Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 11:02:04 -0500 From: sdf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (STEPHE DOHENY-FARINA) Steve Doheny-Farina Associate Professor Technical Communications Clarkson University ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A TOUR OF DIVERSITY UNIVERSITY MOO To telnet to Diversity University MOO, type telnet erau.db.erau.edu 8888 When you connect, you will see a message that tells you to type connect guest guest Once you do this, you will be given a guest name. You will then see introductory information presented to you. You will be told that you can, for example, read a brief overview of the purpose of DU by typing help theme read the DU newspaper by typing news read an explanation of commands for 'newbies' by typing help newbies or view a map of the virtual campus by typing map You should try each of these. If you want to recall the description of the room you are in so that you can recall other commands it presents to you, just type look here and the room description will scroll across the screen. When you are ready to join me in my office, type either @go #1540 or @join SteveDF The latter works only if I am online. You can find out who is online by typing @who If I am online (I will be unless our system collapses at the last minute--that does not happen often), it will indicate where I am (most likely in SteveDF's Office). When you want to talk to someone, all you do is type a quotation mark, then the words you want to say. For example, if Grey_Guest types "Hi, this is Steve. Are you Pavel? Anyone in the 'room' you are in will see Grey_Guest says "Hi, this is Steve. Are you Pavel? Remember, you only need to type the first quotation mark. You can also talk to someone by typing the word say and then your message. For example, say Help, I'm lost will appear as Grey_Guest says "Help, I'm lost" If for some reason, you cannot connect to me or you are somehow confused, you can contact me by paging me like this page SteveDF "Help. Get me out of here!! or whatever you want to say to me. That message will travel through the MOO to me. If you have a problem with the text that scrolls past--scrolling off the screen before you can read it, you'll need to give a simple command that limits the number of lines the system scrolls to you at once. You do this by typing @pagelength 20 or 10 or 25 or whatever number you wish. That number limits the size of your screen by telling the system not to scroll more than that number of lines in each shot. If a message is, say 40 lines and you are allowing only 20 lines to scroll by at once. You will see that you then have to type @more to see the rest of the message. Or you can type @more flush to dispense with reading the rest of the message. After you join me in my office, I will take everyone to a couple of rooms that contain a variety of MOO features/applications.