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 NOTES ON STARTING AND USING THE DSEE ICON


Starting the DSEE Icon

The  DSEE  icon is a small graphic symbol on the screen that represents the DSEE
process window. The icon is a convenient way of  maintaining  the  DSEE  process
window,  which, for efficiency's sake, you should keep running.  If you're using
the icon and you want to issue a  DSEE  command,  simply  select  the  icon,  as
described below.  This causes the DSEE facility to display its process window on
the screen.

If you use the DSEE environment frequently, you may want the icon to appear each
time  you  log  in.  To select this feature, place the following command in your
personal start-up file, startup_dm[suffix].

cpo /com/dsee [-wd pathname] [-nd pathname]

The -wd pathname option sets pathname as your default initial working directory.
The -nd pathname option sets pathname as the default naming directory.

Your  personal  start-up file resides in the user_data subdirectory of your home
(node) directory, and has the following pathname:

home_directory/user_data/startup_dm[suffix]

The suffix has the same format  as  that  used  in  system  start-up  files;  it
indicates the display type of the node executing the file.  If you use more than
one type of display, you should have more than one personal start-up file.

Your personal start-up file executes every time  you  log  in,  provided  it  is
invoked  from  the login start-up file startup_login (in `node_data or /sys/dm).
Check startup_login to see that it contains the command

cmdf user_data/startup_dm[suffix]

which invokes the personal start-up file.  If this command is  preceded  by  the
comment designator (#), remove the comment designator.

Using the DSEE Icon

If  you're  using  the  DSEE  icon and you want to issue a DSEE command, hit the
space bar while the cursor is pointing to the icon.   The  icon  converts  to  a
process  window.    To go from the process window to the icon, hit the space bar
while the cursor is in the window's transcript pad.  The process window converts
to the DSEE icon.

The  Display Manager's icon command also toggles the DSEE window into and out of
its icon form.  For more information about the DM's icon command, refer  to  the
DOMAIN System Command Reference.

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