CONTENTS Title Page Copyright Page Preface 1 Using the Bookreader 1.1 Starting the Bookreader 1.2 Opening Shelves and Books 1.2.1 Selecting Topics from the Table of Contents 1.2.2 Selecting Topics from the Index 1.3 Navigating the Table of Contents and Index 1.4 Reading Text 1.4.1 Displaying Figures, Tables, and Examples 1.4.2 Using Cross-References and Footnotes 1.5 Customizing the Bookreader 1.6 Closing Shelves and Books 1.7 Exiting from the Bookreader 2 Using the CDA Viewer 2.1 Starting the CDA Viewer 2.2 Viewing DDIF Files 2.2.1 PostScript Page-Size Options 2.3 Closing a File 2.4 Exiting from the CDA Viewer 3 Using the Calculator 3.1 Starting the Calculator 3.2 Changing the Mode 3.3 Entering Data 3.4 Performing Arithmetic Functions 3.5 Storing Values in Memory 3.6 Performing Special Functions 3.7 Copying Text with the Calculator 3.8 Saving Customized Settings 3.9 Exiting from the Calculator 4 Using the Calendar 4.1 Starting the Calendar 4.2 Moving Around Calendar 4.3 Creating an Entry 4.3.1 Changing the Size of a Timeslot 4.3.2 Setting Alarms 4.3.3 Deleting an Entry 4.3.4 Moving an Entry from One Timeslot to Another 4.3.5 Creating Overlapping Entries 4.4 Using the Clock in the Day Display 4.5 Entering Day Notes 4.6 Marking Special Days 4.7 Sending and Receiving Calendar Entries Through Mail 4.8 Printing a Part of a Calendar 4.9 Working with Multiple Calendars 4.9.1 Creating a New Calendar 4.9.2 Opening an Existing Calendar 4.9.3 Renaming an Existing Calendar 4.9.4 Closing a Calendar 4.9.5 Deleting a Calendar 4.10 Customizing a Calendar 4.10.1 Customizing General Features 4.10.2 Customizing the Day Display 4.10.3 Customizing Calendar Icons 4.10.4 Saving Customized Features 4.10.5 Changing the Shape of a Display 4.11 Exiting from the Calendar 5 Using the Cardfiler 5.1 Starting the Cardfiler 5.2 Opening a Card File 5.3 Creating Cards 5.4 Viewing the Contents of a Card File 5.4.1 Opening an Existing Card 5.4.2 Scrolling Through a Card File 5.4.3 Finding Text 5.5 Editing a Card 5.5.1 Renaming a Card 5.5.2 Moving the Text Cursor 5.5.3 Selecting Text 5.5.4 Deleting Text 5.5.5 Moving Text 5.5.6 Copying Text 5.5.7 Incorporating Images 5.6 Saving a Card File 5.6.1 Merging Card Files 5.7 Saving Customized Settings 5.8 Exiting from the Cardfiler 6 Using the Clock 6.1 Starting the Clock 6.1.1 Customizing the Clock Display 6.1.2 Setting the Alarm 6.2 Exiting from the Clock 7 Using DECterm 7.1 Creating a DECterm Window 7.2 Customizing DECterm 7.2.1 Customizing a DECterm Window 7.2.2 Customizing a Display 7.2.3 Customizing General Features 7.2.4 Customizing a Keyboard 7.2.5 Choosing a National Replacement Character Set 7.2.6 Customizing Graphics 7.2.7 Saving and Restoring Customized Features 7.3 Copying Information 7.4 Clearing and Resizing Terminal Windows 7.5 Composing Characters 7.6 Exiting from DECterm 8 Using EVE 8.1 Beginning Your Editing Session 8.1.1 Opening a File 8.1.2 Entering Text 8.1.3 Moving the Cursor and Scrolling 8.1.4 Entering EVE Commands 8.1.5 Getting Help 8.2 Editing Text 8.2.1 Selecting Text 8.2.2 Moving Text to Another Location 8.2.3 Erasing and Restoring Text 8.3 Searching for and Replacing Text 8.3.1 Replacing Strings of Text 8.3.2 Performing Case-Exact Searches 8.3.3 Handling Whitespace Characters 8.3.4 Searching with Wildcards 8.4 Formatting Text 8.4.1 Setting Margins 8.4.2 Filling Text 8.4.3 Setting the Paragraph Indent 8.4.4 Setting Tabs 8.4.5 Setting Soft Page Breaks 8.5 Saving Your Edits 8.6 Buffer Change Journaling 8.7 Viewing and Editing More Than One File 8.7.1 Editing Another File 8.7.2 Moving Between Buffers 8.7.3 Deleting a Buffer 8.7.4 Viewing Multiple Files 8.8 Defining Keys 8.8.1 Setting the Gold Key 8.8.2 Creating a Learn Sequence 8.8.3 Setting the Keypad 8.8.4 Saving Key Definitions in a Section File 8.9 Customizing EVE 8.9.1 Customizing Menus 8.9.2 Setting Buffer Attributes 8.9.3 Setting Global Attributes 8.9.4 Setting Width 8.9.5 Setting VAXTPU Preferences 8.9.6 Using Initialization Files 8.9.7 Using VAXTPU Procedures to Extend EVE 8.9.8 Saving Attributes 9 Using Mail 9.1 Starting Mail 9.2 Sending Messages 9.2.1 Sending a Message 9.2.2 Saving a Draft of a Message 9.2.3 Resuming Work on a Draft Message 9.2.4 Including a File in a Message 9.2.5 Using an Existing File in a Message 9.2.6 Sending a Message to a