[Info-vax] quick question on .note files

[Bill Cunningham]

"Hein RMS van den Heuvel" <heinvandenheuvel at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:47e80043-5857-4ea4-886d-9a80ba9d1bb6 at googlegroups.com...
> 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.

    OK. Now I've seen "dump" now what does rms and tpu stand for? So I can 
type $search/form=non notes$notebook.note "" What's the quotes for. I will 
try this see the contents and go on. I am in chapter 2 of the users manual 
now. Just finished passwords. This DCL sounds like the best things to learn 
to get around fast.

Bill