Introduction to TRANSFER Delivery System

The TRANSFER Environment Folders
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Folders
A folder is a place to store related items and packages. A correspondent might keep
separate folders for packages received from different sources or group similar packages
from various correspondents in a single folder.
A correspondent uses the ADMIN application or a user-written application to create new
folders. The correspondent who creates a folder owns the folder. No correspondent can
use or examine the contents of a folder that is owned by another correspondent.
Group administrators create folders for interest groups. All members of an interest
group can read and file messages in that group’s shared folders, but they can delete only
the messages they have themselves filed. Group administrators can delete any message
in a group folder.
A period separates the folder name from the correspondent name. An example of a
folder name is:
In addition to folders created and used by application processes, TRANSFER creates
special purpose folders:
■ INBOX folder
When a package arrives at a depot, TRANSFER saves it in a folder named INBOX.
The correspondent can read the package by retrieving it from the INBOX and can
file the package by saving it in another folder. The package stays in the INBOX
until the correspondent specifically deletes it, or if the package has an expiration
date and has not been acknowledged by that date, the package is automatically
deleted from the INBOX and the sender is notified.
The PS MAIL application automatically deletes from the INBOX packages that are
filed in other folders.
All members of an interest group have shared access to the INBOX folder for the
group.
■ OUTLOG folder
PS MAIL automatically files in the OUTLOG folder a copy of each message a
correspondent sends.
From the OUTLOG the correspondent can cancel a message after it has been sent.
Messages stay in the OUTLOG folder for the length of time set by the OUTLOG
folder’s retention time, usually 24 hours.
HARDY_JOHN.WORKFOLDER @ TENN HARDY_JOHN at the \TENN node owns
this folder named WORKFOLDER.