PS is online for you.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: PS WAS DESIGNED TO BE SMALL AND EASILY CARRIED BY SOLDIERS IN MOTOR POOLS, ARMS ROOMS, OR TO THE FIELD. THE COMING OF THE INTERNET AGE HAS ALLOWED US TO GIVE SOLDIERS AN EASILY ACCESSIBLE REFERENCE TO THE PS LIBRARY. YOU CAN GO ONLINE TO READ PS ARTICLES BACK TO JAN 90. ENTIRE ISSUES FROM JAN 99 TO THE PRESENT CAN ALSO BE REVIEWED. THE PS WEBPAGE IS AVAILABLE AT: http://www.logsa.army.mil/psmag/psonline.htm YOU'LL NEED THE ADOBE adobe (ədō`bē): see rammed earth. adobe Handmade sun-dried bricks formed from a mixture of heavy clay and straw found in arid regions. ACROBAT READER The former name of Adobe Reader. See PDF. INSTALLED ON YOUR COMPUTER TO READ PS. OUR WEBPAGE HAS A LINK TO GET THE FREE DOWNLOAD To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. OF ACROBAT READER. THE LATEST EDITION OF PS IS USUALLY POSTED TO THE WEB BY THE COVER DATE. IF YOU CLICK ON ITS COVER, OR ON THE TABLE OF CONTENTS (TOC) LINK, THE TOC FOR THE CURRENT ISSUE POPS UP. YOU CAN SCROLL To continuously move forward, backward or sideways through the text and images on screen or within a window. Scrolling implies continuous and smooth movement, a line, character or pixel at a time, as if the data were on a paper scroll being rolled behind the screen. See auto scroll. THROUGH THE ENTIRE ISSUE TO SEE WHAT TICKLES YOUR FANCY OR YOU CAN SELECT AN ARTICLE BY CLICKING ON ITS TITLE IN THE TOC. IF YOU WANT TO VIEW THE ENTIRE ISSUE, YOU CAN CLICK ON THE ARROWS AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN ... ... OR YOU CAN USE YOUR MOUSE TO SCROLL THROUGH THE ISSUE. THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO READ BACK ISSUES. ONE: CLICK ON ARCHIVE OF PREVIOUS ISSUES CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE ISSUES FROM 1999 THROUGH THE CURRENT ISSUE. TWO: LINKS TO INDEXES FOR 1990-1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, AND 2002 ARE BELOW THE CURRENT ISSUE'S COVER. YOU CAN PAGE THROUGH THE INDEX USING THE ARROWS AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN OR YOU CAN USE THE BOOKMARK A stored location for quick retrieval at a later date. Web browsers provide bookmarks that contain the addresses (URLs) of favorite sites. Most electronic references, large text databases and help systems provide bookmarks that mark a location users want to revisit in the future. LETTERS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE SCREEN. CLICK ON THE FIRST LETTER OF THE TITLE YOU NEED AND YOU WILL GET THE FIRST ARTICLE THAT START WITH THAT LETTER ... IF YOU STILL DON'T FIND WHAT YOU NEED, THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO SEARCH. FOR EXAMPLE, YOU MAY LOOK FOR A BLACK HAWK Black Hawk (born 1767, Sauk Sautenuk, Va.—died Oct. 3, 1838, village on the Des Moines River, Iowa, U.S.) Sauk Indian leader. Long antagonistic to whites, Black Hawk was driven into Iowa from Illinois in 1831. ARTICLE UNDER "B" AND FIND NOTHING. AN ALTERNATIVE WOULD BE TO LOOK UNDER "A" FOR " ... AIRCRAFT, UH-GO, BLACK HAWK ..." YOUR SERVER SHOULD HAVE A SEARCH ENGINE THAT ALLOWS A SEARCH OF ONLINE DOCUMENTS. ACROBAT READER USES AN ICON OF BINOCULARS binoculars Optical instrument for providing a magnified view of distant objects, consisting of two similar telescopes, one for each eye, mounted on a single frame. In most binoculars, each telescope has two prisms, which reinvert the inverted image provided by the eyepiece TO ACTIVATE ITS SEARCH ENGINE. CLICK ON THE BINOCULARS AND TYPE IN WHAT YOU'RE SEARCHING FOR. THE SYSTEM WILL BRING UP THE FIRST ARTICLE ON THAT SUBJECT. IF THAT ARTICLE ISN'T WHAT YOU WANT, CLICK ON THE BINOCULARS AGAIN TO GET THE NEXT ARTICLE FOR YOUR SEARCH. |
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