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The Portfolio
Users Manual For Version 1.7 05/28/92
Copyright Mean Hamster Software, 1992
Created And Programmed By John Swiderski
Miscellaneous Help By Diana Swiderski
This Program Is ShareWare, If You Use It, Please Pay For It!
Contents:
1.) ShareWare Stuff
2.) Installing And Using
3.) Features
4.) General Instructions
5.) Hints And Tips
6.) Future Enhancments
7.) Miscellaneous
8.) History
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ShareWare Stuff
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The Portfolio is shareware. This means that if you like it and use
it, it would be nice of you to send me a little money. I put a lot of
work into it. If you send me $20.00 you will be entitled to free
updates of the program. If you are not one to register software
a simple letter would be nice too.
You Can Send It To:
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| John Swiderski |
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| 9270 Amy's St. Apt#34 |
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| Spring Valley Ca, 91977 |
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Installing And Using
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Installation Is At Any Rate A Simple Process.
<<<<<<<Beginners>>>>>>>
To Make Life Easier, Don't worry about all this seemingly complicated
stuff. Just Copy The Portfolio To A Blank Formatted Disk And Load Your
Workbench Disk. The Go To The Other Disk And Load The Portfolio From
There. The Stuff Below Is Just For The More Advanced Users Who Want To
Put The Portfolio On A Disk All By Itself For Use Without The Workbench
Disk.
1. Copy The File "The Portfolio" To A disk. Along With It's
"The Portfolio.info" File. As you probably know, this ".info"
file is the icon for The Portfolio.
2. Make Sure That You Boot From A Working System Disk. The System Disk
Must Have Those "Matheedob" Whatever Files And The "Icon" And "Info"
".Libraries" In the "Libs" Directory For The Portfolio To Work.
3. For The Portfolio To Print Properly, You Must Also Have All The
Necessary Files In The "Devs" Drawer. And The "L:" Directory If You
Do Not Know Which Files To Copy, Simply Copy The "Devs" and "L:"
Directories From A Disk That You Know Prints With Your Printer.
4. That's It. Now Boot The Disk And Load The Portfolio! Of Course Make
Sure The Disk Has A Boot Block. Which Can Be Installed With The
Install Command.
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Features And How To Use Them
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Most of the features of the Portfolio are quite easy to use, For
the most of the funcions, there is a online HELP button. You can access
the Help window at any time you are in the portfolios main window by
pressing the Help key on your keyboard. Otherwise you can simply click
on the "Help" button located on your lower right hand corner.
The following is a list of the menu located at the top of the screen.
And can be accessed by holding down the right mouse button.
Along each command is it's definition and usage.
Project. Here Is the Menu Where All The Load, Save, Print, And Other
System commands are.
Load: Loads a Portfolio or other standard ASCII file.
Save: Saves Current Text As A File.
SaveAs: This Allows you to save a file under a different name
from its previous Load Or Save.
Print: Print the text. See More Installing for more
information on how to use this feature.
Insert: Similiar To Load, But allows you to combine two texts
into one.
New: Clears the screen so you can start over.
Quit: Quits the Portfolio.
About: The Credits!
Edit: This is where all of the cut and paste features are.
Gototop: Goes to the top of your text.
GotoBottom: Goes to the end of your text.
Cut Line: Places a line in to the buffer so you can paste it
somewhere else and deletes the source line.
CopyLine: Same As Cut Line, But Leaves The Source line there.
Pasteline(s): Pastes all the lines you cut or copied.
Delete Line: Kills A Line And Does Not Copy it. Gone For Ever.
ClearBuffer: This Deletes all the The Lines You Copied to the
Memory.
Insert Literal: This is a menu showing all those "Hard To Find"
keys. Just click on the one you want and it
appear in the document. There are is also a
date and time selection which allows you to
insert the date or time like this: 04/05/92.
Replace: Of Course, You Can't Have Search Without Replace!
Center Line: Centers current line on screen.
