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- |@ MAIN MENU HELP
-
-
- MESSAGE COMMANDS
- ----------------
-
- S - Scan messages on the current board. This command allows you to read the
- messages on the board you are currently on. The current board name and number
- are shown on the main menu prompt.
-
- Q - Quickscan current board. This will read the new messages on the current
- board.
-
- N - Newscan. Newscan quickscans all the boards.
-
- P - Post. This will allow you to post a message on the current board
- (validated users only)
-
- R - Remove. This allows you to remove messages you have previously posted.
-
- * - Board list. You will be given a list of boards you have access to.
-
- Number - Typing a number will change the current board to that board number.
-
-
- MAIL COMMANDS
- -------------
-
- C - Chat with the sysop. This command turns on a sysop page, which may
- attract the attention of the sysop.
-
- F - Feedback. This enables you to send a letter to the sysop personally.
-
- M - read Mail. This lets you read mail addressed to you personally.
-
- E - E-mail. You will be able to send mail to other users. (validated users
- only)
-
- /E - E-mail to more than one user. This will let you send the same piece
- of mail to up to 20 different people. (validated users only)
-
-
- ACCOUNT COMMANDS
- ----------------
-
- Y - Your info. Information is displayed about your account.
-
- $ - Password change.
-
- X - eXpert mode. This will toggle the display of the main menu.
-
- D - Default change. This lets you set your screen size, wordwrap status,
- cursor, and the boards you want quickscanned in a N:ewscan.
-
- H - Macros. There are two "macros", ctrl-D and ctrl-F. Hitting those keys
- will make the BBS substitute a string of characters which you may specify.
- The "H" command lets you change/display those macros.
-
- K - Kill old E-mail. If you send a piece of mail that you later decide you
- didn't actually want to send, you can delete it with this command.
-
- J - Purge. This will print out all the messages you have posted on the
- current board and ask whether or not to delete them. This is useful if you
- want to remove outdated messages.
-
- Z - Global purge. This will purge all boards.
-
-
- BOARD COMMANDS
- --------------
-
- T - File system. This lets you upload and download files. (validated users
- only)
-
- W - Write auto-message. This allows you to change the auto-message seen
- when users first log on. (validated users only)
-
- V - Vote. There are up to 9 questions that you may vote on (only validated
- users may vote)
-
- B - BBS list. This will display the numbers of other BBS systems.
-
- A - Add to BBS list. This enables you to add to the BBS list. (validated
- users only)
-
- G - G-files. These are general-interest files that you may view.
-
- I - Info on system. This will display the logon message and other
- information about the system.
-
- L - Log of the day. This displays a list of users who logged on today.
-
- U - User list. This shows a list of users of the system.
-
- O - Off the system. This logs you off.
-
- /O - Log off immediately.
-
- |A Add to BBS list.
-
- You may now add the phone number of a BBS to the system list. You must
- enter the phone number in the form ###-###-####. Then you must enter the
- name of the system, and any other information about it, such as operating
- hours.
-
- |B Browse files.
-
- This function allows you to "browse" through the files available for
- download to decide which you want to download. Valid commands are:
-
- L - List the next 10 files.
- Q - Quit back to the download main menu.
- U - Upload a file.
- D - Download a file by file number.
- # - Entering a number will download that file number.
-
-
- |C Chat.
-
- This command will page the sysop to come to the computer to chat with you.
- You must enter a reason for chatting, such as "VALIDATION" or some other
- meaningful reason. The page will continue until you hang up or turn it off
- by hitting "C" at the main menu again. If you do not wish to do this, just
- hit <RETURN> here.
-
- |D Defaults.
-
- Here you may change certain information about your terminal and the way you
- want the BBS to respond to you. The options are:
-
- 1. Screen size. The screen width is usually 40 or 80, although some terminals
- use 32 or 64. This information is used to format messages for your screen
- size. The number of lines on your display is also asked for.
