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   @0A@WILDCAT! offers you the ability to obtain certain system information
   while in either Private or Group type chats.  To help distinguish a system
   command from actual conversations, all system commands begin with a
   forward slash '@0E@/@0A@' character.  Below is a list of these commands.

       @0E@/DAY        @0F@-@0A@ Displays current date and time
       @0E@/HELP @0F@or @0E@/? @0F@-@0A@ Displays this Help screen
       @0E@/TIMEON     @0F@-@0A@ Displays current conference, time on and time left
       @0E@/USERS      @0F@-@0A@ Displays a list of all the callers on the system
       @0E@/QUIT       @0F@-@0A@ Exit chat mode and notify others remaining in chat


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   @0A@WILDCAT! offers callers the ability to communicate between phone lines
   (nodes) much in the same manner as the SysOp can chat with one of the
   callers on the board.  The main difference, is the system needs to place
   your name next to the text that you type so the other callers in chat can
   know who it's coming from.  This is referred to as a line by line chat as
   compared to SysOp chat which is character by character.  Below is a
   sample conversation.

   @0F@0 - 11/17/91 18:10 : JOE MARTIN Entered Group Chat.
   @0F@0 - 11/17/91 18:11 : ELIJAH MAYEUX Entered Group Chat.
   @0E@5 - Elijah         : Hi Joe, do you have a file on the board that's a list
   @0E@5 - Elijah         : of all the files you have for download?
   @0F@4 - Joe            : Yes, it's called BBSFILES.ZIP
   @0E@5 - Elijah         : Thanks, I'll download it now!
   @0F@4 - Joe            : Bye!
   @0E@5 - Elijah         : Thanks again!
   @0F@0 - 11/17/91 18:16 : JOE MARTIN has exited chat
   @0F@0 - 11/17/91 18:16 : ELIJAH MAYEUX has exited chat

   @0A@The first column refers to the node number each caller is on and the
   second column is the callers first name.  The remainder of the information
   is the actual conversation that takes place.  In the above example, you
   will notice on several of the lines there is a @0F@0@0A@ in the first column, this
   indicates these are system generated messages.  To help distinguish one
   caller from another, the callers names will alternate from yellow to white.

   Since you're in either Group or Private chat mode, either of two
   conditions must be met before any information is sent out to the other
   callers.  One, the line of text you're typing exceeds the line length
   allowed in chat mode, or two, if your response is only a few characters
   long, pressing @0E@[@0F@ENTER@0E@]@0A@.

   While in chat mode, all the normal time limits are enforced as is the idle
   time monitoring.  If you sit in Group chat waiting for someone to join in
   and more than 4 mintues go by without any keyboard activity, the system
   will inform you it will log you off if you don't do something in the next
   60 seconds.  To avoid this from happening, you could from time to time,
   select one of the available commands while in chat.

   Please note, to help distinguish between system commands and actual typed
   conversations, all commands begin with the forward slash '@0E@/@0A@' character.
   Below is a description of all these commands.

       @0E@/DAY
             @0A@Displays current date and time similar to below.

             @0E@Today is Sun, 11/17/91.  Current Time is 17:15

       @0E@/HELP @0F@or @0E@/?
             @0A@Displays this Help screen.

       @0E@/TIMEON
             @0A@Displays current conference, time on and time remaining similar
             to below.

             @0E@Conf: @0B@"[0] - General Messages"@0E@, time on @0F@3@0E@, with @0F@28@0E@ remaining.

       @0E@/USERS
             @0A@Displays a dynamic list of all the callers on the system at the
             present time.  Please note, people come and go all the time on a
             busy system, so this list will change from time to time.

 @0F@ #   Chat Status   Name            From                User Status
 @0E@--- ------------- --------------- ------------------- ------------------
 @0B@  1 Available     TIM LEWIS       Benicia, CA
   2 Unavailable   TERRY SCOTT     Vallejo, CA         In a door
   3 Unavailable   BOB JENNINGS    El Sobrante, CA     Transfering a file
   4 Group Chat    JOE MARTIN      Vallejo, CA         In a Group Chat
   5 Group Chat    ELIJAH MAYEUX   Vallejo, CA         In a Group Chat

             @0A@Below is a description of the various columns.

             @0F@# -
                  @0A@This represents the actual node number the callers are on.

             @0F@Chat Status -
                  @0A@This informs you of the availability/unavailablity of the
                  caller, plus if no one is logged onto that node and it is
                  up, it is reported as Waiting for Calls.

             @0F@Name -
                  @0A@Callers full name.  Regardless of what type of conference
                  you're presently in, all the callers real names are used
                  and not their aliases.

             @0F@From -
                  @0A@Callers place of origin in City/State format.

             @0F@User Status -
                  @0A@This displays the callers current activity.  If they are at
                  one of the menus, this area will be blank.  Depending on
                  where they are in the BBS and what they are doing, their
                  status will be displayed here.  For example, if they were
                  Entering a message, Transferring a file, In a door and so
                  on.

       @0E@/QUIT
             @0A@Exit chat mode and notify others remaining in chat similar to
             the message below.

                  @0F@0 - 11/17/91 18:08 : ELIJAH MAYEUX has exited chat.


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