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Grex Info Item 131: HELP ME!
Entered by orinoco on Mon Mar 28 16:42:21 UTC 1994:

I hear there are "online games" on grex.  how do i get to them?

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#1 of 18 by carl on Mon Mar 28 21:58:41 1994:

Just type an exclaimation point followed by one of the following:

adventure     boggletool    factor        mille         robots
arithmetic    btlgammon     fish          monop         snake
backgammon    canfield      fortune       moo           snscore
banner        canfieldtool  gammonscore   nethack       teachgammon
battlestar    cfscores      gammontool    number        trek
bcd           chess         hack          ppt           worm
bj            chesstool     hangman       primes        worms
bogdict       ching         hunt          quiz          wump
boggle        craps         lib           rain
boggledict    cribbage      life          random

#2 of 18 by carson on Tue Mar 29 00:10:18 1994:

...and then there's "Confuse The Newbies"... :)

#3 of 18 by davel on Tue Mar 29 03:15:21 1994:

But nobody has to ask how to play that one.

#4 of 18 by vidar on Tue Mar 29 03:31:25 1994:

Nope.  Definatley not.

#5 of 18 by popcorn on Tue Mar 29 03:57:31 1994:

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#6 of 18 by jillh on Sun Aug 7 18:17:55 1994:

Hello, I have another question.  I have an old Mac keyboard without a
control key.  does anyone know how to get around this problem when using
elm or pine?  Gratefully...

#7 of 18 by rcurl on Sun Aug 7 20:57:53 1994:

You assign another key on your computer to control. Command is a choice.
How you do this depends on your comm program. Versaterm uses the Keyboard
menu.

#8 of 18 by kentn on Mon Aug 8 01:19:37 1994:

Gads, what a joke.  No control key?  Hahahahahahahaha.

#9 of 18 by srw on Mon Aug 8 02:29:29 1994:

An example of Steve Jobs's minimalism. They overcame that in 1986 or 7, but the
1984 machines are so useful that they are still in common use. Fortunately,
the lack seems to make very little difference for most everything except
connect to non-mac computers via modem, and even there it's a trivial
workaround with software, since there are enough other keys.

#10 of 18 by kentn on Mon Aug 8 02:45:42 1994:

Thank goodness Jobs didn't try to minimalize my Apple //, and I've still
got my control key (where it should be...where the caps lock is on IBM
style keyboards).  I guess that's another religious war subject...heh.

#11 of 18 by remmers on Mon Aug 8 03:02:11 1994:

The early Mac keyboards are the best keyboards for speed typing that
I have ever encountered.  (Seriously!)

#12 of 18 by popcorn on Mon Aug 8 04:08:18 1994:

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#13 of 18 by omni on Mon Aug 8 04:45:12 1994:

 I have no control....key.

nor do I have escap ;)

#14 of 18 by rcurl on Mon Aug 8 05:05:43 1994:

The answer to #12 is that Jill has to look at her software, to see
where the Keyboard of Translation menus are - if they are. The one
I mentioned - Versasterm - has a box to check in a menu if you want
the (Apple) command key to act as a control key.

#15 of 18 by srw on Mon Aug 8 14:14:50 1994:

MacKermit is a free comms package that will run on her machine,
and it will map keys also. We can't help any more unless we know
what software she is using.

#16 of 18 by jillh on Mon Aug 8 14:42:10 1994:

Sorry to take so long to respond.  I am using MacKnowledge software.  How 
do I get MacKermit?  Also, I am overwhelming by the helpfulness of 
Grex-ers.  Your humble student....

#17 of 18 by rcurl on Mon Aug 8 17:01:11 1994:

First, look around your MacKnowledge, in a Settings submenu perhaps, for a
box to check to says "Use (apple command symbol) as Control".  You can
download MacKermit from the archives - easily if you have ftp Or, ask any
Mac users you know if you could get it from them on diskette.

#18 of 18 by wavefm on Mon Jan 7 19:39:29 2008:

hi i need iformation if i chant bild a radio station on your servar ?

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