Categories of Services

Through out this manual we categorize the Basic Office Services into three categories.

1. Golbal Services.
   These are capabilities that you want to have at your disposal independent of what you are doing. For example, You want to be able to run the spelling checker or the file completion capabilities when you are using your manipulating e-mail, entering calendar items, doing your desk top publishing or writing code. You want your spell checking and file completion capabilities to work uniformly independent of the specific task that you are doing.
   1. Spell Checking (ispell)
   2. Dictionary Look-up (webster)
   3. Thesaurus
   4. File Name Completion (filec)
   5. Printing (lpr-buffer)
   6. Corporate Phone Book (finger)
   7. Personal Phone Book (rolo)
   8. On Line Help (manual-entry, info)
   9. Desk Top Management (window-)

2. Generic Services.
   These are the individual capabilities expected in the general office. In Emacs, these are typically associated with major modes.
   1. Interpersonal Massaging (Rmail, MH, GNUS)
   2. Time Management (Calendar)
   3. Information Retrieval (info)
   4. Unix Shell (cmushell)
   5. Calculator (calc)

3. Specific Services.
   
   1. Software Development (C-mode, C++-Mode, Lisp-Mode, GDB)
   2. Desktop Publishing (Tex, LaTeX, TeXInfo, LaTeXInfo)