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@X0E In order to determine which conferences you want to scan and include
in your QWK packet you *must* use this command. This command will
allow you to select and deselect conference you have access to.
@X0F Description
@X03
Quite often, there will be conferences on a bulletin board that you do
not want to participate in. This command enables you to choose which
conferences to automatically scan for messages both at login and when
you use the A subcommand with a message read or QWKScan command . A
two-column listing of conferences that you are able to join is
displayed. In the list, includes the conference number, description,
last message read, highest message in the conference, and an "X" if
you have marked this conference for scanning. Only the conferences
that you have access to will be listed. An "*" between the conference
number and name indicates you have NET Status for that conference.
If you find that a conference is not listed, it is because you do not
have access to it. The following is an example of the screen that is
displayed to you:
@X0F Conference Last High
# Name Read Num. Flags
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@X07 @X031 Main Board@X07 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8548 7978 X
@X03 2*Beta Talk. @X07. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1018 1001 X
@X03 3 For Sale@X07 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6289 4301 X
@X03 5 Programming@X07. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2106 1839
@X03 6 Operating Systems@X07. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5119 4768 X
@X03 7 Chit Chat@X07. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7831 7659 X
@X03 8*BBS Ads@X07. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6711 6584
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@X0E Enter Conference Numbers, (@X0AS@X0E)elect All, (@X0AD@X0E)eselect All, or (@X0AQ@X0E)uit?
Subcommands
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@X0B[Conf. Num(s)] Conference number(s) to select. @X03 You may specify a
single conference or multiple conferences. If you
want to specify multiple conferences, you must do so
by specify a range (e.g., 32-53) or by separating
each conference by a space or semicolon. You can
even combine ranges and individual conferences. See
the example section of this command for more details.
@X0BS Select all conferences. @X03 This subcommand selects all
conferences for scanning or reading.
@X0BD Deselect all conferences. @X03 This subcommand deselects
all conferences for scanning or reading.
@X0F
Using the SELECT Command Interactively
@X03
If you do not specify any subcommands when you run the SELECT command
then you will be running it in interactive mode. The only thing you
need to remember about interactive mode is that it is slightly
different than specifying everything when you use the command with
subcommands. The following lists the differences between the various
subcommands when you are using the command in interactive mode.
@X0B(Conf. #) Conference number(s) to select. @X03 In interactive mode
When you select a conference you toggle its status.
If you select conference 1 and it was already
selected (had an X in the FLAGS column), you will
deselect that particular conference. If you select a
conference that was not already selected, you will
be asked what you wish to set your last message read
pointer to. You may set the last message read pointer
to any value that is within the range of messages in
the conference. To find the range of messages in the
conference look to the left of the conference name
on the prompt where it is asking you to enter your
last message read. You will see a range of numbers
that will look something like 3005-8292. The first
number is the lowest message in the conference and
the second number is the highest.
In addition, you can add a D to the right of the
conference number(s) to deselect the conference(s)
that you specify.
@X0BS Select all conferences.@X03 This subcommand selects all
conferences for scanning and all conferences will
have an "X" placed in its flags field.
@X0BD Deselect all conferences. @X03 This subcommand deselects
all conferences for scanning and removes the "X" if
there was one in this conference's flags field.
@X0BQ Quit. @X03 This subcommand quits the Select command.
Control is returned to the main menu.
@X0F
@X0F
Examples
@X03
If you want to make sure that conferences 1 through 9 and conference
number 12 were selected, you could do this right from the command
line by typing the following:
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SELECT 1-9;12
@X03
Now, if you wanted to deselect just those conferences, you should do
that by running the SELECT command interactively by typing SELECT on
the command line. At the next prompt, type 1-9;12 and you will see
that the conferences will be deselected. @XFF
