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01905 00024 US 
Date: 3 Jul 1980 4:48 pm PDT (Thursday)
From: Caywood
To: Caywood
Subject: Lesson 1
cc: 

Welcome to Laurel.   Since you are reading this message, you have already
learned to use the "Display" command.  So far, so good.  Notice that you can't see
the end of this message.  Solution?  Simple.  Scroll the message as you would
scroll using the EDITOR by moving the cursor into the left margin until it
becomes the double headed arrow cursor and press the LEFT mouse button to
scroll up.  As in the EDITOR, use the RIGHT mouse button to scroll down. 

What is Laurel?  Laurel is a message system that is part of the Xerox Document
System.  You can receive, display, forward, classify, file and print messages from
other users as well as compose and transmit messages and replies.  Your mail files
reside on your local disk.

In Laurel, there are four separate areas on the display screen.   From top to
bottom, they are:

	*  the table of contents window
	*  the message display window
	*  the composition and delivery window, and
	*  the feedback window

In the Table-of-Contents window you will see an index of all messages in your
mail file.  Each entry is numbered and shows the date the message was sent. 
This index can be scrolled just as you scrolled this message.  The triangular
symbol at the left of an entry in the table of contents is an indication of the
currently selected message.  Messages that have not been examined will have a
"?" next to them.  

Above the table of contents window is a menu, with commands in bold.  You
have already learned about User and New Mail.  Mail File and Quit will be
discussed in another lesson.

For now, move the cursor into the left margin of the table of contents and select
message number 2 (point at the message and press the LEFT mouse button). 
Now mark the command "Display" that is in bold above the message display
window.

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01166 00024 US 
Date: 3 Jul 1980 5:02 pm PDT (Thursday)
From: Caywood
To: Caywood
Subject: Lesson 2
cc: 

Above this message display window is a menu of commands in bold.  You have
already learned one of the commands (Display).  Let's skip over Hardcopy for
now and learn about Delete and Undelete.  Suppose you have read a message and
decide you don't need to keep it for future reference.

To practice, select the first message in your table of contents, come down to the
menu where Delete appears.  Point the cursor at Delete and press the LEFT
mouse button.  See the line drawn through the message entry?  This indicates
the message has been selected for deletion.  When you finish your Laurel
session, the message will be deleted permanently.

What if you have selected a message for deletion and decide, before finishing
your Laurel session, that you really DON'T want that message deleted?  Select
the message once again in the table of contents window.  Point the cursor at
Undelete and press the LEFT mouse button.  Undelete the first message now.

Select Lesson 3 in your table of contents and mark Display to learn about Move
To and Mail file.  

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02425 00024 US 
Date: 3 Jul 1980 5:36 pm PDT (Thursday)
From: Caywood
To: Caywood
Subject: Lesson 3
cc: 

You can "batch" messages in Laurel with the Move To and Mail File commands. 
For example, all of the messages you have been reading about how to use Laurel
might be placed in a file called HELP that you can return to when needed.  As
an exercise let's move this message into another file called HELP.

To Move a message, it must first be selected in the table of contents.  Since this
message is already selected, mark Move to in the menu above the message
display window.  The blinking caret should now be in the brackets following
Move To.  If it's not, retrace your steps and try again.  Type the word HELP and
press the DO key.  

In the feedback window (bottom-most window on your display) the message
"New file" will appear, along with a request for a confirmation.  Confirm by
pressing the DO key.  Pressing CANCEL would cancel the Move to command.

Notice that in the table of contents window the message you moved is now
shown with a line through it, and the letter "m" is next to it (where the question
mark had been).  This indicates that the message has been moved to another file,
and is marked for deletion in the ACTIVE mail file . You can still keep the
message in your ACTIVE file by marking Undelete.  Mark Undelete now to keep
the message in your Active file

Now you have two mail files on your disk.  One is ACTIVE and one is HELP. 
To read the HELP mail file, read all the instructions in this paragraph, since the
currently displayed message (containing the lesson) will disappear.  Point the
cursor at Mail File in the Upper Menu and press the LEFT mouse button.  The
blinking caret has moved inside the brackets.  Type HELP and press the DO
key.  In the HELP mail file, display the message, Lesson 3, and scroll to continue
the lesson.  

