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       ADD YOUR OWN COMMANDS:^

One of the great things about HELP and
POP-HELP is that you are not limited to
the commands supplied on this disk.

What you are reading now is included in
the file named HELP.HLP.  It is a text
file that I have included to make it
easy to tailor HELP to your needs.

I suggest that you add to this list,
edit it, personalize it, or do whatever
it takes to make it useful for you.

You may modify or add to this file by
using EDLIN or the word processor of
your choice.

A few things that you may need to know:

  Ctrl-E creates yellow text on^ 
  a color monitor or Hi intensity^
  white on a monochrome monitor.^

  Ctrl-B creates green text on^
  a color monitor or Hi intensity^  
  white on a monochrome monitor.^

  Ctrl-N creates BLINKING TEXT.^
  Blinking text will be red on a color
  monitor or hi intensity white on a
  monochrome monitor.

  Shift-6 will return text to its
  normal color.


You will need to work  with a 40
character line.  Anything over 40
characters will be lost so be careful.

After you have added to or modified the
text file (or created an entirely new
text file using any name that you wish),
you will need to run HELPINDX to create
an index for your text file.  

HELP and POP-HELP expect to find a text
file named HELP.DAT.  Before you run
HELP or POP-HELP, you will need to
rename your text file to HELP.DAT.
 
HELP
COMMAND NAME:^  HELP

There are two HELP programs included on
this disk, HELP and POP-HELP.  HELP is
available from the DOS command line. 
POP-HELP is the memory resident or POP
UP version of HELP.  POP-HELP functions
identically to HELP with only a few
exceptions.

DESCRIPTION:^   Displays information
on various commands.

USE:^  HELP [COMMAND]

         or

      POP-HELP   

[COMMAND]^ is optional.  If HELP
is entered without a COMMAND, a list
of commands will be displayed and you
will be able to select one using the
cursor keys.  

If HELP is entered with a valid COMMAND
name, then the list of commands will not
be shown, but the HELP information for
the COMMAND entered will be displayed.

EXAMPLE:  HELP COPY^

will display information available for
the COPY command.

While you are in the list of commands
(first window), you may use the up and
down arrows^ to scroll one COMMAND NAME
at a time, the PgUp^ and PgDn^ keys
to scroll one screen at a time, and the
Home^ and End^ keys to scroll to the
first and last COMMAND NAMES.  Enter^
will select the COMMAND that is
highlighted and ESC^ape will exit the
program.

While you are in the HELP window (second
window), you may use the up and down
arrows^ to scroll one line at a time or
the PgUp^ and PgDn^ keys to scroll
one screen at a time and the Home^ and
End^ keys to scroll to the first and
last lines.  Pressing the ESC^ape key
will allow you to exit.  You may also
press CTRL-PgUp^ to display the
previous command and CTRL-PgDn^ to
display the next command.

Any time that the second window is
displayed you may display the COMMAND
WINDOW by pressing C.

The COMMAND WINDOW provides an easy way
to enter a command while the HELP
information is still on the screen. 
Just type in the command using the
instructions or examples.

Even when you are in the COMMAND WINDOW,
you may still scroll the text in the
HELP window (second window) by using the
arrow keys, PgUp, PgDn, Home, End, CTRL
PgUp, and CTRL PgDn.  

When using HELP, the command that you
enter using the COMMAND WINDOW will be
processed immediately.  

When you use the COMMAND WINDOW with
POP-HELP, the command that you entered
will be sent to the keyboard after you
exit POP-HELP.

