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E will enter a message without a packet. F will enter files for uploads and downloads without a packet. Enter will select a new disk, subdirectory, packet, or command depending on what is highlighted. Escape will exit and return to DOS. Error Message This window displays an error message from a RoseReader function. The message may also suggest an action to be taken. Configuration Menu This menu displays the main selctions available for configuration in RoseReader. The cursor up, cursor down and page down are available on this menu for movement. Available Commands: Alt-P will activate the pick list menu. Alt-S will change the colours back to the default set. Enter will select a submenu for configuration. Escape will allow you to ignore any changes and return to what you were doing previously. F10 will save the configuration and return to what you were doing previously. Escape Configuration Menu This screen will allow you to ignore changes you have made to your configuration, use changes temporarily or, return to the configuration menu. This screen is only entered if you have made changes to the configuration and selected escape at the menu. Available Commands: N will return you to the configuration menu. T will use the changes you have made, but not save the changes to disk. Y will ignore the changes and return to what you were doing prior to entering configuration. Work Directory This screen is informing you that files exist in the directory you are proposing to use for your work directory. If you leave the work directory as is these files will be lost when the directory is cleaned out. Available Commands: N will exit RoseReader and return to DOS. Y will go ahead with RoseReader and all files in the directory will be deleted. Work Directory This screen informs you that on starting RoseReader files were found in your work directory. If you continue on these files will be deleted. Available Commands: C will enter the configuration menu and allow you to select a different work directory. N will exit RoseReader and return to DOS. Y will go ahead with RoseReader and all files in the directory will be deleted. Services Directory This screen is informing you that files exist in the directory you are proposing to use for your services directory. If you leave the services directory as is these files will be lost when the directory is cleaned out. Available Commands: N will exit to DOS leaving the files. Y will continue with RoseReader and the files will be erased. Services Directory This screen informs you that on starting RoseReader files were found in your services directory. If you continue after receiving this message the files will be deleted. Available Commands: C will enter the configuration menu and allow you to select a different services directory. N will exit RoseReader and return to DOS. Y will go ahead with RoseReader and all files in the directory will be deleted. Path Configuration Menu This menu displays all the paths required by RoseReader and allows you to set the values. A note is that the subdirectories used for work and services will have all the files deleted each time RoseReader uses them. These two subdirectories should not be used for any other options. The cursor up and cursor down are available on this menu for movement. The page up and page down keys will take you to the previous and next configuration submenues. If the work and services directories can not be created, because some of the parent directories you specified do not exist or files exist with the same name, you will experience problems with the reader. Available Commands: Escape will exit the submenu and return to the configuration menu. F10 will save the configuration and return to what you were doing prior to the configuration. Return will move you to the next item on this page. Editor Configuration Menu This menu displays options for the editor that you use for making replies or entering new messages. Please not that there is an option on a later screen for using the internal editor, if this is selected than the editor named here will not be used. The cursor up and cursor down are available on this menu for movement. The page up and page down keys will take you to the previous and next configuration submenues. Available Commands: Escape will exit the submenu and return to the configuration menu. F10 will save the configuration and return to what you were doing prior to the configuration. Return will move you to the next item on this page. Space will rotate through the different values for the quoting option. Compressor Configuration Menu This menu displays all the compressors used by RoseReader and allows you to set the names and options. If options on the compressors are sensitive to upper and lower case you should be careful to enter the options properly. The cursor up and cursor down are available on this menu for movement. The page up and page down keys will take you to the previous and next configuration submenues. Available Commands: Escape will exit the submenu and return to the configuration menu. F10 will save the configuration and return to what you were doing prior to the configuration. Return will move you to the next item on this page. Colour Configuration Menu This menu displays colours that can be set for RoseReader and allows you to set the values. Move with the cursor keys until you select the item you want to change the colour for, then press return. You can now use the cursor keys to point to the colour that you want and press return again to select the colour. The cursor up and cursor down are available on this menu for movement. The page up and page down keys will take you to the previous and next configuration submenues. Available Commands: Alt-P will activate the pick list menu. Alt-S will set all the colours to the default values. Escape will exit a colour you have started