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_________________________________________________________________ HELP! HELP! A Hard Disk Management Program A Hard Disk Management Program _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Copyright (C) 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985 Taylor Software Tools Copyright (C) 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985 Taylor Software Tools All Rights Reserved All Rights Reserved Taylor Software Tools Taylor Software Tools 1103 Mendoza Drive 1103 Mendoza Drive St. Peters, MO. 63376 St. Peters, MO. 63376 Contents Contents Chapter 1 Introduction to HELP! 3 1.1 What is HELP! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 HELP! Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.3 HELP! Design Philosphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Chapter 2 Starting HELP! 5 2.1 Setup of HELP! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2 Running HELP! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.3 HELP!.CFG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.4 Help file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.5 Black & White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Chapter 3 The Main Screen 8 3.1 Path & Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.2 File Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.2.1 Changing Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.3 Status Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.3.1 File Count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.3.2 Memory Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.3.3 Date & Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.4 Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.5 HELP! Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.6 Edit Fields in HELP! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.7 Error Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.8 Utilities Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.9 Help Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Chapter 4 File Commands 13 4.1 Copy Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4.1.1 Copy Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4.1.2 Copy Single File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4.1.3 Multiple Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4.1.4 Destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 4.1.4.1 Using TREE for your Destination . . . . . . 14 4.1.5 File Overwrite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 4.2 Drive Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 4.3 Erase Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 4.3.1 Erase Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 4.3.2 Single File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4.3.3 Multiple Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4.3.4 Prompted File Erase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4.4 Files Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4.5 Locate Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 4.5.1 File to Locate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 i 4.5.2 Wildcards Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 4.5.3 Display Pause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 4.5.4 TREE Read & Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 4.6 Move Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 4.6.1 Move Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 4.6.2 Move Single File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 4.6.3 Multiple Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 4.6.4 Move Destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 4.6.4.1 Using TREE for your Destination . . . . . . 19 4.7 Name Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 4.8 View Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 4.8.1 How View Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 4.8.2 The View Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 4.8.3 Cursor Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 4.8.4 Viewing More Than One File . . . . . . . . . . . 21 4.8.5 Linked Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 4.8.6 Scan & Compare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 4.8.7 View Scan & Compare Options . . . . . . . . . . . 22 4.8.8 Finding a String . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 4.8.9 Find Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 4.8.10 Find Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 4.9 Compare Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 4.9.0.1 Using TREE for your Destination . . . . . . 24 4.10 MakeDirectory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4.10.1 Turning Off Prompt Screen . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Chapter 5 Running a Program 26 5.1 Running Programs from HELP! . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 5.2 Execute Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 5.3 RUN Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 5.4 Point Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 5.4.1 Point First Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 5.4.2 Program Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 5.4.3 Command Line Arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 5.4.4 Additional Arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 5.4.5 Save Point File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 5.4.6 Pointer Hints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Chapter 6 Using a Mouse 30 6.1 Why use a Mouse ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 6.2 The Mouse Cursor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 6.3 Click, Double Click . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 6.4 Left and Right Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 6.5 For the South Paw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 6.6 The HELP! Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 6.6.1 Copy, Erase and Move Multiple . . . . . . . . . . 32 6.7 Changing the Directory - Hyper Navigation! . . . . . . 32 6.7.1 Changing Directories with the Path Window . . . . 33 6.7.2 Changing Directories with TREE . . . . . . . . . 33 6.8 Using the Multiple Selection Window . . . . . . . . . 34 6.9 The Help System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 6.9.1 Context Sensitive Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 6.9.2 Getting Help from the Help Index . . . . . . . . 34 6.9.3 Using the Help Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 ii 6.10 The Color Setup Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 6.11 The Status Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 6.12 The File Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 6.12.1 Expanding and Changing the File Window . . . . . 36 Chapter 7 Using the Print Facility 37 7.1 PRINT Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 7.2 Printing Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 7.2.1 Device Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 7.2.2 Printing Text Screen As Output . . . . . . . . . 38 7.2.2.1 Pause the Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 7.2.3 Printing Text, Printer as Output . . . . . . . . 38 7.2.3.1 Critical Errors During Print . . . . . . . . 38 7.2.4 Printing Text, File as Output . . . . . . . . . . 38 7.3 Hex-ASCII Output to Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 7.3.1 Hex-EBCDIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 7.3.2 Hex-ASCII Output to Printer . . . . . . . . . . . 40 7.3.3 Hex-ASCII Output to a File . . . . . . . . . . . 40 7.4 Print Options Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 7.4.1 Communications Port Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 7.4.2 Printer, Port Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 7.4.3 Printer Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 7.4.3.1 Setting Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 7.4.3.2 Initialization String . . . . . . . . . . . 41 7.4.3.3 Formatted Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 7.5 Print Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 7.6 Print Multiple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 7.6.1 Multiple Print Reselection . . . . . . . . . . . 45 7.7 Load & Save Printer Description File . . . . . . . . . 45 7.8 Top of Printer Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 7.9 Initialize Printer String . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Chapter 8 HELP! Editor 47 8.1 Words Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 8.2 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 8.3 Running the Editor Alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 8.4 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 8.5 Screen Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 8.6 Cursor Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 8.7 Editing Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 8.8 The Menu System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 8.8.1 File Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 8.8.1.1 Open... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 8.8.1.2 Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 8.8.1.3 Save As... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 8.8.1.4 Merge at Cursor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 8.8.1.5 Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 8.8.1.6 Change Directory... . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 8.8.1.7 Exit to Dos... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 8.8.1.8 Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 8.8.1.9 Get Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 8.8.1.10 Quit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 8.8.2 Edit Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 8.8.2.1 Toggle, Lower and Upper Case . . . . . . . . 55 iii 8.8.2.2 Set Marker... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 8.8.2.3 Restore Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 8.8.2.4 Undo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 8.8.2.5 Macros... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 8.8.3 Block Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 8.8.3.1 Block Column Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 8.8.3.2 Selecting Text - Begin and End . . . . . . . 57 8.8.3.3 Hide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 8.8.3.4 Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 8.8.3.5 Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 8.8.3.6 Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 8.8.3.7 Write... and Read... . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 8.8.4 Goto Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 8.8.4.1 Line Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 8.8.4.2 Column Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 8.8.4.3 Top of File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 8.8.4.4 Bottom of File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 8.8.4.5 Marker... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 8.8.4.6 Start of Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 8.8.4.7 End of Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 8.8.5 Search Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 8.8.5.1 Find... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 8.8.5.2 Replace... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 8.8.5.3 Use Macro... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 8.8.5.4 Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 8.8.6 Window Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 8.8.6.1 Open... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 8.8.6.2 Close . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 8.8.6.3 Go to... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 8.8.6.4 Previous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 8.8.6.5 Next . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 8.8.6.6 Resize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 8.8.6.7 Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 8.8.7 Options Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 8.8.7.1 Autoindent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 8.8.7.2 Insert Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 8.8.7.3 Fixed Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 8.8.7.4 Tab Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 8.8.7.5 Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 8.8.7.6 Save Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 8.8.7.7 Load File Options... . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 8.8.7.8 Display Options... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 8.9 HELP! Editor Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Chapter 9 Advanced Features 71 9.1 Multiple File Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 9.1.1 Keys Used in File Selection . . . . . . . . . . . 71 9.1.1.1 Selecting by Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 9.1.1.2 Selecting By Type or Extension . . . . . . . 72 9.1.1.3 Selecting and Clearing All . . . . . . . . . 72 9.1.2 Saving File Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 9.2 Options Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 9.2.1 Black & White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 9.2.2 Vertical Retrace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 iv 9.2.3 Changing Screen Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 9.2.4 File Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 9.2.5 Wide File Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 9.2.6 Key Status Window Toggle . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 9.2.7 EGA/VGA Screen Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 9.2.8 Special Screen Mode Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . 75 9.2.9 Text Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 9.2.10 Expert Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 9.2.11 Read Tree Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 9.2.12 Mouse Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 9.2.13 Saving Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 9.2.14 Quitting Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 9.3 Sort Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 9.4 TREE Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 9.4.1 Auto Tree Read and Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 9.4.2 Changing Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 9.4.3 The Arrow Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 9.4.4 <PageUp> and <PageDn> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 9.4.5 <Home> and <End> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 9.4.6 Selecting the Current Directory . . . . . . . . . 79 9.4.7 Re-Reading the TREE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 9.4.8 Renaming Directories with the TREE Command . . . 79 9.4.9 Selecting the Highlight Attribute . . . . . . . . 79 9.4.9.1 Archive Bit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 9.4.9.2 Hidden Directory Bit . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 9.4.9.3 Read Only Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 9.4.9.4 System Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 9.4.9.5 Located Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 9.4.9.6 None . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 9.4.9.7 Saving the Highlight Conditions . . . . . . 80 9.5 Attributes Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 9.5.1 Archive Bit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 9.5.2 Hidden Bit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 9.5.3 Read Only Bit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 9.5.4 System Bit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 9.5.5 Time and Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 9.6 Equipment List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 9.7 Format Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 9.8 Date Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 9.9 Time Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 9.10 Switches Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 9.10.1 Saving Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 9.11 Volume Label Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Appendix A License Agreement 86 License Agreement Appendix B Warranty 87 Warranty Appendix C INVOICE 88 INVOICE Index 89 v Figures Figures Figure 3.1: Edit Field Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Figure 5.1: Equivalent Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Figure 5.2: Wildcards in Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Figure 6.1: Using the Mouse - Submenus . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Figure 6.2: Changing Directory with the Path Window . . . . . 33 Figure 7.1: Formatted Printer Page Layout . . . . . . . . . . 43 Figure 8.1: Status Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Figure 8.2: Cursor Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Figure 8.3: Editing Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Figure 8.4: Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Figure 8.5: File Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Figure 8.6: Edit Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Figure 8.7: Macros Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Figure 8.8: Block Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Figure 8.9: Goto Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Figure 8.10: Search Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Figure 8.11: Window Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Figure 8.12: Options Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Figure 8.13: Load File Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Figure 8.14: Display Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Figure 8.15: Function Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Figure 8.16: Key Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 vi Tables Tables Table 4.1: View Cursor Control Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Table 4.2: View Window Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Table 4.3: View Scan & Compare Options . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Table 4.4: View Search & Find . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Table 4.5: View Find Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Table 8.1: Search Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 vii About this Manual About this Manual This manual is not the complete HELP! manual. When you register the program you will receive the complete manual with over 110 figures and tables. The manual has been compressed to save you download time. The figures have been left out because most printers would not be able to reproduce them. Notes on Shareware Notes on Shareware This program is distributed as shareware. This software is NOT FREE. Shareware is an alternative method of marketing software. You, as a user, benefit greatly from this marketing method. Among your benefits are lower price, because my marketing costs are less, and the ability to try the program for a reasonable length of time before you buy it. After this reasonable trial period, if you decide you do not like this program, please discontinue all use of it. ___ Many long grueling hours have gone into both the program and its documentation to insure that the both are bug free and easy to use. I am sure that in your chosen profession you get paid for your services. Software authors are no different than you. Thank You, Bruce A. Taylor ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ C h a p t e r 1 C h a p t e r 1 Introduction to HELP! Introduction to HELP! ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ __________________________ 1.1 What is HELP! 1.1 What is HELP! HELP! is a program designed to make the navigation and maintenance of your hard disk easy. Although HELP! was designed for use on a hard disk based system, it can be used on a floppy only system. Because of the large amount of disk space on a typical hard disk, these systems are usually partitioned into subdirectories. I prefer to think of subdirectories as file folders in a file cabinet, with the hard disk being the cabinet. Each folder contains items that logically fit together. A typical arrangement in a computer would be to put all of your word processing files in one directory (or folder) and all of your spreadsheet files in another directory. These ``logically'' fit together. As we all know from our experiences, a file cabinet can get a little messed up! We need to have a way of eliminating old information. Or, maybe we need to change the name of a file folder. We also might want to move information from one folder to another. Of course, you need to have a way of viewing information and changing it. If you move this analogy of file folders to your hard disk, you can begin to see where the power of HELP! can benefit you. __________________________ __________________________ 1.2 HELP! Features 1.2 HELP! Features HELP! has many features to aid in these every day chores of maintaining your file cabinet (hard disk). The following is a partial list of features. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 1 Introduction to HELP! 3 Chapter 1 Introduction to HELP! 3 o Copy one or more files to a different directory and/or drive. o Change Drive with only two key strokes. o Erase one or more files or subdirectories. o Move one or more files to a different directory and/or drive. o Locate a file or files anywhere on your hard disk. o View 1 to 4 files simultaneously. View contains search and a scan and compare feature which allows comparing two files for differences. o Equipment tells what hardware is present in your computer. o Rename files or subdirectories (version 3 or later of DOS for subdirectories). o Add/Delete or Change a Volume label of a disk. o Print a file to any port (serial or parallel) or the screen either in a formatted or unformatted fashion. o Print a Hex-ASCII/EBCDIC dump to either a printer or screen. o Mouse Support to enhance productivity. o Displays the amount of disk space used on the whole disk and the current directory. Set the time or date of the computer and the internal battery backed up clock (AT Compatible only). o Supports both EGA and VGA with 43 and 43/50 line modes respectively. o Display a TREE of the subdirectory structure of the disk. o Edit up to 6 files with a powerful WordStar command compatible editor, with macros featuring pull-down menus for those not comfortable with WordStar. o Execute a program simply by pointing to it or it's file type (Point Command). o Change a files attributes (Read Only, Archive, System, Hidden). This allows hiding files or directories and making them erase resistant. __________________________ __________________________ 1.3 HELP! Design Philosphy 1.3 HELP! Design Philosphy HELP! was designed to make using your computer easier to use. There were two goals set forth when the program was designed. The first was to make the program intuitive enough for even a first time computer user to understand. The second goal was to make sure this easy to use interface did not limit a professionals productivity. The outcome is a surprisingly easy to use program that will be useful to both the novice and professional. ___________________________________________________________________________ 4 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 4 ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ C h a p t e r 2 C h a p t e r 2 Starting HELP! Starting HELP! ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ __________________________ 2.1 Setup of HELP! 2.1 Setup of HELP! The files included with HELP! are the following: HELP!.COM Main execution module of HELP!. This part remains HELP!.COM resident while HELP! is used. HELPRUN.EXE This is the part of HELP! with most of the commands. HELPRUN.EXE HELP!.HLP This is the On-Line Context Sensitive Help file. HELP!.HLP HED.EXE This is the HELP! Editor. This file can be left out if HED.EXE the HELP! Editor is not desired HED.HLP This is the help file for the HELP! Editor. If help is HED.HLP not desired for the HELP! Editor or you do not use the Editor, you can leave this file out. HELP! may create these files: HELP!.PRG This is created when using the POINT command. HELP!.PRG HELP!.CFG This stores changes you've made to the configuration. HELP!.CFG The files of HELP! should be stored in the same directory. This can be any directory on the Hard Disk. If you want to start HELP! from any directory on your disk, make sure that HELP! is stored in a directory that is specified with the DOS PATH Variable. If you want to start HELP! from only the directory in which it is stored, change to that directory and type HELP!. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 2 Starting HELP! 5 Chapter 2 Starting HELP! 5 __________________________ __________________________ 2.2 Running HELP! 2.2 Running HELP! HELP! is started by typing HELP! at the command prompt. ( A> for floppy users or C> for hard disk users ) HELP!.COM will then begin its search for HELPRUN.EXE. It will first search the current directory and if HELPRUN.EXE is not found, will then read the DOS environment for a PATH Variable. (See DOS manual for setting of the PATH variable). It then will search all directories specified in the PATH Variable for HELPRUN.EXE. This directory will be referred to as the start-up directory. If it doesn't find HELPRUN.EXE, it will exit with an error message. Assuming it finds HELPRUN.EXE with either method above, HELP! will save the path to this directory and will search for all other HELP! files there. __________________________ __________________________ 2.3 HELP!.CFG 2.3 HELP!.CFG HELP! next searches the start-up directory it found above for a HELP!.CFG file. This file contains any custom features you may have turned on such as color changes, file window, and sort options. If this file is not found, default options are used. __________________________ __________________________ 2.4 Help file 2.4 Help file HELP!.HLP is the file containing the context sensitive help information. This file, too, should be in the start-up directory. If this file is not present an error message will flash on the screen, when help information is accessed, indicating HELP!.HLP cannot be found. This is not a fatal error but no help screens will be available. __________________________ __________________________ 2.5 Black & White 2.5 Black & White If you are using HELP! with a color graphic adapter and your monitor is a monochrome (black & white monitor), you will want to select the black & white color set. There are two ways of doing this. The first is to use the DOS Mode Command. Typing ``mode BW80'', from the DOS command line, will set the video mode to Black & White. Help! will sense this and use its Black & White color set. Black & White can also be selected by typing ___________________________________________________________________________ 6 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 6 from the Main Menu ``OBSQ''. This will select Options, Black & white, and save the configuration. For more information on the options available read section 9.2. Owners of the monochrome adapter or equivalent will automatically have the black & white color set selected. If you should have a color adapter and a color display and the colors are black & white, type ``OCDQSQ''. This will reselect the default color set and save that setting in the configuration file. