To learn how to use the Help System, press the Enter or Return key on your keyboard to view the topic "Help
Help."
Minuet has context-sensitive help. Pressing F1 at any point will bring up help about the part of Minuet you are currently in. 7
Other general topics for which help is available are: 3
Composing
Messages
Viewing
Messages
How
Menus
How
Keys"
How
Dialog
Boxes
How
Mouse
Help
Contents
Help
Index
This is help for the help dlg.
Click on HELP for more info.
Manage menu
The Manage menu contains options for managing your existing messages. There are options for viewing different mail folders, selecting messages, creating new mail folders, moving messages between folders, deleting messages, and sorting messages.
Manage
Go to Folder...
"Go to Folder" lets you go to a different mail folder. You can also create or delete mail folders here.
Manage
Sort Folder...
"Sort folder" sorts the messages in the index window. You can sort by Name, subject, or date. 3
Any marked messages sort to the top on the index.
Manage
Move messages
"Move marked messages" moves all the marked messages to a folder of your choice. If no messages are marked, this item changes to "move this message".
Manage
Copy messages
"Copy marked messages" makes a copy of all the marked messages and puts the copies in a folder of your choice. If no messages are marked, this item changes to "Copy this message".
Manage
Trash messages
"Trash marked messages" trashes all the marked messages. Trashed messages go into the Trash folder. You can later retrieve or delete the messages in the Trash. If no messages are marked, this item changes to "Trash this message".
Manage
Mark/Unmark current message %
"Mark/Unmark current message" lets you mark or unmark the message you are currently looking at. You can also do this by double-clicking on the message line in the index, or by pressing the space bar.
You dont have to click on the messages one at a time-- You can mark many messages at a time with the Mark
All or Mark
messages
with... menu items.
Manage
Unmark All
"Unmark all" removes the checkmarks from all messages in the index.
Manage
Mark All
"Mark all" puts checkmarks by all the messages in the index. A subsequent delete or move command will operate on all the messages in the current folder.
Manage
Mark messages with...
"Mark messages with..." lets you mark all messages that contain a word or phrases. You can specify a subset by specifying "cat AND dog" or be more inclusive by saying "cat OR dog".
Manage
Empty Trash
"Empty Trash" throws away all the messages you've put into the trash. You'll want to do this periodically as the trash piles up. At any time before this you can retrieve messages out of the trash folder.
The Viewer
The viewer window is where you read your incoming messages. t
At the very top right of the window, there is an Index check box that controls whether you can see view the index. H
Below that is the From box which shows the name of the message sender. <
Below that are the Date and Subject lines for the message. (
Below that is the body of the message. g
Click on any of the highlighted words above for more help on that specific part of the viewer window.
The large box taking up most of the window is where the body of your messages appears.
If the message body is larger than this area, you can browse thru the message with the arrow keys. If you have a mouse, you can also use the scroll bar to the right of the body.
You can copy text out of the body of a message with the Edit|Copy menu item. You can also save the message to a text file with the File|Save as... menu item.
You can also edit the body of the message by typing, but the changes are not saved. This helps to somewhat preserve the integrity of incoming mail.
The Index
The Index displays a summary of all the messages in this mail folder. The display includes the name of the sender, the subject, and the message date. n
You can turn the index display on or off by clicking on the Index check box at the top of the viewer window. ~
You can go to any message in the index by clicking on the desired line in the index, or scrolling to it with the arrow keys.
Only a few lines of the index are visible on screen. If you have more than 10 messages, you can browse thru the index with the arrow keys, or by using the scroll bar to the right of the index.
With the "Manage" menu, you can select messages to be moved, deleted, or copied to other mail folders. You can also sort the index by name, subject, or date.
Note: In Minuet 1.0, only the first 300 messages in any one mail folder are displayed in the index. This will likely leap upward in future versions to several thousand.
For this reason, and general cleanliness, you'll probably want to move related mail messages to separate mail folders instead of letting them all pool in the main "INBOX" folder.
The From: field in the viewer displays the name of the person who sent the message.
If you scroll down this field with the arrow keys, you'll also see the complete mail header for this message. This is sometimes useful information.
[X] Index C
You can turn the index display on or off with the index checkbox.
If you turn the index checkbox on, the top area of the viewer window displays an index
messages in the current mail folder. H
If you turn the index off, you see the From: and Subject: lines again.
The Composer Body 6
You type your message into this area of the screen.
Type in as much as you like. @
You can move around your message with the arrow keys or mouse. s
You can use the Edit|Cut, Copy and Paste menu items to edit your message and to move text in from other messages. i
You can attach Enclosures to your message. An enclosure can be any IBM PC or Macintosh file or program.
If you want to include the whole text of another message, its often easier to press the Reply button to automatically generate a reply message with the original text included.
The Subject Line 2
Enter a descriptive title for your message here.
This is where you enter the e-mail addresses of the people you wish to receive your message. You can enter any number of addresses here.
Addresses are usually the person's email-name followed by an at sign (@) followed by the name of the computer that receives their mail. Their email-name is usually a contraction of their full name. m
If you don't know someone's email-name, you can often look it up with the Address
accessory in Minuet.
Typical addresses might be: 1
jdoe@tech.inst.edu
fgumby@bigbucks.com
If the recipient is on the same computer as you, you dont need to enter the computer's name. i.e. you are joe@abc.edu, you can shorten 5
"kim@abc.edu, sam@abc.edu, sal@abc.edu"
to just
"kim, sam, sal"
The CC: area is where you specify the names of people who are to receive "carbon copies" of your message. A "carbon copy" is identical in content to a regular copy of a message, except it imparts a slightly lower status.
BCC: I
The BCC: area is where you specify the names of people who are to receive "blind carbon copies" of your message. A "blind carbon copy" is identical in content to a regular copy of a message, except that the bcc recipent's names are NOT shown anywhere in the message. This is a way to spin off "secret copies" of your message.
NEWS:
The News: area is where you specify the names of newsgroups that are to receive copies of your message. Note that newsgroups are distributed worldwide, so don't do this unnecessarily.
The To: button
This button is normally on. z
When this button is on, any names you enter in the area to the right will be used as the to: addresses for your message.
The cc: button z
When this button is on, any names you enter in the area to the right will be used as the cc: addresses for your message.
When this button is on, any names you enter in the area to the right will be used as the bcc: addresses for your message.
Click on this button to generate a reply message.
Minuet automatically fills in the To: field with the name of the message sender. As a preference
option, Minuet will also insert the original message into the body of your reply.
(System) menu
(Alt-Spacebar)
The System menu appears on the far left of the menu bar and is represented by the
symbol. Alt-Spacebar is a keyboard shortcut that may be pressed at any time to pull down this menu. /
menu contains the following menu items:
About
Address
Global
Address
Telnet
Calculator
Base
Calendar
ASCII
Table
IP
Finder
Ping
Webster
About Minuet
When you choose the About command from the
(System) menu, a dialog box appears, showing copyright and version information. 8
Press Esc, click OK, or click Cancel to close the box.
Calculator
The calculator is a simple four-function calculator. Numbers and numerical operations are selected by clicking on the calculator buttons or by using the keyboard.
Base Calc
Base Calc is a calculator that can work in several number bases. Numbers and numerical operations are selected by clicking on the calculator buttons or by using the keyboard.
Calendar
The calendar is a simple electronic calendar. The current month appears automatically, but you can use the arrow keys or the calendar buttons to move to a future or past month.
ASCII Table
Use this desk accessory to look up the ASCII codes for any character, including special foreign language characters.
Setup
Lines/Screen
The Lines/Screen command will switch between low resolution mode (25 line mode) and high resolution mode (43/50 line). This only works on EGA or VGA screens.
IP Finder
This desk accessory will look up the IP address of any internet name.
Webster
This desk accessory will look up the definition of a word in a dictionary. The dictionary is provided by a Webster server.
The Telnet desk accessory is a light-duty terminal window with VT-100 emulation. It is not complete yet, but can be used for simple tasks.
