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- (TS) Message Text Search - Function Help
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- Subcommands:
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- (F) selects only messages left by you
- (Y) selects only messages left for you
- (S) selects messages above the last one you have read
- (A) scan messages in all conferences
- (L) read in backwards order from the last message to the first
- (C) capture the messages found to a file for download
- (D) implies a (C)apture and immediately downloads
- (Z) implies a (D)ownload but compresses the file before
- (NS) displays text in non-stop mode
- (RM+) re-read "memorized" message number plus forward read
- (RM-) re-read "memorized" message number plus backwards read
- (##+) scan messages from a selected number forward
- (##-) scan messages from a selected number backward
- (USER) selects only those message to or from the specified user
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- Description: Allows searching the messages on the system to find messages
- that match the search criteria that you provide.
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- Examples:
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- * TS A 1+ <enter>
- PCBoard & LANtastic <enter>
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- The above commands will search thru every available message in ALL
- conferences areas you are set to scan for any message that has both
- the word "PCBoard" AND the word "LANtastic" in it.
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- * TS A 1+ <enter>
- PCBoard & (LANtastic | DESQview) <enter>
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- The above commands will search thru every available message in ALL
- conferences areas you are set to scan for any message that has both
- the word "PCBoard" AND either the word "LANtastic" OR the word
- "DESQview" in it.
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- The parenthesis tell PCBoard how you want to group your criteria if
- you have a complex search request such as the one above. It will
- allow for nearly any number of parens and any combination of AND's
- (using the "&" character) and OR's (using the "|" character).
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- * TS A 1+ USER JOHN DOE <enter>
- PCBoard & Help <enter>
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- The above command (similar to examples above) adds the keyword USER
- to the command line specifying that only messages that are either
- TO or FROM John Doe should be displayed if they are found to have
- both the words PCBoard and Help in them.
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