/box: Changes the text box from a wide field to a single line. When your text box is a single line, you can simply type the "return" key to send your message. When your text box is a wide field, you need to "click" the send button below the box.

/bottom: Moves your text box to the bottom of your screen. Your browser will not automatically refresh in this position, and you will have to hit the "refresh" button to update the screen with the current messages. Use /top to return the text box to the top of the screen.

/bozo member name or /ignore member name: This command allows you to ignore another user. For example, if a member named "muppet" is annoying you, type /bozo muppet. You will no longer see messages from "muppet" on your screen.

/unbozo member name: Cancels a previous /bozo command. If you had a change of heart and want to hear from "muppet" again, type /unbozo muppet.

/exit: Allows you to exit a room. You may also click the "exit" button. Please use the /exit command or the exit button to leave the chat room. If you close your browser or go to a different URL, your browser won't tell chat you've gone and will still display your nickname until it times out.

/who member name: This displays the member profile of the person you named. For example, if you want to know more about member "muppet," type /who muppet. You may also click on the member's name, which will do the same thing.

/archive or /review: This command does the same as the "review" button. It displays all public conversations for the last 12 minutes until the present, so you can catch up on what was said or missed.

/reset: This resets your chat environment to the default for your browser. Everything is returned to the condition it was when you entered the chat room, except the list of people you're ignoring with /bozo is still there.

/push time-in-seconds: Chat works by taking a very long time to deliver a web page to your browser. It sends messages as the next part of the page. Your "push" time is the number of seconds that chat takes to send the page, for that time, you should see messages appear as they're sent. Netscape handles this very well, Internet Explorer and Lynx (and most other browsers) don't. If you are having trouble, try setting /push 0 to disable server push. You will have to hit the refresh button to get new messages. For non-Netscape browsers, push is disabled by default. If you have sent the text box to the bottom of the screen with /bottom, push will be disabled as well. You'd only see the text box after the push time has expired.

/messages number: Whenever you say something or refresh the screen, chat will display a maximum number of old messages. This changes that maximum number. The default is usually pretty good for most browsers and window sizes.

/lookback time-in-seconds: Whenever you say something or refresh the screen, chat will only display messages that have appeared recently. This command changes how recent a message has to be before chat will display it. The default is usually pretty good for most browsers and window sizes.

/overlap number: Whenever you say something or refresh the screen, chat will only display a number of messages older than the last message you sent. Use this command to change that number. The default is usually pretty good for most browsers and window sizes.

/textsize number: Changes the font size, 1 is small, 3 is normal, 7 is huge.

/space short, /space medium, /space long: Changes the amount of space between messages. /space short is default, there's only a line break between messages. /space medium adds half a line space, and /space long adds a horizontal line between messages.

/gag member name: This command allows you to "gag" a user and prevent their messages from appearing on the screen. To gag member "muppet," simply type /gag muppet. /gag commands are stored in memory with the /save command and are restored with the /load command.

/boot member name: This command allows you to "boot" a user and prevent them from re-entering your chat room. To "boot" member "muppet," simply type /boot muppet. Please remember that if you boot "muppet," he will not be able to re-enter your room until you /pardon him. /boot commands are stored in memory with the /save command and are restored with the /load command.

/pardon member name: This command allows you to forgive someone who has been /gag or /boot commanded. If you want to forgive "muppet," simply type /pardon muppet, and that user will be able to chat in your room again.

/title new title: This command allows you to change the room's title. For example, if you wanted to change the title to "muppet's porno shop," simply type /title muppet's shop, and the title would then be "muppet's porno shop" and appear on the chat menu page.

/topic new topic: This command allows you to change the topic of the room. /topic anything goes would appear as "topic: anything goes" on the chat menu.

/flush: This command erases all back messages. If someone said something unfortunate, or whatever, you can erase it.

/list: This command will remove your room from the public list of available rooms. Note that people can still enter your room from a search link or typing in the room URL manually, so it's not a perfect way to get privacy. You can still use /boot to remove uninvited guests. To return your room to the public list, just type /list again.

/save: This command will save many things about your room's configuration so you can /load them again later. This overwrites any configuration you may have saved previously. Things that are saved:

• Current room colors
• Whether or not the room is listed
• Current list of gagged or booted members

/load: This will return your room's colors, listedness, and gag/boot lists to the most recent /save state. Please note that it will not erase your gag/boot list; it will merely add any names in the saved configuration to those lists.

/inherit user name: This command will change the owner of the room. In case the room owner has to leave and doesn't want to have the room close. Warning: Be aware that when you use this command, it changes owners, and the new user is in charge of the room. He (or she) can boot you, or gag or change the room as they see fit.

/colors: This command changes the appearance of the room's buttons to a colorful design.

/html: This command toggles on and off HTML.

/bgcolor color: This allows you to change the background color. For example, /bgcolor 006600 will give you a dark green background.

/background URL: This allows you to enter an image as your background. You must know the image's URL. For example, to enter a .jpg as your room's background, you would type /background http://www.google.com/images/ohshit.jpg. Then that image would be the background for the room.

/logo image URL: This changes the room's logo banner image.

/text color: This allows you to change the text color. For bright white, try /text FFFFFF.

/link color: This allows you to change the link colors in your room, such as the people chatting in your room. For bright yellow, try /link FFFF99.

/vlink color: This allows you to change the color of visited links. Try /vlink 999933 for dark yellow.

/alink color: This allows you to change the color of active links in your room. For a glowing blue-green active link, try /alink 00CCCC.

/privatecolor color: This allows you to change the color of private messages. For dark red private messages, try /privatecolor 660000.