Global Address Book
You can use the Global Address Book desk accessory to look up various kinds of information. Most often, you might want to look up someone's e-mail address, given that you have their "human" name.
Background
Many mail host computers have set up "Finger" servers which can look up names for you. +
The sophistication of these servers vary.
The simplest ones can only do exact email-name matching. So if you can guess at someone's email-address, these servers will verify if it exists or not.
For instance, if you know there is someone named "Steve E. Collins" at mail host "boombox.micro.umn.edu", you might try asking for: @
scollins@boombox.micro.umn.edu returns ????? (No info)
sec@boombox.micro.umn.edu confirms that he exists.
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Fancier servers will look up partial names. For instance, the server at "umn.edu" will look up partial "human" names. So inquiring about 2
Steve Collins@umn.edu returns a pile of info:
U of M Address Book
At the University of Minnesota, you can use this as an electronic phone book. For example, to look up all people with the name Hickman at the University of Minnesota, you would type in HICKMAN. You'll see all information pertaining to Hickmans in the University phone book.
Often their information will include an email-address. You can copy this address from here and paste it into the To: area of a message. g
If there is no email-address listed, then that person may have asked that that info not be given out. M
This address book can be configured to get info from
other
address
servers.
The "U of M" address book can be changed to talk to an address server at other sites.
You can do this by setting 3 environment variables in DOS:
Set "POPDNAME" to the name you want to appear instead of "U of M"
Set "POPCNAME" to the name of computer you want to interrogate.
Set "POPCPORT" to the port number to connect to.
For instance, if you have a finger-style server running on a computer named "admin.moo.umn.edu" at "MooTown College" on port 666: `
C:\> SET POPDNAME=Mootown College
C:\> SET POPCNAME=admin.moo.umn.edu
C:\> SET POPCPORT=666
The server must use the general "finger" style protocol. i.e. the client sends a query string, and the server responds with an arbitrary amount of text.
Ping
"Ping" lets you check to see if another computer can communicate with yours. Type in the name of anothe computer and press "Ping". Minuet will send 100 echo requests to that computer and report the percentage of them that make it back to your computer.
Setup Menu
The Setup menu lets you change Minuet options. l
User...
Servers...
Network...
Preferences...
Signature...
Groups...
Printer...
Lines/Screen
Trace
Setup
Preferences...
Minuet is designed so that you can customize the program to meet your needs. The Preferences dialog box allows you to customize several Minuet options.
The options you can set are:
Include
reply
Add
signature
outgoing
Save
outgoing
Check
startup
Prompt
password
43/50
default
Use the mouse to click in the little box to the left of each option in order to toggle the preference ON or OFF (when an X appears in the box to the left of preference, it is turned ON). 0
Using the keyboard you can toggle a preference by pressing the Alt key together with the letter that is highlighted for the preference in question; or, press the <TAB> key repeatedly until the desired preference is selected [highlighted] and then press the Spacebar to toggle that preference ON or OFF. }
If you don't like the default values, you are free to change them at any time. Minuet permanently remembers your settings.
Setup
Signature
This menu item brings up a dialog box that lets you enter a signature that can be appended to outgoing mail.
Setup
Network...
The Network dialog box allows you to set various Network configuration values. 7
Address Advanced
Gateways
Name
Servers
There are three major groups of configurable items:
User
configuration
Server
configuration
Network
configuration
Setup
User...
The Setup User dialog box allows you to set up information about you and your mail account. You can also specify the time zone and language. L
User
Name Time
Password Language
Subdirectory
Setup
Servers...
The Setup Servers dialog box allows you to set up the names of network servers that you want to use.
Mail
File
Print
Prints the topmost window to the currently selected printer. You can print the composer, viewer, or any open file window.
Setup
Printer...
The Printer SetUp menu item allows you to specify which printer port to use for printing. You can also enter a printer
initialization string and an end-of-print string.
Setup
Trace...
This menu item allows you to set up optional tracing of the execution of Minuet. Minuet can write trace information to a file or to a special window.
This feature is useful in trying to track down problems you may have running Minuet. It is particularly useful in trying to isolate network problems.
File
Exit (Alt-X)
Use the Exit command when you are done using Minuet.
Edit (Alt-E)
The Edit menu provides commands to cut, copy, and paste find, and replace text in Edit windows. D
You can also open a Clipboard window to view or edit its contents. /
You can choose from these Edit menu commands: O
Undo
Copy
Paste
Clear
Select
Find
Replace
Find
Again
Edit
This will undo the last change made to the text in the current window. It will undo the last cut, copy, paste, or typing.
Edit
Cut (Shift-Del)
The Cut command removes the selected text from your document and places the text in the Clipboard. x
You can then choose Edit
Paste to paste the cut text into any other document (or somewhere else in the same document). [
The text remains selected in the Clipboard so you can paste it as many times as you want.
Edit
Copy (Ctrl-Ins)
The Copy command leaves the selected text intact but places an exact copy of it in the Clipboard. F
To paste the copied text into any other document, choose Edit
Paste.
Edit
Paste (Shift-Ins)
The Paste command inserts the selected text from the Clipboard into the current window at the cursor position.
Edit
Clear
The Clear command deletes the selected text. It does not save the text anywhere.
Edit
Select All
The Select All command selects everything in the current field.
Edit
Rot 13
The Rot 13 command encypts the selected text using the popular "rot 13" method. You can use this to encrypt or decrypt text. Note that this is not a secure encryption method.
Edit
Find...
The Find command displays the Find dialog box, where you type in the text for which you want to search. C
Find will search for text within the current text edit selection.
Edit
Replace...
The Replace command displays the Replace dialog box, where you type in the text you want to search for and text you want to replace it with. F
Replace will search for text within the current text edit selection.
Edit
Find Again
The Find Again command repeats the last Find or Replace command. ]
All settings you made in the Find dialog box remain in effect when you choose Search Again.
Edit
Clear Composer
Selecting "Clear Composer" from the edit menu will clear all text that has been entered into the composer window. This allows you to start over with a new message.
Sending Mail to an Alias
With Minuet you can easily send a message to a group of people. You don't even have to retype all their names as Minuet can remember groups of people. A Alias is simply a list of recipients (E-mail addresses) that have been given a name. ]
For example, you could create a Alias called Marx composed of these three E-mail addresses: *
Marx harpo@squeezebox.circus.umn.edu Q
groucho@cigarbox.opera.umn.edu
chico@bandbox.hollywood.umn.edu
Make
Alias
Select
Alias
Setup
Aliases...
You can create and edit Aliases with the Setup|Aliases... menu item. A window will appear where you can enter a name for the Alias and the recipients you want to include in the group. r
This window is currently in a "free format". This means you are responsible for mainiaining the correct layout. o
First you enter the Alias name you've chosen Follow this with the name, or names of the members of the group. D
Within an alias, multiple names are separated by spaces or commas. K
At the end of each alias, leave a blank line between it and the next one. D
Example: Here are two aliases named "marxes" and "presidents". Y
presidents Nixon@clemente.gob, Ford@lansing.gov, Carter@plains.misc s
clinton@wh.gov, Mitterand@versailles.fr
Thatcher@parlmt.uk, Major@whitehall.uk
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When you have finished editing aliases, click on the oK button to save your changes.
Alias...
To send mail to a Alias you have already defined, press the "Alias" key (F6). A box appears giving you a list of all your Alias names. Select the Alias by pressing the up and down arrow keys until the desired Alias becomes highlighted. Then click on the Select button to select that Alias. If you have a mouse you can just click on the desired Alias.
The "To" field of the Composer window will be filled in automatically with the full E-mail addresses of the members of the Alias; the Alias name itself does not appear in the To box.
File Menu
The File Menu lets you access a text file editor, and printing. The text editor is a simple ASCII text editor that lets you open up multiple windows for the purpose of importing and editing ASCII text. Cut, Copy , Paste, New, Open and Save operations are supported, as well as a Find and Replace facility. File Editor commands are accessed through the File and Edit pull-down menus located in Minuet's main menu bar. -
Change
Directory
Open
Save
Save
File
Change Dir...
