IMHO ==== If you just want to have a mess about with this OLR right away without having to plough through all the documentation, then just do the following... Put all the folders and files extracted from the the self-extracting archive onto a nice fresh floppy disk and boot your ST with it in the A drive. Now double-click on the IMHO.PRG file on the A disk. You should now get a dialog box. The following instructions will take you through most of the the features of this OLR. Click on the "Open Message Packet" button. This brings up a file selector - double click on KEITHPT.123 to open the message packet. For the purpose of this packet "you" are "me"! I.e. messages to "Ian Print" are "personal" messages, and replies will be from "Ian Print". The packet will now be dearchived, and you should get another dialog box. Click on "Read Messages". There will be 2 message areas displayed. Click with the RIGHT mouse button on the "User to Sysop" line. This will display a list of 9 messages - 6 to "you" and 3 to ALL. Hit to go back to the area list. Click with the LEFT mouse button to display all the messages in the "User to Sysop" area - 18 messages. Hit to go back to the area list. Click with the RIGHT mouse button on the "Local Chat" line, to get a list of 3 messages to ALL. Click on the first message line (2nd line on the screen) to display the first message. Hit the key (or "+") to display the 2nd message. Hit the key (or "+") to display the 3rd message. Hit the key (or "+") once more and you will hear a "ding-a-ling-a-ling" sound to tell you you've gone off the end of the list, and the 1st message will be displayed. Hit the key to display a pop up help box. Hit to get rid of it. Hit the "Q" key (quoted reply) and you get a pop up box. Hit and the editor will be invoked to edit your reply - it will run it from the A disk, and takes a few seconds to load up. Waggle the mouse about a bit and/or use the cursor keys, and do a bit of typing. To save the reply... Hit Type "QS" and Hit again Hit You should now be displaying the message again. Hit twice to get back to the area list. Click with the LEFT mouse button on the "User to Sysop" line to get the list of 18 messages. Click on the 6th message (subject = Re: Download service) This message is a few pages long. Hit the right and left arrow keys to scroll down and up by one page. Hit the down and up arrow keys to scroll down and up by one line. Hit the "R" key (unquoted reply) When you get the pop up box, hit to clear the "To:" field and hit . You should now get a list of users. Click on "Captain Scarlet" and the name should appear in the "To:" field in the box. Hit to invoke the editor. Your reply will not have any quotes from the message in it. Save and exit by hitting , "QS", , , . You should now be displaying the long message once more. Hit "N" to enter a new message - the pop up box will appear. Hit to clear the "ALL" from the "To:" field, and type "*a" followed by The "*a" should be replaced by "Arthur Dent". Hit the down arrow key to get to the "Subject:" line and type something as the subject, hit to invoke the editor. Save and exit by hitting , "QS", , , . Hit "V" to view replies - there should be 3. Click with the LEFT mouse button to re-edit a reply, and save and exit by hitting , "QS", , , . Click with the RIGHT mouse button on a reply to bring up a pop-up box. Click on the "Private" button, then the "OK" button. The reply list will now show a "*" character for the private message. Now move the mouse pointer to point at the 3rd reply and hit the "D" key. A "*" character will appear at the left to signal that it is marked for deletion. Hit to exit the reply list. A pop-up box will appear - click on the "YES" button to confirm the delete. Hit "V" to view the replies again - there should now be only 2. Hit to exit the reply list. Now hit "F" (find a string) and another box should appear. Type "amail" and hit You should get a box saying 4 messages have been found. Hit to display the first - number 1. Hit to display the next message with "amail" in, No. 3. Hit to display the next message with "amail" in, No. 13. Hit to display the next message with "amail" in, No. 14. Hit and you should hear a "ding-a-ling-a-ling" to indicate there are no more messages found, and it will go back to the first one found, No. 1. Hit "T" and you will return to displaying the message you were at before doing the "find" - No. 6, the long message. Hit "B" and it will jump to message number 15 - this is a bookmark wich has been set in a previous session, and saved to disk. Hit (or -) to display the previous message, No. 14. Hit "S" to save the current message - a file selector will appear. Type a file name and hit . Hit "A" to display a menu bar. Select "Info about IMHO" from the "Desk" menu item to display an information box. Click "OK" to get rid of it. Select "Go Back" from the "Return" menu item to return to the message display. Now hit 3 times to get back to the opened packet dialog. Click on the "Enter New Message" button to bring up a list of message areas. Click on the "NeST Atari ST - General" area (line 5), to bring up a box. Hit the down arrow key, type a subject and hit . You will now be in the editor once more. This time quit without saving the reply... hit , type "QA", , and . You should get a box saying the reply was unchanged by the editor and will be deleted. Hit to continue. Hit to get back to the dialog screen. Click on the "Load Reply Packet" button, this brings up a file selector. Double-click on KEITHPT.001, and wait for it to load them. Now click on the "View Replies" button and there should be 7 replies listed. Hit Click on the "Close Packet" button. A box will appear asking if you want to save bookmarks - click on whichever you like. A box will appear telling you that you have outstanding replies. Click on "YES" to create a reply packet - the archiver will be invoked, and you will get a box saying reply packet 003 has been created. Hit . Click on the "QUIT" button to exit from IMHO now, and you will return to the desktop.