journal

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: (i) how to save a game to your journal, and (ii) how to review a game from your journal.

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

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: (a) examine; (b) smoves; and (c) mailstored. See those help files for further details.

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