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The conference programs , CONFER and CONFEREXE , provide a multiuser TALK
talk facility to VAX/VMS users. The programs allow multiple users to engage
in a simulatious TALK called a conference. Each conference is a seperate
task under VMS that contains the terminals of the partipicating members.
Multiple conferences may be created, the conferences may be listed, 
conferences may be notified that a member wants to join, and conferences may
page users to have them join. 

The following files are included:

	CONFER.PAS	- Pascal source of DCL interface program 
	CONFER.OBJ	- Object for DCL interface program 
	CONFER.COM	- Installation command procedure
	CONFEREXE.PAS	- Conference program Pascal source
	CONFEREXE.OBJ	- Conference program object
	CONFERLIB.MAR	- Conference program macro library support 
	CONFER.HLP	- Help file for CONFERENCE 


  CONFERENCE

    Create, page  or list the multi-terminal conferences. This facility
    allows for multiple users to TALK to each other using their VT52
    equivalent terminals. Conferences are named and multiple conferences
    may exist.

          $CONFERENCE {/LIST} {/CREATE <name>} {<name>}

    With no command switch the named conference is paged.
    The LIST switch will list all presently active conferences.
    The CREATE switch allows a user to create a conference.

    Within a conference the following special keys are used:
       <CR>     : Produces three periods  ...
       <LF>     : Clears the member's line.
       <cntl_U> : Clears the member's line.
       <cntl_A> : Add a new member function. 
		  (Reserve space for the new member and enter his/her name)
       <cntl_Y> : Exit the conference.
       <cntl_C> : Exit the conference.
       <cntl_P> : Delete all outstanding new member pages.


   CONFER is the DCL interface to the multi-terminal talk program.
   It runs as an installed image under VMS. It should be installed 
   with the following privileges: 

       BYPASS   ,  CMRKNL   ,  EXQUOTA   , GROUP   , GRPNAM   ,
       OPER     ,  PRMMBX   ,  SYSNAM    , WORLD   , DETACH

   CONFER does not need the above privliges however the created
   process to run the conference does. The conference program must be under
   the following file SYS$SYSMGR:CONFEREXE. A detached process is 
   created for each conference. It is given the name _CONFXXXXXXX where
   XXXXXX is the entered name for the conference. A mailbox is also 
   created with the name CONF_XXXXXXX and CONFEREXE reads that mailbox 
   at startup to get the host member's process name. 

   Add $CONF*ERENCE := $sys$sysmgr:CONFER to the all users at login time
   for them to access Conference easily.



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