m│ │^bV ^m│ ^nView nodelists using the external lister ^m│ │^bW, Ctrl-W ^m│ ^nExport message or marked messages ^m│ │^bX ^m│ ^nArea statistics, message tracking and address finding ^m│ │^bY ^m│ ^nMessage statistics ^m│ │^bZ ^m│ ^nZap to next area at once ^m│ │^bAlt-A ^m│ ^nSmartnote, saves all your notes easily ^m│ │^bAlt-B ^m│ ^nBossKey, start BOSSKEY.COM/EXE when your boss walks in ^m│ │^bAlt-K ^m│ ^nGrab, Shift+cursors to change size of string grabber ^m│ │^bAlt-P ^m│ ^nView picture of sender if available ^m│ │^bAlt-R, F3 ^m│ ^nReply without quoting ^m│ │^bAlt-V ^m│ ^nView all available pictures ^m│ │^bAlt-W ^m│ ^nTranslation editor ^m│ │^bAlt-X ^m│ ^nExit TerMail ^m│ │^bAlt-F10 ^m│ ^nCDROM player ^m│ │^bAlt-1 ^m│ ^nToggle sound on/off ^m│ │^bSpace, +, -, * ^m│ ^nMark/Unmark message (+-*=All) ^m│ │^bLeft, Right ^m│ ^nNext/previous message ^m│ │^b<> ^m│ ^nJump to next/previous marked msg ^m│ │^bCtrl-Lft/Rght/Up ^m│ ^nNext/previous/first reply, also Shift-Left/Right ^m│ │^bMsg movement ^m│ ^nUp/Down/Home/End/PgDn/PgUp/Enter: View current message ^m│ │^bCtrl-Home ^m│ ^nGoto first message in area ^m│ │^bCtrl-End ^m│ ^nGoto last message in area ^m│ │^b0,1,2..9 ^m│ ^nGo directly to entered message number ^m│ │^bShift F1..F10 ^m│ ^nRun external utilities directly ^m│ │^bShift-Esc ^m│ ^nRuntime information ^m│ │^bTAB ^m│ ^nSet bookmark. Press Shift-TAB or Backspace to return ^m│ └─────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘^n ^hF1 Help system^n Activate the online help you are reading right now. ^hF2 (Shift F1..F12) External utilities^n When pressing F2, you will see all the available external utilities. You can either select one from this menu or you can activate the utility directly by pressing a key combination between Shift-F1 and Shift-F12 ^hF6 Forms^n When writing a message you can include a form in your message. ^hF7 Show/create groups^n View the groups that have been defined in the configuration. Press the INSERT (INS) key to create a new group. Groups are used to control which user and what template should be used, how many messages should be kept and other defaults for the areas assigned to a group. ^hF8 Nodelist lookup^n Search easily through the nodelist. ^hF10 Address book system^n TerMail's address book feature allows you to keep a list of your friends and their addresses. It also registers when you wrote to them for the first and last times and how often you have written to them. In the address book, you can also keep information such as their phone number and snail mail address. It is also possible to import sections or single addresses from the nodelist into the address book. ^m┌─────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────┤^t Record 1 ^m├┐ │^r Name ^m│ ^bBo Bendtsen ^m│ │ ^nFidon^be^nt ^m│ ^b2:236/111 ^bC^nrash ^bYes^n ^m│ │ ^bI^nnternet ^m│ ^m│ │ ^bO^nrganisation ^m│ ^bDAN BBS ApS ^m│ │ ^bA^nddress ^m│ ^bKastanie alle 14 ^m│ │ ^nA^bd^ndress ^m│ ^b2620 Albertslund ^m│ │ ^nAdd^br^ness ^m│ ^bDenmark ^m│ │ ^nComment ^b1 ^m│ │ │ ^nComment ^b2 ^m│ ^bHome of Terminate ^m│ │ ^nComment ^b3 ^m│ ^bDenmarks biggest and friendliest BBS ^m│ │ ^nComment ^b4 ^m│ │ │ ^nComment ^b5 ^m│ │ │ ^nDa^bt^na phone ^m│ ^b+45 43623990 ^m│ │ ^bV^noice phone ^m│ ^b+45 43623331 ^m│ │ ^bF^nirst date ^m│ ^b12-Jul-1995 4 days ago ^m│ │ ^bL^nast date ^m│ ^b14-Jul-1995 2 days ago 16.29 ^m│ │ ^nTimes ^bw^nritten ^m│ ^b3 ^m│ │ ^bC^nharset ^m│ ^bLATIN-1 ^m│ └─────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘^n ^hName^n Name of the receiver. ^hFidonet^n The receiver's address in a Fidonet-style format. ^hCrash^n Send the message with a crash flag when creating mail for this receiver by default. Crash means you call directly to a system to deliver your mail and don't send it through