CONTENTS Title Page Copyright Page Preface Part I Using DEC Notes 1 Introduction to DEC Notes 1.1 Overview 1.1.1 Applications 1.1.2 Features and Benefits 1.1.3 Terms and Concepts 1.2 Getting Started 1.2.1 Invoking DEC Notes 1.2.2 Entering DEC Notes Commands 1.2.3 Getting Help in DEC Notes 1.2.4 The DEC Notes Keypad 1.2.5 Accessing a Conference 1.2.6 Listing Notes in a Conference 1.2.7 Reading Notes 1.2.8 Adding a Reply to a Discussion 1.2.9 Adding a New Topic 1.2.10 Printing Notes 1.2.11 Ending a DEC Notes Session 1.2.12 Quick Summary of Basic Commands 1.3 DEC Notes Command Summary 2 Reading Notes 2.1 Terms and Concepts 2.1.1 Types of Conferences 2.1.2 The Author 2.1.3 Seen and Unseen Notes 2.2 Listing Available Conferences 2.3 Accessing a Conference 2.3.1 Opening a Conference Through Your Notebook 2.3.2 Opening a Conference Directly 2.4 Navigating Through a Conference 2.4.1 Specifying Notes by Number 2.4.2 Using Navigation Commands 2.4.3 Using the Keypad 2.5 Adding and Deleting Keywords from Notes 2.5.1 Getting Information About Keywords 2.5.2 Adding a Keyword to a Note 2.5.3 Deleting a Keyword from a Note 2.6 Listing Notes in a Conference 2.7 Saving Notes 2.7.1 Saving Unseen Notes 2.7.2 Marking Saved Notes as Seen 2.7.3 Saving Notes in a Buffer 2.8 Printing Notes 2.9 Deleting Notes 2.10 Setting Notes as Seen 3 Writing Notes 3.1 Hints for Improving Computer-Mediated Communication 3.1.1 Making Your Notes More Readable 3.1.2 Representing Body Language 3.1.3 When to Use MAIL Instead of DEC Notes 3.1.4 Practicing Online Etiquette 3.2 Adding a Reply to a Discussion 3.2.1 Bypassing the Editor 3.2.2 Controlling DEC Notes Editing Buffers 3.2.3 Retrieving Your Previous Reply 3.3 Adding a New Topic 3.3.1 Bypassing the Editor 3.3.2 Retrieving Your Previous Topic 3.4 Quoting the Author of Another Note 3.5 Forwarding Notes by MAIL 3.5.1 Forwarding a Note with a Carbon-Copy List 3.5.2 Forwarding an Edited or Unedited Note 3.5.3 Forwarding a Note Without a Header 3.5.4 Forwarding a Note to All Conference Members, the Conference Moderators, the Author, or Yourself 3.5.5 Retrieving Your Last Message 3.5.6 Forwarding a Note with a Special Personal Name 3.5.7 Specifying a Subject 3.6 Sending a Message by MAIL 3.6.1 Composing a Mail Message 3.6.2 Sending a Text File as Your Message 4 Using Your Notebook 4.1 An Overview of Your Notebook 4.1.1 Keeping Track of New Notes 4.1.2 Grouping Entries into Classes 4.1.3 Using Markers 4.1.4 Your Profile 4.1.5 Summary of Notebook Commands 4.2 Adding an Entry to Your Notebook 4.3 Grouping Entries into Classes 4.3.1 Changing the Current Class 4.3.2 Listing Entries in a Class 4.4 Accessing an Entry in Your Notebook 4.5 Modifying an Entry 4.5.1 Modifying the Entry Name 4.5.2 Modifying the Notefile Specification 4.5.3 Modifying Classes for an Entry 4.5.4 Modifying the Entry as an Object 4.6 Updating Entries 4.6.1 Updating Entries from the DCL Level 4.6.2 Updating Entries in the Default Class 4.6.3 Updating Entries in a Specific Class 4.6.4 Using the Wildcard Character in Entry and Class Names 4.7 Using Markers 4.7.1 Adding a Marker to a Note 4.7.2 Getting Information About Markers 4.7.3 Reading a Marked Note 4.7.4 Deleting a Marker 4.8 Closing an Entry 4.9 Deleting Entries 4.10 Tailoring Your DEC Notes Sessions 4.10.1 Using an Editor with DEC Notes 4.10.1.1 Choosing an EVE Keypad 4.10.1.2 Choosing an Editor Other than EVE 4.10.2 Choosing a Default Class 4.10.3 Setting Up Print Qualifiers 4.10.4 Choosing a Personal Name 4.10.5 Choosing an Automatic Feature 4.10.6 Overriding Profile Settings 5 Moderating a Conference 5.1 Overview 5.1.1 The Role of the Conference Moderator 5.1.2 Setting and Restoring Moderator Privilege 5.1.3 Moderator Commands 5.1.4 Types of Conferences 5.2 Setting Up a Conference 5.2.1 Setting Up a Public Conference 5.2.2 Setting Up a Private Conference 5.2.3 