Callahan's Bar Rag January 1994 Edition!

Newsletter of the Callahan's Saloon Custom Forum on Delphi

In this issue:

Welcome - New Books - Conference Commands Part 1

Welcome!!!

To those of you who have joined us recently, welcome. I think you will find us a fun group of people. I hope you find the conversations fun and interesting. Feel free to add your comments to any thread of conversation in the forum that strikes your interest, or start a new topic of your own.

Our Happy Hours are on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evening starting at 10:00 PM EST, however there are plans in the works to expand those times. You may come on line any night and find people in the bar, though. If you arrive and no one is there at all, feel free to start your own conference, and invite anyone you wish.

New Books In December and January:

Hardbacks:

Star Wars: The Truce at Bakura by Kathy Tyers; Bantam -- 21.95

Firedance by Steven Barnes; Tor -- 21.95

Trade paperbacks: None Scheduled

Paperbacks:

Tek Vengeance by William Shatner; Ace -- 5.50

Kilobyte by Piers Anthony; Ace -- 5.50

Wing Commander II: End Run by Christopher Stasheff &Bill Forstchen; Baen -- 4.99

Private Pleasures by Lawrence Sanders; Berkley -- 5.99

Emperors of the Twilight by S. Andrew Swann; Daw -- 3.99

The Omnificence Factor by Zack Hughes; Daw -- 4.99

By Any Other Fame Edited by Mike Resnick; Daw -- 4.99

The Spoils of War: Book Three of the Damned by Alan Dean Foster; Del Rey -- TBA

Down Among the Dead Men by Simon R. Green; Roc -- 4.50

Mutant Chronicles by William F. Wu; Roc -- 4.99

To Save The Sun by Ben Bova; Tor -- 4.99

The Call of Earth by Orson Scott Card; Tor -- 5.99

Conferences:

(This is part one of a three part article. In this issue, we'll give you an idea of the commands available to you in the conference room.) To enter the Conference area, simply type CONference at the main prompt.

The conference menu for the Custom Forum will then be displayed:

Conference Menu:

WHO (list groups) PAGE a user
JOIN a group NAME nickname
EXIT

CONFERENCE>

o WHO: lists all of the available groups in conference.
o JOIN: allows you to join an existing group or create a new group by entering a unique group name at the "Which group ? " prompt.
o PAGE: sends a message to any user who is presently online that you would like to talk to him/her in conference.
o NAME: allows you to adopt a pseudonym while in conference.

A. Universal Commands;

The following is a list of the commands available to all users when in conference. All conference commands are preceded by a slash (/).
Many of these commands may be preceded by the word NO to reverse their effect.

o /ACCEPT: Talk to someone who paged you.
o /BUSY: Disable /SENDS from people outside your Conference group.
o /BYE: Log off directly from Conference
o /CANCEL: Cancel all pages made earlier.

o /DIRECTORY: Display directory of some or all of your Workspace files.
o /DISPLAY: Display contents of a file from your Workspace.
o /ECHO: Show the characters while you are typing.
o /ENTRY: Check the time of another member's last visit to Conference.
o /EXIT: Like Control-Z, takes you out of wherever you are.

o /GNAME: Change the group name, or inquire about group attributes.
o /GPASS: Select a group password.
o /GPRIVATE: Make the group private.
o /GQUIET: Establish silent entry and exit.
o /HELP: Refer to Conference help.

o /JOIN: Exit current group and enter another.
o /LOG: Start a file transcript of your Conference session in your Workspace.
o /MAIL: Enter DELPHI Mail, but remain in Conference.
o /MENU: Same as /PROMPT.
o /NAME: Create or change your Conference nickname or check your status.

o /PAD: Show or set pad parameters.
o /PAGE: Ask a member to join your Conference
o /PASS: Set your password for admittance into password groups
o /PROMPT: Change level of prompting at the CONFERENCE> prompt.

o /REJECT: Say "no" to someone who paged you.
o /REPEAT: Controls whether or not you receive your own messages.
o /RNAME: Show the "real name" of a user ("real name " is his membername).

o /SEND: Send a one-line message to any member logged into DELPHI.
o /SHOWRN: Show membernames in addition to nicknames.
o /SQUELCH: Ignore another user.

o /TALK: Like /JOIN, but don't leave current group. / also works, where is the number of a Conference group.
o /TERM: Set or show terminal attributes.
o /TIME: Display DELPHI time and date.

o /WHO: Show all current Conferences, who is in them, and who is on DELPHI.
o /WHOIS: Information on another user.

If you do not wish to continue receiving this newsletter, just drop me a line. If you like it, show it to a friend. I'd be happy to add them to my mailing list. Thanks for your support.

Nick (NGREENE)

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