Creating InfoExplorer Public Notes

Public notes can be read by any hypertext user. Public notes are created by merging and relocating private notes files.

Prerequisites

1. You must have write access to the /usr/lpp/info/data directory.

2. You must create and save private notes to a file in the InfoExplorer window or ASCII interface.

Procedure

Use one of the following methods to create public notes:

• For the default InfoExplorer library, use the mergenote command to merge private notes files into a single notes file. Designate the /usr/lpp/info/data directory as the location of the new public notes list.
• For public libraries other than the default, private notes are stored in the $HOME/info/LibraryName directory. Use the mergenote command to merge private notes files into a single notes file. Designate the /usr/lpp/info/data/LibraryName directory as the location of the new public notes list.

  Notes:

  1. Private notes and note lists are saved in the user's $HOME/info and $HOME/info/LibraryName /notes directories.

  2. Public notes for the default InfoExplorer library should be placed in the /usr/lpp/info/data directory.

Bookmarks created by one user can be copied for access by other hypertext users. Bookmark files are saved in the user's $HOME/info or $HOME/info/LibraryName directory with a .bmk extension.

Prerequisites

You must have read and write access to the users $HOME/info directories.

Procedure

1. Use the cp command to copy a bookmark file from one user to another.

   For example, to copy bookmark file review.bmk in user sharon's $HOME directory to user donna's $HOME directory, enter:

   cd /home/sharon/info
   cp review.bmk /home/donna/info

2. In the InfoExplorer program, reset the new user's default bookmark file using the Defaults Editor window.