to edit or if you have not started a colour, exit the submenu and return to the configuration menu. F10 will save the configuration and return to what you were doing prior to the configuration. Return will select an item to set colour for and select the colour. Disk Swap File This screen informs you that on starting RoseReader a disk swap file was found. You have the choice of deleting the file continuing on or leaving the file and continuing. If you continue on without deleting this swap file you will not be able to properly swap out of RoseReader. Available Commands: N will continue with RoseReader without deleting the swap file. Y will delete the swap file and continue with RoseReader. Options Configuration Menu This menu displays options used by RoseReader and allows you to set the values. The cursor up and cursor down are available on this menu for movement. The page up and page down keys will take you to the previous and next configuration submenues. Available Commands: Escape will exit the submenu and return to the configuration menu. F10 will save the configuration and return to what you were doing prior to the configuration. Space will toggle the option that you have highlighted. Defaults Configuration Menu This menu displays defaults used by RoseReader and allows you to set the values. The cursor up and cursor down are available on this menu for movement. The page up and page down keys will take you to the previous and next configuration submenues. Available Commands: Escape will exit the submenu and return to the configuration menu. F10 will save the configuration and return to what you were doing prior to the configuration. Return will move you to the next item on this page. Swapping Configuration Menu This menu displays swapping options used by RoseReader and allows you to set the values. The cursor up and cursor down are available on this menu for movement. The page up and page down keys will take you to the previous and next configuration submenues. Available Commands: Escape will exit the submenu and return to the configuration menu. F10 will save the configuration and return to what you were doing prior to the configuration. Return will move you to the next item on this page. Space will toggle the values of all yes/no fields. Save Configuration This screen requests the file name to save the configuration to. You can select a different directory and/or name which can be loaded later on by using the command line option /f. Older Replies This screen is informing you that a reply file for this BBS exists which is older than the packet that you have selected. This could mean that the replies have been uploaded and not deleted or the replies have not been uploaded yet. Available Commands: N will not delete the replies and open the the reply file for use. Y will delete the replies. Packet Read Menu This menu displays entries for bulletins, news, mail, new files, services, user statistics and exit. You can select from these to view the information contained in the packet that you have opened. Any item that is not available in this packet will be displayed in brackets and you will not be able to access it. The cursor up and cursor down are available on this menu for movement. Available Commands: Escape will exit and return to the packet selection menu. Return will select the current highlighted item. Bulletin Selection Menu This menu displays the available bulletins for selection. The cursor up and cursor down are available on this menu for movement. Available Commands: Alt-C will enter the configuration menu. Alt-D will shell to DOS. Alt-P will activate the pick list menu. Escape will exit and return to the packet read menu. Return will select the current highlighted bulletin for display. User Statistics Screen This menu displays the user statistics as reported by the BBS. Please note that these statistics will be as of the time the packet was created and may not reflect your actual status if you have done any other functions since receiving the mail packet. Pressing any key will return you to the packet read menu. Save File To Disk This screen is entered when you indicate that you want to save a file (bulletin, news, etc) to disk. It is requesting the file name that you want to save the information to. If you select a filename and the file already exists you will be asked if you wish to overwrite the file. Selecting overwrite will destroy the information that is currently in the file. Selecting no overwrite will add the new information to the end of the current information. Print File This screen is entered when you indicate that you want to print a file (bulletin, news, etc). It is requesting the printer number (1 to 3) that you want to print the information to. The printer number is the same as the port that your printer is attached to (ie: LPT1 = 1). If the printer does not respond properly you will be informed on the screen and given a chance to fix the problem and retry or abort. Order Message Menu This menu gives the different options for sorting the messages in a conference. Select the order you want the messages presented in and the conference will be resorted to that order. Note that this is a temporary sort, the configuration menu should be used to change the order permanently. The cursor up and cursor down keys are available for movement in this menu. Available Commands: Escape will exit this menu without changing the sort order. Return will set the highlighted sort order and exit the menu. Save Message To Disk This screen is entered when you indicate that you want to save a message to disk. It is requesting the file name that you want to save the information to. If you select a filename and the file already exists you will be asked if you wish to overwrite the file. Selecting overwrite will destroy the information that is currently in the file. Selecting no overwrite will add the new information to the end