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You will first see a title screen, (or password prompt if that feature is implemented) and then the main pulldown menu interface. If your system is just being installed, it will prompt you for setup information like your name, email address, etc. Details on setup are provided at the end of this document under SETUP INSTRUCTIONS. The use of pulldown menus has been implemented to organize your access to various functions at different times, and to organize them into separate related areas. The first pulldown menu is the set of functions that relate to HOST connections, and management. The next pulldown menu contains functions related to MAIL management. This is the menu you first arrive on when you run PPoint, since it's the area most commonly used. The other two menus are OPTIONS, where some not so common functions are made available. The Setup menu contains all of the various user definable options, and settings required to operate and maintain PPoint. A TYPICAL PPOINT SESSION A typical PPoint session might start where you would choose HOST TRANSFER on the HOST pulldown menu. This will transfer any outstanding mail created by your system to your Host, and process any incoming mail or files from your Host. Your system automatically dials your Host, connects, and transfers information. It is not necessary to have mail to send in order to connect to your host. You can Poll for mail when ever you wish to see if there is any new mail or files waiting for you on the host system. At this point, you have the option to set a timer to Poll at a future time. You can just press enter to continue to Poll now. If you choose to use the timer, the screen will display the Poll time, and current time. Pressing Esc aborts the Poll, any other key starts immediately. After 60 seconds (or pressing the space bar) of waiting, the screen will blank, all except for the timer display. If you use the Timer, then after the Poll is completed the screen will go blank again after 60 seconds, to preserve your hardware. - 1 - PPoint - Copyright (C) 1994, Harvey Parisien When a Host transfer is complete, and if you have received mail, you will find yourself on the MAIL pulldown menu, on the selection READ NEW MAIL. This is the next logical choice you would make when mail is received. If there was no mail, you will remain on the HOST transfer selection. In addition, if you received files, there will be a blinking message at the bottom left of your screen informing you. By selecting READ YOUR NEW MAIL, the system checks all message areas for mail addressed to you. You can check your whole message database, or just UNREAD mail. When you are finished reading and/or replying to your mail, you will return to the pulldown menus. The READ YOUR NEW MAIL system works the same as The FIND & READ MESSAGES function. This allows you to search one or all message areas for a match to any search text in the message header (the To, From, and Subject fields), or complete message. Once a FIND/SEARCH has been requested, just use the normal keys to review all finds ie: Right Arrow Key or ENTER causes a FIND AGAIN. When you run PPoint you will normally be sitting on the SELECT MESSAGE AREA menu prompt. This displays a list of all the current message areas, or sometimes called conferences, on the system. PPoint will bring you to the area selected, where you can use the following keys to READ, REPLY TO, or ENTER mail. From this point you will be able to list and/or change areas at any time by pressing A. You can list all messages in this area by pressing M, as well as export or print messages, etc. This chart shows all active command keys and their functions... Online help has been implemented throughout the system. You can press F1 for help any time. To create an up-to-date User Reference Guide, press F1 for a help screen. Select Help Index and select the last choice which is Print User Reference Guide. This will print a complete function by function guide to running PPoint. This guide contains the complete contents of your online Help System. - 2 - PPoint - Copyright (C) 1994, Harvey Parisien OPERATIONAL KEYS IN THE READING AREA Basic Navigation: A=Display the AREAS LIST (or Del) M=Display a MESSAGE LIST (or Ins) Right/Left Arrow keys=move to next or previous messages PgDn=page down one screen at a time to the bottom of a message Home=Go to the First message in the current area. End=Go to the Last message in the current area. The Esc key or Mouse Button 2 exits this area. Editing: R=Reply to the current message. E=Enter a message. C=Change/Edit a message (only if it was from you). K=Kill the current message, K toggles Delete on/off. P toggles Private on/off. Other keys: ENTER=like PgDn but will go to the next message when at the bottom of a message. F=Find messages based on search text match. +=Initiate a Find based on Subject. Space Bar=Mark messages on the message list Space Bar=moves to Marked messages, in the reading area Ctrl and E=Export current message to a text file. Ctrl and P=Print current message. Ctrl and R=Resends a message (only if it was from you). Ctrl and S=Toggle internal network addressing information. Ctrl and F=Forward or Move the current message to any area. Alt and F=Freeze Message (can't be deleted or packed) F10 SHELLS TO DOS (and clears the screen). - 3 - PPoint - Copyright (C) 1994, Harvey Parisien Misc Topics For details on topics not covered here, create an up-to-date User Reference Guide as described earlier in this guide. Sending Files To send a file (sometimes called a file attach), enter a netmail message to the User who is to receive the file and then, on the subject line of the message, put the following information... /SEND c:\trash\oldstuff.lzh ... and the file will be sent. Notice the forward slash and no space after it, followed by the send command followed by a space, and then the full drive:\path\filename.ext of the file as it appears on your system. The person who receives the file will only see the file name on his/her subject line, excluding your path information. OPTIONAL ADDRESS BOOK If you have an address book in place (the system creates this for you) it can be accessed by pressing F4 when you are ENTERING a message, and placing text in the TO: field. Your address book is built by the system. Every time you enter a NETMAIL message, it prompts you as to whether or not you would like to add the current entry to the address book. It will only prompt you for entries that do not currently exist. This way you build an address book while you use the system, as opposed to sitting down and typing in 50 names. You can however add to your address book manually, see online help or your reference manual for details. Setup Instructions <from a disk> Place disk in drive A: (or B:) Type A: (or B:) then press ENTER. Type SETUP then press ENTER. The setup program will automatically suggest where to install ppoint, and prompt you to proceed. Once the installation is finished, it will prompt you to run PPOINT by pressing ENTER. Press ENTER, and PPoint will continue it's setup process and - 4 - PPoint - Copyright (C) 1994, Harvey Parisien ask the following questions: Setup Questions 1) Is this a POINT setup or QWK setup. Choose POINT unless you are connecting to a QWK specific host or network. If you do not know, choose POINT. 2) Do you want a FAST setup?... Answer YES to this. A more detailed setup is not necessary, and can always be modified later using the SETUP menu on your pulldown menus. 3) Your First and Last name? This will be your name as presented in all your outgoing mail, and the name you expect to receive mail to. 4) Your point address (Zone:Network/Node{.Point}) ie: 1:20/30.1 Enter this address: _________________________ 5) Your BOSS ROUTE address (Zone:Network/Node). Press ENTER to accept the suggested address, or enter a route address if this was requested by your host. 6) Your Origin line? This is your own personal system title line which shows in each message. Press ENTER to accept the default, or be creative and enter something else. 7) Your Serial Com Port? This is the communications port your modem is connected to. 8) Your Modems Baud Rate? This should be the fastest speed which your modem can support (only enter valid speeds suggested at the prompt in this section). 9) Your Phone line type Tone or Pulse? Default is T. 10) Your Host phone number? This should be exactly the way you would have to dial it if it were a manual call. Enter this number: __________________________ 11) Your Host session password: __________________ Further setup parameters can be modified from your pulldown menus under the section called SETUP. You might want to change your text editor, or identify the type of printer you are connected to. NOTE: Information on blank lines is provided by your HOST. - 5 -