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 2 Starting HELP! 7 Chapter 2 Starting HELP! 7 ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ C h a p t e r 3 C h a p t e r 3 The Main Screen The Main Screen ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ When you first start HELP! a screen will pop up with ordering information. HELP! is not FREE. Use this version for a resonable period of time and then you must either discontinue its use or register your copy. Those who choose to register HELP! for $30.00 will receive the latest disk along with the complete manual and instructions for bypassing this first screen. The complete manual has over 100 figures and tables that I could not include in this disk manual for obvious reasons. After you have pressed any key, the main screen will appear. __________________________ __________________________ 3.1 Path & Volume 3.1 Path & Volume The top line on the left is the complete pathname of the current directory. On the right is the VOLUME LABEL if any exists. The window below the pathname is the file window. __________________________ __________________________ 3.2 File Window 3.2 File Window The default File Window is a three column listing of the files and their extensions. There are other screen options available but we will defer these until the discussion on the Options Menu. There is room for 54 files in this window. If more than 54 files are in this directory, an arrow will appear in either the upper left corner of the file screen or the lower left corner of the file screen. The arrow's position depends upon whether more files are above the current listing (arrow in upper corner) or more files are below the current listing (arrow in lower corner). If there are files both above and below the current listing, the arrow will appear in both corners. You can see these additional files by using <PgUp>, <PgDn>, <Home>, <End>, or the four cursor keys. ___________________________________________________________________________ 8 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 8 3.2.1 Changing Directories 3.2.1 Changing Directories If you are not in the top directory ( i.e. root directory ) the ``Move Up One'' will appear as one of the entries. Hitting <Enter> while this entry is highlighted will cause the directory to be changed to the one above it in the directory hierarchy. If a subdirectory entry is in the file window, a little triangle will appear before it in the window. Once again hitting <Enter> on this directory entry will change the file window to that directory. For a complete description of the directory structure of DOS see your manual. __________________________ __________________________ 3.3 Status Window 3.3 Status Window The window on the right under the volume label is the Status window. The Status Window can be turned off so more files can be displayed (see Options Menu on page 73). The Status window contains general information not normally displayed by DOS. Contained within the frame of the status window is the version of DOS being used. The first entry is the total bytes on the disk drive. The second entry is the number of bytes remaining on the disk drive. The third entry is the number of bytes used by the files in this directory. 3.3.1 File Count 3.3.1 File Count The fourth line may or may not be present. This line indicates the number of files marked hidden or system. The fifth line indicates the number of files in this directory. The sixth line is the number of subdirectories plus the ``Move Up One'' in a subdirectory. 3.3.2 Memory Status 3.3.2 Memory Status The next division of the status window is the memory status display. The first entry lists the number of bytes of memory total in your machine. The second line of this division shows the number of bytes available if you were to run a file with an EXE or COM extension. A BAT extension will shrink this figure down a little more because HELP! needs to load a second copy of COMMAND.COM. HELP! shrinks to less than 4K bytes of memory when another program is run. 3.3.3 Date & Time 3.3.3 Date & Time The last division of the status window provides the current date & time. The date and time displayed is the current date and time that DOS has set internally. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 3 The Main Screen 9 Chapter 3 The Main Screen 9 __________________________ __________________________ 3.4 Status Indicators 3.4 Status Indicators In the middle right side of the screen you will see three boxes containing the words CAPS, NUMBER and SCROLL. These are indicators of the current state of the caps lock, number lock and scroll lock keys on your keyboard. When the background of the box is colored, the key is on. The Status Indicators can be turned off and file date, time and size will take its place (see Options Menu on page 73). __________________________ __________________________ 3.5 HELP! Menus 3.5 HELP! Menus HELP! Menus are in the last three lines of the screen. There are two types of menus in HELP!. The first type of menu is like that of the Main Menu and the Utilities Menu. This type of menu has two ways of accessing the commands listed. The first is to type the capitalized letter in the command. This will immediately execute that command and, in most cases, cause HELP! to present another menu. The second way of using this menu is to use <Tab> or <Shift><Tab> or <Space> to move the menu cursor (the reverse video area in the menu) until it is on the command desired. Notice that as you move the cursor, the prompt line (last screen line) will change giving a brief description of the command. Once the menu cursor is on the desired command, press <Enter>. You can use either method; however, the first method is compatible with the second type of menu. The second type of menu is very simple. You will see this menu everywhere except the Main Menu and the Utilities Menu. This menu has one of its characters in parenthesis. Typing this character will execute the menu option. You can still get help with this type of menu by pressing <F1>. The help system is described below. Most HELP! menus and screens can be exited by typing <ESC>. This is a good way to back out of an operation that you wish to abandon. __________________________ __________________________ 3.6 Edit Fields in HELP! 3.6 Edit Fields in HELP! HELP! has editing fields that are used for entering information such as file names & paths. Some of these fields have the information that was last entered when they are called up again. Typing any letter or number will cause the field to be cleared. Should you want to edit the last name that was in the field, press any one of the editing keys. Typing at the ___________________________________________________________________________ 10 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 10 current cursor position will insert text. Cursor Movement Commands Cursor Movement Commands <Left Arrow> Move cursor one character to the left. <Left Arrow> Move cursor one character to the left. <Right Arrow> Move cursor one character to the right. <Right Arrow> Move cursor one character to the right. <Ctrl><Right Arrow> Right one word. <Ctrl><Right Arrow> Right one word. <Ctrl><Left Arrow> Left one word. <Ctrl><Left Arrow> Left one word. <Home> Set cursor on first character in the field. <Home> Set cursor on first character in the field. <End> Set cursor on last character in the field. <End> Set cursor on last character in the field. Editing Commands Editing Commands <CR> Accept current editing field. <CR> Accept current editing field. <ESC> Escape from the current edit field. <ESC> Escape from the current edit field. <Ctrl><Home> Clear edit field. <Ctrl><Home> Clear edit field. <Ctrl><End> Clear to the end of the line. <Ctrl><End> Clear to the end of the line. <Delete> Delete character under the cursor. <Delete> Delete character under the cursor. <Backspace> Delete character to the left of the cursor. <Backspace> Delete character to the left of the cursor. <Ctrl> R Restore to original line. <Ctrl> R Restore to original line. <Ctrl> P Type control character. <Ctrl> P Type control character. <Insert> Toggle insert/overwrite mode. Edit fields <Insert> Toggle insert/overwrite mode. Edit fields always start in insert mode. always start in insert mode. Figure 3.1: Edit Field Keys Figure 3.1: Edit Field Keys __________________________ __________________________ 3.7 Error Window 3.7 Error Window Just above the Menu area is the error window. This one line area is designed to give feedback to the user as to any error conditions. Not only are error conditions presented here, but helpful messages such as ``Saving File...'' and ``Reading File...'' are displayed. Two types of messages will be displayed. The first is displayed for about 4 seconds and expects no response. This type of message can be suppressed early by hitting a key. The second type expects a response as acknowledgment of a question or an acknowledgment so HELP! knows you saw the message. __________________________ __________________________ 3.8 Utilities Menu 3.8 Utilities Menu The Utilities Menu is a secondary menu that is accessed by typing ``U'' ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 3 The Main Screen 11 Chapter 3 The Main Screen 11 from the Main Menu. This menu operates similar to the Main Menu in that the <Tab> ,<Space> and <Shift><Tab> sequences allow you to select menu items. Also the capitalized letter of the command can be used to access the command. The Utilities Menu contains the least used commands and was put one level down in the menu hierarchy to avoid a crowded Main Menu. The Main Menu can be re-entered from the Utilities Menu by typing ``Q'' or <ESC>. __________________________ __________________________ 3.9 Help Screens 3.9 Help Screens Help Screens can be accessed in two ways. The first way is by typing ``H'' in the Main Menu. After doing this, a window will pop up with an index. Use the cursor keys, or the <Home>, <End>, <PgUp>, <PgDn> keys to select (position the cursor on) the subject of interest then press <Enter>. A window will now pop-up with the help screen(s) requested unless the file HELP!.HLP cannot be found. The upper right hand corner of the help screen tells the current page number and how many pages of help are available on this subject. If more than one page is available, the last line of the screen will tell you to use <PageUp> for the previous screen and <PageDn> for the next screen or both. When you want to terminate the help screens, Press <ESC> to exit. If you had come from the help index, you can select a new subject or press <ESC> to end the help index command. Any time HELP! is waiting for input you can press <F1>. This will bring up the screen that is of interest to the command or process currently being used in HELP!. If HELP!.HLP is found, the screens will be presented as described above. ___________________________________________________________________________ 12 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 12 ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ C h a p t e r 4 C h a p t e r 4 File Commands File Commands ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ __________________________ 4.1 Copy Command 4.1 Copy Command The Copy Command, selectable from the main menu, can be used to copy one or more files to a different drive and/or directory or a different directory on the same drive. It is selected by typing the letter ``C'' from the main menu. 4.1.1 Copy Menu 4.1.1 Copy Menu The next menu will ask if you want to copy a single file or multiple files. An ``F'' is typed for copying a single file or an ``M'' is typed if more than one file is desired to be copied. Please note that the Multiple Copy Command can be used for a single file also. 4.1.2 Copy Single File 4.1.2 Copy Single File If an ``F'' was selected, the menu area will now prompt you to select a file. File Selection is achieved by using the arrow (cursor) keys, <Home>, <PageUp>, <PageDn>, and <End> to highlight the desired file and then pressing <Enter>. 4.1.3 Multiple Files 4.1.3 Multiple Files If you selected an ``M'', the menu area will allow you to select multiple files. First you highlight the desired file(s) by using the arrow (cursor) keys, <Home>, <PageUp>, <PageDn>, and <End>. Once the file is highlighted, it is selected by pressing the space bar. You should now see a little tick mark to the left of the file name. If the file is selected by mistake, press the space bar again to deselect it and the tick mark goes away. The above procedure is repeated until all the files to be copied are selected. Once the selections are complete, simply press <Enter>. If a lot of the files are to be copied, a quicker way to select would be to press ``A'' and all files will be selected. Then deselect, as above, the files you don't want to copy. Other options are available on this menu also. These are covered in section 9.1 on multiple file selections. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 4 File Commands 13 Chapter 4 File Commands 13 4.1.4 Destination 4.1.4 Destination The next screen prompts for the destination of the files you will be copying. The Select Drive prompt will display all drives that HELP! thinks are valid. The current drive is highlighted. Enter the letter of the drive you want, or type <Enter> for the default drive. After either the letter or <Enter> is pressed, the next field appears. This field is for the directory name. Enter the desired directory name or leave this field blank, by typing <Enter>, if the current directory on the specified drive is desired. 4.1.4.1 Using TREE for your Destination 4.1.4.1 Using TREE for your Destination The directory can also be filled in by pressing either the up arrow or the down arrow cursor keys. This will check the currently stored TREE drive information. If the desired destination drive is either the one that is currently read into the TREE memory or the drive is one that is saved by TREE Options (see Section 9.4.1), it will appear instantly over the file window. If it does not satisfy these conditions, a prompt asking whether the TREE should be read or not is presented. Use the up and down arrows or the <PageUp> and <PageDn> keys to select a directory. The directory can still be typed in even though the TREE command has been invoked. After the directory field is either filled in or not filled, press <Enter>. HELP! now checks that this drive is active or has a diskette in it. If not, it prompts you to insert a diskette. HELP! also checks that the directory specified is valid. If not, it tells you. DOS allowed invalid directory names and would simply concatenate the files together into one file named the directory name specified. This is why HELP! checks for valid directories. The copy then proceeds with HELP! checking for enough disk space each time it selects a new file to copy. If there is not enough disk space on the destination drive, HELP! will prompt you to insert a new diskette in the drive for the next file. You can also quit by typing <ESC> at this prompt. HELP! also checks if the file is too big to fit on the drive if it were blank. If this condition exists, the program will prompt you that the file is too big and if it was a Multiple Copy Command continue with the next file. Any of these menus above can be canceled at any time by pressing <ESC>. 4.1.5 File Overwrite 4.1.5 File Overwrite There is a menu item called (O)verwrite in the Copy Command. This option controls how the Copy Command deals with the same file name appearing in the destination drive and directory that is in the source drive and directory. The default action is to prompt you that it exists. This prompt contains the file's date, time and size in both the source and destination. You are then asked if you want to overwrite this file. If you respond with a ``Y'', the destination will be overwritten. Pressing the ``O'' in the Copy Commands menu, you will see two other options. The next option to appear is ``Older File''. What this means is, ___________________________________________________________________________ 14 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 14 if the destination is older in date and time than the source, the file will be overwritten. If the file's time, date and size all agree, then the file will not be overwritten. If the file in the destination is newer, it will ___ not be overwritten. The next overwrite option is ``Always''. This will always overwrite the destination file. The setting of the overwrite option is saved when a Save Configuration is done in the Options Menu. __________________________ __________________________ 4.2 Drive Command 4.2 Drive Command The Drive Command allows you to select which drive's files are shown in the file window and which drive's statistics are shown in the status window. Pressing ``D'' from the main menu selects the Drive Command. This then brings up the Drive selection menu. Selecting a letter, in this case A-C, will select the drive. HELP! checks to make sure the drive is valid and contains a diskette. If not, you will be prompted to insert one. You can back out of the menu with an <ESC> if desired. The Drive Command performs a disk reset when the drive letter is changed. This insures that when diskettes are changed, the file information presented is correct. When HELP! comes up, it checks drives A-Z for valid drives. There is enough room to display drives A- L without messing up the drive menu area. HELP! will allow any valid drive letter. __________________________ __________________________ 4.3 Erase Command 4.3 Erase Command The Erase Command is a very powerful command that can make hard disk management very easy indeed. The Erase Command can also be very dangerous if you are not careful! ERASED FILES OR DIRECTORIES CANNOT BE RECOVERED ! ERASED FILES OR DIRECTORIES CANNOT BE RECOVERED ! The Erase Command can erase one or more files and/or directories from the current drive and directory. The Erase Command is selected by typing an ``E'' from the main menu. 4.3.1 Erase Menu 4.3.1 Erase Menu After typing ``E'', the menu area then changes and asks if you want to erase one file or multiple files or go through the entire directory prompting you for each one. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 4 File Commands 15 Chapter 4 File Commands 15 4.3.2 Single File 4.3.2 Single File If you type an ``F'' in response to this menu, you will be prompted to select a file or directory. Selection is accomplished by using the arrow (cursor) keys, <Home>, <PageUp>, <PageDn>, and <End>. When the desired file or directory is selected, press <Enter> to carry out erasure. The next screen will prompt you to Erase Yes, No or Exit ? A ``Y'' will erase the file and an ``N'' will allow you to select another file or directory. An ``E'' or <ESC> can also be pressed to allow a complete exit from the Erase Command. This last screen can be turned off by setting an Expert Level of 3 in the Options Menu. 4.3.3 Multiple Files 4.3.3 Multiple Files Pressing an ``M'' will allow you to enter the multiple erase mode. The mulitple file selection menu will now appear. First you highlight the desired file(s) by using the arrow (cursor) keys, <Home>, <PageUp>, <PageDn>, and <End>. Once the file is highlighted, it is selected by pressing the space bar. You should now see a little tick mark to the left of the file name. If the file is selected by mistake, press the space bar again to deselect it and the tick mark goes away. The above procedure is repeated until all the files to be erased are selected. Once the selections are complete, simply press <Enter>. If a lot of the files are to be erased, a quicker way to select would be to press ``A'' and all files (not directories) will be selected. Then deselect, as above, the files you don't want to erase. Other options are available on this menu also. These are covered in section 9.1 on multiple file selections. The files will be erased one at a time and the file cursor will be updated to show the current one being erased. If in the process of erasing you should decide to go no further, press <ESC> to end erasing. REMEMBER -- ERASED FILES REMEMBER -- ERASED FILES CANNOT BE RECOVERED ! CANNOT BE RECOVERED ! 4.3.4 Prompted File Erase 4.3.4 Prompted File Erase If a ``P'' is selected at the erase menu, then all the file names in this directory will be presented in the menu window one at a time. You will be prompted to erase -- Yes, No, Quit. At this point if you want to erase that file, press ``Y''. If you want to continue prompted erase but do not want to erase this file, press ``N''. If you want to stop the prompted Erase Command, press either ``Q'' or <ESC>. REMEMBER -- ERASED FILES REMEMBER -- ERASED FILES CANNOT BE RECOVERED ! CANNOT BE RECOVERED ! __________________________ __________________________ 4.4 Files Command 4.4 Files Command The Files Command is used for updating the directory when a diskette is changed. The Files Command can be invoked by typing ``F'' at the main menu. HELP! has no way of knowing when a diskette has been changed. Using the Files Command or the Drive Command will issue a DOS disk reset which flushes buffers and tells DOS and HELP! that the disk should be reread. ___________________________________________________________________________ 16 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 16 __________________________ __________________________ 4.5 Locate Command 4.5 Locate Command The Locate Command will search the entire disk including all directories for the file(s) specified with standard DOS file names and wildcards. Locate now reads the TREE (see TREE Command) as it locates files. The Locate Command will become active by typing ``L'' at the main menu. 4.5.1 File to Locate 4.5.1 File to Locate After typing ``L'' a field will present itself on the screen. If you type a file name here, HELP! will search all directories on the current disk for a file by this name. 4.5.2 Wildcards Usage 4.5.2 Wildcards Usage Two wildcard characters exist to allow a search of more than one file. These wildcards are ``*'' and ``?''. Wildcards are inserted into a file name to allow that character to stand for anything. The ``?'' wildcard will match only one character whereas the ``*'' will match any number of characters. File names are made up of 1-8 characters followed by an optional ``.'' and an optional 1-3 characters. These two parts are distinct parts as far as wildcards are concerned. For example, if the file name specified was ``HELP*'', then the files found could be any file beginning in the word HELP with no extension. On the other hand if ``HELP*.*'' were specified, then any file name beginning in the word HELP would be found, with or without an extension. The ``?'' character operates similarly except that only one character is matched for each ``?'' specified. For example the specification ``HELP?'' would indicate a word beginning in the word HELP with one other character following. Matches might include the file names ``HELP!'', ``HELPM'' etc. If the extension has ``?'' characters, then matches would occur in the extension also. The ``*'' character will not allow any characters to follow it in the two fields (name & extension). Example: ``HELP*N'' would be treated as ``HELP*''. 4.5.3 Display Pause 4.5.3 Display Pause The Display can be paused by hitting any key during the locate display. The search can be continued by pressing any key again. 4.5.4 TREE Read & Mark 4.5.4 TREE Read & Mark While the Locate Command is searching the disk it is also reading the TREE and marking any directory in which a match was found. After Locate is complete you can use the TREE Command to rapidly change to the directories in which matches occurred. These directories will be flagged in the TREE Command with a different screen attribute. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 4 File Commands 17 Chapter 4 File Commands 17 __________________________ __________________________ 4.6 Move Command 4.6 Move Command The Move Command is a command that allows the moving of a file or files from one directory to another or from one drive to another or both. Move differs from Copy in that Copy creates a second copy of the file while Move simply changes its location. This command operates in one of two ways depending on the destination specification. If the source drive is different than the destination drive, this command physically copies the file(s) to the new location then compares the copy and if everything is okay will then erase the source file(s). The other method used is simply to change the pointer in the File Allocation Table (covered in the DOS reference manual) on the drive. This method only works when the drive has not been changed. This is a very fast method to Move files which allows rapid reorganization of the hard disk. The Move Command is invoked by typing ``M'' from the Main Menu. 4.6.1 Move Menu 4.6.1 Move Menu The menu will now ask if you want to move a single file or multiple files. An ``F'' is typed for moving a single file or an ``M'' is typed if more than one file is desired to be moved. Please note that the Multiple Move Command can be used for a single file also. 4.6.2 Move Single File 4.6.2 Move Single File If an ``F'' was selected, the menu area will now prompt you to select a file. This is achieved by using the arrow (cursor) keys, <Home>, <PageUp>, <PageDn>, and <End> to highlight the desired file and then pressing <Enter>. 4.6.3 Multiple Files 4.6.3 Multiple Files If you selected an ``M'', the menu area will allow you to select multiple files. First you highlight the desired file(s) by using the arrow (cursor) keys, <Home>, <PageUp>, <PageDn>, and <End>. Once the file is highlighted, it is selected by pressing the space bar. You should now see a little tick mark to the left of the file name. If the file is selected by mistake, press the space bar again to deselect it and the tick mark goes away. The above procedure is repeated until all the files to be moved are selected. Once the selections are complete, simply press <Enter>. If a lot of the files are to be moved, a quicker way to select would be to press ``A'' and all files will be selected. Then deselect, as above, the files you don't want to move. Other options are available on this menu also. These are covered in section 9.1 on multiple file selections. 4.6.4 Move Destination 4.6.4 Move Destination The next screen prompts for the destination. The Select Drive prompt will display all drives that HELP! thinks are valid. The current drive is highlighted. Enter the letter of the drive you want, or type <Enter> for the default drive. After either the letter or <Enter> is pressed, the next ___________________________________________________________________________ 18 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 18 field appears. This field is for the directory name. Enter the desired directory name or leave this field blank, by typing <Enter>, if the current directory on the specified drive is desired. 