Caucus 2.7 User's Guide

NOTICE: Some features described in this manual are not available or work differently on the Twin Cities Free-Net, due to customizations made by TCFN.

Table of Contents

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Caucus 2.7 User's Guide

• What is Computer Conferencing?
• What is Caucus?
• Structure of Caucus Conferences
• Conventions Used in This Guide

Caucus for Beginners

• Using Caucus the First Time
• Getting Help

Caucus Command Syntax

• Introduction
• "AND NOW?" Prompt
• Command Syntax
• Objects
• Verbs
• Sample Commands
• Other Commands

Participating in a Conference

• Seeing New Material
• Your Turn to Speak
• Responding
• Other Ways to SHOW ITEMS
• Other Ways to SHOW RESPONSES
• Other Ways to SHOW ATTACHMENTS
• ADD RESPONSE
• ADD ITEM
• ADD ATTACHMENT
• LIST - Getting an Overview
• STATUS and CHECK
• Leaving a Conference

Messages - Your Electronic Mail

• What are Messages?
• Sending Messages
• Reading Your Mail
• Replying to a Message
• Replies to Replies
• Other Ways to SHOW MESSAGES
• LIST - Getting an Overview
• STATUS - What Is New
• Cleaning Out Your Mailbox
• Advanced Options
• Messages versus Items

Editing and Changing Text

• EDIT
• CHANGE
• CHANGE ITEM
• CHANGE RESPONSE
• CHANGE TITLE
• Changing Personal Information

Retrieving Conference Information

• Introduction
• OSUBJECTS and PSUBJECTS
• Names of PSUBJECTS
• ADD PSUBJECT
• CHANGE PSUBJECT
• LIST and SHOW PSUBJECT
• DELETE PSUBJECTS
• Using PSUBJECTS and OSUBJECTS
• Using SEARCH

Conference Participants

• Introduction
• LIST PERSONS
• SHOW PERSONS
• Special Instances
• What Have Participants Seen?
• Quotation Marks
• DELETE PERSONS

Additional Caucus Capabilities

• Introduction
• SET - Customizing Caucus
• SET EDITOR
• SET EOT
• SET EXPORT_MAIL
• SET MYTEXT
• SET PRINT
• SET RECEIPTSIZE
• SET TERMINAL
• FORGET and FREEZE
• FREEZE
• Command Modifiers
• PRINT
• EDIT filename
• ! Command Escape

The Caucus Editor

• Introduction
• SHOW
• DELETE
• ADD
• SEARCH
• CHANGE
• HELP and LIST
• STOP

Suggestions and Shortcuts

• Helpful Hints
• Caucus Macros
• Conference Etiquette

The Conference Organizer

• Introduction
• Starting a Conference
• CUSTOMIZE
• Group Files
• Other Functions of the Organizer

Organizer's Guide

• Starting Up
• Principles of Conference
• Managing Your Conference
• Etiquette and Rules
• Winding Down
• Course Conferencing
• Helpful Hints
• Important Organizer Commands

Caucus File Libraries

• Introduction
• Entering a File Library
• Inside a File Library
• Categories in File Libraries
• Files within Categories
• Working with Files
• Adding new Files to the Library

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