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LED 1.46 A FidoNet Message Editor All versions of this program before 1.23 were written by Roland Bohn and Volkmar Wieners. All versions from 1.23 on were written by Stephan Slabihoud Manual edited by Antony Lacey September 20th, 1996 LED is shareware, please support the shareware concept. If you have any comments about the program, please contact the author, Stephan Slabihoud by Netmail or in ST_FIDO.GER , N.SUP.LED, or A.SUP.LED. Notes about this Manual. ------------------------ If you have any comments about the manual or the HyperText guide, please contact the editor, Antony Lacey at 90:102/146 or in the N.SUP.LED or A.SUP.LED (Atarinet) Echoes. E-mail on algy@allatsea.demon.co.uk The Hypertext file contains the same information as the Manual. I decided to do both as some people prefer a manual, and some the .HYP file. Now you can use whichever you prefer. ========================================================================= The manual covers version 1.46 of LED. It does not fully cover earlier versions of the program, and some of the options described in it may not be available in previous versions of LED. Please Note: i) In this manual all key presses are enclosed in < > brackets, where more than one key is needed they are placed next to each other e.g <ALT><A> means ALTERNATE and A key must be pressed together. ii) The left/right arrow keys below the help button are shown as <-, -> and the up and down arrow keys will be called cur up and cur down. iii) Menu Options with '...', e.g 'About...' after them indicate that a Dialog Box/Window will be opened or the File Selector will be shown. Options without this will execute immediately. New features in this version of LED are marked [NEW] so you can find them easily. 1) General Information. ----------------------- Led is an editor for FidoNet messages for the Atari ST & Falcon range of computers. It allows you to read, edit and write messages which are imported / exported by your mailer software. If you are not familiar with your mailer software, please consult the documents that came with it as this manual deals only with LED. 2) Files Needed. ---------------- To use LED you must have the following files ... (LED will not run without these files). LED.PRG The program file LED.RSC The resource file. This can be placed in the same folder as LED.PRG or in the LED system folder. LED.CFG, or Binkleyterm's or LED's own configuration file. BINKLEY.CFG LED looks for LED.CFG, or BINKLEY.CFG. LED.CFG must be placed in the LED system folder. AREAS.BBS List of areas, This should already exist with your mailer software. IOSmail/Jetmail/Marsmail etc. LED.LNG This is the language file. It contains the text for all the dialog boxes etc. You may also use the following files ... LED.SCT A file containing a list of Shortcut text for use with CONTROL-F1 feature. This list can be changed using an ASCII text editor. See the example in the Help menu section. LED.FLN A file containing Footlines to use with the Random Footline feature. See Appendix E for the file format. LED.NIC A file containing nicknames. Available for Registered users only. See Appendix F for more information on this feature. LED will also create the following files if needed ... LED.FKY This contains any text programmed into the function keys and is generated when the list is saved. LED.NEW This contains the last-read pointers for each area and the new/unread/to sysop message pointers. This can be edited by an ASCII text editor if desired. LED.OPT This contains LED options, number and position of open windows, and fonts selected when LED exits. If it doesn't yet exist, it will be created by LED and can be saved on every exit if desired. LED.DLG Contains the co-ordinates of the flying dialogues. LED.LOG If there are problems, this log will be created. LED.PRN This is a printer driver for LED and allows character conversion when printing. If this file is not present LED will use GDOS for printing. Note: If this file is missing or if not all of the text effects are defined, then no text effects can be printed. This will be shown in the Sysyem Report. NOTE: LED expects to find all but the following files in a Directory named LED. LED.NEW may be in the LED directory or in the same directory as the AREAS.BBS file. If it is in the LED directory, IOSMail, Jetmail etc. will not update this file. From Jetmail 0.99beta21 on, Jetmail can use it in the LED folder as well. LED.LOG may be in a different directory as long as this is defined in LED.CFG using Logfile. You can now keep the LED folder in various places. These are as below, with the highest priority at the top :- a) As defined by the Environment LED e.g LED=D:\FIDOSOFT\CONFIGS\LED (this MUST have the folder name at the end) b) As defined by the Environment FIDOCONFDIR (as now used by Binkleyterm and Jetmail) e.g FIDOCONFDIR=D:\FIDOSOFT\CONFIGS (The LED folder will need to be inside the CONFIGS folder) c) When $FIDOCONFDIR does not exist, LED tries to find its config folder in .\CONFIG d) If none of the above are defined, LED looks a folder called LED in the directory where it was started from. 3) Starting the program. ------------------------ If LED cannot find the configuration file(s), the langauge file, or AREAS.BBS it will not run. They .CFG must be in the LED folder, but AREAS.BBS can be in a seperate directory as long as it is specified in the .CFG file by the MAILERPATH command, or defined with the environment setting MAILER or BINKLEY. If you are having problems with Binkley's configuration file, please read the Binkley documentation. If you are having problems with LED.CFG please see Appendix C at the end of this manual. Double click on LED.PRG and the program will open a window showing the last read message. If it is the first time the program has run, no window will be open. The first open window will be a Message Window and can be scrolled, resized as necessary using the sliders/size box etc. as a normal GEM window. More about this window later. 4) Menu Functions. ------------------ Next to most menu options there is a keyboard shortcut option shown. They are included in the descriptions below next to the menu choice. e.g <CTRL> (Control and I keys together) will show information about LED. I) LED. ======= a) About... <CTRL> This is a short information box about LED and includes an option to add your registration Key. Running LED without the key will restrict the use of some features. It also adds a delay when starting and ending LED. Support the Shareware concept, register your copy of LED. b) ACCESORIES. Start these as you would normally from the GEM desktop. II) File. ========= a) Read ASCII... <ALT><R> Import an ASCII text file to the current cursor position in an Edit Window only. When selected the file selector will be shown to choose the file. b) Write ASCII... <ALT><W> One or more messages can be written to a file in ASCII format. A dialog box is displayed where you can choose/change the message number(s) to be exported in this way. Click on OK and the file selector will be shown to choose the destination path/name. The text will include header information as shown below:- Msg #11 / 1-14 Time: 28 Mar 95 01:26:12 From: Antony Lacey on 90:102/146 To : Stephan Slabihoud on 90:400/410 Subj: Led 1.27 ---------[FidoNetmail]----------------------------------------------- Hiya Stephan, I forgot to mention in my previous message .... If a block of text has been selected, this can be written instead of the whole message. c) Append ASCII... <ALT><A> The message(s) chosen will be appended to an existing ASCII file with the header information as above intact for each message. The file selector will be shown to choose the destination file on the first occasion, but if a file has already been chosen then the message will automatically be appended to the previously selected file. A block can be chose in the same way as for Write ASCII. d) Read Binary... This will read a binary file (uue-coded) into the current message at the current cursor position. The maximum file size is approx. 