4.6.4.1 Using TREE for your Destination 4.6.4.1 Using TREE for your Destination The directory can also be filled in by pressing either the up arrow or the down arrow cursor keys. This will check the currently stored TREE drive information. If the desired destination drive is either the one that is currently read into the TREE memory or the drive is one that is saved by TREE Options (see Section 9.4.1), it will appear instantly over the file window. If it does not satisfy these conditions, a prompt asking whether the TREE should be read or not is presented. Use the up and down arrows or the <PageUp> and <PageDn> keys to select a directory. The directory can still be typed in even though the TREE command has been invoked. After the directory field is either filled in or not filled, press <Enter>. HELP! now checks that this drive is active and has a diskette in it and prompts you to insert a diskette if needed. HELP! also checks that the directory specified is valid. If not, it prompts you. The Move Command then proceeds with HELP! checking for enough disk space each time it selects a new file to move. If there is not enough disk space on the destination drive, HELP! will prompt you to insert a new diskette in the drive for the next file. HELP! also checks if the file is too big to fit on the disk if it were blank. If this condition exists, the program will prompt you that the file is too big and if it was a Multiple Move Command continue with the next file. Any of these menus above can be canceled at any time by pressing <ESC>. __________________________ __________________________ 4.7 Name Command 4.7 Name Command The Name Command allows you rename a file or directory. In versions of DOS below 3.0 it only allows file(s) (not directories) to be renamed. The command is used by typing ``N'' at the Main Menu. The menu window then prompts you to select a file. Selection is done using the arrow (cursor) keys, <Home>, <PageUp>, <PageDn>, and <End> keys. When the proper file for renaming is highlighted, press <Enter> to carry out the command. The next screen will present a field to enter the new file's name. This field will only allow the proper DOS characters to be entered as defined in the DOS manual. When the new file name is entered, type <Enter>. At this point you are asked if this is the name you want to rename the file. A ``Y'' at this point will carry out the operation. An ``N'' will make the first screen appear again and you can re-enter the name. An ``E'' will exit the ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 4 File Commands 19 Chapter 4 File Commands 19 command. This screen can be prevented from appearing by setting an Expert Level of 2 or greater in the Options Command. __________________________ __________________________ 4.8 View Command 4.8 View Command The View Command allows the viewing of 1 to 4 files on the screen at the same time. The commands available while viewing allow you to page through the file, search for a string, and scan and compare two or more files stopping when they no longer compare. Viewing is started by pressing ``V'' from the Main Menu. The file on which the cursor is positioned in the File Window will then be read. Most of the other HELP! commands require you to select your file after you initiate the command. View does not do this in order to keep the number of keystrokes to a minimum. Note to previous owners of HELP! - The key strokes of view have changed to emulate the more common key combinations in word processors and other file viewers. 4.8.1 How View Works 4.8.1 How View Works View operates by reading all of your file into available memory. This has the advantage of very fast file positioning. I chose this method for this reason. I also felt that most systems in use today have at least 512K of memory and that most files you would be viewing would fit into memory. If you attempt to view a file too big, View will tell you the file is too big and that what you are viewing is not all of the file. 4.8.2 The View Screen 4.8.2 The View Screen The first line of the View screen is used for prompting while reading files, searching or scanning text, or any errors that may occur. The second line of the screen is the status line of the first open window. Each additional file that is opened for simultaneous viewing will contain its own status line on the first line of its window. The status line tells the cursor position in row and column format and whether certain options are selected. These options include Tab expansion, Linked Multiple windows, and 7 or 8 Bit ASCII. The file name you are viewing is also contained in the status line. The remainder of the screen is devoted to the text you are viewing. ___________________________________________________________________________ 20 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 20 Table 4.1: View Cursor Control Keys Table 4.1: View Cursor Control Keys <Home> Positions the cursor at the beginning of the line. <Home> Positions the cursor at the beginning of the line. <End> Positions the cursor at the end of the line. <End> Positions the cursor at the end of the line. <Ctrl><Home> Positions the cursor at the top of the screen. <Ctrl><Home> Positions the cursor at the top of the screen. <Ctrl><End> Positions the cursor at the bottom of the screen. <Ctrl><End> Positions the cursor at the bottom of the screen. <PgUp> Pages toward the beginning of the file 1 page. <PgUp> Pages toward the beginning of the file 1 page. <PgDn> Pages toward the end of the file 1 page. <PgDn> Pages toward the end of the file 1 page. <Ctrl><PgUp> Goes to the beginning of the file. <Ctrl><PgUp> Goes to the beginning of the file. <Ctrl><PgDn> Goes to the end of the file. <Ctrl><PgDn> Goes to the end of the file. <Right Arrow> Moves the cursor 1 position to the right. <Right Arrow> Moves the cursor 1 position to the right. <Left Arrow> Moves the cursor 1 position to the left. <Left Arrow> Moves the cursor 1 position to the left. <Down Arrow> Moves the cursor towards the end 1 line. <Down Arrow> Moves the cursor towards the end 1 line. <Up Arrow> Moves the cursor towards the beginning 1 line. <Up Arrow> Moves the cursor towards the beginning 1 line. C Prompts you to enter a Column number. C Prompts you to enter a Column number. G Prompts you to enter a Line Number. G Prompts you to enter a Line Number. 4.8.3 Cursor Control 4.8.3 Cursor Control Table 4.1 shows the valid keystrokes for positioning the cursor somewhere in the file. Whenever possible, HELP! uses recognized industry standard keystrokes so you won't have to learn a separate set of commands with View and your word processor. Typing ``C'' or ``G'' will prompt you to enter a number corresponding to the column or row in which you desire the cursor. 4.8.4 Viewing More Than One File 4.8.4 Viewing More Than One File Additional files may be opened on the screen by pressing ``O'' for open. The File selection window will appear and you can select the file by pressing <Enter>. Repeat this procedure for each additional file you desire. HELP! will allow up to 4 files to be present on the screen provided enough memory is available. Pressing <ESC> in a view window will close that window. When two files are open, note the independent status lines for each window. Pressing ``W'' will switch the active window in a round robin fashion. Of course pressing ``O'' will allow you to select another file for viewing along with the current one(s). The active window can be closed at any time by typing ``Q'' or <ESC>. When only the last window remains, typing ``Q'' or <ESC> will quit View. 4.8.5 Linked Windows 4.8.5 Linked Windows A special feature of HELP! is called window linking. This is enabled by pressing ``L''. It is disabled by pressing ``L'' a second time. Window linking takes most of the commands and applies them to all active windows. For example, you have two files open on the screen for viewing, you have been paging up and down through both of them. Now you would like to go to the top of both of them. Press ``L'' and then <Ctrl><PageUp> and both windows will go to the top. As you use the cursor keys, you will notice that both window's status lines will change. If you go far enough down the screen, you will notice that both windows will scroll. This feature is ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 4 File Commands 21 Chapter 4 File Commands 21 very useful for comparing two files by eye. Table 4.2: View Window Commands Table 4.2: View Window Commands L When 2 or more windows are on the screen at the same L When 2 or more windows are on the screen at the same time, you can link all of the windows together. What time, you can link all of the windows together. What this allows, is scrolling through the files on the this allows, is scrolling through the files on the screen at the same time. This can be used only with screen at the same time. This can be used only with the cursor commands. the cursor commands. O This allows you to open another view window. O This allows you to open another view window. Q The current view window is closed. Q The current view window is closed. S Scan and Compare two to four files. Described on next page. S Scan and Compare two to four files. Described on next page. W Switches the active window in a round robin fashion. W Switches the active window in a round robin fashion. ESC The current view window is closed. Same as ``Q''. ESC The current view window is closed. Same as ``Q''. 4.8.6 Scan & Compare 4.8.6 Scan & Compare Another useful feature of HELP! is Scan & Compare. This is similar to linked windows but is automatic. Let's say that you have two documents that are almost the same. You forgot what changes you had made to the new one. First you would call up the two documents as normal. Then you position the cursor in the text of each to the point at which you wish to start the comparison. Then press ``S''. You will prompted for the options desired. At this point just press <Enter>. The scanning will begin and will stop at the first non-compare in the two files. Table 4.3: View Scan & Compare Options Table 4.3: View Scan & Compare Options D Allows a full display of the scan. With this option the D Allows a full display of the scan. With this option the command operates much slower. command operates much slower. E Ignore end of line. E Ignore end of line. U The command is case insensitive. U The command is case insensitive. 4.8.7 View Scan & Compare Options 4.8.7 View Scan & Compare Options Table 4.3 lists the options available while scanning your files. You can make the search case insensitive with the ``U'' option, or you can see the cursor fly through the screen with the ``D'' option. The last option will make the scan ignore end of lines while comparing. This could happen if word wrap was used in the two documents and words didn't wrap at the same spots. Using ``E'' would effectively ignore the ends of line and only compare the text. Table 4.4: View Search & Find Table 4.4: View Search & Find A Finds a string Again without prompting. A Finds a string Again without prompting. F Finds a string. F Finds a string. N Finds Next occurrence. Same as ``A''. N Finds Next occurrence. Same as ``A''. ___________________________________________________________________________ 22 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 22 4.8.8 Finding a String 4.8.8 Finding a String HELP! has a search capability for the view command. Pressing ``F'' will prompt you to enter a search string. When the string is entered, press <Enter>. A prompt will pop up saying: Options (B)ackwards (G)lobal (U)pper (W)hole word (BGUW): Enter the Letters ``BGUW'' depending on the options desired. Press <Enter>. The search begins and will either end successfully with the string highlighted or will end with no match. Table 4.5: View Find Options Table 4.5: View Find Options B Search Backwards from this point B Search Backwards from this point G Starts search at beginning or end of file dependent on ``B'' G Starts search at beginning or end of file dependent on ``B'' U Makes search case insensitive. U Makes search case insensitive. W Will only match whole words W Will only match whole words 4.8.9 Find Options 4.8.9 Find Options The options described above are listed in table 4.5 Pressing ``B'' will cause the search to proceed backward from this point. The ``U'' option will force the search to be case insensitive. That is, upper and lower case, in either the search string entered above or the strings in the text, will be ignored. Pressing ``W'' will only find whole words. If the string for which you are searching is ``help'', normally ``helprun'' or ``help'' or ``needhelp'' would be valid finds. If the whole word option is on, only ``help'' would have been found. Whole words are determined by spaces or punctuation delimiting the word. The last option, ``G'', will force the search to start from the beginning of the file or the end of the file depending on the whether ``B'' was selected. Normally the search will start from the current position in the file. All, any or none of the options can be used and HELP! will remember what options you used last and recall those to the command line next time you use ``Find''. 4.8.10 Find Again 4.8.10 Find Again After your initial search, you may want to search for the next occurrence. To do this press either ``N'' for next or ``A'' for again. These two options perform exactly the same function. One or the other may be easier for you to remember. __________________________ __________________________ 4.9 Compare Command 4.9 Compare Command The Compare Command is used to compare one or more files. The Compare Command is executed by first entering the Utilities Menu by typing ``U'' from the Main Menu and then typing ``C''. The files to compare are selected with the cursor arrows, <Home>, <End>, <PgUp> and <PgDn>. The space bar is used to mark the file(s) for comparing ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 4 File Commands 23 Chapter 4 File Commands 23 and can be unmarked by tapping the space bar again. See section 9.2 on multiple file selection for a complete treatment on file selection. Type <Enter> after the files have been selected. The next screen will allow you to select the drive and directory to which you will be comparing the selected files. Type a drive letter or <Enter> if the same drive is to be used in the compare. The cursor now drops down to the next field. Type the directory and <Enter> or a <Enter> if the current directory on the drive specified is to be used. 4.9.0.1 Using TREE for your Destination 4.9.0.1 Using TREE for your Destination The directory can also be filled in by pressing either the up arrow or the down arrow cursor keys. This will check the currently stored TREE drive information. If the desired destination drive is either the one that is currently read into the TREE memory or the drive is one that is saved by TREE Options (see Section 9.4.1), it will appear instantly over the file window. If it does not satisfy these conditions, a prompt asking whether the TREE should be read or not is presented. Use the up and down arrows or the <PageUp> and <PageDn> keys to select a directory. The directory can still be typed in even though the TREE command has been invoked. The compare process now begins. If any errors occur in the compare, an appropriate error message will be displayed in the error window. The program pauses for a response if any errors occur. If no errors occur ``File OK'' will appear in the error window. In either case, the next file will start its compare process until all that were selected are compared. __________________________ __________________________ 4.10 MakeDirectory 4.10 MakeDirectory The MakeDirectory Command allows the creation of a subdirectory. The MakeDirectory Command is in the Utilities Sub-Menu. If you are in the Main Menu, type ``U'' to get into the Utilities Sub-Menu. Next type ``M'' to start the MakeDirectory Command. The first screen presented will have a bracketed area in which you are to enter the Subdirectory name desired. Type a ``unique'' file name here. The SubDirectory name chosen cannot have the same name as a file or SubDirectory in the current directory. The format is 1 to 8 characters followed by an optional period and an optional 1 to 3 character extension. The formatted field presented will automatically insert a period if you type over 8 characters and will allow only 3 characters (at which time the next screen will appear) after the period whether you typed the period or the field inserted the period. It also will only allow valid characters to be typed. If you were typing your new directory name and the character did not appear, it is an invalid character. If you typed the entire three character extension, the next screen will automatically pop up. If you ___________________________________________________________________________ 24 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 24 didn't type the entire 3 character extension, then type <Enter> to get to the next screen. If you type ``Y'' in response to this screen, HELP! will try to create the directory. If it is unsuccessful, it will display an error message. An unsuccessful attempt generally means either the disk is full or the file name already exists. If you type an ``N'', the first screen will pop up again to allow you to enter a new name. If you type either ``E'' or <ESC>, you will be returned to the Utilities Sub-menu. 4.10.1 Turning Off Prompt Screen 4.10.1 Turning Off Prompt Screen If you have an Expert Level of 2 or higher set (see Options Command Section 9.2.10), will not appear and HELP! will try to make your directory immediately. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 4 File Commands 25 Chapter 4 File Commands 25 ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ C h a p t e r 5 C h a p t e r 5 Running a Program Running a Program ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ __________________________ 5.1 Running Programs from HELP! 5.1 Running Programs from HELP! HELP! has a number of ways to run programs. The most common way is simply by setting the cursor on the program you want to run and hitting <Enter>. Two other ways also exist. The first is the run command which simply gives you the DOS command line. The second is using the point option in the Utility Menu. The point option allows you to define a program name to run when pointing (put cursor on and hit <Enter>) to a non-program file. These three ways of running a program are discussed in this chapter. __________________________ __________________________ 5.2 Execute Command 5.2 Execute Command The usual way of running programs from within HELP! is with the eXecute Command. To use this command, use the Cursor keys, <End>, <Home>, <PgUp> and <PgDn> keys and highlight the program to run. Once the program is highlighted, press <Enter> if eXecute is highlighted on the menu or ``X'' if it is not. The eXecute command is the default and normally would be highlighted. The Menu Area will present a command line to enter any command line options the program may require. Type these, and press <Enter> again or just press <Enter> if none are required. If you are trying to run a non-program file and the Point Command (See Section 5.4 below) is not in effect, an error message will appear. The program will now run as it normally would from DOS. When the program is done executing, ``Press any key to continue .... '' is displayed on the screen. Press a key and HELP! will once again be displayed. The eXecute Command does not invoke a second copy of COMMAND.COM if the file to be run is an EXE or COM file. If it is a BAT (batch) file, it will run a second copy of COMMAND.COM and the memory you have to run in will be slightly reduced. ___________________________________________________________________________ 26 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 26 __________________________ __________________________ 5.3 RUN Command 5.3 RUN Command The Run Command is used to run a program as though you were in the DOS environment. Typing ``R'' presents a command line in the menu area. The program to run and any parameters needed are then entered in the bracketed area. This command can be used for accessing programs in different directories if the directory in which they reside is in the PATH Variable specification that DOS currently has set. See your DOS manual for the setting of the PATH Variable. <ESC> can be typed to return to the Main Menu should you decide not to run a program. When the Run Command is used, a second copy of COMMAND.COM is called thus enabling you to run anything you can from the DOS command line including DOS Commands. __________________________ __________________________ 5.4 Point Command 5.4 Point Command The Point Command is a very powerful feature of HELP!. This command allows you to point to a file that is non-program and call up a program file with the file to which you are pointing as a command line parameter. The Point Command can be a very powerful and useful addition to HELP!. For example, let's say that your word processing files use the extension .DOC. With the Point Command you can define the extension .DOC to point to your word processor. That is, your word processor would be loaded whenever you eXecute a file ending with .DOC. The file name ending in .DOC would be used as an argument on the command line. See figure 5.0 below. Example: Example: Point is set to: Point is set to: call a word processor named ED.COM when the file call a word processor named ED.COM when the file name ends with an extension of DOC name ends with an extension of DOC If the filename pointed to by the file cursor was README.DOC If the filename pointed to by the file cursor was README.DOC then pressing <Enter> would be the same as typing: then pressing <Enter> would be the same as typing: C> ED README.DOC from DOS C> ED README.DOC from DOS Figure 5.1: Equivalent Command Line Figure 5.1: Equivalent Command Line You can define up to ten different extensions calling up to ten different programs. Of course, more than one extension can point to the same program. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 5 Running a Program 27 Chapter 5 Running a Program 27 What happens if you want to call more than one program with the same extension? This is done by saving different Point Configurations in different directories. Point has two ways of saving Point Configurations. The first is by saving the configuration in the start-up directory. This has the effect of being a default configuration if no other Point Configuration file is found in the current directory. The second method is to save the Point Configuration file in the current directory. This file will override the start-up files default Point Configuration File. It should follow then that in order to use the same extension to call different programs, the files with these extensions need to be in different directories with a configuration file in each directory or one directory containing the configuration and a start-up configuration file defined. 5.4.1 Point First Screen 5.4.1 Point First Screen The Point Command is invoked by first getting into the Utilities Menu and then typing ``P''. The Point Command window will then fill the screen. The prompt at the bottom of the window ask which ``pointer'' you want to modify. Next type a number between 0 and 9 to indicate which ``pointer'' you want to modify. If a point file is already defined in this directory or the start-up directory, entries will be present on the screen. At the bottom of the window you will be prompted to enter the extension you want to define as a pointer. This extension can contain the wildcard character ``?''. This character will substitute for any character. Examples: Examples: if extension = BA? if extension = BA? this would find: BAT, BAK or BA and any other character this would find: BAT, BAK or BA and any other character if extension = ?AT if extension = ?AT this would find: BAT, CAT or any character followed by AT this would find: BAT, CAT or any character followed by AT if extension = ??? if extension = ??? this would find files of any extension this would find files of any extension Figure 5.2: Wildcards in Extensions Figure 5.2: Wildcards in Extensions When defining the extension, it is important to note the order in which HELP! searches for extensions. HELP! will first search for a COM, EXE or BAT extension. If none of these are found, HELP! will search the point list in the order they are presented in the Point Command screen. Thus, if you define all your extensions that will be used first, and then were to follow them with the extension ``???'', the latter would find all other extensions and execute the program you specified by Point. 5.4.2 Program Path 5.4.2 Program Path The next screen will ask for the complete program path. This is the program you want to be executed when the file with the extension defined in ___________________________________________________________________________ 28 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 28 the last screen is eXecuted. This path name does not have to be complete if the program you want to eXecute is in a directory defined by the PATH Variable. 5.4.3 Command Line Arguments 5.4.3 Command Line Arguments The next screen asks if any command line arguments are necessary. These arguments may be necessary to put a program into a certain mode or select a certain option. These arguments will be added to the command line along with the file pointed to when eXecute was pressed. This is not the command line information you may want to enter each time this file is called. This changing information is covered by the next screen. 5.4.4 Additional Arguments 5.4.4 Additional Arguments The next prompt asks if you want a command line present to add additional arguments. If you answer ``Y'', an additional command line prompt similar to the one in the Run Command will pop up when you ``Point''. If you answer ``N'', this line will not appear. 5.4.5 Save Point File 5.4.5 Save Point File The next screen asks where you want to save the file. If you answer ``T'', the file will be saved in the ``current directory'' (this) and will only be effective when HELP! is in this directory. If you answer ``S'', the point file will be saved in the start-up directory and will only be used when no other point file is present in the ``current directory''. Regardless of where the point file is saved, the file will be named HELP!.PRG. This name should not be changed or HELP! will not realize that this is a pointer file. 5.4.6 Pointer Hints 5.4.6 Pointer Hints As you can see, the point command can add a lot of power to HELP!. In order to make it easier to set up the Point Configuration Files, you should first define a Point Configuration File for the start-up directory. This will pop-up in any directory that does not have its own Point Configuration File. Then it is a simple matter to edit the existing one to the special requirements of that subdirectory. Remember to save this new file in the current subdirectory. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 5 Running a Program 29 Chapter 5 Running a Program 29 ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ C h a p t e r 6 C h a p t e r 6 Using a Mouse Using a Mouse ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ __________________________ 6.1 Why use a Mouse ? 