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- Welcome to the on-line SCO Directory !
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- May 1994 Version
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- The online Directory includes more than 6,000 products from over 2,000
- vendors. It is divided into seven catergories to help you narrow down
- your searches:
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- Hardware Peripheral Devices and Services
- Enabling Technologies
- General Business Applications
- Accounting/Financial Applications
- Industry-Specific Business Applications
- Engineering/Scientific Applications
- Services and Publications
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- You can browse through products by company name, product name, or keyword.
- A list of ALL possible keywords is also available from the top level menu.
- Within the keywords are telephone area codes and country codes, which allows
- you to search by region as well as by product type.
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- Select a category from the menu by either arrowing to the item and pressing
- return or entering the first letter (or number) of the category.
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- Upon selecting any category, you can browse through all the entries
- in that category or search for particular entries based upon certain
- criteria. Select the method of searching.
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- All
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- If you select All from the menu, then all the entries in that category
- will be loaded.
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- Company
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- After selecting Company, you will be asked to enter the name of the company
- to search for. Enter the name of the company (or partial name), then press
- return.
- If you don't know the full name of the company, then you can just enter the
- portion that you do know, the search mechanism will do the best possible
- search to find the company.
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- Product
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- After selecting Product, you will be asked to enter the name of the product
- to search for. Enter the name of the product, then press return.
- If you don't know the full name of the product, then you can just enter the
- portion that you do know, the search mechanism will do the best possible
- search to find that product.
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- Keyword
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- You can search the category based upon a keyword. After selecting Keyword,
- you will be asked to enter the keyword (or keywords). You can also enter a
- telephone area code or country code here to search for products by region.
- To look at all the keywords available in the directory, select Keywords from
- the top-level menu. This file is located in /usr/directory/bin/Keys. You can
- print it out for a hardcopy listing of all the keywords in the directory.
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- Browsing the entries
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- After the search is done, you will be shown a list of entries from the
- Directory. To read an entry, enter the number of the entry, and press return.
- You will be shown a screen full of information at a time, there will be prompts
- at the bottom of the screen to allow you to display the rest of the information.
- You can browse the next entry by pressing 'n'.
- A list of possible commands are shown at the bottom of the screen.
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- Saving Entries (and printing them)
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- To save an entry after reading it, press 's' followed by the name of the file.
- The file will then be saved in your home directory. If you wish to print it,
- then print out the saved file as you would print any file.
- To save more than 1 entry in a file, select a range of articles followed by the
- name of the file.
- e.g. s 4-45 fname - This will save articles 4 to 45 in a
- file named fname.
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- Exiting
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- Once you have finished reading all the entries, type 'q' to quit the browser.
- To leave a category and go to the top level category, select Top.
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- To exit the Directory, select Logout.
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- Please send comment/suggestions for improvement
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- devrel@sco.com
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- Or
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- SCO Developer Relations
- 400 Encinal Street
- Santa Cruz
- CA 95061
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- 408 425 7222
- 408 425 3544 - Fax
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