your Boss. Sometimes this is faster and more reliable, but it also is more expensive. ^hInternet^n An Internet-style address. The Fidonet address must point to the UUCP gateway you are using. You can, however, just specify an UUCP gate or a non-Fidonet address. Then the nodelists will be searched and you can choose between the gate you wish to use. When you have found a node where the gating works, you can replace UUCP with the Fidonet address and the nodelists will not be searched. The Internet field can only be inserted when the address book entry actually points to an Internet address. If you just want to save an Internet address for an entry, save it in one of the comment fields. Look in the nodelist for an UUCP or GUUCP-flag and contact these nodes for further instructions. Please note that some UUCP gates require an agreement before you can send mail through them, so please ask before you start sending through gates. Sending mail to an Internet address: You -----> Crash or -----> UUCP Gateway -----> Receiver (Fidonet) Routed via Fidonet (Internet) You can either crash or route a message to the UUCP Gate. The TO-field in the message header should be UUCP. The First line in the message has to be "To:internet@address.here". The UUCP Gateway will automatically send your mail to the correct receiver on the Internet. Receiving mail from an Internet address: Sender ---------> fidonet.org -----> Routed via Fidonet -----> You Simply ask people to send mail to the Internet address which every FidoNet user has. The format of your address is as follows: Bo Bendtsen, 2:236/111.3 : Name Spaces Point Node Net Zone Domain Organisation │ | │ │ │ │ │ │ bo_bendtsen@p3.f111.n236.z2.fidonet.org = 2:236/111.3 If you are a node you can remove the "p0." That means that you can tell any people on the Internet to send mail to your Internet address using in the format described above. The sender will address his/her message to a normal Internet mail-server called fidonet.org. This server converts the message to a Fidonet style address and routes it like a normal Fidonet netmail. You will receive the mail faster or slower depending on how close you are to the gate that has been used. Replying to a mail from Internet: When you receive a netmail from an Internet address it will always to gated through an UUCP gate. This gate will insert two kludges called "REPLYADDR" and "REPLYTO". TerMail will grab these kludges - they hold the information needed for a reply. However, should these kludges not be found, TerMail will try and grab the "From: " string in the second line in the message header. A "From: " line has no information on where to gate the message back to Internet, so you will have to find a gate that works. A "From: " line could look like this: From: bo@serwiz.thegap.com The special kludges used for Internet replies (this is only an example!) are: @REPLYADDR bo@serwiz.thegap.com @REPLYTO 2:25/25 Bo Bendtsen (@ = ASCII 1) ^hOrganisation^n The name of the organisation or company which maintains the Internet domain. ^hAddress^n The address of the receiver. ^hComment 1^n ^hComment 2^n ^hComment 3^n ^hComment 4^n ^hComment 5^n Any comments you might want to remember about this entry. ^hData phone^n The data phone number of the receiver (modem). ^hVoice phone^n The voice phone number of the receiver. ^hFax phone^n The fax phone number of the receiver. ^hFirst date^n The date when you sent your first message to this receiver. ^hLast date^n The last time you sent a message to this receiver. ^hTimes written^n How many messages you have written to this receiver. ^hCharset^n What charset to translate to when writing a NETMAIL to this user. If you write LATIN-1 you must have the LATIN-1.850 if you use codepage 850 or LATIN-1.865 