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GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Distributed by OmniVerse P.O. Box 2974 Renton, WA 98056-0961 (206) 228-7627 24 Hour BBS: (206) 235-8760 Copyright (c) 1985, 1987 by Steve Schauer and Bob Foster All Rights Reserved License Agreement The GALAXY Word Processing Program is protected by United States Copyright Law and International Treaty provisions. All rights are reserved. Non-registered users of GALAXY are licensed only to use the program on a trial basis for the sole purpose of determining whether or not it meets their requirements. All other use requires registration. Any other use of non-registered copies of GALAXY by any person, business, corporation, government organization, or any other entity is strictly forbidden and is a violation of this license agreement. Registration permits a user a license to use GALAXY on a single computer. All users are granted a limited license to copy GALAXY Version 2.1 for the trial use of others, with the following additional conditions: GALAXY must be distributed in unmodified, complete form, including this Quick Reference Guide and License Agreement. GALAXY may not be distributed in conjunction with any other product, without written permission from OmniVerse. No fee, other than a bonafide disk duplicating fee not to exceed $6.00, may be charged for GALAXY. Warranty OMNIVERSE makes no warranty of any kind, express or implied, including without limitation, any warranties of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose. OMNIVERSE shall not be liable for any damages, whether direct, indirect, special or consequential arising from a failure of this program to operate in the manner desired by the user. OMNIVERSE shall not be liable for any damage to data or property which may be caused directly or indirectly by use of the program. IN NO EVENT WILL OMNIVERSE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS OR OTHER INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PARTY. The License Agreement and Warranty shall be construed, interpreted and governed by the laws of the state of Washington. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 4 Getting Started 5 Setting Up GALAXY 6 Starting GALAXY 7 Using the Pulldown Menus 8 Managing Files 9 Entering Text 12 Cursor Movement 13 Formatting Your Text 14 Entering Printer Codes 15 Using Block Commands 16 Windows 17 Appendix A: Wordstar Files 18 Appendix B: Printer Description Files 19 Appendix C: Headers and Footers 20 Appendix D: Command Reference 21 Appendix E: Quick Commands 35 Appendix F: Wordstar Commands 36 Appendix G: Registration 37 GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 4 INTRODUCTION GALAXY is a fast, RAM-based word processor that offers a wealth of features designed to make the program powerful yet extremely easy to learn and use. GALAXY offers users a choice of using menus or quick keyboard commands for all of the major program functions. With GALAXY you're never stuck with a cumbersome menu system for commands you already know, and you're never stuck with a confusing command based system for commands you use less often. GALAXY has a very short learning curve. GALAXY's logical, easy to use, easy to learn commands are the result of considerable research into how people really use word processors. If you have experience using any full-featured word processing program, you'll be up and running with GALAXY in no time. If you're brand new to computer word processing or to IBM compatible computers, you'll be pleasantly surprised at how quickly you'll be able to learn all the advanced features of GALAXY. We believe GALAXY is among the very best word processors at any price. Omniverse is also determined to be a leader in Customer Support. We offer free telephone support and a 24-hour Bulletin Board for online support at any time. We also listen to our users. Many suggestions from earlier versions of GALAXY have been incorporated into Version 2.1. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 5 GETTING STARTED GALAXY requires an IBM PC or close compatible with 192K, one disk drive, a color/graphics or monochrome card and monitor, and a printer. Before you start using GALAXY, you should be familiar with your computer. You need to know how to load DOS, how to make a copy of a diskette, and how to load and run a program. The GALAXY Program Disk Your GALAXY program disk includes the following files: GALAXY.COM The main program file. GALAXY.000 Program overlay files. GALAXY.CHN GALAXY.MSG Error message file. xxxxxx.PRD Printer description files. MAKEPRD.COM Utility to create PRD files. SETUP.COM Program to aid in installation. GALAXY.DOC This documentation file. You should make a backup copy of your GALAXY program disk, and store the original in a safe place. Never use your original GALAXY program disk as your working copy. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 6 SETTING UP GALAXY Floppy Disk System: 1. With your computer turned off, open the door to Drive A, and insert your DOS disk. 2. Close the door to Drive A and turn on your computer. 3. If DOS asks you for the date, enter the date in the following format: mm-dd-yy, or mm/dd/yy, and then press ENTER. 4. If DOS asks you for the time, enter the time in the following format: 8:30 or 20:30, and then press ENTER. 5. When A> appears on the screen, remove the DOS disk from Drive A and insert your working copy of the GALAXY Program Disk, and close the disk drive door. 6. Type SETUP and then press ENTER. Hard Disk System: 1. Turn on your computer with the floppy disk drive empty. 2. If DOS asks you for the date, enter the date in the following format: mm-dd-yy, or mm/dd/yy, and then press ENTER. 3. If DOS asks you for the time, enter the time in the following format: 8:30 or 20:30, and then press ENTER. 