of the current information. Print Message This screen is entered when you indicate that you want to print a message. It is requesting the printer number (1 to 3) that you want to print the information to. The printer number is the same as the port that your printer is attached to (ie: LPT1 = 1). If the printer does not respond properly you will be informed on the screen and given a chance to fix the problem and retry or abort. Quick Message Scan This screen will allow you to quickly examine the message subject, sender and receiver for the messages in this conference. You can select any message from the conference without having to page through all the messages. The cursor up, cursor down, page up page down, home, and end keys are available for movement on this screen. Available Commands: Escape will not select a message and return you to the original message. Return will select the highlighted message and display it. Kill Reply This screen is asking you to confirm that you wish to kill the reply that is currently displayed. Available Commands: N will not delete the reply. Y will delete the reply. Choose Conference Menu (1 of 2) This menu allows you to choose the conference that you wish to use. You can perform various different functions on the conferences. You must note that your Sysop can lock you out of conferences and that none of the functions here will do anything on the BBS in that case. You can perform offline configuration of your mail door from this menu. Some commands will create messages addressed to the BBS mail door which can change options and conference selections. In order for the offline configuration to take effect the reply packet must be uploaded to the BBS mail door. The cursor up, cursor down, cursor left, cursor right, page up, page down, home and end keys are available for movement on this menu. Available Commands: + will enter the highlighted conference, if there is mail, and begin reading the messages in a forward direction. - will enter the highlighted conference, if there is mail, at the last message and begin reading the messages in a backward direction. A will create an offline configuration request to add the currently highlighted conference to those you scan for messages. Choose Conference Menu (2 of 2) Available Commands (Continued): Alt-C will enter the configuration menu. Alt-D will shell to DOS. B will repeat a locate backward (towards the beginning of messages). C will request a conference number and go to that conference. D will create an offline configuration request to drop (remove) the currently highlighted conference from those you scan for messages. E will enter a message into the currently highlighted conference. Escape will exit this menu and return to the packet read menu. F will repeat a locate forward (towards the end of messages). L will locate text in any of the messages. N will move to the next conference with mail. P will move to the previous conference with mail. R will create an offline configuration request to reset the last message number in the currently highlighted conference. Return will enter the highlighted conference, if there is mail, and begin reading the messages in a forward direction. Space will enter the highlighted conference, if there is mail, and begin reading the messages in a forward direction. Services Selection Menu This menu displays the available services for selection. The cursor up and cursor down are available on this menu for movement. Available Commands: Alt-C will enter the configuration menu. Alt-D will shell to DOS. Alt-P will activate the pick list menu. Escape will exit and return to the packet read menu. Return will select the current highlighted service for use. Printer Error This screen informs you that the printer you have requested is not ready to accept characters. You should check the cables, printer select and paper. Available Commands: N will not retry and will abort the print. Y will retry the print, if the error remains uncorrected you will return to this screen. Enter A Message Without A Packet This screen is requesting the packet name to be used for a message. This name is the name, without extension, that the BBS uses when it sends a mail packet to you. If you leave the name blank or press escape you will be returned to the packet selection menu. If you fill in the name RoseReader will attempt to find information about that BBS. If no information is found you will be asked some questions to get the information required to make a reply packet. Enter A Message Without A Packet Since you have arrived at this portion of the screen RoseReader could not locate an information file refering to the packet name that you requested. In order to create a proper reply packet RoseReader needs to know the user name that you log in to the board as (this does not include your password!). Simply enter the name (first and last) on the line provided. Also required is the type of compression that you use on your mail packets. Press the space bar to cycle through the choices and return when you see the compression type that you want. Pressing escape at either line will return you to the select a packet menu. Drop Conference This screen is asking you to confirm that you want to drop (remove) the highlighted conference from the list that you scan for mail. The reply packet must be uploaded to the BBS mail door before this change will take effect. Available Commands: N will not drop the conference and will return to the choose conference menu. Y will drop the conference and return to the choose conference menu. Reset A Conference This will allow you to reset the last message read in the highlighted conference. You will be asked to give a number, which can be either a message number or the number of messages you would like to have to read. The next question will be whether the number you entered is a message number (enter M) or an offset from high message (the number of messages to read) (enter H). Entering escape at either line will not reset the conference. The reply packet must be uploaded to the BBS mail door before the change will take place. Add A Conference This screen will allow you to add the highlighted conference to the list that you scan for messages. You will be asked if you want all the messages in the conference (enter A) or personal messages only (those addressed to you) (enter P). Entering escape will exit without adding the conference. After adding the conference you will be given a chance to reset the last message number read. The reply packet must be uploaded to the BBS mail door before the changes will take effect. Select Tagline This menu allows you to select from the list of taglines that have been saved to disk. The keys cursor up, cursor down, page up, page down, home and end are available for movement on this menu. Available Commands: Alt-C will activate the configuration menu. Alt-D will activate a DOS shell. A will request a tagline to add to the list. D will remove the highlighted tagline from the list. E allows you to edit the highlighted tagline. Escape will exit this menu without selecting a tagline. Return will select the highlighted tagline. Send A Message This screen will get information needed to make a reply or a new message. This information includes the conference number to enter the message in, the person the message is for (or ALL), the subject of the message, whether the message is private or not, a sender password (used to prevent deletion of the message - see PCBoard information), if the message is to be echoed and a tagline. The keys cursor up and cursor down are available for movement on this screen. Available Commands: Escape will exit the message without saving it. F2 when on the to, subject, or tagline selection will bring up a picklist to choose from. F10 will enter the selected editor to create your message. Send A Message This screen will get information needed to make a reply or a new message. This information includes the conference number to enter the message in, the person the message is for (or ALL), the subject of the message, whether the message is private or not, a sender password (used to prevent deletion of the message - see PCBoard information), if the message is to be echoed and a tagline. The keys cursor up and cursor down are available for movement on this screen. Available Commands: Escape will exit the message without saving it. F2 when on the to, subject, or tagline selection will bring up a picklist to choose from. F10 will save the message into your reply packet. File Browsing You are currently browsing (displaying) a file that was sent as part of a mail packet. This can include bulletins, welcome texts and others. The cursor up, cursor down, cursor right, cursor left, home, end, space (next page of text), page up, page down, control cursor left and control cursor right keys are available for movement on this screen. Available Commands: Escape will exit the file browse. P will print the file. Return will exit the file. S will save the file. Space will exit the file, if the last screen is displayed. Message Browsing (1 of 2) You are currently browsing (displaying) a message that was sent as part a mail packet. The cursor up, cursor down, cursor right, cursor left, home, end, space (next page of text), page up, page down, control cursor left and control cursor right keys are available for movement on this screen. Available Commands: + will go to the next message. - will go to the previous message. A will ansi animate the message (display as an ansi graphics screen). B will repeat a locate backwards (towards the beginning of conference). Control Page Down will go to the next thread (subject) if the messages are in subject order. Control Page Up will go to the previous thread (subject) if the messages are in subject order. Message Browsing (2 of 2) The cursor up, cursor down, cursor right, cursor left, home, end, space (next page of text), page up, page down, control cursor left and control cursor right keys are available for movement on this screen. Available Commands (continued): E will enter a new message. Escape will exit the message browse. F will repeat a locate forward (towards the end of conference). L will locate text in the current conference. O will change the message order. P will print the message. Q will quick scan the messages in this conference. R will reply to the message. Return will go to the next message. S will save the message to disk. Space will go to the next message, if on the last page of text. Reply Browsing (1 of 2) You are currently browsing (displaying) a reply that you have created. The cursor up, cursor down, cursor right, cursor left, home, end, space (next page of text), page up, page down, control cursor left and control cursor right keys are available for movement on this screen. Available Commands: + will go to the next reply. - will go to the previous reply. A will ansi animate the reply (display as an ansi graphics screen). Control Page Down will go to the next thread (subject) if the replies are in subject order. Control Page Up will go to the previous thread (subject) if the replies are in subject order. E will enter a new message. Escape will exit the reply browse. F will find text in the current conference. Reply Browsing (2 of 2) The cursor up, cursor down, cursor right, cursor left, home, end, space (next page of text), page up, page down, control cursor left and control cursor right keys are available for movement on this screen. Available Commands (continued): K will kill the current reply. L will repeat a find going towards the beginning of the conference. N will repeat a find going towards the end of the conference. O will change the message order. P will print the reply. Q will quick scan the replies in this conference. R will re-edit the current reply. Return will