You should now be reading the message you moved to the mail file called
HELP.  You can delete, undelete and do any of the things to the HELP file that
you do to your ACTIVE mail file.  It is wise to always return to your ACTIVE
mail file prior to marking New Mail.  When you mark NEW MAIL your messages
will be deposited into the mail file that is currently shown in the brackets
following Mail file.

To get back to your ACTIVE mail file mark Mail File, type ACTIVE and press
the DO key.   After returning to ACTIVE mail, continue to Lesson 4.
 
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00687 00024 US 
Date: 3 Jul 1980 5:42 pm PDT (Thursday)
From: Caywood
To: Caywood
Subject: Lesson 4
cc: 

You have returned to Active mail.

Reading some of these messages may have been uncomfortable because of the
small size of the message display window.  To remedy this problem you may
change the size of the windows.

To move the window boundary press and hold down the MIDDLE mouse button
while moving the cursor over to the small box on the right of the boundary you
wish to change.  Slowly, move the box either up or down and notice how the
box follows.

When you are satisfied with the position of the new boundary, release the mouse
button.

Mark Display to continue. 

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01183 00024 US 
Date: 3 Jul 1980 6:08 pm PDT (Thursday)
From: Caywood
To: Caywood
Subject: Lesson 5
cc: 

Did you notice you didn't have to select the message in the table of contents
window before marking Display?  If you continue to mark Display, messages will
be displayed in the order they appear in the table of contents.  You don't need to
individually select a message, unless you wish to view it out of sequence.

In earlier lessons, you saw the question mark disappear when you display a
message.  After moving a message the letter "m" appeared next to the message. 
The "m" and the question mark are called "Mark Characters".  You can provide a
mark character to any message.  Why?  You can mark messages you may want to
go back and answer at some later time, or messages that are most important.

To insert or change the mark character, move the cursor to the left of the
message number and press the LEFT mouse button.  A black box will appear
until you release the button.  The box is replaced by the blinking caret.  You
can type any character.  To delete a mark character, follow the same steps and
use a space as the mark character. 

Mark Display to go on.

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01302 00024 US 
Date: 3 Jul 1980 6:43 pm PDT (Thursday)
From: Caywood
To: Caywood
Subject: Lesson 6
cc: 

You have already used the scrolling feature, and may have noticed that you
cannot use the MIDDLE button to "Thumb" as you do in the EDITOR. 
Thumbing in Laurel is different than in the EDITOR.

Notice that below each of the three menus is a horizontal line which appears
partially as a dashed line.  This is the thumbing bar in Laurel.  To "Thumb" a
message, position the cursor just below this bar, press and hold the MIDDLE
mouse button to change the cursor to a short vertical line on the bar.  Moving
the mouse to the left or right causes a corresponding movement of this line.

Moving the vertical line to the extreme right edge of the bar identifies the end
of the text; moving it to the extreme left identifies the beginning, and
positioning it in the center of the bar specifies the middle of the text.

When you release the MIDDLE mouse button the position of the text identified
by the vertical line is brought to the top of the window.  As in the EDITOR, text
is positioned relative to the position of the cursor.

Before covering the last menu and window you may want to review what you
have learned and take a break.

When you're ready, mark Display to see the next lesson.

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05514 00024 US 
Date: 3 Jul 1980 8:41 pm PDT (Thursday)
From: Caywood
To: Caywood
Subject: Lesson 7
cc: 

This lesson will show you how to compose and send messages with Laurel, using
the compositon and delivery window.  This window is headed by its own menu
with the commands New Form, Answer, Forward, Get, and Put.

Position the cursor under New form and press the LEFT mouse button.  A
message format is displayed, that requires you to supply some information before
the message can be sent.  Before you attempt to provide this information, read on
about how to edit text in Laurel.

Laurel observes some of the same type-in conventions that you have learned in
the EDITOR.  It displays a blinking caret for inserting text, which can be
positioned as in the EDITOR.  The Quick Command COM-I positions the caret at
the beginning of a word or letter, and the Quick Command COM-A positions the
caret following a word or letter.  You can erase a character with the BS key, and
an entire word by using the Quick Command COM-BS as you do in the EDITOR.
To delete text, select it with the mouse and press the DEL key.  

