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Grex Info Item 156: Help on being a good Fairwitness.
Entered by canis on Fri Jun 24 19:20:56 UTC 1994:

Help on special fairwitness commands. Is there a list (or conf) somewhere I'm
just not reading?

How do you make up special commands for your conferences?
How do you restart a conference? How do you link items?
Where do I get answers to these questions and more?

11 responses total.

#1 of 11 by kentn on Fri Jun 24 20:44:29 1994:

Well, here is probably the best place to ask...however, before entering
a new item in any conference it's a good idea to see if any existing
item meets the needs of your question:

Ok: b "fw"
string not found
 
Ok: b "fair"
 
item nresp header
 
 26  18 Fair Witness Commands
112   6 Origin of FairWitness?
156   0 Help on being a good Fairwitness.
 
(The "b" is for "browse")
 
Looks like item 26 in this conference should do the trick...

#2 of 11 by canis on Sat Jun 25 00:00:37 1994:

thanks I checked here once and didn't see anything, guess I missed that item.


New subject......

Should there be a special list of commands at the ok prompt for fairwitneses?
ie type help fairwitness/fw/fair/ ....? Is there a way to do this? Should 
take this to a different conference?

#3 of 11 by robh on Sat Jun 25 00:51:35 1994:

What you should do, if you can run Lynx, is run Lynx, go to
the Grex Activities Pages, select "Picospan Conferencing", and
then select "fair-witness commands".  That's the easy way to
read popcorn's list of commands an fw can use.

#4 of 11 by canis on Sat Jun 25 18:03:56 1994:

I would if I could run lynx
But since I can't.....

#5 of 11 by scg on Sat Jun 25 18:49:34 1994:

Why can't you, canis?  It's only the outgoing lynx stuff that's restricted
to members.

#6 of 11 by robh on Sat Jun 25 21:16:38 1994:

But he may not be able to handle terminal-emulation.

popcorn, where did you stash that thing in your directory, anyway?

#7 of 11 by srw on Sat Jun 25 21:20:13 1994:

No, I just checked. Canis uses 'ansi' which lynx supports. Try
the lynx command - it should work, Greg.

#8 of 11 by popcorn on Sat Jun 25 23:39:29 1994:

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#9 of 11 by canis on Mon Jun 27 14:22:23 1994:

thank you for all the help

#10 of 11 by mdw on Thu Jun 30 08:33:36 1994:

There isn't any way to redefine help files per-conference.  All of the
fair witnesses commands are defined, mixed through the rest of the
online help documentation.  Since the most important role of a
fair-witness is the social aspect, I never really thought ti worth while
to document the fairwitness stuff separately.  Many years back, Steve
Simmons did some nice fairwitness documentation.

#11 of 11 by popcorn on Thu Jun 30 13:04:35 1994:

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