go to the next reply. S will save the reply to disk. Space will go to the next reply, if on the last page of text. File Listing This screen is a listing of all the newfiles from the selected board. To select a file to be downloaded, move the highlight bar to the desired file and press ENTER. Pressing ENTER on a selected item will deselect that item. The cursor up, cursor down, page up, page down, home and end keys are available on this menu for movement. Available Commands: Alt-C will activate the configuration menu. Alt-D will activate a DOS shell. Alt-P will activate the pick list menu. F2 allows you to edit the list of files to download. F10 will save and return you to the main menu. B will repeat a locate backward (towards the beginning of the file list). F will repeat a locate forward (towards the end of the file list). L will locate text in the file list. Download List Editor This screen allows you to edit the listing of files that you want to download. Some boards have different file listing which makes the conference number important. Occasionally, SysOps will place a password on certain files. If you know the password, you can download the file by filling in the appropriate field. For the majority of uses, the password field is not used. The cursor up, cursor down, page up, page down, home and end keys are available on this menu for movement. Available Commands: Alt-C will activate the configuration menu. Alt-D will activate a DOS shell. Alt-P will activate the pick list menu. Alt-R will remove the highlighted entry. F10 will save and exit the download list editor. Locate Text This screen will allow you to enter a word or combination of words that are to be searched for in the message base or newfiles list. The words will appear in upper case on the screen as you type them in, but when the search is done it will not matter if the letters are upper or lower case. The maximum length for the string is 67 characters. Available Commands: Alt-C will enter the configuration menu. Alt-D will shell to DOS. Alt-P will activate the pick list menu. Escape will exit without selecting a string to search for. Return will accept the displayed string and start a search. ^U will restore the original line. ^Y will erase the entire line. See next page for making combinations of words. Locate Text Rose Reader will allow you to combine words to search for by using certain operators. To look for one word OR another place the character | between the words. To look for one word AND another word (both must be present) place the character & between the words. You may use any number or combination of the above symbols. When using more than one operator the operations are evaluated from left to right. If you wish to change the order or grouping you may use brackets () around groups of words. These special characters may not be searched for in the messages. Examples: IBM will search for the word IBM. IBM&PC will search for the two words IBM and PC, and both must be found. IBM|PC will search for the two words IBM and PC, and either must be found. IBM&(PC|AT) will look for the word IBM and either of the words PC or AT. Select Message Receiver This is a listing of all the users that you frequently send messages to allow you to quickly enter in the TO field of any message. The cursor up, cursor down, page up, page down, home and end keys are available on this menu for movement. Available Commands: Alt-C will activate the configuration menu. Alt-D will activate a DOS shell. A will request a persons name to add to the list. D will remove the highlighted person from the list. E allows you to edit the highlighted name. Select Message Subject This is a listing of all the subjects that you frequently use to allow you to quickly enter in the SUBJECT field of any message. The cursor up, cursor down, page up, page down, home and end keys are available on this menu for movement. Available Commands: Alt-C will activate the configuration menu. Alt-D will activate a DOS shell. A will request a subject to add to the list. D will remove the highlighted subject from the list. E allows you to edit the highlighted subject. Select Users to Block This is a listing of all the users that you do not wish to view any messages to or from. All messages with a TO or FROM field from anyone mentioned in this list will be skipped. The cursor up, cursor down, page up, page down, home and end keys are available on this menu for movement. Available Commands: Alt-C will activate the configuration menu. Alt-D will activate a DOS shell. A will request a persons name to add to the list. D will remove the highlighted person from the list. E allows you to edit the highlighted name. Select Subjects to Block This is a listing of all the subjects that you do not wish to view. All messages which have SUBJECT fields matching any entry in this list will be skipped. The cursor up, cursor down, page up, page down, home and end keys are available on this menu for movement. Available Commands: Alt-C will activate the configuration menu. Alt-D will activate a DOS shell. A will request a subject to add to the list. D will remove the highlighted subject from the list. E allows you to edit the highlighted subject. Pick List Edit Menu This menu allows you to select various pick lists to edit. Select the desired listing with the cursor up and cursor down keys and press enter. Pressing ESC will return you to your previous menu. Available Commands: Alt-C will activate the configuration menu. Alt-D will activate a DOS shell. Enter will edit the highlighted pick list. Esc will return you to the previous menu. File Menu This screen allows you to select which type of files you want to view or select for transfer. Selecting Uploads will allow you to enter file names and descriptions of files that you want to send to the host system. Selecting Downloads will display the new files on the host system, if they exist, and