48 Kb. The file selector will be called to select the file. Remember! Too big and your messages may not be exported. e) Write Binary... This will write a uuencoded message to be written to your disk as a binary file. The file selector will be called to select the path to write the file to. If the message is split over several messages, a Dialog box will ask if you want to add further uuencoded messages or abort the process. f) Write Plain... <SHIFT><ALT><W> The message(s) will be written to an ASCII file the same as Write ASCII except the header information will not be included. Example:- Hiya Stephan, I forgot to mention in my previous message .... This can be useful if you want to export a message which has been split into several parts, or UUE coded messages. The fileselector is shown to choose the destination path/file. g) Append Plain... <SHIFT><ALT><A> The same as Append ASCII except again no message header information is written. h) Read Clipboard <ALT><L> When in an Edit Window, text from the clipboard will be inserted at the present cursor position. i) Write Clipboard <ALT> The current message will be written to the clipboard. Any program which uses the clipboard can then use the message text. j) TOS Shell <ALT><Z> Start the TOS shell which is defined in LED.CFG. This must also be defined by the Environment variable SHELL for this to work correctly. k) Execute... <ALT><E> When selected the file selector will be shown and any TOS or GEM program can be run. When you have finished with the chosen program LED will start again automatically and read the configuration file. This means you can change the configuration file with a text-editor, save it, and when LED starts again it will use any changes straight away provided the text editor was run in the above manner. l) Quit <CTRL><Q> This will exit LED and return to the desktop. If the Rescue Lastread switch is set (see under Options) the LED will save all the new/unread/msg to sysop pointers for each area to LED.NEW before quitting. If the file does not exist, LED will create it. If the save always LED.OPT switch is set, the number of open windows, their positions, the selected fonts and all other options will be saved to LED.OPT. Again, if the file doesn't exist, LED will create it. III) Area. ========== a) Open... <CTRL><O> Open a Message Window. This will show the Arealist Dialog box/Window depending on which you use, (See under Options) from where you can choose the area to be opened. The Arealist Dialog box will list the areas as defined in your AREAS.BBS file. (See Appendix A for AREAS.BBS information). The areas will be listed in columns of fifteen areas, and sixty on one page. If you have more than 60 areas, a second page will be used for extra areas, a third for over 120 etc. To choose the area you want to view, use the cursor keys or the mouse. A left click on the mouse, or <RETURN> will select the highlighted area and open a Message Window for that area. The cursor keys will wrap at the end of rows and columns, so if you move the cursor to the bottom of a column and press <cur down> again, the cursor will move to the top of the next column. With over 60 areas, there will be a small right arrow in the bottom right of the Dialog Box pointing to the next page. Click on this with the mouse, or use <SHIFT>< -> > to move to the next page. If you have more than 120 areas, the middle page(s) will have a right and left arrow. Just click with the mouse or use <SHIFT>< -> > or <SHIFT>< <- > to move between the pages. The Arealist Window is similar except all the areas are in one column. If you have '...use description' on in the Options, then the description as defined in AREAS.BBS will be shown next to each area. Using <SHIFT><cur up/cur down> will move up and down the areas, or use the mouse on the scroll bars in the window. The following keys may be used in the Arealist Window / Dialog box: (Options marked * are ONLY available in the Window, NOT the dialog box) <UNDO> - Close Window <CLR HOME> - Start of list <SHIFT><CLR HOME> - End of list <RETURN> - Select highlighted Area <cur up/cur down> - Line up/down < <-/-> > - Line left/right (up/down in window) <BACKSPACE> * - Scroll window up <SPACE> * - Scroll window down <SHIFT><cur up/cur down> - Scroll window up/down <SHIFT>< <-/-> > - Scroll window left/right <CTRL><A> * - Change area <CTRL> * - Info about LED <CTRL><O> * - Open another area <CTRL> * - Print Arealist <CTRL><Q> * - Quit LED <CTRL> * - Close Window <CTRL><W> * - Cycle through open windows <ALT> * - Write Arealist to Clipboard <ALT><C> * - Change Msg <ALT><E> * - Execute external Program <ALT><J> * - Select Windows in Options menu <ALT><N> * - Select Quotes in Options menu <ALT><O> * - Select Switches in Options menu <ALT><S> * - Save options <ALT> * - Search for a User <ALT><Y> * - Select User Lists in Options menu <ALT><Z> * - Execute Shell <ALT><Fn> (F1 to F10) * - Execute Shell Fn <ALT><8> - 8 point font <ALT><9> - 9 point font <ALT><0> - 10 point font In the Arealist Dialog box, if you press a letter <a-z> the next area starting with that letter will be selcted, in the Arealist Window you can do the same, but also if you then type another character any area starting with both will be selected. e.g If you press N, any area starting with N will be highlighted, <TAB> will switch to the next area starting with N .... now press . and the first area starting with N. will be highlighted, again <TAB> will go to the next one ... You can only have four windows open at any one time, and if you try to open a fifth, you will see a dialog box advising you there are no more windows available. Close one or more and try again. If there is already a window open for the area you choose, it will be made the active window, another window will not be opened. If you have four windows open, you can still use the Arealist Window and MsgList window as these are seperate to the four windows mentioned above! At the top of the Message Window is the Status or Information line. This shows information about Options selected from within LED. It is divided into five 'boxes' by the | character. In the left box will be one or more of the following in brackets ... First will be: HC This will show if the Header Cache is selected in the Options menu. Then one of the following 3: RC Will show if the Recognise ^CHRS kludge is set. MI Will show if the Convert MIME style is set. RM Will show if both Recognise ^CHRS and Convert MIME style are set. Then lastly: TE Will show if Text Effects are being used. In the second box it will show one of three things. i) Original Msg if this is the only message or first in a thread. ii) Reply to: xxx where xxx is the number of any messages (it may include more than one message) that this message is a reply to. iii) ? if the original message has been deleted from your message base. In the third box the number of the current message will be shown in bold text. This box will also contain the numbers of any messages to the same person in the current thread. In the fourth will be Replies: along with the number of any replies to the current message. In the last will be one of two things. i) Start of Messages. This is the first message in this area. There may be deleted messages in the message area before the current message, but these are not taken into account. ii) End of Messages. This is the last message in this area. Again, any deleted messages will not be counted. If you click the left mouse button on one of the message numbers (apart from the current message) you will move to that message. Pressing help in the Message Window will show the LED.HYP file. In the Message Window the following Key combinations can be used:- (NUM indicates keys on the number keypad) <-,-> - previous/next Msg ,<n> - previous/next unread Msg cur up/cur down - line up / down <1 - 9> - goto msg nnnn (NOT from the number keypad) NUM <->,<+> - prev/next area NUM <*> - next area with new Msg NUM </> - next area with unread Msg <#> - next area with Msg to sysop NUM <(>,<)> - prev/next Comment (Msg with same subject) NUM <CNTRL><(>,<CNTRL><)> - prev/next original Msg NUM <1> - previous unread Msg NUM <2> - first Comment from Original Msg NUM <3> - next unread Msg NUM <4> - previous Comment NUM <5> - first message of this thread NUM <6> - next Comment NUM <8> - Original Msg <ESC> - Reread Msg header <RETURN> - Display next Msg <SPACE> - Display next Msg <BACKSPACE> - Display previous page <CLR HOME> - Goto Top of Msg <HELP> - Call ST Guide <UNDO> - Redraw MsgWindow <cur up/cur down> - Cursor up/down one line < <-/-> > - Display previous/next Msg <SHIFT><cur up/cur down> - Screen up/down one page <SHIFT>< <-/-> > - Screen left/right <SHIFT><J> - Quote to area <SHIFT><T> - Quote Msg <SHIFT><X> - Toggle the Locked flag <SHIFT><CLR HOME> - Goto End of Msg <SHIFT><ALT><A> - Append Plain <SHIFT><ALT><H> - Edit Header <SHIFT><ALT><W> - Write Plain <CTRL><A> - Change area <CTRL><E> - Enter Msg <CTRL><F> - Foreward Msg <CTRL><G> - Goto Msg <CTRL><H> - Delete Flags <CTRL> - Info about LED <CTRL><J> - Quote to another area <CTRL><K> - Set Flags <CTRL><L> - List Messages (in Dialog or Window as set) <CTRL><M> - Move Msg <CTRL><N> - Quote to Netmail (native language) <CTRL><O> - Open another area <CTRL> - Print Message <CTRL><Q> - Quit LED <CTRL><R> - Reply to Msg <CTRL><T> - Quote Msg in reply <CTRL> - Close Window <CTRL><W> - Cycle through open windows <CTRL><RETURN> - Kill current Msg <CTRL><F1> - Show Schortcut file (LED.SCT) <CTRL><F2> - Short MsgInfo <CTRL><F3> - Delete