Milliways is our BBS (think chat room and message board with knobs on). Milliways is the best place to look to find a member of the admin team if you're having problems with any SUCS services. However, it can be a little confusing for the first time user. Read on and it won't be quite so painful (honest!).
Starting Milliways
To start Milliways you need to be logged into silver. See this tutorial to find out how.
You then start Milliways with the command "mw". Your screen should now look like this:
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Milliways III - Release 2.13
Please enter name:
Sign up
The first time you start Milliways you have to sign up. This means you'll have to enter, user name (should be your SUCS user name), a password of your choice, your real name, and an contact email address. This information is required in addition to the information you provided when you joined SUCS as Milliways is open to everyone, and therefore does not use the members database.
Once you have registered you'll be deposited in the message board.
Please enter name: yourusername
Enter Password
And so on.
Hello yourusername.
Last logged out Thu Aug 19 20:27:55 2004
{Notices}---*
Enter the talker
Once you're logged into Milliways, you enter the talker by typing "talk":
{Notices}---* talk
Now entering the Talker. Use ".quit" to leave and ".help" for help.
talk{0}-*
Saying something
Once you're in the talker, you can type a line and press Enter to send it.
talk{0}-* i like pie [enter]
produces
yourusername: i like pie
Leave the talker
To leave the talker type:
talk{0}-* !quit
silver:~$
Basic Commands
Now you can enter and leave, it's time to expand your repertoire.
The two most important commands in Milliways are !help for system and message board commands and .help for talker commands. These will explain in much more detail than I will what all of the available commands are and what they do.
.who
Displays a list of "who" is currently using Milliways, and what room they are in.
!since
Displays a list of who has been using Milliways "since" you were last on.
.room [number]
Changes what room you're in.
!beep on/off
Turn message beeps on or off.
.emote
(can be shortened to .e) Send emoted messages to people; for example:
.e can smell something
produces:
rollercow can smell something
You can also use:
.e's feet smell
which produces
rollercow's feet smell
.sayto
(can be shortened to .sa) Say something to a single user; for example:
.sa vortex hello!
would show up as the following message on vortex's Milliways screen:
rollercow says: hello!
.sayto also does questions, by adding a ? to the end of the line; for example:
.sa vortex where is the next lecture?
appears on vortex's Milliways screen as:
rollercow asks: where is the next lecture?
Have a quick look at the Milliways Etiquette page for some simple dos and don'ts to help you survive Milliways.