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- Welcome to the Citadel bulletin board system. Feel free to experiment
- with commands you don't understand -- you can't hurt the system...
-
- SPECIAL NOTE:
- If you can't log in, the system is private. You must obtain a password by
- doing a <.G>oto <MAIL>, <E>nter message to sysop, and providing your phone
- number (voice line for validation) and name under which you wish to
- participate (may be an alias but could be used for validation call) and the
- password you wish to use. Your password will be entered in the system log
- at the sysop's convenience and you may <L>og in using the password you
- supplied the sysop. Or you may try <C>hat with sysop.
-
- The simplest pattern of usage is:
-
- * <L>og in. The system will remember your terminal configuration and which
- messages are new since you last visited a room.
-
- * Use <G>oto to find a room with messages you haven't read.
-
- * Use <N>ew messages to read them. Use <J>ump, <N>ext, <P>ause or <S>top to
- control typout.
- <J>ump will skip to the start of the next paragraph of a message;
- <N>ext will skip to the start of the next message;
- <P>ause will halt typout until another key is pressed;
- <S>top will return immediately to the command prompt.
- (These will work any time the system is typing out
- something. Now, for instance.)
-
- * You may use <E>nter to add messages to the room.
-
- This <G>oto- <N>ew- <E>nter cycle may be continued until you arrive back
- in the Lobby. You don't have to read everything every time; if you miss a room
- this call, the contents will still be "new" on your next call.
-
- * Use <T>erminate to leave the system.
-
- * Hidden in the ".Help ?" files are special incantations to do all sorts of
- obscure things. But the above sequence covers most normal use.
- sequence covers most normal use.
-