Basic Terms

• windowgrams are the small windows that appear on your screen with a message from another person.

• Zephyrgrams are the messages that you send and receive when you are using Zephyr. They can appear as windowgrams or in other forms, depending on which client you are using.

• A Zephyr client is a program that lets you receive zephyrgrams. The zwgc client starts automatically when you login to an athena workstation; you can start BarnOwl manually with add barnowl; barnowl

• Zephyr is the name of the whole system that makes all of this happen.