Change Dir brings up the Change
Directory dialog box, where you can specify a directory to make current. S
The current directory is the one Minuet uses to save files and to look for files.
File
The Open command displays the Open
File dialog box. In this dialog box, you select the text file you want to open in an Edit window. &
The Open a File dialog box contains:
an input box with a history list
a list box to traverse
the standard Cancel and Help action buttons
Open action button
an information panel that describes the
selected file
File
New opens a new Edit window with the default name Untitled. These UNTITLEd files are used as a temporary edit buffer; Minuet prompts you to name an UNTITLEd file when you save it.
File
Save (F2)
The Save command saves the file that's in the active Edit window to disk.
If the file has the default name (Untitled), Minuet opens the Save File As dialog box so you can rename the file and save it in a different directory or on a different drive.
File
Save As...
Save As opens up the Save
dialog
box, where you can save the topmost window to the text file of your choice. You can save Editor windows, or the Viewer or Composer windows. ]
You can enter the new file name, including the drive and directory, and click or choose OK.
Window (Alt-W)
The Window menu contains commands for manipulating and opening windows.
Most of the windows you open from this menu have all the standard window elements, like scroll bars, a close box, and zoom icons. S
Close
Resize/move
Next
Window
Zoom
Cascade
Viewer
Composer
Show
clipboard
Window
Size/Move
You can move the Viewer and Composer windows, as well as dialog boxes, by using a mouse or the keyboard. Using a mouse, place the mouse cursor on the top bar of the window frame, press the left mouse button, and continue to hold the mouse button down while dragging the window to a new location, then release the mouse button. Using the keyboard, press Ctrl-F5 (or select "Resize/Move" from the Window pull-down menu and use the four arrow keys to move the window. Press <ENTER> when done.)
The Clipboard window (you can view the clipboard by selecting "Show Clipboard" from the Edit menu) and the Trace Window can be resized as well as moved. To resize a window using the mouse, grab the lower right corner of the frame and press the left mouse button, dragging the mouse until the desired size is achieved; or, using the keyboard, select "Resize/Move" from the Window menu and use the arrow keys while holding the Shift key down. Press <ENTER> when done. In general, the Composer window, the Viewer window, and dialog boxes cannot be resized. However, in 43/50 (high-resolution) mode, you can click on the zoom box (the little square in the upper right-hand corner of the window) to change the window back and forth from full screen to half-screen.
Window
Close (Alt-F3)
Choose Close to close the active window. N
You can also click the Close box in the upper left corner to close a window.
Window
Next (Alt-F6)
Choose Next cycles you to the next window. You always have (at least) the Viewer and Composer windows to cycle through.
Window
Zoom (Alt-F9)
Choose Zoom to resize the active window to the maximum size.
You can also double-click anywhere on the window's title bar (except where an icon appears), or on the Zoom box in the window's upper right corner, to zoom or unzoom the window.
Window
Cascade
Choose Window
Cascade to stack all open Edit windows. Cascading has no effect on the Viewer and Composer windows. A
Cascaded Edit Windows
Window
Viewer
Selecting "Viewer" from the "Window" menu will put the Viewer
Window in front of any other windows on your screen. The Viewer Window shows your incoming mail messages.
Window
Composer
Selecting "Composer" from the "Window" menu will put the Compose
Window in front of any other windows on your screen. The Compose Window is used to write mail messages you wish to send.
Window
Show Clipboard
The Show Clipboard command opens the Clipboard window, which stores the text you cut and copy from other windows. Any text you cut or copy is put into the Clipboard. d
The currently selected (highlighted) Clipboard text is the text Minuet uses when you choose Paste.
Help for the HELP menu.
HELP CONTENTS
Help
Menus
Keys
Editor
Commands
Viewer
Window
Composer
Window
Configuring
Minuet
Printing
Groups
Files
Windows
Help Index
ACK, ASCII
Table, About
Dialog
Box, About
Dialog, Advanced
Configuration, Append
Signature "
Calculator, Calendar, Cancel
Button, Cascade
Windows, Case
Sensitive
Search, Change
Directory, Changing
Directory, Character
Set, Check
Boxes, Check
Mail, Clear
Composer, Client/Server
Trace, Close
Window, Command
Keys, Composer
Window, Configure
Menu, Connect
Timeout, Copy, Cut "
Dialog
Usage, Domain
Server .
Menu, Editing
Text, End
Print
String >
Dialog, Find
Text, Find, Finger
Port, Finger, Full
Name "
Gateway, Alias
List, Groups
Menu J
Contents, Help
Menu, Help, High
Resolution
Mode, Host, Hotkey
Usage P
Timeout, IP
Address, Include
Text, Initialization
String, Input
Boxes )
LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, Languages, List
Boxes h
Host, Mail
Subdirectory, Make
Alias, Make
Groups, Mask, File
Editor, Menu
Bar, Menus
Usage, Mouse A
Lookup, Name
Server, Name, Net
Mask, New
File, Next
Window $
Button, Open
File, Options
Menu
Port, Password
Prompt, Password, Paste, Preferences
Menu, Previous
Topic, Print
Menu, Printer
Print
String, Printer
String, Printer
Setup, Printer
Setup, Prompt
Replace, Push
Buttons
Quit u
Radio
Buttons, Real
Name, Replace
All, Replace
Dialog, Replace, Replacement
Text, Reside
Window, Retransmit
Timeout
As, Save
File, Save
Outgoing
Mail, Search
Again, Segment
Maximum, Select
Alias, Select
Alias, Show
Clipboard, Signature, Status
Bar, System
Menu
layer
Trace, Time
Zones, Trace
Dialog, Trace
File, Trace
Message
Receive, Trace
Message
Send, Trace
Off, Trace
Window, Trace
file, Trace, Transmit
Unit
Undo, User
Name, Using
Help
Video
Mode, Viewer
Window
Whole
Search, Window
Menu
Window }
Help
Previous Topic
When you're in the Help system
Alt-F1
and want to go back to a previous
Help screen, you can page back-
ward through the last 20 Help
[Previous]
screens you viewed.
There are three ways to re-view Help screens:
1) Press Alt-F1.
2) If you're in a Turbo Help (dialog-style)
window, choose the Previous button.
3) If you're in a regular Help window,
choose Previous from the Help menu.
See also: +
Welcome to On-line Help Help
Contents
How to Use On-line Help
(To read all of this screen, scroll down.) G
You can use Minuet's on-line Help from the Help menu or via hot keys.
Wherever you are in Minuet
F1
you can press F1 to see a
Help screen about the menu
command or dialog-box item that's
currently active.
To learn more about using on-line
|| <>
Help, use the arrow keys to move the
cursor to one of the following Help
keywords and press Enter.
If you're viewing this screen in a
Tab
regular Help window, you can Tab to
the Help keywords, then press Enter.
If you're using a mouse, just click
Mouse
the Help keyword you're interested
in.
Choose one of these to find out more about the Help menu: y
Index
Contents
Previous
Topic
Help
Help
[ OK ]
If you choose this button, the settings you've made in the dialog box will be recorded in Minuet.
[ CANCEL ]
If you choose cancel, nothing changes and no action occurs, but the dialog box is put away. X
ESC is always a keyboard shortcut for cancel, even if a cancel button does not appear.
Dialog Help Not Implemented
[ Special Thanks to... ]
Thanks to the others who helped.
Calculator
Calendar
ASCII Character Set Table
Change Video Mode
Find an IP address
Finger a user
Preferences Dialog
[X] Include mail text in Reply
This feature is used in conjunction with the Reply button in the Viewer window. When you turn on this preference, Minuet will include the original message's text in the reply. To differentiate the incoming message from your reply, Minuet places a greater than (>) symbol before each line of the original message.
[X] Add signature to outgoing mail
When you turn on this option, Minuet will automatically end each of your outgoing messages with a signature block of your choice. You compose the signature with the Setup|Signature... menu item.
