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- The Blue Wave Mail Door incorporates a very powerful feature, the Blue
- Wave Bundling Commands, to let you, the user, pick and choose your mail
- quite selectively. The result is savings in on-line time and even the
- time you spend reading your mail. Let the Blue Wave Mail Door do your
- work for you!
-
- The Blue Wave Mail Door defaults to downloading ALL mail in your selected
- areas. The following bundling commands only MODIFY the defaults.
-
- `!' : Use at the END of a bundling command to notify the door NOT to
- prompt for more bundling commands. If a ! is not used on a command
- line, a new total will be calculated and displayed, and the door
- is ready to accept more commands.
-
- `-' : Use the - character to SUBTRACT an area from those that have
- scanned. If you - an area, the Blue Wave Mail Door will default
- to NOT UPDATING your message pointers. The special keyword ALL or *
- after a - indicates to SUBTRACT ALL AREAS!
- Examples:
- -14 -25 (deselects ONLY areas 14 and 25--Bundle the rest!)
- -ALL or (deselects ALL areas scanned. Use the + commands to
- -* selectively turn the areas back on.)
-
- {PAUSE}
-
- `+' : Use the + character AFTER using the - character to RESELECT an
- area. This command is especially useful when you are
- scanning MANY areas, but want to download just a few. Sorry,
- but you may NOT ADD an area with a + command if it is not being
- scanned.
- Examples:
- -14 -25 -2 -20 +14 (Oops..I want area 14, but don't want to retype)
- -* +22 +48 (Subtract all areas, then add 22 and 48 to bundle)
-
- `P' : Takes PERSONAL mail only in an area. If you use the P option,
- only messages addressed to your LOGIN name and your REAL name
- will be bundled for the area. To download ONLY personal mail,
- you could use a Pall or P*.
- Examples:
- -all +14 P2 (Subtract all areas, add 14, and PERSONAL ONLY in 2)
- P* or Pall (Personal only in ALL areas)
-
- {PAUSE}
-
- `K' : Takes KEYWORDS only in an area. You may define keywords from the
- Blue Wave Mail Door's Configuration Menu. If the message FROM:,
- TO:, or SUBJ: fields contain a keyword that is defined, the K
- command will bundle the message. Since, in most cases, you will
- want to download PERSONAL and KEYWORD mail, the K command by itself
- takes both personal and keywords. Please do not use something like
- 'K10 P10'. It is unnecessary!
- Examples:
- -ALL K4 K19 (Subtract all areas, and d/l KEYWORDS ONLY in 4 and 19)
- K4 (Simply download all mail, but ONLY KEYWORDS in area 4)
- K* or Kall (Download ONLY keywords in ALL areas)
-
-
- `F' : The F command will FILTER messages based on those you have defined
- from the Blue Wave Mail Door's Configuration Menu. If you have
- 'JOE COOL' defined as a filter then the door would *not* bundle
- any messages with JOE COOL in the TO, FROM, or SUBJ fields.
- Examples:
- F2 F20 (Filter out messages in areas 2 and 20)
- F* or Fall (Filter out messages in ALL AREAS!)
-
- {PAUSE}
- `L' : The L command takes 2 parameters. By using the command 2L10, you
- would tell the Blue Wave Mail Door to bundle area #2, but ONLY
- the LAST 10 messages. It extremely useful when trying out a new
- base to download. If the sysop keeps several hundred messages in
- an area, you may use the L command to eliminate downloading ALL of
- the messages, but just a few to get a taste of the conference.
- NOTE:
- This command *will* update your message pointers for the area. If
- you do *not* wish to update your pointer with the L command, please
- see the 'N' option.
- Examples:
- -24 18L30 (subtracts area 24, and d/l only 30 msgs in #18)
- 18L30 n18 (d/l last 30 messages in #18, but don't update pointer)
-
- `B' : This command performs similarly to the 'L' command described
- above, but it allows you to download the FIRST xx number of
- messages after your lastread pointer. If the message scan shows
- that there are 1000 new messages in area 17, you could specify
- "17B500" to grab the first 1000 of them. Then at a later time
- you could re-download the rest of the messages.
- Example:
- -22 99B23 (subtracts area 22, and d/l 23 new msgs in area 99)
- {PAUSE}
- `N' : The N command deals strictly with message pointers. The N command
- can be used selectively by area to N)ot update your pointers, or
- globally with the ALL or * commands. Please use the N command with
- discretion. If used incorrectly, your pointers will never be
- updated, and you will be downloading the same mail every day!
- Examples:
- n* or Nall (No update of your message pointers in all areas)
- 2L10 n10 (10 new messages in area 2, don't update pointers)
-
- `U' : The U command does the reverse of the N command. It will U)pdate
- your message pointers for an area either selectively or globally.
- Normally this command would not be used, since the Blue Wave Mail
- Door defaults to updating your pointers in all areas that you have
- downloaded.
- Examples:
- n* u12 (Don't update any pointers, except in area #12)
- n* u* (A U* simply nulls the effect of an N*.)
-
- {PAUSE}
-
- 'M' : The M command tells The Blue Wave Mail Door to use the macro
- number you have defined in the Configuration Menu of the door.
- Examples:
- M1 (Use Macro #1 as the bundling command)
- M3 (Use Macro #3 as the bundling command)
-
-
- 'E' : Use the E command to E)rase all previous bundling commands, and
- return to the original state before the door processed any
- bundling commands.
-
- Press 'R' at the Blue Wave Bundling Command prompt to RELIST the Scan
- Table.
-