
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

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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.

