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- To enter a message, simply type your text until you hear a bell
- and/or cannot enter more characters on the present line. You may
- then erase any partial word typed with ^W and a BS (^H), or a
- series of BSs. At any point, before hitting <cr>, you can freely
- use the editing commands to move around in the line. Type a ^V
- at any time to see what the available editing commands are.
-
- Blank lines do not terminate text input. You must type a period
- followed by a <cr> on a new line. Once you have done that, you
- will be at the SELECT prompt.
-
- You then have several choices. One of them lets you go back and
- edit individual lines with the same editing commands used to
- input the original line. In addition, you may delete that line
- by erasing its contents with ^X (or ^U), and then typing a period
- followed by a <cr>. You may also insert a new line by typing a
- minus sign and the line number.
-
- Once back at the SELECT prompt, you can optionally send the same,
- or modified version of the current message to more than one
- person. Since there is no "Cc:" header field, what you do
- instead is Store the first copy with the R command, and then use
- the Header Edit command to change the "To:" field, and either
- Store that with the Store command and return to the main COMMAND
- prompt, or use the R command again, as often as you wish.
-
- One more thing: when you first enter RBBS, you are examining the
- PERSONAL messages file. Messages to "ALL" belong in an alternate
- message file called GENERAL. To select that message file, use
- the F command at the COMMAND prompt. That list will show any
- other optional special interest message files which may also be
- selected, instead of GENERAL.
- original line. In addition, you may delete that line
- by erasing its content