all messages in the current area <CTRL><F4> - Select Command Dialog <CTRL><F5> - Change Sysop Name <CTRL><F6> - Sort Headerfile by date (this area only) <CTRL><F7> - Print Msg with Formfeed <CTRL><F8> - Set Lastread pointer to maximum (this area only) <CTRL><F9> - Set ALL Lastread pointers to maximum <CTRL><F10> - Delete all unread / to sysop flags <ALT><A> - Append ASCII <ALT> - Write to Clipboard <ALT><C> - Change Msg <ALT><E> - Execute external Program <ALT><F> - Find string <ALT><G> - Find next (string as defined in Alt F) <ALT><H> - Edit Header Flags <ALT><J> - Select Windows in Options menu <ALT><N> - Select Quotes in Options menu <ALT><O> - Select Switches in Options menu <ALT> - Add to user list <ALT><S> - Save options <ALT> - Search for a User <ALT><W> - Write ASCII <ALT><Y> - Select User Lists in Options menu <ALT><Z> - Execute Shell <ALT><Fn> (F1 to F10) - Execute Shell Fn <ALT><1> - Toggle MIME recognition <ALT><2> - Show Text attributes (text effects on/off) <ALT><3> - Recognise ^CHAR kludge <ALT><4> - Show ^MSGID / ^REPLY / ^REPLYTO <ALT><5> - Show ^EID / ^PID / ^TID <ALT><6> - Show ^PATH <ALT><7> - Show ^SEENBY <ALT><8> - Show Comment Tree <ALT><9> - 9 point font <ALT><0> - 10 point font <ALT><RETURN> - Kill all messages with the same subject or by the same person If you double click on a word/filename contained in a message (e.g in the File Find echoes) then LED will now ask you if this is to be entered into the file request box (see Extras menu) or searched for in the HyperText file. If you press and hold <ALT> and click on an address, a Dialog box will show you information about that address, i.e the Sysop's name, System name, Place, Phone number and nodelist flags. If the address is an unlisted Point address, then the Boss system's information will be shown. If you press and hold <CTRL> and click on a word, LED will search the LED.SCT and display all matches in a Dialog box. b) Change... <CTRL><A> This will show the Arealist and allows you to choose a new area. Once chosen, it will show any messages in the new area in the existing active window. In effect, it closes the previous area and opens the new, but only uses one window. c) Cycle... <CTRL><W> This will show each of the open windows in turn. If there are less than two open windows the option is disabled. d) Close... <CTRL> This will close the current active window. This is the same as clicking on the GEM Close box in the top left of the window. MagiC / Multi-Tos iconification is supported. To Iconify the Top window use <ALT><CTRL><SPACE>, and to Iconify ALL windows, use <SHIFT><ALT><CTRL><SPACE>. IV) Message. ============ All these options relate to the currently active Message Window or Area. If there are no open areas, all of the options are disabled. a) List <CTRL><L> This will show the Msglist Window/Dialog Box depending on which you have chosen (See Options). It is a list of all the messages in the current area. A list of items will be shown ... '#:' message number, 'From:', 'To:', and 'Subject:'. On the left side of the window/box are arrows that indicate if a message is to or from the sysop. An inverted arrow pointing right is to, an arrow pointing left is from the sysop. Messages which have been deleted are shown in faded characters and cannot be selected with the mouse. You can select them with the cursor keys though, and once selected, if you press return, the message will be restored and shown. To choose a message, select it with the cursor keys or mouse, then press return. The following keys can be used in the Messagelist window/Dialog box :- (Options marked * are ONLY available in the Window, NOT the dialog box) <ESC> - Update of all flags (new/unread/to sysop) <UNDO> - Close Window <CLR HOME> * - Start of list <SHIFT><CLR HOME> * - End of list <RETURN> - Select Msg (undelete killed msg) <CTRL><RETURN> * - Kill Msg <cur up/cur down> - Line up/down < <-/-> > * - Line up/down NUM <-/+> * - Line up/down <BACKSPACE> * - Scroll window up <SPACE> * - Scroll window down <SHIFT><cur up/cur down> * - Scroll window up/down <SHIFT>< <-/-> > * - Scroll window left/right NUM <1> - previous Msg NUM <2> - first Comment from Original Msg NUM <3> - next Msg NUM <4> - previous Comment NUM <5> - first message of this thread NUM <6> - next Comment NUM <8> - Original Msg <CTRL><A> * - Change area <CTRL><G> * - Goto Msg <CTRL> * - Info about LED <CTRL><O> * - Open another area <CTRL> * - Print Message <CTRL><Q> * - Quit LED <CTRL> * - Close Window <CTRL><W> * - Cycle through open windows <CTRL><RETURN> - Kill current Msg <ALT> * - Write to Clipboard <ALT><C> * - Change Msg <ALT><E> * - Execute external Program <ALT><F> * - Find string <ALT><G> * - Find next (string as defined in Alt F) <ALT><J> * - Select Windows in Options menu <ALT><N> * - Select Quotes in Options menu <ALT><O> * - Select Switches in Options menu <ALT> * - Add to user list <ALT><S> * - Save options <ALT> * - Search for a User <ALT><Y> * - Select User Lists in Options menu <ALT><Z> * - Execute Shell <ALT><Fn> (F1 to F10) * - Execute Shell Fn <ALT><8> - 8 point font <ALT><9> - 9 point font <ALT><0> - 10 point font The mouse can also be used with the scroll bars as normal to scroll through the messages. b) Goto... <CTRL><G> Displays a Dialog Box in which you can choose which number message to go to. Enter the number of the message and click on OK or press return. If you enter a number which is lower than the first message available, you will be taken to the first available message. If you enter a number higher than the last available message, you will be taken to that message instead. You can call this Dialog Box from a Message Window by pressing any number on the keyboard number block. c) Foreward... <CTRL><F> Displays a Dialog box which allows you to input the name and address of some-one who you wish to foreward the current message to. You can search in any of the Userlists defined in the Options menu if needed. When you have the correct name/address click on OK or press return, and the message will be sent to the recipient next time you export your messages. d) Move... <CTRL><M> With this function you can move, or copy, one or more messages into another area. A Dialog Box is displayed which is similar to the Arealist Dialog Box, but has a few extra choices. At the top there are From: and To: boxes which should have the present message number in. If you want to move a different message, or several messages, just change the numbers in these boxes. [ <ESC> will delete the numbers ] At the base of the box there are two boxes :- 'Keep Copy': Normally, the message will be moved to the chosen area and the existing message will be deleted. If you choose this option a copy of the message will stay in the original area. 'Foreward': The message gets a new recipient. After you choose the new area, a Dialog Box is shown where you can input their name, and if the message is to be sent by Netmail, the new address as well. e) Print <CTRL> The currently displayed message will be sent to the printer. You can choose wether to have form feed on or off, (See Options) and you can use <CTRL><F7> to print with form feed if you normally have this switched off. If the printer is not on-line then a Dialog Box will be shown to warn you. f) Set Flag... <CTRL><K> A Dialog box will be shown which allows you to set any of the following Flags for the current message :- Deleted Crash HostRoute Kill/Sent Hold Locked InTransit Orphan Received Private Archive Sent ReturnReceipt Read TruncFileSent IsReceipt Sent KillFileSent AuditRequest Local Direct MausMsg WithFile Zonegate FixedAddress g) Del Flag... <CTRL><H> The same as Set Flag except it deletes the chosen Flags. V) Edit. ======== All of these options, except enter message, relate to the current message. Each will open an Edit Window in which you can enter/change the contents of a message. a) Enter Msg <CTRL><E> Write a message in the currently selected area. the From: line will already contain your name as entered in the configuration file. The following keys/combinations are available in the Edit Window :- <ESC> - Cut/Paste Line <TAB> - Tab across line <RETURN> - New line <DELETE> - Delete character under cursor <BACKSPACE> - Delete character to the left of cursor <INSERT> - Insert/Overwrite <CLR HOME> - Goto Top of Msg <HELP> - Call ST Guide with the word under the cursor <UNDO> - Undeletes the last deleted line of text. <cur up/cur down> - Cursor up/down one line < <-/-> > - Cursor left/right <SHIFT><cur up/cur down> - Screen up/down one page <SHIFT>< <-/-> > - Start/End of line <SHIFT><CLR HOME> - Goto End of Msg <SHIFT><ALT><W> - Hard format paragraph (until empty line) <SHIFT><ALT><Y> - Hard delete paragraph (until empty line) <SHIFT><DELETE> - Delete with wrapping <CTRL>< <-/-> > - Word left/right <CTRL> - Begin/end of Block <CTRL><C> - Copy Block <CTRL><D> - Delete Block Marks / Hide Block <CTRL><F> - Clear Buffer <CTRL> - Info about LED <CTRL><K> - Add line to buffer <CTRL><O> - Open another area <CTRL><Q> - Quit LED <CTRL><S> - Save Msg <CTRL> - End Edit (Shows a Dialog Box for Abort/Save) <CTRL><V> - Paste Block <CTRL><W> - Cycle through open windows <CTRL><X> - Cut Block <CTRL><Y> - Delete one line <CTRL><Z> - Abort Msg (Shows a Dialog Box first) <SHIFT><CTRL><Z> - Abort Msg without Dialog box <CTRL><DELETE> - Delete one word <CTRL><F1> - Use Shortcut file (LED.SCT) <CTRL><NUM><0-9> - Block Graphics <SHIFT><NUM><0-9> - Other Block Graphics <ALT><D> - Edit To: line <ALT><E> - Hard format paragraph <SHIFT><ALT><E> - Soft format paragraph <ALT><F> - Find string <ALT><G> - Find next (string as defined in Alt F) <ALT> - Indent On/Off <ALT><J> - Select Windows in Options menu <ALT><K> - Select F-Keys in Options menu <ALT><L> - Read from clipboard <ALT><M> - Select Fonts in Options menu <ALT><N> (NetMail Only) - Edit Address <ALT><O> - Select Switches in Options menu <ALT><Q> - File Request <ALT><R> - Read ASCII text <ALT><S> - Edit Subject <ALT><T> - Expand Tabs <ALT> - Search for a User <ALT><V> (NetMail Only) - Edit Msg Flags <ALT><W> - Soft format paragraph (until <cr>) <ALT><X> - Carbon Copy message <ALT><Y> - Undelete line <ALT><NUM><0-9> - Enter Ascii-Code for Hi-Ascii char <Fn> (F1 to F10) - Insert text as defined in Options F-Keys 1 to 10. <SHIFT><Fn> - Insert text as defined in Options F-Keys 11 to 20. Firstly, you need to enter the name of the person who the message is to be sent to. In Netmail if you press <RETURN> without entering any name you can choose a name from your PrivateUserList. Use <SHIFT><cur up/cur down> to scroll through the list and <cur up/cur down> to select the name you want. Press <RETURN> to select the name highlighted and the name and address will appear on the To: field. There are four ways to enter a name manually :- 1) Enter the initials of your recipient. Press <RETURN> and LED will search the Userlist(s) (as defined under Options). If the name is found a Dialog Box will be shown with the name and Node number in. If LED finds more than one match then a Dialog box will list the choices. Use the scroll bars to move up and down, and the cursor keys or the mouse to select the name you want. Click on Ok and the name and Node number will be input into the To: field in your Msg. Eg. "SS" will find Stephan Slabihoud and all his addresses and also anyone else with the same initials, and their addresses. Note the lack of space between the initials! 2) Enter an abbreviation of the first and last name of the recipient. e.g Ste Sla (The space is important and MUST be included) will look for Stephan Slabihoud but also Steven Slater (if there were both in the userlist). ONLY the first match will be shown. Other options are :- S S ( the first match with these initials ) S Slab ( the first match with initial S and Slab beginning the surname) 3) Enter the last name only (minimum 3 characters) of the recipient. The Dialog box will again be shown if there is more than one choice. In an EchoMail area, pressing <RETURN> will enter 'All' as the name or else input the name manually. You can use either of the two methods above to search for a name but the Node number will not be shown. Simply enter the name or initials then click on the name and LED will search the UserList(s) as in NetMail. Secondly you need to input a Subject. Just type in whatever the subject is to be and press <RETURN>. Now you will be in the message editor. Type in your message and when you have finished press <CTRL><S> to save it or use Save Msg in the Edit menu. Pressing <ALT> and a number on the Numberpad will allow you to enter the ASCII value of hi-ascii characters. A Dialog box will be shown to enter the number into. Pressing rturn will enter the character at the current cursor position. If you want to change the name of the person it is to be sent to, or the Subject, click on the line with the left mouse button and a Dialog Box will be shown for you to alter the details. NOTE: In the Netmail area, the PRIVATE flag is automatically set. Also in the Netmail area only, if you press <ALT><V> then you will be able to change the Message Flags, e.g send Crash or with a file attached. The following flags can be set from this Dialog Box:- Private, Crash, WithFile (File Attach), Hold, KillFileSent, Direct, Immediate, KillSent, ArchivSent, Multiple CC (Carbon Copy), ReturnReceipt, FixedAddress, AuditRequest. You can abort the message at any time and it will not be saved. A saved message will be sent the next time you export your mail and then Poll. If you have the text effects set (See Options) you can change the text attributes in messages you send. You can make text bold, italic, or underlined. To do this you must use on of the following characters before AND after the word(s) you wish to change :- * bold / italic _ <SHIFT><-> underlined # inverse Any text in between these characters will be changed when you save the message (the effect is not visible in the Edit Window). So you can use this to change a whole line of text, but the second character must be used or else the text will not change. You cannot use the effects over more than one line, so if you want two lines underlined for example, you must use the _ at the beginning and the end of each line to be changed. Example .... This *is* a _sentence_ would appear with the word 'is' in bold, and the word 'sentence' underlined. The text effects can be combined in one sentence, so putting ... This */is a sentence/* would appear withe the words 'is a sentence' in italics AND underlined b) Reply Msg <CTRL><R> Reply to the current message on the same subject. The address and subject of the current message are automatically entered into your reply and the cursor is positioned in the text area. You can choose wether to add 'Re:' to the subject line to indicate a reply (See Options). Other than this the Edit Window is the same as for 'Enter Msg' c) Quote Msg <CTRL><T> This is the same as 'Reply Msg' except you can quote the text of the original message along with your reply. You can choose wether to use '>' or 'XY>' in the quoted lines(See Options), or wether to add a heading line such as :- "In a Message of 27th March 1995 ..." All quoted lines will be reformatted in the Edit Window. LED will try to fill out a line as completely as possible, but the line length can be altered. (See Options). If the quoted message contains the Origin line of the originator, and you have not deleted it, a Dialog box will ask you to confirm if it is to left in or deleted before the message is saved. Other than this the Edit Window is the same as for 'Enter Msg' d) Quote to Netmail <CTRL><N> This is identical to to 'Quote Msg' except the message will be written to the Netmail area when saved. Also the recipients address is added in the To: line (as long as the Origin is correct) and the Private flag is set. Other than this the Edit Window is the same as for 'Enter Msg' e) Quote to Area <CTRL><J> As 'Quote to Netmail' except the AreaList will be shown first for you to choose which area the message will be written to when saved. Other than this the Edit Window is the same as for 'Enter Msg' f) Change Msg <CTRL><C> A new message will be created with the contents of the current message and you will be put into the message editor. When you save the message the original will be deleted. Other than this the Edit Window is the same as for 'Enter Msg' g) Carbon Copy <ALT><X> Only available in Netmail, this allows you to send copies to many recipients while only having to type the message once. You will be shown a Dialog Box where you can enter the names of whoever you wish to send the message to, and the UserList option can be used in the same way as for Entering a message. You can use this at any time during editing of a Netmail. You can make a list of names with addresses if you use this feature often. In the above Dialog box, after entering all the names/addresses click on Save to save the list as a CCL (Carbon Copy List) file. The next time you need to use the same list, just click on load and you have the same list. It is also possible to make your own list using a Text Editor and adding the names and addresses of those you wish to Carbon Copy mail to. E.g Stephan Slabihoud 90:400/410 Antony Lacey 90:102/146 (Just an example of course!) You can now merge lists. After loading the first list, click on load again, choose the list and then select Merge. h) Abort Msg <CTRL><Z> Your editing session is aborted and the edited message is not saved. You will be returned to the message from which you entered your editing session. i) Save Msg <CTRL><S> Your message will be saved as the last message in the current area, and you