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- (End of Message) Command - Function Help
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- Commands Available to All:
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- (Enter) contines on with message read function
- (N) stop reading messages
- (NS) continue reading messages in non-stop format
- (T) thread read (forward) (or T+)
- (T-) thread read (backwards)
- (#) a specific message number between 1 and 9999999
- (+) alone reads messages forward from present position or when
- appended to a number causes forward reading from that message
- number
- (-) alone reads messages backwards from present position or when
- appended to a number causes backward reading from that
- message number
- (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) read messages in all conferences
- (L) read in backwards order from the last message to the first
- (C) capture the messages to a file for download
- (D) implies a (C)apture and immediately downloads
- (Z) implies a (D)ownload but compresses the file before
- (G) goodbye
- (J) join another conference
- (RE) enter a reply to the message just read
- (RR) read the referenced message
- (M) memorize that message number for later return
- (RM) return to a previously "memorized" message number
- (TS) begin a text search of message header information
- (SET) sets the number of the last message read
- (NEXT) reads next higher message number available
- (PREV) reads next lower message number available
- (USER) begins a search for messages to/from a specific user
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- Additional Commands Available if Message is To/From You:
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- (K) kill the message
- (E) edit the "To:" and "Subj:" of the message header and 'Echo'
- flag if applicable
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- Additional Commands Available for Sysops ONLY!
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- (P) "protect" the message (make it "private")
- (U) "unprotect" the message (make it "public")
- (F) find caller's USERS file record and display
- (O) read messages in "read only" mode
- (MOVE) Move the message to another conference
- (COPY) Copy the message to another conference
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- Comments: If you do not have a security level necessary to perform the
- Sysop functions above, do NOT attempt to enter those commands
- as excessive attempts to do so may lock you out of this system!
- Commands can be stacked together at this prompt if desired.
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- Examples:
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- * R 1+ <enter>
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- The above command will read all messages from #1 to the end.
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- * R 1 5 10 20 <enter>
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- The above command will read messages 1, 5, 10 and 20 and then stop.
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- * R S <enter>
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- The above command will read all mail that is new for you.
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- * R L <enter>
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- The above command will read all mail in reverse order from beginning to
- end.
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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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- * R A Z <enter>
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- The above command will capture all messages in all conferences since
- the last message read, compress the capture file and the begin the
- download procedure.
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- * R SET 100 <enter>
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- Sets the last message read for that conference to 100.
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- Examples of using boolean (and / or) searching:
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- The symbols "&" and "|" can be used to mean AND and OR respectively. In
- addition you can combine criteria using parenthesis to denote the grouping of
- the search.
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- Multiple words making up a sentence or phrase:
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- PCBoard version 14.5
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- Searches for the words "PCBoard version 14.5" all together
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- Multiple words searching for each word separately:
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- PCBoard | Qmodem | Procomm
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- Searches for any text having either PCBoard OR Qmodem OR Procomm anywhere in
- the text
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- Multiple words searching for each word separately requiring ALL to match:
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- PCBoard & Qmodem & Procomm
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- Searches for any text having ALL THREE words but not necessarily in any order
- or even next to each other
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- Using parenthesis for grouping:
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- DESQview & (PCBoard | Qmodem)
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- Searches for any text having DESQview in it AND having either PCBoard OR Qmodem
- also in the same text in any order and not necessarily together
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