VMS DECwindows Desktop Applications Guide

This document serves as a user guide for the VMS DECwindows desktop applications under the VMS Version 5.3 operating system. It provides comprehensive instructions on using a suite of integrated tools to enhance a user's workstation experience. Key applications covered include:

• Bookreader: For accessing and navigating online documentation.
• CDA Viewer: For displaying Digital Document Interchange Format (DDIF) files, which contain both text and graphics.
• Calculator: A multi-functional calculator for arithmetic, trigonometric, and advanced operations, including memory and data transfer to other applications.
• Calendar: A personal appointment and scheduling tool for managing entries, setting alarms, marking special days, and working with multiple calendars.
• Cardfiler: An electronic index card system for organizing various types of information, with features for creating, editing, searching, and merging card files, including the incorporation of images.
• Clock: Displays time and date, offering customization options and an alarm function.
• DECterm: A VT300-series terminal emulator that allows users to create and customize terminal windows, manage text, and compose special characters.
• Extensible VAX Editor (EVE): A powerful text editor for creating and editing documents, featuring various editing modes, text formatting, search-and-replace, and extensive customization through key definitions and attributes.
• Mail: For sending, receiving, forwarding, printing, and managing electronic messages, including the organization of mail into drawers and folders.
• Notepad Editor: A simple text editor for everyday tasks such as note-taking, letter writing, and data file creation, with basic editing and formatting capabilities.
• Paint: A bitmap graphics program for creating and editing images using various art tools, shapes, patterns, and image manipulation functions (e.g., resizing, cropping, text insertion).
• Puzzle: A digital version of a sliding number puzzle game.

The guide also includes appendices detailing how to compose special characters and illustrating different national keyboard layouts.