journal

  Usage: journal [player]

The journal feature is a way to save games as long as you want to. History games, remember, get overwritten as you play more games; only the most recent games are saved. The journal feature allows you to save games for a longer period of time.

The journal file for most players has 26 available slots. These slots are denoted by the single letters from A to Z. Games in your journal are referred to by their letters.

There are two things you need to know in order to make this feature work for you:

1. how to save a game to your journal, and
2. how to review a game from your journal.

SAVING A GAME TO A JOURNAL

The jsave command is used to save games to your journal. Please refer to that help file for details.

SHOWING THE CONTENTS OF A JOURNAL

To read the contents of a journal, type:

  journal [user_name]

If the user_name is omitted, then the contents of your journal will be displayed.

There are several commands you can use in order to display information about an individual game:

• examine
• smoves
• mailstored

See those help files for further details.

PRIVATE JOURNALS

It is possible to hide your journal from other users (except admins) by using the 'jprivate' variable:

set jprivate 1 hides your journal

set jprivate 0 allows others to access your journal

See also: examine, history, jsave, jkill, mailstored, smoves, variables