if you use codepage 865 etc. ^hA Leave area (Esc)^n Exit the area and return to the area selection window. ^hB Clean/renumber (Ctrl-R)^n Either clean up an area using the group settings or just renumber messages. ^hC Change message (Alt-C)^n Change the header and/or contents of the message or re-send a local message. ^hD Delete message(s) (Alt-D, DELete)^n Delete either the current message or all marked messages. If a message is locked, you will not be able to delete it. First you have to remove the lock flag by pressing first P, then O. ^hE Create new message (Alt-E, INSert)^n Write a new message to someone - anyone. ^hF Request files (Alt-F, Ctrl-F)^n Find all the filenames contained in a message and request these files directly from the network address where the message originated. List all filenames in a message and select the file(s) you want. A message will be created automatically, requesting the marked files from the network address from which the message originated. Since people announce programs in many different ways, sometimes TerMail might not recognize all the filenames. If this happens simply edit the filename manually. ^hG Quote-reply to message (TO-name) (Alt-G)^n Quote the entire message and start editing your reply. This function sends your reply to the TO-name of the quoted message. ^hH UU-encoding/decoding^n Convert binary files into a 7-bit ascii format which can be inserted into messages and extracted by the receiver to its original binary form. Please be advised that some networks have restrictions on sending routed uu-encoded files. If the file is important, I would suggest that you crash the file directly to the receiver or the receiver's uplink (a.k.a. "Boss"). ^hI Fidonet kludges^n (Special keywords in messages)^n ^bINTL ^nInter-zone, kludge to assure a direction to the correct address ^bFMPT ^nFrom point. Tells other systems which point wrote the message ^bTOPT ^nTo point. Will tell nodes to direct mail to this point number ^bMSGID: ^nOrigin address and an unique checksum for your system ^b ^nThis is mostly used to ensure that the message came from the ^b ^nright place and will sometimes be used for dupe-checking ^bREPLY: ^nInserted by editors when replying to msgs with a MSGID kludge ^bPID ^nEditor ID and version number, sometimes registration codes ^bTID ^nTosser ID and version number, sometimes registration codes ^bVIA ^nA line inserted by some utilities, for information use only ^bAREA ^nEchomail area name: such as TERMINAT or TERMINATE.GER. If the ^b ^nmsg has no AREA-kludge, it's a netmail/matrix message ^bSEEN-BY ^nUsed to display all the systems that have got this message ^b ^nbefore you. Shows the systems through which the msg was routed ^b ^nas well as their respective downlinks ^bPATH ^nUsed to see exactly where the message is from and the route ^b ^nit travelled to your system. Also used to detect duplicates ^bEID: ^nEchomail dupe checksums, used for tracking down duplicates ^bFLAGS: ^nThe status of the message: CRA,IMM,HLD,DIR,CFM,A/S,FRQ etc ^bTZ ^nTimezones; Denmark = GMT+1 ^bCHRS ^nor ^bCHARSET^n, which charset was used to write the message ^bSPLIT ^nKludge used by some systems to split up large messages ^bMOOD ^nSpecial TerMail kludge to display the mood of the msg writer ^bOrigin ^nA line with info/address of the system where the msg came from ^b--- ^nTearline, a small advertising line for the mail editor ^hJ Jump to DOS (Alt-J, Alt-O)^n Start a DOS-shell to run an external programs. Note: You can't load a TSR in a DOS-shell and return to TerMail - you have to remove the TSR first. ^hK Toggle kludge information (Ctrl-K)^n Display special mail information in messages. You can disable this by default in the configuration, but generally for more advanced