4. When C> appears on the screen, insert your working copy of the GALAXY program disk in Drive A and close the disk drive door. 5. Type A: and press ENTER. 6. Type SETUP and press ENTER. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 7 Starting GALAXY Floppy Disk System: 1. After starting your computer, type A: and press ENTER if you don't see the DOS prompt, A>. 2. Insert the copy of the GALAXY program disk you configured with SETUP in Drive A. Type GALAXY and then press ENTER. Hard Disk System: 1. After starting your computer, type cd and then type the name of the directory you copied your GALAXY files to with SETUP. For example, if the directory is called Text, you would type cd Text. Then press ENTER. 2. Type GALAXY and then press ENTER. On a Hard Disk System, you can use the DOS Path command to start GALAXY from any DOS prompt. For more information on the DOS Path command, consult your DOS manual. The GALAXY opening screen will appear after the program is loaded. A window will open at the bottom of the screen that asks you for the name of a file to edit. You can enter a filename here, or simply press the Enter or Esc key to continue. If you enter a filename to edit, GALAXY will load the file into the computer's memory, and the GALAXY editing screen will then be displayed. If the filename that you enter is not found on disk, the message "File is new. Continue? <Y/N>" will be displayed. If you enter Y, a file with the name you gave will be created. More information on loading and saving files can be found in the chapter entitled Managing Files. The top two lines of your screen are used to display status information. Two keys to remember are: F1: HELP F10: MENU The next chapter explains the use of the Pulldown Menus, activated by pressing the F10 key. The F1 key takes you directly to the Help Menu. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 8 THE PULLDOWN MENUS To Activate Menus: Press the F10 key. To Leave The Menu Bar: Press the ESC key. GALAXY offers a complete Pulldown Menu system for entering commands. These menus allow you to use the full power of GALAXY almost immediately, without having to memorize keyboard commands. To activate the menus, press F10. The Menu Bar will appear at the top of the screen, and the first heading, Block, will be highlighted. You can press the left or right arrow keys to move the highlight to any of the other menu headings. Pressing ENTER will "pull down" the menu of commands underneath the highlighted heading. A list of GALAXY commands associated with that menu heading will be shown. Once the Menu Bar is activated, the menus can also be pulled down by pressing the capitalized letter of any menu heading, whether or not that heading is highlighted. This method automatically pulls down the menu without pressing the ENTER key. The commands in a Pulldown Menu can be executed in the same way, either by highlighting your choice using the up or down arrow key or by typing the capitalized letter in each selection. Once any menu is pulled down, the right or left arrow keys will display the pulled down menu to the right or left of the current menu. Pressing the Esc key causes the Pulldown Menu to disappear. The next press of the Esc key will cause you to exit from the Menu Bar and return to the text window. When you become more familiar with GALAXY you may find it easier to enter commands directly from the keyboard. Most of the menu commands have a corresponding quick command listed next to them. The quick commands are not active while you are in the menu system, but they will help you learn how to bypass the menu system and issue commands directly from the text window. The quick keys that perform commands you use often will be easy to learn, allowing you extremely fast editing. For example, Alt-R for Right margin Alt-C to Center text F2 to Save a file But GALAXY doesn't force you to memorize every command. Press the F1 key for help with the quick commands you use less often, or press the F10 key to use the Pulldown Menus. Detailed information on each of the Menu Commands is contained in the Command Reference section of this manual. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 9 MANAGING FILES The Logged Drive or Directory Unless you specify a different drive or directory, GALAXY will always attempt to load and save files from the drive or directory you specified in the Setup program. You can change the logged drive or directory by using the "set Logged dir" command from the File Menu. To change the logged drive or directory: Press F10 to activate the Pulldown Menus. Press F, or use the right arrow key to move to the File Menu. If you use the arrow key, when File is highlighted, press Enter. Press L, or use the down arrow key to move to the "set Logged dir" command. If you use the arrow key, when "set Logged dir" is highlighted, press Enter. Type in the drive or directory to be used for saving and loading GALAXY documents. If you want this drive or directory to be used in future sessions, rerun the SETUP program. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 10 Loading Files GALAXY can retrieve a file from any disk or subdirectory of your disk. When you first start GALAXY, or when you choose Open from the File Menu, or use the F3 command, a window appears near the bottom of the screen asking you for the name of the file you wish to edit. For example, to open the file "Anyfile.Doc" which is on the logged drive or directory, just type the complete file name like this: Anyfile.Doc Enter If the file is located on another drive or directory, you can include that information, too: C:\Files\Anyfile.Doc Enter If GALAXY can't find a file with the name you give, the message "File is new. Continue? (Y/N)" will appear. Pressing Y will create a new file with the name you gave and take you to the text window to begin editing. Pressing N will also take you to the text window, but no file name will be specified until you use the "Save" command. You can automatically open a file to edit when you first start GALAXY, like this: GALAXY Anyfile.Doc Enter If you include the file name to open when you first start GALAXY, GALAXY will look for that file on the drive or directory you specified with Setup, or use the drive or directory you include with the file name. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 11 Saving Files When you finish working with a document that you want to use again at a later time, you can save the file on your disk. You can use the "Save" command from the File Menu, or the F2 command, to store an exact copy of your document on your disk. If you are saving a new document and haven't entered the name of the file before, GALAXY will ask you for the name to give the file. You can also use the "save As" command from the File Menu to save your file with a new name. This option is useful if you have a template, or "boilerplate" document that you want to modify and save without altering the original file. When you choose the save As command you will be prompted to enter a new file name, and your original file will not be changed. With either the Save or save As command, a backup copy of your original file is created. This file will have the same name as your original file, but with the extension .BAK. For example, when you save the file Anyfile.Doc, a backup file called Anyfile.BAK will also be saved. THE DIRECTORY COMMAND You can see a list of the files on your disk by choosing the Directory command from the File Menu or by using the Quick Command, F4. Use the *.* mask to see all the files, or enter a new mask, like this: Mask Shows *.Doc All files with a .Doc extension B:*.* All files on the B: drive \Text\*.* All files in the Text subdirectory The set Logged dir command tells GALAXY where to look for files, unless you add a drive or directory in the mask. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 12 ENTERING TEXT A word processor lets you enter text much like you do with a typewriter, with several important differences. Word Wrap When the text you are typing reaches the right margin, GALAXY automatically "wraps" the next word down to the beginning of the next line. You don't need to press Enter at the end of a line unless you want to start a new paragraph. You can turn Word wrap on or off from the Preferences Menu. After a line is "wrapped", the cursor will be positioned on the next line at the left margin. If Autoindent is active, the cursor will be lined up with the line above it. Insert and Overtype Pressing the Ins key toggles GALAXY between Insert and Overtype modes. With Insert on, whatever you type is inserted at the point where the cursor is, pushing other text to the left or the right. In overtype mode, as the name implies, new text you type in replaces existing text. GALAXY shows you which mode you are in by the size of the cursor block. A large cursor signifies Insert mode, a small cursor, Overtype mode. Automatic and Fixed Tabs Unlike a conventional word processor or typewriter, GALAXY doesn't make you physically set tab stops every time you want to change them. If you specify a tab size of 0 from Setup or the Preferences menu, tab stops will be calculated automatically. When you press the Tab key, GALAXY is smart enough to automatically line the cursor up underneath the first non-blank character in the line above. All you need to do to set up automatic tab stops is type in the first line of your text. On the next line, every time you press the Tab key, the cursor will line up with the next non-blank character in the line above it. For normal fixed tab stops, just specify a tab size in the Setup program or from the Preferences menu. The ruler line at the top of each window will show you your selected tab stops. Automatic Indent In a manner similar to automatic tabs, if Auto indent is active, when you press the ENTER key, or when a line "wraps", GALAXY will automatically indent the new line to line up with the line above it. This feature can be toggled on or off from the Preferences Menu. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 13 Reformatting If you change margins, you can reformat a paragraph to the new settings by using the Reformat (Control-B) command. When you issue this command, the text will be realigned to fit within the current margins. The reformatting will start at the current line and continue until the end of the paragraph. GALAXY considers a paragraph to end with a blank line. CURSOR MOVEMENT You can quickly move around your document using some special keys: Arrow Keys The up and down arrow keys move the cursor up or down one line at a time. The left and right arrow keys move the cursor one space to the left or right. Holding down the Ctrl key and pressing the left or right arrow key moves the cursor one word to the left or the right. Home Key Moves the cursor to the beginning of the line. END Key Moves the cursor to the end of the line. PgUp Key Moves the cursor one screen up. PgDn Key Moves the cursor one screen down. Ctrl+PgUp Key Moves the cursor to the very beginning of the document. Ctrl+PgUp Key Moves the cursor to the very end of the document. Ctrl+Home Key Moves the cursor to the top left hand corner of the screen. Ctrl+End Key Moves the cursor to the bottom left hand corner of the screen. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 14 FORMATTING YOUR TEXT With GALAXY, you can use a variety of tools to format your text before you print it. You can set top, bottom, left and right margins, page length, and font size. You can also enter codes to tell your printer to apply special effects including bold, underline, or italics. Setting Margins From the Preferences Menu, you can tell GALAXY your preferred settings for top, bottom, and left and right margins. Left and Right Margins To set the left and right margins, press Alt-L or Alt-R, or choose Left margin or Right margin from the Preferences Menu. You will be prompted to enter a column number for each margin setting. With a standard 10 character per inch font size, you can print a maximum of of 85 characters on each line of an 8.5 by 11 inch paper. Another way of stating this is that there are a maximum of 85 columns on each line. But this would leave no margins on either side. If you wanted to leave a margin of one inch on each side of your page, you would enter 11 for the left margin, and 75 for the right margin. Top and Bottom Margins To set the top and bottom margins, choose Top margin or Bottom margin from the Preferences Menu. You will be prompted to tell GALAXY the number of lines for each margin setting. GALAXY measures top and bottom margins in lines. Most printers will print 6 lines per inch, so a standard 8.5 by 11 inch paper will have a maximum of 66 lines. If you wanted to leave a margin of one inch on the top and bottom of each page, you would enter 6 lines for the top margin and 6 lines for the bottom margin. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 15 ENTERING PRINTER CODES You can tell GALAXY to apply a special printing attribute, such as bold, italic, or underline, to any part or all of your text. You tell GALAXY where to apply the special attributes by placing a print code at the beginning and end of the text you wish to mark. GALAXY supports the following print codes: Alt-B Bold Print Alt-D Double strike Print Alt-I Italics Print Alt-U Underline Print Alt-T Superscript Print Alt-V Subscript Print Alt-F1 User Installed Patch Alt-F2 User Installed Patch To use any of these print attributes, enter the code at the point where you wish the attribute to start, and again where you want it to stop. As an example, to highlight the word computer with bold print in the following example of text, press Alt-B before and after the word. A highlighted B will be inserted into the text to show you where bold print will begin and end: The BcomputerB has revolutionized the workplace. If you wanted to highlight the word revolutionized in italic print, you would follow the same procedure, but you would press Alt-I before and after the word: The computer has IrevolutionizedI the workplace. You can use the Makeprd program to customize any of the printer codes for your printer. You can also change printer drivers at any time by choosing "sEt printer" from the Preferences menu. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 16 USING BLOCK COMMANDS Marking a Block GALAXY lets you define a section of your text as a block. Once defined, the marked block of text can be copied, moved, deleted, or written out as a disk file. Blocks of text are displayed in yellow on a color monitor, or as high intensity video on a monochrome monitor. The easiest way to mark a block is with the F7 and F8 keys. Position the cursor at the beginning of the text you wish to mark, and press the F7 key. Now move the cursor to the end of the text you wish to mark. You can use arrow keys, PgUp, PgDn, or even Ctrl+PgUp or Ctrl+PgDn to move to the end of your block. Position the cursor just past the point you want to mark and press the F8 key. GALAXY will highlight all the text from the point where you pressed the F7 key, to just to the left or above where your cursor is when you press the F8 key. You can also use the Wordstar (tm) Ctrl-KB and Ctrl-KK commands to mark the beginning and end of a block. Move the cursor to the beginning of the block you wish to mark and press and hold down the Ctrl key while you press the B key. Next, move the cursor to the end of the text you wish to mark, and press and hold down the Ctrl key while you press the K key. Or you can select "Begin" and "End" from the Block Menu. The Block Copy command will make a copy of the marked block, and insert it at the current cursor position. Block Move is similar, but the marked block "moves"; it disappears from its original position, and is inserted at the current cursor position. The Block "Read" command will insert an entire disk file into your document at the point where the cursor is. Block Write will make a new file of just the marked block of text. You will be prompted for a file name to use for the saved block. Block commands also work with GALAXY Windows, so you can cut and paste between two documents easily. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 17 WINDOWS Text Windows GALAXY allows you to open a second text window onscreen to work on two documents at the same time. To open a Window, select "Open" or "Switch" from the Window Menu. A prompt will appear to ask you "How many lines?" to give to the new window. When you have one text window on screen, there are 23 text lines displayed. A second window will take lines from this window, insert a ruler bar, and ask you if you wish to open another file. Enter a number between 1 and 21 for the number of lines for your new window. The new window will appear below the current window. Your original document in the first window is still available for editing. To switch windows press Alt-W. The cursor will jump back to the top window, and the file name in the Status Line will change back to the original file name. You can also use the PullDown Menu to switch windows. You can choose "Zoom" from the Window menu, or press Alt-Z, to zoom either window up to full screen. With Zoom, you can have a small (as small as one text line) window with text you occasionally need to refer to, which you can expand to full screen whenever you need to. When either window is zoomed to full screen, you switch back and forth between windows with Alt-W or "Switch" just as you do with two onscreen windows. To "unzoom" a window, just press Alt-Z again, or choose Zoom again from the Window