[X] Save copy of outgoing Mail
When you turn on this option,Minuet will automatically place a copy of each outgoing message into the SENTMAIL mail folder.
[X] Check for Mail at StartUp
If you turn on this option, Minuet automatically fetches any mail waiting for you as soon you start Minuet.
[X] Prompt for password
When you turn on this option, Minuet will require you to enter your password every time you start Minuet. The password will not be stored in the configuration file.
[X] 43/50 Line Mode as default
When you turn on this option, Minuet will display as many lines on the screen as your computer can display. You can override this option with the Lines/Screen command under the Setup menu to switch to between low (25) and high (43 or 50 line) display.
[ Test ]
This button tests your username and password for validity.
[ Test ]
This button tests the IP parameters for validity. It tries to "ping" each of the Gateways and Name Servers listed.
[ Test ]
This button tests the server names and port numbers for validity. It tries to connect to each of the servers listed.
Setup
Signature...
You can design a signature block of your choice here. This allows you to attach your full name, address, phone number, and similar information to your messages.
Dialog Help Not Implemented
User Name
Enter your user name in this text box. This User Name corresponds to the User Name (sometimes called the account name) that has been assigned to you for use on the host mail server. Generally, the host mail server will be a Unix machine, and by convention, Unix machines use all lower-case letters, so be careful not to capitalize letters in your user name when they shouldn't be.
Password
The Password is the key word that the host mail server uses to validate your user name. The person who sets up your account on the host mail server will assign you this password. Warning: Be sure to type in your password exactly as it was assigned, (again, be careful of upper- and lower-case considerations). Note that when you enter your password in the Configure dialog box, you will not see your actual password displayed on the screen. This is a security feature of the Minuet program, since it prevents people from viewing your password as you enter it.
Host computer
This is the name or IP address of the computer you are using as a host mail server for running Minuet. Every computer on the TCP/IP (world-wide) network has a unique numerical address called an IP address. The IP address looks something like 128.101.63.1. In much the same way as the post office uses home addresses to distinguish one residence from another, the network uses IP addresses to distinguish one computer from another when delivering electronic mail.
In addition to having an IP address, each computer on the network often has a name, e.g., vx.acs.umn.edu. Although both the IP address and name are unique for each computer, they don't have equal status. Specifying the host mail server's IP address will always work to identify the host computer successfully, while specifying its name identifier may not always work. You can use either the host computer name or IP address. The advantage in using the name, although it is less reliable on the network, is that it's easier to remember a name than it is to remember a series of numbers. If you use a name, the name will be converted to an IP address by a computer on the network called a name server.
Subdirectory for mail
Minuet writes a copy of each message you receive to a file on your personal computer, one file per message. This parameter specifies the drive and subdirectory for Minuet to use when saving your messages. If this subdirectory does not exist on your disk, Minuet will create it for you.
Gateway
A gateway is a device which gives your computer access to the outside world, by transferring information from one type of network to another. If you want to use Minuet to send messages beyond your local area network (LAN), you must specify the IP address of one or more gateways to which your LAN has access. If more than one gateway is available to you, it is to your advantage to enter more than one, increasing the chance that you will find one that is up and running when Minuet needs it. A gateway moves your Minuet information off your LAN and routes it on to the outside world. Contact your network administrator for the IP address of gateways accessible to your LAN. e
You can leave this field blank if your system administrator is assigning IP addresses with "BOOTP".
Name server
As discussed in the "Host
Computer" section, a name server converts a host mail server name into an IP address. You type in the IP address of your name server in this parameter field (see your network administrator for the value to enter). If more than one name server is available to you, it is to your advantage to enter more than one IP address, increasing the chance that you will find a name server that is up and running when Minuet needs it.
You can leave this
field blank if your system administrator is assigning IP addresses with "BOOTP".
[ Time Zone ]
If you choose this button, you will be allowed to configure your local time zone.
Time Zones
The Time Zone List Box allows you to indicate your time zone, if you are
not located within the Central Standard Time zone of the United States, which is the default setting. To indicate your time zone, use the scroll arrows or the up-down arrow keys, to select your time zone from the list. Once your time zone is highlighted, type the <ENTER> key or click on the oK button. 3
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
EST Eastern Standard Time.
EDT Eastern Daylight Savings Time.
CST Central Standard Time.
CDT Central Daylight Savings Time.
MST Mountain Standard Time.
MDT Mountain Daylight Savings Time.
PST Pacific Standard Time.
PDT Pacific Daylight Savings Time.
[ Test ]
Press this button to test this configuration of gateways and name servers. A summary box will summarize the results.
[ Language ]
If you select this button, you will be allowed to select your language for which character set to use.
Language
The Language List Box pops up when the Language software button is activated. The Language List Box allows you to indicate the human language (e.g., Swedish, English, etc.) you use to communicate. To indicate your chosen language, use the scroll arrows or the up-down arrow keys, to select your language from the list. Once your preferred language is highlighted, type the <ENTER> key or click on the oK button.
Network Dialog
Most users will not have an occasion to use the Network Configure dialog box. Minuet has default parameters which are appropriate for most network environments. However, if you encounter problems in installing or using Minuet on your network, consult your network administrator to see whether it might be helpful to alter the configuration parameters described in the next section. C
When you have finished entering the parameters, click on the oK button to have Minuet save your changes to the configuration. If you decide you don't want your parameter changes to be saved, click on the Cancel button. If you select this menu item you will be allowed to set a number of low-level configuration options: `
Connect
Timeout
Timeout
Mask
Retransmit
Timeout
Segment
Maximum
PC's IP address
This is the IP address of your individual microcomputer or workstation. See your network administrator for a microcomputer IP address assignment. You can leave this field blank if your system administrator is assigning IP addresses with "BOOTP".
Net mask
You should leave this field blank if your system administrator is assigning IP addresses with "BOOTP".
The net mask depends on how your local area network is configured and connected to the backbone network. Your network administrator will know the correct value to enter here. Most sites are configured to use a net mask of 255.255.255.0 (the default value).
Domain request timeout (sec)
This parameter sets the maximum number of seconds allowed for the name server on the network to convert your computer's host mail server name to an IP address. The default value is set to 20 seconds. If an error dialog box is displayed stating "Domain name request failed" when trying to send or fetch messages, you may need to increase this value.
Connect timeout (sec)
When Minuet attempts to connect to the host mail server, this parameter sets the maximum number of seconds Minuet will wait before the host mail server will acknowledge your attempt to connect. The default value of 20 seconds is sufficient for most mail servers. If an error dialog box is displayed stating "Open failed" when trying to send or fetch messages, try increasing this value.
I/O timeout (sec)
This parameter sets the maximum time allowed for Minuet to send and receive data from your computer to the host mail server. With the default value of 20 seconds, Minuet will wait 20 seconds for a response from the host mail server. If a response does not come through within 20 seconds, Minuet will present an error dialog box stating "error reading from network" or "error writing to network" and will abort the Send or Fetch operation in progress. Again, if your host mail server is slow and frequently times out, you may need to increase this parameter value.
Retransmit timeout (sec)
This parameter sets the length of time in seconds Minuet will wait before retransmitting a packet whose earlier transmission was not acknowledged. The default is one second.
Max transmit unit in bytes: MTU
This parameter specifies the maximum allowable packet size that Minuet will transmit in bytes. The default is 1024 (1K) bytes. You may have to trim this down if your network has gateways that cant handle these size packets.
Max segment we can receive: MAXSEG
This parameter specifies the maximum size packet in bytes that a host mail server is allowed to transmit to Minuet. The default is 1024 (1K) bytes for most networks, 512 for SLIP networks. You may have to trim this down if your network has gateways that can't handle these size packets.
Most bytes we can receive without ACK
This parameter sets the maximum send/receive TCP window size in bytes. The default is 2048 (2K) bytes.
Server Port
Mail
Enter the ip name of the mail server computer and the port number of the POP server. This port number is usually 109 or 110.
