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The RaLin Reader Tutor File
Welcome! Reading this file, with The RaLin Reader, will help you learn how to
use the Reader quickly. It is not meant to be a substitute for reading the
manual though.
The first thing I would like you to do, is press the function key F1, which
calls up the Help Screen, do it now..........
As you can see there is Help reference always available when using the RaLin
Reader. All the available Key Commands are listed on that screen.
Lets see what it is that is displayed while you are in the Reader.
Up above are the two Header lines. The top line displays the Program name and
version, and to the right of that is displayed the Top Line which is the
number of the line currently at the TOP of the view window, to the right of
that is displayed the total number of lines in the file being viewed. The
line number/count displays are usefull when using the JUMP command, discussed
a little later.
The second line shows the name of the file being viewed, and to the right of
that, the Print Mode: how your text will be sent to the printer when you
print, either COMPRESSED or NORMAL.
* * * Press the PgDn key Now * * *
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Now that you have tried PgDn, use your arrow keys to move back up, to the
previous page, then back to the dashed line above, to continue.
At the bottom of your screen is what we call the Status Line. It will
either show the main Key Commands, as it does now, or other program Status
such as when printing, searching etc. It will also display error messages,
and last but not least, it is where you will be prompted for Search Text
when you wish to FIND a word or phrase.
You will notice that towards the right end of the Status Line, the letter
'S' is displayed in the Highlight color. This tells you what mode you are
in for word searching, the lower case 's' means that text is searched for
regardless of whether it's found "exactly" as entered or not, meaning the
search is Case In-Sensitive. An upper case 'S' means the text will only be
found if it matches your entry exactly. The sensitivity can be toggled by
pressing Alt-C...try it now, notice how the s changes to S and back again?
To the right of that is Print: p this signifies that printing the text
in the view window will go to the printer. In the Registered copy the
displayed text may be sent to a file. This is all covered in the manual.
*** Press PgDn ***
This brings us to the Print Mode again, compressed or normal print can be
toggled with the Ctl-P key command. Try it.....notice the word NORMAL
changes to COMPRESSED and back again.
Lets try a word search, make sure the lower case 'c' is showing in the
Status Line. This will be a CASE-InSENSITIVE search. We want to look for the
first occurance of find. So hit the 'F' key and enter in the word find.
After you have found the first one, hit 'N' to locate the next, which should
put you right back here on this page. You can continue to press N to find
the next match, once no match is found, a message will be displayed, press
any key to reset.
When the word is found, the line it's found in is placed on line #2 of the
view window, and highlighted. If the search was done case insensitive, the
line is displayed in all UPPER case. IF it was a case sensitive search, it
will be displayed as it was found. Pressing any movement key will remove the
highlight bar. PLEASE PRESS THE UP-ARROW KEY
On the next page, we are going to try out the print functions, and printer
Command Keys....you may want to make sure your printer is OnLine.
If it isn't, any command that has to do with the printer will sound an alert
tone and display a warning message.
*** Press PgDn ***
So, let's get on with it!
I don't think we need to print out this particular file at the moment, but
this can be accomplished at any time by pressing your F10 function key. But
we will cover printing the "Currently Displayed Text". This function will
print the text that is currently in the view window, 22 lines. This is
activated with the F9 function key. During this we will test the COMPRESSED
and NORMAL print toggle switch Ctl-P.
So that we have a full page here, I will mention a couple of other things,
before we test the print commands. The RaLin Reader will only display 80
characters per line, so if the file has lines longer than 80 chars, they
will be chopped off. BUT....when the lines are PRINTED, the entire line will
be printed as it exists in the file. This is the main reason the COMPRESSED
toggle was included. If you know the file has lines longer than 80 chars,
you can print it out in compressed mode, and get the whole line in one,
rather than split in the printout.
Future versions (perhaps "YOUR" registered copy) will also allow you to type
in a command string to send to the printer while you are in the Reader.
*** Press PgDn ***
OK...lets try it out. First hit Ctl-P to get into COMPRESSED mode, then hit
F9 for Print Page....Did it work? Now toggle to NORMAL mode and hit F9
again. If the print modes did not change, please refer to the manual.
Now, seeing as we don't have a full page printout, lets try a couple of
other printer Command Keys. The first thing I want to show you is single
line print. You can print any specific line by placeing it at the TOP of the
view window, and pressing Alt-L. If the line is blank, an error tone will
sound. If the line contains text, it will be printed. So give this a try.
* * * We have a line at the top, so just press ALT-L * * *
Now, hit Ctl-L once or twice, this will advance the paper one line per
keypress. Now hit Ctl-F for form feed, which will eject the paper, giving
us a fresh page to work with. The Print Page and Print Line can be handy for
cutting sections out of a document for later use. Newer versions will allow
you to specify if Print Page or Print Line should send the text to the
printer or another text file.
Let's try the JUMP function. Whatever line you specify, will be placed at
the top of the view window. If you specify a line number greater than the
number of lines in the file, then you will be placed at the LAST line of the
file. IF you do end up at the end of the file, the downward movment keys
will be disabled, but the UpArrow, PgUp and Home keys will work.
*** Press PgDn ***
Speaking of which, feel free to try the Home and End keys at any time.
So hit 'J' and enter 25 at the prompt (top of window), when you get to line
25, hit 'J' again and enter 111 for the line number.
When you reach the top of the file, pressing any upward movement keys will
result in an error tone. When at the bottom of the file, PgDn will result in
an error tone, but you MAY use the down arrow key to place the last line of
the file at the top of the view window. This is allowed so that should you
want to print only the last line of the file, you may.
You can test these functions by hitting Home, then End, then try PgDn, and
then try the DnArrow. Or you can do it from here.
I hope that this TUTOR has been of Help to you. If this has not answered a
question you have, please refer to the manual. The RaLin Reader is covered
much more thoughorly there.
The RaLin Reader is being continuously enhanced, if you find this release
useful to you, you will find future versions even more so.
So why not consider registering the program, if you find you like it.
The Manual has more information on registration, benifits, enhancements and
so on.....Thanks for trying The RaLin Reader!
*** PgDn Please ***
I would like to mention, the Registered Copy has the additional features
activated, and you also get a configuration program to modify the colors
used in the Reader, and to specify what Editor to use.
The RaLin Reader is hard coded to use an editor named QE.EXE. If you wish
to use an editor with this Evaluation copy, it MUST be named QE.EXE.
PLEASE READ THE MANUAL!
We're all done now....
* * * Hit Escape To Exit * * *
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