Hi,
  A few hints which might help you to get started:

1.  Read all of the text on the opening page when you start up.  The
Getting started window has a nice clickable link to read the
ReadMe.txt file.  If you get the whole file in as the first few lines
in the ReadMe.txt file explain, then, about 1/8th of the way through
the ReadMe file there is a nice explanation of the user interface.

2.  Make sure you poke at the help menu, click on the desktop and then 
choose help...  Command-key help is very useful.

3.  Run in Morphic.  To do that click on the desktop and choose
open...  Once there choose project (morphic).  Double click in the
newly opened window.  This will get you a much expanded list of menus
under, among others, open... which will let you open an email reader
or Scamper, the web browser.

4.  Turn on the flaps in Morphic.  Click on the desktop in morphic and 
choose windows....  Then choose flaps...  Then choose start showing
global flaps


Hopefully this will help you get started...

cheers

bruce

Blake Harris writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I'm pretty new to Squeak, but every time I launch it, it occurs to me
 > that this is what Java should have been many years ago.  It's stable,
 > fast, and it works!
 > 
 > My first impression was that it is not terribly, initially.  For
 > example, in a few hours of playing, I haven't been able to figure out
 > how to launch Scamper, although I ran across it a few times in the
 > documentation by clicking urls...  It took a good twenty minutes to find
 > the Command-D instruction for running scripts... 
 > 
 > Bearing in mind I'm new to SmallTalk, how difficult would it be to write
 > an e-mail client for Squeak?
 > 
 > In any case, I'm very fond of it thus far...
 > 
 > Blake Harris
 > 
 > Stephen Pair wrote:
 > > 
 > > I like the idea of running Squeak as an OS, but some sort of "virtual"
 > > object memory would be needed to make it truly accepted as an OS (unless
 > > someone comes up with a cheap hardware solution in the near term)...is
 > > anyone working on such a beast?  I'd be interested to hear some of the
 > > design ideas in this area.
 > > 
 > > - Stephen
 > > 
 > > > -----Original Message-----
 > > > From: Michael Rueger [mailto:m.rueger at acm.org]
 > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 2:17 AM
 > > > To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
 > > > Subject: Squeak OS
 > > >
 > > >
 > > > Hi,
 > > >
 > > > after a brief discussion with Andreas I want to share an interesting
 > > > link for those thinking of a Squeak OS:
 > > > http://www.vmware.com/
 > > >
 > > > And what it looks like running:
 > > > http://www.vmware.com/products/linux2.gif
 > > > "Desktop view showing Windows NT, Windows 98 and Linux running at the
 > > > same time"
 > > >
 > > > This would help to develop using one OS while trying to get Squeak OS up
 > > > and running in parallel.
 > > >
 > > > Enjoy
 > > >
 > > > Michael
 > > >
 > > >
 > > > --
 > > > "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Alan Kay
 > > > +------------------------------------------------------------+
 > > > | Michael Rueger    m.rueger at acm.org      ++1 (310) 937 7196 |
 > > > +------------------------------------------------------------+
 > > >
 > > >
 > 
 > -- 
 > ---------------------------------
 > jblakeh1 at airmail.net
 > http://web2.airmail.net/jblakeh1
 > 

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