1      In order to have messages printed as soon as they are sent to you, you
 2 must be accepting messages.  Otherwise, the messages are saved until you
 3 explicitly request that they be printed.  You arrange to have messages printed
 4 on your terminal as they are sent by issuing the accept_messages "command." If
 5 you prefer that they not be printed as they arrive, you issue the
 6 defer_messages command.  Each of these commands remains in effect until the
 7 other one is issued.
 8 
 9      If the accept_messages command is in effect, messages will appear on your
10 screen as follows:
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12 From Smith.Marketing 11/16/82 1730.2 est Tue: I'll be there.
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14 The message may wipe out something you've already typed, like a "command line,"
15 but actually the original lines are still there and you can proceed
16 accordingly.
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18      When defer_messages has been in effect and you wish to read messages that
19 may have come, you can use either the accept_messages or the print_messages
20 command.  If the former, you use the -print "control argument."  For example:
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22 accept_messages -print
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24 Of course, this also puts accept_messages into effect.  With the
25 print_messages command, you have much greater control over which messages are
26 printed and what part of them is printed.  For example:
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28 print_messages -last
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30 prints only the latest message received.