Floors ------ Floors in ^variantname are used to group rooms into related subject areas, just as rooms are used to group messages into manageable groups. You, as a user, do NOT have to use floors. If you choose not to, you suffer no penalty; you will not lose access to any rooms. You may use .EC or ;C (the latter is easier to use) to decide if you want to use floors. Feel free to experiment. Floor options are accessed two ways. First, if you are in floor mode, the oto and kip commands take you to the next room with new messages on the current floor; if there are none left, then the system will automatically switch floors (and let you know) and put you in the first room with new messages on that level. (Notice that your pattern of basic use of ^variantname therefore doesn't really change.) Direct access to floor options is via the use of a ";" command. The following commands are currently available (more can be added if needed): <;C>onfigure This command toggles your floor mode. <;G>oto FLOORNAME This command causes the system to take you to the named floor. <;K>nown rooms on floors List all rooms on all floors. This is a very readable way to get a list of all rooms on the system. <;S>kip FLOORNAME This command causes the system to mark all rooms on the current floor as Skipped and takes you to the floor that you specify. <;Z>Forget floor This command causes you to forget all the rooms currently on the current floor. Unfortunately, it doesn't apply to rooms that are subsequently created or moved to this floor. (Sorry.) Feel free to experiment, you can't hurt yourself or the system with the floor stuff unless you ZForget a floor by accident.