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I)nquire
This is the way to find a message TO or FROM a particular
person and to find something on a particular SUBJECT.
In a nutshell, you type in a name or a subject and Opus
will give you a list of all the messages in the current
area that have the line you typed as a TO or FROM
or SUBJECT.
To find JOHN DOE, for example, you can type and of these:
JOHN -or- DOE -or- JOHN DOE
The following is for the ADVANCED users only:
The Inquire feature supports some "wildcards" commonly
used by many programmers....
`?' matches ANY single character
EXAMPLE: "Th?t" would find "This" and "That"
`*' matches any number of instances of the same character.
EXAMPLE: "x*yz" would find "xyz","yz", and "xxyz"
`+' matches one or more instances of a character.
EXAMPLE: "x+yz" would find "xyz" and "xxyz"
To find a question mark, use..... "\?"
To find an asterisk, use......... "\*"
To find a plus sign, use......... "\+"