users the kludges can provide some extra information and give you a better view and understanding of the E-Mail kludges. ^hL List area (Alt-L, F9)^n This option displays a list of all messages of the current area, showing one line per message, so you can select and read messages faster. Press TAB to toggle between a view of selected messages or all messages. ^hM Forward/Copy/Move (Alt-M)^n Forward a message to other people or to another conferences. You can also copy or move message(s) to another area. ^hN Reply to this message in another area (Alt-N, F5)^n Use this option for example when you want to reply to an echomail in netmail (private mail). ^hO Change origin for group (Ctrl-O)^n Temporarily change the origin line for the group to which this area belongs. The default origin lines can be modified in the group settings of the configuration file. ^hP Change attributes (Ctrl-S)^n ^b┌────────┤^t Mail Attributes ^b├┐ ^b│ ^hC ^b(Cra) Crash │ ^nSend message directly to receiver ^b│ ^hS ^b(Snt) Sent │ ^nMessage has been sent from your system ^b│ ^hA ^b(Att) File attach │ ^nSubject has a filename attached ^b│ ^hK ^b(K/s) Kill/sent │ ^nMessage will be deleted after packing ^b│ ^hL ^b(Loc) Local │ ^nMessage is written locally ^b│ ^hH ^b(Hld) Hold │ ^nMessage is placed on hold ^b│ ^hF ^b(Frq) File request │ ^nSubject contains requested files ^b│ ^hR ^b(Rrq) Request Receipt │ ^nGet a confirmation msg from the receiver ^b│ ^hE ^b(Kfs) Erase file/sent │ ^nErase the attached file after sending ^b│ ^hP ^b(Pvt) Private │ ^nMessage is private ^b│ ^hV ^b(Rcv) Received │ ^nYou've read this message ^b│ ^hO ^b(Lck) Locked │ ^nMessage is protected from deletion (JAM) ^b└───────────────────────────┘^n ^hQ Quote-reply to message (FROM-name) (R, F4, Alt-R, Alt-Q)^n Quote the entire message and start editing your reply. This function sends your message to the FROM-name of the quoted message. ^hS Search/Mark menu (Alt-S)^n ^m┌────────────────┤^t Search/Mark Menu ^m├┐ │ ^nMessage ^bR^nange: 3 - 101 ^m│ │ ^nSet range to last ^b5^n00 messages ^m│ │ ^nSearch onl^by^n marked ^bNo^n ^m│ ├────────────────────────────────────┤ │ ^bH^neader From/To/Subject ^m│ │ ^nHeader ^bF^nrom ^m│ │ ^nHeader ^bT^no ^m│ │ ^nHe^ba^nder and text ^m│ │ ^bP^nersonal mail ^m│ │ ^nRea^bd^n mail ^m│ ├────────────────────────────────────┤ │ ^nMark all messages ^b+^n ^m│ │ ^nUnmark all messages ^b-^n ^m│ │ ^nToggle marks ^b*^n ^m│ │ ^nMark me^bs^nsages 3-101 ^m│ │ ^nMark m^be^nssages 101-101 ^m│ │ ^nMark c^bu^nrrent range ^m│ └────────────────────────────────────┘^n ^hMessage Range^n Set the range in which messages will be searched or marked. ^hSet range to last 500 messages^n Quickly set a range of the last 500 messages, can be useful if you have a large save area where you keep all you mail and you only want to search the latest messages. ^hSearch only marked^n To narrow down number of found messages, you can search only those messages that have already been marked. Assuming that you have already found all messages containing the key word "Terminate" and now you want to search only these messages for the keyword "point system", this will unmark all tagged messages that do not contain the keyword "point system" and only those messages which contain both "Terminate" and "point system" would stay marked. ^hHeader From/To/Subject^n Check the header for a matching searchstring. ^hHeader From^n Check only the From-name for a matching searchstring. ^hHeader To^n Check only the To-name for a matching searchstring. ^hHeader and text^n Check the entire message for a matching searchstring. ^hPersonal mail^n Only search mail addressed to one of your usernames. ^hRead mail^n Only search mail that has the received flag. ^hMark all messages^n Set the "marked" flag on