CHAPTER 15
                      THE HELP DESK


The OSFN provides a variety of on-line documentation to 
help users to understand how to use a OSFN effectively.  
This can be found by going to Help Desk, or entering the 
command "go help".

The details of what is contained in the Help system will 
not be covered here, but to serve as an indication of the 
contents, the expanded menus are listed below.

The items in the first menu are listed starting at the 
left margin.  Where a first menu item refers to a submenu, 
the submenu items are listed immediately below the calling 
item, and indented.

It should be noted that all services that are documented 
are not necessarily available and working on OSFN at this 
time.  Two such examples are the Vote System, and some 
file transfer protocols.  When resources are available, 
and software fixes have been completed, the missing items 
may become available.

HELP SYSTEM MENU SUMMARY:

             <<< THE HELP DESK >>>

    1   ABOUT THE HELP DESK
    2   HELP WITH THE FREEPORT MENU SYSTEM
    3   HELP WITH EDITORS
    4   HELP WITH MAIL
    5   HELP WITH BULLETIN BOARDS
    6   HELP WITH VOTING
    7   HELP WITH MULTI-USER CHAT
    8   HELP WITH SEARCHING
    9   HELP WITH DIRECTORY SERVICES
   10   HELP WITH FILE TRANSFER
   11   HOW TO CHANGE YOUR SIGOP ID
   12   BUG REPORTS


Sub-menus for each are:

2  Help with the FreePort Menu System...
     1  Help with Menu Commands
     2  Help with Menu Commands from within
        mail/news/vote modules
     3  Help with the Usenet News Reader
     4  Mail Reader/News Reader Range Commands
     5  Help with the Vote Module...
          1  About VOTE
          2  VOTE Release Notes
          3  Using VOTE

3  Help with Editors...
     Basics
     1  Chet's Emacs Basics (an intro to CE)
     2  Uploading and Downloading (an intro)

     Advanced Topics
     3  Interactive CE tutorial
     4  Chet's Emacs commands
     5  Chet's Emacs key bindings
     6  Chet's Emacs command names

4  Help with Mail...
     1  Using the Mail System
     2  About the Post Office
     3  About Mail Forwarding
     4  About Mail Aliases
     5  About Signature Files

5  Help with Bulletin Boards

6  Help with Voting

7  Help with Multi-user Chat

8  Help with Searching...
     1  Using the search functions (for beginners)
     2  Searching text files (for more advanced 
         users)
     3  Help with Regular Expressions

9  Help with Directory Services...
     1  About the Databases
     2  A List of Common Abbreviations
     3  How to Create your Database Files

10 Help with File Transfer...
     1  Using Files on FreePort
     2  Help with file transfers
     3  File Sharing Under FreePort
     4  The FreePort Directory Editor (dired)

11  How to change to your SIGop ID

12  Bug Reports

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