6.1 Why use a Mouse ? Using a mouse with HELP! can greatly speed up your navigation and maintenance of your system. With just a few ``clicks'' you can Copy, Erase or Move many files. Of course, the mouse is not limited to just these commands. It can will allow you to browse through many drives and directories with just a few mouse ``clicks''. Currently, HELP! provides mouse support for almost all of the screens. The exceptions are the Point setup screen, View, Print and the HELP! Editor. These will be added in a later release. __________________________ __________________________ 6.2 The Mouse Cursor 6.2 The Mouse Cursor When HELP! detects the mouse is present in a system, a solid box will appear somewhere on the screen. As you move the mouse, this box should move. Please note, this box will not always be present. Under the unsupported exceptions noted above, no mouse cursor will appear. __________________________ __________________________ 6.3 Click, Double Click 6.3 Click, Double Click When reading about the mouse, the terms ``click'' and ``double click'' will appear frequently. When you are told to ``click'' with a mouse button, this means to put the mouse cursor over the item to be ``clicked'', and then depress the mouse button and then quickly release the button. ___________________________________________________________________________ 30 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 30 A ``double click'' is a little more tricky. This is done by doing two ``clicks'' in rapid succession. You can practice this by going to the Main Menu and ``double clicking'' the right mouse button. If you do this correctly, the context sensitive help screen should pop-up for the main screen. Practice this until you are comfortable ``double clicking''. __________________________ __________________________ 6.4 Left and Right Buttons 6.4 Left and Right Buttons The right mouse button stays constant in the way it is used. A single ``click'' of the right button will be equivalent to pressing <ESC> on the keyboard. This allows a way of backing out of menus and commands. A ``Double Click'' of the right mouse button will bring up help on a subject. This is the same as pressing <F1>. Most of the following descriptions of mouse activity will refer to the left mouse button. Any exceptions will be noted. __________________________ __________________________ 6.5 For the South Paw 6.5 For the South Paw HELP! does not forget about left handers. In the Options Menu, you can tell the mouse buttons to work in reverse. This will mean that any reference to the right button will actually pertain to the left button and likewise, the left button becomes the right button. To select this option, go to the Options Menu by typing ``O'' and then type ``M'' for mouse and ``R'' for reverse. After you have done this, press <Esc> to return to the Options Menu. Remember, this effect is only temporary unless you save your configuration with ``S'' in the Options Menu. __________________________ __________________________ 6.6 The HELP! Menus 6.6 The HELP! Menus In section 3.5 on the menus used in HELP!, it was stated that two different types of menus are used in HELP!. The first is used with the Main Menu and the Utilities Menu. The second has a number of choices with the parenthesis around the letter used to select that option. HELP! will work with both of these menus. In the Main and Utilities Menus, select a menu item by ``clicking'' on the item desired. This ``click'' can occur anywhere within the word describing the menu item. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 6 Using a Mouse 31 Chapter 6 Using a Mouse 31 In the second type of menu, multiple words may be used to specify a choice. In this type of menu, only the word with the parenthesis can be ``clicked'' to select the item. +-To Select A Menu Item -------------------------------------+ +-To Select A Menu Item -------------------------------------+ | Click anywhere on the Menu Item Containing the Parenthesis | | Click anywhere on the Menu Item Containing the Parenthesis | +------------------------------------------------------------+ +------------------------------------------------------------+ | | |-+--| |-+--| Options: (B)lack & White (F)ile Window Type (2)5 Lines Options: (B)lack & White (F)ile Window Type (2)5 Lines (C)olors (K)ey Status Window (4)3 EGA/VGA (C)olors (K)ey Status Window (4)3 EGA/VGA (S)ave Config (W)ide File Window (5)0 VGA Only (S)ave Config (W)ide File Window (5)0 VGA Only (T)ext Editor (R)ead Tree Options (M)ouse (T)ext Editor (R)ead Tree Options (M)ouse Figure 6.1: Using the Mouse - Submenus Figure 6.1: Using the Mouse - Submenus For example, in figure 6.1, the menu item ``(T)ext Editor'' could be ``clicked'' anywhere within the word ``(T)ext''. ``Clicking'' on the word ``Editor'' will have no affect. 6.6.1 Copy, Erase and Move Multiple 6.6.1 Copy, Erase and Move Multiple There is a short cut to the Copy, Erase and Move Multiple commands. ``Clicking'' on any of these ``Main Menu'' items will normally bring up their first screen. During Copy this first screen asks if this is a (S)ingle copy or (M)ultiple copy. If you want to go immediately to the Multiple Copy Selection screen from the Main Menu, ``double click'' the Copy, Erase or Move menu item from the Main Menu and this first screen will be bypassed with Multiple Selection screen appearing instead. __________________________ __________________________ 6.7 Changing the Directory - Hyper Navigation! 6.7 Changing the Directory - Hyper Navigation! The directory can be changed very fast with the mouse. You can do this using the TREE Command or the Path Window (top line of the screen). ___________________________________________________________________________ 32 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 32 Click Here For These Directories Click Here For These Directories +-----------------------> C:\ +-----------------------> C:\ | +-------------------> C:\FIRST | +-------------------> C:\FIRST | | +-------------> C:\FIRST\SECOND | | +-------------> C:\FIRST\SECOND | | | +------> C:\FIRST\SECOND\THIRD | | | +------> C:\FIRST\SECOND\THIRD | | | | | | | | |+||-+--||-+---||─+-| |+||-+--||-+---||─+-| Path Window ──» C:\FIRST\SECOND\THIRD Path Window ──» C:\FIRST\SECOND\THIRD File Window ──»+---Filename---+---Filename---+---Filename---= File Window ──»+---Filename---+---Filename---+---Filename---= | Move Up One | ANOTHER DOC | ONEMORE DOC | | Move Up One | ANOTHER DOC | ONEMORE DOC | Single Click Will put these names into an edit field in the Single Click Will put these names into an edit field in the menu area for further editing. Once the proper menu area for further editing. Once the proper directory name is there, press <Enter>. directory name is there, press <Enter>. Double Click Will change the directory to the path name shown. Double Click Will change the directory to the path name shown. Figure 6.2: Changing Directory with the Path Window Figure 6.2: Changing Directory with the Path Window 6.7.1 Changing Directories with the Path Window 6.7.1 Changing Directories with the Path Window The top line of the screen is the Path Window. This window provides the pathname of the current directory. All disks have a directory named ``\''. This is known as the ``root directory''. Going back to the analogy of the file cabinet mentioned in Chapter 1, the root directory would then be analogous to the file cabinet itself. If a pathname of ``\bruces'' was in the Path Window, this would be equivalent to a file folder named ``bruces''. If the pathname was ``\bruces\stuff'', this would reflect a folder named ``stuff'' within a folder named ``bruces'' within a file cabinet named ``\''. This can go on and on to a maximum of 33 levels or 68 characters, which ever comes first. Each of these folders within a folder within a file cabinet are called a subdirectory. As you can see, all subdirectories are delimited with a ``\''. In the Path Window, ``Double Clicking'' on a subdirectory will cause the directory to be changed to that directory (see figure 6.2). A single ``click'' will cause that path name to be put into an edit window in the menu area. This line can then be edited. When the editing is done, press <Enter> and the directory will be changed to the path within the edit field if it is valid. A list of choices can be displayed by ``Clicking'' on the file window's top or bottom frame. 6.7.2 Changing Directories with TREE 6.7.2 Changing Directories with TREE The TREE Command can be especially efficient in changing directories. ``Clicking'' on ``Tree'' from the Main Menu will invoke the TREE Command. Once the TREE Command screen is on the screen, you can page up or down through the TREE or ``Double Click'' a TREE entry to change to that directory. Paging up is accomplished by ``clicking'' on the top of the TREE Command ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 6 Using a Mouse 33 Chapter 6 Using a Mouse 33 window's frame. Paging down is accomplished by ``clicking'' on the bottom of the TREE's window. ``Double Clicking'' the top frame will return the screen to the root ``\'' directory and doing this to the bottom frame will present the last screen of the TREE. The TREE can also be invoked from the destination menu of the Copy, Erase and Move commands as well as the change directory menu described above. This is accomplished by ``clicking'' either the bottom or top of the file window's frame. __________________________ __________________________ 6.8 Using the Multiple Selection Window 6.8 Using the Multiple Selection Window The Multiple Selection Window for Copy, Erase, Move, Print and Compare has a couple of things that should be noted. First, you can select files by ``clicking'' on them. Second, after the last file has been ``clicked'' on, ``double Click'' this item again to get to the next screen.. This is the same as pressing <Enter>. All of the Menu items on this screen are also activated by ``clicking'' on them. __________________________ __________________________ 6.9 The Help System 6.9 The Help System As you recall from section 3.9, there are two ways in which to get help on a subject. The first is through the help index and the second is context sensitive help. HELP! provides a way of getting both with the mouse. 6.9.1 Context Sensitive Help 6.9.1 Context Sensitive Help Normally you can press <F1> to get context sensitive help. HELP! provides two ways to get context sensitive help. The preferred method is to ``double click'' the right mouse button. The second method is to ``click'' on the <F1> symbol in the status window frame. The first method is preferred because the second method will not always be possible. 6.9.2 Getting Help from the Help Index 6.9.2 Getting Help from the Help Index You can get help on any subject by ``clicking'' the left mouse button on the ``Help'' menu item in the Main Menu. This will bring up a pop-up index of help items. To select a subject, ``double click'' the item you want. To page up in the list, ``click'' on the top border of the Help index frame. To page down in the list, ``click'' on the bottom border of the Help Index frame. To go to the Top of the list, ``double click'' the top border of the Help Index frame. To go to the bottom of the list, ``double click'' the bottom border of the Help Index frame. ___________________________________________________________________________ 34 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 34 6.9.3 Using the Help Screens 6.9.3 Using the Help Screens Once you have a help screen visible on your screen, you can use the mouse to page through the multiple screens on this subject. To page down, ``click'' on the bottom bar of the help screen. To page up, ``click'' the top bar of the help screen. ``Double clicking'' the top bar will act as the <Home> key and return you to the first page. ``Double Clicking'' the bottom bar will act as the <End> key and bring you to the last page. __________________________ __________________________ 6.10 The Color Setup Window 6.10 The Color Setup Window The color setup window will work a lot better with the mouse. Start by ``Clicking'' on the item name you want to change. Then, ``Click'' on the foreground and/or background color you desire for this item. Continue this operation until all of the colors are set the way you like. Of course, the menu selection at the bottom of the screen will still work by ``Clicking'' on them. __________________________ __________________________ 6.11 The Status Window 6.11 The Status Window There are two areas of mouse sensitivity on the status window. The first allows the status window to be expanded and contracted. This is an arrow in the lower right corner of the status window. The arrow always points in the direction the window will move if ``clicked''. When the status window is expanded, various file attributes will be shown for the selected file in the status window. In this mode you will give up the ``caps'', ``number'' and ``scroll lock'' indicators. The second area that can be ``clicked'' is the ``<F1> Help'' message on the last line of the status window. This message will bring up context sensitive help on a subject. This will not always work because it is sometimes obstructed from view. The ``Double Click'' of the right button is the recommended method of getting help. __________________________ __________________________ 6.12 The File Window 6.12 The File Window The file window can be used very efficiently with the mouse. If you want to select a file from the window, simply move the mouse cursor so it is on ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 6 Using a Mouse 35 Chapter 6 Using a Mouse 35 that file and ``Click''. This is equivalent to moving the cursor keys onto the filename. If you want to execute the file name that your mouse cursor is resting on, ``Double Click'' on the name and this will execute the file name (program). This is equivalent to moving the cursor to the file name and pressing ``X'' for eXecute (or return if the eXecute menu item is highlighted). The file window can also be paged up or down. ``Clicking'' on the first line of the file window will be the same as pressing the <PageUp> key. ``Double Clicking'' this same line will be equivalent to pressing the <Home> key. The last line of the file window can be ``Clicked'' to act as the <PageDn> key does. Likewise, ``Double Clicking'' the line will act as the <End> key normally does in the file window. 6.12.1 Expanding and Changing the File Window 6.12.1 Expanding and Changing the File Window There are two special spots on the file window that are only active when the Main Menu and the Utilities Menu are present on the screen. The upper right corner of the file window has a symbol that looks like three horizontal lines. ``Clicking'' on this symbol will toggle between the Verbose File Window (see Options Command section 9.2.4) and the regular file window. The second special spot is in the lower right corner of the file window. This spot has and arrow pointing either right or left. ``Clicking'' here will expand or contract the file window. This is the Wide File Window option toggle in the Options Command (see section 9.2.5). ___________________________________________________________________________ 36 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 36 ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ C h a p t e r 7 C h a p t e r 7 Using the Print Facility Using the Print Facility ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ __________________________ 7.1 PRINT Command 7.1 PRINT Command The Print Command is one of the most complicated command menus in HELP!. Three modes of printing are selective from the main menu. The first mode is conventional text mode. This mode will print exactly what is in the file but only if they are valid ASCII characters. In addition, this mode allows a formatted print mode in which line numbers, headings, skip over perforation and page numbering is possible. The second mode is a mode called Hex-ASCII. This has an output similar to DOS's debug. This output is mostly for programmers or other people interested in seeing what is in a program and other files. The third mode prints a listing of the current directory of the disk. This can be printed to the printer and inserted in the diskette cover to give an indication of what is on the diskette. All of these modes can send their output to three devices. These devices are the screen, printer and a file. Also selectable from the print menu are the Options, Load, Save, Page, Initialize and Multiple commands. The Load & Save commands allow you to save the various formatting options. The Page command sends a form feed character to the printer. The Multiple command allows multiple files to be selected and printed. Options allow the setting of the various formatting options. Initialize will send an Initialization String to the printer as defined in Print Options. All of these are described in detail below. __________________________ __________________________ 7.2 Printing Text 7.2 Printing Text The text mode is entered by typing ``T'' from the Print Menu. The Text Mode is used when you want to print a file that contains text information. Text information is defined as valid printable ASCII characters. Also allowed are special IBM characters above the value 128. Control characters ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 7 Using the Print Facility 37 Chapter 7 Using the Print Facility 37 (characters from 0 to 31 in value) are printed as ^A for control A (value 1) or ^C for control C (value 3) and so on. 7.2.1 Device Selection 7.2.1 Device Selection The next screen asks if you want the output to go to the screen, printer or a file. If you want to see the file on the screen, type ``S''. If you want the file to be printed on a printer, type ``P''. If you want to send the output to another file, type ``F''. 7.2.2 Printing Text Screen As Output 7.2.2 Printing Text Screen As Output If the output is going to either the printer or a file, see the paragraphs below for information on the next screen. If output is going to the screen, you will be directed to select a file from the file window. At this point all of the standard file window keys (cursor keys, <Home>, <End>, <PgDn>, and <PgUp>) are at your disposal. After your selection is made, press <Enter>. Of course, you can always press <ESC> to exit the Print Command. 7.2.2.1 Pause the Screen 7.2.2.1 Pause the Screen You now have the option of pausing the display as the file scrolls by. Scrolling is stopped by pressing any key except <ESC>. Scrolling is then continued by pressing any key again. Pressing <ESC> will abort the print command. 7.2.3 Printing Text, Printer as Output 7.2.3 Printing Text, Printer as Output If the printer was selected as the output device, the printer ready prompt will be the next display. After insuring that the printer is at the top of form and on line, hit any key. The next screen will ask you to select a file. This is done using all of the standard selection keys which include the cursor arrows, <Home>, <End>, <PgDn> and <PgUp>. Once the file cursor is on the file to be selected, type <Enter>. 7.2.3.1 Critical Errors During Print 7.2.3.1 Critical Errors During Print The file selected should now go to the printer. During printing, printing errors can occur such as out of paper, etc. These are intercepted by HELP! and will pop-up in the window indicating that some corrective action is needed. Generally, you will be given the options of aborting the operation or retrying it. Aborting the operation will cause HELP! to return to the Main Menu. If nothing appears to be happening while printing, be Patient! Printer time outs take a long time, but it will time out and give you a message. 7.2.4 Printing Text, File as Output 7.2.4 Printing Text, File as Output If a File was selected as the output device, the next screen will ask for a ___________________________________________________________________________ 38 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 38 file name in which to send the output. This file name is a standard DOS file name which consists of 1-8 characters followed by an optional period which is followed by an optional 1-3 character extension. Only valid DOS file name characters will be allowed while entering on this screen. Next HELP! checks to see if this file name exists already. If it does, HELP! will ask if you want to overwrite it. If you answer ``N'', then you will be allowed to enter another name. If you answer ``Y'', it will destroy the file by that name and send future printer output to the file named above. You may ask why you would want to send output to a file instead of the screen or printer. First, you may want to print a formatted listing later with the DOS print command or some other print utility that prints in the background. Secondly, you might want to take a file and convert tabs to spaces. This can be done by sending your output to a file with formatting off. __________________________ __________________________ 7.3 Hex-ASCII Output to Screen 7.3 Hex-ASCII Output to Screen HELP! also had the Hex-ASCII display mode. This mode is used primarily when you want to see what is in a non-text file. This is not to say that you can't use it on a text file. The display is divided into two parts. The first part is the hexadecimal display (on the left 2/3's of the display), and the second part is the ASCII portion (the right 1/3 of the display). Each line represents 16 bytes of the file. The entire screen area represents 256 bytes of the file. For this reason, the first line of the screen says 1st half and second half of sector xxx. Several options are available in the displaying of files to the screen. The first is the <PageUp> and <PageDn> mode of operation. In this mode each screen stays on the screen until one of four keys is hit. The <PgDn> key will present the next screen of information in the file. The <PgUp> key will bring the screen before the current one. This will either be the sector before the one you are on or the first half of this sector. The <Home> key will bring you back to the first half of the first sector and the <End> key will bring you to the first half of the last sector in the file. The second mode of operation in Hex-ASCII is the continuous scroll mode. By typing ``C'' the screen will continue to scroll until an ``S'' is pressed. This mode allows fast scanning of the file. To quit the file dump press ``Q'' or <ESC>. 7.3.1 Hex-EBCDIC 7.3.1 Hex-EBCDIC The Hex-ASCII screen can be made to show EBCDIC characters also. This is done by pressing ``E'' while using the Hex-ASCII screen. The mode can be ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 7 Using the Print Facility 39 Chapter 7 Using the Print Facility 39 switched back by pressing ``A''. The setting of either ASCII or EBCDIC is saved when the configuration is saved. Configuration saving is described in section 9.2.13. 7.3.2 Hex-ASCII Output to Printer 7.3.2 Hex-ASCII Output to Printer When displaying a Hex-ASCII File Dump to the printer or another file, the only option available is <ESC> to quit the dump prematurely. If you want the dump in EBCDIC, send the output to the screen first, select EBCDIC, and print it again to the file. HELP! remembers the EBCDIC setting when Print is terminated. 7.3.3 Hex-ASCII Output to a File 7.3.3 Hex-ASCII Output to a File If a file was selected as the output device, then the next screen will ask for a file name in which to send the output. This file name is a standard DOS file name which consists of 1-8 characters followed by an optional period which is followed by an optional 1-3 character extension. Only valid DOS file name characters will be allowed while entering on this screen. Next HELP! checks to see if this file name exists already. If it does HELP! will ask if you want it to be overwritten. If you answer ``N'' then you will be allowed to enter another name. If you answer ``Y'' it will destroy the file by that name and send future printer output to the file named above. __________________________ __________________________ 7.4 Print Options Menu 7.4 Print Options Menu When ``O'' is typed from the print menu, the Print Options menu will appear. This menu allows you to get to the communications port setup windows by typing ``C'' or the printing options menu by typing ``O'' or the menu that allows the setting of the printer port by typing ``P''. 7.4.1 Communications Port Setup 7.4.1 Communications Port Setup HELP! allows the setting of the communications (serial) ports through a series of menus. It will support all 4 com-ports if they are present. By setting these ports and saving the configuration through the Options Menu, HELP! will automatically program the ports the the values specified when save configuration was invoked. Press the number (1-4) of the port you desire to program. When this is done, a menu of baud rates will appear. From this menu select the desired baud rate. After you have selected the baud rate, you will be asked to select the type of parity. Select ``N'' for no parity, ``E'' for even parity, and ``O'' for odd parity. ___________________________________________________________________________ 40 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 40 Select the number of stop bits to be transmitted with each character from the next menu. Your choice is either ``1'' or ``2''. The word length can be either ``7'' or ``8'' bits. The next menu that appears allows this to be selected. The print menu now pops back up. You can program another port by typing ``O'' for options and ``C'' for Communications port. The first screen will then reappear with the settings you have programmed next to the port number(s) you specified. Repeat these procedures for all of the ports you want to program. 7.4.2 Printer, Port Selection 7.4.2 Printer, Port Selection The printer port that HELP! uses can also be selected. The screen will have the printer and communications ports present shown in regular menu color. Those not present will be shown in prompt color. To select a printer port, type the number next to the port you want to be activated. If HELP! determined this is not a valid port, a warning message will be posted, but you will still be able to select the port if desired. I allow this in case HELP! made an error in determining a valid port. The port can be permanently selected by saving the configuration through the Options Command (see section 9.2). If this is not done, this selection will be valid only until HELP! is exited by executing another program or by quitting. This state can also be saved with the print options save described below. 7.4.3 Printer Setup Options 7.4.3 Printer Setup Options Print Options are set to affect the way in which a file is displayed in formatted Text mode. There are a couple of exceptions to this. The first is the Initialization String which is used in both printer and file output formatted or not. The second is Tabs and the size of the Tabs. This is in effect for both formatted and non-formatted printing. 7.4.3.1 Setting Tabs 7.4.3.1 Setting Tabs During text printing HELP! will expand tabs if Tabs On is TRUE in the print options menu. To toggle the state of Tabs On type ``T'' from the print options menu. A tab character is defined as a decimal 09 ASCII character. Every time HELP! encounters this character and Tabs On is TRUE, HELP! will tab to the next tab stop just as a typewriter would. The tab size is determined with the Size of Tabs command. Type ``S'' from the print options menu and HELP! will ask how many spaces should be between tab stops. The hard coded default value is 8. 7.4.3.2 Initialization String 7.4.3.2 Initialization String The Initialization string, defined on the print options menu, is used to send a sequence of characters to the printer to set it up for some particular operation. Maybe you would like a different print type style or a different number of characters per inch. This can be accommodated by using the Initialization string. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 7 Using the Print Facility 41 Chapter 7 Using the Print Facility 41 The initialization string can be used in two ways. The first is used whenever you call up a print job whether it be formatted or not. The initialization string is the first thing sent to the printer. The second way of using the initialization string is to type ``I'' from the print menu. This will cause a prompt to appear insuring that the printer is on line and then will send the string, only, to the printer. To setup the string, type ``I'' from the print options menu. A line will appear asking you to type in the initialization string. The string is made up of ASCII characters and control characters. To type ASCII characters (printable characters) just type in the characters desired. If control codes are necessary, and they almost always are, type a ``\'' followed by a 3 digit decimal number representing the control code desired. For example: \027. On the Epson & IBM printers, for example, the code to switch to emphasized printing is stated in the manual as ``<ESC> E''. This would be input in the initialization string as ``\027E'' ignoring the quotes of course. This is because <ESC> is a control code that has a value of 27 in decimal. As another example, to get double width characters on an Epson or IBM printer you need to send an SO (Shift Out) control code. This code has a value of 14 decimal; therefore, you would enter ``\014'' minus the quotes of course. As one more example we will consider a more complicated string. The printer to be used this time is a Hewlett-Packard Laserjet. If you have ever looked at the printer language of the Laserjet, you will notice that it looks a lot like a chemistry lesson. This is why I will use this printer as an example. The first thing I will send is a reset to the printer to restore it to a known state. The code sequence for this is ``<ESC> E''. Now after the printer is reset I would like to select the line printer font. The code sequence for this is ``<ESC>(s0T''. The result of the combination of these two sequences in the notation necessary for the Initialization String is ``\027E\027(s0T''. ___________________________________________________________________________ 42 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 42 +----------------------------+ <----------------+ +----------------------------+ <----------------+ | Header Always 4 Lines | | | Header Always 4 Lines | | | | | | | | L ------> 001 ------------------ | <-----+ | L ------> 001 ------------------ | <-----+ | Line | 002 ------------------ | | | Line | 002 ------------------ | | | Numbers | 003 ------------------ | Body B Page P Numbers | 003 ------------------ | Body B Page P | 004 ------------------ | | Length | | 004 ------------------ | | Length | | 005 ------------------ | <-----+ | | 005 ------------------ | <-----+ | | | | | | | +----------------------------+ <----------------+ +----------------------------+ <----------------+ | | | | | | Margin +- M -+ | Margin +- M -+ | +------- C ---------+ +------- C ---------+ Characters Per Line Characters Per Line B This is how many lines of printing you desire on the page. B This is how many lines of printing you desire on the page. Be sure and allow 4 lines for HELP!'s header. Be sure and allow 4 lines for HELP!'s header. C Number of characters in a line. C Number of characters in a line. L Do You Want the Lines Numbered (ON/OFF) L Do You Want the Lines Numbered (ON/OFF) M Margin - How many spaces to put on the left side of the page. M Margin - How many spaces to put on the left side of the page. P Number of lines that can fit on a page. A typical printer P Number of lines that can fit on a page. A typical printer will print 6 lines per inch. An 11 inch page would be will print 6 lines per inch. An 11 inch page would be set for 66. set for 66. Figure 7.1: Formatted Printer Page Layout Figure 7.1: Formatted Printer Page Layout 7.4.3.3 Formatted Options 7.4.3.3 Formatted Options The options described below are for printing text in a formatted mode. The first option is the Formatted Printing Option. This can be turned on and off from either the main Print Menu or the Print Options Screen. In either case, the state of Formatted Printing is toggled by typing ``F''. Several things control the way printing will look in the formatted mode. First at the top of the page will be the page number, file name and the date and time the file was created. Now that you know how to turn on and off the formatting we will explore how you can control the way it looks. The Page Layout Options are shown in figure 7.1. The first thing that can be controlled is the number of lines that are printed on the page. This is the number of lines of your file that will be displayed on each page. To change this value simply type ``B'' for Body Line Count. Next you will be prompted to enter the number of lines of your file you want printed on the page. Another important parameter is the page length. This is the number of total lines on the page. This parameter is entered by typing ``P'' for page length in the print options menu. This number is calculated by taking the number of lines per inch for which your printer is set multiplied by the length of your page in inches. If you enter a number greater than the Page Length set here for the Body Count, then the Body Line Count will be reduced to allow for the heading. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 7 Using the Print Facility 43 Chapter 7 Using the Print Facility 43 The next thing that can be changed is the number of characters on the line. The default is 80. This corresponds to 10 characters per inch on a 8.5" wide paper with a .5" margin. Type ``C'' to change the value of the number of characters per line. Directly connected with characters per line is wrap lines. If the number of characters per line is exceeded and wrap lines is TRUE, then the characters will wrap to the next line. If wrap lines is FALSE, then the characters will be thrown away. To change Wrap Lines type ``W''. Sometimes it is desirable to have a margin on the left side of the page. This can be accomplished by typing ``M''. You will then be asked to enter the number of spaces to indent on the left. The indenture is accomplished with spaces so it is compatible with all printers. Another Option is to print line numbers. This will start with number 1 and continue until the end of the file. If Wrap Lines is TRUE and the line is greater than the number of characters per line, the wrapped line will only count as one line. Type ``L'' to turn line numbers on or off. The line number and the left margin, if any, count in the total number of characters per line. To return to the Print Menu type ``Q''. __________________________ __________________________ 7.5 Print Directory 7.5 Print Directory This feature will give you a listing of what files are in your current directory. This can be useful as a label for your diskettes. This allows you to print it to your printer and insert it in your diskette envelope. Another use is simply to give you a print out of the current directory. This command, as all of the print commands, will allow you to send output to the screen, a file and the printer. The printer is the most useful output device but I am sure some creative individual can think of uses for the others. The Print Directory Command is entered by typing ``D'' while you are in the Print Menu. The next screen asks to which device you would like to send the output. In most cases, this would be the printer so you would type ``P'' at this prompt. Then you are asked to insure the printer is on line. Next you should type any key except <ESC>. This is an acknowledgment that the printer is ready. Now you should see the directory being printed on your printer. The other output devices will work as described above under printing text. ___________________________________________________________________________ 44 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 44 __________________________ __________________________ 7.6 Print Multiple 7.6 Print Multiple HELP! has the ability to print multiple files. This works for both text and Hex-ASCII prints. While the multiple files are printing you have the ability to cancel the current file and either quit printing all together or reselect the files that you want to print. To print more than one file, press ``M'' from the Print Menu. The menu will now say multiple files ``On''. If it doesn't, then press ``M'' again. The state of multiple printing is remembered even after you go back to the Main Menu. This state can be saved by saving the configuration under Options discussed in section 9.2.13. Once Multiple Printing is selected, you proceed as always in selecting either (T)ext or (H)ex-ascii. The difference will be when you come to selecting files. Files are selected by using the cursor keys and <Home>, <End>, <PgUp> and <PgDn> to move the file cursor over a file you want to select. Once you are positioned over the file you want to select, press the <space bar>. A little double arrow will appear in the column next to the file. This means the file is selected for printing. If you change your mind about printing this file, just position the cursor over the file again and press the <space bar>. Repeat the above process until all of the files you desire to print are selected. When you are done selecting files, hit <Enter>. Now printing proceeds as it always did with one exception. This exception is that by pressing <ESC> you are given the opportunity to reselect files or quit printing. 7.6.1 Multiple Print Reselection 7.6.1 Multiple Print Reselection Pressing <ESC> brings up the message in the error window asking if you would like to reselect files. If you answer yes to this question, the multiple selection menu will appear again. Answering no will exit the print command. __________________________ __________________________ 7.7 Load & Save Printer Description File 7.7 Load & Save Printer Description File These selections can be used to save the print options and then later reload the printer options. With this option you can tailor several different sets of printer options for different printing situations. Pressing ``S'' will bring up a screen asking for a file name under which you will save these options. If the file exists, you will be prompted as to whether you want to overwrite it. The file will be saved in the current ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 7 Using the Print Facility 45 Chapter 7 Using the Print Facility 45 directory. Pressing ``L'' will allow you to enter a name in which you have saved printer option information. If the file does not exist, you will be prompted. __________________________ __________________________ 7.8 Top of Printer Page 7.8 Top of Printer Page The Page option of HELP! allows you to bring your printer to the top of form. This is done by sending a top of form character, which is defined as ASCII 12. If your printer does not respond (most do) to this character then this command will not work on your machine. The Page Command is invoked by typing ``P'' from the Print Menu. __________________________ __________________________ 7.9 Initialize Printer String 7.9 Initialize Printer String This feature is the same string, defined in the print options paragraph 7.4.3.2, that is sent when the printer first starts printing. See Print options for a full description. This gives you a way of just sending this string to your printer. To send the initialization string type ``I'' from the Print Menu. ___________________________________________________________________________ 46 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 46 ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ C h a p t e r 8 C h a p t e r 8 HELP! Editor HELP! Editor ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ __________________________ 8.1 Words Command 8.1 Words Command The Words Command on the Main Menu is your access to the HELP! Editor from within HELP!. Pressing ``W'' from the Main Menu will bring up a screen with two selections. The first is ``New''. This is used for creating a new file. The HELP! Editor will be called with a title of ``UNTITLED''. You can then create your file and use ``Save As'' (see section 8.8.1.3) to save it under your new name. The second option is ``Select File''. Pressing ``S'' will allow the selection of a file in the current directory. The HELP! Editor will be called up with this file in the Editor. The Words Command can also be used to call up your own text editor or word processor. This is defined in section 9.2 on the Options Menu. __________________________ __________________________ 8.2 Installation 8.2 Installation The HELP! Editor should be installed in the same directory as the other HELP! files. The best way to install this software is to make the Editor reside in a directory that is specified in the PATH variable. The second thing that is needed, is to specify where the help file is for the HELP! Editor. This file is called HED.HLP. It should be placed in the same directory as the other HELP! files. It is not mandatory that it be in this directory, however, but you need to specify the directory regardless of where it is placed. In order to do this, type <ESC> to get the menus, followed by ``O'' for Options, ``L'' for Load File Options and ``H'' for Home Directory. Now enter the directory in which the file HED.HLP resides. Now type <ESC> to move up to the previous menu and type ``S'' to Save the ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 8 HELP! Editor 47 Chapter 8 HELP! Editor 47 new defaults. Note: saving defaults will actually modify the HED.EXE file. If you install HELP! somewhere else, be sure to repeat this procedure. This directory will also be used for the storage of Macro Command Files. This completes installation of the HELP! Editor. There are other ways in which you can customize the HELP! Editor. These will be discussed in section 8.8.7. __________________________ __________________________ 8.3 Running the Editor Alone 8.3 Running the Editor Alone The Help! Editor can be run as a program by itself. This is done by typing ``HED'' from the DOS prompt. One or more file names can optionally be put on the command line following the ``HED''. For Example, ``hed help!.doc readme.doc'' would cause the Editor to create two windows with the file ``help!.doc'' in one and ``readme.doc'' in the other. You can also use a wildcard in the file name on the command line. When this is done, the file names that match the wildcard specification will appear in a selection box. __________________________ __________________________ 8.4 Getting Help 8.4 Getting Help You can get help at any time by pressing <F1>. This will either give you one or more screens on the current subject or will give an index to the help system. In some cases a message will occur telling you to select a lower level menu. If this happens, select an item and press <Enter> to get to the next lower menu. Try <F1> again. If the same message appears, repeat the above procedure. You can get the help system's index by pressing <ESC> to get to the menu system and ``F'' for File and ``H'' for help. Select the desired subject with the up and down cursor keys and type <Enter> to view the help pages on this subject. Pressing <ESC> will get you out of the help system or back to the index depending how you got to the help screen. Pressing <ESC> from the help index will get you back to normal. ___________________________________________________________________________ 48 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 48 __________________________ __________________________ 8.5 Screen Layout 8.5 Screen Layout The screen is arranged such that the very top line of screen is normally blank except for the menus prompt. This top line is used to display error and help messages. Zoom Filename.ext Insert Indent Fixed Record 0% Line 1 Col 1 Zoom Filename.ext Insert Indent Fixed Record 0% Line 1 Col 1 Figure 8.1: Status Line Figure 8.1: Status Line The next line of the screen is the status line. The status line is shown in figure 8.1. At the far left of line is the ``Zoom'' status of the window. This indicates whether the window is zoomed or not. The file name is displayed next. Either ``insert'' or ``overwrite'' is displayed to indicate editing mode. If Autoindent is on ``indent'' is displayed next. Next, either ``Fixed'' or ``Smart'' is displayed indicating the type of tabs being used. If macro recording is on, ``Record'' will be displayed next. The percentage displayed is how far into the file the cursor is currently located. Occasionally, the percentage is replaced with the word ``Column''. This means the editor is in the block column mode. Line number and Column number are the last two items displayed on the status line. Each open window has its own status line just above its text window. Thus, if only one window is open, only one status line will be displayed. The remainder of the screen is used for the text you will edit. This is called the Edit Window. If more than one window is open, this area will be split in half each time, with that window divided from the other by the new status line for the window just opened. __________________________ __________________________ 8.6 Cursor Movement 8.6 Cursor Movement When editing text, it is important to be able to freely move the cursor within the edit window. The most common way to move the cursor is with the arrow keys. Figure 8.2 shows other ways the cursor can be positioned within the Edit Window. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 8 HELP! Editor 49 Chapter 8 HELP! Editor 49 Preferred Key Alternate Key Menu Operation Preferred Key Alternate Key Menu Operation _____________ _____________ ____ _________ <Left Arrow> <Ctrl S> Character to Left <Left Arrow> <Ctrl S> Character to Left <Right Arrow> <Ctrl D> Character to Right <Right Arrow> <Ctrl D> Character to Right <Ctrl Left Arrow> <Ctrl A> Word to Left <Ctrl Left Arrow> <Ctrl A> Word to Left <Ctrl Right Arrow> <Ctrl F> Word to Right <Ctrl Right Arrow> <Ctrl F> Word to Right <Up Arrow> <Ctrl E> Up 1 line <Up Arrow> <Ctrl E> Up 1 line <Down Arrow> <Ctrl X> Down 1 Line <Down Arrow> <Ctrl X> Down 1 Line <Ctrl W> Scroll Up <Ctrl W> Scroll Up <Ctrl Z> Scroll Down <Ctrl Z> Scroll Down <PageUp> <Ctrl R> Page Up <PageUp> <Ctrl R> Page Up <PageDn> <Ctrl C> Page Down <PageDn> <Ctrl C> Page Down <Home> <Ctrl Q> S Beginning of line <Home> <Ctrl Q> S Beginning of line <End> <Ctrl Q> D End of line <End> <Ctrl Q> D End of line <Tab> <Ctrl I> Tab <Tab> <Ctrl I> Tab <Shift Tab> Backward Tab <Shift Tab> Backward Tab <Ctrl><PageUp> <Ctrl Q> R YES Top of File <Ctrl><PageUp> <Ctrl Q> R YES Top of File <Ctrl><PageDn> <Ctrl Q> C YES Bottom of File <Ctrl><PageDn> <Ctrl Q> C YES Bottom of File <Ctrl><Home> <Ctrl Q> E Top of Screen <Ctrl><Home> <Ctrl Q> E Top of Screen <Ctrl><End> <Ctrl Q> X End of Screen <Ctrl><End> <Ctrl Q> X End of Screen Figure 8.2: Cursor Movement Figure 8.2: Cursor Movement __________________________ __________________________ 8.7 Editing Text 8.7 Editing Text Editing text is the prime function of the text editor. Besides adding text, you need to be able to get rid of text. The editor has two editing modes. The first is insert mode. In this mode, you position the cursor in your text and start typing in the new text. The new text is inserted into the position where you started typing. The second mode is overtype mode. This mode will not insert new text as you type. What it does instead is to write over the top of the old text. The default mode is the insert mode. This can be toggled by using the <Insert> key. The insert mode is the easiest to use. Under certain circumstances, you may want to go to overtype to save some key strokes. Figure 8.3 shows the basic editing commands available for the HELP! Editor. ___________________________________________________________________________ 50 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 50 Preferred Key Alternate Key Menu Operation Preferred Key Alternate Key Menu Operation _____________ _____________ ____ _________ <Enter> <Ctrl M> New Line <Enter> <Ctrl M> New Line <Insert> <Ctrl V> Toggle Insert Mode> <Insert> <Ctrl V> Toggle Insert Mode> <Ctrl N> Insert Line <Ctrl N> Insert Line <Ctrl P> Insert Control Character <Ctrl P> Insert Control Character <Delete> <Ctrl G> Delete Current Character <Delete> <Ctrl G> Delete Current Character <Backspace> <Ctrl H> Delete Character to Left <Backspace> <Ctrl H> Delete Character to Left <Ctrl T> Delete Word <Ctrl T> Delete Word <Ctrl Q> Y Delete to End of Line <Ctrl Q> Y Delete to End of Line <Ctrl Y> Delete Line <Ctrl Y> Delete Line <Ctrl Q> T Delete Line (No Undo) <Ctrl Q> T Delete Line (No Undo) <Ctrl O> O YES Toggle Case <Ctrl O> O YES Toggle Case <Ctrl O> V YES Lower Case <Ctrl O> V YES Lower Case <Ctrl O> U YES Upper Case <Ctrl O> U YES Upper Case <Ctrl U> Abort Command <Ctrl U> Abort Command <ESC> YES Menus <ESC> YES Menus Figure 8.3: Editing Commands Figure 8.3: Editing Commands __________________________ __________________________ 8.8 The Menu System 8.8 The Menu System The HELP! Editor contains a pull-down menu system. Most of the major commands are available to you with the pull-down menus. There are also shortcut key strokes for most of the menu commands. To access the HELP! Editors menus, type <ESC>. You will find that many of the commands have alternate keystrokes assigned to them. These are displayed on the top line of the screen as you access the menus. +-----------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | File Edit Block Goto Search Window Options | | File Edit Block Goto Search Window Options | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Figure 8.4: Menu Bar Figure 8.4: Menu Bar Pressing <ESC> will bring up the menu bar which overlays the first 3 Lines of the screen. This is shown in figure 8.4. You will notice that one letter of each word in the menu bar is highlighted. This letter can be typed to activate the pull-down menu for that item on the menu bar. In addition, the left and right cursor arrows can be used to select the menu item from the menu bar. When the item is selected, with the arrows, press <Enter> to see the pull-down menu. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 8 HELP! Editor 51 Chapter 8 HELP! Editor 51 When a pull-down menu is selected, you will see a list of other menu items. As in the menu bar, the items will have a highlighted letter that can be pressed for selecting that item. You may also use the up or down arrows to select a menu item, followed by <Enter> to execute that option. Some options will perform an operation directly and others will call still more pop-up menus. Pop-up menus work exactly like pull-down, except, that they pop-up somewhere on the screen. All menus may be canceled by pressing <Esc>. Please notice that depending on how many levels of menus you have traversed, may depend on how many times you have to type <Esc> to exit the menu system. Some operations automatically return you to editing. On some pull-down menus, separator bars will appear. These bars separate logically different groups of commands. If you move the arrow down a pull-down menu containing these bars, you will notice the cursor skips over them. On some pull-down menus, some of the items will end with ``...''. What this means is that other entry data is needed for this item to be completed. Some menu items will have check mark indicating that the item is on. Other items may have a number or some other information next to them to tell you about that item. +-------------------------- +-------------------------- | File Edit Block | File Edit Block +-+ +-- +-+ +-- | Open... | | Open... | | Save | | Save | | Save As... | | Save As... | | Merge at Cursor | | Merge at Cursor | +---------------------+ +---------------------+ | Directory... │ | Directory... │ | Change directory... │ | Change directory... │ | Exit to Dos... │ | Exit to Dos... │ +---------------------+ +---------------------+ | Help | | Help | | Get info | | Get info | +---------------------+ +---------------------+ | Quit | | Quit | +---------------------+ +---------------------+ Figure 8.5: File Menu Figure 8.5: File Menu 8.8.1 File Menu 8.8.1 File Menu Figure 8.5 shows the File Menu. The file menu allows you to open (read in) a file to edit as well as save a file you created or changed. In addition, you can change the active directory, view the current directory, exit to DOS to do some operation, view the help index and get information about the current file as well as other status information. ___________________________________________________________________________ 52 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 52 8.8.1.1 Open... 8.8.1.1 Open... To start editing a new file, select Open. This will show a pop-up menu asking for a file name. Normally this will contain the wild cards ``*.*'' or the last file name you entered. If it has a name with any wild cards in it, you can press <Enter> and a selectable list of file names will appear. Pressing <Enter> on any of these name will read in the file for editing. You could also have typed the name of the file you want to edit at the first prompt. When typing a name you can specify a path in which to look for the file. If you wanted to type a name and you pressed <Enter> too many times, you can press <Esc> to back up to the previous prompt. If you want to start a new file, just type the name you desire for the new file. 8.8.1.2 Save 8.8.1.2 Save When you are done editing a file and are sure you want to save the file changes you have made, select Save from the menu. This will write any changes you have made to the file you are editing. These changes are permanent, however, the HELP! Editor makes a backup file of what the file looked like when you first started editing. This file is saved in file with an extension of ``BAK'' and a file name the same as the original. If you latter decide you don't like these changes, you can always back up to the original ``backup'' file. 8.8.1.3 Save As... 8.8.1.3 Save As... If you have not yet named your file or you want to save it under a different name, use the Save As menu selection. This command brings up a pop-up editing window in which you can enter the name you want save the file ``As...''. This command is invoked automatically from ``Save'' if the file name is ``untitled''. 8.8.1.4 Merge at Cursor 8.8.1.4 Merge at Cursor This command works almost like the Load command. The only difference is the old file is not cleared out of the Editor. Instead, the new file will be inserted in the old file starting at the current cursor position. When the load is complete, the file that was read in will be marked as a block. 8.8.1.5 Directory 8.8.1.5 Directory Selecting the Directory menu option allows you to display a directory on your disk. After selection, a window will pop-up asking for a directory mask. Pressing <Enter> at this point will display the current directory with all files listed. You can also enter a drive and/or directory as well as a wild card mask. For example, if you wanted to display all of the files ending in (with an extension of) ``TXT'' in the directory ``C:\WP'' you would enter ``C:\WP\*.TXT''. After pressing <Enter>, the directory list will contain ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 8 HELP! Editor 53 Chapter 8 HELP! Editor 53 only those files in the directory ``C:\WP'' ending with ``TXT''. 8.8.1.6 Change Directory... 8.8.1.6 Change Directory... This menu options allows the directory to be changed. This can save a lot of typing if you want to work in a different directory. Selecting this option will bring up a pop-up edit field in which you can enter the new directories' name. 8.8.1.7 Exit to Dos... 8.8.1.7 Exit to Dos... During your editing session you may want to exit to DOS and execute one or more DOS commands. The HELP! Editor allows this. There are two ways to exit the Editor. Selecting this menu selection will bring a pop-up editing window which tells you to enter a DOS Command or press <Enter>. If you enter a DOS command, which can be another program to run, you will return to the HELP! Editor automatically when the command or program terminates. The second option is to simply press <Enter>. This will allow you to stay in DOS for as long as you want. When you you are done with DOS you simply type ``Exit''. Because the potential exist for you to forget about the fact that you exited from the HELP! Editor, the DOS prompt will be modified to let you know. 8.8.1.8 Help 8.8.1.8 Help This menu selection will bring up the help index screen. You can select any help subject at this point for casual browsing. 