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- DOS ASSISTANT - QUICK USE INSTRUCTIONS
-
- To load the DOS Assistant program into your computer's memory, place
- your help program diskette in drive A: and enter:
-
- A>ASSIST
-
- Now press the "Return" key and a copyright notice will be displayed
- on the screen. Pressing the "Alt" and "H" keys at the same time will
- display the help window. Press the "H" key to display a list of the
- help program's commands. Pressing "H" will scroll the help line
- forward and pressing "Back Space" will scroll it backwards.
-
- Use the "PgUp", "PgDn", "Home" and "End" keys to page through the
- help index. The cursor keys may be used to move the highlighted bar
- over the description of a DOS command which you would like more
- information about.
-
- Pressing the "Return" key will display detailed information about the
- highlighted DOS command. The paging keys may be used to page through
- the detailed help. Pressing the "Space" bar will return you to the
- help index.
-
- Pressing "-" will move the window to the bottom of the screen and "+"
- will move it back up. To view the current time and date press "T".
- Pressing "T" a second time will remove the time and date.
-
- To remove the window and return to DOS press the "Esc" key. To leave
- the current help window on the display while you return to DOS, press
- the "Ctrl" and "S" keys at the same time. You may then enter a DOS
- command while viewing the selected help information. When you press
- the "Return" key to execute the DOS command, the help window will
- disappear until the next time you press the "ALT" and "H"
- keys at the same time.
-
- PROGRAM OPTIONS
-
- DOS Assistant has several options which may be set by the user. The
- options may be set as follows.
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- A>ASSIST /F /Kxxxx /M /T /?
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- /F Use fast screen display method. (may cause snow)
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- /Kxxxx Set "help key" to key "xxxx". This allows you to select the
- keystroke which will activate the help window.
-
- /M Remove the program color.
-
- /T Allow the program to run without becoming resident.
-
- /? Display a list of these options.
-
- You can use the configuration program HELPCONF.COM to set any these
- options permanently to the program diskette.
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- For detailed instructions please print the user's guide, "GUIDE.DOC"
- included on the program diskette.
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-