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- Floors
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- Floors in ^variantname are used to group rooms into related subject areas,
- just as rooms are used to group messages into manageable groups.
-
- You, as a user, do NOT have to use floors. If you choose not to, you suffer
- no penalty; you will not lose access to any rooms. You may use .ECF or ;C (the
- latter is easier to use) to decide if you want to use floors. Feel free to
- experiment.
-
- Floor options are accessed two ways. First, if you are in floor mode, the
- <G>oto and <S>kip commands take you to the next room with new messages on the
- current floor; if there are none left, then the system will automatically
- switch floors (and let you know) and put you in the first room with new messages
- on that level. (Notice that your pattern of basic use of ^variantname therefore
- doesn't really change.)
-
- Direct access to floor options is via the use of a ";" command (the "'" is
- an alternative). The following commands are currently available (more can be
- added if needed):
-
- <;C>onfigure
- This command toggles your floor mode.
-
- <;G>oto FLOORNAME
- This command causes the system to take you to the named floor.
-
- <;K>nown floors
- This command prints a list of the floors, and the rooms on them, in the system.
- (This is a very readable way to get a list of rooms on the system!)
-
- <;S>kip FLOORNAME
- This command causes the system to mark all rooms on the current floor as
- Skipped and takes you to the floor that you specify.
-
- <;Z>Forget floor
- This command causes you to forget all the rooms currently on the current
- floor. Unfortunately, it doesn't apply to rooms that are subsequently created
- or moved to this floor. (Sorry.)
-
- If you create a room, it will be placed on the floor that you are currently
- on (i.e., the floor that the room that you were in when you created the new
- room is associated with).
-
- Feel free to experiment, you can't hurt yourself or the system with the
- floor stuff unless you ZForget a floor by accident.
-
-
- %ADVANCED Back to the advanced commands help menu.
- %HELPOPT Get a list of all help files in the system.
- %MAINHELP First level of help system.
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