Server Port
Telnet
Enter the ip name of the computer you wish to Telnet (log in) to. You can also enter the port number of the Telnet service. This port number is usually 23.
Server Port
Gopher
Enter the ip name of the Gopher server computer. You can also enter a port number for this server. This port number is usually 70.
Server Port
Webster
Enter the ip name of the Webster server computer. You can also specify a port number. This port number is usually 2627.
Server Port
News
Enter the ip name of the News server computer. You can also specify a port number. This port number is usually 119. If your site has a "NewsInfo" server, you'll get even better performance by specifying the port of the NewsInfo server, usually 7119.
Server Port
FTP
Enter the ip name of the FTP server computer. You can also specify a port number. This port number is usually 21.
Server Port
Finger
Enter the ip name of the Finger server computer. You can also specify a port number. This port number is usually 79.
Your full name
This is your full name in real life, e.g. John A. Doe. Minuet usually gets your full name from the SMTP server so you should be able to leave this field blank. In some cases, the server won't be able to get your name. You can use this field to supplement the information returned by the server.
Reply-To address
Usually you can leave this blank and recipients will reply directly to you E-Mail address. If you want replies to go to a different address, enter it here.
POP port
This parameter specifies the port Minuet will use to connect with the POP server. The default value is port 109. This is the default POP2 port. If you are using a mail server that uses the POP3 protocol you will probably need to change this value to 110.
Finger port
The port on the host for Finger support. This is normally port 79.
User Name
You can enter your user name in this text box. This User Name corresponds to the User Name (sometimes called the account name) that has been assigned to you for use on the host mail server. If you are running Minuet on a single local machine, this will be the name of the directory for keeping your personal mail.
Full Name
This is your full name in real life, e.g. John A. Doe. This name will be used in the mail headers to help others identify you.
Post Office Directory
When running Minuet on a single shared machine, the mail to and from other users is kept in a shared directory. Enter the name of this shared directory in this field.
Your Mail Directory
When running Minuet on a single shared machine, the mail to you is moved from the shared Post Office Directory into your own mail directory when you fetch it. Enter the name of your personal mail directory in this field.
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Printer:
You can specify the printer here. This is the printer on your computer to which Minuet will direct all printed output. Good choices might be LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, COM1. Some networks may have other printer names.
Printer initialization string
Enter any initialization string you want sent to the printer. This string will be sent to the printer before any printed output is sent. If you want to enter control characters, type uparrow (Shift-6) followed by a letter.
End of print string
Enter any string you want sent to the printer at the end of any printed output. If you want to enter control characters, type uparrow (Shift-6) followed by a letter.
A common end of print string is called "Form Feed", which starts a new page on many printers, and finishes the current partially printed page. )
You can enter "Form Feed" by typing ^L.
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Trace Method
Use these radio buttons to select where trace output should be displayed. You can either turn tracing off, have it displayed in a special trace window, or have it written to a DOS file. =
( ) Trace off
If you select this radio button, Minuet will not perform any tracing. a
( ) Trace to trace window
If you select this radio button, Minuet will create a special trace window and display all trace output in this window. I
( ) Trace to file
If you select this radio button, Minuet will write all trace output to a file. You can enter the file name in the text box directly to the right of this radio button.
Trace Method
Use these radio buttons to select where trace output should be displayed. You can either turn tracing off, have it displayed in a special trace window, or have it written to a DOS file. =
( ) Trace off
If you select this radio button, Minuet will not perform any tracing. a
( ) Trace to trace window
If you select this radio button, Minuet will create a special trace window and display all trace output in this window. I
( ) Trace to file
If you select this radio button, Minuet will write all trace output to a file. You can enter the file name in the text box directly to the right of this radio button.
Trace Method
Use these radio buttons to select where trace output should be displayed. You can either turn tracing off, have it displayed in a special trace window, or have it written to a DOS file. =
( ) Trace off
If you select this radio button, Minuet will not perform any tracing. a
( ) Trace to trace window
If you select this radio button, Minuet will create a special trace window and display all trace output in this window. I
( ) Trace to file
If you select this radio button, Minuet will write all trace output to a file. You can enter the file name in the text box directly to the right of this radio button.
[X] TCP layer
If you select this checkbox and turn on tracing, Minuet will provide information on all network activity at the TCP layer.
[X] Client/server interactions
If you select this checkbox and turn on tracing, Minuet will provide information on all network transaction between your Minuet machine and your mail host machine.
[X] Show body: receive
If you select this checkbox and turn on tracing, Minuet will display in the trace output the body of each message you receive.
[X] Show body: send
If you select this checkbox and turn on tracing, Minuet will display in the trace output the body of each message you send.
File:
Enter the name of the DOS file onto which Minuet should write all trace output.
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Case sensitive.
Text to find
The Text to Find input box is where you enter the search string. >
To begin the search, choose OK; choose Cancel to forget it.
[X] Case sensitive
When Case sensitive is checked on, Minuet differentiates between upper case and lower case letters when performing a search.
[X] Whole words only
When the Whole words only option is checked, Minuet will search for words only. The match string must have punctuation or spaces on both sides.
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New Text
Use this box to enter your replacement string. \
If you choose OK, Minuet will find the string above, and then replace it with this string.
[X] Case sensitive
When Case sensitive is checked on, Minuet differentiates between upper case and lower case letters when performing a search.
[X] Whole words only
When the Whole words only option is checked, Minuet will search for words only. The match string must have punctuation or spaces on both sides.
[X] Prompt on replace
Check this box if you want Minuet to ask for your approval before it replaces the string.
[X] Replace all
Check this box if you want Minuet to replace every occurance of the search string in the entire message.
In this dialog you can:
Choose a mail folder.
Create a new mail folder. !
Delete an existing mail folder.
Make Alias
You can create Aliases in this text box. z
To create a Alias, put the Alias name on a line. After this name, enter the e-mail address of each member of the Alias.
Groups
Select Alias
This is a list of the names that were created with Make Alias. You can select one of these names, and address to it the message in the composer window.
[ Select ]
If you choose this button, Minuet will extract the Alias list you have selected, and insert it into the To field of the message in the composer window.
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Minuet Menus
Minuet offers everything you need to write, edit, send, and receive mail.
The menu bar at the top of the screen is the gateway to the menus. To go to the menu bar, press F10, or click anywhere on it. F
You can choose from any of these groups of commands on the menu bar: 0
(System) File Edit Manage Window Setup Help
For instructions on using the menu bar, go to the Help screen How
Bar. F
For information about menu hot keys, go to the Help
screen
Keys.
How to Use Menus
When you're in a window, there are three ways to select a menu command:
Press F10, then use the arrow keys
F10
to go to the menu you want and use
them again to select a command.
Press Enter to choose the selected
command.
Press Alt and the highlighted letter
Alt
of the menu you want (such as Alt-F
for the File menu), use the arrow
keys to select a command, then press
Enter to choose that command.
You can also press the highlighted letter of a menu name or command instead of using the arrow keys.
Click the title of the menu you want
Mouse
to pull down, then click the menu
command you want to choose.
The highlighted menu title is the currently selected menu. V
Menu commands are followed by either an ellipsis mark (...), an arrow, or a hot key. k
Mark
Name
What the Menu Command Does
...
Ellipsis
Brings up a dialog box
>
Arrow
Displays another menu
F4
Hot key
Initiates some action when
(etc.)
you choose that command or
press the specified hot key
Help on Help -- How to Use the Help System
To access Minuet's
System, press the F1 function key. A window will open containing information about the menu item or dialog box field that is currently in the foreground. This is known as "context-sensitive" help.
You can browse through the help text using the up arrow (
), down arrow (
), Page Up (PgUp) or Page Down (PgDn) keys on the keypad. A
When you are through with the help, press the Escape (Esc) key.
Some help messages contain Cross-References to other topics. Cross-references are displayed in a different color from normal help text. One cross-reference is always highlighted. If you press Enter, the help message associated with the cross-reference is displayed. If there are several cross-references within a help message, pressing the Tab or Shift-Tab keys to moves the highlight to the next cross-reference.
