Every command message has the following format:

command [parm] [parm] ....

where command is one of the valid commands listed below. The number of parameters accepted by each command varies. If too many or too few parameters are specified, the command processor will return an error message on the following turn and ignore the command. Similarly, if a command is not recognized, an error message will be returned to the player.

Parameters can be separated by any amount of whitespace.

(3.4b) Commands that don't fit on one line can be continued on the next line.

Just start the next line with a "+" sign to tell PHost that it actually belongs to the previous one. For example,

racename long The Vorticons
+of Fribbulus Xax

will set your race name to "The Vorticons of Fribbulus Xax". This does not apply to the message and rumor (resp. rumour) commands. These always fit on one line, the line following the command will always be the first line in the message.