AIMLPad for Dummies

I downloaded and installed AIMLPad yesterday along with the WordNet extensions and a few other things.  I'm having trouble getting my head wrapped around the basics.  I did find the extensive system documentation guide in the /Docs directory and a few other help documents, but I can't seem to find the equivalent of the usual quickie guide that gives you an overview of the Notepad Editor basics.

 

Is there a document anywhere that gives basic explanation and hopefully examples of what each menu item in the AIMLPad editor does (E.g. - Learn, Sort, Dump, List Targets, etc.)?

 

For an example of one of things I just don't seem to grasp:

 

I load a script like CChat.txt into the notepad.  I then click on the "Chat Mode" button.  If I type a line the system does respond to my input.  But what seems weird is by typing into the document window as I am, I'm adding junk into the script script I loaded; my queries and the system responses are now intermixed with the script code.  Also, when I hit the Chat Mode button, did AIMLPad automatically parse, load and run the CChat.txt script I have open in the Notepad?  It doesn't seem that way.  It seems as if I'm interacting with the basic AIMLPad system, not a particular script.

 

It's this sort of thing that's confusing me.

 

Thanks,

Robert

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