allows you to select files that you want to download from the host (assuming the host has a RoseMail mail door). Available Commands: Alt-C will activate the configuration menu. Alt-D will activate a DOS shell. Alt-P will acrivate the pick list menu. Escape will exit the screen. Upload List Editor This screen allows you to edit the listing of files that you want to upload. Some boards have different conferences which makes the conference number important. Occasionally, SysOps will place a password on certain files. If you know the password, you can upload the file by filling in the appropriate field. For the majority of uses, the password field is not used. The cursor up, cursor down, page up, page down, home and end keys are available on this menu for movement. Available Commands: A will allow you to add a new entry to the list D will drop an entry from the list E will allow you to edit the highlighted entry. Alt-C will activate the configuration menu. Alt-D will activate a DOS shell. Alt-P will activate the pick list menu. F10 will save and exit the upload editor. Upload Entry Editor This screen allows you to enter in information on a file you wish to upload. Some boards have several different conferences which makes the first number important. Occasionally, SysOps will place a password on certain files. If you know the password, you can upload the file by filling in the appropriate field. For the majority of uses, the password field is not used. If you wish to make an upload private, place a forward slash (/) as the first character of the first line of the description. If you upload a file without an entry in the upload listing, it will be inserted into conference 0. The cursor up, cursor down, page up, page down, home and end keys are available on this menu for movement. Available Commands: Alt-C will activate the configuration menu. Alt-D will activate a DOS shell. Alt-P will activate the pick list menu. F10 will save this upload entry. Communications This is the communications portion of RoseReader. In this area, you can use your modem to call other systems to transfer mail packets. Available Commands: ALT-A to set your modem to automatically answer incoming calls. ALT-B to view scroll back buffer. ALT-C will activate the configuration menu. ALT-D brings up the phone book and allows you to dial. ALT-H hangs up and disconnects you from a remote system. ALT-I will send the initialization string to your modem. ALT-L toggles logging to a capture file. ALT-P to set your modem parameters. ALT-S to enter standby mode for unattended operation. ALT-U will allow you to configure unattended operation mode. ALT-X will exit the communications section. ALT-= toggles DoorWay mode which allows transmision of almost all characters. Most commands become inactive in this mode. F3.F9 user defined function keys. F10 will run a DOS shell. Communications Configuration Menu This menu displays the main selctions available for configuring RoseReader's communications. Available Commands: Enter will select a submenu for configuration. Escape will allow you to ignore any changes and return to what you were doing previously. F10 will save the configuration and return to what you were doing previously. Communication Parameters This menu allows yoy to set up the default communication parameters for your modem. Speed is normally set to the highest rate that your modem supports. For most systems, Parity should be set to None, Data length to 8 and Stop bits to 1. Available Commands: Enter will select the highlighted item. Escape will return you to the previous screen. F10 will save/use the current configuration. Dialing and Modem Use this menu to set up the command string that your modem uses to communicate with RoseReader. For modem commands, you can send control characters by preceding the character with a carat (^). To send an ESC use ^[. For a half second delay use a tilde (~). Most modem command require that an ENTER key is sent after the string. To do this, use ^M. Available Commands: Escape will exit the submenu and return to the configuration menu. F10 will save the configuration and return to what you were doing prior to the configuration. Return will move you to the next item on this page. Communication Options Use this menu to set various flags used in communications. Flow controls are very important for accurate transmision of data. If your modem supports CTS/RTS hardware flow controls, activate them (check your modem manual for details) and flag this option as YES. If hardware handshaking is not available, you should use XON/XOFF software flow controls. If both are available, you should only use CTS/RTS. Available Commands: Escape will exit the submenu and return to the configuration menu. F10 will save the configuration and return to what you were doing prior to the configuration. Return will move you to the next item on this page. Replies Exist This screen is informing you that replies or file upload/download lists exist in the work directory upon starting RoseReader. You are given the choice of ignoring these or compressing them to save them. Available Commands: N will not compress the files. You will lose any changes that you have made. Y will compress the files and save them. Enter BBS Packet Name You have indicated that you wish to save the replies and/or file upload/download lists that exist in your work directory. However, RoseReader has not been able to establish the packet name that the BBS uses for it's uploads. Please enter the packet name without an extension. Available Commands: Escape will exit and abort the compression. Communications Directories Use this menu to tell RoseReader where you want to transfer files to and from and what you want used for your capture file name. Available Commands: Escape will exit the submenu and return to the configuration menu. F10 will save the configuration and return to what you were doing prior