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Chapter 7. Commands
For details on syntax enter ? <command> for on-line
help
COMMAND SHORT FORM DESCRIPTION
General
- DX freq call ....................DX freq call
.........Broadcast a DX station's freq and call
- HELP .............................H or ?
..................Request the introductory help file
- H command or ? command ..........................Detailed
help information on any command
- SET/HERE .....................SE/H
...................Cancel a SET/NOHERE command
- SET/LOCATION ..........SE/L ....................Enter ur
lat/long for SH/HEADING & SH/SUN
- SET/NAME name ..........SE/NA name .......Enter your name
in the DX Net data base
- SET/NEED ....................SE/NEED ............Set
country needs
- SET/NOHERE ..............SE/NOH ..............Specify
you're unavailable
- SET/QTH ......................SE/Q ...................Set
address, tel. # in data base
- SET/[user prefs] .............SE/[user prefs] ....Set
user preferences. See Chapter 6
- SHOW/COMMANDS ..SH/COM ...........Show SYSOP-defined
databases
- SHOW/CONFIG ..........SH/C ..................Show users
on each local PacketCluster node
- SHOW/DISTRO <name> SH/DI <name> .Show
distribution list called <name>
- SHOW/DX/nn or SH/D .............................Show last
nn DX stations (or last five)
- SHOW/DX/nn bb or SH/D bb ...................Last nn
entries on band Ex: SH/D/24 40
- SHOW/DX/nn prefix or SH/D prefix ..........Show last nn
DX prefixes Ex: SH/D J52
- SH/DX/nn 'misc-info' ......SH/D 'misc-info' .Show
misc-info entries Ex: SH/D 'QSL'
- SHOW/HEADING prefix SH/H prefix ......Show beam heading
to prefix Ex: SH/H VU
- SHOW/MUF prefix .......SH/MU prefix .....Show MUF to
prefix Ex: SH/MU G
- SHOW/NEED call/pfx ...SH/N call/pfx ......Show DXCC needs
of a user, or for a prefix
- SHOW/PREFIXES <text> SH/P <text> ....Show
prefixes starting with <text>
- SHOW/STATION call ...SH/STA call .......Show full info
about a system user
- SHOW/SUN ..................SH/SU ...............Show your
local sunrise and sunset times
- SHOW/SUN prefix .........SH/SU prefix .....Show
sunrise/set for prefix Ex: SH/SU G
- SHOW/USERS ..............SH/U .................Show DX
Net users connected to all nodes
- SHOW/WWV/nn ...........SH/W .................Show nn WWV
entries (or last five only)
- TYPE <filename> ...........TY <filename>
....Display file <filename>
- WWV sf, a, k, text .........W sf, a, k, text
.....Broadcast WWV solar and geomagnetic data
- WX text .........................WX text
..............Post a weather alert
- BYE ...............................B
........................Disconnect from the PacketCluster
network
Messaging
- ANNOUNCE message ..A message ..........Broadcast to all
stations on your node
- ANNOUNCE/FULL .....A/FULL ..............Broadcast to all
stations on the network
- ANNOUNCE/SYSOP ..A/SYSOP ...........Broadcast to SYSOPS
only
- DELETE ........................DE
......................Delete last message you READ
- DELETE #,#,... ..............DE #,#,...
............Delete message #(s). Example: DE 127
- DIRECTORY ................DI .......................List
greater of last 5 or all new messages
- DIRECTORY/nn ............DI/nn ..................List
last nn active messages. Example: DI/12
- DIRECTORY/ALL ........DI/A ...................List all
active messages
- DIRECTORY/BULLETIN DI/B ................List only
messages addressed to "ALL"
- DIRECTORY/NEW ......DI/N ...................List only
messages since ur last DI command
- DIRECTORY/OWN .....DI/O ...................List only
messages to or from your call
- DIRECTORY/SUBJECT DI/S <text> .......List msgs
whose subjects include <text>
- DIRECTORY call .........DI call ..................List
only msgs to/from call. Ex: DI KC1F
- READ ...........................R
.........................Read last unread message
addressed to you
- READ # ........................R #
......................Read specified msg serial #
Example: R 23
- REPLY .........................REP
.....................Reply to last message read. Similar
to SEND
- REPLY # ......................REP #
..................Reply to message no. #
- REPLY/DELETE ..........REP/D .................Reply to
last message read and delete it
- SEND [call,call] ............S [call,call]
...........Send a message to one or more addressees
- SEND ALL ..................S ALL ..................Send a
message to all users
- SEND/COPY ..............S/C <#><call>
......Send copy of message no. # to another call
- SEND/PRIVATE .........S/P .......................Send a
private message
- TALK call message ......T call message .......Send one
line msg to specified call
- TALK call <Enter> ......T call <Enter>
.......Send multi-line talk msg. End msg with /EX
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