If your computer has a mouse, move the mouse pointer over a cross-reference and click the left mouse button once to select it. Double Clicking (Clicking the left mouse button twice in rapid succession) has the same effect as pressing the Enter key.
How to Use the Menus
The very top line of the computer screen contains Minuet's menu bar with seven menu labels. The menu bar looks like this: :
File Edit Manage Window Help
The menu bar is the primary mechanism you use to communicate with the Minuet program. The menus have "pull-down" labels; that is, when you select Edit in the menu bar, a list of specific editing commands are dropped down from the Edit menu label and displayed in a list. If one of the commands in a pull-down menu is followed three periods (...), a modal dialog box (explained later in this section) will be displayed when you select that command. If a command in a pull-down menu is not followed by three periods, this means that once you choose it, the indicated action will occur immediately.
You can use either a mouse or keyboard to select commands. To use a mouse, click on the desired menu title to display the pull-down menu. (Use only the left mouse button if your mouse has more than one button). Then click on the desired command. Alternatively, instead of clicking, you can push the mouse button over a menu title and then continue to hold the mouse button down while you move the mouse cursor straight down from the menu title to the desired menu command, and then release the mouse button. If you decide not to choose a command, just move the mouse cursor out of the boundaries of the pull-down menu and release the mouse button. Then no action will be performed. W
To choose menu commands using the keyboard, first pull down the menu. You do this by pressing the F10 key to make the menu bar active. (When the menu bar is active, one menu title is highlighted.) If the menu title you want is not the one currently highlighted, use the arrow keys to move to the right or left along the menu bar, until the menu title you want to select appears highlighted. (Alternatively, you can just type the first letter of the menu title.) Then press the <ENTER> key. This will cause the menu to pull-down (drop-down). There also is a hot-key alternative method to pull-down a menu. Hold the Alt key down while typing the letter corresponding to the first letter of the menu title you want (e.g., type Alt-G to pull- down the Alias menu). The hot key to pull-down the
menu (called the system menu) is Alt-Spacebar. (
Once the menu you want is pulled down, use the up-down arrow keys to highlight the command you want and press <ENTER> to choose (perform) the highlighted command. (As a shortcut: press the key corresponding to the highlighted letter of the desired command in order to choose that command.)
How to Use "Hot Keys"
Some menu commands are considered to be so important that they can be activated with a hot key alternative. These hot keys are shown below.
Hot-Key Command
Alt-P Print
Alt-X Exit
Shift-Del Cut
Clipboard
Ctrl-Ins Copy
Clipboard
Shift-Ins Paste
Clipboard
Ctrl-QF Find
Ctrl-QA Replace
Ctrl-L Search
Again
F6 Select
Alias
F2 Save
Alt-F3 Close
Window
Ctrl-F5 Resize/move
Window
How to Use Dialog Boxes
Once you choose a command from a menu, Minuet will do one of two things: either carry out the command immediately or display a dialog box. If a menu command is followed by three periods, (e.g., Save As...), the command opens a dialog box. A dialog box is essentially a question-and-answer session which requires you to select choices and fill in the blanks before Minuet will proceed. Note that while a dialog box is displayed, the menus and status bar hot spots are inactive. p
In order to set options in a dialog box, you use five on-screen gadgets. These five gadgets or "controls" are: M
radio
buttons,
check
boxes,
push
buttons,
list
boxes, and
input
boxes,
Some dialog boxes have only push buttons and are typically for displaying informational or error messages.
Other dialog boxes contain additional fields and are typically for modifying the behaviour of the program. In this case, you would select the various fields, modifying their contents as desired, then press an appropriate push button to close the dialog box. ^
Many dialog boxes have two push buttons, labelled "OK" and "Cancel". Pressing "OK" means you want to accept the current values shown in the various fields or you want to proceed with an operation. Pressing "Cancel" will either cancel an operation or close the dialog box, restoring all fields to the values they had when the box was first opened.
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Selecting a Field
One of the fields in a dialog box is "selected" and it may be drawn in a different color scheme to differentiate it from other, "unselected" fields. When a field is selected, you can manipulate it. Press the Tab key to select to the next field or press Shift-Tab to select the previous field. K
Some fields have text labels next to them containing a highlighted letter. You can quickly select that field by holding down the Alt key and pressing the highlighted letter. For instance, in the Specifications dialog box is a field labelled "X Scan Length" with the "X" highlighted. You would press Alt-X to select that field.
If your computer has a mouse, move the mouse pointer over the field or its label and click the left mouse button to select the field (or, in the case of push buttons, to "push" the button).
Note that under some circumstances, a field in a dialog box may be "disabled" or rendered inactive. In this case, you cannot select that field or modify its current setting.
Push Buttons
Push Buttons are a component of dialog
boxes. s
With a mouse, you choose a software button by moving the cursor pointer over the button and then clicking the mouse button. Most dialog boxes have two software buttons: oK and Cancel. If you choose oK, the choices you select in the dialog box are instituted. If you choose Cancel, nothing happens and the dialog box goes away without instituting any of your changes.
If you don't have a mouse, use the keyboard command equivalents to choose and activate a button. Press the <TAB> key consecutively to advance forward through the dialog box until the button you want to select becomes highlighted and then press the <ENTER> key to choose that software button. (Press Shift-<TAB> to move backwards in a dialog box.) When you have finished making your choices in a dialog box, type Alt-K (to activate the oK button). To cancel, type the ESC key.
Input Lines: Numbers & Text
Input boxes let you enter text. For example, in one of Minuet's dialog boxes, Minuet requires that you enter your full name in an input box. If you type in more text than will fit within the input box, the text will scroll automatically.
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Input Boxes are a component of dialog
boxes.
Input lines are for entering numbers or text. Select the field and simply start typing. If the existing value is highlighted, anything you type will replace that value. If the value is not highlighted then anything you type will be inserted into the existing text.
You can manuever the cursor within the field by pressing the left or right arrow keys or the Home and End keys (this will also de-highlight the text). You can selectively highlight some or all the text by holding down the Shift key while using any of the cursor movement keys. Z
You can delete a single character by pressing the Backspace (Bksp) or Delete (Del) keys. A
Pressing the Insert (Ins) key toggles text input between "Insert Mode" and "Replace Mode." During Insert Mode, when you type a character it is inserted at the cursor position between existing text. In Replace Mode, when you enter a character it replaces any existing character above the cursor with the one you typed.
Check Boxes
Some dialog
boxes also have check boxes. An X inside a square indicates that that option is set ON. An empty box indicates it's OFF. You set a check box to the ON- or OFF-state by clicking on the square or by clicking on the text immediately to the right of the square. (If you don't have a mouse, press the <TAB> key one or more times until the check box is highlighted and then press the Spacebar. Alternatively, you can turn a check box ON or OFF (toggling) by holding the Alt key down while typing the highlighted letter (if one is provided). Any number of check boxes can be checked ON at any one time.
If several check boxes are grouped together, pressing the <TAB> moves to the next Alias and once the Alias is selected, you can use the up-down arrow keys to highlight the check box you want within the Alias, and then press the Spacebar to turn the individual check box ON or OFF. On monochrome monitors, Minuet indicates the highlighted check box or Alias of check boxes by placing a chevron symbol (
) next to it. When you press <TAB>, the
symbol moves to the next check box or Alias of check boxes.
Radio Buttons
Radio Buttons are a component of dialog
boxes. )
Radio buttons work just like check
boxes, except that one and only one radio button in a group is ON at any one time. Since only one radio button in a group can be ON at a time, any other button in the group which was previously turned on is turned OFF automatically when you select another.
List Boxes
List Boxes are a component of dialog
boxes. ;
A list box lets you scroll through a list of choices. You activate a list box by clicking in it or by pressing the <TAB> until it's highlighted. Once a list box is active, you can use the mouse to manipulate the scroll bar (or if you don't have a mouse, press the up-down arrow keys to move within the list).
