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- Enhancements to the PALASM 4 Online Help System
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- Navigating between ERROR RECOVERY, LANGUAGE REFERENCE, and INDEX OF TOPICS
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- Navigating between online applications no longer requires that you return
- to PALASM 4.
-
- - From LANGUAGE REFERENCE and INDEX
- 1. Select "Navigate" from the menu bar.
- 2. Select the desired online application from the pull-down menu.
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- - From ERROR RECOVERY
- 1. Select "Other" from the menu bar.
- 2. Select "Navigate" from the new menu bar.
- 3. Select the desired online application from the pull-down menu.
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- Viewing other documents from within the ERROR RECOVERY online application
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- You can now view, in read-only mode, the following files generated by
- PALASM 4 during compilation or simulation: the fitter report (Mach designs
- only), the simulation history file, and the simulation trace report.
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- You can also view any text document in any disk drive installed on your
- system, by selecting the desired drive, directory, and filename from a
- specialized menu.
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- - Viewing a PALASM 4 file
- 1. Select "Other" from the menu bar.
- 2. Select "View" from the new menu bar.
- 3. Select "Fitter Report," "Simulation History," or "Simulation Trace"
- from the pull-down menu.
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- - Viewing any other text file
- 1. Select "Other" from the menu bar.
- 2. Select "View" from the new menu bar.
- 3. Select "Other File," from the pull-down menu.
- 4. Use the menu shown below to select the desired file from any
- directory on any disk drive. If you have a mouse, you can
- double-click on the desired filename. From the keyboard, use
- the up and down arrows to move within a list. Use the Tab key
- to move from list to list or to highlight the "Ok" and "Cancel"
- buttons. Press return to make your selection.
- │ Use the Tab key to move between boxes and buttons │
- │ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
- │ │<Type filename here or change default mask: *.*>│ │
- │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
- │ Files in <current directory listed here> │
- │ ┌─────────────┐ │
- │ │ List of ░ Other drives │
- │ │ files ░ & directories │
- │ │ matching ░ ┌────────────────┐ │
- │ │ mask ░ │Select ".." ░ │
- │ │ (default is ░ │for parent ░ │
- │ │ all files) ░ │directory or ░ │
- │ │ ░ │select from list░ │
- │ └─────────────┘ └────────────────┘ │
- ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
- │ << Ok >> < Cancel > │
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- To return to the original error recovery function (viewing individual
- errors and the corresponding recovery messages), select "Error Recovery"
- from the "View" menu.
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- Shortcut for returning to PALASM 4 from online help
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- As an alternative to selecting "Quit," from the online help menu bar,
- you can return to PALASM 4 at any time simply by pressing the F10 key.
- (If a dialogue box is open, you must first press Esc to close the
- dialogue box.)