BPQ User Commands Cheat Sheet by gcremerius

Attach

Get exclusive control of the port before connecting (for a single user, such as WINMOR or Pactor ports).
ATTACH [P]
C [CALL]

Bye or Quit

Disconnect from Node

Connect

Initiates a connection to another node, or to a normal AX.25 user.
C P C­ALL­|AL­IAS­ ­[vi­a di­gi1­ ­[di­gi2...]­] [S]
P is the port number if you have more than 1
S for STAY to remain connected to the currrent node, when the connection to the next one is closed
The system will make an L4 (NETROM) connect to a call that is in your NODES table.
You can force a level 2 connect by specifying a port number and preceding the call with a !

IDLEtime

Sets the Idle session timeout for this session.

Displays or sets the Level 4 timeout used for the current session. Sets the Level 4 (Netrom) retry timer for this session

LISten

Enters Listen mode on the specified port(s).
LIS P1... Pn
P port numbers
While in Listen mode you can't connect to other stations, and if someone calls you Listen is cancelled.
Type LISTEN OFF to exit listen mode.

Nodes

Lists all the other NETROM­/TH­ENE­T/BPQ Nodes known to your node.
N [NODEC­ALL­|NO­DEA­LIA­S]|[T]
By entering NODECALL or NODEALIAS you can list the routes that the system will use to access that node
The inform­ation after the callsign are only shown if some frames have been send to that node.
RTT stands for Round Trip Time, and is a rolling average of the time taken to get a response from that node (in seconds).
FR means Frames, the number of info frames sent to the node.
B if present, indicates the target is a BPQ node, and the number following the B is the number of hops to the target.
Up to 3 possible routes to the node are listed.
1^st number displayed is the quality, the relative desira­bility of using this route rather than another.
2^nd number is the obsole­sance count, an indication of how long it is since the system was last told about (or succes­sfully used) this route. The number starts at a value set in the config file (typically 5) and is decrem­ented each time a NODES broadcast is sent (typically evey hour).
3^rd number is the port.
> indicates the currently active route.
T The Round Trip Times and frame counts for all nodes with a non-zero count.

PAClen

Displays and sets the PACLEN value used for messages generated by the node (eg command respon­ses).

RADio

Used by the Rig Control Interface.

Stats

Displays a number of counters.
Uptime (Days Hours Mins) Is the time since the system was loaded.
Semaphore Get-Re­l/C­lashes
Buffer­s:M­ax/­Cur­/Mi­n/O­ut/Wait Out is the number of times a request to allocate a buffer failed because there were none available.
Known Nodes/Max Nodes
L4 Connects Sent/Rxed
L4 Frames TX/RX/­Res­ent­/Reseq Resent is the number retran­smitted because an ACK wasn't received within the L4 timeout period. The Reseq is the number of frames received out of sequence, but subseq­uently used because the missing frame(s) eventually arrived.
REJ Frames Rxed A large number may indicate that your Maxframe is too high. Similarly a large number in 'RX out of sequence' may indicate the the station talking to you has too large a maxframe.
RX Overruns indicate characters lost because the software didn't process the interrupts fast enough.
Undrun­/Poll T/o indicate a problem in responding to TX interr­upts. Only used for HDLC cards.
Frames abandoned number of frames discarded because they have been waiting to be sent (for DCD to clear) for more than 60 secs. Only used for HDLC cards.
Link Active % The first is the % of time in the last minute that your station was transm­itting, and the second the % the channel was active. Only used for HDLC cards.

There is one set of level 2 counters for each port.
If you have more than 7 ports the display starts to look a bit untidy, so there are now two options on the STATS command:
S S Displays just the system and L3/4 stats
S n Displays just the port stats, starting with port N, for a maximum of 7 ports.

UNproto

Enters UNPROTO mode, where you can send UI messages.
UN P CALL [Digis]
When in Unproto Mode anything you type will be send as a UI frame to the port and destin­ation you specified.
This could be used in conjun­ction with the LISTEN command to have an multiuser conversation.
Use Ctrl/Z to exit UNPROTO mode

Version

Displays the version number of the Node software

Abort the BBS output while paging.

CMSPASS password

Sets password for access to Winlink COM Servers.

FILES or LISTFILES

List files available for download

Displays inform­ation about this BBS.

I@ bbs

Gives the users of bbs found in the WP database.

IZ zip

Gives the users of the zip code area from WP database.

K msg#

Deletes a message identified by its number.

L< callsign

Lists message from callsign

L@ bbs

Lists the messages via bbs.

L msg#-msg#

Lists messages between the given numbers.

Lists bulletins.

LL n

Lists the last n messages.

Lists personal messages

List Traffic (NTS-m­ess­ages).

Exits BBS and returns to Node.

nables or disables polling RMS for messages for you.
POLLRMS Enable­|DI­SABLE
POLLRMS SSID1 SSID2 ... SSIDn
(for the base call, specify SSID of 0)
eg POLLRMS 0 1 15 will look for messages to CALL, CALL-1, CALL-15

Reads new messages to you.

READ name

Read File from Files area.

S[P|B] callsign
Sends a message or a bulletin.
S call Sends a message as private.

S callsign @ BBSCAL­LSIGN
Sends a message to a station AT another BBS.
The message must be terminated by a Ctrl/Z or /EX followed by a return.

SR Msg#
Replies to a message.

Toggles Expert Mode.

Enters or modifies the Zip Code.

Toggle Automatic character set selection.

Toggle Colour Mode on or off
(only works on Console or BPQTer­minal)

Force all links to be made.

Show Known nodes.

Enter your Name

Enter your QTH

/S call text

Send Text to that station only.

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Show users