Extras: Here Is The Neat Extra Stuff For The Portfolio. All Of
Them Are Fairly Self-Explanatory.
Tiny-View!: This Program Allows You To View Another Text While
You type your note. To Load Check The Menu Bar For
the Load And Quit Selections In the Tiny-View.
SoftwareDatabase: This Is A DataBase For All Of Your Programs.
Simply Click On the Window To Start A new
Database. Then Follow The Buttons. Load,
Save, Quit, New, And Print Options Are Found
in the Menu Bar.
PowerWords: These Are Nice Hard To Spell Words That You Can Use
to spice up your document. You can insert them into
your document by simply double clicking on them
with the mouse!
Calandar: This Is A Calandar/Appointment Reminder. All the
options are printed on the screen for you. See The
On-Line Help If you want to know more. But It's
Really Self-Explanatory.
StateAbreviations: Here Are Those Often Forgoten two Letter
state abbreviation.
Prefs: These Are Preferences For TP.
Macros: Yes, There Are Macros Now! Selecting Macros, Brings Up
A Built-In Macro Editor. After Editing The Macros, Select
Save Or Cancel. To Use Them, Simply Go To TP And Press
The Coresponding Function Key. F1-F10.
Byword: This Is A Preference Which Effects The Search And Replace
Commands. When Searching, It Looks For The Whole Word
By Itself Instead Of Just A Part.
Global: Like Above, This Causes Changes To Be Made To The
Whole Document When Replacing.
Palette: Allows you to edit the screen colors.
Case Sensitive: This, When Searching, Cause TP to Look for the
exact string, capitals and all.
Word Wrap: This Causes Sentences To Continue On Another Line
When They Get To Big, Rather Then Go off To The
Side.
Mr. Res:
You've probably never seen anything like this before. It was added
by a special request for a program which supports overscan. It is not
solely for overscan however. On a interlace sceen, TP canot be dragged.
This is due to the redifined gadgets, ect, for 1.3 users. So to drag
the screen drag the Mr. Res to a different position and TP will go to
that corner on the screen.
The Search Command:
The Long Box on the left hand corner, holds the search command.
To use it, Click On the box and type in a word to search for. Then Press
return. If the word is found the cursor will then jump to that word.
To search for the same word again, just click on the search next button,
located next to the search bar.
The Gadgets:
The Gadgets might appear different to you, That is because I am a
2.0 freak. I made them look similiar to WB2.0 for WB1.3/1.2 users!
Anyway, The Button in the top right corner is the screen toggle button.
Pressing this will move the Portfolio's Window Behind any others you
have behind it. This is useful if you want to load something else while
still running The Portfolio. However, The Button Next To It Is Called
The Iconify Button. This Button Shrinks The Portfolio (don't worry
All Your Work Is Safe) To A Smaller Screen So You Can Do Other Things
While It Sits Around. Pressing It Again On The Smaller Screen Causes
It To Expand Bacxk To It's Original Size.
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History
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Version 1.00... First Release of The Portfolio.
Version 1.03... One Bug Fixed. WB colors are now returned to normal
after quiting the Portfolio.
Version 1.07... System Color Selection In Palette Added. You can now
customize the Portfolios colors by selcting this.
Version 1.15 Great 2.0 Look and Feel added for WB1.2/1.3 Users! All
Gadgets and requestors now have 2.0 look. First
Documented Version.
Version 1.20 More Help Added, Tiny-View! Added. Expanded Power
Words Vocabulary. Insert Literal Added. No Known Bugs!
Version 1.4 Macros Added! And Prefs Menu. Replace Added! Still No
Bugs!
Version 1.6 Set Tab, Center Line, Errors In Spelling :), Yes/No
Character Scans, Tiny-View Now Typeable, Iconified
TP Now Dragable But Less Pretty, And More Control Keys.
Version 1.7 Better Help, Software Database Updated, Mr. Res added,
Overscan Support. Info Bar Rearanged. Palette Requestor
Added.