Distribution List 9.2.7 Changing Editors 9.2.8 Sending PostScript Files 9.3 Selecting Messages 9.4 Reading Messages 9.4.1 Reading a New Message 9.4.2 Displaying a List of New Messages 9.4.3 Reading an Old Message 9.4.4 Multiple Read Windows 9.5 Replying to Messages 9.6 Forwarding Messages 9.7 Printing Messages 9.8 Creating a File from a Mail Message 9.9 Deleting and Retrieving Messages 9.10 Working with Drawers and Folders 9.10.1 Creating New Drawers 9.10.2 Creating New Folders 9.10.3 Modifying Drawer Names 9.10.4 Deleting Drawers and Folders 9.10.5 Adding and Removing Drawers in the Index 9.10.6 Moving and Copying Messages to Another Folder 9.10.7 Updating Folders 9.10.8 Compressing Drawers 9.11 Marking and Unmarking Messages 9.12 Picking Messages 9.13 Displaying Additional Index Information 9.14 Opening a New Main Window 9.15 Sending and Receiving CDA Documents 9.16 Displaying PostScript Files 9.17 Customizing Your Mail Environment 9.17.1 Modifying Your Default Print Settings 9.17.2 Customizing Your Mail Profile 9.17.2.1 Modifying Your User Attributes 9.17.2.2 Modifying Your Send Attributes 9.17.2.3 Modifying Your Deliver Attributes 9.17.2.4 Modifying Your Window Attributes 9.17.2.5 Saving and Restoring Attributes 9.17.3 Making Mail Perform Like the VMS Mail Utility 9.17.4 Using a Paned Style Main Window 9.17.5 Changing Your Mail Directory 9.17.6 Changing Directories for Drafts and Distribution Lists 9.18 Exiting from Mail 9.19 Using Accelerators 10 Using the Notepad Editor 10.1 Starting the Notepad Editor 10.2 Typing Text 10.3 Formatting Text 10.4 Scrolling the Buffer 10.5 Editing a File 10.5.1 Moving the Cursor 10.5.2 Selecting Text 10.5.3 Deleting Text 10.5.4 Canceling an Edit 10.5.5 Moving Text 10.5.6 Copying Text 10.5.7 Changing Your Font 10.5.8 Including an Existing File 10.5.9 Splitting the Screen 10.6 Saving Text in a File 10.7 Opening a Second Notepad 10.8 Opening an Existing File 10.9 Merging Files 10.9.1 Copying Text from One Notepad Window to Another 10.10 Searching for Text 10.11 Replacing Text 10.12 Exiting from an Editing Session 10.13 Using Journal Files 11 Using Paint 11.1 Starting Paint 11.2 Learning the Basics 11.2.1 Picking Out Tools 11.2.2 Inverting Images 11.2.3 Saving a Painting 11.2.4 Printing a Painting 11.3 Erasing 11.4 Drawing Lines and Shapes 11.4.1 Varying Line Width 11.4.2 Using Patterns 11.4.3 Creating Your Own Patterns 11.5 Using the Paintbrush 11.6 Editing Paintings 11.6.1 Selecting Images 11.6.2 Moving Images 11.6.3 Copying Images 11.6.4 Resizing Images 11.6.5 Cropping a Picture 11.6.6 Working with Full Views 11.6.7 Editing in Detail 11.7 Inserting Text 11.8 Sizing the Canvas 11.9 Using Accelerators 11.10 Exiting from Paint 11.11 Tool Summary 12 Puzzling 12.1 Starting the Puzzle 12.2 Playing Around with the Puzzle 12.3 Starting a New Game 12.4 Exiting from the Puzzle A Composing Characters B Keyboards EXAMPLES 8-1 Sample EVE Initialization File 8-2 Sample VAXTPU Procedure FIGURES 1-1 Bookreader Library 1-2 Bookreader Selection and Topic Windows 7-1 DEC Multinational Character Set, Part I 7-2 DEC Multinational Character Set, Part II 7-3 ISO Latin 1 Supplemental Character Set 7-4 National Replacement Character Sets 11-1 The Clock Tower 11-2 Tools for Lines and Shapes 11-3 Using a Grid 11-4 Patterns Palette 11-5 Examples of Patterns 11-6 Adding Text B-1 The North American Keyboard B-2 The Flemish Keyboard B-3 The Canadian (French) Keyboard B-4 The British Keyboard B-5 The Danish Keyboard B-6 The Finnish Keyboard B-7 The Austrian/German Keyboard B-8 The Dutch Keyboard B-9 The Italian Keyboard B-10 The Swiss (French) Keyboard B-11 The Swiss (German) Keyboard B-12 The Swedish Keyboard B-13 The Norwegian Keyboard B-14 The Belgian/French Keyboard B-15 The Spanish Keyboard B-16 The Portuguese Keyboard TABLES 3-1 Keys to Press for Operating the Calculator 3-2 Special-Function Keys in Decimal Mode 3-3 Special-Function Keys in Hexadecimal and Octal Modes 8-1 EVE Commands for Buffer Change Journaling and Recovery 8-2 EVE Commands for Saving Attributes 8-3 EVE Commands for Saving Attributes 9-1 Using Accelerators A-1 Composing Characters in Multinational Character Mode A-2 Composing Characters in National Replacement Mode Using Typewriter Keys A-3 Composing Characters in National Replacement Mode Using Data Processing Keys