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LAUREL MANUAL

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9. Things a casual user doesn’t really need to know

9. Things a casual user doesn’t really need to know

For each mail file x, Laurel creates a separate file x-dmsTOC, which holds various internal information about the table-of-contents. When you invoke Mail file {x}, Laurel will recreate this file if necessary. Naturally, this slows down the Mail file command.

Laurel creates scratch files while it is working and leaves them on your Alto disk. You may delete these files (named DMS-n.TMP for various values of n) if necessary, though Laurel ensures that they will not grow very large. If you terminate a Laurel session abnormally (or Laurel crashes) then these files might actually be quite large. Deleting them lengthens the time required to start up Laurel.

If Laurel generates an automatic error report directed to LaurelSupport.PA (see section 4), it will leave behind a file Laurel.BugReport$ containing the text of that report. You may delete this file if you wish.

SHIFT-SWAT is disabled in Laurel soon after start-up, since SWAT is one of the COM keys. You may achieve a SHIFT-SWAT by holding down the combination SHIFT-NEXT-COM. Performing such an action is of dubious value.