Timewave DSP-232, Operating Manual

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Chapter 7 Maildrop Operation
If you enter any other command—besides these six letters—you’ll get the error message:
*** What?
Monitoring Your Maildrop
Set MDM ON ON to monitor other stations’ usage of your Maildrop; it will show you both sides of the Maildrop
QSO with your station. (Packet headers aren’t shown while a user is connected to your Maildrop.) Conversely, turn
MDMON OFF
to cancel Maildrop monitoring.
USER
bit
13
allows Maildrop connect and status messages to be
disabled as well. (See UBIT 13 for more information in Chapter 4: Terminal Commands. )
Packet Maildrop Prompts and Operation
MTEXT
is the Maildrop connect-message prompt sent to a user that’s connected to your Maildrop. The default
message is:
Welcome to my AEA DSP232 Maildrop.
Type H for help.
. . . but you can change it to your liking. For example:
cmd:
MTEXT You’ve reached KG6ZL’s mailbox. If you need help, enter H.
MTExt was Welcome to my AEA DSP-232 Maildrop.
Type H for help.
MTExt
now You’ve reached KG6ZL’s mailbox. If you need help, type
H.>
cmd:
You must set
MMSG ON
for your Maildrop’s “welcome message” to be sent.
The
MDPROMPT
or
TMPROMPT
prompt message follows right after the Send command is entered. The default
message is:
Subject:/Enter message, ^Z
(
CTRL-Z
)
or /EX to end
MDPROMPT
or
TMPROMPT
comprises of two different prompts that are sent to the connected station. The first
prompt is simply
Subject:
. When the connected station enters the subject of his message (max. 27 characters),
the second prompt will appear:
Enter message, ^Z
(
CTRL-Z
)
or /EX to end
.
You can enter any text in
MDPROMPT or TMPROMPT up to a total length of 80 characters for both prompts;
both parts of the prompts must be separated by a forward slash (
/
) as shown—before the slash is your “Subject” line
and after the slash is the “Enter message” line.
Packet Maildrop Command Summary
When someone logs onto your Maildrop, the following commands will be available:
A, B, H, J, K, L, R, S, V, ?
Here’s what they mean:
A(bort) Aborts the reading of a message
B(ye) Log off from your Maildrop
H(elp) Help for the Maildrop commands
J(log) Sends the DSP’s MHEARD list (Packet mode only)
K(ill) Kill or delete messages
L(ist) List the message directory
R(ead) n Read a specific message numbered “n”
S(end) n Send a message numbered “n”
V(ersion) Sends the DSP’s sign-on message
? Help for the Maildrop commands. [Same as H(elp)]
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