Using the Scroll Bars

Some windows will appear with a scroll bar on the left, and some on the right, but no matter where they appear, scroll bars allow you to move up and down within a window session. In general, a scroll bar looks like a narrow, vertical bar with a small box or gray area in it, which acts as a sort of scroll bubble or slider, and some have arrows at the top and bottom. Scroll bars may work differently from one application to another. For example, to scroll within an RCS UNIX window, you can move the mouse pointer inside the empty portion of the scroll bar, and then click with the right mouse button to scroll up, or the left mouse button to scroll down. You can also ``grab" the gray area in the scroll bar by positioning the mouse pointer over the grey scroll bubble, and then pressing and holding down the middle mouse button. You can then slide the scroll bubble up and down inside the scroll bar to move to a relative position within the window.

Note that some windows, such as those in the main Z-Mail electronic mail system window, have small arrows at the top and bottom of the scroll bars. To scroll up, position the mouse cursor over the ``up" arrow at the top of the scroll bar, and click the left mouse button; to scroll down, left-click on the ``down" arrow at the bottom of the scroll bar. Feel free to experiment with the scroll bars in the various RCS applications, to get an idea of how they might operate differently.