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table of contents

Section 1--The Basics
• Introduction
• Conventions
• Preliminaries--getting set u
  • login id
  • password
• The basic prompts
• The River in a nutshell
• More details
• Important setup files
• Your login id, your pseud and your real name
• Finding real names
• Your bio (.plan)
• Display bio information
• Change your password
• To bang(!) or not to bang(!)
• I’ve forgotten my password!

Section Two--Prompts and Actions
• Actions from the ok prompt
  • list conferences--confs
  • more details on conferences--confinfo
  • go to a conference
  • who is the host of this conference?
  • participants
  • list topics in a conference--browse
  • read topics--see
  • more
  • fixseen
  • forget a topic
  • remember a topic
  • start a new topic--enter
  • freeze a topic
  • thaw a topic
  • who is online?
  • quit YAPP
• Actions at the response prompt
  • read a response
  • make a post
  • responding to a specific post
  • hide a post
  • unhide a post
  • read a hidden post
  • scribble a post
  • keep topic new--preserve

Section Three--Style, Culture and Miscellaneous
• River practices
  • slippages
  • River conferencing style
  • River discussions and culture
  • hosts
  • login/logout banners
  • Launch
  • linked topics
  • suggest a conference
  • private conferences
  • the Test conference
  • River meta conferences: River, Launch, Hosts, BOD
  • help screens
  • real time communications
  • public software
  • web site
  • extra river features
  • logoff

Appendices--Technical Information

Appendix A--Directories, files and permissions
• General
• Home directory
• Change directory
• Make a new subdirectory
• Remove a subdirectory
• Copying files
• File security--permissions
• Directory security
• Shell access
• Download/upload

Appendix B--Text editors
• How to find help for editors

Appendix C--Mail
• Do I have mail?
• Mbox
• Can I tell if someone receives my mail?
• Quit mail

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