Glossary of Callisto terms

Bulletin board 

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. 

 

Forum 

On a bulletin board, a list of similar topics. 

 

Topic 

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. 

 

Article 

A (usually) short piece of text posted on a bulletin board to originate or continue a topic. 

Also known as a Post. 

 

Callisto forum 

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. 

 

Callisto 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. 

 

Regular Expression 

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,