8.8.1.9 Get Info 8.8.1.9 Get Info The Get Info menu selection will display a box containing statistics about the file being worked on as well as the time and date and the version of DOS. 8.8.1.10 Quit 8.8.1.10 Quit When you are done with your editing session, you can exit the HELP! Editor by selecting this menu selection. If the file you have been working on is modified in any way, a prompt will present itself asking if you want to save this file. Pressing a ``Y'' will save it to the file name it is currently named and then the Editor will exit. Pressing ``N'' will proceed with the exit without a save. Should you want to save the file under a different name, you can press <Esc> and choose ``Save As'' first then select ``Quit'' again. ___________________________________________________________________________ 54 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 54 -------------------- -------------------- Edit Block Edit Block --+ +- --+ +- | Toggle Case | | Toggle Case | | Lower Case | | Lower Case | | Upper Case | | Upper Case | +---------------+ +---------------+ | Macros... | | Macros... | | Set marker... | | Set marker... | +---------------+ +---------------+ | Restore line | | Restore line | | Undelete | | Undelete | +---------------+ +---------------+ Figure 8.6: Edit Menu Figure 8.6: Edit Menu 8.8.2 Edit Menu 8.8.2 Edit Menu The Edit Menu provides some text modification routines. Among this are routines to affect the case of one or more letters and the ability to restore a line or Undo a number of deletions. 8.8.2.1 Toggle, Lower and Upper Case 8.8.2.1 Toggle, Lower and Upper Case These commands allow you to change the case of one or more characters. Normally, these will only affect the character the cursor is on. However, if the cursor is contained within a marked block of text (see Block Menu), the entire marked block will be affected. This gives a fast way of making text all lower or upper or the opposite of what it is. 8.8.2.2 Set Marker... 8.8.2.2 Set Marker... The HELP! Editor allows you to set up to ten markers within your file. These markers can then be used to find that selection of text again with the Goto Menu. When this command is executed, a pop-up window will appear with the ten marker names. You will then select the marker you desire. 8.8.2.3 Restore Line 8.8.2.3 Restore Line A line that has been edited can be restored to its original contents as long as you have not left the line by using this menu command. 8.8.2.4 Undo 8.8.2.4 Undo Undo will restore lines that are deleted by the delete line command, <Ctrl Y>, and the Block Delete command discussed in section 8.8.3.6. The limit to the number of lines that can be restored is set in the options menu under undo limit. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 8 HELP! Editor 55 Chapter 8 HELP! Editor 55 8.8.2.5 Macros... 8.8.2.5 Macros... Macros are a powerful feature that can be used to automate your key strokes. In order to use a macro, you need to record it first. The HELP! editor can store up to ten macros for later recall. These can be saved into a macro file. As many macro files as desired can be saved. Selecting the Macros Menu selection will bring up the macros menu figure 8.7. +--------------+ +--------------+ | Load macros | | Load macros | | Store macros | | Store macros | | Playback | | Playback | | Record | | Record | | Edit | | Edit | +--------------+ +--------------+ Figure 8.7: Macros Menu Figure 8.7: Macros Menu Record is selected to make a macro. Once record is selected, the Record ``Record'' indicator will come on in the status line. From this point on, all of your key strokes are memorized. When the sequence you want recorded has been done, go back to the record option and this will turn it off. When this happens, you will be asked to select which of the ten macros this is. The ``0'' options is the scrap one used to record all of the macros. Don't use this one until all of the others have been recorded. Once this is selected you can enter the name of the macro. This name is to remind you of its purpose. Playback is selected when you want to run a sequence of key strokes that Playback has been previously recorded. Selecting this will play back the sequence, just as though you were pressing the keys yourself. Edit allows the editing of a prerecorded sequence of key strokes. More Edit strokes can be added or key strokes can be deleted. This is a good way to fix a macro command gone astray. Store Macros will prompt for a file name to store the current set of macros Store Macros under. You can save as many sets of macros as your disk has room for. Load Macros will load a previously saved set of macros. Load Macros ___________________________________________________________________________ 56 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 56 ------------------ ------------------ Block Goto Block Goto -+ +----- -+ +----- | Begin | | Begin | | End | | End | | Hide | | Hide | +----------+ +----------+ | Copy | | Copy | | Move | | Move | | Delete | | Delete | +----------+ +----------+ | Write... | | Write... | | Read... | | Read... | +----------+ +----------+ Figure 8.8: Block Menu Figure 8.8: Block Menu 8.8.3 Block Menu 8.8.3 Block Menu The block menu defines operations using a block of text. First, a block of text is marked and then a number of operations can be performed on this block. This block can be moved, copied and deleted as well as saved to the disk for use in other files. 8.8.3.1 Block Column Mode 8.8.3.1 Block Column Mode There is a different kind of Block mode available as well. This is called the block column mode. Sometimes it is desirable to copy, move or delete several consecutive columns from a series of lines. This can be done by pressing <Shift><F10>. This will cause the word ``column'' to appear in the status line. You will stay in this mode until <Shift><F10> is pressed again. Once you are in this mode you will need to mark the upper left corner and lower right corner of the block with Block Begin and Block End. Once this is done, you can use block copy, move or delete. This mode is handy for moving columns of figures or deleting leading spaces and so on. 8.8.3.2 Selecting Text - Begin and End 8.8.3.2 Selecting Text - Begin and End Before any block operation can be performed, a block of text needs to be marked. The Begin selection will show where this block begins. Likewise the End Selection shows where the block ends. If the begin marker is put after the end marker, no text will not be marked until the end marker is moved after the begin marker in the text. Once the text is marked, this selected block will be highlighted. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 8 HELP! Editor 57 Chapter 8 HELP! Editor 57 8.8.3.3 Hide 8.8.3.3 Hide If you no longer what your text selected for block operations you can hide the selection. Using this command, will make the block selections invalid. The markers still stay in their current places and can be restored by selecting ``Hide'' again. This effectively un-hides the block markers. 8.8.3.4 Copy 8.8.3.4 Copy Assuming a block of text is selected, the copy selection will copy that block of text to the spot at which the cursor is currently residing. If the cursor is in the block anywhere accept the first character, the copy will not be performed. When copying a block, the original block is not moved or destroyed in any way. If a block has not been selected, nothing will happen. 8.8.3.5 Move 8.8.3.5 Move If a block of text is selected, it can be moved to new location by selecting this command. Unlike the copy command the original block is moved. Also, unlike the copy command, a move can take place while the cursor is in the marked block. If a block of text is not defined, nothing will happen when this command is selected. 8.8.3.6 Delete 8.8.3.6 Delete The selected block of text will be deleted if this command is selected. Be careful of this command. No warning is given that you are deleting text. If no block is defined, nothing with be affected by this command. 8.8.3.7 Write... and Read... 8.8.3.7 Write... and Read... If you want to save only a block of text in a file, this command can be used. Whatever text is marked will be copied to the file name you specify when you use this command. This command can later be recalled into another file or used as a file by itself. ___________________________________________________________________________ 58 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 58 ------------------------ ------------------------ Goto Search Win Goto Search Win -+ +--- -+ +--- | Line number... | | Line number... | | Column number... | | Column number... | +------------------+ +------------------+ | Top of file | | Top of file | | Bottom of file | | Bottom of file | +------------------+ +------------------+ | Marker... | | Marker... | +------------------+ +------------------+ | Start of block | | Start of block | | End of block | | End of block | +------------------+ +------------------+ Figure 8.9: Goto Menu Figure 8.9: Goto Menu 8.8.4 Goto Menu 8.8.4 Goto Menu The Goto Menu provides a way of getting to various points in a file quickly. By getting to a point, I mean moving the cursor. A line number, column number, top or bottom of the file or defined block or a marker can be used as points to go to. 8.8.4.1 Line Number 8.8.4.1 Line Number If you select line number, you will be asked for the line number you want to go to. If that line number is a legal line number within the file, the cursor will be positioned to this point. If it is greater than the last number the cursor will be moved to the last line. 8.8.4.2 Column Number 8.8.4.2 Column Number If you select Column number, you will be asked for the column number you want to go to. If that column number is a legal column number within the current line, the cursor will be positioned to this point. If it is greater than the last column on the line the cursor will be moved to this column position and you will be allowed to type at this point. This allows you to add things to the end of lines without having to space all the way out to that position. 8.8.4.3 Top of File 8.8.4.3 Top of File This menu selection will bring you to the top of the file. This is the first cursor position on the very first line. Pressing <Ctrl><PageUp> will do the same thing. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 8 HELP! Editor 59 Chapter 8 HELP! Editor 59 8.8.4.4 Bottom of File 8.8.4.4 Bottom of File This menu selection will bring you to the last line of the file and position the cursor after the last character on the line. This command can be executed from the keyboard with <Ctrl><PageDn>. 8.8.4.5 Marker... 8.8.4.5 Marker... The markers defined in the Edit Menu can also be used as quick way to get anywhere within a file. By defining a marker in the Edit Menu, you can effectively mark a point in the file that you would like to return to with this Goto Marker menu selection. After selecting this command, you will be prompted to select a marker to go to. Pressing return on this marker will bring you to that point you defined in the file. 8.8.4.6 Start of Block 8.8.4.6 Start of Block When you defined the beginning of a block with the Block Menu commands, you essentially created a marker. This beginning point can be returned to with the Start of Block menu selection. 8.8.4.7 End of Block 8.8.4.7 End of Block When you defined the end of a block with the Block Menu commands, you essentially created a marker. This ending point can be returned to with the End of Block menu selection. ------------------- ------------------- Search Window Search Window -+ +-- -+ +-- | Find... | | Find... | | Replace... | | Replace... | | Use macro... | | Use macro... | | Again | | Again | +--------------+ +--------------+ Figure 8.10: Search Menu Figure 8.10: Search Menu 8.8.5 Search Menu 8.8.5 Search Menu The Search Menu shown in figure 8.10, will provide you with the capabilities of searching for a string of characters. After this search is complete, depending upon the search command chosen, you can replace it with another string, apply a macro (see macros section 8.8.2.5) or do nothing at all. ___________________________________________________________________________ 60 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 60 8.8.5.1 Find... 8.8.5.1 Find... The first menu options is the Find menu command. Upon selecting this command, you will be presented with a pop-up edit window in which you can enter the desired search string. This string can be up to 67 characters long. If you had entered a previous search string, this string will appear in the edit box and you can edit it or hit <Enter> to use it again or simply start typing and it will disappear and the new string will take its place. You can search for control characters by using a ``<Ctrl>P'' and then enter the control character desired. After you have entered the search string, type <Enter>. Table 8.1: Search Options Table 8.1: Search Options B Search Backwards from the current cursor position. B Search Backwards from the current cursor position. G Search Globally from the beginning of the file to the end G Search Globally from the beginning of the file to the end or the the end to the beginning if the B option is used. or the the end to the beginning if the B option is used. L The search will be limited to the marked block (See block Menu). L The search will be limited to the marked block (See block Menu). n This is a number that is entered. This number specifies n This is a number that is entered. This number specifies which occurrence of the match to stop the search. which occurrence of the match to stop the search. U This will ignore case in the search. U This will ignore case in the search. W Only words that are whole words, that is words that are not W Only words that are whole words, that is words that are not contained in another word are matched. contained in another word are matched. Next you will be asked for any search options at this point (see table 8.1). If you used any search options the last time you used the command, they will appear again. Type <Enter> to accept the old ones. If none are entered, and you desire no options, type <Enter> or enter your options and press <Enter>. Now the searching begins. If a match is found the cursor will be placed at the end of the search string match. The shortcut key sequence for this command is ``<Ctrl Q> F''. 8.8.5.2 Replace... 8.8.5.2 Replace... Replace works exactly like Find except that after the search string is entered you will be asked to enter a replacement string. After the replacement string is entered you will be asked for the search options. These options are the same as above except for ``N''. This is not allowed because all matches are found until you specifically abort the Replace. When a match is found you will be asked if you want to replace the string. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 8 HELP! Editor 61 Chapter 8 HELP! Editor 61 At this point a ``Y'' will replace the found string. An ``N'' will cause no replacement to happen. Pressing an ``A'' will cause all of the rest of the matches to be replaced. A shortcut key sequence for this command is ``<Ctrl Q> A''. 8.8.5.3 Use Macro... 8.8.5.3 Use Macro... This menu option works the same as the Find menu selection, except that it applies the macro you specify after it finds the text. See paragraph 8.8.2.5 on macros for information on macros. The shortcut key sequence for this command is ``<Ctrl Q> M''. 8.8.5.4 Again 8.8.5.4 Again This will cause the last search function to be repeated again. It will find the next occurrence of the string, if one exists. All of the same options will be used. The shortcut key sequence is ``<Ctrl L>''. -------------------- -------------------- Window Options Window Options -+ +-------- -+ +-------- | Open... | | Open... | | Close | | Close | +----------+ +----------+ | Go to... | | Go to... | | Previous | | Previous | | Next | | Next | +----------+ +----------+ | Resize | | Resize | | Zoom | | Zoom | +----------+ +----------+ Figure 8.11: Window Menu Figure 8.11: Window Menu 8.8.6 Window Menu 8.8.6 Window Menu The HELP! Editor allows you to edit up to 6 files at one time. To edit additional files you need to use the Window Menu. The Window Menu allows you to open new windows, close existing ones, resize windows on the screen, move between them and zoom a window to full screen. Block Menu commands will work between windows allowing the moving and copying of text between files. The window the cursor is currently in is the current window and all command only affect the current window except ``Quit'' which of course means quit everything. 8.8.6.1 Open... 8.8.6.1 Open... As with the File menu, the Window menus Open will prompt you for a new file name. This works exactly like the File menu Open except that a new window ___________________________________________________________________________ 62 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 62 is created to put the new file in. The file can be a different file or the same file can be in another window. The window that is created is defined by finding the largest window on the screen and dividing it in half. 8.8.6.2 Close 8.8.6.2 Close When you are done with a file, you can close its window and quit editing the file. If the file has been modified and not saved, a prompt will ask if whether you want to save the file or not. 8.8.6.3 Go to... 8.8.6.3 Go to... You can use this menu selection to move to the window of your choice without sequencing through the other windows. 8.8.6.4 Previous 8.8.6.4 Previous This will select the window above it on the screen. If the current window is the top window on the screen, then the last window will be selected. 8.8.6.5 Next 8.8.6.5 Next This will select the window below it on the screen. If the current window is the bottom window on the screen, then the top window will be selected. 8.8.6.6 Resize 8.8.6.6 Resize You can resize any or all windows on the screen to make optimum use of the screen. Selecting this option allows you to use the up and down arrows to resize the current window. There is a minimum size that a window can be. If you see no action from this command, you may be at this point already. 8.8.6.7 Zoom 8.8.6.7 Zoom If you have multiple windows open, you can select ``Zoom'' to bring the current window to full screen. When this happens, the first positions on the window's status line will say ``Zoom'' as a reminder that there is more than one window open. Selecting this command again will cause the window to return to its normal size. When a window is zoomed, switching to another window will cause that window to appear in a zoomed state. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 8 HELP! Editor 63 Chapter 8 HELP! Editor 63 --------------------------+ --------------------------+ Options | Options | -+ +-+ -+ +-+ | Autoindent X | | Autoindent X | | Insert mode X | | Insert mode X | | Fixed Tabs X | | Fixed Tabs X | | Tab size 8 | | Tab size 8 | +----------------------+ +----------------------+ | Load file options... | | Load file options... | | Display options... | | Display options... | | Colors... | | Colors... | +----------------------+ +----------------------+ | Save setup | | Save setup | +----------------------+ +----------------------+ Figure 8.12: Options Menu Figure 8.12: Options Menu 8.8.7 Options Menu 8.8.7 Options Menu The options menu allows the customization of the HELP! Editor. These options can then be saved so they are the defaults for the Editor. Unlike HELP!, these options are actually saved within the Editor's executable file (HED.EXE). 8.8.7.1 Autoindent 8.8.7.1 Autoindent The Autoindent feature can be turned on and off from this menu item. A check mark will appear next to the item if it is on. Autoindenting makes the line following the current line indent to the same level as the current line. This is useful for structured programming languages such as Pascal or C. 8.8.7.2 Insert Mode 8.8.7.2 Insert Mode The insert mode is toggled on and off by this menu option. It also is toggled by the <Insert> key. Insert mode allows the insertion of characters at the cursor simply by typing the new characters. When not in the insert mode, you are in the overwrite mode. This mode allows you to overwrite characters that are already in the text you are editing. 8.8.7.3 Fixed Tabs 8.8.7.3 Fixed Tabs Fixed tabs are set at fixed distance apart from one another. Pressing the <Tab> key will move to the next tab stop. The distance between tabs is controlled by the Tab Size option below. When Fixed Tabs are off, Smart Tabs are in effect. When Smart Tabs are on, pressing the <Tab> key will move the cursor to the start of the next word on the line above it. That is, the line above it will determine where each tab stop will be located by word breaks. This is useful for writing ___________________________________________________________________________ 64 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 64 programs. 8.8.7.4 Tab Size 8.8.7.4 Tab Size The Tab Size, or distance between tabs, can be set to something other than 8 which is the default. This number can be any reasonable value. 8.8.7.5 Colors 8.8.7.5 Colors The default colors can be changed for the HELP! Editor. Selecting the colors command will bring up the color field selection window. Position the cursor on the field you want to change and the color change window will appear. Use the arrow keys to select the the color combination you want and type <Enter> to make it take effect. <Esc> will always return you to the window before the current one. Therefore, if you don't want to change a color, type <Esc> to go back to the color field selection window or type <Esc> again to get out of it entirely. 8.8.7.6 Save Setup 8.8.7.6 Save Setup You can save any of the default options you set by selecting this option. The defaults will be modified in the executable file itself (HED.EXE). Make sure all of the various system toggles are set the way you want them before selecting this options. +--------------------------+ +--------------------------+ | Home directory | | Home directory | | File extension | | File extension | | Expand tabs X | | Expand tabs X | | Write tabs X | | Write tabs X | | Strip hi-bit | | Strip hi-bit | | Undo limit 20 | | Undo limit 20 | +--------------------------+ +--------------------------+ Figure 8.13: Load File Options Figure 8.13: Load File Options 8.8.7.7 Load File Options... 8.8.7.7 Load File Options... This option controls the way in which the HELP! Editor deals with files. Selecting this option will bring up another menu with more options in it. Home Directory is the place in which the HELP! Editor looks for and places Home Directory files, other than the files you edit. This is where your HED.HLP file should be and this is where macro files you create are written. Normally this will be the same directory that the Editor itself is in. File Extension is a default extension that you can specify for use in the File Extension File menu options. This extension would be used when no other is ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 8 HELP! Editor 65 Chapter 8 HELP! Editor 65 specified. If this option is used, specifying the file with a trailing period implies no extension is desired. Expand Tabs will expand any tab characters in your file as it is read into Expand Tabs the HELP! Editor. The amount of expansion is determined by the Tab Size options above. If Tab Expansion is off, then <Ctrl I> will be interspersed where tabs are within your file. Write Tabs will write your file with tab characters. This will save you Write Tabs space on your disk because many spaces can potentially be eliminated. Strip High-bit will make the 8th bit of every byte a 0. This is useful for Strip High-bit reading some word processor files that contain formatting information in the most significant bit of their byte. This is only effective when a file is read into the Editor. Undo Limit sets the number of deleted lines that the ``undo'' buffer will Undo Limit remember. This is used in conjunction with the Undo Command. 8.8.7.8 Display Options... 8.8.7.8 Display Options... Selecting display options will cause a menu to appear with options effecting the way in which the display looks. The menu is shown in figure 8.14 +------------------+ +------------------+ | Snow control X | | Snow control X | | Block cursor | | Block cursor | | 43/50 line | | 43/50 line | | Key help X | | Key help X | | Zoom state | | Zoom state | +------------------+ +------------------+ Figure 8.14: Display Options Figure 8.14: Display Options Snow Control is only used on CGA style displays. The original CGA had a Snow Control problem displaying text with out snow appearing on the screen. For this reason, when a CGA is used as the display adapter, snow control is turned on. If you have a CGA compatible display, you might want to try this option off. This will greatly enhance the screen speed. Try it both ways, and if no snow appears, use it with snow control off. Block Cursor is a cursor that appears as a whole block instead of an Block Cursor underline. The color of this cursor can be controlled in the Colors options menu. 43/50 Line is a option for EGA and VGA owners. When the HELP! Editor is 43/50 Line called from HELP!, it is automatically put into the mode it currently is in. If you are using this Editor stand alone, you can change this option for more lines here. If you always want 43 or 50 lines, depending on the display adapter you have, you can set this option on. Then, even if HELP! ___________________________________________________________________________ 66 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 66 calls the program, it will go to 43 or 50 lines. Key Help is displayed on the message line (top line of the screen) Key Help normally. If this bugs you, you can turn it off here. This key help is useful for menu users to see the shortcut key strokes to a given command. Zoom State allows you to set the zoom state to zoomed on default. Zoom State __________________________ __________________________ 8.9 HELP! Editor Reference 8.9 HELP! Editor Reference +---------------------------+---------------------------+ +---------------------------+---------------------------+ | F1 - Get Help | F2 - Save and Continue | | F1 - Get Help | F2 - Save and Continue | | Shift F1 - Go to Line | Shift F2 - Go to Column | | Shift F1 - Go to Line | Shift F2 - Go to Column | +---------------------------+---------------------------+ +---------------------------+---------------------------+ | F3 - Edit New File | F4 - Add Window/ | | F3 - Edit New File | F4 - Add Window/ | | Shift F3 - Macro Record | Shift F4 - Close Window | | Shift F3 - Macro Record | Shift F4 - Close Window | +---------------------------+---------------------------+ +---------------------------+---------------------------+ | F5 - Zoom Window | F6 - Next Window/ | | F5 - Zoom Window | F6 - Next Window/ | | Shift F5 - Resize Window | Shift F6 - Previous Window| | Shift F5 - Resize Window | Shift F6 - Previous Window| +---------------------------+---------------------------+ +---------------------------+---------------------------+ | F7 - Block Begin | F8 - End Block | | F7 - Block Begin | F8 - End Block | | Shift F7 - Block Copy | Shift F8 - Block Move | | Shift F7 - Block Copy | Shift F8 - Block Move | +---------------------------+---------------------------+ +---------------------------+---------------------------+ | F9 - Find | F10 - Again | | F9 - Find | F10 - Again | | Shift F9 - Replace | Shift F10 - Column Block | | Shift F9 - Replace | Shift F10 - Column Block | +---------------------------+---------------------------+ +---------------------------+---------------------------+ Figure 8.15: Function Keys Figure 8.15: Function Keys ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 8 HELP! 