Glossary of Callisto terms
A website which allows users to exchange information or ideas by posting short articles. An article and the responses to it form a topic and similar topics are grouped into forums.
On a bulletin board, a list of similar topics.
On a bulletin board, a discussion formed of an originating article and all the articles posted in response to it.
Also known as a Thread.
A (usually) short piece of text posted on a bulletin board to originate or continue a topic.
Also known as a Post.
In a Callisto document, a list of similar topics, possibly collated from forums on several bulletin boards, as defined by the user when creating or modifying the document.
A list of bulletin boards to search and a set of Callisto forums on which to display them. Callisto searches only the bulletin boards listed in open documents.
An expression containing wildcard characters which can match any one of a number of text strings. Wildcards expressions include:
| * |
matches zero or more of any character |
| ? |
matches one only of any character |
| [a,e,i,o,u] |
matches any of the listed characters (here the lowercase vowels) |
| [a-z] |
matches any character in the range specified (here lowercase letters) |
| ^[l-q] |
matches any character except those in the range specified (here lowercase l to lowercase q) |
Wildcards expressions may be combined to produce any desired regular expression,
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