Laurel does not recognize character or paragraph format "looks", such as italics,
bold-face, multiple fonts, or justify, nesting, etc.  Laurel does supply automatic
line breaks as the EDITOR does, so you need not press RETURN except to
separate paragraphs with white space.

Laurel identifies fields that it expects you to replace by supplying a keyword
bracketed by black rectangles, e.g., Recipients.   To replace one of these fields,
select it with the MIDDLE mouse button and press the DEL key.  Fill in the
form by replacing the fields with requested information.  Try deleting and
adding information to the message field.  Notice that as you replaced the first
field, the word Deliver appeared at the right of the menu.

When composing a message always fill in the "To" field and the "Subject" field. 
Laurel automatically fills in your name on the "cc" line, assuming you will want
a copy of the message you are composing.  You may delete the "cc" line if it is
not needed.   Be careful not to delete the one blank line provided by Laurel
following the "cc" line.  When the message is delivered, Laurel will supply  a
Date and From field automatically, filling in the date and time, and the user
name from the User bracket in the top menu.

If you forget to edit one of the bracketed fields Laurel will refuse to send your
message, thus protecting you from simple oversights, such as forgetting to supply
a "Subject".

When you send a message, it must be to an authenticated user.  Laurel users
must have IFS mail user accounts to be authenticated.  Laurel searches the IFS to
chek the validity of recipients before delivering a message.  You became an
authenticated user when you supplied your name and password at the beginning
of your Laurel session.

The next command in the menu is Answer.  Mark Answer.  Since you have
done some editing to the New form i the compositin window, the feedback
window (the bottom-most window on the display) will tell you:

	Message in composition window will be replaced.
	Press DO to confirm or CANCEL to cancel command. 

Press DO for now, so that we can move on to the other commands.

You should now have the Answer form on the display.  Answer fills in the "To"
field with the sender's name of the currently displayed message and sets the
subject to be "Re:  sender's subject".  It also sets the "cc" field to include all of
the recipients of the message being answered.  You may change the automatic
replacements by using the editing capabilities mentioned above.

Now, mark Foward.  Forward copies the message body from the display window
into the composition window and allows you to forward it to another Laurel
user, by replacing the fields.  You can edit the message before sending it, if
there is a section that may not be relevant.

After marking either Answer or Forward you must complete the message by
editing any remaining uninitialized fields in the message header and body. 

Mark New form and compose a message to another Laurel user.

Ok, if you've filled in the "To" and "Subject" fields you can either delete the
"cc" field or let someone else in on your masterpiece.  Look over your message
body, changing it as you desire and when you've got it like you want it, move
the cursor up to Deliver in the menu and press the LEFT mouse button.

The word Deliver gets shaded gray.  It's working!  Check the feedback window,
during the delivery process.

The cursor changes to an hourglass while it is delivering and when it has
finally finished the word Deliver changes to an italicized delivered.

Notice that the feedback window during this process was giving you information
about your message.  It told you the number recipients (if more than 30 you
need to press DO to confirm) as it checks validity, the size of the message in
characters, and gave you one last chance to change your mind.

Electronic communication complete!

Before continuing,  the "Press DO to confirm, CANCEL to cancel command"
message needs to be explained.  With this message, Laurel is warning you that
you have not filed or delivered the message in the composition window and is
giving you the chance to save the message.  By pressing DO you are confirming
that it's OK to continue with the command.  By pressing CANCEL Laurel gives
you the opportunity to complete the message.

Mark Display for a lesson on Hardcopy, to print your messages. 

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02997 00024 US 
Date: 3 Jul 1980 9:36 pm PDT (Thursday)
From: Caywood
To: Caywood
Subject: Lesson 8
cc: 

Before learning how to hardcopy a message, you must learn about a file called
"Laurel.profile".  The Laurel.profile directs information about the printing of a
message to the printer, and can be edited.  

Mark Get in the menu above the composition window.  Type the file name
Laurel.profile and press the DO key.  Note that there are no spaces in
Laurel.profile and that there is a period between the two words.

The only thing in the profile you will edit now is the name of your printing
server.  Be careful about making any other changes to the profile.  All lines in
Laurel.profile are specific instructions to the system and affect Laurel.  On the
line that says Hardcopy, replace the information field with your printer name or
network address.