menu. You can mark a block of text in one window, use Alt-W to switch windows, and then copy or move the block to the other window. DOS Windows To open a window to DOS, highlight "DOS" or press D from the Window Menu, or use the quick command Alt-S (for System). The screen will clear and you will be given a DOS prompt. To return to GALAXY, just type "Exit". GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 18 APPENDIX A Wordstar Files GALAXY can handle Wordstar files with almost no exceptions. The major difference is that GALAXY ignores the Wordstar "dot" commands. They will be displayed onscreen unchanged, but will be ignored during printing. Wordstar sets the high bit in many characters, including justified spaces, the last character of every word, and the end of lines and paragraphs. Since GALAXY can display any ASCII character onscreen a Wordstar file will appear garbled. This can be adjusted with the Alt-G, or Graphics toggle. The Graphics toggle simply strips the high bit from the displayed characters. The actual character is not changed, and will be saved to disk in its original state. The GALAXY "Print" command will likewise strip the high bit of any character during printing, so that Wordstar files may be printed without any translation if the Graphics toggle is OFF. To display the IBM extended character set, such as the lines used for drawing boxes, and the foreign characters, simply toggle the Graphics ON. Your preferred setting can be saved in the pulldown Preferences menu. To save a file in Wordstar format, with "soft" carriage returns, set the "Format WS" choice to ON from the Preferences Menu. If this toggle is OFF, all files will be saved as straight ASCII files. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 19 APPENDIX B Printer Description Files GALAXY is supplied with Printer Description (PRD) files, which are used to send the proper codes to the printer to enable Italic, Bold, Underline, etc. To change the default PRD file, choose the "seT printer" command in the Preferences Menu. If the GALAXY Program Disk does not contain a PRD file for your printer, you can use MAKEPRD.COM, to easily create custom PRD files to address any function of any printer. Or, if you prefer, Omniverse will create custom PRD files for registered users at no charge if supplied with the printer control codes. Printer codes are entered just as in LOTUS 123, e.g.; 027\083. The string of control codes that your printer needs to start or stop a certain print attribute are entered as decimal numbers, separated with backslashes. Up to 16 different printer control code strings can be stored in a GALAXY PRD file. Fonts, attributes, margins, tabs, even complex laser printer codes can be used to format your document with ease. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 20 APPENDIX C Headers and Footers A header or footer is text that appears at the top or bottom of every page of a printout. Headers are lines marked by placing the cursor in column one of the line and pressing ALT-H. The highlighted H that appears must be in column one of the line or GALAXY will not recognize the line as a header. When the file is printed, GALAXY will ignore the line marked as a header until the next page. At that time up to three header lines will be substituted for three lines of the top margin. If your top margin is not large enough to accommodate the number of header lines you have marked, it will print as many as will fit. Whenever you define a new header line or lines, any previous group of header lines will be replaced by the new lines. You can insert the current page number in the header line by placing the # character in the text of any of the header lines. You can also use any other print attributes, such as bold or italics, in a header line. Footers work exactly the same as header lines but are printed in the bottom margin area. Like headers, lines formatted as footers, with the ALT-F character in column one, will be ignored when they are first encountered and then printed out on all subsequent bottom margins. You can have a maximum of three footer lines defined at any time. Whenever you define a new group of footer lines, any previous footer lines will be replaced by the new lines. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 21 APPENDIX D Command Reference In this section, detailed information about each of the GALAXY commands is presented. The Command Reference follows the same format as the Pulldown Menus. Each menu choice is explained, and the equivalent Quick Command or WordStar Command is listed as well. BLOCK MENU The first choice on the Menu Bar, Block, groups all the commands for block operations. Most WordStar Control-K block commands work exactly as they do in WordStar. Menu Choice Alternatives Begin F7 ^KB Used to mark the beginning of a block of text. For block operations, such as copying, deleting, etc. both the beginning and the end of the block must be defined. Menu Choice Alternatives End F8 ^KK Used to mark the end of a block of text. For block operations, such as copying, deleting, etc. both the beginning and the end of the block must be defined. Menu Choice Alternatives Copy ^KC After a block is defined, use this command to make a copy of the entire block. A copy of the entire block will be inserted at the point where the cursor is currently located. This command can be used to "cut and paste" blocks of text between windows. If the cursor is within the currently defined block when this command is issued, no action is taken. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 22 Menu Choice Alternatives Move ^KV Similar to Block Copy, but the block is deleted from its current position, and inserted at the point where the cursor is currently located. The Block Move command can be used to "cut and paste" blocks of text between windows. If the cursor is within the currently defined block when this command is issued, no action is taken. Menu Choice Alternatives Read ^KR This command will prompt you for a filename to Read into the current text window. The file specification can be any legal DOS filename, including drive designation and path. If just the name of the file is entered, GALAXY will look for the file in the Logged directory. The file will be inserted into the current text window at the cursor position. Menu Choice Alternatives Write ^KW This command will write the currently defined block to disk as a separate file. You will be prompted for a filename, which can include a drive designation or file path. If you specify a filename that already exists, you will be asked to confirm that you want to overwrite the old file. Menu Choice Alternatives Delete ^KY This command will delete the currently defined block, removing it from the text window. The GALAXY UNDO command, the ESC key, will restore a deleted block, line by line, at the point where the cursor is located when the UNDO command is issued. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 23 Menu Choice Alternatives Hide ^KH This command turns off the block highlighting. Menu Choice Alternatives Spell check ^KL GALAXY fully supports the Borland Turbo Lightning Spelling Checker. If you have loaded Turbo Lightning into your computer's memory before starting GALAXY, issuing the Spell check command will activate Turbo Lightning to check the spelling of your document. If a block is defined, the spelling check will be confined to the block. If no block is defined, the spelling check will begin at the current cursor position, and continue until the end of the document. You can cancel the spelling check at any time by pressing the ESC key. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 24 SEARCH MENU The choices listed in this menu are for searching your text for strings of characters that you specify. You can search for any character, including control characters. Menu Choice Alternatives Find F5 ^QF The Find command starts searching for the text you specify at the current cursor position. The search will proceed to the end of the text, unless you specify Backwards as an optional search parameter. Menu Choice Alternatives find/Replace F6 ^QA You will be asked to enter a string to search for, as with the Find command, and also a string to replace the found text with. You will be asked to enter Options to define the parameters of either the Find or the find/Replace command: G: Global search. Search the entire document, from beginning to end. B: Backwards search. Begin searching at the current cursor position, and proceed towards the beginning of the file. U: Ignore case. Find all matches of the text specified, whether or not the capital and lower case letters are the same. Without this option, the capitalization must match exactly. W: Whole Word. Will only find complete words (strings of text beginning and ending with a space or a punctuation mark). Without this option, searching for the would successfully match the, they, there, etc. N: No Confirm. With find/Replace, will not stop to ask for confirmation before making the replacement. Menu Choice Alternatives Next ^L Repeats the last Find or find/Replace command, using the same optional parameters. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 25 GOTO MENU These commands are used for quick movement around your document. Menu Choice Alternatives Top of file ^PgUp Places the cursor at the very top of the text window, at the first line of your file. Menu Choice Alternatives Bottom of file ^PgDn Places the cursor at the very bottom of the text window, at the last line of your file. Menu Choice Alternatives Begin block ^QB Moves the cursor to the beginning of a defined block. If no block is defined, no action is taken. Menu Choice Alternatives end blocK ^QK Moves the cursor to the end of a defined block. If no block is defined, no action is taken. Menu Choice Alternatives Line ^ON Prompts you to enter a line number, and moves the cursor to that line. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 26 Menu Choice Alternatives Go marker ^QM ^Q1..9 This command will move the cursor to a previously defined marker. You will be prompted to enter the marker number to go to. You can skip this step by using the ^Q, followed by a number, command. If a marker you specify is not defined, an error message will be displayed. Menu Choice Alternatives Set marker ^KM ^K1..9 This command will define a marker, which can be used later for quick movement to a specific place in your text file using the Go marker command. You will be prompted to enter the marker number you wish to define. You can skip this step by using the ^K, followed by a number, command. For example, to define marker number 1, without going through the menu, enter ^K1. Marker positions are effective only in the current editing session, and are not saved with the file. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 27 PREFERENCES MENU These commands are used to set your preferred environment. You can change the default settings at any time, or permanently save your preferences. Menu Choice Alternatives Insert Insert Key, ^V This menu choice toggles between Insert and Overtype mode. Menu Choice Alternatives Word Wrap ^OW This menu choice toggles Word Wrap on or off. With Word Wrap on, any attempts to type past the right margin setting will "wrap" down to the following line. With Word Wrap off, a new line will not start until you press Enter. Menu Choice Alternatives Auto indent ^QI This menu choice toggles Autoindent on or off. With Autoindent on, a new line will line up automatically with the text on the line above it, rather than at the left margin. Menu Choice Alternatives Graphics Alt-G ^QG This menu choice toggles Graphics on or off. With Graphics on, the IBM extended character set is displayable. If you are using Wordstar text files, you will need to have Graphics off. The Graphics toggle also strips the high bit of Wordstar files during printing. If you are not using Wordstar formatted files, you should probably leave Graphics on. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 28 Menu Choice Alternatives Colors None This menu choice toggles colors on or off. If you are using a monochrome display with the color graphics adaptor attached, you will need to set Colors off. Menu Choice Alternatives Justify Alt-J This menu choice toggles justification on or off. With Justify on, every time a line is wrapped or a paragraph is reformatted, the text will be padded with spaces to fit exactly within the current left and right margin settings. Menu Choice Alternatives Format WS None This menu choice toggles Wordstar file formatting on or off. A Wordstar file has the high bit set in every word wrapped line. If you are not converting files for use with Wordstar, you should probably have this option set to off. To convert an ASCII file to Wordstar format, you would need to reformat each paragraph in the file. The reformatting will set the wrapped flag in each paragraph line but the last, which will allow GALAXY to save the file in Wordstar format using the "soft" carriage returns for word wrapped lines. Menu Choice Alternatives Left Margin Alt-L, ^OL This menu choice prompts you for a column number to use as the default left margin setting. Menu Choice Alternatives Right Margin Alt-R, ^OR This menu choice prompts you for a column number to use as the default right margin setting. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 29 Menu Choice Alternatives Top Margin None This menu choice prompts you for the number of lines to use as the default top margin setting. When a file is printed, the number of lines you specify here will be inserted at the top of each page. Menu Choice Alternatives Bottom Margin None This menu choice prompts you for the number of lines to use as the default bottom margin setting. When a file is printed, the number of lines you specify here will be inserted at the bottom of each page. Menu Choice Alternatives Page Length None This menu choice prompts you for the number of lines to use as the default page length during printing. When a file is printed, the number of lines you specify here, minus the top and bottom margin lines, will be printed on each page. Menu Choice Alternatives Undo Limit ^OS This menu choice will prompt you for the number of deleted lines to save on the Undo stack. Every time you press Esc GALAXY will restore one line from the Undo stack back into your text. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 30 Menu Choice Alternatives sEt printer None This menu choice will prompt you for the name of the Printer Description File to use. Be sure to enter the complete name of the PRD file, including the drive and path. If no drive or path are specified, GALAXY will assume that the PRD file will be found in the current directory. Menu Choice Alternatives Save settings None This menu choice will save all of the current settings of the Preferences Menu. The next time you start GALAXY, these same settings will be in effect. Note that there are default settings that are saved with the Setup program that are not available from the Preferences Menu. Displaying a ruler line, defining a default data directory, and specifying the directory where program files are stored are defined only from the Setup program. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 31 WINDOW MENU These commands are used to open, close, switch, or zoom text windows. With GALAXY you can open a second window of 1 to 21 lines. You can use any GALAXY commands in either window, including copying or moving a block between windows, loading a second file, etc. Closing a window in GALAXY when there are two windows open returns the full screen to the other window. If only one window is open, closing that window is the same as exiting the program. To open a window to DOS, highlight "DOS" or press D from the Window Menu, or use the quick command Alt-S (for System). The screen will clear and you will be given a DOS prompt. To return to GALAXY, just type "Exit". When you open a DOS window, do not load or unload any memory resident programs such as SideKick. Because of the way that DOS assigns memory to these type of programs, the memory being used by GALAXY will be corrupted. With this exception, you can use DOS to format a disk, run another program, even load another copy of GALAXY. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 32 FILE MENU These commands are used to manage files, including opening, closing, saving, copying, etc. Menu Choice Alternatives Open F3 Use this menu choice to read a disk file into a GALAXY window for editing. The file that you open will replace the file currently being edited. If you have made changes in the file you are editing, you will be prompted to save the current file before opening the new file. If you enter a file name to open without a drive or directory included in the name GALAXY will look for that file in the currently logged directory, if you have specified one, or in the default (current) directory. Menu Choice Alternatives Close None This menu choice will clear the current file being edited from memory, after prompting you to save any changes. You will then be prompted to open a new file. Menu Choice Alternatives Save F2, ^KD This menu choice will save the file currently being edited. If you have never specified a file name, you will be asked at this time to give the file a name. Menu Choice Alternatives save As None This menu choice will prompt you for a file name to use when saving the file you are currently editing. You can include a disk drive and directory with the file name and GALAXY will store the file in that location. After using save As, GALAXY will show the name you specified as the default file name on the top command line of the screen. The file with the original name that you were editing still exists on disk unchanged. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 33 Menu Choice Alternatives Directory F4 This menu choice will show you a list of files on disk. You can enter a mask using the same ? and * wildcard characters that DOS allows. GALAXY will also show you free disk space and memory free following the directory listing. The disk space shown is the free space in the logged drive. Menu Choice Alternatives set Logged dir None This menu choice allows you to designate a default drive or directory to be used when saving and retrieving files. You can change this menu option at any time, but it will not remain in effect in future editing sessions. To permanently define a default drive or directory to be used when saving and retrieving files, use SETUP. Even if you have specified a default drive or directory with this option, you can override it at any time simply by including the drive or directory in the file name when you are saving or opening a file. Menu Choice Alternatives repaGinate None This menu choice is used to place pagebreaks in your file. The repagination process will begin at the top of the file, and will prompt you for each page break. GALAXY will suggest each page break according to the current top and bottom margin settings and the page length setting. It will also prompt you for placement of a pagebreak at any existing pagebreaks. You may override the suggested location by using the up or down arrow keys, moving the cursor to your preferred page break location. The limits of your placement will be: you can move upward in the file as far as the previous page break; you can move downward as far as the current page margins will allow. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 34 Menu Choice Alternatives Print F9 This menu choice allows you to begin printing a disk file. All editing tasks can continue while the printing takes place in the background. Remember, GALAXY prints the version of the file you specify from the disk. If you want to print the file you are currently editing, remember to save it first. Menu Choice Alternatives copY None This menu choice works just like the DOS copy command, except that wildcard characters are not allowed. If you attempt to overwrite an existing file, you will be first asked to confirm that the existing file can be destroyed. Menu Choice Alternatives Rename None This menu choice works just like the DOS rename command, except that wildcard characters are not allowed. Menu Choice Alternatives Erase None This menu choice works just like the DOS delete command, except that wildcard characters are not allowed. The file you specify will be erased from disk permanently. You will be asked to confirm this action before it takes place. Menu Choice Alternatives Quit Alt-X This menu choice closes the current window, after prompting you to save any changes you may have made. If two editing windows are opened, the full screen is returned to the other window. If only one window is open, the program terminates. GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 35 APPENDIX C COMMAND REFERENCE QUICK COMMANDS FORMATTING: Alt-C......Center Line Alt-L......Left Margin Alt-J......Justify On/Off Alt-R......Right Margin Ctrl-B.....Reformat Paragraph PRINT CODES: Insert these codes before and after the text you wish to format: Alt-B......Bold Alt-I......Italics Alt-D......Doublestrike Alt-T......Superscript Alt-F......Footer Alt-U......Underline Alt-H......Header Alt-V......Subscript Alt-F1.....User Patch Ctrl-Enter.Page Break Alt-F2.....User Patch CURSOR MOVEMENT: Ctrl <--...Word Left Ctrl -->...Word Right Ctrl-PgUp..Top of File Ctrl-PgDn..Bottom of File Ctrl-Home..Top of Screen Ctrl-End...Bottom of Screen Tab........Automatic Tabs WINDOW SELECTON: Alt-W......Switch Windows Alt-Z......Zoom Windows Alt-S......Exit to DOS window Alt-X......Close Window, Exit Galaxy UNDELETE: ALT-F9.....Undelete Character Alt-F10....Unbackspace Character ESC........Undelete line FUNCTION KEYS: F1.........Help F2.........Save File F3.........Open File F4.........Directory F5.........Find F6.........Find and Replace F7.........Block Begin F8.........Block End F9.........Print a File F10........Pulldown Menus GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 36 WORDSTAR (tm) Commands ^A...Word Left ^B...Reformat Paragraph ^C...Page Down ^D...Character Right ^E...Up Line ^F...Word Right ^G...Delete Character ^H...Destructive Backspace ^I...Tab ^J...Insert Page Break ^K...Block Commands ^L...Repeat Last Find/Replace ^M...Insert Line ^O...Onscreen Commands ^P...Insert Ctrl Character ^Q...Quick Commands ^R...Page Up ^S...Character Left ^T...Delete Word Right ^V...Insert On/Off ^W...Go To Top of File ^X...Line Down ^Y...Delete Line ^Z...Go To Bottom of File ^QA..Find and Replace ^OG..Toggle Graphics ^QB..Go To Top of Block ^OH..Toggle Windows ^QF..Find ^OI..Go To Column ^QI..Toggle AutoIndent ^OK..Change Case ^QJ..Go To Marker (Or ^Q1..9) ^ON..Go To Line ^QK..Go To End of Block ^OO..Open Second Window ^QS..Go To Beginning of Line ^OW..Toggle Word Wrap ^QY..Delete Text To End of Line ^OY..Close Second Window ^KB..Mark Block Begin ^KQ..Abandon File ^KC..Copy Block ^KR..Read Block From Disk ^KD..Save File ^KS..Save File ^KH..Toggle Block Hide ^KV..Move Block ^KK..Mark Block End ^KW..Write Block To Disk ^KL..Spell Check ^KX..Exit GALAXY ^KM..Set Marker (Or ^K1..9) ^KY..Delete Block ( ^ = [Ctrl] ) GALAXY Version 2.1 Quick Reference Guide Page 37 APPENDIX E R E G I S T R A T I O N Registration licenses you to use GALAXY Version 2.1, and all future 2.x updates. 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