will be returned to the message from which you entered your editing session. VI) Block. ========== These functions are only available when you are in an Edit Window. a) Begin/End <CTRL> The current line will be marked as Block Begin, or if one already exists as Block End. The line number is displayed in the Status Line. The selected block is displayed in faded text. It is also possible to mark the block by using the mouse. To do this, press and hold the right mouse button, click the left button to begin the block, then the right button to end the block. b) Del Marks <CTRL><D> Any existing block marks will be removed. Any faded text will revert to normal display. c) Cut <CTRL><X> The currently selected block will be copied to an internal buffer, and removed from the message being edited. d) Copy <CTRL><C> The currently selected block will be copied to an internal buffer, but the message being edited will not be changed. e) Paste <CTRL><V> The contents of the internal buffer will be placed into the message being edited, beginning at the cursor position. If a block has been marked, but not 'Cut' or 'Copied' then the selected block will be copied to begin at the cursor position. f) Indent <ALT> Auto-indent is turned on/off. Auto indent allows you to set a 'left margin'. To use the auto-indent feature, switch it on in the Edit Window, use the <SPACE> or <TAB> key to move the cursor a few spaces to the right, now press <RETURN>. The cursor only returns to the next line below the current cursor position (i.e NOT to the first column). The cursor will return to this position each time you press <RETURN> until auto-indent is turned off. When this is in use, the word Indent will show in the menu bar of the edit window. With this turned on you can now add 'quote initials' automatically. E.g typing AL> will add this to the start of each line when Return is pressed. Also if you edit a line with these and the line is word wrapped, the initials will be added to the beginning of the new line automatically.. g) Ext TAB <ALT><T> If Tabs exist, they will be replaced by the number of spaces set in the 'Window...' option under Options. You can use this to alter text imported as ASCII into a message. h) <CTRL><K> Append a line of text to the buffer. You may add more than one line to the buffer and use <CTRL><V> to paste them all into a message. i) <CTRL><F> Clears the buffer. Any cut/copied block or line from <CTRL><K> will be lost. Not very useful unless you have been using very large blocks! VII) Options. ============= Here is where you set the Options you wish to use in LED. These are saved in the LED.OPT file, then loaded in each time LED starts. If this doesn't exist then LED uses default values. a) Switches... <ALT><O> i) Save always LED.OPT Save the options into LED.OPT file every time LED quits. This saves the window positions and sizes. It means that if you have changed some of the Options while using LED, they will be kept for the next time you run the program. You may want to switch this off if you have had problems and now have everything working ok. ii) Save Dialog Positions. Saves the positions of the Dialog Boxes when exiting LED. The positions are saved to the LED.DLG file. iii) Header Cache (HC) When active, LED will load the header (.HDR) file of the current area into memory. This increase the speed of program operations. (HC) is displayed on the left of the Status Line in the Message Window when Header-Cache is active. iv) Rescue Lastreads This will save the Lastread pointers when you exit an area, instead of only when you exit LED. This means they are updated to the last area even if the system crashes. v) AreaList Window. You can choose to have the AreaList in a window instead of it's Dialog Box with this option. In the window the areas are listed in one column, instead of in multiple columns as in the Dialog Box. vi) ...show description. (With AreaList window only) This will show the description of the area as entered in the -Desc flag in AREAS.BBS. If you have no description entered then it will be left blank in the AreaList Window. vii) ...autoclose window. (With AreaList window only) Closes the Arealist window as soon as you have selected an area. viii) MsgList Window. You can choose to have the MessageList in a window instead of it's Dialog Box with this option. In the window the areas are listed in one column, instead of in multiple columns as in the Dialog Box. It is still possible to use the MessageList Dialog Box with this option on, just use <CTRL><SHIFT><L>. ix) ...autoclosewindow. The MsgList Window will be closed automatically when a window has been selected. x) ...use Comment-Tree (With MsgList window only) Shows the messages using the comment tree to sort the replies so they appear with the original message. If this option is not active then the list will appear in numerical order only. xi) Always use ^REPLYTO LED will use the ^REPLYTO statement in the message header with this switch on. It will set the correct destination address in the message and sets the correct name of the gate in the To: line of the message. xii) Always use ^REPLYADDR LED uses the ^REPLYADDR statement in the message header. This will create "To: internet destination email-address" in the first msg line. Note: REPLYTO sets the ADDRESS/NAME OF THE GATE in the msg header, REPLYADDR creates the "To: address" line used for internet addressing through the gate. xiii) Netmail address correction. This allows you to send a NetMail with a certain address (if you have more than one Zone address for instance). This has been tested with JetMail beta 11 (and higher) but may not work with other mail tossers. This feature will not normally be needed. If you have only ONE address for each Zone then it will be better to leave it off. When the 'Fixed Address' flag is set (see <ALT><V>) and this option is active, then the current message will be sent with the address input with the message. NOTE: You must check yourself that the correct origin is used. xiv) ...set 'FIXED_ADDRESS' flag This only works if you have the above option active. It sets the Fixed_Address flag automatically in every NetMail message. You must make sure that you have the correct origin in the message yourself. E.g .... if your main address is FidoNet, and you send a Netmail to someone in NeST, you will need to change the origin from Fido to NeST yourself, otherwise it will remain the Fido address. This flag instructs the mail tosser to leave the Origin address as it is and not to alter it. (Only Jetmail will handle this at the moment) xv) Hide ^MSGID/REPLY{TO} Hide the MsgID and Reply/To header information. Makes the message text clearer. xvi) Hide ^PID/TID/EID Hide the PID/TID/EID header information. Makes the message text clearer. xvii) Hide other ^A lines. Hide the ^PATH lines. This hides the routing information of the message and makes the end of the message text clearer. xviii) Hide SEEN_BYs Hide the SEEN-BY information in all messages. xix) Always extend Tabs With this switch set, when you import any ascii text file, any TAB characters will be automatically extended to the number of spaces set in the 'Window...' option in the Options menu. xx) Delete new Msg flag. LED will delete all NewMsg Flags when it exits. When started again there will be no '*' shown in the Arealist Window. xxi) Add Re: Will add Re: to the beginning of the subject line when you reply to a message. xxii) ...'Re^n' style If your reply is to a message with Re: already in the subject line, this will add 'Re^2 instead of Re: Re: ... if there is already a number in the subject line, then this will be incremented by 1. E.g reply to Re^4 would be Re^5 etc. xxiii) Text Effects (/*-) This switches the text effects on and off. These can be used when replying to messages, and will show any existing text effects in the current message. xxiv) ...also on printer. If you have the LED.PRN file you can have text effects shown when printing the current message. This allows you to switch the feature off if you don't wish to use it. xxv) Use GDOS for printing Use GDOS for printing out your messages. With this selected, the LED.PRN file is not needed. Charcter conversions for the printer are not supported when using GDOS. With the option off, the printing will use the LED.PRN file and the printer font. xxvi) Add FormFeed This will send a formfeed character at the end of a message when when printing using <CTRL>. This option is ignored if the above option is selcected. xxvii) Smart Redraw This suppresses some window redraws. xxviii) Show 'CR' Will show any carriage returns (new lines) in a message. xxix) Show cursor position This shows the position of the cursor in an Edit Window, after the 'Indent' if that is in use. It is shown as (x/y) where x is the row and y is the column in the window. xxx) GEM