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When changing the help menu files, you must note that Terminate will use
some search strings that are in the default help files. You should not
remove those entries or put similar strings in other places in the help file.
You risk that a subject will then be located in the wrong place when showing
the help files. If you don't understand the rest of this document you should
not try to change the helpfiles.
You can insert an ascii #12 () anywhere to force a new page on the printer,
the #12 will be ignored when showing the help online.
Maximum help file size is 1000 lines of 255 characters.
Color codes
Default
^n Normal text colour Grey
^h Highlighted text colour Cyan
^b Bold text colour Yellow
^r Menu bar colour Blue on grey background
^m Menu colour Bright cyan
^t Menu head colour Yellow on blue background
^f Toggle flash/blink No flash, always after a color command
Terminate has a lot of keywords inside the TERMINAT.EXE file. These
words are used for placing the cursorbar in the helpfiles, so you will
get faster access to help for the current item. Generally do not change the
text inside headlines or highlighted text like: ^hConfiguration^n
Note that the search word will have a ^ appended so it won't stop in the
menu. Example:
Menu:
^m┌────────────────────┐
│ Configuration ^m│
│ Exit ^m│
└────────────────────┘^n
Information:
^hConfiguration^n
If the menubar is placed on configuration, then the actual search word will
be: CONFIGURATION^ in uppercase and with a ^ appended. This will result in
the menubar being placed at the information instead of at the menu.
That is why you should not place the ^ right after a menu option. In general
do not change color until right in front of where the colour change is needed.
Terminate will show which keyword you are missing when calling the
help menu. Then look at the keyword and change it back in the .HLP file.
MANUAL.EXE will do:
Compile all the .HLP files into a file called TERMINAT.TMP and create
the table of contents at the same time in TERMINAT.IDX, then the files
will be copied together into one big TERMINAT.DOC:
FRONTPGE.HLP (The Terminate logo and copyright)
TERMINAT.IDX (The table of contents with pagenumbers)
TERMINAT.TMP (The actual text, now including linefeeds and pagenumbers)
With your MANUAL files you must create a FILE_ID.DIZ which should look like
the one that comes with the english manuals MANUAL\FILE_ID.DIZ:
Do NEVER use more than 39 chars and 10 lines. Use the same header and frame
like the below example and never use any highbit characters #128-#255.
----======< TERMINATE x.xx >======-----
- The Final Terminal -
- Documentation in English -
- by Bo Bendtsen -
_______________________________________
- Bo Bendtsen -