[Info-vax] quick question on .note files

[Hein RMS van den Heuvel]

On Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 2:27:39 PM UTC-5, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> On decuserve I have in my main directory a syntax of ???$?????.note;1 
> Now since I'm just getting started and this is not in the users manual as a 
> standrd vms feature (but something about a notebook system of some kind?) 
> Anyway I want to open this file. Would I use EVE ? I want to quickly read it 
> before I use to much time getting into syntax and such. I hope there are 
> some here with patience because I am a beginner.
> 
> Bill

NOTES$NOTEBOOK.NOTE

That's your personal repository for the VAX-NOTES tool.
Used by the NOTES command. Try it.

It contains the notes-files you enrolled in (were provided) and bitmasks of what topics you have 'seen'.
It is an RMS indexed file with mostly binary context, interpreted by 'notes'.
You can peek at it with DUMP/RECORD or get an impression with TPU or $ SEARCH/FORM=NON NOTES$NOTEBOOK.NOTE ""

fwiw, the format of the notebook is identical to the format of the notes-files themselves.

Hein