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CHAT INFORMATION
07/13/86
An interactive program to allow a remote user to "chat"
with the local Remote CP/M system operator.
NOTE: Current and past revisions are found in the CHAT.HIS file.
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CHAT allows a remote user to summon the RCPM SYSOP. If/when he answers,
the two people may then type to each other. When a LASTCALR file is
available, the user's name will automatically be displayed (optional).
CHAT may be run on any RCP/M system, whether you run a message base or
not (choose your requirements from the list of optional equates in the .ASM
file).
For those of you running a clock and using time restrictions, CHAT will
now optionally prevent BYE from updating the user's time-on, so a rude
disconnect by BYE will not occur.
When a user runs CHAT, its response will be determined by time restric-
tions preset by you, the condition of the console bell flag or both. If
time restricions are used, the user is told to run CHAT only between
certain hours. When the CHAT hours are in effect (and when the console
bell flag is on), the program will begin a paging operation, beeping
for you once per second for a preset period of time (defaults to 30
seconds). If you do not answer the page before this time is up, CHAT
will inform the user that you are not available, same as if the console
bell flag was off.
In the case of MBBS systems, whenever you are unavailable, CHAT will
(optionally) ask the user if he/she wishes to leave you a private comment.
If they do, CHAT will cause a special loading of MBBS for a message entry
by them -- the user can only enter/edit this message, not the header info,
and upon completion is dropped back into CP/M. This optional feature is
available when running NUBYE or MBYE.
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Sysop Operation:
1) If time restrictions are not in effect and the console
bell flag is on, the sysop (at the CP/M command prompt)
may enter "CHAT C" for immediate chat mode entry.
2) To answer a page, the sysop hits the ESC (escape) key and
chat mode is entered.
3) CHAT (either paging or chat mode) may be aborted at any
time by hitting a CTRL-X (^X) or CTRL-C (^C).
4) During the chat mode, the sysop may wish the user to
enter some useful bit of information for later retrieval.
In this case, the sysop (not the user) may enter a left
brace ("{") which will put the user directly into the
MBBS message entry mode (this character was chosen
because current BYE5 versions already ignore this coming
from the modem). Once the message is completed, the
user is again returned to CP/M. Of course, this feature
is only available to those of you running MBBS...
- Tom Brady