ULTRIX Worksystem Software DECwindows Desktop Applications Guide

This document, the "DECwindows Desktop Applications Guide," is a user manual for the ULTRIX Worksystem Software (Version 2.2, running on ULTRIX Operating System Version 3.0 or higher), published by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1989.

It provides instructions for ULTRIX DECwindows users on how to utilize a suite of desktop applications. The guide assumes familiarity with general DECwindows terms and window manipulation.

The applications covered include:

• Calculator: For arithmetic, memory functions, and special calculations.
• Calendar: For managing meetings, appointments, creating entries with alarms, marking special days, printing, and working with multiple calendars.
• Cardfiler: For creating, managing, searching, editing, and merging electronic index card files that can include text and graphics.
• Clock: For displaying time, setting alarms, and customizing its appearance.
• CDA Viewer: For viewing DIGITAL Document Interchange Format (DDIF) files.
• DECterm: A VT300-series terminal emulator, detailing window creation, customization (display, general features, keyboard, graphics, character sets), and composing special characters.
• Mail: For sending, reading, replying to, forwarding, printing, filing, and deleting electronic messages, as well as managing mail folders.
• Notepad Editor: A text editing program covering text input, formatting, scrolling, file editing (including text manipulation, searching, replacing), and font changes.
• Paint: A graphics program for creating and editing images using various tools (lines, shapes, paintbrush), patterns, and text, along with options for sizing and printing the canvas.
• PostScript® Previewer: For viewing formatted PostScript files, including options for page navigation and display customization.
• Puzzle: A video version of a number puzzle game.

The document generally explains how to start, operate, customize, and exit each application, detailing specific functions and features within each.