IMPORTANT information for HPfGU CHAT

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 25425

This has to go to everyone, therefore the Main List
(which, by the way, does not have as many members as the Member List 
shows, because some of us are on there multiple times with multiple 
identities including different e-dresses).
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The chat room that SOME people can enter by clicking on
Chat on the main HPfGU Yahoogroups web page (and some
people cannot enter at all) is SO DEFECTIVE that we will
chat in our previous chat room until either the new one is
fixed or the good one is removed.

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The room in which we will chat is grp*g.2176166:1
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People who use PCs can access this room by using
Cheetah Chat. CHeetah Chat can be downloaded for
free from http://www.cheetachat.com and contains 
many fun toys which I will describe later.

People who have MACs can access this room by
using miChat. miChat can be downloaded from
http://66.33.71.14/michat/downloads.html
Sinead and John Crazy Ivan have both done so

Some people who were unable to download either
Cheetah Chat or miChat (small, old, computers, 
college rules, etc) were able to enter the room
grp*g.2176166:1 in one of the following ways and
some were able to enter in the other: 

One way is when someone who was already in the
room Invited them. In Cheetah Chat, click on
Chat on the leftmost end of the menu bar, and 
Invite User is a little below the middle. It 
puts up a form in which you must type the person's
Yahoo ID. I have learned that the following 
error message does not mean anything wrong with
the group, it only means something failed about
inviting that person:
*** User grp*g.2176166:1 isn't online right now

The other way was done by Ebony and I quote
her description: selah_1977 says, I went to 
hat.yahoo.com... and then "joined" Catherine in chat.
selah_1977 says, Go to http://chat.yahoo.com
selah_1977 says, Go to the bottom of the screen
selah_1977 says, Choose "Join Friend" 

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How to Use Cheetah Chat
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The first time you enter Cheetah Chat, it
will put you in a horrible room full of 
skateboarders, which at one time was named
Windows:1.

You can go from there to Our room by typing
/join grp*g.2176166:1 
once you have been connected to Our room,
you can click Rooms on the menu bar, click
Favorite Rooms on the drop-down menu, and 
click Add Current Room on the sub-sub-menu

The other way to go from the horrible room
to Our room starts by clicking on Rooms on
the menu bar, then Favorite Rooms on the
drop-down menu, then Manage Favorite Rooms
on the sub-sub-menu, which brings up a form
which brings up a form on which you click 
Add which brings up a form on which you type
grp*g.2176166:1 

Either way, it has been my experience that
whatever room I was in when I exited Cheetah
Chat (by clicking on the Close "X" Windows
icon in the rightmost topmost corner) is the
room that the Login form offers me if I
wait a few minutes for "Change Room" to go
away: it remembers.

COLORS: you can choose one or more simple
colors (if more than one, they will alternate
by letter) by clicking on the squares of 
color right above the line where you type
your speech.

You can make fancy color blends (and store
them for next time) by clicking on the artist
palette icon which is on the icon tool bar
which is under the word Links on the menu bar.
Learn how to do it by trial and error in
between weekly chats.

You can change your FONT face and size by 
using the selection menues on the way far
right end of the tool bar.

You can display pictures made of letter
characters by using the selection box of
Macros. If you single-left-click a macro
and then single-right-click, it will offer
you a choice of Edit or Display. Single-
left-click on Edit and then click on Preview
in the Edit form to see what it will look
like before sending it to the whole room.
If you want to create whole new macros, 
you use Edit Macros on that Settings
menu (described below), it has an Add
option.

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THE LITTLE PICTURES beside people's 
chat names are called AVATARS. You can
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get one by clicking on Settings (which is
second to the left) on the menu bar and
then clicking on Preferences on the drop-
down menu and then clicking the Yahoo/
Cheetah Chat tab. The Avatar stuff is on
the bottom part of this tab, and above the
Avatar stuff are a lot of other Preferences
you might want to set. If you want to save
more than the default 125 lines in your 
buffer, that is on the General tab. If you
want to save the buffer on disk as a Chat
TRANSCRIPT, periodically during the chat
Click on Chat on the menu bar and click on
Save Transcript on the drop-down menu.   

http://www.angelfire.com/ne2/avatars/page5.html
is an incredibly nifty site (takes LONG to
load) where you can borrow Avatars: if you 
have Netscape 4.7 like me, right-click the 
desired image, which gives you a memo, on 
which you click Save Image As, which will
bring up a Windows form for you to choose 
what folder to put it in. Eventually it must
get into C:\Program File\CheetaChat\avatars

Cheetachat's own Avatar Repository is at
http://avatars.cheetachat.com/
If your chosen Avatar is not already in
that repository, you must upload it there
(something which I have not myself done,
contenting myself with Avatars that were
already there). Also, if you have the
patience to find an Avatar you like within
that vast and disorganized repository, you
can download it like from the Angelfire
site. If the Avatar is in your Avatar Folder,
you can choose it for your Preference. If it
is in Cheetah's repository, Cheetah will copy
it into the other chatters' Avatar folders.
If your Avatar is not in my Avatar folder, I
cannot see it on screen, I will see only a
weird mess instead.

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