SAVED STATES

Except for such static pages as About the Alexandrian Authority ["Alex"] and Alex Help Topics, there are few “default” displays in The Alexandrian Authority™. Once you invoke a function, Alex remembers the state of that function when you leave it. If you move, for example, from a USERS: user info screen to the REPOSITORY: browse screen, you will be returned to the same screen display you were viewing when you last visited REPOSITORY: browse.

Such preservation of context is a valuable tool. Some users, however, expecting the kind of default display other applications provide whenever a function is invoked, may be puzzled by the state of a display if significant time has elapsed since the screen was last viewed.