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- Here is some general information about the operation of the Soft-Span BBS
- software. The heart of the system lies at the main menu which is where
- you enter commands to do various tasks. On most BBS systems you enter
- a single key as a command. With Soft-Span, you generally enter a full
- word as a command. It should be easier to remember these names than
- the traditional command system. Also, most commands have alternate names
- which you can use instead. The command name which appears in the Main Menu
- is called a PRIMARY COMMAND. Any alternate command name is called an ALIAS.
- You can get a complete list of all aliases via the ALIAS command.
-
- When enterring data such as at the Main prompt, input is terminated by the
- RETURN key. You use the BACKSPACE key to back over mistakes. Also,
- CTRL-X (Control-X) can be used to delete to the beginning of the line.
-
- At certain prompts, you need only enter a one-character selection. Here,
- you must choose one of the indicated responses. However, the case of
- your selection is not important.
-
- The last general type of prompt is the Yes/No prompt which will look something
- like this:
- Continue? (Y/N)
- Here, you choose Y for Yes or N for No. Again, case is not important.
-
- In certain parts of the BBS, such as viewing messages or obtaining a file
- listing, you can pause the output by pressing CTRL-S. Once paused, any
- key continues output. If you hit something other than CTRL-S, output is
- aborted. In addition, the key you hit will be used by the next input routine.
- Finally, if you selected to have the [MORE] prompt, output will be halted at the
- end of every screen of text. You will see "[MORE]" displayed on the last line.
- At that point, pressing any key will cause output to continue.
-