infoline. Some people dislike LED's own infoline in the MsgWindow, refered to as the Status Line . Now you can tell LED to use the original GEM-Infoline in that window. This switch will be active when LED is restarted. Note: When using the original GEM infoline you might not be able to click on the msg number in the infoline to select a msg. If so click under the msg number. The actual msg number is displayed '*n*', where n is the number of the present message. xxxi) in Netmail-area. When active, the to ae conversion will not be done, so allowing the umlaut to be used in Netmail messages. Normally when the key is pressed, ae is automatically substituted. xxxii) in EchoMail-Area. When active, the to ae conversion will not be done, so allowing the umlaut to be used in Echomail messages. Normally when the key is pressed, ae is automatically substituted. xxxiii) Recognize ^CHRS (switchable with ALT+7 in MsgWindow) Recognises the Charset kludge in messages. This allows other character sets to be used such as French, German, Italian, Portugese, Spanish, Swedish or Uk. Also Latin-1, IBMPC and ASCII character sets may be converted. xxiv) Convert MIME style xxxv) Random Footline. This switches the random footline (Taglines) for ALL areas except those with the flag -NoRandomFootline in your AREAS.BBS file. You can add random footlines to individual areas by leaving this switch off and adding -RandomFootline to each area you want it to be active for in AREAS.BBS. (See Appendix A for how to use the flag). xxxvi) Deadkeys This allows you to use umlauts etc. in echomail messages. When the keys are selected, then if you press that key it will not be shown. But if the following key will allow it then it will put the corresponding character above/below that letter. e.g if you have the " set in Deadkeys .... when you press the " it will not be shown, but if you then press the letter a you will get the character. If you press " then w you will see "w as there is no such character as a w with an umlaut. [Hint ... , works with c and / with o !!] [NEW] xxxvii) '' (ATARI-ST Font) When this switch is enabled, LED uses ascii code 158 for the '' and creates a "CHRS: ATARIST 2" kludge. Otherwise LED uses ascii code 225 for the '' and creates a (compatible) "CHRS: IBMPC 2" kludge. This switch should normally be DISABLED. b) Window... <ALT><J> A Dialog box will be shown with the following options:- i) Maximum Window Columns Here you can set how many columns you use in a Message Window. Any change will only take effect when the window is redrawn or changed. ii) Maximum Edit Columns Here you can set how many columns you use in a Edit Window. As with the Message Window, any change will only show when the window is redrawn or changed. iii) Edit-Window Tabsize. Set the number of spaces you want a TAB character to be replaced with. You can choose between 1 & 9. Useful for when ASCII text is imported into your message. c) Quote... <ALT><N> A dialog box will open to let you choose how your replies will look. i) Prefix: You can choose how the quoted message will be shown, with just a '>' at the beginning of each line, or with 'XY>', where XY is replaced with the initials of the sender. ii) Topline: When quoting messages, you can get LED to add a line to the beginning of the message automatically. Here you choose what language this will be in, English, German, detect which, or none at all if you don't want to use this feature. On the right hand side are options you can use to add names etc. to this line. So if you wish to use the senders name in the top line of your reply you can put '%f %F' ( as the original was from them) on the text line and LED will replace this with the correct name each time it uses this line. You can use the following options: %f Sender's first name %F Sender's last name %a Sender's address %t Recipient's first name (recipient of ORIGINAL message) %T Recipients last name %o Sender's complete name %O Recipients complete name %d Date in format 14 Apr 95 %D Date in format 14.04.95 %v Version number of LED %z Time 21:13:45 %a Area e.g N.SUP.LED (of the ORIGINAL message) %s Subject %n Text of Function Key n (as defined in Options menu), e.g %1 = text of F1. n may be any number from 1 to 20. %v The version number of LED %i Will use any nickname defined in LED.NIC instead of %f (i.e the first name will be shown instead of %f) %I Will use any nickname defined in LED.NIC instead of %t (i.e the first name will be shown instead of %t) iii) Set cursor: This will place the cursor on the first line of the quoted part of the original message.. Without this set, the cursor will be placed at the beginning of the topline of the message. Not very useful unless you want to change your Topline all the time. iv) Free Editable: Instead of using the text in the Topline box, you can use your own text as entered in the lines at the bottom of the Dialog Box. v) No Topline in Netmail: This will suppress the Topline when quoting in the Netmail area. vi) No compression: This will prevent LED from removing spaces in Quoted lines .. e.g If the original message contains the following lines: This is an example ^^^^^^^ (This line is the one that is affected) Normal Quoting would show this: XY> This is an example XY> ^^^^^^^ (Note it is not underneath the word 'example', but shifted to the left). With the No Compression feature turned on it will look like this: XY> This is an example XY> ^^^^^^^ (it is now positioned correctly). 1.Line: Native / 2.Line: Native to area: Here you can define the text used when quoting to messages in your native language. This is active when the Topline option 'In einer Nachrict...' is selected. The second line is different text used for when quoting to another area, or to Netmail. At present it only works when quoting from an EchoMail area, not from Netmail, from Netmail line 1 is used. There are 2 seperate lines to allow the use of the original area name to be added when quoting to other areas. Of course you would not want this in all messages. 2.Line: English / 2.Line: English to area: The same as above only these are used when the 'In a message...' Topline option is set. Makes it easier to quote in Echomail areas that accept English only. (If you don't normally speak English that is!) d) Comment... This opens an additional Dialog Box that allows you to choose the following options. i) Show Comment link in info Line. ( also <ALT><3> will switch this) Turns the comment tree information on and off. If it is on then the information will be shown in the Status Line at the top of a Message Window. The comment tree shows if the current message is linked to any others. ii) NumPad keys in comment tree mode. Allows you to use the keys on the number pad to follow the comment tree. The following keys are available in this mode: <1> - previous Msg <2> - first Comment from Original Msg <3> - next Msg <4> - previous Comment <5> - first message in this thread <6> - next Comment <8> - Original Msg iii) Comment tree uses Mailer [0 - 3] This allows LED to use the comment tree information from the Mailer fields in the Msg header (i.e not the Qbbs fields). This must be used when you are using a 'new' mail tosser such as IOSMail or JetMail. iv) Complete messagebase scan This will ensure the Comment Tree is constructed properly even when a reply is found before the Original message. This will make LED run slower and shouldn't normally need to be used. e) Userlist... <ALT><Y> This will open a Dialog Box which will allow you to choose up to six userlists to search for names etc. You may have your own list (usually PRVTUSER.LST) with frequently used names/addresses in and you may also use a list generated by a nodelist complier (e.g FIDOUSER.LST from BTNC). Double click on a line with the mouse and the fileselector will allow you to chose the list(s) you require. The format for your private list is as follows .... Slabihoud, Stephan 90:400/410 Lacey, Antony 100:1011/19 Areafix 90:102/140 f) Fonts... <ALT><M>. A Dialog Box will open which allows you to choose the font and point size for each seperate type of Window. If GDOS is active a small piece of text will show this. To change the font click on the box on the right of the font name. Any fonts which are available will be shown and the font that is used will be the one currently selected. Clicking on the font name will change back to the system font. Use the same method to choose the font size with the small box to the right of the point size numbers. There are three other choices that can be made. i) Quote: Normal or thick. This allows you to choose wether quoted parts of the message appear in normal or bold text. ii) Block: Reverse or Highlighted. This changes the appearence of any chosen block. Reverse is white text on a black background, highlighted greys out the selected