Setting Up a Bulletin Board 5.3 Announcing a Conference 5.3.1 Putting the Conference on a Shopping List 5.3.2 Using MAIL to Announce a Conference 5.4 Maintaining the Membership List 5.4.1 Adding Members 5.4.2 Modifying Member Information 5.4.3 Deleting Members 5.5 Setting or Modifying Conference Characteristics 5.5.1 Setting or Modifying Restrictions 5.5.2 Setting or Modifying the Conference Title 5.5.3 Setting or Modifying the Notice 5.5.4 Setting or Modifying Write Protection 5.6 Using the VAX Distributed Name Service to Access a Conference 5.7 Maintaining Keywords 5.8 Other Moderator Tasks 5.8.1 Deleting Notes 5.8.2 Hiding Notes 5.8.3 Moving Notes 5.8.4 Changing the Title of a Note 5.8.5 Prohibiting Replies to a Note 5.9 Ending a Conference 5.10 Providing Extra Security for Confidential Conferences 6 Additional DEC Notes Features 6.1 Overriding Defaults with the NOTES Command 6.1.1 Specifying an Entry and a Note 6.1.2 Overriding the Default Class 6.1.3 Updating Entries 6.1.4 Bypassing Notebook Processing 6.1.5 Overriding the Automatic on Open Setting 6.1.6 Activating a Display Device 6.2 Setting Note Characteristics 6.3 Searching a Conference 6.3.1 Initiating a Search 6.3.2 Continuing a Search 6.3.3 Canceling a Search 6.4 Manipulating a Subprocess from DEC Notes 6.4.1 Spawning a Subprocess 6.4.2 Attaching to a Process 6.5 Executing EVE Commands in DEC Notes 6.5.1 Manipulating Buffers 6.5.2 Retrieving Messages Part II The DECwindows Interface 7 DEC Notes with DECwindows 7.1 Overview 7.2 Getting Started 7.3 Using Online Help 7.3.1 On Context 7.3.2 On Window 7.3.3 On Terms 7.3.4 On Version 7.4 Opening a Conference and Reading Notes 7.5 Replying to a Note 7.6 Closing a Conference and Exiting from Notes 7.7 Changing Your Profile 7.8 Expanding Notes and Choosing Notes for Reading 7.9 Expanding and Collapsing Classes 7.10 Creating a Conference 7.11 Adding an Entry 7.12 Writing a Topic Note 7.13 Using Keywords 7.14 Enabling Moderator Privilege and Adding or Deleting a Member 7.15 Sending Mail and Forwarding a Note by Mail 7.16 Extracting a Note to a File 7.17 Displaying a Directory of Available Conferences 7.18 Setting Notes as Seen 7.19 Updating an Entry 7.20 Printing a Note 7.21 Summary 7.21.1 Functions of the Mouse Buttons in DEC Notes 7.21.2 Functions of Double Clicking FIGURES 1-1 DEC Notes Keypad 1-2 Sample Conference Directory Display 2-1 DIRECTORY/CONFERENCES/ALL Display 2-2 DEC Notes Keypad 2-3 Additional DEC Notes Keys for VT200-Series Terminals 4-1 Anatomy of a Notebook 4-2 SHOW CLASSES Display 4-3 DIRECTORY/NOTEBOOK Display 4-4 SHOW ENTRY Display 4-5 Updated Class Directory Display 4-6 SHOW MARKER Display 7-1 Notes Window 7-2 Help Window 7-3 Read Window 7-4 Edit Window 7-5 Show/Modify Profile Dialog Box 7-6 Conference Window 7-7 Create Conference Dialog Box 7-8 Notes Window and Entries Pull-Down Menu 7-9 Add Entry Dialog Box 7-10 Create New Note Dialog Box 7-11 Display Keywords Dialog Box 7-12 Conference Pull-Down Menu and Enable Moderator Menu Item 7-13 Add Member Dialog Box 7-14 Mail Dialog Box 7-15 Extract Notes Dialog Box 7-16 Directory of Conferences Dialog Box 7-17 Set Seen Dialog Box 7-18 Update Entry Dialog Box 7-19 Read Window, Notes Menu, and Print Menu Item TABLES 1-1 DEC Notes Command Summary 2-1 Navigation Commands 2-2 DIRECTORY Command Qualifiers 2-3 SAVE (or EXTRACT) Command Qualifiers 2-4 PRINT Command Qualifiers 3-1 REPLY Command Qualifiers 3-2 WRITE Command Qualifiers 4-1 Notebook Commands 4-2 ADD ENTRY Command Qualifiers 4-3 MODIFY ENTRY Command Qualifiers 4-4 Related Marker Commands 4-5 SET PROFILE Command Qualifiers 4-6 Recommended Default PRINT Qualifiers 5-1 Moderator Commands 5-2 Conference Types and Characteristics 5-3 ADD MEMBER Command Qualifiers 5-4 MODIFY MEMBER Command Qualifiers 5-5 SET CONFERENCE Command Qualifiers 6-1 SET NOTE Command Qualifiers