Domesday 1986 – Concise User Guide V1 2
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Domesday 1986 – Concise user guide Version: 1.2 Domesday 1986 – Concise user guide Page 1 Document information This document is based on the original Domesday video disc user guide by Peter Armstrong and Mike Tibbetts published by BBC Publications and © BBC Enterprises Ltd 1986. The document has been typeset and re-organised for use as a PDF document. In addition, the original text has been updated and corrected where required. All the original (black and white) photographs have been replaced with colour photographs and all diagrams have been redrawn in high-resolution colour. This document also contains additional information about areal descriptions, a detailed list of the video content of side B of the National Disc, a (non-exhaustive) list of the picture-sets found on the National disc and a summary of the VFS commands for laser disc control. Some of the examples have been rewritten (as the originals did not work with the release version of the Domesday system). All chapter references have been replaced with hyperlinked section titles and all chapters have been arranged hierarchically to allow simple navigation of the many sections contained within. All additional content and typesetting is © Simon Inns 2017 and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) licence. For details please see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Thanks to Ian Smallshire for additional proof-reading and suggestions and to Alex Wilson for supplying the Domesday disc set used to create the many screenshots. The list of picture-sets from the National disc was taken from the “Domesday Display” manual and was kindly prepared by Phil Mainwaring. If you have any comments on this document, or would like to suggest updates and/or corrections, please use the contact form available on: http://www.domesday86.com Version guide: 1.0 – 20170903 - First release version of the document. 1.1 – 20170917 – Additional graphics added, updated cover page, reduced screenshot sizes in examples to improve readability. 1.2 – 20181021 – Fixed incorrect picture size, corrected typos. Visit http://www.domesday86.com for more information and resources. Domesday 1986 – Concise user guide Page 2 Contents 1 Quick start ................................................................................................................................. 7 1.1 All you need to know to get under way .............................................................................. 7 1.2 A quick guide to Domesday grammar ................................................................................ 8 1.3 Trackerball layout .............................................................................................................. 8 2 The Domesday system .............................................................................................................. 9 2.1 Introduction to the Domesday discs .................................................................................. 9 2.2 Controlling the system ..................................................................................................... 11 2.2.1 Switching on and starting up ..................................................................................... 11 2.2.2 Aligning graphic and video output ............................................................................ 13 2.2.3 System structure ....................................................................................................... 13 2.2.4 Common screen features ..........................................................................................15 2.2.5 The mouse or trackerball ......................................................................................... 16 2.2.6 Basics of system control: the screen pointer ............................................................. 17 2.2.7 Basics of system control: the menu bars .................................................................. 18 2.2.8 Basics of system control: function keys, [ESCAPE] and [BREAK] ............................. 19 2.2.9 Printing, downloading and copyright ....................................................................... 21 2.3 The help sequences ......................................................................................................... 22 2.3.1 Selecting help and receiving the status report.......................................................... 23 2.3.2 Moving on to the pages of help text ......................................................................... 24 2.3.3 Viewing the video demonstration ............................................................................ 25 2.3.4 Special help with areal units ..................................................................................... 26 2.3.5 Access to the operating system ............................................................................... 26 2.3.6 The bookmark function ............................................................................................ 26 2.3.7 Returning from the help sequence ........................................................................... 27 3 The Community Disc ............................................................................................................... 28 3.1 Introduction to the people's database ............................................................................. 28 3.1.1 The 4 top-level functions .......................................................................................... 29 3.1.2 Options and help ...................................................................................................... 30 3.1.3 Booting up ............................................................................................................... 30 3.1.4 Finding your way with maps ...................................................................................... 31 3.1.5 Map walking............................................................................................................. 35 3.1.6 Map options ............................................................................................................. 39 Domesday 1986 – Concise user guide Page 3 3.2 The local photographs ..................................................................................................... 49 3.2.1 Viewing the photographs ......................................................................................... 49 3.2.2 Picture options ......................................................................................................... 50 3.2.3 Specialised photographs ...........................................................................................51 3.2.4 Leaving photographs ............................................................................................... 52 3.2.5 For example – To find the false colour Landsat image of the Portsmouth area and read the descriptive caption .................................................................................................... 52 3.3 Five levels of text ............................................................................................................. 55 3.3.1 Reading the text....................................................................................................... 55 3.3.2 Cross references to regional articles .......................................................................... 57 3.3.3 Text options ............................................................................................................. 58 3.4 Using the main index with find ........................................................................................ 62 3.4.1 Finding maps ........................................................................................................... 64 3.4.2 Finding text and photographs .................................................................................. 65 3.4.3 Synonyms and word stems ...................................................................................... 68 3.4.4 The specific keywords .............................................................................................. 68 3.4.5 Scope of search ........................................................................................................ 68 3.4.6 The art of retrieval ................................................................................................... 69 3.4.7 Leaving find and returning later ............................................................................... 70 3.4.8 For example – To find pictures and text on Steam Trains in Northern Britain ............ 71 4 The National Disc .................................................................................................................... 76 4.1 Introduction to the National Disc ..................................................................................... 76 4.1.1 The two sides of the National Disc ........................................................................... 76 4.1.2 The organisation of material .................................................................................... 76 4.1.3 Retrieving data from the disc .................................................................................... 77 4.1.4 The four top-level states of the National Disc ........................................................... 77 4.2 Using the National index.................................................................................................