all messages. ^hUnmark all messages^n Remove the "marked" flag from all messages in range. ^hToggle marks^n Toggles marks on the messages in range. ^hMark messages first->current^n Mark all messages starting with the first message in the area and ending with the current message. ^hMark messages current->last^n Mark all messages from the current message in the area to last message. ^hMark current range^n Mark all the messages in the range currently selected. ^hT Change template for group (Ctrl-T)^n Temporarily change the template for the group to which this area belongs. The default templates can be modified in the group settings section of the configuration file. ^hU Temporarily change user for group (Ctrl-U)^n Temporarily change the user name for the group to which this area belongs. The default users can be modified in the group settings section of the configuration file. ^hV View nodelists^n View the raw nodelists defined in the configuration file. ^hW Export message(s) (Alt-W)^n Export or print a message or all marked messages. You can also launch an external print utility for special print jobs. ^hX Area statistics, message tracking and address finding^n Gather extensive statistics about the current message area or track down the route taken by a message before you received it. TerMail can check an entire area for any Fidonet, Internet or CompuServe addresses contained therein and save them in an export file. ^hY Message statistics^n Display a simple message statistic. ^hZ Zap to next area^n This will make TerMail go to the following area immediately, without first having to leave the current area manually and then choosing the next one. ^hAlt-A^n SmartNote If you use The Internet or some other network where you have to remember hundreds of different strings or note down lots of information, then you cannot live any longer without SmartNote! The SmartNote function is better than writing long addresses down on paper because it is always ready for noting down anything needed at a later time. Backups will be made automatically. For example, if you see something on the screen that you wish to note down: 1. Press Alt-K, mark and grab the text with the string grabber - the grabber can be adjusted in size and position with SHIFT and cursor-keys. 2. Now you enter SmartNote by pressing Alt-A and import the grabbed information by pressing Alt-G exactly where you want the text to appear. NB: It does not matter where you see something on the screen as long as you still are inside TerMail or Terminate. The Alt-K string grabber will work everywhere. If, for example, you want to copy something to another note file, just follow the procedure above. If you want to test this powerful feature, enter Terminate, press Alt-O, press Alt-K and grab a part of some menu. Then start up SmartNote with Alt-A and insert the grabbed text with Alt-G. (You can grab information from the Online Manual and insert in a note file.) You can adjust the grabbers' size by holding down SHIFT and then resizing the window to be grabbed with the cursor movement keys (Arrow up, down, right or left). Z will Zoom the grabber to maximum size. Once you try this out, you will soon understand how powerful and useful this feature can be! The SmartNote editor offers the following functions: ^hSmartNote commands^n (Many of these commands are the same as the ones used by the Qedit editor by SEMWARE) ^bAlt-1^n Uppercase line ^bAlt-2^n Lowercase line ^bAlt-A^n Select character from ASCII-selector ^bAlt-C^n Clear screen/erase all lines ^bAlt-E^n Edit this file with an external editor ^bAlt-F^n Search after keyword ^bAlt-G^n Import the last block you grabbed with Alt-K ^bAlt-I^n Import all history strings at the cursor position ^bAlt-J^n Jump to DOS ^bAlt-K^n String grabber ^bAlt-L^n Load another SmartNote file ^bAlt-U^n Import a textfile at the cursor position ^bAlt-Z^n Perform Turbo Search in all note files ^m┌──────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┤^t Searching for 'YOU' ^m├┐ │ ^nINTERNET ^m│^h Here you can place any command ^byou^h like or just want to r ^m│ │ ^nINTERNET ^m│^h The following lines are only examples of what ^byou^h could s ^m│ │ ^nSMARTNOT ^m│^h used by default. If ^byou^h want to use another note file with ^m│ │ ^nSMARTNOT ^m│^h it will be used when ^byou^h are online at that system. ^m│ │ ^nSMARTNOT ^m│^h In here you can write all the information ^byou^h normally wr ^m│ │ ^nSMARTNOT ^m│^h several small pieces of papers, which ^byou^h of course cannot ^m│ │^r SMARTNOT ^m│^h ^bYou^h can grab from all places in Terminate, not only in term ^m│ │ ^nSMARTNOT ^m│^h I hope ^byou^h now understand how useful this feature will be ^m│ │ ^nSMARTNOT ^m│^h Try and grab something, it does not matter where ^byou^h grab f ^m│ │ ^nSMARTNOT ^m│^h matters that ^byou^h try yourself and see how easy you can grab ^m│ │ ^nCOMPSERV ^m│^h Here ^byou^h can place any command you like or just want to r ^m│ │ ^nCOMPSERV ^m│^h The following lines are only examples of what ^byou^h could s ^m│ └──────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘^n Turbo Search will allow you to search through all note files very quickly, allow you to choose your match and jump to the position in the notefile where the match was found. If several matches have been found, you will be asked which match to use, as in the above example. ^bCtrl-Enter^n Send a line to device, followed by a carriage ^breturn^n (#13) ^bCtrl-Y^n Delete current line ^bCtrl-T^n Delete word to the right of the cursor position ^bF2^n Add a line ^bF4^n Duplicate line ^bF6^n Delete from the cursor position to the end of line ^hSmartNote cursor-movement commands^n ^bHome^n Go to start of line ^bEnd^n Go to end of line ^bCtrl-Home^n Go to first screen line ^bCtrl-End^n Go to last screen line ^bCursor Up^n Move one line up ^bCursor Down^n Move one line down ^bCursor Left^n Move one position left ^bCursor Right^n Move one position right ^bCtrl-Left^n Move one word to the left ^bCtrl-Right^n Move one word to the right ^bPageUp^n Go 1 page down ^bPageDown^n Go 1 page up ^bCtrl-PageUp^n Go to top of file ^bCtrl-PageDown^n Go to bottom of file ^bInsert^n Toggle Insert/Overwrite ^bDelete^n Delete character under cursor ^bBackspace^n Delete character before cursor ^hAlt-B BossKey^n Start BOSSKEY.COM/EXE whenever you want to pretend that you are actually working so you don't have to admit that you are reading private mail during work-hours. ^hAlt-K String grabber^n Grab strings using the cursor keys. Use SHIFT + the cursor keys to change size of string grabber. Whenever you are in an editing field, you can press cursor-up to recall the grabbed strings. ^hAlt-P View picture of sender^n If a picture is available of the person who wrote the message, the word "PIC" will appear on the message header and you can press Alt-P to call up a picture viewer. ^hAlt-V View all pictures^n View all the pictures you have available. ^hAlt-X Exit TerMail^n Exit TerMail without asking for confirmation. ^hAlt-F10 CDROM player^n What could be more natural than listening to your favorite music while reading/writing your daily mail. The CDROM player can be called up with Alt-F10 from everywhere. ^m╒═══════════════════╤═════════════╤═══════════════════════════════════════╕ │^r Play ^m│ │^nSong Start Length Song Start Length ^m│ │ ^nStop ^m│ ├────┬──────────────┬────┬──────────────┤ │ ^nResume ^m│ │^n 1 ^m│ ^h00:02 03:17 ^m│ ^n21 ^m│ │ │ ^nNext ^m│ │^n 2 ^m│ ^h03:19 03:50 ^m│ ^n22 ^m│ │ │ ^nPrevious ^m│ │^n 3 ^m│ ^h07:09 03:58 ^m│ ^n23 ^m│ │ │ ^nEject ^m│ │^n 4 ^m│ ^h11:07 02:37 ^m│ ^n24 ^m│ │ │ ^nLock CD door ^m│ │^n 5 ^m│ ^h13:45 04:26 ^m│ ^n25 ^m│ │ ├───────────────────┤ │^n 6 ^m│ ^h18:11 04:08 ^m│ ^n26 ^m│ │ │ ^nMSCDEX Version ^m│ ^h2,21 ^m│^n 7 ^m│ ^h22:20 05:01 ^m│ ^n27 ^m│ │ │ ^nCD in drive ^m│ ^hYes ^m│^n 8 ^m│ ^h27:22 03:16 ^m│ ^n28 ^m│ │ │ ^nDoor locked ^m│ ^hNo ^m│^n 9 ^m│ ^h30:38 02:39 ^m│ ^n29 ^m│ │ │ ^nRaw and cooked ^m│ ^hOnly cooked ^m│^n 10 ^m│ ^h33:17 03:31 ^m│ ^n30 ^m│ │ │ ^nData and Audio ^m│ ^hYes ^m│^n 11 ^m│ │ ^n31 ^m│ │ │ ^nHSG and Red book ^m│ ^hYes ^m│^n 12 ^m│ │ ^n32 ^m│ │ │ ^nAudiomanipulation ^m│ ^hNo ^m│^n 13 ^m│ │ ^n33 ^m│ │ │ ^nVolume size ^m│ ^h36:49.00 ^m│^n 14 ^m│ │ ^n34 ^m│ │ ├───────────────────┤ │^n 15 ^m│ │ ^n35 ^m│ │ │ ^nTrack ^m│ ^h1 ^m│^n 16 ^m│ │ ^n36 ^m│ │ │ ^nTrack start ^m│ ^h00:02 ^m│^n 17 ^m│ │ ^n37 ^m│ │ │ ^nTotal track time ^m│ ^h03:15 ^m│^n 18 ^m│ │ ^n38 ^m│ │ │ ^nTrack time ^m│ ^h00:30 ^bIndex ^m│^n 19 ^m│ │ ^n39 ^m│ │ │ ^nTrack time left ^m│ ^h02:45 ^m│^n 20 ^m│ │ ^n40 ^m│ │ │ ^nCopyrighted track ^m│ ^hYes ^m└────┘ └────┘ │ ╘═══════════════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛^n This is a record by the world famous Danish heavy metal band "D.A.D.". ^hPlay^n Starts playing the track number entered, followed by the rest of the album. ^hStop^n Stop playing (mute). ^hResume^n Resume playing the track from where you stopped it. ^hNext^n Skip the rest of the current track and play the next. ^hPrevious^n Play the previous track. ^hEject^n Eject the CD from your CDROM drive. ^hClose tray^n Close your CDROM drive and start playing. ^hLock CD door^n Lock/unlock the CD inside the CDROM, so nobody can "borrow" the CD. ^hMSCDEX Version^n MSCDEX.EXE is a program supplied by MicroSoft for making standard calls to CDROMs from DOS. MSCDEX stands for MicroSoft CD extension. You need version 2.00 or later for this player to work. The current version of MSCDEX is 2.24. ^hCD in drive^n Did TerMail detect a CD in the drive? ^hDoor locked^n Is the CDROM door locked? ^hRaw and cooked^n Does your drive support raw and cooked reading modes? (Uh?) ^hData and Audio^n Does your CD have both audio and data tracks (mixed mode CD)? ^hHSG and Red book^n Does your CDROM conform to the High Sierra May 28th standard and the ISO-9660 version of the High Sierra format (Red Book)? ^hAudiomanipulation^n Does your CDROM support audio channel manipulation? ^hVolume size^n This is the total playing time of the CD. ^hTrack^n Which track is currently being played. ^hTrack start^n Where the track starts on the CD. ^hTotal track time^n How long the track is. ^hTrack time^n How much of the track has been played. ^hTrack time left^n How much playing time is left of the track. ^hCopyrighted track^n Is the track copyrighted? ^bIndex^n All music CD's have index marks when starting and stopping a track, TerMail will flash the ^bIndex^n indicator when it passes an index. ^hMarking messages^n Press SPACE to toggle the "marked" status on a message. ^b+^n Mark all messages in the current area. ^b-^n Remove the "marked" status from all messages in this area. ^b*^n Toggle the "marked" status on all marked messages in the area. ^hCursor LEFT/RIGHT Next/previous message^n Go to the next or previous message. ^hJump to next/previous marked message ^b< >^n When some messages have been marked, you can quickly jump to the messages by pressing the more-than (>) or less-than (<) keys on your keyboard. ^hReading reply links^n TerMail uses something called reply links to connect messages which are related. In MSG areas linking by subject is supported. In JAM areas, links are made through the MSGID kludge. Both are handled by an external maintenance utility contained in the TerMail package, called TMUTIL.EXE. Ctrl-Left