The K Desktop Environment

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3. Usage

3.1 General Usage

Messenger should be fairly easy to use. There is a toolbar that supports the most important features. All options are available via menu. Before using Messenger you should go to the settings menu and check the defaults set there. The values there are quiet self explaining.

To start a session go to Modem, Get Memory Information. This will download a list of available messages.

To view a fax message with the defined faxviewer or to save one either highlight the desired fax and go to Fax, View Fax or Fax, Save Fax as ... or click the right mouse button on the desired fax which will give you the same menu as Fax.

To play a voice message or to save it you can do as described above. Either highlight the desired message and go to the Voice menu and click Play Internal to play the message via the modemīs internal speaker or Play via Soundcard to download the message and play it via the installed soundcard.

You can click the Save Message menu entry to save the voice message to disk.

If you click one a message the first time after you got the memory information, Messenger will download all available messages. These will be stored in a temporary file. Each subsequent operation on the messages in the list will take place immediately since the infoīs are already on disk.

Faxes will be stored one page per file. So if you give Hugo as filename in the filename dialog, pages will then be stored in Hugo-1.g3, Hugo-2.g3, Hugo-... Please only specify the first part of the filename, the rest will be generated automatically.

Voice messages will be stored as GSM encoded files. You can then use any sound package that understands gsm to process the message. Please only specify the first part of the filename since Messenger appends the postfix .gsm itself.

3.2 The Messagelist

The list view contains several items which present information about the stored messages:

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