(Note: Inside a dialog box, any item with a highlighted letter indicates that that particular gadget can be accessed by holding the ALT key down while typing that highlighted letter.)
How to Use the Mouse
To use a mouse, click on the desired menu title to display the pull-down menu. (Use only the left mouse button if your mouse has more than one button). Then click on the desired command. Alternatively, instead of clicking, you can push the mouse button over a menu title and then continue to hold the mouse button down while you move the mouse cursor straight down from the menu title to the desired menu command, and then release the mouse button. If you decide not to choose a command, just move the mouse cursor out of the boundaries of the pull-down menu and release the mouse button. Then no action will be performed.
Status Bar
Minuet's status bar is located across the bottom line of the screen. 3
The status bar contains "hot spots." Hot spots are located wherever words occur in the status bar. For example, "F7 Prev Msg" constitutes one hot spot. Hot spots are separated from each other by more than one space. When you click on a hot spot with a mouse, the indicated function will be carried out. For example, when you click on the words "F8 Next Msg", Minuet displays the next message stored in your mail database, and when you click on the words "F2 Compose", Minuet opens the Composer window, allowing you to compose an outgoing mail message.
To activate a hot spot without using a mouse, you type a hot-key. For example, if you press the F2 function key, Minuet will display the Composer window; and, if you type Alt-X, you will exit from the Minuet program. /
Editing Text
Minuet contains basic word-processing features. Anywhere in Minuet, the <DEL> key deletes text forward from the current cursor position, and the <backspace> key deletes text to the left of the cursor position. Except within a dialog box, you can use the mouse to drag over (select) text to be cut or copied. Without a mouse, you select text by holding the Shift key down and using the arrow keys to expand the amount of text selected, starting with the current cursor position. Once the text is selected (highlighted) you can cut the selected text, by selecting Cut from the Edit menu. Likewise, to copy selected text, select Copy from the Edit menu. Once selected text has been cut or copied, it is stored temporarily in Minuet's clipboard. To paste the text contained in the clipboard, position the cursor in the desired location and then select Paste from the Edit menu. ;
Minuet does not support underlined, bold, or italic text.
Users who are familiar with WordStar are advised that the Minuet editor also supports the WordStar Control Key sequences for cursor movement: U
Ctrl-E = Line Up
Ctrl-R = Page Up
Ctrl-F = Next Word
Ctrl-Y = Delete Line
etc.
Append an enclosure
Minuet lets you attach "enclosures" to your mail message.
An enclosure can be any kind of IBM-PC file. It can be a formatted document, such as a WordPerfect(TM) document. It can be a plain ASCII text file, such as AUTOEXEC.BAT. It can be an executable program. It can be any arbitrary data file.
You attach an enclosure to your mail message by pressing the "enclose" button at the bottom of the screen, or by pressing F3.
Minuet then shows you a list of files to choose from. It also gives you a choice of three enclosure formats: Text, BinHex, or UUEncode. g
BinHex is a good choice for any file, if you know the recipients are using Minuet to read their mail. X
UUDecode is a good format if the receivers are using a Unix system to read their mail. t
Text is a good format if the enclosure is pure text, and you don't know how the recipients are reading their mail.
Discussion ---------- By default, Minuet does not directly put the enclosure into your message. This is because many of the files you'd like to enclose are not readable text. The mail medium can only handle readble text. So Minuet "encodes" the enclosure into a readable format. You normally don't see this happening as Minuet automatically encodes and decodes enclosures without any intervention on your part.
By default, enclosures are encoded into "BinHex" format. BinHex is an encoding method that can send any file thru the medium of a mail message. The file can even be a Macintosh format file. Minuet and Minuet for the Mac can freely exchange enclosures in BinHex format. |
But sometimes you may want to send an enclosure to someone who is NOT using Minuet to receive your message. Perhaps they are on a Unix system and read their mail there. Or perhaps they will use a mail reader other than Minuet. For these people, The BinHex encoded file will look like gibberish. So you may want to sometimes NOT have your enclosure NOT sent in BinHex format. :
Sometimes you would like to enclose a plain ASCII text file with your message. You can do this by cut and pasting from an editor window, i.e. open the plain text file with the File|Open menu, select all the text, copy it to the clipboard, click on the composer window, paste the text directly into your message. -
Note that if you choose "Text" enclosures, the file must be a pure ASCII text file, with no formatting characters. For instance, WordPerfect and MS Word documents are NOT pure texct files and should not be enclosed as text. You must use BinHex or UUDecode format these and any other non-text files.
Help on the Change Directory dialog box
The Change Directory dialog box consists of an input box, a list box, the standard OK and Help buttons, and two other buttons (Chdir and Revert). |
Directory Name
The Directory Name input box is where you type in the path of the new directory.
Directory Tree
Drives
C:\
PASCAL
TEMP
The Directory Tree list box is where you point to (or move the cursor to) a directory name and choose the directory you want.
If you're using the keyboard, press Enter to make the selected directory be the current directory, then choose OK or press Esc to exit the dialog box. +
[Chdir ]
The Chdir button initiates the directory change once you've selected or typed in a directory name. +
[Revert]
The Revert button goes back to the previous directory, as long as you haven't yet exited the dialog box.
Help on the Save File As dialog box
The Save File As dialog box contains an input box, a file list, a file information panel, and the standard OK, Cancel and Help buttons, plus a history list. p
Save File As
The Save File As input box is where you enter the new name you want to save the file under, or the file-name mask for the Files list box.
Files
FILENM01.TXT
FILENM09.TXT
FILENM02.TXT
FILENM10.TXT
FILENM03.TXT
FILENM11.TXT
FILENM04.TXT
FILENM12.TXT
FILENM05.TXT
..
FILENM06.TXT
\MOREXAMP
FILENM07.TXT
\TOURS
FILENM08.TXT
\ANSWERS.DIR
The Files list box lists the names of files in the current directory that match the file-name mask in the Save File As input box, plus the parent directory and all subdirectories.
C:\TP\EXAMPLES\*.TXT
HELLO.TXT 52 May 14,1991 12:00pm
The File information panel shows the path name, file name, date, time, and size of the selected file.
Help on Open a File Dialog Box
The Open a File dialog box contains an input box, a file list, a file information panel, the standard buttons Cancel and Help, two other action buttons (Open and Replace), plus a history list that's attached to the Name input box. p
Name
The Name input box is where you enter the name of the file to load, or the file-name mask to use as a filter for the Files list box.
Files
FILENM01.PAS
FILENM09.PAS
FILENM02.PAS
FILENM10.PAS
FILENM03.PAS
FILENM11.PAS
FILENM04.PAS
FILENM12.PAS
FILENM05.PAS
..
FILENM06.PAS
\MOREXAMP
FILENM07.PAS
\TOURS
FILENM08.PAS
\ANSWERS.DIR
The Files list box lists the names of files in the current directory that match the file-name mask in the Name input box, plus the parent directory and all subdirectories.
C:\TP\EXAMPLES\*.PAS
HELLO.PAS 52 May 14,1991 12:00pm
The File information panel shows the path name, file name, date, time, and size of the selected file. =
None of the items on this information panel are selectable. +
[ Open ]
The Open button opens a new Edit window and places the selected file in that window.
Composer Window
NOT YET IMPLEMENTED
Viewer Window
The Viewer window is where you look at your incoming messages.
At the top left of this window there is a check box labeled "Index". Turn on this checkbox, and you'll see an index of all your messages. k
You can scroll through this index with the arrow keys. Or you can click on a line to go to that message. k
At the bottom of the screen you'll see a list of function keys you can press to go through your messages. o
F7 takes you to the previous message.
F8 takes you to the next message.
F9 deletes the current message.
Net Summary Window
The test summary window shows you the results of the IP test run. It displays the IP address of each gateway and name server, and the percent of traffic that got through to it during the test run. 100% is very good. Anything under 80% means the network is a bit unreliable.
