CompuServe Messages

Bill, The last few pages (starting on page 139) of my printed TAPCIS manual contain a summary of the new forum commands. (I have the January 1989, revision 5.2 version.) If you don't have this, there is a file called CMDS.ARC in LIB 1 of the TAPCIS forum that is supposed to contain this information. There is a whole page on the syntax of the read command. By the way, it has no reference to the NUM:nnnn syntax. The way I happened on that is I have a habit of logging all my online sessions. If you use the "read header" mode of scanning forums and then go back and mark the ones you want to read, the NUM:nnnn is the syntax TAPCIS uses when you go <O>nline. I happened to notice that and then went back to inspect the online.log file. The other approach is to try things out and then exit TAPCIS before going online and check out the script files that TAPCIS generates. The best way to learn is check out what the experts do and then experiment on your own! Good luck and happy hunting, jon