If you are reading this, you are probably installing and using the reader
as a new user.
Before beginning, the introductory walk-through, I would like to take just
a moment and say "Thanks" for trying out The Blue Wave Mail System. No
other mail system in the world is growing and developing as fast as the one
you are testing right now!
You can move to the next message by pressing the ENTER key, or your right
cursor key.
If you are using a mouse, simply click the LEFT mouse button on the word
"Next", which appears on the bottom border of the message header window.
... This is a sample tagline. If it were real, it would be funny!
~~~ Blue Wave/Max v2.06o Mega
Well look at this!
Your very first mail packet, and you already have personal mail. If you
keep this up, people from everywhere are going to recognize you!
Why not take a moment to try creating a reply? Simply press the R key
right now, and you will be introduced to the Blue Wave Message Entry
System. When you REPLY to a message, the reader automatically fills in the
message entry header for you! It couldn't get any easier than this now,
could it?
... Taglines, taglines, taglines. So many taglines, and so little time!
~~~ Blue Wave/Max v2.06o Mega
While we're in a festive mood, let's try seeing just exactly what this
thing can do. Go ahead, press the F1 key!
The F1 key will serve as a memory jogger when you just can't remember which
key on the keyboard does what. After a few times using the program, you'll
probably never need the F1 key. The keys and functions of the reader will
become second nature to you.
If you're using a mouse, you will notice the words "F1 - Help" in the
bottom right hand corner of your screen. Move the mouse cursor to those
words and press the LEFT mouse button. Voila!
If you're a person who likes pull down menus rather than fumbling around on
the keyboard, the <Alt-M> key combination is for you. Press <Alt-M> right
now to access the reader's pull down menu. Reading mail offline has never
been easier!
If you're the mousey type, there are two ways to access the pull down menu
system. If you have a 3-button mouse, press the MIDDLE mouse button. The
menu will instantly appear. If you are one of the unlucky ones (like me)
with a 2-button mouse, move the mouse cursor to the words "Menu" on the
left hand side of your screen and press the LEFT mouse button. This will
also activate the pull down menu system.
... Error! Tagline not found. (A)bort, (R)etry, (P)anic?
~~~ Blue Wave/Max v2.06o Mega
Well, we made it through one message area with no battle scars!
This should be the last message you see in the "General Messages" area.
You can do several things to get back to the 'Choose Area to Read'
selection window.
1) Press your right arrow key once, and then again. When you hit the
last message in an area, the reader will signal you. If you press the
key again, it will automatically drop back for you!
2) If you're using the mouse, click the LEFT mouse button on the "Next"
icon twice.
3) Pressing ESCape will always get you out of message reading mode,
whether you are at the last message in the area or not. Clicking the
mouse's RIGHT button serves as your ESCape key when mousing around.
... Warning! Tagline thieves abound. See next message area for details!
~~~ Blue Wave/Max v2.06o Mega
By now you've probably seen the taglines at the end of the messages.
Taglines are part of the fun of offline mail reading!
How can you create your very own taglines? Well, that's simple, too. If
you press <Alt-A> right now, the reader will take the tagline directly out
of this message and save it to your very own tagline file! (A sample
tagline file, TAGLINES.BW, was enclosed with your reader).
If you have "Check tagline file for dupes" still enabled in the reader's
configuration menu, press <Alt-A> several times to see what happens. We've
got you covered!
... Press <Alt-A> to Adopt Me! I need a better home.
~~~ Blue Wave/Max v2.06o Mega
The Blue Wave Offline Mail Reader fully supports Fidonet style netmail. If
you don't know what it is yet, you probably will. Entering netmail
messages is a bit different than entering "normal" messages. Press the <R>
key right now to see what the netmail message entry looks like.
Full details of using netmail is found in BWAVE.DOC. (What do you MEAN you
didn't read the documentation?)
... Ho, hum.
--- Blue Wave/Max v2.06o Mega
Well, I hope you enjoyed your quick tour of The Blue Wave Offline Mail
Reader. You have been viewing a mail packet that was created by a Blue
Wave Mail Door, but that probably doesn't interest you.
We know what prudent people like yourself are interested in; it's VALUE.
With The Blue Wave Offline Mail Reader, you can trash most of your 'other'
offline mail readers, if you are already using them. The Blue Wave Offline
Mail Reader now directly reads and creates .QWK style message packets.
QWK is another widely used offline mail packet format that is a bit more
limited in functionality compared to Blue Wave formatted packets. If your
favorite BBS system runs a QWK offline mail system, all you need to do is
place your QWK packets in the reader's user-defined "DOWNLOAD" directory,
and open up the packet just like you did this one! You don't have to
configure anything special to use the built in QWK functionality.
The remaining message areas in this packet contain a few sample messages
that I actually pulled out of the FidoNet echos themselves. It will give
you a good taste of what reading "REAL" messages is really like.
Thank you for being patient on this most exciting tour of the up and coming
Blue Wave Offline Mail Reader!
... Blue Wave ... Made with pride in the USA!
--- Blue Wave/Max v2.06o Mega
* Origin: The Wild! Blue BBS -=* Home of The Blue Wave *=- (1:2240/176.0) -=> Quoting Darryl Gregorash to Ed Blackman <=-
DG> DOS 4.0x prototyped a lot of things that are in DOS 5. I think DOS 4
DG> itself is a good reason to upgrade to DOS 5 ;-)
And MS-DOS 5 is a good reason to upgrade to DR-DOS 6 :-)
... Back-up My Harddrive ?? I can't find the reverse switch !
--- Blue Wave/Max v2.05 [NR]
* Origin: The Keyboard BBS - V32, Call 08-344-5354 (3:681/858.0) In a message dated <Apr 02 20:16>, Wolfgang Riedel (2:2400/102.2) wrote: WR>In a 4DOS Shell (level0) I am loading IPX and then NETX ver. WR>3.22. WR>During the connection from NETX to the SERVER I see the attached WR>to server SEC1 message and the connection time. Then it hangs up. WR>4DOS.INI: WR>HelpPath=U:\4DOS WR>Ansi=Auto WR>PauseOnError=YES WR>Environment=2048 WR>Alias=2048 WR>History=1024 WR>Swapping=XMS, EMS, none WR>UMBEnvironment=YES ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Change this to No as per the DOCS and it should work. I've been using 4DOS with Novell 2.15 and 3.11 without trouble. If you use Novell's menu system you will also need FullInt2E=ON.-Peter.--- msged 2.07 * Origin: Pete's Point, Kalgoorlie, West Australia (3:690/643.5) TR->What happens if you simply enter %COMSPEC at the 4DOS prompt, eg:TR-> c:\mydir>%COMSPEC Another user showed me where my problem was. I had in myautoexec.bat comspec=4D0S.COM instead of comspec=4DOS.COM. I don't ^ ^know how many times I looked at this and never saw it. Thanks for youtime and effort. Troy * SLMR 2.1a *
--- WM v2.01/91-0020
* Origin: Desktop Micro's BBS - (309) 662-2017 (1:232/302) ML->is that you comspec says 4d0s, not 4dos. You must feel pretty stupid, eh? You could say that. I was shown this by several people. Thething is I had looked at this several times and never saw it. Anywaythanks for your time and effort. Troy * SLMR 2.1a *