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Editor 67 Preferred Key Alternate Key Menu Operation Preferred Key Alternate Key Menu Operation _____________ _____________ ____ _________ Cursor Movement Commands Cursor Movement Commands <Left Arrow> <Ctrl S> Character to Left <Left Arrow> <Ctrl S> Character to Left <Right Arrow> <Ctrl D> Character to Right <Right Arrow> <Ctrl D> Character to Right <Ctrl Left Arrow> <Ctrl A> Word to Left <Ctrl Left Arrow> <Ctrl A> Word to Left <Ctrl Right Arrow> <Ctrl F> Word to Right <Ctrl Right Arrow> <Ctrl F> Word to Right <Up Arrow> <Ctrl E> Up 1 line <Up Arrow> <Ctrl E> Up 1 line <Down Arrow> <Ctrl X> Down 1 Line <Down Arrow> <Ctrl X> Down 1 Line <Ctrl W> Scroll Up <Ctrl W> Scroll Up <Ctrl Z> Scroll Down <Ctrl Z> Scroll Down <PageUp> <Ctrl R> Page Up <PageUp> <Ctrl R> Page Up <PageDn> <Ctrl C> Page Down <PageDn> <Ctrl C> Page Down <Home> <Ctrl Q> S Beginning of line <Home> <Ctrl Q> S Beginning of line <End> <Ctrl Q> D End of line <End> <Ctrl Q> D End of line <Tab> <Ctrl I> Tab <Tab> <Ctrl I> Tab <Shift Tab> Backward Tab (Fixed only) <Shift Tab> Backward Tab (Fixed only) <Ctrl><PageUp> <Ctrl Q> R YES Top of File <Ctrl><PageUp> <Ctrl Q> R YES Top of File <Ctrl><PageDn> <Ctrl Q> C YES Bottom of File <Ctrl><PageDn> <Ctrl Q> C YES Bottom of File <Ctrl><Home> <Ctrl Q> E Top of Screen <Ctrl><Home> <Ctrl Q> E Top of Screen <Ctrl><End> <Ctrl Q> X End of Screen <Ctrl><End> <Ctrl Q> X End of Screen Editing Commands Editing Commands <Enter> <Ctrl M> New Line <Enter> <Ctrl M> New Line <Insert> <Ctrl V> Toggle Insert Mode> <Insert> <Ctrl V> Toggle Insert Mode> <Ctrl N> Insert Line <Ctrl N> Insert Line <Ctrl P> Insert Control Character <Ctrl P> Insert Control Character <Delete> <Ctrl G> Delete Current Character <Delete> <Ctrl G> Delete Current Character <Backspace> <Ctrl H> Delete Character to Left <Backspace> <Ctrl H> Delete Character to Left <Ctrl T> Delete Word <Ctrl T> Delete Word <Ctrl Q> Y Delete to End of Line <Ctrl Q> Y Delete to End of Line <Ctrl Y> Delete Line <Ctrl Y> Delete Line <Ctrl Q> T Delete Line (No Undo) <Ctrl Q> T Delete Line (No Undo) <Ctrl O> O YES Toggle Case <Ctrl O> O YES Toggle Case <Ctrl O> V YES Lower Case <Ctrl O> V YES Lower Case <Ctrl O> U YES Upper Case <Ctrl O> U YES Upper Case <Ctrl U> Abort Command <Ctrl U> Abort Command <ESC> YES Menus <ESC> YES Menus Block Commands Block Commands Shift <F10> Block Column Mode Shift <F10> Block Column Mode <F7> <Ctrl K> B YES Block Begin <F7> <Ctrl K> B YES Block Begin <F8> <Ctrl K> K YES Block End <F8> <Ctrl K> K YES Block End Shift <F7> <Ctrl K> C YES Block Copy Shift <F7> <Ctrl K> C YES Block Copy Shift <F8> <Ctrl K> V YES Block Move Shift <F8> <Ctrl K> V YES Block Move <Ctrl K> Y YES Block Delete <Ctrl K> Y YES Block Delete <Ctrl K> H YES Block Hide <Ctrl K> H YES Block Hide <Ctrl K> R YES Block Read <Ctrl K> R YES Block Read <Ctrl K> W YES Block Write <Ctrl K> W YES Block Write <Ctrl Q> B YES Cursor to Block Begin <Ctrl Q> B YES Cursor to Block Begin <Ctrl Q> K YES Cursor to Block End <Ctrl Q> K YES Cursor to Block End <Ctrl K> T Mark Single Word <Ctrl K> T Mark Single Word ___________________________________________________________________________ 68 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 68 Preferred Key Alternate Key Menu Operation Preferred Key Alternate Key Menu Operation _____________ _____________ ____ _________ Search Commands Search Commands <F9> <Ctrl Q> F YES Find <F9> <Ctrl Q> F YES Find Shift <F9> <Ctrl Q> A YES Replace Shift <F9> <Ctrl Q> A YES Replace <F10> <Ctrl L> YES Find Again <F10> <Ctrl L> YES Find Again <Ctrl Q> M YES Find and Use Macro <Ctrl Q> M YES Find and Use Macro Undo Commands Undo Commands <Ctrl Q> L YES Restore Line <Ctrl Q> L YES Restore Line <Ctrl Q> U YES Undo Deletion <Ctrl Q> U YES Undo Deletion <Ctrl Q> V YES Insert Undo Buffer <Ctrl Q> V YES Insert Undo Buffer <Ctrl Q> J YES Flush Undo Buffer <Ctrl Q> J YES Flush Undo Buffer Jump (Goto) Commands Jump (Goto) Commands Shift <F1> <Ctrl J> L YES Jump to line Shift <F1> <Ctrl J> L YES Jump to line Shift <F2> <Ctrl J> C YES Jump to Column Shift <F2> <Ctrl J> C YES Jump to Column <Ctrl K> 0 - 9 YES Set marker 0 - 9 <Ctrl K> 0 - 9 YES Set marker 0 - 9 <Ctrl Q> 0 - 9 YES Jump to Marker 0 - 9 <Ctrl Q> 0 - 9 YES Jump to Marker 0 - 9 <Ctrl Q> P Previous Cursor Position <Ctrl Q> P Previous Cursor Position <Ctrl Q> B YES Cursor to Block Begin <Ctrl Q> B YES Cursor to Block Begin <Ctrl Q> K YES Cursor to Block End <Ctrl Q> K YES Cursor to Block End <Ctrl J> B Jump Up to Equal Indent <Ctrl J> B Jump Up to Equal Indent <Ctrl J> E Jump Down to Equal Indent <Ctrl J> E Jump Down to Equal Indent File Commands File Commands <F1> YES Help <F1> YES Help <F2> <Ctrl K> N YES Write To... <F2> <Ctrl K> N YES Write To... <F3> YES Edit Another File (New) <F3> YES Edit Another File (New) <Ctrl K> D Save and Switch Files <Ctrl K> D Save and Switch Files <Ctrl K> X Save and Quit <Ctrl K> X Save and Quit <Ctrl K> Q YES Quit <Ctrl K> Q YES Quit <Ctrl K> S YES Save and Continue Edit <Ctrl K> S YES Save and Continue Edit Window Commands Window Commands <F4> <Ctrl O> A YES Add another window <F4> <Ctrl O> A YES Add another window Shift <F4> <Ctrl K> S YES Close Window Shift <F4> <Ctrl K> S YES Close Window <Ctrl J> W YES Goto Window <Ctrl J> W YES Goto Window <F6> <Ctrl O> N YES Next Window <F6> <Ctrl O> N YES Next Window Shift <F6> <Ctrl O> P YES Previous Window Shift <F6> <Ctrl O> P YES Previous Window <F5> <Ctrl O> Z YES Zoom Window <F5> <Ctrl O> Z YES Zoom Window Shift <F5> <Ctrl O> S YES ReSize Window Shift <F5> <Ctrl O> S YES ReSize Window Macros Macros Shift <F3> <Ctrl J> T YES Macro Record On/Off Shift <F3> <Ctrl J> T YES Macro Record On/Off <Ctrl J> I Playback Scrap Macro <Ctrl J> I Playback Scrap Macro <Ctrl J> 1 - 9 Playback Scrap Macro 1-9 Times <Ctrl J> 1 - 9 Playback Scrap Macro 1-9 Times <Alt> 1 - <Alt> 9 Playback Macro 1 - 9 <Alt> 1 - <Alt> 9 Playback Macro 1 - 9 ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 8 HELP! 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Editor 69 Preferred Key Alternate Key Menu Operation Preferred Key Alternate Key Menu Operation _____________ _____________ ____ _________ Misc Commands Misc Commands <Ctrl K> Q YES Get Info <Ctrl K> Q YES Get Info <Ctrl Q> I YES Auto Indent <Ctrl Q> I YES Auto Indent <Ctrl O> F YES Fixed/Smart Tabs <Ctrl O> F YES Fixed/Smart Tabs <Ctrl J> K YES Key Help <Ctrl J> K YES Key Help <Ctrl K> M Toggle Marker Display <Ctrl K> M Toggle Marker Display <Ctrl J> D YES Change Directory <Ctrl J> D YES Change Directory <Ctrl J> O YES Exit to DOS <Ctrl J> O YES Exit to DOS <Ctrl J> H YES Help Index <Ctrl J> H YES Help Index <Ctrl J> R Show Available Memory <Ctrl J> R Show Available Memory Figure 8.16: Key Reference Figure 8.16: Key Reference ___________________________________________________________________________ 70 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 70 ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ C h a p t e r 9 C h a p t e r 9 Advanced Features Advanced Features ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ __________________________ 9.1 Multiple File Selection 9.1 Multiple File Selection Multiple File Selection is a selectable feature used in the Copy, Move, Compare, Print and Erase HELP! commands. It has many advanced and powerful features and, therefore, warrants its own section in this manual. The basic purpose of multiple file selection is to increase your productivity by allowing you to perform an operation many times thus decreasing the number of keystrokes needed to perform a given task. When a command is chosen and multiple file selection is used, a multiple selection screen will appear. This screen is the same for all multiple selection commands with the exception of the first line. The first step is to select some files. The easiest method involves moving the cursor over the file to be selected and typing a <Space>. This will put a little double arrow to the left of the file name and advance the cursor one position. This double arrow means that this file is selected for the operation about to be carried out (i.e., Copy, Move, Print, Compare or Erase). If you made a mistake in the file selection process and want to deselect that particular file, move the cursor over that file again and type <Space>. The double arrow will disappear. The ``+'' key can be used to select a file also. Unlike the <Space> key, the plus key will only select files. The ``-'' key can be used to deselect a file. 9.1.1 Keys Used in File Selection 9.1.1 Keys Used in File Selection What keys are available to aid in file selection? As you can see from the menu, several keys are mentioned. The <Home> key will return you to the beginning of the file name list. The <End> key will display the last files available in the list. This key will make the display fill with the last 54 or 18 file names depending upon the file display mode. If there are less than 54 or 18 files, as described above, then it will display the complete file list. <PgDn> will page the display down (towards the end) 54 or 18 file names depending upon the display mode. <PgUp> will page the ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 9 Advanced Features 71 Chapter 9 Advanced Features 71 file list up (towards the beginning) 54 or 18 file names depending upon the display mode. These two commands will work as the <End> key did if less than 54 or 18 files are present. Also, they maximize the display surface usage by displaying 54 or 18 file names if more than that are present. The ``cursor keys'' also aid in selection. The right and left arrows allow you to select an adjacent file name. These keys are only used in the 54 file mode. The up and down arrows will allow you to skim through the file names one at a time and will effectively scroll the screen when you reach the bottom or top of the screen. These keys will work in both 54 and 18 file modes. 9.1.1.1 Selecting by Name 9.1.1.1 Selecting by Name HELP! will allow you to select by specifying the name portion of the file. This portion is the first 1-8 characters of the file name. These will be the characters shown on the left side of the file name columns. Pressing ``N'' will activate this option. When you do this, a field will appear for the entry of the name. Type in the name you want to select, and all file names which have this name will be selected. The wildcard character ``?'' is allowed. This character can stand in and represent one character to match anything. For example: HELP? would match HELP.DOC or HELP!.DOC or HELP!.TXT. More that one ``?'' wildcard can appear in a name specified. Once you have used a name for selection, you can still use any of the other selection (or deselection) options. 9.1.1.2 Selecting By Type or Extension 9.1.1.2 Selecting By Type or Extension You can select files by extension if you desire. The extension is the last 1-3 characters of the file name. These characters are displayed as the characters to the right of the file name columns. Extensions are often referred to as the file type. This is because the extension generally gives a clue as to what the file is. For example: DOC is generally a word processing file, WKS is a spreadsheet file, BAK is a backup file, and so on. Pressing ``T'' for type or ``E'' for extension will bring up a field in which you can enter an extension or file type. Once again, you can use wildcards as described in the section above on file names. All of the other selection (or deselection) keys are also available to you. 9.1.1.3 Selecting and Clearing All 9.1.1.3 Selecting and Clearing All Two other keys will work in selecting and deselecting file names. The ``A'' key will select all file names and the ``C'' key will deselect (clear) all file names. The ``A'' key is useful if most of the file names are going to be selected. In this case, you can deselect the file names you don't want to select and save time. Remember that deselecting file works the same way as selecting so make sure the little double arrows are next to the files you want selected. ___________________________________________________________________________ 72 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 72 9.1.2 Saving File Selections 9.1.2 Saving File Selections Two more options remain on this menu screen. It is possible to save your file selections for later use. Let's say you are writing a program and you are modifying many files all of the time. You may want to back up the files with the Copy Command. Instead of selecting these files all of the time, save the file selections in another file. Then when you need to back up these files, all you need to do is type ``L'' for load and enter the file name in which you saved your selections and the proper files will be selected. What happens if the file containing the selection names has a file name that is not in the directory anymore? HELP! will simply ignore this file when it is selecting files in the directory. To save a file of file selections, type ``S'' and then when prompted enter the name you want to save the files under. The file will be saved in the current directory unless the disk is full or missing or some other disk error occurs. If the file name already exists, HELP! will prompt you and let you enter another name. The format of the file HELP! creates is simply an ASCII file with the file name and <CR> <LF>. This file can be edited by any text editor. This is also a good way to get a copy of selected file names in a directory for use in a word processing document. __________________________ __________________________ 9.2 Options Menu 9.2 Options Menu The Options Menu is used to customize HELP! to your liking. Among the features available are complete color selection of the various windows, turning off and on the key status window and status window and setting the number of lines per screen if you have an EGA/VGA or equivalent. The Options Menu is accessed from the main menu by typing ``O''. Changes made from the options menu are only temporary unless the save configuration options (see section 9.2.13) is used. By temporary I mean that the change will go away if HELP! is quit or a program is run from within HELP!. 9.2.1 Black & White 9.2.1 Black & White This option is used for those people using a color graphic adapter with a monochrome (black & white) display. These colors are automatically selected if you are using a monochrome adapter. HELP! has no way of knowing if you have a monochrome display on a color adapter. To use this option press ``B''. Next, either go to the color change menu described below or press ``S'' from the Options Menu (where you should be now). This will make a configuration file and save this setting for you. An alternative method of getting the Black & White color set is to use the DOS Mode Command. By using ``Mode BW80'' from the DOS prompt, HELP! will recognize that it should use the Black & White Color set. This method has the advantage of not creating a HELP!.CFG file. If any other default is changed and ``Save Configuration'' is used, HELP!.CFG will be there any ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 9 Advanced Features 73 Chapter 9 Advanced Features 73 way. 9.2.2 Vertical Retrace 9.2.2 Vertical Retrace HELP! automatically senses what type of display adapter you are using at start time. If you have a CGA or equivalent, HELP! will turn on vertical retrace waits. This insures that noise is not displayed on your screen during updates. Many CGA type cards do not require this. Also, if HELP! could not determine what type of card you have in your system, you may need this. When HELP! waits for retrace, the speed of the display is slowed. My suggestion is to try this both ways and if there is no snow in either position, then use ``no wait'' for the increased display speed. The vertical retrace wait is toggled back and forth by typing ``V''. 9.2.3 Changing Screen Colors 9.2.3 Changing Screen Colors Pressing a ``C'' from the Options Menu will bring up the Color Change Screen shown in. The Color Change screen allows you to change the areas of the screen called out as Items of Interest. Each one of these areas of the screen has associated with it a background and character attribute. These attributes can be one of 16 colors ( on a color display ), and the character color can be made to flash (blink). At the bottom of the screen in the menu area, you will see the words (B)ackground (C)haracter (D)efault (F)lash (I)tem-to- select and (Q)uit. When the screen is first called up, the arrow in the Color Window is flashing in the first column. This indicates that the (I)tem-to-select column is the active one. This allows you to select one of the above items. As you move the cursor down the column, notice that the arrows on the background and character columns change to indicate the currently selected attributes for that item. Once the item is selected, either ``B'' or ``C'' can be typed to change either the background or character attribute respectively. Also, ``F'' can be typed to make the characters in this item to flash (blink). If you want to return to the default colors, type ``D'' and all of the colors will be to the defaults setup in HELP!. After the colors are set for the item selected, pressing ``I'' will allow you to select another item. When you are finished, type ``Q'' to quit and return to the Options Menu. 9.2.4 File Windows 9.2.4 File Windows Two File Windows are available to you. The first is the default window which provides space for 54 files in the window. This is the default because it provides the easiest access to the most files. Pressing ``F'' at the Options Menu will provide the alternate file window. This window has file name, size, time, date. There is room for 18 files with this menu. Pressing ``F'' again will toggle back to the other window type. See also section 9.2.6 below for other alternatives. 9.2.5 Wide File Window 9.2.5 Wide File Window If you don't like or care to see the status window on the right, you can devote the entire display to the file window. This is done by typing ``W'' for Wide file window. This works on all display adapters with the default ___________________________________________________________________________ 74 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 74 54 file window. If your adapter uses some obscure mode like 120 X 25 lines and it is compatible with the guidelines set up in section 9.2.8, then, if the window is wide enough, two columns of the 18 file mode can be displayed. No matter how wide your screen is or which file window display type you are displaying, HELP! will try to maximize the number of columns available to you with Wide File Mode. This mode can also be invoked with ``<Alt> W'' from the Main and Utilities Menus. 9.2.6 Key Status Window Toggle 9.2.6 Key Status Window Toggle You can turn off the key status lights if your keyboard already displays them or you don't care if they are present on the screen. When you do this, you will pick up an extended status window that displays the selected file's size, time, and date. This gives the advantage of using the maximum file mode on the screen and at the same time displaying the selected item's size, time, and date. This can also be invoked my typing ``<Alt> K'' from the Main and Utilities Menu. 9.2.7 EGA/VGA Screen Modes 9.2.7 EGA/VGA Screen Modes Owners of EGA or VGA cards can get more files displayed on their screen if they desire. In addition to this, the extended status window described in section 9.2.6 with file attributes will be displayed. The View Window and the Print windows will also be expanded by this. The EGA can use the default 25 Line mode or the 43 Line mode. The 43 Line mode is activated by typing ``4''. The 25 Line mode can be reactivated by typing ``2''. VGA owners can use all of the above modes. They also can get the additional 50 Line mode. This is activated by typing ``5''. All of these modes work with the wide file mode described in section 9.2.5. 9.2.8 Special Screen Mode Sensing 9.2.8 Special Screen Mode Sensing Many EGA and VGA Compatible adapters have special modes of operation. These modes, allow 120 X 25, 43, 50 etc or 132 X 43 and so on for screen sizes. If your adapter has these mode and it uses standard EGA conventions in the saving of screen size in low RAM, then HELP! may be able to automatically sense this mode and use it. HELP! will allow just about any size up to approximately 132 characters wide by 43 lines high. If your adapter has these modes try them. NOTE: THIS MODE WILL ONLY WORK WHEN IN THE DEFAULT 25 LINE MODE. 9.2.9 Text Editor 9.2.9 Text Editor You can define your own text editor to work in place of the HELP! Editor when you use the ``Words'' Main Menu Command. Pressing ``T'' will present an edit field in which you can enter a drive, path, and file name to be used in place of the HELP! Editor. It is recommended that you use the entire path, including the drive, so that HELP! has no problems in finding the Editor or Word Processor. 9.2.10 Expert Level 9.2.10 Expert Level Pressing ``E'' in the options menu will allow the setting of the expert level. The expert level is set to ``1'' by default. Increasing this level ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 9 Advanced Features 75 Chapter 9 Advanced Features 75 to ``2'' or ``3'' will eliminate many of the menu screens. Using level ``2'' will turn off screens that prompt for such things as: ``Rename file xxx to YYY (Y)es (N)o (E)xit''. The effect of this would be to immediately rename the file with no prompt. This command is reversible, obviously, by renaming the file again. Therefore, all screens eliminated with level 2 are for commands whose action is reversible. Level 3 is for screens such as: ``Erase File XXX (Y)es (N)o (E)xit''. These screens being eliminated cause actions that are not reversible. ONLY USE LEVEL 3 IF YOU ARE SURE OF YOUR ACTIONS. 9.2.11 Read Tree Options 9.2.11 Read Tree Options The Tree can be automatically read on entry to HELP! in one or more drives. These Trees can be saved, to disk, on exit from HELP! if desired. See section 9.4.1 for more information. 9.2.12 Mouse Options 9.2.12 Mouse Options The mouse can be turned on and off or the mouse buttons can be reversed with this command. See section 6.5 for more information on these options. 9.2.13 Saving Options 9.2.13 Saving Options At the Options Menu pressing ``S'' will save the current color set, file window type, whether it is a wide window, key status window on/off, number of lines per screen, expert level, highlight options for the TREE Command, way in which the directory is sorted, current printer options, current printer port selected, black & white color set, vertical retrace, copy overwrite yes/no, whether single or multiple print files are selected, the settings of the COM Ports and the settings of the break and verify switches. The file is saved in the HELP!.CFG file. If one does not already exist, it will be created and saved in the directory where the other HELP! files are found. 9.2.14 Quitting Options 9.2.14 Quitting Options Pressing ``Q'' or <ESC> will return you to the Main Menu. Remember to save the configuration if the options you have selected are to be saved. __________________________ __________________________ 9.3 Sort Command 9.3 Sort Command The Sort Command provides several different ways in which to view the file names in the file window. The default way of viewing file names is with the names sorted by the file name. Other options include sorting by extension, date, size and time. To invoke the Sort Command, type ``S'' from the Main Menu. The first line of the Sort Menu shows the various types of sorting available. The second line tells which method of sorting is currently in vogue. To change the ___________________________________________________________________________ 76 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 76 method of sorting simply type the first letter of the way you would like to see the file names sorted. Typing any option except ``N'' will cause a directory reread and a resorting to take place. If you typed ``N'', you will be asked if you want directories to appear first. When sorting by name, there are two options available to you. The first is to sort all names without any preference to directories and the second is to place directories first. Putting directories first allows you to switch to different directories in a minimum of keystrokes. You can save the way you wish to view files by using the save-configuration command under Options discussed above. __________________________ __________________________ 9.4 TREE Command 9.4 TREE Command The TREE Command gives a way to visually see the directory hierarchy of your disk. Typing ``T'' will cause HELP! to read all of the files on your hard disk in search of directories. When it has searched the entire disk, a screen displaying a graphic representation of the directory hierarchy will appear. This does not require a graphic display adapter to work. Instead it uses line draw characters available on all display adapters. There are a couple of ways in which a TREE read can take place. The first allows the TREE to be read on the current drive when the TREE Command is invoked. When the drive is changed and the TREE is read again, a TREE read takes place again. Also, when a program is executed and TREE is re- entered, a TREE read will take place. If these conditions did not happen, renaming directories, erasing directories and adding directories will not cause a TREE read. This is because HELP! will update the TREE it has stored. 9.4.1 Auto Tree Read and Save 9.4.1 Auto Tree Read and Save The latest revision to the TREE Command now allows a second option. This option allows the TREE from one or more drives to be read upon entry to HELP!. This can be specified in the Options Command. What this does specifically is this, it will search the list of valid drives and then check to see if the TREE for that drive is to be read. If it is to be read, it will read the TREE from that drive and save the information in a disk file on your startup drive in the startup directory. The file will be HELP!.d (where d is the drive letter). If you are not using a hard disk for this, you should not use this option unless you like long delays. After all the TREEs specified have been read, the current drive's TREE, if it was specified, will be loaded into the TREE memory. This will allow immediate access to this TREE. An interesting possibility now becomes apparent. If these files of the drive's TREEs are saved, then a TREE read may not be necessary of that drive on HELP! startup. This is the second option that can be specified in the Options Command. After specifying which drive's TREEs you want to read on startup, you will be asked which drive's TREEs you want to save after ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 9 Advanced Features 77 Chapter 9 Advanced Features 77 quitting HELP!. In general, these should only be drives that are hard disks. When HELP! is started now, the file for that drive will be looked for, and if it is found, it will be read instead of the drive's TREE. If not, then the TREE itself will be read. One word of warning, these TREEs will not be accurate if you or some one else creates, renames, or erases directories from any other program or DOS. With these automatic TREE read commands, executing a program from a drive that is auto-read, will cause the program to save the TREE for later retrieval upon return of the program to HELP!. 9.4.2 Changing Directories 9.4.2 Changing Directories The root directory is represented by the ``\''. This is the first directory on any disk or diskette. The disk is arranged in a hierarchical arrangement such that all other directories are subdirectories of this directory. The root directory will appear on all disks. This directory is the top most line and the left most column. If any other directories appear on the disk, they will be listed to right of this entry. When the TREE display is first displayed, the TREE cursor will be positioned on the root directory. Any other directories on the disk will be subdirectories of the root. These can also contain their own subdirectories. In theory it is possible to have 33 levels of subdirectories. In practice this will never happen because it would require each subdirectory to have a name of one letter. HELP! will support directories nested to this level however. As will see, the TREE Command is like having a road map of the directories on your disk. Not only can it give this capability but it also can be used to change to that directory. After the TREE display appears you can access any directory on your disk by use the arrow keys. Once the cursor highlight is on the directory you want, press <Enter> and that directory will be displayed in the file window. 