NOTE: The search for the name and ID is -case specific-. That means you must enter the name exactly the way it is in your PIN file for EM8SIG.400 to find it. GEORGE is not the same as George or george. If you do not do this you will get an error 81 message. If you do, simply press F8 and start the procedure all over again. When the program finds your choice, you will next see "Sb:" on the screen beneath the "To:". Enter whatever you wish for a title for your message. Notice the "]". This is the guide that tells you how long your title can be. Anything beyond that point will be ignored. Press again and type your message. Remember not to use 's within the message except to end or separate paragraphs. When you finish, press three (3) times and the compose routine will terminate. You will again find yourself at the "COMPOSE MESSAGES" screen, page 21. To send a second letter in the same transmission go through the above routine again only this time answer the question, "Add to existing messages?", with "Y" for "YES". When you have finished with letter writing, either press "P" to exit the routine, or "F" to enter the Forum Message Routine. FORUM MESSAGE COMPOSE ROUTINE When you review the downloaded messages, either to you, or those you were interested in, we will assume you wish to respond or put in your two-cents-worth in an ongoing discussion. Also, you have a question for the Forum members in general. From the COMPOSE MESSAGE screen, press "F". The screen will clear and you will see the question, "REply # or COMPose?" REPLIES: - - - To reply to a specific message enter "REn" where "n" is the number of the message you to which you are replying. (without the quotes of course.) The screen will clear again and you will see your entry in the upper left hand corner of the screen. Now type your reply. Your message will be entered into the file OUTSIG.DO. If the file does not exist, EM8SIG.400 will create it. Remember, no 's within the message except to end or separate paragraphs. When your message is finished press two (2) times. You will now see the word "POST". If you are replying to a message, simply press again. The screen will clear and you will be returned to the COMPOSE MESSAGE screen, page 21. If you later check the file OUTSIG.DO you will notice that EM8SIG has entered a /EXIT and the word POST at the end of your message. 22 COMPOSE: - - - To compose your own message enter "COMP", again without the quotes. The screen will clear and you will see the word "To:" in the upper left corner of your screen followed by 23 spaces and a square bracket "]". The name and ID of the person you are writing to should already be in your PIN file. To cause EM8SIG to search for, and properly list the adressee's name AND ID, you must enter the code word of no more than six letters which you assigned to the person's name and ID in the ADRS.DO file. Then press . The program will look up the name and ID and enter it into the message file OUTSIG.DO. If the file does not already exist, EM8SIG will create it. REMEMBER: TO HAVE EM8SIG PROPERLY INSERT THE NAME -=AND=- THE ID YOU -=MUST=- USE THE CODE WORD. IF YOU ONLY ENTER THE PERSON'S NAME, THEN ALL EM8SIG.400 WILL PRINT IS WHAT YOU HAVE ENTERED. IF THE -=ID=- IS NOT PRESENT THE ADRESSEE WILL NOT RECIEVE THE "MESSAGE WAITING" NOTICE AND WILL NOT SEE THE MESSAGE. After you have entered the code word and pressed the screen will show you "Sb:" followed by 23 spaces and the "]". This is the guide that tells you how long your title can be. Anything beyond that point will be ignored. Press again. If you have set up the following lines in the PIN file: ]ALL ]SYSOP and you wish to send a message to either "ALL" or to one of the "SYSOP"'s, simply enter that as your name prompt in the "To:" field. Now type in your message. Compuserve forums have a maximum message length of approximately 2,200 characters. This works out to roughly 30 lines or 350 words. As you approach this limit EM8SIG.400 will beep and give you a warning, "CIS MSG LIMIT. NNN SPACES LEFT" where NNN is the total number of spaces you have left to stay within the limitation. You should immediately end your message at this point. If you have more to say, write "MORE" and end the message. Then write a second message beginning with the word "CONTINUED". To end your message use three (3) 's. EM8SIG will prompt you with ? If you do not wish to use any options, simply input the number of the section that most closely approximates the general idea of your message like this, type "SEC:n". Any "Post Action" is acceptable by EM8SIG. However, since we are talking about automated message sending, the two "Action"'s we are most concerned with are PRIvate and UNFormatted. If you wish to send a private message in section 1, you would input, "SEC:1 PRI", without the quotes of course. If you wished to send a message to section 4 unformatted you would input, "SEC:4 UNF", again without the quotes. Please note that private message are NOT enabled on the M100SIG forum. 23 To obtain the current Section/Subtopic names and numbers for whatever forum you are in use the "OPT" command at the first "Forum!" prompt after entering the forum. This will need to be done in the manual mode, not in the EM8SIG mode. [When in doubt, use either section 1 or section 0 to send a Forum message.] CURRENT MODEL100SIG SECTION/SUBTOPICS & DATA LIBRARY Message Subtopic & Data Library ******************************* Message Sections Available: 1 General/Help 2 Text 3 Telcom 4 Applications 5 Games 6 Graphics/Music 7 Utilities 8 Tech/Programming 9 Peripherals 10 Tandy 200 11 Tandy 600 12 NEC/Olivetti 13 Products/Reviews 14 Private For-Sales 15 Kyotronics 85 17 The Soapbox Libraries Available: 1 General/Help 2 Text 3 Telcom 4 Applications 5 Games 6 Graphics/Music 7 Utilities 8 Tech/Programming 9 Peripherals 10 Tandy 200 11 Tandy 600 12 NEC/Olivetti 13 Products/Reviews 14 Programming Contest 15 Kyotronics 85 17 The Soapbox 24 LAST CHECK BEFORE TRANMISSION I like to do one last check before requesting EM8SIG.400 to transmit my newly written messages. If you are confident with your typing ability and/or spelling you can omit this step. If you are through writing messages, get out of EM8SIG by pressing F8. Remember, sometimes you will have to use F8 and . You will see one or two files on your main menu depending on what you have done in the way of writing messages. MAIL.DO is the file for outgoing EMAIL messages, and OUTSIG.DO is the file for outgoing forum messages. Enter the file by placing the curser over it and pressing . You are now in the standard M100/102 Text Editor. You will note that EM8SIG.400 has neatly separated your messages if there is more than one with a symbol. It has also ended them with the required /EXIT. Each message contains a line which states who the message is directed to, the name of the message, and post instructions. This was all done automatically based on information you gave EM8SIG. You can now correct any spelling, punctuation, etc. to satisfy yourself. Be careful not to edit or change any of the automatic settings. FINAL LOG-ON We are now ready to transmit our messages which have been written off line. Enter EM8SIG.400 as before. You should probably run through the "Option Menus" at least as far as the "Auto Forum (Sig) Option Menu" to be sure that EM8SIG is being directed to the right forum. If you have only Email messages to transmit, press F1. If you have both Email and Forum messages, press F3. If you only have Forum messages, press F6. Once again, sit back and enjoy the show as EM8SIG.400 logs- on, goes to the proper location(s), transmits your messages, and then logs-off. As with CMDSIG.DO, EM8SIG will replace your messages in each file with "Sent ". You must manually delete this word if you susquently wish to sent more messages. CISUSE.DO The CISUSE.DO file can be used as a log of -all- CIS accesses and can serve as an index to incoming messages SAVED in the PER file area. (See item 5, EasyPlex Email Option Menu, page 6.) As well as being used to verify CIS billings, this file can be the basis of your client billings. It shows separately Email and Forum usages. It can $how the advantage$ of combining your CI$ u$age$. You $ave $$$$$ by logging on for one long $e$$ion, in$tead of $everal $hort one$. CISUSE.DO is another file automatically established by EM8SIG. 25