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Welcome to the Citadel bulletin board system. Feel free to experiment
with commands you don't understand -- you can't hurt the system...
SPECIAL NOTE:
If you can't log in, the system is private. You must obtain a password by
doing a <.G>oto <MAIL>, <E>nter message to sysop, and providing your phone
number (voice line for validation) and name under which you wish to
participate (may be an alias but could be used for validation call) and the
password you wish to use. Your password will be entered in the system log
at the sysop's convenience and you may <L>og in using the password you
supplied the sysop. Or you may try <C>hat with sysop.
The simplest pattern of usage is:
* <L>og in. The system will remember your terminal configuration and which
messages are new since you last visited a room.
* Use <G>oto to find a room with messages you haven't read.
* Use <N>ew messages to read them. Use <J>ump, <N>ext, <P>ause or <S>top to
control typout.
<J>ump will skip to the start of the next paragraph of a message;
<N>ext will skip to the start of the next message;
<P>ause will halt typout until another key is pressed;
<S>top will return immediately to the command prompt.
(These will work any time the system is typing out
something. Now, for instance.)
* You may use <E>nter to add messages to the room.
This <G>oto- <N>ew- <E>nter cycle may be continued until you arrive back
in the Lobby. You don't have to read everything every time; if you miss a room
this call, the contents will still be "new" on your next call.
* Use <T>erminate to leave the system.
* Hidden in the ".Help ?" files are special incantations to do all sorts of
obscure things. But the above sequence covers most normal use.
sequence covers most normal use.