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- NOTEPAD DOCUMENTATION - by Steve Strommen, 12/31/83
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- ABSTRACT
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- NOTEPAD is designed to give you an easy way to create, modify,
- store and print short notes to yourself with a minimum of effort.
- This documentation should help you get started using NOTEPAD
- immediately.
-
- Notes can be used to provide online documentation for other files
- on a disk, or can be used just to jot down ideas or a things to
- do list. In any case, each note is up to 20 lines long, and a
- directory is kept of all notes on a disk and the date that they
- were last saved to disk. Editing a note is very easy because all
- four cursor keys and several control keys are defined.
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- OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS
-
- Each time NP is run, you are prompted for the current date. The
- month, day and year should each be enterred as numbers, and the
- year should be only the last two digits of the current year.
-
- After the date is entered, a menu is displayed on which the
- following selections appear:
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- F - Find a note. This is used to retrieve a note from the disk
- and display it on the screen for viewing, revision, or printing.
- You will be prompted for the name of the note, and your answer
- must correspond with a note name in the directory (see D below).
- If the name you enter does not exist in the directory, a message
- will say so.
-
- N - Start a new note. This is used to start editing a new note
- that does not yet appear in the directory. You will be prompted
- for a name. A default name is provided; it is the current date.
- After you provide the name, you get 20 blank lines on the screen
- in which to write your note.
-
- Z - Discard (zap) a note. This removes the note from the
- directory and from the diskette. You will be prompted for a
- name; if your answer is not in the directory, nothing will
- happen.
-
- D - Display notebook contents. This displays a list of names of
- notes and the date they were saved to disk. Pay attention to
- which letters in a notename are uppercase and lowercase. Help is
- different from HELP is different from help.
-
- R - Rename a note. This renames a note on the diskette and in
- the directory. You will be prompted for a note name.
-
- ***IMPORTANT***
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- To terminate the program, you must press ESC while the main menu
- is displayed.
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- Several control keys are defined while NOTEPAD is editing a note.
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- 1. Cursor keys:
- ctl-h: back one space
- ctl-j: down one line
- ctl-k: up one line
- ctl-l: forward one space
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- ctl-a: to far left
- ctl-e: to far right
- ctl-t: to top
- ctl-b: to bottom
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- 2. Insert and delete:
- DEL: delete previous character
- ctl-o: insert a blank line
- ctl-c: delete a line
- ctl-r: toggle insert mode on/off. Note that insert mode is
- not very fast and may drop characters. Also, there is no
- word wrap at the end of a line. Normal mode is to overwrite.
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- 3. Utility
- ctl-s: save note to disk with default file extension .TXT.
- ctl-p: print note to list device
- ESC: return to the main menu - NOTE NOT SAVED
- RETURN: Cursor to beginning of next line
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- A NOTE ABOUT FILES
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- Notes are always stored on and read from the default disk.
- NOTEPAD itself need not be on the default disk, but it uses a
- directory file called NOTE.DIR which is created on the default
- disk if it is not already there. It is recommended that notes
- not be named with a disk prefix like b: because this could cause
- confusion. in