to the configuration. Return will move you to the next item on this page. Phone Book This is a listing of all systems known to RoseReader. Items in the list may be added, deleted or edited. Use the up and down arrow keys and the PageUp and PageDown keys to select a board. Available Commands: A will Add a blank entry at the highlighted position ALT-D will Delete the highlighted entry. E will Edit the highlighted item. ENTER or D will dial the highlighted entry Escape will exit the menu. L will logon to the selected board and will leave you in the RoseMail door to do as you wish. M will enable Memorize mode which will dial the selected board and will record the keys that are required to get into the RoseMail Door. P will edit the Prompts that are used for automatic communications with the highlighted system U will logon to the selected board and will leave you at the main command prompt. Auto Dialer The auto dialer will continually attempt to connect to a remote system. This is especially useful for popular systems or systems with very few phone lines. Available Commands: + will add 5 seconds to the timer. - will subtract 5 seconds from the timer. SPACE will cause the dialer to try again immediately. ESC will abort from the dialer. Edit Board Use this menu to set up the communications parameters and specifications needed to communicate with the system. Edit Board Prompts In order for RoseReader to perform automatic transfers, it needs to know how to get into the RoseMail door. This is a list of prompts and their responses. If RoseReader notices one on the prompts, it will send the response immediately to the right of the entry. Make sure that you include a ^M on the responses where an ENTER should be pressed. For example 'JOHN DOE^M' RoseReader has some macros that can be used in the response field to represent different activities. These are as follows: @NAME@ sends the user name defined in the phone book @PASS@ sends the password defined in the phone book @ABORT@ logs off and aborts the board @COMMAND@ tells RoseReader you have reached a command prompt. This is only needed if you want automatic logon without going into RoseMail. ALT-R will Restore the default prompts. Note: RoseReader has the ability to create this table for you by using the 'Memorize' feature. Memorize A System You are now about to perform the board memorize feature. Once you have been connected, logon to the main board prompt as normal. All your responses to the various prompts will be recorded so that you can use the unattended mode in the future. In order to make sure that the prompts are recorded correctly, please make sure that you wait until the full prompt is displayed before typing in your response (ie. Don't type ahead of the screen). Once you have reached the main board prompt, press F10 to end the memorize session. If you want to abort this procedure, press ESC while dialing. Edit Tickler Help Text This screen will allow you to edit the two line reminders that appear at the bottom of the screen. Each line can be 76 characters in length. If you have set the configuration options to back up tickler help the previous version will be saved in a backup file. This can be recovered at a later time if you want to go back to the old version. Available Commands: Alt-R will recover the old version if backup tickler help was on when you made the change and is on now. Escape will exit without saving the current changes. F10 will save the current changes and exit. Edit External Protocols This screen allows you to enter information needed to use external (Shelled) protocols such as DSZ. In order to use the protocol, you will need to create two batch files. One is used for upload, the other for downloading. Batch files are passed three parameters, parameter 1 is the connection speed, parameter 2 is the port number in use and parameter 3 is the file name (if any). Available Commands: Escape will exit the submenu and return to the configuration menu. F10 will save the configuration and return to what you were doing prior to the configuration. Return will move you to the next item on this page. DOS Keys This will allow you to enter a command that will be executed when you press the appropriate function key. The cursor up, cursor down, and return keys are available on this menu for movement. Available Commands: Alt-D will activate a DOS shell. Book Marks This screen is informing you that there is a book mark for this mail packet and is asking you if you would like to jump to that book mark. Available Commands: N will ignore the book mark. Y will position you at the book mark. Internal Editor This is the internal editor for RoseReader. It will accept most of the WordStar 3.x commands. See the top lines of the screen for available commands. The standard cursor movement (Cursor keys, page keys, etc) are available. Unattended Operation Control This is the starting time control for RoseReader's unatteneded operation mode. Enter the time, in 24 hour military format, that you want the selected boards to be dialed. Available Commands Enter will start the operation now. ESC aborts the unattended operation. ALT-U allows you to view and change the unattended mode configuration. Unattended Mode Configuration This is the configuration for RoseReader's unattended operation mode. At this screen, you select which boards you wanted dialed (DIAL), the maximum time to spend on each board (TIME), the maximum time to spend between receiving known prompts (IDLE) and what you want to do online. While online, you can reset message pointers (RESET). Normally, your pointers will be updated to those after your last transfer but this can be overriden to reset before (RES B). When downloading (DLOAD), you have several options. Normally, the mail scans will select mail as you have defined in the RoseMail door. However, you do have the option to download personal mail only (PERS). If you are downloading