Cursor Read the previous reply <=120 Ctrl-Right Cursor Read the following reply 150=> Ctrl-Up Cursor Read the first reply (JAM only) ^ The SHIFT + Cursor combination can also be used instead of the Ctrl key. ^hMsg movement^n Cursor Up Move up through the message text Cursor Down Move down through message text Home Move to the top of a message End Move to the bottom of a message PgDn Move one screen page down in message text PgUp Move one screen page up in message text Enter Move down one page. When TerMail has arrived at the end of a message, RETURN will jump to the next message (this is disabled if you have enabled blind support). ^hCtrl-Home Go to first message^n Go to the first message in an area. ^hCtrl-End Go to last message^n Go to the last message in an area. ^h0,1,2..9 Go directly to a specific message^n Simply type in the message number and press RETURN: TerMail will jump directly to the message you want. ^hShift-Esc Runtime information^n Information which is only used for testing purposes. ^hTAB Bookmark^n Set a bookmark. Press either SHIFT-TAB or the BACKSPACE key to return to the Bookmarked message. ^hCross-posting^n Cross-posting is a special way of writing a message once and automatically posting it in several areas without having to copy the message manually. It is very simple to use and only requires you to know the name of the conference where you want to copy the message to. Enter on any line in the message: XP: TERMINAT,TERMINATE.GER If the example above were written in the netmail area, your message would be saved in three folders: the Netmail folder, the international TERMINAT conference and in the German Terminate support conference TERMINATE.GER. The following lines would be inserted at the top of the message: * Crossposted in NETMAIL * Crossposted in TERMINAT * Crossposted in TERMINATE.GER If you need to cross-post a mail to more areas, just use several XP: lines. For compatibility reasons the abbreviation XC: will also be accepted. ^hCarbon Copy^n In your netmail area you can make copies of messages to multiple receivers. For this purpose you can use the cc: or bc: keywords directly in your messages. bc: is for blind copy or "Do not show in letter" otherwise the flags have the same function. Syntax: cc: address or group or searchstring, address or searchstring Each parameter must be seperated by a comma , Examples: Send to the first 3 numbers and search entire nodelists for first match on Bo Bendtsen. cc: 2:254/261, 2:236/2000, 2:236/111, Bo Bendtsen Send to NC236, 2:236/111 and to the points 13 and 17 of 2:236/111 cc: 2:236/0 , 111 , .13 , .17 Send to first match in nodelists on Bo Bendtsen and to 2:236/111 and remove all bc: lines in letter. bc: Bo Bendtsen, 2:236/111 You can have as many cc: or bc: lines in your letters as you like, you should start the cc: line before anything else to make it look as good as possible. If you have a list of people that you always send messages to please look in TM.CC where you can create groups/mailing lists. Group example: cc: 2:236/0, &Customers If you want always to send crash to certain nodes, you can use the 'C' option. cc: 2:236/0, C2:236/111 ^hTranslation editor^n ^hAlt-W^n When you receive messages in other character sets TerMail is able of translating these messages to your system. TerMail will assume that you are using IBMPC charset and translate to and from this set. If a CHRS: kludge in a message is LATIN-1, TerMail will load LATIN-1.850 if your codepage is 850. Whenever you reply to a message with a LATIN-1 kludge your message will automatically be translated back to LATIN-1 after you created the message. You can press Alt-W on a message and change the translation and see the how the characters are translated at once.