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- From: Jonathan Duddington
- Subject: Document Boxes (Folders)
- Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 23:20:00
- Source: docs
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- Each article is contained within one Box. Articles can be moved
- between boxes by using the Archive buttons (Green filing cabinet icons)
- in the Article Viewer and Article Lists windows.
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- A number of Boxes have been set up initially. You can add additional
- boxes or delete them.
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- Click with Select on the icon bar icon to bring up the list of
- document boxes.
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- Double-click on a box from the list to open it, displaying the
- articles which it contains. Note, if the box has the "Hide read
- items" shown, then only unread and locked articles will be seen when
- the box is opened. You can click on the Expand List button (up/down
- arrow icon) in the article list to toggle the hiding of read
- articles on and off.
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- Adjust-Double-Click on a box to edit it.
- Rename gives the box a different name.
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- Strip Internet Headers if this option is set, then internet headers
- will be stripped from an article when it enters this box.
- It is useful to strip headers from articles when putting them
- into "storage" boxes, to save space.
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- Hide Read Items.
- If this option is set, then only unread and locked articles will be
- displayed when the box is opened. If the sorting used for this box
- is multi-level, then a higher level item is shown if any of its
- members are unread or locked.
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- Password.
- Click on this button to add password protection to the Box.
- The password will be needed to:
- open the box,
- edit the box (including changing the password)
- move articles into the box from other boxes.
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- When specifying the password, you will be asked to type it
- twice, to avoid error. Once entered, the password cannot
- be read back, so make sure that you don't forget it.
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- To remove the password protection, set the password to nothing
- (i.e. leave the password field empty).
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- Editable Articles.
- If selected, then articles in this Box are editable
- without having to click on the Write button in the Article Viewer and
- choose the Edit option.
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- Archive To.
- This is the box to which articles in this box are archived to by
- Adjust clicking on the Archive button in the Article Viewer window,
- or an article list. (Select-clicking on an Archive button will
- display a menu of boxes for you to choose from).
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- Sort On.
- Specifies the order in which the article list for this box is to
- be sorted. The sort type also defines the layout of the article
- list.
- Sort types can be changed and added to by Preferences->Sorting from
- the icon bar menu.
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- Expiry.
- A value in days. Any unlocked articles which are older than
- this (as determined from their Date field) will be expired the
- next time that Pluto is started.
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- A value of zero indicates that no expiry is to take place.
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- The Preferences->Misc dialogue contains an "Allow Expiry" option.
- If that is not set, then no expiry will take place in any boxes.
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- Expiry To.
- This specifies which box articles are to be expired to.
- You can set this to "Bin" if you want to delete articles,
- or to another box, if you want to just move them somewhere else.
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- Use N/G Expiry Period.
- If this option is ticked, then the expiry period which has been
- set for each newsgroup will be used. If this is not a news article,
- or if the newsgroup does not have an expiry period set, then the
- expiry period for the Box will be used instead.
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- Delete.
- A box cannot be deleted if it has any articles in it.
- There is currently no check for whether it is referenced from
- other places (other boxes, news preferences, users preferences).
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- Changing the Order of the Boxes List
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- You can change the position of a box in the Boxes List.
- Select one box in the boxes list.
- Use Shift-Up-Arrow and Shift-Down-Arrow to move the box up or
- down in the list.
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- Show Outgoing Messages
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- The orange square (better icon is needed), shows a list of outgoing
- news and mail messages, which have been posted, and are awaiting
- connection to the Internet to be transmitted.
- Outgoing articles can be edited or deleted from that list.
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