-
- 2. Spinning Cursor. Some people want to have a spinning cursor. If you do
- you can set it with this option, and may set what characters you want the
- cursor to be composed of. If you are not sure of what this is, try it.
-
- 3. Input. This allows you to set whether or not you wish to have "one
- key input," where you do not have to hit enter where only one character
- is required as input.
-
- 4. Wordwrap. This lets you turn off wordwrap if you want to. Unless you
- have some good reason to, you should leave wordwrap on.
-
- 5. Pause on screen. If you are using a high-speed modem, some information
- may scroll off the screen faster than you can read it. You may use ctrl-S
- or "P" to pause the screen, but it might be easier to use this option. If
- the pause is set on, the BBS will pause when your screen is full of
- information, wait for you to hit a key, then resume.
-
- 6. Mailbox. If, for some reason, you do not wish to receive mail from other
- users, you may "close" your mailbox.
-
- 7. Configured Q-scan. This lets you identify which boards you want to
- Q-scan in a N:ewscan.
-
-
- |E Multi-Mail.
-
- This feature enables you to send the same piece of mail to up to 20 different
- users. You may want to do this if you are, say, notifying people of an
- upcoming meeting.
-
- You must first tell the system the user numbers of the people you wish to send
- this piece of mail to. Enter them, all on the same line, separated by commas.
- If you do not wish to do this, just hit <RETURN> at the prompt.
-
- You will then be presented with a list of the users, listing their names and
- numbers, and asked if this is correct. If so, hit "Y".
-
- After that, you will enter the message to be sent.
-
-
- |F Write message.
-
- After entering the title for the message, you will enter the actual text of
- the message. While writing, or after you have finished, there are several
- "slash commands" that you may use. They are:
-
- /es - This saves the message.
- /ex - This allows you to edit what you have entered so far.
- /abt - This aborts the message, and nothing is saved.
- /clr - This clears the message and allows you to start over.
- /li - This lists what you have entered so far, optionally with line numbers.
- /rl - This lets you replace the last line you have entered. Essentially, it
- deletes the last line you have typed.
- /c: - this centers a line on the screen.
- /t: - this boxes and centeres a line you enter.
-
- examples of centering and boxing.
-
- /c:this is centered
- you get:
- this is centered
-
- /t: this is boxed
- you get:
- +---------------+
- ! this is boxed !
- +---------------+
-
-
- Ctrl- keys: The following control keys are available:
- Ctrl-F - Ctrl-F macro
- Ctrl-D - Ctrl-D macro
- Ctrl-N - backspacing. This inserts a backspace in your line
- Ctrl-J - downspacing. This inserts a line feed in your line
- Ctrl-X - Delete entire line.
- Ctrl-W - Back a word. This deletes the current word you are typing.
- Ctrl-I - Tab. (or your tab key)
-
- |G G-files.
-
- G-files are "General Files", files of general interest. They may be sub-
- divided into categories. To read a G-file, just enter the number of the
- file you want to read.
-
- |H Macros.
-
- Macros enable you to enter a sequence of characters with only one keystroke.
- There are two macros, Ctrl-D and Ctrl-F. If you Ctrl-F macro is set to
- "Hi There", then whenever you hit Ctrl-F, it will act the same as if you had
- typed "Hi There". Presumably, this macro will be for use when you are writing
- a message, but it may also be activated at, say, the main menu. If this
- macro were activated at the main menu prompt, un-predictable things might
- happen. So you should be careful of when you activate your macros.
-
- Macro sub-menu commands:
- L - This lists out what your macros are currently set to.
- Q - This quits back to the main menu.
- M - This allows you to Make your macros. After hitting "M", you will be asked
- which macro you would like to make, Ctrl-D or Ctrl-F. Hit "D" or "F" to
- specify which. Then type the keystrokes you would like in your macro. They
- may each be up to 80 characters long. When you are done entering your macro,
- hit ctrl-D or ctrl-F to end, depending on which macro you are making. You
- will then be asked if this is correct. If so, say "Y" for yes.
