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6.2.28 Name

Syntax:

Name "name" [lastread-file [user-offset]]

Examples:
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 be named ‘lastread’ for the sysop. If you configure other users with the same config file, e.g. your wife, son etc., you should give them separate lastread file names, so that each person can have individual last read pointers.

As a third parameter, you can specify a user-offset for each individual name. This is used for all message base formats excpet *.MSG. Here, all users share the same lastread pointer file (with a fixed name that cannot be configured), but each user has a different offset into this file where he can store his personal lastread pointer.

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.