text. iii) Only Monospaced Fonts. LED will only display monospaced fonts! g) F-Keys... <ALT><K>. A Dialog box will open and allow you to enter text to assign to each Function Key. You may enter up to 20 key assignments. The Dialog box also shows you the options you may use to include names etc. in the text. If the text including these options exceeds the length of one line in the Edit Window, it will be wrapped onto the next line. If you wish to include carriage returns in your F-Keys, simply use <CONTROL><M> and this will insert a new line command. IMPORTANT: If you don't want to lose your clever effects, use SAVE! This will save the contents of the Function Keys to the file LED.FKY so you may use them every time you load LED. h) Save <ALT><S>. This will save all your chosen options in the file LED.OPT. VIII) Extras. ============= a) Msg-Header... <SHIFT><ALT><H> This opens a Dialog Box which shows you some information about the message header. It also allows you to change the header information and write it back to the .HDR file if you require. b) ...flags <ALT><H> This will show a Dialog Box with the Flags for the current message in the Msg-Window. You may change any of the Flags and write the changes to the .HDR file. For an explanation of the Flags see Appendix B at the end of this manual. c) ...special flags This can be used to show the 'Processed' flags for the current message. d) File Request... <ALT><Q> You can use LED to generate file requests. A Dialog Box will open allowing you to enter the node from which you want the file from. Also the name of the file and any password you may need. There are a further two options to select which files are generated and where they are put. Create Dummy Flowfile. If this is selected, a 0 byte .OFT file will be generated as well as the .ORT file with the file request in. Select Domain. If you have more than one Domain that you collect mail from, you can use this to ensure the file request is put into the appropriate Outbound folder. If the folder does not exist then a Dialog Box will be shown to tell you and the file request will not be generated. Click on Make File to generate the files necessary for the request. e) Add PRVTUSER.LST <ALT> Use this to add the name in the From: field of the existing message to your Private User list. You can add any address to this file (point addresses, areafix/filefix etc.). f) Find in USERLIST <ALT> If you need to find the address of someone while in a message, use this option to search the userlists as defined in the Options menu. Enter the required name or abbreviations and click on Userlist (or use <ALT> the userlist is searched. When you have finished click on Ok or press return to go back to the Window you were in. This feature may be used from any Window, including the MsgList and Arealist windows. If you are in the Edit Window, if you press return / click on OK when the name and address are found, they will be entered into the message at the current cursor position. g) Find String... <ALT><F> This allows you to search for a text string in the current message area. You can specify wether to search in the To:, From:, Subject fields or in the message text for a string. Three options are also available in the options at the base of the Dialog Box: Backwards: This will search backwards in the specified area. Once an area has been searched forwards to the end, this option will automatically be selected for the next search. Inside Current Message: The search will only be made in the currently selected message. Use Allquantor (*): You may use the * as a wildcard for the search. E.g in the To: field, putting Ste* will find Stephen, Steve, Steven and Stephan. You may also search using the following method ... St*en ... will search for the same as above. If you use this the search will be noticeably slower. h) Find Same <ALT><G> Search for the same string as selected in Find String. IX) Help. ========= a) Msg Window This shows a list of all the keys available in the Message Window. There are two screens of keys for this window. Click on NEXT to get to the second screen. b) Edit Window. This shows a list of all the keys available in the Edit Window. c) Dialogs. This shows a list of all the keys available in the Dialog Boxes. (Messagelist and Arealist) d) Comment Tree. This shows a list of all the keys available in the Comment Tree. e) Shortcut <CTRL><F1> This is a list of text that can be used in the Edit Window to insert frequently used text. It is called LED.SCT Any text may be included on each line, there is no set pattern. It can be used in the To: and subj: line of a message as well as the message text, so can be used for long names (e.g internet addresses) as well as for riles. A short example is shown here ... -------------------------- AFAIC As Far As I'm Concerned AFK Away From Keyboard Antony ... the All At Sea Sysop Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year algy@allatsea.demon.co.uk -lots of text, C:\TEXT\LOADSA.TXT %d %D -------------------------- If you want to add coments to your text, adding the | character will stop the rest of the line being quoted ... e.g. AFAIC | As Far As I'm Concerned .. would only add AFAIC to your message. The rest will be ignored. A maximum of 1024 characters is allowed on each line. You may also use ascii text files with the following format: -My footer, F:\TEXT\FOOTER.TXT on it's own line will use the text of the file Footer.Txt. The - is necessary to let LED know this is a file, otherwise the line will be input as it is typed! The text after the - is purely for your own reference and may be left out if desired, e.g -, F:\TEXT\FOOTER.TXT will do the same as the example above. You can also use the '%' parameters from the Options .. Quote menu now .... in the above example %d %D would enter: 20 SEP 96 18:42:50 (todays date and the time). e) System Report If you are having problems with LED and need to contact the Author, you can now generate a Report which may help him locate the problem a bit quicker. Once you click on this, the fileselector will appear so you can choose where the file (default name is REPORT.LED) is to be written. Then you can send it directly, or include it in a Netmail to him. ========================================================================= Appendix A AREAS.BBS ---------------------- Important: The NETMAIL area must be the first area in AREAS.BBS. LED takes the first area to be Netmail. (AutoAddAreas in IOSMail 0.89 sometimes changes the order of AREAS.BBS and puts it at the end of the file) The following is a list of AREAS.BBS flags that LED can use. -Latin1 -Latin1small Converts some characters from the Latin-1 font into the normal System Font. -Desc e.g -Desc LED Support (for N.SUP.LED) Gives the description of a message area as used in MsgList Window -FixedAddress LED will set the correct address for this area. The 'Fixed Address' flag will be set automatically. -FollowUp <areaname> Msgs in this area will be quoted in <areaname>. Only "Quote msg" and "Reply msg" use this statement, NOT "Edit msg". -FootlineFile <file> LED creates a random footline for that area taken from <file> This must be the path and name of the file, and it must be the same format as LED.FLN. (See appendix E for the file format) -ForcePVT LED will automatically set the Private flag in echomail -IgnoreNewMsgFlag LED ignores the NewMsg Flag so it shows no '*' for this area in the Arealist window. -IgnoreUnreadFlag LED ignores the Unread Flag so it shows no '/' for this area in the Arealist window. -Invisible Area is invisible. Similar to PassThrough. -Maus Area is a MausNet area. -NoRandomFootline LED creates no random footline for that area. -PassThrough LED does not show messages in this area. The message area is for another system. This can replace the DAREAS.BBS, but use that file if your mail tosser supports it. -QUOTE_ENGLISH Adds the free editable topline in English. -QUOTE_MSG Adds the topline "In a Msg from ... " -QUOTE_NACHRICHT Adds the topline "In einer Nachricht ..." -QUOTE_NATIVE Adds the free editable topline in your own language. -QUOTE_NON No topline when quoting for this area. {These QUOTE_ flags over ride the choices set in the Options, Quote menu for this particular area only}. -RandomFootline <file> LED creates a random footline for that area taken from LED.FLN. If you add a filename in the optional <file> parameter, the footline will be taken from that file instead of LED.FLN. So you may have seperate Footlines for each area. -NoTopline LED does not generate a topline in this area. -Topline <text> Instead of the "normal" topline for this area, LED uses this topline. '|' is used for a <cr>. Example: -Topline On %d %31 (%a) wrote to %33:||Hi %i,| -Umlaut Allows the umlaut to be used in messages in this area. If this is not used will be