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- I)nquire
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- This is the way to find a message TO or FROM a particular
- person and to find something on a particular SUBJECT.
-
- In a nutshell, you type in a name or a subject and Opus
- will give you a list of all the messages in the current
- area that have the line you typed as a TO or FROM
- or SUBJECT.
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- To find JOHN DOE, for example, you can type and of these:
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- JOHN -or- DOE -or- JOHN DOE
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- The following is for the ADVANCED users only:
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- The Inquire feature supports some "wildcards" commonly
- used by many programmers....
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- `?' matches ANY single character
- EXAMPLE: "Th?t" would find "This" and "That"
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- `*' matches any number of instances of the same character.
- EXAMPLE: "x*yz" would find "xyz","yz", and "xxyz"
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- `+' matches one or more instances of a character.
- EXAMPLE: "x+yz" would find "xyz" and "xxyz"
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- To find a question mark, use..... "\?"
- To find an asterisk, use......... "\*"
- To find a plus sign, use......... "\+"
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- Sc:\opus\hlp\msg