This document is the "ULTRIX Worksystem Software DECwindows Desktop Applications Guide", published by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1988. It details the Version 1.0 Desktop Applications for ULTRIX DECwindows.
The guide is intended for all ULTRIX DECwindows users who are already familiar with DECwindows concepts, window manipulation, and have experience with the DECwindows Session Manager and User Executive applications.
It provides instructions on how to use various desktop applications, including:
- Calculator: For basic arithmetic, memory functions, and data transfer.
- Calendar: For managing appointments, setting alarms, and customizing displays and multiple calendars.
- Cardfiler: For creating, managing, editing, and merging electronic index cards that can contain text and graphics.
- Clock: For displaying time and date, customizing its appearance, and setting alarms.
- DDIF Viewer: For viewing DIGITAL Document Interchange Format files.
- DECterm: A VT320 terminal emulator, with options for customization of windows, display, keyboard, and character sets.
- Mail: For sending, reading, replying to, forwarding, printing, filing, and deleting messages, and organizing them using folders.
- Notepad Editor: A text program for creating and editing text files, with features for formatting, searching, replacing, and recovering edits.
- Paint: A graphics program for creating, editing, and printing pictures, using various drawing tools, patterns, and text.
- PostScript Previewer: For viewing formatted PostScript files on-screen and customizing the display.
- Puzzling: A video version of a number puzzle game.