large message packets, you may need to receive the mail in multiple packages (REPEAT) to ensure you get everything. If uploads are selected (ULOAD), they will normally take place before the download incase you change the door configuration through a message to RoseMail. This can be changed to upload after the download (Up End). A complete capture of what happens online can be created (CAP). As well, you have the option to create a summary log of what happened(LOG). Succesfully uploaded packets can be set to be deleted (DEL). Internal Editor This is the internal editor for RoseReader. It will accept Word Perfect 5.0 commands. See the top lines of the screen for available commands. The cursor movement commands (Home with cursor keys and Home, Home with up and down cursor keys) are available. Internal Editor This is the internal editor for RoseReader. It will accept PCBoard full screen editor commands. See the top lines of the screen for available commands. The standard cursor movement keys (Cursor keys, page keys, etc) are available. Internal Editor This is the internal editor for RoseReader. You have set it for an unknown type of editor. Please report to Rose Media the circumstances that you used to get this message. Choose Conference Menu (1 of 3) This menu allows you to choose the conference that you wish to use. You can perform various different functions on the conferences. You must note that your Sysop can lock you out of conferences and that none of the functions here will do anything on the BBS in that case. You can perform offline configuration of your mail door from this menu. Some commands will create messages addressed to the BBS mail door which can change options and conference selections. In order for the offline configuration to take effect the reply packet must be uploaded to the BBS mail door. The cursor up, cursor down, cursor left, cursor right, page up, page down, home and end keys are available for movement on this menu. The lower half of the screen displays a quick scan of any active messages for the conference. If there are no messages in this conference no window will be displayed. Any messages that are blocked because of subject or name filters will not be displayed. Use the tab key to change between the windows. While in the quick scan if you press return the currently highlighted message will be display and you will read normally through the conference. Choose Conference Menu (2 of 3) Available Commands: + will enter the highlighted conference, if there is mail, and begin reading the messages in a forward direction. - will enter the highlighted conference, if there is mail, at the last message and begin reading the messages in a backward direction. A will create an offline configuration request to add the currently highlighted conference to those you scan for messages. Alt-C will enter the configuration menu. Alt-D will shell to DOS. B will repeat a locate backwards (towards the beginning of messages). C will request a conference number and go to that conference. D will create an offline configuration request to drop (remove) the currently highlighted conference from those you scan for messages. Choose Conference Menu (3 of 3) Available Commands (continued): E will enter a message into the currently highlighted conference. Escape will exit this menu and return to the packet read menu. F will repeat a locate forward (towards the end of messages). L will locate text in any of the messages. N will move to the previous conference with mail. P will move to the next conference with mail. R will create an offline configuration request to reset the last message number in the currently highlighted conference. Return will enter the highlighted conference, if there is mail, and begin reading the messages in a forward direction. Space will enter the highlighted conference, if there is mail, and begin reading the messages in a forward direction. Tab will switch between the two windows on the screen (see 1 of 3 for more explanation). Fewer Than 10 File Handles File handles are used to access files and some special devices in a DOS system. The number of available file handles you have left in your system at this time may be too few for using functions in RoseReader. The internal compression and editor are two functions that will possibly need more file handles than are available. This may also affect other programs that you use on your computer. To correct this problem you should change or create a file called CONFIG.SYS in the root directory of the disk you boot your system from. This file should contain a line that says "FILES=" and gives a number. We recommend that this number be between 20 and 30 for normal operation. Door Prompts Configuration This window allows you to set the mail door prompts that the BBS you call will use to operate. It is recommended that use the default set for the door that you call, as listed below. You should only need to change these prompts if you use a mail door that is not supported or your sysop has changed the prompts. RoseMail door users will not need to do any of this configuration as the RoseReader has these prompts at all times. Ensure that you are using the RoseMail door in your main prompts section. Available Commands: Alt-F1 will set QMail V3.0 door default prompts. Alt-F2 will set QMail V4.0 door default prompts. Alt-F3 will set MarkMail door default prompts. Information Message This window displays an information message from a RoseReader function. The message may also suggest an action to be taken. Normally, however, there is no required action. Option Not Available This window displays a message to inform you that the function you have requested can not be used due to the key file you are currently using. If you wish to use this function you must upgrade to a keyfile that will allow you to use more functions. To upgrade, please use DOOR 3 on Rose Media (at 416-733-0894).