9.4.3 The Arrow Keys 9.4.3 The Arrow Keys The Up Arrow and Down Arrow Keys will move the cursor up or down on the same level of the TREE. The right and left arrows will move the cursor through the entire TREE. They will proceed to the right or left or if there is no entry there will go to the next entry above or below. 9.4.4 <PageUp> and <PageDn> 9.4.4 <PageUp> and <PageDn> The <PageUp> and <PageDn> keys will move the TREE up or down one page of directories. Actually, they will move one less than a page so you can see the last entry of the previous page. 9.4.5 <Home> and <End> 9.4.5 <Home> and <End> The <Home> key will bring you to the top of the TREE. The top of the TREE will always be the root directory. The <End> key will adjust the window so ___________________________________________________________________________ 78 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 78 the last directories of the TREE are displayed. If there is less than a screen of information, this key will have no effect. 9.4.6 Selecting the Current Directory 9.4.6 Selecting the Current Directory The current directory is defined as the directory you are currently in when you enter the TREE Command. The root directory has the cursor by default when you enter the TREE Command. Pressing ``C'' will put the cursor on the current directory. 9.4.7 Re-Reading the TREE 9.4.7 Re-Reading the TREE Pressing ``R'' will cause the TREE to be read again. This can be useful if you have modified the directory structure from another program and you are using the TREE read and save options described above. 9.4.8 Renaming Directories with the TREE Command 9.4.8 Renaming Directories with the TREE Command The TREE Command can be used as a way to rapidly change the names of directories. Selecting ``N'' will bring up an edit field. This will allow the renaming of the currently selected directory in the TREE display. NOTE: THIS WILL ONLY WORK IN VERSION 3.0 OR GREATER OF DOS. 9.4.9 Selecting the Highlight Attribute 9.4.9 Selecting the Highlight Attribute The TREE Command has a secondary attribute or color that can take on various meanings. The default meaning of this attribute is to indicate that this directory contained a match from the last Locate Command. By pressing ``H'', from the main TREE screen, you can see the Attribute Change Menu. You can select the attribute to indicate one or more of the options on this screen. 9.4.9.1 Archive Bit 9.4.9.1 Archive Bit This bit indicates that the contents of the directory have not been backed up. If you want to flag directories in the TREE command when this attribute is set, type ``A''. A ``yes'' should then appear under (A)rchive. 9.4.9.2 Hidden Directory Bit 9.4.9.2 Hidden Directory Bit This bit is set when the directory is flagged as hidden. Hidden directories do not show up with a standard DOS directory command. If you want the highlight to flag directories marked as hidden, type ``H''. A ''Yes'' should then appear under (H)idden. 9.4.9.3 Read Only Directory 9.4.9.3 Read Only Directory This bit indicates that no changes can be made to a directory. If you want to highlight directories with attribute set, type ``R''. A ``Yes'' should then appear under (R)ead-only. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 9 Advanced Features 79 Chapter 9 Advanced Features 79 9.4.9.4 System Directory 9.4.9.4 System Directory This is a special attribute that indicates that this directory is reserved for system files. If you want to flag directories with this attribute set, type ``S''. A ``Yes'' should then appear under ``(S)ystem''. 9.4.9.5 Located Files 9.4.9.5 Located Files This will turn highlighting on for directories in which matches where found during the last Locate Command. This is the default action. Pressing ``L'' will turn on or off this type of highlighting. 9.4.9.6 None 9.4.9.6 None This will turn off all special flags and the TREE will appear with all the same attributes. This is used by typing ``N''. 9.4.9.7 Saving the Highlight Conditions 9.4.9.7 Saving the Highlight Conditions If you want to save the conditions under which highlighting occurs to anything other than the default condition, go to the Options Command and Save Configuration (see section 9.2.13). Under most circumstances, the changes you make to this screen will just be temporary. Always make sure that the condition you want as default is restored before you Save Configuration. __________________________ __________________________ 9.5 Attributes Command 9.5 Attributes Command The Attributes Command gives you the flexibility to modify the attributes of a file. Every file has certain attributes associated with it. These attributes include whether it is hidden, system or read only and whether the archive bit is set. Although they are not considered attributes in the technical sense, the Time and Date stamp of the file is also an attribute of that file. The Attribute Command is available in both the Main Menu or the Utilities Sub-menu. Type ``A'' to access the Attribute Command screen. The main screen of the Attribute Command contains the various attributes that can be modified on the first line of the menu area except for time which is on the second line. The Second line starts with the file name the menu cursor is on. This is the file for which you will change attributes. The remainder of the line except for the (T)ime toggle contains the status of various attributes on this file. Once again there is an exception in that the date is displayed on line 1. If this is not the file you want to modify or you just would like to see the attributes of various files, all ___________________________________________________________________________ 80 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 80 of the standard file selection keys are available for your use. 9.5.1 Archive Bit 9.5.1 Archive Bit Each file has a status word associated with it called the attribute byte. There are various bits of this byte assigned to different functions. The first of these attribute bits is the archive bit. The archive bit is set when a file is modified or created. The purpose of this bit is to be a flag that a program can check to see if the file has been modified. The only DOS program that uses this now is backup and then only if you tell it to. By using an option switch in the backup command, backup will only backup files modified since the last backup. Once backup copies a file, it resets the archive bit so it knows you backed up the file. By typing ``A'' you can change the state of the archive bit. This can be useful if you want to backup a file selectively using backup. 9.5.2 Hidden Bit 9.5.2 Hidden Bit The hidden bit is a bit that tells DOS whether the file should be hidden from certain operations. Among these operations is directory listing. Typing ``H'' will toggle the state of the hidden file bit. HELP!, of course, displays hidden files but in a different color. One of the interesting things you can do with this bit is to turn it on for a directory entry. This will have the effect of hiding it from DOS directory listings but it will still allow you to switch to that directory. 9.5.3 Read Only Bit 9.5.3 Read Only Bit The read only bit determines if you can read and write to a file or just read it. If the bit is on, you will only be able to read the file. This can be used to provide some protection for a file you don't want to destroy. 9.5.4 System Bit 9.5.4 System Bit The system bit is set on the DOS system files. This bit normally would not be used by you. HELP! provided it to give you complete control of the attribute bits. 9.5.5 Time and Date 9.5.5 Time and Date Every DOS file has a Time and Date associated with it. This time and date is retrieved from the time of day clock built into your computer. Assuming your internal clock was set correctly, the file's time and date will reflect the last time it was written. The time stamp can be modified with HELP! through the attribute command. This is accomplished by typing ``T''. The old time is displayed below a blank field in which you can enter the new time for the file. When the field is filled, type <Enter>. The date stamp can also be modified with the attribute command. To do this type ``D''. The old date will appear below a blank field in which you should enter the new date. Once the date is entered type <Enter>. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 9 Advanced Features 81 Chapter 9 Advanced Features 81 __________________________ __________________________ 9.6 Equipment List 9.6 Equipment List The Equipment List will display a list of all of the equipment HELP! can detect, in a pop-up window. This equipment includes the number of floppy disk drives, mouse, Serial Ports and parallel ports. Also displayed are the CPU type (i.e., 8088, 80186, 80286, 80386), the Coprocessor type, if present, the primary and secondary display adapters and their attached monitors. Any extended or expanded memory amounts are displayed at the bottom of the window. __________________________ __________________________ 9.7 Format Command 9.7 Format Command The Format Command is not really a part of HELP!. In order to use this, you need to take the DOS format command and put it in a directory pointed to by the PATH Variable in DOS. What HELP! does with the format command is prompt you for various options and then create the command line equivalent of this command and pass it to DOS. This, of course, is done transparent to you so you do not have to know the syntax of the format command. The Format Command is used by first getting into the Utilities Menu, if you are in the Main Menu, by typing ``U'' and then typing ``F'' in the Utilities Menu. The first screen will ask which disk you want to format. At this point you can enter the letter of the disk drive which contains the disk you want to format, or <ESC> if you changed your mind and want to exit. HELP! will display all valid disk drive letters it detects. After typing the letter of the drive you want to format, the screen prompts if you want the operating system on your disk or diskette. If your disk needs to be bootable, type ``Y''. If your disk is just for data, type ``N''. After answering the above question, the screen prompts if you want to put a volume label on the disk. A volume label is simply a label or reminder to you about what is on the disk. You, of course, do not need to use it for this. I use my volume label generally to put my name on my diskettes so I know they are mine. If you want a volume label, type ``Y''; otherwise, type, ``N''. At this point HELP! will check the drive you specified to see if it is a hard disk. If it is, a message will pop up giving you another chance to exit before wiping out your entire hard disk. At this point HELP! will exit to DOS and look for the FORMAT.COM program in a directory specified by the PATH Variable. If it cannot find it, ``File ___________________________________________________________________________ 82 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 82 not found'' will appear on the screen. If it is found and you changed your mind about formatting, type <Ctrl> <Scroll Lock> (<Ctrl><Break>). The above menus can all be exited with <ESC>. The more exotic options of FORMAT, such as single sided disks, are not supported under HELP!. __________________________ __________________________ 9.8 Date Command 9.8 Date Command The Date Command sets the internal clock of the computer. This command can also set a battery backed-up clock if it is AT BIOS compatible. The internal clock is the clock used to date files when they are created or modified. The battery backed-up clock is read only on power up generally. If the battery backed-up clock cannot be set, then the time will only be accurate while power is applied to the computer. The command is invoked from the Main Menu by typing ``U'' to get to the Utilities Sub-Menu and then typing ``D'' to get to the Date Command. The formatted field that presents itself must be entirely filled in. It can be edited by using the backspace key. After the date is filled in, the date typed is displayed and the prompt ``(Y)es (N)o (E)xit''? Typing ``Y'' will attempt to set the date. If an invalid date is tried, an error message will be displayed. Setting an expert level of 2 or greater will eliminate this prompt. If an ``N'' is typed, then the formatted field will appear again and you can try again. If an ``E'' or <ESC> is typed, then the Utilities Sub-Menu will appear. After the date is set in the internal clock, a prompt will appear asking if you want to set the battery backed-up clock. This will only work if you have the nonvolatile clock and it is BIOS compatible with the AT in the way it is set. __________________________ __________________________ 9.9 Time Command 9.9 Time Command The Time Command sets the internal clock of the computer. This command can also set a battery backed-up clock if it is AT BIOS compatible. The internal clock is the clock used to time stamp files when they are created or modified. The battery backed-up clock is read only on power up generally. If the battery backed-up clock cannot be set, then the time will only be accurate while power is applied to the computer. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 9 Advanced Features 83 Chapter 9 Advanced Features 83 The command is invoked from the Main Menu by typing ``U'' to get to the Utilities Sub-Menu and then typing ``D'' to get to the Time Command. The formatted field that presents itself must be entirely filled in. It can be edited by using the backspace key. After the time is filled in, the time typed is displayed and the prompt ``(Y)es (N)o (E)xit''? Typing ``Y'' will attempt to set the time. If an invalid time is tried, an error message will be displayed. Setting an expert level of 2 or greater will eliminate this prompt. If an ``N'' is typed, then the formatted field will appear again and you can try again. If an ``E'' or <ESC> is typed, then the Utilities Sub-Menu will appear. After the time is set in the internal clock, a prompt will appear asking if you want to set the battery backed-up clock. This will only work if you have the nonvolatile clock and it is BIOS compatible with the AT in the way it is set. __________________________ __________________________ 9.10 Switches Command 9.10 Switches Command The Switches Command allows the setting of the two DOS switches, Verify and Break. With the Verify Switch on, DOS will always do a read after write to the disk. This verifies the data is written correctly to the disk. The side effect of this good feature is that disk accesses will be slower. The Break Switch determines when DOS checks for <CTRL> <BREAK>. When ``on'', DOS checks every time a call is made to the operating system (DOS). When ``off'', it only checks during standard input, output, print and auxiliary. The Break ``on'' condition will also slow down DOS operations a little. Having Break ``on'' during disk intensive operations is a good idea so you can break back to the operating system if something goes wrong. The Switches Command is in the Utilities Sub-Menu. From the Main Menu it is accessed by typing ``U'' to get into the Utilities Sub-Menu, followed by ``S'' to get into the Switches Menu. At this point you can type a ``B'' to toggle the state of Break or a ``V'' to toggle the state of Verify. When you have the switches in the desired setting, press ``Q'' or <ESC> to return to the Utilities Menu. 9.10.1 Saving Switches 9.10.1 Saving Switches The current settings of the switches can be saved so every time HELP! is called up they are set. This is done by using the Options command in the Main Menu. Once in the Options Command, type ``S'' for save- configuration. Note this option saves other things as well and you should read about the Options Command (section 9.2.13) before using it. ___________________________________________________________________________ 84 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 84 __________________________ __________________________ 9.11 Volume Label Command 9.11 Volume Label Command The Volume Label Command allows the adding, changing or deleting of a Volume Label. A Volume Label is, very simply put, a description or label for a disk. It has no other function but to label the disk. For example, I always put a volume label of ``Bruce's'' on my diskettes. The Volume Label Command is in the Utilities Sub-Menu. From the Main Menu type ``U'' to get into the Utilities Sub-Menu and then type ``V'' to get into the Volume Command. After getting into the Volume Label Command you are prompted to ``(A)dd (C)hange or (D)elete'' the old volume label. Pressing an ``A'' will add a volume label to a disk even if it was not formatted with one. If a volume label exists or you typed ``C'', you will be prompted once again asking if you want to change the current volume label. At this point an edit box will present itself and allow you to type in a maximum of 11 characters. You can type virtually any character, including spaces, in the label. After you are done typing the label, press <Enter>. You will then be presented with the entry you typed and a prompt asking if this is correct. Typing ``Y'' will make this the new label. Typing ``N'' will let you retype your entry. Typing ``E'' or <ESC> will allow you to exit without changing the label. Pressing ``D'' to the (A)dd (C)hange (D)elete prompt, figure 6.17, will delete an existing volume label. You next will be prompted if you want to delete it. Answering ``Y'' will delete it and ``N'' or <ESC> will allow you to back out gracefully. ___________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 9 Advanced Features 85 Chapter 9 Advanced Features 85 Appendix A Appendix A License Agreement License Agreement As a Registered user you are entitled to install this copy of HELP! on any machine you will be using so long as you or anyone else will not be using it at the same time on two machines. Non-Registered Users have the right to try a copy of HELP! to determine if they would like to register their copy. After a reasonable trial period, it is expected that the user will register their copy or cease using HELP! Under no circumstances shall a business use this software without registering that copy. Businesses can obtain a multiple copy license in which they are limited to a certain number of copies. Any user whether registered or not is entitled to give away a copy to any one interested in trying HELP! but please do not include the documentation or do not the HELP!.CFG file when you make the copy. By not including the HELP!.CFG not file you are distributing a copy of HELP! with all of the default options in force. A distribution copy must include the following files: HELP!.COM HELPRUN.EXE HELP!.HLP HED.EXE HED.HLP READTHIS.DOC MANUAL.DOC SysOps of bulletin boards and Distributors of Public Domain Software may distribute this program for a reasonable copy fee plus a reasonable compensation for your time and effort but may not distribute with the intent to profit from the sale as though you were the author. ___________________________________________________________________________ 86 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 86 Appendix B Appendix B Warranty Warranty THIS SOFTWARE AND MANUAL ARE SOLD "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES AS TO PERFORMANCE OR MERCHANTABILITY. 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Taylor Taylor Software Tools 1103 Mendoza Dr. St. Peters, Mo. 63376 ___________________________________________________________________________ 88 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 88 Index Index <ESC> 10 Block <F1> 10, 48 Begin 57 Copy 58 Delete 58 ____________________________ Different Windows 62 ____________________________ A End 57 A Archive Bit 79, 81 Hide 58 Arguments Move 58 Command Line Read 58 eXecute 26 Write 58 Run 27 Block Cursor 66 in Point 29 Block Menu 57 ASCII Break Switch 84 7 bit 20 BW80 6, 73 8 bit 20 AT BIOS 83 Attributes ____________________________ ____________________________ File C C Displayed 75 caps lock 10 Setting 80 Case Change 55 Screen 17 CGA 6, 66, 73, 74 Changing 74 close 63 TREE Highlight Co-Processor Type After Locate 80 Displayed 82 Archive Bit 79 Color Change 65, 74 Hidden Directory 79 Color Graphic Adapter See: ____ Off 80 CGA Read Only 79 COM 9, 26, 28 Saving 80 COMMAND.COM 9, 26, 27 Selection 79 command line 26, 27 System 80 Communications Ports 40 Attributes Command 80 Compare Command 23 Autoindent 49, 64 configuration 15, 40, 41, 45, 77, 84 saving 76 76 ____________________________ control characters 37, 42 ____________________________ B Copy Command 13 B Backup File 53 CPU type BAK 53 Displayed 82 BAT 9, 26, 28 Batch Files See: BAT ____ battery backed-up clock 83 ____________________________ ____________________________ baud rate 40 D D Black & White 73 Date 80, 81 Displayed 9 ___________________________________________________________________________ Index 89 Index 89 Setting 43 Line Mode 66, 75 Internal Clock 83 Special Modes 75 Non-Volatile 83 Enhanced Graphic Adapter Date Command 83 See: EGA ____ Date Stamp 81 Equipment List 82 Directory Erase Command 15 Changing 9 Error Window 11 11 in Editor 54 Escape Sequence 42 Marking 17 EXE 9, 26, 28 Priority 77 eXecute Command 26 Quick Accessing 78 Expanded Memory 82 Viewing Expert Level 16, 20, 25 in Editor 53 Setting of 75 Disk Drive See: Drive Extended Memory 82 ____ disk reset 15, 16 extended status window 75 Display Options in Editor 66 ____________________________ ____________________________ Pause F F Locate 17 file Display Adapter Attributes Displayed 75 CGA 6, 66, 74 Backup 81 MGA 7 Compare 23 Type of 82 Copy 13 DOS Erase 15 Command Line Extension 65 Arguments 27, 29 Locate 17 Exit to 52, 54 Move 18 Format Overwrite 14 On Disk 82 Rename 19 Mode Command 6, 73 Scan & Compare 22 switch Search for string 23 break 84 Viewing 20 verify 84 file menu 52 Version of 9 File OK 24 Drive File Window Active 15 Changing Type 74 15 Read Again 16 Described 8 Specified Verbose 74 Compare to 24 Wide 74, 75 Copy to 14 Files Format 82 hidden 9 Move to 18 System 9 Drive Command 15 Files Command 16 Find See: Searching ____ Fixed Disk See: Hard Disk ____ ____________________________ Fixed Tabs 49, 64 ____________________________ E Floppy Disk See: Drive E ____ EBCDIC 39 form feed 37, 46 Edit Menu 55 FORMAT.COM 82 Edit Window 49 Format Command 82 EGA 25 Line Mode 75 ___________________________________________________________________________ 90 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 90 ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ G K G K Get Info 54 Key Help in Editor 67 Goto Key Status Window Block On/Off 75 End 60 Start 60 Bottom of File 60 ____________________________ ____________________________ Column Number 59 L L Line Number 59 left hand 31 Marker 60 Locate Command 17, 80 Top of File 59 Goto Menu 59 ____________________________ ____________________________ M M ____________________________ Macro ____________________________ H Basics 56 H Hard Disk See Also: Drive Command Files 48 ___ _____ Check 82 Edit 56 HED.EXE 48 Loading 56 HED.HLP 47 Playback 56 Help Record 56 Context Sensitive 12 Indicator 49 12 Editor 48 Saving 56 file 6 MakeDirectory Command 24 Getting 12 Marking 12 Editor 48 Directory 17 HELP! MDA 7 Help Screens 12 menu bar 51 12 Memory Usage 9, 26 Mode Command 6, 73 Menus 10 Monitor Setup 5, 47 Black & White 6 5 HELP!.CFG 6, 73, 76 Color 7 HELP!.COM 6 Type of 82 HELP!.HLP 6, 12 monochrome adapter 73 HELP!.PRG 29 Monochrome Display Adapter help index 52, 54 See: MDA ____ HELPRUN.EXE 6 Mouse Hex-ASCII 39 Change Directory 32 Hex-EBCDIC 39 Click 30 Hidden File 79, 81 Copy Multiple 32 Cursor 30 Detection 82 ____________________________ Double Click 30 ____________________________ I Erase Multiple 32 I Initialization String 37, File Window 35 41, 42, 46 Getting Help 34 insert 49, 50, 64 In Color Selection 35 internal clock 81, 83 In Main Menu 31 In Submenus 32 In TREE 33 ____________________________ In Utilities Menu 31 ____________________________ J Move Multiple 32 J Jump See: Goto Path Window 33 ____ ___________________________________________________________________________ Index 91 Index 91 Status Window 35 Setup String 41, 46 41 Verbose Window 36 Printing Wide Window 36 Directories 44 Move Up One 9 Formatted 41 Multiple File Selection 71 Hex-ASCII 39 71 By Extension 72 Hex-EBCDIC 39 By Name 72 Loading Print Options 46 Clearing All 72 Multiple Files 45 Compare 23 Options 41 Copy 13 Page Layout 43 Erase 16 Printer Port Selection 41 Loading Selection 73 Saving Print Options 45 Move 18 Screen Pause 38 Printing 45 Text 37 Saving Selections 73 to File 38 Selecting All 72 Program Execution 26 prompt line 10 ____________________________ pull-down 52 ____________________________ N pull-down menu 51, 52 N Name Command 19 number lock 10 ____________________________ ____________________________ Q Q ____________________________ Quitting ____________________________ O Editor 54 O Open 53, 62 Operating System See: DOS ____ Options Menu 64, 73 ____________________________ ____________________________ overtype 50 R R overwrite Read Only File 79, 81 Always 14 Rename in Editor 49 Directories 79 Older File 14 File 19 Prompted 14 Replace See Also: Searching ___ _____ Command 61 Using Macro 62 ____________________________ Restore Line 55 ____________________________ P root directory 9, 78 P Page Command 46 Run Command 27 parallel ports 82 Running a Program 26 parity 40 PATH Variable 5, 6, 27, 29, 47, 82 ____________________________ ____________________________ Path Window 8 S S pathname 8 Save 53 Point Command 27 Save As 53, 54 Arguments 29 Saving Defaults Order of Search 28 Editor 65 Point Configuration Files 29 HELP! 76 pop-up menu 52 Scan & Compare 22 Print Command 37 scroll lock 10 Print Directory Command 44 Search Menu 60 Printer 41 ___________________________________________________________________________ 92 HELP! 4.32 Users Manual 92 Searching Undo Limit 66 Again 23, 62 Backwards 23, 61 Case Sensitive 23, 61 ____________________________ ____________________________ Entire File 23, 61 V V Whole Word Only 23 valid drives 15 Whole Words Only 23, 61 Verify Switch 84 Serial Ports 40, 82 vertical retrace 74 Set Marker... 55 VGA Smart Tabs 49, 64 25 Line Mode 75 snow 66, 74 43 Line Mode 75 Sort Command 76 50 Line Mode 66, 75 Status Indicators 10 Special Modes 75 Status Line 49 Video Graphics Array See: ____ Status Window 9 VGA stop bits 41 View Command 20 Strip High-Bit 66 Viewing Two or More Files 21 SubDirectories Volume Label Dicussion Of 78 Adding 85 Making 24 Changing 85 Switches Command 84 Deleting 85 System File 80, 81 Displayed 8 Formatting with 82 Volume Label Command 85 ____________________________ ____________________________ T T Tab 20 ____________________________ ____________________________ Conversion 39 W W Expansion 66 Wildcards Fixed 49, 64 in File Selection 53 Setting 41 in Locate 17 Size 65 in Multiple File Smart 49, 64 Selection 72 Writing 66 in point 28 Time 80, 81 Window Displayed 9 Close 63 Setting Goto 63 Internal Clock 83 Next 63 Non-Volatile 84 Open 62 Time Command 83 Previous 63 time of day clock 81 Resize 63 Time Stamp 81 Zoom 63 top of form 38, 46 Window Menu 62 TREE Command 77 Words Command 47 triangle 9 ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ Z ____________________________ Z U Zoom 49, 63, 67 U Undo 55 ___________________________________________________________________________ Index 93 Index 93