Mike's WWW Guide to FIBS Toggles
This page describes the different variables used by FIBS which can be
changed using the toggle command.
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- NAME
- toggle - display or change the value of toggles
- SYNOPSIS
- toggle
toggle option
- DESCRIPTION
- toggle option toggles the status of option.
toggle without any option gives you a list of currently
available options and their status.
You can type to instead of toggle.
Valid options are:
allowpip autoboard autodouble
autoroll automove bell
crawford double greedy
moreboards moves notify
ratings rawboard ready
report silent telnet
wrap
- NAME
- toggle-allowpip
- VALUES
- YES: You allow the use of the servers pip command.
NO: You don't allow the use of the servers pip command.
- DEFAULT
- YES
- SEE ALSO
- pip
- NAME
- toggle-autoboard
- VALUES
- YES: The board will be redrawn after every move
NO: You have to use the board command to see the board.
- DEFAULT
- YES
- SEE ALSO
- board
- NAME
- toggle-autodouble
- VALUES
- YES: doubles as the first roll double the cube.
NO: doubles as the first roll won't double the cube.
- DEFAULT
- NO
- NAME
- toggle-automove
- VALUES
- YES: forced moves are done automatically.
NO: You have to move yourself.
- DEFAULT
- NO
- SEE ALSO
- move
- NAME
- toggle-autoroll
- DESCRIPTION
- This is equivalent to 'toggle double'.
- SEE ALSO
- toggle-double
- NAME
- toggle-bell
- VALUES
- YES: Your terminal rings the bell if someone talks to you or invites you.
NO: It doesn't.
- DEFAULT
- NO
- NAME
- toggle-crawford
- VALUES
- YES: You insist on using the Crawford rule.
NO: You would like to play without it if your opponent agrees.
- DEFAULT
- YES
- SEE ALSO
- crawford
- NAME
- toggle-double
- VALUES
- YES: You will be asked if you want to double.
NO: You won't be asked if you want to double.
If set to NO the server will roll for you even if you
are allowed to double.
- DEFAULT
- YES
This toggle is reset to YES every time a new game is started
or reloaded.
- SEE ALSO
- double,
roll
- NAME
- toggle-greedy
- VALUES
- YES: Try to bear off one piece per rolled number automatically.
NO: Let the player decide what pieces to bear off.
- DEFAULT
- NO
This toggle is reset to NO every time a game is started or loaded.
- NOTE
- Setting this toggle to YES is equivalent to issuing the off
command after every roll (if possible). This feature is not meant
to be used by beginners. Make sure that you set this toggle to YES
in non contact positions only, otherwise FIBS will automatically
make moves for you that you certainly don't like. If you don't know
what a (non) contact position is: this feature is not for you!
- SEE ALSO
- off
- NAME
- toggle-moves
- VALUES
- YES: You want to see a list of moves after the current game.
NO: You won't get a list of moves.
- DEFAULT
- NO - you can only change this toggle while playing.
- NAME
- toggle-moreboards
- VALUES
- YES: The board will be redrawn after each move and each roll.
NO: The board will be redrawn after each move only.
- NOTE:
- Addtional boards will only be sent if you use boardstyle 3 to
avoid unneccessary netload. This toggle was implemented to make
it easier for programmers of graphical clients to receive information
about rolls and moves.
- DEFAULT
- NO
- SEE ALSO
- boardstyle
- NAME
- toggle-notify
- VALUES
- YES: You'll be notified whenever someone logs in or out.
NO: You'll have to use the who command to find out who is logged in.
- DEFAULT
- YES
- SEE ALSO
- who
- NAME
- toggle-ratings
- VALUES
- YES: You'll see how the ratings are calculated.
NO: You won't.
- DEFAULT
- NO
- SEE ALSO
- formula,
ratings
- NAME
- toggle-rawboard
- DESCRIPTION
- This toggle doesn't exist anymore. It was replaced by the variable
'boardstyle'. This variable can be changed with the set command.
- SEE ALSO
- board,
rawboard
- NAME
- toggle-ready
- VALUES
- YES: You are willing to play a game.
NO: You're refusing games.
- DEFAULT
- NO
- SEE ALSO
- invite
- NAME
- toggle-report
- VALUES
- YES: You will be informed whenever a match is started or finished.
NO: You won't be informed.
- DEFAULT
- YES
- NAME
- toggle-silent
- VALUES
- YES: You won't hear other players shouting.
NO: You will hear other players shouting.
- DEFAULT
- NO
- SEE ALSO
- shout
- NAME
- toggle-telnet
- DESCRIPTION
- Warning: The following description might look a bit technical.
Users of client program might have the problems with the way FIBS
shows the [Return] line when your 'pagelength' is set. If you need
to receive an extra 'newline' just set this toggle to YES.
At the moment you can't save this toggle.
- VALUES
- YES: You are using telnet and don't need extra 'newlines'.
NO: You are using a client and will receive extra 'newlines'.
- DEFAULT
- YES
- SEE ALSO
- screen
- NAME
- toggle-wrap
- VALUES
- YES: The server will wrap lines longer than 80 characters.
NO: Your terminal knows how to wrap long lines.
- DEFAULT
- NO
- NOTE
- With the introduction of the pagelength and linelength variables
this feature is obsolete. It will not be supported at all in the
near future.
- SEE ALSO
- screen
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Mike Quinn
NEC Technologies (UK) Ltd.
mquinn@nectech.co.uk
(FIBS name: mikeq)