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- ** Opus - Computer Based Communications System **
- ** Conversion Manual **
- ** **
- ** Copyright (C) 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991 Wynn Wagner III **
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-
- A Product of the Opus Covert Action Committee
- and
- The Not Ready for Mainframe Players
- Chico and Elsewhere
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-
- Last Second Feature
-
- Opus has a lot of traditions about it. One of them is that new
- releases should always contain at least one undocumented feature.
-
- The undocumented feature for Opus 1.70 is command-line editing,
- that is, you can use the F1 and F3 keys just like you use them
- with DOS. Each press of F1 will copy one character from the last
- command line to the current command, F3 will copy the remainder
- of the last command.
-
- For systems that can't transmit F1 and F3 over the modem, CON-
- TROL-G and CONTROL-N can be used as alternatives.
-
- Probably the place where you and your users will find this most
- useful will be when trying to download a file fails because "File
- not found". Pressing F3 or ^N will redisplay the file name(s) you
- tried to download so you can confirm that you can just edit the
- name(s) instead of having to re-type the whole thing.
-
- Its just a little trick, but you'll probably find it useful
- occasionally. All the really good stuff needed to be beaten on a
- lot.
- Doug Boone
- FidoNet 1:119/5.0
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