CONTENTS Title Page Copyright Page Preface 1 Getting Started 1.1 DEC VTX Overview 1.1.1 Menus 1.1.2 Submenus and Pages 1.1.3 Navigation 1.1.4 Pages and Fields 1.1.5 Basic Navigation 1.1.6 Advanced Navigation 1.1.7 Multiple Choice Feature 1.1.8 Keywords 1.1.9 Search 1.1.10 Videotex Applications 1.1.11 Keypad Mappings 1.2 DEC VTX Functions 1.3 Editing Functions 1.4 DEC VTX Text Retrieval 1.4.1 Searches 1.4.2 Queries 1.4.3 Results Page 1.4.3.1 Menu Title 1.4.3.2 Result Line 2 Other DEC VTX Features 2.1 DEC VTX Multiple Language Support 2.1.1 Specifying Language 2.2 TCP/IP Server-to-Server Communications 2.3 Launchable Pages 2.3.1 How Launchable Pages Work 2.3.2 Adding a Launchable Page to your Infobase 2.3.3 Extracting a Launchable Page 2.3.4 Launch Definition Files 2.3.5 Location for Storing Temporary Files 2.3.5.1 MS-DOS 2.3.5.2 OpenVMS 2.3.6 O/S Call Used by Different Desktop Systems 2.3.7 Launchable Pages and Text Retrieval 2.4 PC Graphics Viewer for MS-DOS Client 2.5 Character Set Support 2.6 Date and Time Format 3 Customizing the VTX Environment 3.1 New Features in the Initialization File 3.2 VTX Client Initialization File Locations 3.3 How DEC VTX Determines Server Connections 3.4 Modifying the VTX Client Initialization File 3.4.1 Motif Section Default Values 3.4.2 Fonts Section Default Values 3.4.3 MS-DOS Client Colors Section Default Values 3.4.4 Connections Section Default Values 3.4.4.1 Transport Mechanism Default Values 3.4.5 Miscellaneous Section Default Values 3.4.5.1 Multi-language Clients 3.4.5.2 Date and Time 3.4.5.3 Keypad 3.4.5.4 Keyboard 3.4.5.5 Print Queues 3.4.6 KeyDefs Section Default Values 3.5 Intialization File for ALL-IN-1 Users 4 DEC VTX Text Retrieval 4.1 DEC VTX Text Retrieval Overview 4.1.1 Document 4.1.2 Index 4.1.3 Search Query 4.1.4 Matching a Query 4.1.4.1 Highlighting 4.1.5 Proximity Matching 4.1.6 Fields 4.1.7 Query Pages 4.1.8 Query Slaves 4.1.8.1 Automatic Reopen of Index 4.2 DEC VTX Text Retrieval Search Query 4.2.1 Search Query Expression 4.2.1.1 Search Query Expression Components 4.2.2 Proximity Expression 4.2.2.1 Proximity Expression Components 4.2.2.2 Proximity Subexpression 4.2.2.3 Determining Proximity 4.2.3 Searching by Date 4.2.4 Searches Using Hyphens 4.3 The DEC VTX Text Retrieval Index 4.3.1 Preparing the Text Retrieval Index 4.3.1.1 Document Preparation 4.3.2 Index Components 4.3.3 How Words Are Stored in the Index 4.3.3.1 Word Stemming 4.3.3.2 Stop Words 4.3.3.3 Indexing Examples 4.3.3.4 Effects of Stemming 4.3.4 Index Security 4.3.4.1 Use of Images 4.4 Using DEC VTX Text Retrieval 4.4.1 Creating a DEC VTX Text Retrieval Index 4.4.2 Making a Search Query 4.4.2.1 Results Page 4.4.2.2 Results Menus From a User's Viewpoint 4.4.2.3 Selecting a Document 4.4.3 Creating a DEC VTX Text Retrieval Database A DEC VTX Text Retrieval Commands A.1 VTXCTL Commands START CBR MODIFY CBR SHOW CBR STOP CBR OPEN/INDEX MODIFY/INDEX CLOSE/INDEX A.2 VTXUPD Commands CREATE/INDEX DELETE/INDEX OPEN/INDEX SHOW/INDEX MODIFY/INDEX INSERT/INDEX/PAGEFILE INSERT/INDEX/KEYWORDFILE INSERT/VISIBILITY_RANGE UPDATE/INDEX REMOVE/INDEX/PAGEFILE REMOVE/INDEX/KEYWORDFILE REMOVE/VISIBILITY_RANGE ADD/PAGE B Stop Words Used in DEC VTX Text Retrieval C Tokens and Sugar Words Used in DEC VTX Text Retrieval D Translated Commands E List of Launchable Page Codes Glossary EXAMPLES 4-1 Sample Results Menu 4-2 Poor Format Results Menu FIGURES 1-1 Print Dialog Box 1-2 Save Page Dialog Box TABLES 2-1 Language File Locations on OpenVMS, ULTRIX, and MS-DOS Systems 2-2 Launch Definition File Extensions 2-3 Launchable Pages Directory 2-4 How a Launch is Performed 3-1 OpenVMS Logical Names 3-2 ULTRIX Language Directories 3-3 [Motif] Section Default Values 3-4 [Fonts] Section Default Values 3-5 MS-DOS Client Colors Default Values 3-6 Failover Connections Default Values 3-7 Transport Mechanism Default Values 3-8 Default Prompt Values 3-9 Default Language Values 3-10 Date Format Default Values 3-11 Default Keypad Values 3-12 Default Keyboard Values 3-13 Print Files Default Values 3-14 Default Bindings [KeyDefs] Section Default Values 3-15 MS-DOS Default Key Definitions 4-1 Stemming Example 1 B-1 Where to Find Stop Words for Each Language B-2 Dutch Language Stop Words B-3 English Language Stop Words B-4 French Language Stop Words B-5 German Language Stop Words B-6 Italian Language Stop Words B-7 Spanish Language Stop Words B-8 Swedish Language Stop Words C-1 Tables of Translated Tokens and Sugar Words C-2 Dutch Tokens and Sugar Words C-3 English Tokens and Sugar Words C-4 French Tokens and Sugar Words C-5 German Tokens and Sugar Words C-6 Italian Tokens and Sugar Words C-7 Spanish Tokens and Sugar Words C-8 Swedish Tokens and Sugar Words D-1 Tables of Translated Commands D-2 Dutch Commands D-3 English Commands D-4 French Commands D-5 German Commands D-6 Italian Commands D-7 Spanish Commands D-8 Swedish Commands E-1 List of Launchable Page Codes