-
- |I Q-scan boards in defaults.
-
- Here you may specify which boards you want quickscanned in a N:ewscan. In
- the list, a "*" before the board indicates that that board will be
- q-scanned. If you do not want a board q-scanned that is marked, just type
- the number of the board, and it will be un-marked. To re-mark the board,
- just enter the board number again.
-
- |J Purge.
-
- This command prints out each of your messages on a certain board, or on all
- boards, and optionally deletes them. If you wish to delete the last message
- printed, just hit "D" and it will be deleted. If you do not wish to delete
- it, hit "I" to ignore it. If you do not wish to continue, hit "Q" to quit.
-
- |K Kill old e-mail.
-
- If you have sent a piece of mail that you decide you actually didn't want to
- send, you may remove it with this command. Each un-read piece of mail you
- have sent will be gone through, and you may optionally delete them. For
- each piece of mail, the destination user, title, and how many days it was
- sent will be printed out. Your options here are:
-
- R - Read the piece of mail.
- D - Delete it.
- N - Go on to the next piece.
- Q - Quit back to the main menu.
-
- |L File mask.
-
- You are being asked to enter a file mask. Specifying a file mask allows you
- to have printed out only files that fit that mask. A mask is specified in
- standard PC-DOS notation, such as "*.*" to list all files, or "*.PAS" for
- all files with the .PAS extension, or any other such name, which may include
- "?" or "*". If you just hit enter, it will default to "*.*", for all the
- files.
-
-
- |M Read mail.
-
- If you have mail waiting that you have not yet read, this is how you read it.
- If you have more than one piece of mail waiting, you will be presented with
- a list of who each piece is from. This is so that if a certain user sends
- you more than one piece of mail, you do not have to respond to each one
- seperately, but may read them all first, then respond. After you hit
- <enter> to get past this list, you will read the mail. Your options
- there are:
-
- D - Delete the piece of mail.
- I - Ignore it. Keep it in your "mailbox" so you may come back and read it
- again later.
- R - Re-read the letter.
- A - Auto-reply to the letter. This deletes the letter, and enables you to
- send a letter in reply to whoever wrote it.
-
- |N Scan1 prompt.
-
- You are being asked where to start listing the titles of messages. You are
- given a numeric range of the messages, and you may start listing the titles
- anywhere in that range. Optionally, you may type "S" to go directly to the
- message read prompt, or "Q" to quit back to the main menu.
-
- |O Off the system.
-
- If you continue, you will be logged off the BBS system.
-
- |P New file date.
-
- You are being asked to enter a date for new files. The date you enter here
- will be used when you do a new file search ("N"). The files listed in a
- new file search will be any files that were uploaded on or after the date you
- specify.
-
-
- |Q One-user E-mail.
-
- You are being asked to identify a user to send e-mail to. You may enter the
- user's name or user number.
-
- |R Remove message.
-
- This allows you to remove a message you have posted. You will be presented
- with a list of the messages you have posted on the current board, and you
- will be asked which one to delete. You may enter the number of the message
- you wish to delete, or just hit <enter> if you do not wish to delete one.
-
- |S Scan2 prompt.
-
- This is the message read prompt. In the prompt line, you are told: The range
- of message numbers, and the last message number you have read.
-
- Your options are:
-
- <enter> - This reads the next message.
- # - Entering a number will read that message number.
- Q - This will quit back to the main menu.
- B - If you are in a N:ewscan, this will cause you to stop reading the
- messages on this board, and go on to the next one.
- T - This will list the titles of the next 10 messages.
- P - This allows you to post a message at the end of this board.
- A - Auto-reply to last message. This will let you send a piece of mail to
- the person who wrote the last message you have read.
-
- |T d/l main menu.
-
- BOARD COMMANDS
- --------------
-
- Q - Quit back to the BBS main menu.
-
- O - Log off the BBS.
