Message Help File

When you first enter the message section, you will be asked
which player you wish to send a message to. You can get a list
of all the players by inputting a 0.  Nonzero addresses him.
You can even send a message to yourself, if you like. IDs were
assigned based only on the order in which you started play.

You are then placed in input mode, and you can type away to your
hearts content, until you hit ENTER on a line with NO characters
on it.  You do not need to worry about line ends, word wrap takes
care of flowing from one line to another. You can also backspace
to erase what you have typed, but you cannot backspace across a
line boundary. When you are done, you will be in main msg mode.


Here you have several things you can do...
<C>ontinue lets you add additional lines to your message
at the bottom.


<I>nsert lets you add them whereever you like, even before
the beginning of what you typed previously.

<D>elete removes a line... any line.

<M>ove lets you move one line to go after a different place.
You can think of it as an insert and a delete, without you
having to type the line over.  (Note- this may *not* work!)

<E>dit is a very sophisticated way of changing what you have
already done. It is a multi step process...

  1) you enter the first line you would like to search
  2) you enter the last line you would like to search
     at this point, you can enter a 0 and abort the edit
  3) Next, you give a string to find... what you want changed.
     This string must be at least 1 character long.
  4) Lastly, you enter what you want it replaced with.
     Since you may be deleting, this can be 0 length.


  Edit then scans the line(s) in the range you gave.
  Each time it finds an occurence of the target, it prints
  the line with the target pointed to, and asks you
  what to do... you have several options.

    <Y>es, do this change.
    <N>o, skip this change, but continue to search.
    <A>ll, do this and all subsequent changes without asking any more.
    <Q>uit, don''t do this change, and stop searching.

<T>imedate is a way to add your signature, with a date
stamp at the end.  The new line is added after the current
last line.

<S>end Message sends whatever you currently have to the player
you currently have set as addressee.

<N>ew addressee changes whom the message is for. It has no effect
on messages already sent out.


<Z>ap erases all the lines you currently have in storage.

<Q>uit will return you to the main game section.  Before you
leave the message system, however, you will be asked whether you
want to save any message text that you have already typed in.
Answering Yes will save your message for later editing, while
saying no will destroy any message data that you had typed in
(mind you, SENT messages cannot be destroyed by this!).