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 Help: (V)iew Settings                                                      


      This command allows you to view various information and stats regarding 
      your current call.  The display may look like the following:
 
          Caller Num.: 1,005,213
          Lst Date On: 02-08-93
          Expire Date: None
          # Times On : 6,008
          Page Length: 23
          Expert Mode: On
          Security Lv: 120
          # Downloads: 684
          # Uploads  : 256
          Bytes Avail: Unlimited
          L/Msg. Read: 117,261
          High Msg. #: 117,261
          Active Msgs: 1,936
          Tr/Protocol: No default protocol -- ask each time.

      The following describes each field that you may see on the status 
      screen:

          Caller Num:  This is the number of calls that the bulletin board 
          system you are calling has answered since operation of the system 
          began.

          Lst Date On:  The last date you called the system is stored in this 
          field.
 
          Expire Date:  This field contains the date at which your account 
          will expire. If you have no expiration date then this field will 
          contain the word None. Some bulletin board systems set their users 
          to expire at a certain date. When you are "expired" your security 
          level is usually dropped until you follow the instructions that are 
          displayed to you.

          # Times On:  This value shows how many times you have called this 
          system.

          Page Length:  The page length setting allows you to configure how 
          many lines will be displayed on your screen before you want PCBoard 
          to issue a More? prompt and ask you if you are ready for the next 
          screen.  This value may be changed by using the P user command.

          Expert Mode:  If expert mode is turned on, an On is displayed. 
          Otherwise, you are in novice mode and an Off is displayed.  You may 
          toggle expert mode by using the X user command.

          Security Lv:  This value is the security level that you have been 
          assigned on this system.  The bulletin board system uses this value 
          to control what you can and cannot do on the  system.

          # Downloads:  This is the total number of files you have downloaded 
          from the system.

          # Uploads:  This is the total number of files you have uploaded to 
          the system.

          Bytes Avail:  This field shows you how many bytes you can download 
          for the remainder of the day.  If this value is set to Unlimited 
          then you may download as much as your time allows.

          L/Msg. Read:  This field contains the last message number you have 
          read in the current conference.  As you change conferences this 
          value will be updated.

          High Msg. #:  This value is the highest message number in the 
          conference you are currently in.

          Active Msgs:  This value is the number of messages that are active 
          in the conference you are currently in.  While you will see that 
          each conference has a range of messages (e.g. 332-982) some of the 
          messages in that range may have been deleted. Therefore, you cannot 
          subtract the low message number from the high message number to get 
          the actual number of active messages.

          Tr/Protocol:  This is the name of the protocol you have selected as 
          your default transfer protocol.  If None is displayed, you will be 
          prompted for a transfer protocol to use each time you start a file 
          transfer.

      If you happen to be logging in as the SysOp (as record #1 in the USERS 
      file) then two additional lines will be displayed to you:

          Defined #'s:  When you setup a conference, you are asked how many 
          message blocks you want for the particular conference.  If you 
          enter 4 in that field, then you will be allowed to have a range of 
          4096 active messages in the conference.  This field will list the 
          number of active messages that can be in the current conference.  
          This number is obtained by taking the message blocks as defined in 
          the conference and multiplying it by 1024.

          Free Msg #s:  Displays the number of messages that you may add to 
          the current conference before exceeding the number of message 
          blocks that you have defined.  For example, if your low message 
          number is 4362, your high message number is 8257, and you have 
          defined the conference for 6 message blocks (6144 messages) then 
          you will have 2248 free messages before you exceed your defined 
          range of active messages.

