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Help page 3 - Further communications.

Introduction.
From the last help page you could see that there are two main methods of telling people something. These were namely the say and tell commands. This page details some other methods which can be used to brighten up your chat by displaying your message in different ways. They can often be used, quite successfully, to reflect your mood.


Examples.
If someone wants to make sure everyone on the talker takes notice of them, they can emphasize a say using a shout. So if Sabrina types shout Look at this! then everyone on the talker will see Sabrina shouts: Look at this!

If Sabrina was pondering something to herself and she wanted to share this with the room then typing think Humm, why? would send the text Sabrina thinks: . o 0 ( Humm, why? ) to the room.

When Sabrina is listening to some music then she might like to let everyone know what song is playing. Typing sing It's like ra-in, on your wedding day... would give Sabrina sings: o/~ It's like ra-in, on your wedding day... o/~ Of course there is no accounting for taste.

NOTE 1: You can use rthink, rsing and recho to chat to just one person.
NOTE 2: Please make sure you don't abuse these commands as they can become annoying when they are overused.


Summary Table.

Command. Shortcut. Function.
shout string !string Sends the text given in string to everyone on the talker regardless of rooms.
think string think string Sends the text given in string to everyone in the room wrapped in . o 0 ( string )
rthink name string rt name string Sends the text given in string to the person given in name, wrapped in . o 0 ( string )
sing string sing string Sends the text given in string to everyone in the room wrapped in o/~ string o/~
rsing name string rs name string Sends the text given in string to the person given in name, wrapped in o/~ string o/~
whisper name string =name string Sends the text given in string to the person given in name in such a way that the room is informed that you are whispering, but not what the whisper was.
echo string +string Sends the text given in string to everyone in the room in the format [your name] string.
recho name string -name string Sends the text given in string to the person given in name in the format [your name] string.


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