-
- /O - Quick log off.
-
- C - Chat with the sysop.
-
- Y - Your info.
-
-
- LISTING FILES
- -------------
-
- L - List matching files in this directory.
-
- S - Search for matching files n ALL directories.
-
- F - Find matching file description.
-
- V - Verbose listing of interior files. Files that have the extension
- .ARC or .LBR actually contain other files in them. This command will
- list out the files that are contained within them, along with the
- sizes of the files. You may enter global-filename characters, such as
- "*.ARC" to list out the interior files for all .ARC files.
-
- *** Not implemented in this version ***
-
- N - This will list all the new files since your last logon.
-
- P - Set the date for a new file scan. If you wish to see all new files since
- last week, you may enter a date for last week, and N:ew file searches will
- list out those files uploaded on or after the date you enter.
-
-
- FILE TRANSFER
- -------------
-
- U - Upload a file to the current directory.
-
- D - Download a file from the current directory. You may enter global filename
- characters, such as "*.PAS", and you may download all .PAS files. After
- listing out information on each matching file, you will be asked for the
- protocol you wish to use. If you decide you do not wish to download it,
- hit "Q" or "0", and you will not.
-
- R - Remove file. If you have uploaded a file, and you wish to remove it, you
- can do so with this option.
-
- B - Browse files. This will allow you to "browse" through the files in the
- current directory, so you may pick which you wish to download.
-
-
- |U Upload file.
-
- After entering a filename for upload, the BBS will check to make sure that
- that filename is valid, and isn't already in use. If it is valid, you will
- be asked to make sure you want to upload it. If so, you will be asked for a
- one-line description of the file. The description should give some general
- information about the file, such as what it does and/or what version it is.
- A description may be up to 60 characters long. After entering the
- description, you will be asked what protocol you would like to use. Hit
- "?" for a list of valid protocols. After you tell which protocol, the BBS
- will wait for you to start sending the file. If you get this far, and then
- decide you don't want to upload it, hit Ctrl-X.
-
-
- |V Vote.
-
- Users may vote on certain topics which the Sysop picks. When you first enter
- the voting section, you will be given a list of topics you may vote on.
- Enter the number of the topic you wish to vote on. After specifying a topic,
- you will be given a status of how the votes are so far, and be shown what your
- current vote is, and asked if you wish to change it. If you do, you will be
- asked to enter which response NUMBER you wish to change it to, then you will
- be given an update of how the responses have changed with your vote.
-
-
- |W Write auto-message.
-
- The auto-message is read by all users when they first log on. If you wish
- to change it, it must be three lines long, up to 40 characters per line.
-
-
- |X Download file.
-
- If you chose this option from the download main menu, you may enter the
- filename you wish to download using global filename characters, such as "*"
- and "?". So if you enter, say, "*.PAS", you will be given the option of
- downloading all matching files in the current directory.
-
- After you specify a file, you will be given information on that file, such
- as the description, who uploaded it, and when it was upload, as long as the
- file length. The file length is given as the number of blocks for an
- XMODEM transfer, a hyphen, and the number of kilobytes (Kb).
- The approximate trasfer time is also given, although this is usually an
- over-estimate if you have a good connection.
-
- You will then be asked what transfer protocol to use. Hit "?" for a list
- of protocols. If you do not wish to download this file, hit "0", or "Q".
-
-
- |Y Find description.
-
- Here you may search the file DESCRIPTIONS to find matching entries. You
- may, for example, search for "BBS", to find any files which may have to do
- with BBS's. All descriptions are converted to uppercase first, so you do not
- have to worry about whether to use upper or lower case.
-
-
- |Z Change password.
-
- Using this option, you may change your password.
-
- |[ verbose listing.
-
- If there are .ARC or .LBR files in the current directory, this option will
- let you list out the files that they contain, as well as the file lengths.
- You may use global filename characters, such as "*.ARC" here.
-
- *** Not inplemented in this version ***
-