MsgEd TE 6.0 Manual
A Public Domain Fidonet Message Reader/Editor
Tobias Ernst @ 2:2476/418.0
1 An Overview on MsgEd TE 6.0.
2 Installation Procedures and Release Notes
2.1 Which Distribution Archives do I need?
2.2 Installation on OS/2, DOS or Windows
2.2.1 Installation Procedure
2.2.2 Release Notes for the 16-Bit DOS version (
`MSGED.EXE'
)
2.2.3 Release Notes for the 32 Bit DOS version (
`MSGED32.EXE'
)
2.2.4 Release Notes for the 32 Bit OS/2 version (
`MSGEDP.EXE'
)
2.2.5 Release Notes for the 32 Bit Windows version (
`MSGEDNT.EXE'
)
2.3 Installation on Linux, FreeBSD, or other Unixes
2.3.1 Installation Procedure
2.3.2 Installiong MsgEd TE as part of the Husky software
2.3.3 How Terminal I/O is handled on Unix
2.3.4 Special Notes on Keyboard Input
2.3.5 Notes on Big Endian Hardware
2.3.6 Colors in the Unix version
2.3.7 Case Sensitivity Problems
2.4 Using MsgEd TE and other Fido software in networked environments
2.4.1 Description of the Problem: Why we need access synchronisation.
2.4.2 Access synchronisation on a Lan Manager (SMB) network.
2.4.3 Access synchronisation on NFS
2.4.4 Access synchronization on Novell networks
2.4.5 The essence of this section about network usage is:
2.5 Known Bugs and Non-Features
2.6 Support, Contacting the Author, Reporting Bugs, Contributing Code
3 A quick tour through MsgEd TE
4 Advanced Concepts in MsgEd TE
4.1 Exporting Mails to Text Files or to the Printer
4.1.1 Saving message text into a plain text file
4.1.2 Printing a message
4.1.3 Piping message text into external programs
4.2 Configuring and Using Message Area Groups.
4.2.1 Grouping Basics
4.2.2 Reading Group Definitions from the Tosser Configuration File
4.2.3 Manually Defining and Assigning Groups
4.2.4 Group Functions in the Message Area List
4.2.4.1 Sorting Areas by Group
4.2.4.2 Displaying only a certain group
4.2.5 Group Default Templates and Usernames
4.3 Using Special Characters like Umlauts or Cyrillics - The Charset Kludge
4.3.1 What is so special about special characters?
4.3.2 How has this problem been solved in Fidonet?
4.3.3 How do I configure MsgEd TE to support FSC 0054?
4.4 Internet Gateways - Using MsgEd TE for e-mail and newsgroups
4.4.1 How to properly address an Internet Gateway
4.4.2 How to configure MsgEd TE to use an Internet Gateway
4.4.3 Using Internet Gateays with MsgEd TE
5 MsgEd TE Keyboard Reference
5.1 Keystroke Combinations in the Arealist Screen
5.2 Keyboard Commands and Functions in Message Reading mode
5.2.1 Reader Functions for Navigation
5.2.2 Reader Functions for Entering, Modifying and Deleting Messages
5.2.3 Reader Functions for Scanning and Searching for Messages
5.2.4 Reader Functions for modifying MsgEd TE Options
5.2.5 Miscellaneous other Reader Functions
5.3 Keyboard Commands and the internal Message Editor
5.3.1 Editor Functions for Moving the Cursor
5.3.2 Editor Functions for Deleting text
5.3.3 Editor Functions dealing with Text Blocks
5.3.4 Miscellaneous Editor Functions
5.4 Redefining the Keyboard Bindings
6 MsgEd TE Configuration Reference
6.1 Configuration File Syntax
6.2 Configuration File Keywords
6.2.1 Address
6.2.2 Alias
6.2.3 Alterfunc
6.2.4 AreaExcl
6.2.5 Areafile, AreaFileFlags and AreaDesc
6.2.6 AssumeCharset
6.2.7 CharsetAlias
6.2.8 Color
6.2.9 Colour
6.2.10 CurStart, CurEnd
6.2.11 Domain
6.2.12 EditKey
6.2.13 Editor
6.2.14 EnableSC
6.2.15 Fido
6.2.16 FreqArea
6.2.17 FreqFlags
6.2.18 Function
6.2.19 Gate
6.2.20 Group
6.2.21 GroupSettings
6.2.22 HelpFile
6.2.23 Include
6.2.24 Jam
6.2.25 Lastread
6.2.26 MaxX, MaxY
6.2.27 MountDir
6.2.28 Name
6.2.29 NodePath
6.2.30 Nodelist
6.2.31 Origin
6.2.32 Outfile
6.2.33 OutputCharset
6.2.34 Printer
6.2.35 PrivateNet
6.2.36 Quick
6.2.37 QuickBBS
6.2.38 Quote
6.2.39 QuoteRight
6.2.40 ReadKey
6.2.41 Readmap and Writemap
6.2.42 Right
6.2.43 RobotName
6.2.44 Scan
6.2.45 SoftCrXlat
6.2.46 SortAreas
6.2.47 Squish
6.2.48 SwapPath
6.2.49 Switch
6.2.50 Tabsize
6.2.51 Template
6.2.52 TossLog
6.2.53 UserList
6.2.54 UserOffset
6.2.55 UUCP
6.2.56 UucpName
6.2.57 UucpName
6.2.58 Writemap
6.3 Switches
6.3.1 How to turn switches on and off
6.3.2 List of Available Switches
6.4 Conditional Statements in the Configuration File
6.4.1 Formulating Conditional Statements
6.4.2 Conditions that can be tested
6.4.3 Usage example for Conditionals
6.5 Defining Message Areas
6.5.1 Manual Area Definition
6.5.2 Reading a Tosser Configuration File (Areafile)
6.5.2.1 AreaDesc
6.5.2.2 AreafileFlags
6.5.2.3 Areafile
A Compiling the Source Code
A.1 Step 1: Preparing the build directories; Obtaining the SMAPI
A.2 Configuring - Selecting the proper Makefile for your Compiler
A.3 Selecting Path Names
A.4 Building the Executables
A.5 Compiling the help file, the charset files and the documentation
A.6 Installing
B General Index
C Configuration File Keyword Index
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