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| Welcome to The Major BBS by Galacticomm! |
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If you've used The Major BBS before, you'll probably have no trouble
finding your way around. If you haven't, this document is intended to
help you learn your way around. A few basics to keep in mind: if you
want to exit from wherever you are in the system, select X; all
selections and commands must be followed by a RETURN; on menus (and
most prompts) you may select ? for help; and hit the RETURN key to
abort lengthy scrolling displays.
This document will serve two purposes: 1) to help you get started
(using The Major BBS for this first time), and 2) to be a reference for
you, even after you've found your way around (to answer the question,
"I wonder... is there a way to do <blank> in the <blank> module?").
A Quick Overview
----------------
When you first call into The Major BBS, you're asked to "sign up",
creating an account for yourself. If you're online reading this
document, you must have already signed up, and should now have a
User-ID and password that you can use from now on. Now, when you call
in, all you have to do is enter in your User-ID and then your password.
The BBS will remember who you are, and start by telling you if you have
any mail waiting (it may also ask you if you want to read it right
away). You might also get some other important notices, but will
eventually be left at the TOP menu.
The TOP menu is the first menu on the BBS. The various selections on
this menu go to different areas of the BBS. Here's an example of what
the TOP menu might look like:
Please select one of the following:
T ... Teleconference (talk with other online users)
I ... Information Center (get some info on this system)
F ... Forums (read/write public messages)
E ... Electronic Mail (read/write private messages)
L ... File Libraries (upload/download files)
A ... Account Display/Edit (edit/view your account info)
P ... Polls and Questionnaires (answer polls and questionnaires)
D ... Doors (activate a door application)
R ... Registry of Users (look up users' registry entries)
Q ... QWK-mail (offline E-mail and Forum handling)
X ... Exit System (Logoff) (Logoff the system)
Main System Menu (TOP)
Make your selection (T,I,F,E,L,A,P,D,R,Q,? for help, or X to exit):
By typing in one of the select characters, followed by a RETURN, you
can enter any of these different areas. As an example, this is how you
might go about leaving a private E-mail message to your Sysop (System
Operator -- the person who runs this system). First, select E to go
into Electronic Mail, which will bring you to this menu:
The following E-mail services are available:
R ... Read message(s) (read any mail TO or FROM you)
W ... Write a message (write mail to any other user)
M ... Modify a message (modify a message you've written)
E ... Erase a message (erase a message you've written)
S ... Special functions (configure your personal mailbox)
X ... Exit from E-mail (exit back to the TOP menu)
Select a letter from the above list, or ? for more info:
Now, in this example, you would select W to write mail. That selection
would bring you to this prompt:
Who do you wish to send this message to?
Enter User-ID, ? for help, or RETURN for "Sysop":
In this example, you'd only have to hit a RETURN (with no selection) to
specify "Sysop". If you wanted to write mail to someone else, you
would simply type in their User-ID here (if you don't know the whole
User-ID, but only know the first or last name, you can just enter what
you know, and the BBS will help you find the exact User-ID).
Now, you'll be asked for the topic of your message. After entering in
a topic, you'll be put into the editor. Depending on whether or not
the terminal you're using to call in with has ANSI support, you may get
the Full Screen Editor. This ANSI editor will act very much like a
small word processor, allowing you to use your cursor keys to move
around the message. You can feel free to just type your message as you
wish it to appear to your Sysop. The automatic word-wrap will wrap
words at the end of lines appropriately. Just hit CTRL-G whenever you
are done, and want to save your message. Hit CTRL-O if you changed
your mind and want to quit. All sorts of advanced commands are also
available. Just hold down the control key and hit R (CTRL-R) to
display some other commands:
╔═ HELP (CTRL-W for more) ══╤══════════════════════════════╗
║ CTRL-Z Select Terminal │ CTRL-L Redisplay Screen ║
║ CTRL-K CTRL-Q Quit │ CTRL-K CTRL-X Save and Quit ║
║ CTRL-T Change Topic │ CTRL-W Extended Help ║
║ CTRL-X Exit to Line Edit │ CTRL-N Import Message ║
║ Line Commands: │ CTRL-K CTRL-U Upload File ║
║ CTRL-B Insert Line │ ║
║ CTRL-C Chop Line │ CTRL-Y Delete Line ║
║ CTRL-A Center Line │ CTRL-J Join Line ║
║ CTRL-F Insert character │ CTRL-E Erase to End of Line ║
║ Block Commands: │ CTRL-V Delete character ║
║ CTRL-K CTRL-B Mark Start │ CTRL-K CTRL-K Mark End ║
║ CTRL-K CTRL-H Hide Block │ CTRL-K CTRL-F Frame Block ║
║ CTRL-K CTRL-Y Delete Block│ CTRL-P Format Paragraph ║
╟───────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────╢
║ --- HIT ANY KEY TO RETURN TO EDITOR --- ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
If you don't have ANSI support, you'll get the line editor. The line
editor doesn't allow you to move around with your cursor keys like the
Full Screen Editor, so you have to enter your message one line at a
time. (The automatic word-wrap feature will wrap the end of lines for
you, just like the ANSI editor.) When you're all done entering your
message with the line editor, and you want to go ahead and save it,
just enter /S on a blank line by itself. If you want to change
something about what you've written so far, you can edit the message by
typing OK on a blank line by itself. That will give you this menu:
EDITOR OPTIONS:
S)ave message R)e-type a line
A)ppend message D)elete line
L)ist message I)nsert line(s)
C)hange text N)ew message
H)elp T)opic change
U)pload file
Select an editor option (S,A,L,C,H,R,D,I,N,U, or ? for menu):
When you're done editing your message, just select S from this menu to
save your message. Then, you'll get this prompt (you come to this same
prompt by typing /S in your message instead of typing OK and editing):
Do you wish to "attach" a file to this message (Y/N)?
If you answer Y to this question, your topic will be used as the file
name (you'll get a chance to reenter your topic if it's not a valid
one), and you'll be asked to upload a file to the BBS. When the Sysop
reads your mail, he'll be asked if he wants to download the attached
file. Answer N if you don't need to send a file along with the
message. After all that, you'll get:
Do you want a "return receipt" when this message is read (Y/N)?
In other words, when the Sysop reads your message, do you want an
E-mail message to be sent