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- ADDaCOMMAND
-
- 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.
-