DISCUSS(1)

NAME
discuss - Conferencing system

SYNOPSIS
discuss [ meeting_name ]

DESCRIPTION
Discuss is a user-interface program to a networked conferencing system. It provides the concept of "meetings", which a user may attend. Users may post "transactions" (short pieces of text) which may be read out of the meeting. The Discuss user interface is heavily influenced by the Multics Forum conferencing system. The commands accepted may be listed by using the "?" command once in discuss. There is also a "help" command which provides help on a command once inside the program. Type "help commandname" to get information on using a command. The "quit" command exits discuss. For an introduction to using this system, consult the document "Using Discuss", available from the SIPB.

FILES
/var/spool/discuss/*    Meetings
/tmp/mtg#####.#####    Temporary file for editing.
~/.meetings    Data file listing meetings that you attend.

AUTHORS
Stan Zanarotti, Ken Raeburn, Robert French, Bill Sommerfeld, and Ted Ts'o of the MIT Student Information Processing Board.

SEE ALSO
Using Discuss , available from the SIPB. Multics forum manual :-)

BUGS
Many; Let us know about them. Many of them are documented in the online helpfiles.