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66 lines
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<title>Using PCCC</title>
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<body bgcolor="#FFFFEE" link="#0000FF" vlink="#990099" alink="#009900" text="#000000">
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<basefont face="Arial" size="3" color="#000000">
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<h1>Getting Started with PCCC</h1>
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When you start up the Perl CyanChat Client, you will be presented with the
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Main Window, where a message by "<font color="#FF0000">ChatClient</font>" is
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already visible on screen, welcoming you to PCCC.<p>
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To <b>connect</b> to the CyanChat room, select "Connection" from the menu bar,
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and choose "Connect". This will attempt to connect you to the CyanChat server.
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Once connected, you will see a lot of "lobby messages" sent by
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"<font color="#009900">ChatServer</font>", and moments later the Who List will
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display the list of users logged into the chat room (if there are any logged in).
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<h1>Chat Presence</h1>
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To <b>enter the chat</b>, type in a nickname for yourself in the "Name:" box, and
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then press the "Join Chat" button. Note that your nickname <u>must</u> be less than
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20 characters long, and <u>cannot</u> contain a caret (^), pipe symbol ("|"), or a
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comma. If your name is accepted by the server, you will "link in" to the room. Otherwise,
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<font color="#009900">ChatServer</font> will tell you that your nick was invalid.<p>
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When a user <b>links in</b> to the chat room (in other words, enters the room), a message
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will display similar to the following:
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<blockquote>
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\\\\\[Nick] <links in from somewhere on the internet Age>////
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</blockquote>
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When a user <b>links out</b> of the chat room (in other words, exiting the room by
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clicking the "Exit Chat" button), a message will display similar to the following:
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<blockquote>
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/////[Nick] <links safely back to their home Age>\\\\\
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</blockquote>
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Finally, when a user <b>disconnects</b> from the chat room, the following message
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is displayed:
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<blockquote>
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/////[Nick] <mistakenly used an unsafe linking book without a maintainer's suit
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*ZZZZZWHAP*>\\\\\
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</blockquote>
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All users in the chat room also have a unique <b>address</b> assigned to them. This
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is a mangled up form of their IP address, so multiple nicks from the same computer
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will probably have the same address. To see a user's address, right-click their name
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in the Who List.
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<h1>Standard Messaging</h1>
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To send a message to the chat room, simply type it into the entry box at the top of the
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Main Window and press the Return key. Note that you must be logged in before you can
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send messages!<p>
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See <a href="pm.html">Private Messaging</a> and <a href="action.html">Action Messages</a>
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for information about different types of messaging.
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</body>
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</html>
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