When you make changes to your Laurel profile you must save it by marking
Put.  Put is similar to SaveAll in the EDITOR, except only one version of a file is
saved.  Mark Put.  The cursor has moved to the brackets following the Put
command, which allows you to rename the file.  Since you must not change the
name of this file, press the DO key.  The feedback window tells you that Put
will overwrite the existing file, and asks for a confirmation.  Press the DO key.

In order for any changes made to your Laurel profile, you must end your Laurel
session, return to the Executive and restart Laurel.  Read all the instructions in
the next sentence before actually doing what it says.  Mark Quit with the LEFT
mouse button, press the DO key to confirm ending your session, restart Laurel,
display Lesson 8, and scroll to this section to continue.

Now you are ready to print (make a hardcopy) a message.  Marking Hardcopy
will print one copy of the message selected in the table of contents on the
printer specified in your Laurel profile.  To print Lesson 8, mark Hardcopy. 
Notice that the feedback window tells you it is formatting the message by page, 
and sending it to your printer.  It also gives you the option to Cancel the
Hardcopy command by pressing the CANCEL key.  Your message is printed in
the form of a memorandum sheet.  If you have a Hy-Type Printer and you want
to print your messages on it, read Module 8 in the Laurel Training Workbook
before attempting to do so.

Laurel has no option for multiple copies.  Laurel will print multiple messages as
long as they are in sequence in the table of contents.  To print multiple messages
select the first with the LEFT mouse button, and the last with the RIGHT mouse
button (like extend in the EDITOR).  If a message has been marked for deletion,
it will not be printed even though it is included in the extended selection.

Practice using the Hardcopy command and print some of the training messages.

For more information on Laurel profile, refer to Module 8 in the Training
Course.

When ready, mark Display for the next lesson (you may have to select Lesson 9).

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01540 00024 US 
Date: 3 Jul 1980 9:58 pm PDT (Thursday)
From: Caywood
To: Caywood
Subject: Lesson 9
cc: 

Suppose there is a group of people to whom you frequently send messages.  You
can avoid having to type the entire list of names every time you send a message
to this group by creating a master list of their names.  We call this list a
Distribution List.

In the menu above the composition window mark New Form.  Delete all the
information fields in the window and type in the authenticated user names to be
included in your list, each separated by a comma and a space.  Do not put a
RETURN at the end of the list.  A typical distribution list would like something
like this:

Brown, Jones, Smith, Rockefeller

Create a distribution list with the names of the users in this training class.  Mark
Put to save the file and name it:  LocalUsers.dl.  Note that there are no spaces in
the name of the file.  There can be no spaces in any file name.  Now you have
a file on your disk called LocalUsers.dl with the names of the class members.

When composing a message in Laurel, the distribution list name may be used in
the "To" or "cc" field.  The .dl extension should be replaced by an up-arrow
character ^ (e.g. LocalUsers^).  The up-arrow tells Laurel that the name is a
distribution list and not an individual user.

When the message is delivered Laurel looks up the names in the file,  and
delivers your message to each of one.

Mark New form and send a message to LocalUsers.

When you are ready to continue, mark Display. 

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01068 00024 US 
Date: 3 Jul 1980 10:14 pm PDT (Thursday)
From: Caywood
To: Caywood
Subject: Lesson 10
cc: 

Believe it or not, this is your last lesson in Laurel!  

In this lesson you should learn one other use of Get and Put.

One common use is after creating a long message, you may not be able to deliver
it, or may want to take a break, and edit it at a later time.  Mark Put, name the
message (ex. temp.msg), and press the DO key.  To retrieve it, mark Get, type the
name of the message, and press the DO key.

More information about Laurel can be found in the Laurel Training Course &
User Workbook.

Before you terminate your Laurel session be sure you have not marked any
precious messages for deletion.  As soon as you quit they will be gone forever. 
Also, this is a good time to categorize messages by moving them into other files,
if you need to.

To end your Laurel session, move the cursor into the top menu and mark Quit. 
The feedback window will ask you for confirmation (Press DO to confirm or
CANCEL to cancel command).  Press DO.

Enjoy!