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- CARDS
-
- Format: CARDS <cardfile>
-
- Template: CARDS "CARDFILE/A"
-
- Purpose: To display the index cards in an ASCII card file.
-
- FOUND WITH: development tools
-
- Specification:
-
- CARDS allows you to look at index cards stored in a specially formatted
- ASCII cardfile. There is a cardfile called 68000.cards in the Other window.
- This file contains index cards describing the format, sizes and results of
- each 68000 machine language instruction.
-
- To look at these cards, double-click on the 68000.cards icon. You can also
- use the CD command to make the directory containing the cards the current
- directory (in this case, Software Toolkit's Other directory), then use the
- command "CARDS 68000.cards."
-
- When the 68000.cards display appears, there is a highlighted index line at
- the bottom of the display:
-
- .0123456789.ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. <>
-
- The periods ('.') in the index line represent ranges of special and
- punctuation ASCII characters. To display the first card that starts with a
- letter or number, click on the appropriate letter/number in the index line.
- To move through the cards one by one, use the < (backward) and > (forward)
- gadgets on the right side of the index line.
-
- Initially, the cards are sorted according to the category of the first line,
- in this case alphabetically. However, you can sort the cards by any
- category by selecting the corresponding line description on the left side of
- the display. A '>' character marks the selected line by which the cards are
- sorted. Generally, it is best to sort the 68000.cards cardfile on the
- first line which is the mnemonic name of each 68000 instruction.
-
- You can also move through the cards by using the keyboard. Hitting any
- alphanumeric key moves you to the first card starting with the letter or
- number. Other keyboard shortcuts are:
-
- < or , move backwards through the cards one at a time
- > or . move forward through the cards one at a time
- Shift-U move the sort line up
- Shift-D move the sort line down
-
- To close the CARDS window and exit the program, hit Ctrl-C.
-
-
- CREATING ADDITIONAL CARD FILES
-
- Additional card files can be created with any ASCII text editor. The start
- of the card file must be a card template. The rules for this template are
- explained below and are illustrated in the example.
-
- Template Example
-
- 1 -- @TEMPLATE
- 2 -- @N=50
- 3 -- @@@@@@@@@@|@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
- 4 -- ----------------------CLIENTS----------------------
- 5 -- Name
- Company
- Phone
- 6 -- @ENDTEMPLATE
-
- 1. The first line of the card file must start with the @TEMPLATE keyword.
-
- 2. The second line is the @N=MaxCards line. This line specifies the
- maximum number of cards allowed in the file. It is optional, and if
- not specified, Cards should size its allocations based on the number
- of cards it detects in the file. In the example above, 50 is the
- maximum number of cards permitted.
-
- 3. The third line is a series of '@' symbols to specify the width of the
- card. One @ symbol is equal to one character space in the card. You
- need to insert a vertical bar (|) to designate the break between the
- line titles (on the left) and the individual card entries.
-
- 4. The fourth line contains the text for the card title line.
-
- 5. The next several lines specify the left-hand line titles. (Remember,
- the line titles cannot exceed the number of @ symbols before the
- vertical bar in the third line.)
-
- 6. Finally, the template is concluded with the @ENDTEMPLATE keyword.
-
- After the template is created, you can enter the text for each card.
- Simply, start each entry with a @ symbol on the first line. (This should be
- the only entry on the first line.) For example:
-
- @
- Smith, P.J.
- Hypertronics, Inc.
- 215-555-3434
-
- @
- Jones, Mandy
- Widgets, Ltd.
- 408-555-6767
-
- You could continue on in this fashion with another 48 card entries.
-