replaced by ae, by oe etc. -UseCommentTree Comment-Tree is always activated for this area. -NoCommentTree Comment-Tree is always deactivated for this area. -Visible May be used with -Passthrough. Makes the message area visible again in LED. ========================================================================= Appendix B Message Flags -------------------------- This is a list of Message Flags and their meanings. N means allowed in Netmail E means allowed in EchoMail L means only allowed in Local Mail Private NE This message is Private and can only be seen by the sender and Recipient. Sent NEL Message has been exported by the Mail Tosser. Read NE Message has been read. (Shouldn't this be Displayed!). Local NE Message was written on this system (i.e not imported). Deleted NE Message has been marked as deleted (normally only the mail tosser will actually delete it). Crash NL Message will be crashed (i.e not routed through other systems) to the recipient. Hold NL Message will be 'on hold'. The recipient must call this system to collect this message. Direct NL Message will be sent direct to the Recipient (very much like crash). Immediate NL Again similar to crash. ArchivSent NEL Message will be moved to the Archive area after being exported by the Mail Tosser. Kill/Sent NL Message will be deleted after being exported. Orphan N The Mail Tosser has no routing information for this message. InTransit N Message is being routed to another system and is not intended for this system. Received NE The message has been received by the recipient. HostRoute NL Send Netmail through the Host/Hub of the recipient. ZoneGate NL Send Netmail through the ZoneGate. ReturnReceipt N The recipient is to send a Return Receipt. IsReceipt N Message is the return receipt. AuditRequest N Every system that routes this Netmail is to send a Return Receipt. Signature Locked NE Message is locked. It will not be exported or deleted. Fixed Address NEL The Origin address will not be changed by the Mail Tosser. Gated NE Message has been locally gated. With/File N Message has a File attached to be routed with it. Note: some systems will not route attached files. TruncFileSent NL The file will be truncated to 0 bytes after it has been exported. i.e it is NOT deleted. KillFileSent NL The file will be deleted when sent. CreateFlowFile N A flow file is created from the message text. FileRequest N The message is a file request. The filenames are contained in the subject line seperated by spaces. MausMsg. This shows a number of extra flags that are for use in MausNet. They are included so that when Mail Tossers can deal with MausNet mail they may be used. ========================================================================= Appendix C LED Configuration file ----------------------------------- To enable LED to be used in a seperate directory (without using an environment variable) you can use a file called LED.CFG to specify the paths etc. for LED to use. The following statements are needed. Statement | Example ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SYSOP name | SYSOP Antony Lacey This must be the same as used for the registration Key. ADDRESS address [fakenet] | ADDRESS 90:102/146.0@nest.ftn This must be the same as used for the registration Key. LOGFILE filename | LOGFILE C:\LED.LOG Needed if you want LED.LOG in any directory other than LED directory. NETMAIL filename | F:\MESSAGE\MAIL\NETMAIL The path and file name, but without the .HDR / .MSG extension. HOLD path | F:\OUTBOUND This should be the Outbound path used by the Mail Tosser as the File Requests files will be put here. SHELL program | F:\PROG\GULAM.PRG If you want to use an external shell from within LED this statement defines the path and name of the program you want to use. The following files are Optional: MAILER path | F:\MESSAGE\ This is similar to the Environment setting and points to the directory where AREAS.BBS is kept. Outbound36 This is for use with Binkley 3.18 or above and allows the use of base 36 folder names. The feature is available for Registered users only. CallExporter x When used, this will tell Avalon (3.77 or above) or Semper to start the mail exporter when LED quits. Replace x with 0 for Avalon, and 1 for Semper. AKASYSOP name | AKASYSOP Antony Lacey {EM} ( To use this option in Binkley.CFG use APPLICATION AKASYSOP e.g APPLICATION AKASYSOP Antony Lacey {EM} ) Can be used to define an alternative Sysop name. It MUST be defined AFTER the Sysop statement. Up to four names may be used, but they must begin with the name as defined in the Sysop statement. i.e the above would be accepted but Antony Jones would not be accepted. Normally used to distinguish between messages posted by the Sysop or posted in an alternative position e.g Echo Moderator The alternative names can be selected by using <CTRL><F5> in the MessageList window. AREASPpath | Path to your AREAS.BBS file LEDNEWpath | Path to your LED.NEW file Nodelist <path> | path to nodelist BTNC | defines BTNC nodelist ========================================================================= Appendix D Function Key Macros -------------------------------- Attention! For experts only! (You have been warned!!) It is possible to use macros assigned to the function keys. This is not(!) trivial, so be careful about using it! A macro that is only allowed in the EditWindow can be defined as follows: %[keylist] and when it is only allowed in the MsgWindow: &[keylist] macros for both windows can be defined with: $[keylist] "Keylist" is a list in the following format: SSAAK SS=Scancode AA=ASCII-Code K =Status (1=RShift,2=LShift,4=Ctrl,8=Alt) You must use that format exactly! The codes (in hex) are seperated with commas. NOTE: LED may crash if you make a mistake using this feature!! NOTE: his feature does not allow <ALT><Key> combinations to be used. Here are two small examples: e.g. for F1: %[21064,30024,2d184,21064]. will do the same as pressing Keys: <CTRL><F> <CTRL> <CTRL><X> and <CTRL><F> again ... and will erase the text from the cursor to the end of the message. and for F2: &[1e014,47000,1c0d0] will do the same as pressing Keys: <CTRL><A> <HOME> <RETURN> and will select the first area (Netmail area). ========================================================================= Appendix E Footline File (LED.FLN) ------------------------------------ This file contains the Random Footlines if you use the -RandomFootline switch in LED. This is normally named LED.FLN but you may use other files for use in different areas if you use the -Footline switch in AREAS.BBS. The file is plain ASCII and uses the following format:- NOTE: The FIRST line of the file will be placed in front of the footline and can be empty. UFP Starfleet Command: End Transmission| I know the depths I reach are limitless| The christmas spirit is not something to drink| ; ; Long lines can be used, the next five lines would normally be all ; on one line, I just had to wrap them to fit in the manual! ; "Sehr sonderbare Leute, diese Physiker. Nach meiner Erfahrung sind |die, die nicht tot sind, irgendwie sehr krank"| Douglas Adams 'Der lange dunkle Fuenfuhrtee...' S.105|"Very strange people these physicists. In my experience, those who |are not yet dead are, somehow, quite ill."| Douglas Adams| (These are taken from the LED.FLN file as an example). The maximum length for each Footline is 1024 characters!! The '|' character denotes a carriage return, helps to keep long Footlines looking neat! Lines can be commented out using a ';' character if you want to comment your file. You can also use the '%' parameters as in the Options Quote menu, e.g %o will insert the full name of the sender of the message. ========================================================================= Appendix F Nickname file (LED.NIC) ------------------------------------ You can define about 100 nicknames. To use the feature, simple create a file called LED.NIC in LED's system folder. Here is a short example: ;sample LED.NIC Kev,Kevin Osborne Slabbi,Stephan Slabihoud algy,Antony Lacey nic1,Joe Bloggs,N.ST.MISC nic2,Joe Bloggs,N.MISC.COMMON The format is <nickname>,<fullname>[,<area>]. The comma tells LED that the nickname is ended, thereby allowing nicknames of two words or more. [NEW] The <area> is optional, and will use the nickname only in the area indicated. Using this it is possible to have different nicknames in different areas. In teh above, Joe Blogg's nickname will be nic1 in N.ST.MISC and nic2 in N.MISC.COMMON. And comments can be added by staring the line with a semi-colon. You can use the nicknames with a '%'-parameter. '%i' may be used instead of '%f' but uses the nickname instead of the first name (when the nickname is defined) and '%I' conforms with '%t'. ========================================================================= ----- End of the Manual ------