Server Summary Window
The test summary window shows you the results of testing your choice of servers and ports. It displays the name and port number of each server and the percent of traffic that got through to it during the test run. 100% is very good. Anything under 80% means the network is a bit unreliable.
User Summary Window
The test summary window shows you the results of testing your personal information.
Calculator
The calculator is a simple four-function calculator. Numbers and numerical operations are selected by clicking on the calculator buttons or by using the keyboard.
Base Calculator
The base calculator is a "programmer's" calculator. It works in base 10, or the other bases 2,8, and 16 that computer programmer's sometimes use. Numbers and numerical operations are selected by clicking on the calculator buttons or by using the keyboard.
Calendar
The calendar is a simple electronic calendar. The current month appears automatically, but you can use the arrow keys or the calendar buttons to move to a future or past month.
ASCII Table
Use this desk accessory to look up the ASCII codes for any character, including special foreign language characters.
IP Finder
This desk accessory will look up the IP address of any internet name.
You can use Global Address Book as an electronic phone book. For example, to look up all people with the name Hickman, you would specify HICKMAN. Then Address Book returns all information pertaining to Hickmans on your mail server. Q
If you want to look up someone at another computer, add "@their.computer.name". %
If you are unsure of the exact name, you can just type the parts you are sure of, and enter ***'s for the unknown parts. For instance, to look up someone named "Cathy" or maybe "Kathy" or even "Katharyn" Collins, enter "*ath* Collins". This will match all Kathy, Cathys and Kathryns, etc...
At the University of Minnesota, you can use U of M Address Book as an electronic phone book. For example, to look up all people with the name Hickman at the University of Minnesota, you would specify HICKMAN. Address Book returns all information pertaining to Hickmans in the University phone book. %
If you are unsure of the exact name, you can just type the parts you are sure of, and enter ***'s for the unknown parts. For instance, to look up someone named "Cathy" or maybe "Kathy" or even "Katharyn" Collins, enter "*ath* Collins". This will match all Kathy, Cathys and Kathryns, etc... Y
This address book can also be configured to get information from
other
address
servers.
Enter the name of a computer with which you wish to check your communications, then press the Ping button. Minuet will send 100 echo packets to the destination and display the percent of them that return. On an ethernet connection, numbers from 80 to 100% are good. Anything much below this indicates that the network is overloaded or noisy.
Enter a word you want the spelling of.
Click on the LPT1 button to choose LPT1 as your printer of choice for Minuet.
Click on the LPT2 button to choose LPT2 as your printer of choice for Minuet.
Click on the LPT3 button to choose LPT3 as your printer of choice for Minuet.
Type in a word here.
Type in the address of a Webster server here.
View the results here.
Press the Define button to get a definition for the word.
Press the Spell button to check the spelling of the word.
Press the CrossRefs button to get the definitions of similar words.
Press the Thesaurus button to get similar words.
Enter the name of the computer you wish to connect to.
if you want to connect to a port other than the standard telnet port, you can also specify this by typing the integer representation of the port number immediately following the computer name. Be sure to put an ascii $20 (integer 32, space bar) between these two items.
Choose this menu item to go to the News
Window
Choose this menu item to go to the Gopher
Window
Choose this menu item to go to the FTP
Window
This is TelNet. "TelNet" is a terminal emulator window that is commonly used to log into a computer. The window emulates many of the functions of the common "VT100" style of terminal. M
You can use the telnet window in one of two modes, reduced, or full-screen.
In reduced mode, the Telnet screen does not take over the whole display. This gives you easy access to the other windows. The disadvantage is that you can't see the whole VT100 screen at once. k
In enlarged mode you can see the whole VT100 screen, but the other Minuet windows and menus are obscured. j
You can switch between these two modes with the Enlarge and Reduce hot-keys at the bottom of the screen.
Lumina is a computerized library search feature available at the University of Minnesota. Lumina should be self-explanatory.
This is a Custom login. These are defined in the CUSTOM.TXT file.
Gopher is an easy to use information retreival tool. It can retreive information from hundreds of sites connected to the Internet.
This is the FTP Window. You use this window to fetch files using the File Transfer Protocl. The top window pane is a display of the files and directories that are available. The bottom pane shows the contents of files you fetch.
This is the news Window. You use this window to fetch news and to edit your list of newsgroups. If you choose the "Show group tree" menu item, the top window pane will display the newsgroups that are available. The bottom pane lists the newsgroups that you have subscribed to.
You can change the relative sizes of these panes by either dragging the separating line up and down, or with the shifted arrow keys. H
There is also a "News"
menu that appears in the top menu bar whenever
this news window is on top.
The News menu lets you browse through the master list of news groups, add and delete groups from your subscription list.
This is a Custom login.
Choose the Get news menu item to fetch a bunch of new news messages in the current newsgroup. Get news fetches up to 50 messages at a time, or as many as can be fetched in 30 seconds.
The Expand menu item "expands" a level of the newsgroup display. For instance, if you have selected the "alt.autos" level, Expand will expand that level into "alt.autos.xxx", etc.
The Collapse menu item "Collapses" a level of the newsgroup display. For instance, if you have opened up "alt.autos", Collapse will collapse the "autos" level amd just show the "alt" newsgroups.
The subscribe menu item adds the currently selected newsgroup to your subscription list.
The unsubscribe menu item deletes the currently selected newsgroup from your subscription list. It does not remove any messages you have already fetched.
Position lets you set your place in the newsgroup. Initially you are positioned at the first message in the newsgroup. But you may not want to read several hundred old messages. With Position you can place yourself anywhere in the range of messages held by the news server.
This top pane of the News window can display information about the available newsgroups. If you select "Expand" from the News menu, this pane will list the available "top level" newsgroups, such as "alt", "comp", "rec", etc... You can then select one of these and select "expand" again to view other levels of the newsgroup tree.
You can change the relative sizes of these panes by either dragging the separating line up and down, or with the shifted arrow keys. Q
This pane also lists the results of a search when you do a "Find
newsgroups..."
The Find newsgroups menu item lets you search the list of available newsgroups for subjects you are interested in. For instance, to see what newsgroups refer to "audio", select this menu item and type "audio" into the Find dialog box. Minuet will list all the news groups that contain this word.
This pane of the news window shows the names of all the newsgroups that you have subscribed to. u
To add newsgroups to this list, select a newsgroup from the top pane, then choose "Subscribe" from the "news" menu. j
To delete a newsgroup from this list, select the newsgroup and choose, unsubscribe from the "news" menu.
You can change the relative sizes of these panes by either dragging the separating line up and down, or with the shifted arrow keys.
This is a warning message telling you that the "Open File" dialog box can't display all the files in this directory.
This message means you have typed in a drive letter that does not exist on your computer or network. Or perhaps you are not logged into your file server so the drive does not exist for you at this time.
This message means the file name is unacceptable. Perhaps you have a disallowed character in the name, or more than one dot.
This message means the directory does not exist.
This message means that there is not enough RAM memory to do this operation. You can perhaps do it by selecting less text, or by first closing some other window to free up some memory.
This message means that the file could not be read or written. Perhaps the disk is bad?
The file could not be created. Maybe the disk is full, or the file name is invalid, or you dont have permission to write on that disk.
IP addresses (as numbers) are of the form nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn, where "nnn" is a number between 0 and 255.
Some of the IP parameters have limits. They must be within a certain range.
You have chosen to discard a whole mail folder full of messages. You'd better think twice about this.
Minuet cant get enough RAM memory to run. Freeing
memory
Minuet is low on memory on startup. It can run, but you should probably try to free up some memory. Freeing
memory
You could try loading fewer drivers or TSR's in config.sys and autoexec.bat. Or creative use of a memory manager such as EMM386 can free up some memory.
You have pressed the "delete message" button. Minuet is asking you if you really meant to do this. In the future, you can bypass this question by holding down the Shift key while selecting "delete".
Enter the name of the computer or service you wish to connect to. This is usually a name of the form "wwwww.xxxx.yyyy.zzzz", such as "boombox.micro.umn.edu".
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