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If you are using DECwindows NOTES, it is very simple to add a KEYWORD
to your note...there is a title that appears in the header called
Keywords:
If you are NOT using DECwindows NOTES, then the following instructions
should work just fine to add a KEYWORD to this note...
Notes> ADD KEYWORD EASY 498.3
or you could
Notes> READ 498.3
Notes> ADD KEYWORD EASY
In each case the KEYWORD we are adding is the word "EASY"
Some conferences limit the creation of KEYWORDS to Moderators only,
because the users create TOO many KEYWORDS. Linda and I have not
done that because we believe that this conference really belongs
to everyone who uses it.
As for searching for `long' notes, I don't know a way to do that.
-dick, your_ever_trying_to_be_helpful_co-mod
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| Hi Doug,
I remember that note too, and it seems it was when I was first reading
the conference back in January of 1989. You can search notes by date.
I'm still learning the commands myself, so I don't know the exact
line. I'll try and see what I come up with.
To all noters......you are encouraged to add as many keywords to your
note or a note you are reading that you think would help you or another
noter retrieve the information at a later date. Think of it as a way
of add entries to an index that is in the back of the book, only this
is all invisible and electronic. For instance, I added PET_STORES,
RESPIRATORY_INFECTIONS, BIRD_MEDICINES....all to one reply. You can
add keywords to replies ( XXX.1 etc.) and basenotes (XXX.0). Our
conference is very open about this, as Dick mentioned above. If you
use the ADD KEYWORD XXXX command at the Notes> prompt and you get a
message back that says no Keyword by that name was found, you can
then first do a CREATE KEYWORD XXXX at the Notes> prompt, then that
keyword will be available to add as an index entry to any note or any
reply to a note by anyone reading the conference (notice I said
'reading' the conference...there is no 'membership' as such to this
conference, so anyone taking the time and interest to look at this
notesfile has the freedom to add existing keywords to notes or replies
to help index them, or to create new keywords for use in the conference
by that person and anyone else that wants to use it. I will, by way of
example, keyword this reply with the word KEYWORD, and USING_KEYWORDS,
and INDEX, and HELPFUL_HINTS.... and I expect some of these will be
already available, and others I will have to take the extra first step
of creating the keyword, then adding it. In the role of co-moderator
I also should say that this reply is an excellent example of what NOT
to do...that is, start a different topic as a reply to another basenote
topic (in this case, the basenote is asking for information on how to
find an earlier note on the characteristics of different parrots, while
my reply starts out in response to this, it meanders onto the more
esoteric and less interesting topic of KEYWORDing the conference!!).
Linda
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