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Professional Point System
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Copyright (c) 1994 Harvey Parisien
Box 323 Station A, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA K7M 6R2
FidoNet 1:249/114
U S E R S G U I D E
P P o i n t
An FTSC compatible e-mail system
U S E R S G U I D E
Copyright (c) 1994 Harvey Parisien
Box 323 Station A, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA K7M 6R2
FidoNet: 1:249/114
Internet: harvey.parisien@f114.n249.z1.fidonet.org
PPoint - Copyright (C) 1994, Harvey Parisien
OPERATING PPOINT
To run PPoint, enter PPOINT at a DOS prompt, or select it from
a system menu. You will first see a title screen, (or password
prompt if that feature is implemented) and then the main
pulldown menu interface.
If your system is just being installed, it will prompt you for
setup information like your name, email address, etc. Details
on setup are provided at the end of this document under SETUP
INSTRUCTIONS.
The use of pulldown menus has been implemented to organize your
access to various functions at different times, and to organize
them into separate related areas.
The first pulldown menu is the set of functions that relate to
HOST connections, and management. The next pulldown menu
contains functions related to MAIL management. This is the
menu you first arrive on when you run PPoint, since it's the
area most commonly used. The other two menus are OPTIONS,
where some not so common functions are made available. The
Setup menu contains all of the various user definable options,
and settings required to operate and maintain PPoint.
A TYPICAL PPOINT SESSION
A typical PPoint session might start where you would choose
HOST TRANSFER on the HOST pulldown menu. This will transfer
any outstanding mail created by your system to your Host, and
process any incoming mail or files from your Host. Your system
automatically dials your Host, connects, and transfers
information. It is not necessary to have mail to send in order
to connect to your host. You can Poll for mail when ever you
wish to see if there is any new mail or files waiting for you
on the host system.
At this point, you have the option to set a timer to Poll at a
future time. You can just press enter to continue to Poll now.
If you choose to use the timer, the screen will display the
Poll time, and current time. Pressing Esc aborts the Poll,
any other key starts immediately. After 60 seconds (or
pressing the space bar) of waiting, the screen will blank,
all except for the timer display. If you use the Timer,
then after the Poll is completed the screen will go blank
again after 60 seconds, to preserve your hardware.
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When a Host transfer is complete, and if you have received
mail, you will find yourself on the MAIL pulldown menu, on the
selection READ NEW MAIL. This is the next logical choice you
would make when mail is received. If there was no mail, you
will remain on the HOST transfer selection. In addition, if
you received files, there will be a blinking message at the
bottom left of your screen informing you.
By selecting READ YOUR NEW MAIL, the system checks all message
areas for mail addressed to you. You can check your whole
message database, or just UNREAD mail. When you are finished
reading and/or replying to your mail, you will return to the
pulldown menus.
The READ YOUR NEW MAIL system works the same as The FIND & READ
MESSAGES function. This allows you to search one or all
message areas for a match to any search text in the message
header (the To, From, and Subject fields), or complete message.
Once a FIND/SEARCH has been requested, just use the normal keys
to review all finds ie: Right Arrow Key or ENTER causes a FIND
AGAIN.
When you run PPoint you will normally be sitting on the SELECT
MESSAGE AREA menu prompt. This displays a list of all the
current message areas, or sometimes called conferences, on the
system. PPoint will bring you to the area selected, where you
can use the following keys to READ, REPLY TO, or ENTER mail.
From this point you will be able to list and/or change areas at
any time by pressing A. You can list all messages in this area
by pressing M, as well as export or print messages, etc. This
chart shows all active command keys and their functions...
Online help has been implemented throughout the system. You
can press F1 for help any time. To create an up-to-date User
Reference Guide, press F1 for a help screen. Select Help
Index and select the last choice which is Print User Reference
Guide. This will print a complete function by function guide
to running PPoint. This guide contains the complete contents
of your online Help System.
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OPERATIONAL KEYS IN THE READING AREA
Basic Navigation:
A=Display the AREAS LIST (or Del)
M=Display a MESSAGE LIST (or Ins)
Right/Left Arrow keys=move to next or previous messages
PgDn=page down one screen at a time to the bottom of a
message
Home=Go to the First message in the current area.
End=Go to the Last message in the current area.
The Esc key or Mouse Button 2 exits this area.
Editing:
R=Reply to the current message.
E=Enter a message.
C=Change/Edit a message (only if it was from you).
K=Kill the current message, K toggles Delete on/off.
P toggles Private on/off.
Other keys:
ENTER=like PgDn but will go to the next message when at
the bottom of a message.
F=Find messages base