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USING NIFTY
Nifty should be installed in its own hard disk directory. To use the
program, you should log into that directory and type "NIFTY H" (for to load it
as a pop-up Help system) or "NIFTY M" (to invoke it as a Menu system).
If you've installed Nifty as a Menu system, your primary menu will appear.
You will remain in the Nifty Menu system until you press the abort key combina-
tion, ALT-X.
If, however, you've installed Nifty as a Help system, the program will
load into memory and then return to DOS. You may subsequently access it from
within nearly any other application by pressing its "hot key" (the default "hot
key" is ALT-N, but this can be changed if you like). Pressing the ESC key will
return you to the application from which you invoked Nifty, while pressing ALT-
X will completely unload the program from memory (if Nifty thinks it's safe to
do so).
When a Nifty Menu system or Help system menu is being displayed, you're
expected to select one of the options it offers. The options offered depend
upon how the person integrating the computer system designs the Nifty menus.
Nifty has some built-in options that may or may not appear on the menu
(depending upon whether the person designing the menu decides to display them).
Pressing ALT-R will afford you the opportunity to read any ASCII file on your
hard disk. The Home key will always return you from any subordinate menu to
the program's main menu (or take you to the top of a file, if you're in the
middle of reading one). And pressing ALT-D or ALT-S (only when Nifty is ins-
talled as a Menu system) will allow you to enter a DOS command or to schedule
execution of a program or batch file at a later time.
When reading any file, you may ask Nifty to find any word in that file.
Just press Ctrl-F (for "find") and type in the word you're looking for. To
find subsequent occurrences of the same word, press Ctrl-N (for "next"). You
may also skip directly to another help screen (without first returning to the
menu) by simply pressing its corresponding letter or number.