Adding a Bookshelf to the Default Display (OpenVMS)

  You can add a local bookshelf to the default display as follows:

  1.   Name your bookshelf file LIBRARY.DECW$BOOKSHELF,
      which is the default name.

  2.   Redefine DECW$BOOK to be the same as the existing
      definition in addition to the directory that contains the
      local bookshelf file:

      a.   Check the existing definitions of DECW$BOOKSHELF
          and DECW$BOOK. For example:

          $  SHOW  LOGICAL  DECW$BOOKSHELF
          %SHOW-NOTRAN,  no  translation  for  logical  name  DECW$BOOKSHELF

          $  SHOW  LOGICAL  DECW$BOOK
            "DECW$BOOK"  =  "SYS$COMMON:[DECW$BOOK]"  (DECW$LOGICAL_NAMES)
                 =  "ZEPHYR::$DISK1:[DECW$BOOK]"
          This example shows that DECW$BOOKSHELF
          is undefined.  DECW$BOOK is defined to search in
          SYS$COMMON:[DECW$BOOK] and ZEPHYR::$USERS:[DECW$BOOK]
          for bookshelf files with the default name LIBRARY.DECW$BOOKSHELF.

      b.   Define DECW$BOOK locally to be the same as the
          existing search list, then add the directory that con-
          tains the new bookshelf file to the list.  For example,
          $USERS:[JONES] is added to the end of the search list
          in the following example:

          $  DEFINE  DECW$BOOK  SYS$COMMON:[DECW$BOOK],-
          _$  ZEPHYR::$DISK1:[DECW$BOOK],  $USERS:[JONES]

          This local definition exists only for the duration of
          your current process.  You can define DECW$BOOK
          in a login file to recreate this local definition for each
          new process.  You can still access all the books in the
          default display in addition to all the books you have
          added to your local bookshelf file.

  3.   Start Bookreader from the command line:

      $  BOOKREADER

      Your new bookshelf file appears in the Library window
      along with the bookshelves in the default display.

  Bookreader opens the first bookshelf that DECW$BOOK
  encounters.  Therefore, you can display the books and book-
  shelves in your bookshelf file at startup time by placing your
  directory at the beginning of the DECW$BOOK search list.

  For example:

  $  DEFINE  DECW$BOOK  $USERS:[JONES],  SYS$COMMON:[DECW$BOOK],-
  _$  ZEPHYR::$DISK1:[DECW$BOOK]

  Additional topics:

  *   Displaying an Alternate Bookshelf Instead of the
      Default (OpenVMS)

  *   Modifying the Library Window Display (OpenVMS)

  *   Creating Your Own Bookshelf File (OpenVMS)

  *   Bookreader Help Topics

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