Name "name" [lastread-file [user-offset]]
Name "Tobias Ernst"
Name "Joe Sysop" LASTREAD 0
Name "Jane Sysop" LASTREAD 1
You can specify your user name as the name parameter inside quotation
marks here. You can specify more than one user name by repeating the
Name keyword. Then, you can select which name to use during program
execution by pressing CTRL-U.
Optionally, you can use the lastread-file parameter to specify the name of the file that stores the lastread pointers in Fido *.MSG areas. This one should always be named `LASTREAD'.
As a third parameter, you can specify a user-offset for each individual name. The logic behind the user offset is as follows: Each distinct user of your message base should have his own lastread pointer. All lastread pointers are stored in a lastread file (`LASTREAD' for Fido *.MSG, `*.SQL' for squish). Each user who wants to have a separate lastread pointer must have a unique user offset into the lastread pointer file.
Normally, the sysop has a user offset of zero (which is the default for the user-offset parameter), and each BBS user has his user number as user offset. However, if you have two or more sysops (in this context, this simply means persons accessing your message base directly with MsgEd TE instead of using the BBS), you must manually assign unique user offset numbers for each person.
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