PC User 1998 March/PCU_MAR_98.iso/utils/DOS/bobby/HELP/TIPS.HLP

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By using the [TAB] key on this main Bobby
screen, you can switch between which
directory window is the ACTIVE DIRECTORY
WINDOW.  The Active Dir Win is indicated by
having the information bar, located at the
very top of each dir win, highlighted in PINK
(default).
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You can bring up the FULL-BLOWN Online Help
by simply clicking the "?" button located at
the bottom right corner of this screen.  With
it you  can find out some very useful
information about any desired screen zone
anywhere in Bobby!
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You can bring up the FULL-BLOWN Bobby Manual
right from within Bobby!  To do this, bring up
the Online Help Window by clicking the "?"
button found at the bottom right side of this
screen.  With the Online Help Window up, select
the MANUAL.
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Within Online Help, you can get very useful
information about any screen zone within Bobby.
To get a more 'verbose' explanation you can
simply click the MANUAL button to bring up the
FULL-BLOWN Bobby Manual and Bobby will
automagically place you at the correct location
for more explanation on the screen zone.
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You can have your favorite programs pop up by
simply double clicking on a user-defined icon!
To do this, create a Launching Icon by going into
Icon Options.  Your Launching Icon will appear in
the Icon Window, the space just below the two
directory windows. At anytime, just double click
your Launching Icon to RUN your favorite program!
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You can create a HOT-KEY for any Action Button or
Drive Button for even quicker, easier access to
the action.  Hot-keys can also be set for shelling
out to the DOS prompt, quitting Bobby, and
bringing up the Online Help.  Go to the Options
screen to set all these distinct hot-keys.
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Make the Non-Active Dir Win appear in the same
path as the Active Dir Win by a few mouse clicks!
To do this simply highlight a file in the Active
Dir Win, move the mouse pointer to any part of the
Non-Active Dir Win and DOUBLE-CLICK with the RIGHT
MOUSE button.  On the otherhand, highlighting a
directory name in this process will place you into
this new directory name path.
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The Active Dir Win can be identified by looking at
the very top Information Bar for each dir win.
This bar will be highlighted (PINK by default) for
the Active Dir Win.
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Use your RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON in the top half or
bottom half of the Active Dir Win to scroll the
window up or down.  This is equivalent to clicking
the Up/Down Arrows just below the dir win's drag
bar.
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You can highlight multiple adjacent files/
directories in the Active Dir Win by clicking the
LEFT MOUSE BUTTON on the first file and dragging
your mouse in the desired direction!  If you reach
the border of the dir win, Bobby will
automagically scroll the dir window display for
you allowing you to, at the same time, highlight
the remaining files.
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You can Drag 'N Drop your Launching Icons in any
Directory Window to quickly go to the exact path
of the Icon.  To do this, click and hold your
RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON on your Launching Icon and drag
your mouse to the desired Dir Win then let go of
the button.
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System Stats such as CPU type, disk capacity,
printer availability, memory breakdown, etc. can
be told to you in the Tech Info Window.  The Tech
Info Window can be brought up by clicking the
area where your FREE memory TOTAL memory is
displayed at the bottom of this screen, next to
the "Q" button.
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Double clicking a file name will invoke Bobby to
handle it appropriately.  If you double clicked
a file with the extension .EXE, .BAT or .COM
Bobby will try to RUN the file.  Selecting a .PCX
or .GIF will SHOW the file as a picture.  A .WAV
or .VOC file will be PLAYED as a sound file via
your Sound Blaster compatible card.  All other
file name extension will be viewed as a TEXT/
BINARY file.
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Page Flaps seen on any of the 32 Action Buttons
tell you of an underlying Action Button!  By
clicking your RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON on this type of
button will show you the underlying Action Button.
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The entire CONFIGURATIONS of Bobby can be altered
to your taste by entering the Config Screen. This
is done by clicking the "SMILEY" face located at
the bottom right of this screen.
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By highlighting files and directories in the Dir
Win, you will see a running Total of Bytes
highlighted located in the Dir Win Information Bar.
A "+" can appear here representing an undetermined
directory(s) size was highlighted -- the Total Bytes
is most likely more than it shows in the running
total.  To determine the size of the directory(s),
select the GETSIZE action button.
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Copying files in Bobby is very intuitive!  If the
number of files you have highlighted exceeds the
target disk's free space, Bobby will ask you to
insert a new disk. You will have the option of
viewing the contents of this newly inserted disk,
formatting it, and then continuing with the Copy!
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With the PATTERN BOX of the Dir Win, you can display
a certain pattern of files/directories in the
window.  Mulitple patterns can be entered in each
separated by a SPACE or a COMMA.  Patterns can be
actual filenames or very commonly, WILDCARDS.
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Scroll through the HISTORY of the PATH INPUT BOX or
PATTERN BOX of the Dir Win by clicking the Up/Down
Arrow Keys when in the box.
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By using the key combos:
 SHIFT-(left arrow)   You can CLEAR the contents of
                      any Text Field that you are
                      presently in.
 SHIFT-(right arrow)  You can get Bobby to 'finish
                      off' the directory path you
                      are trying to type.
                      Excellent for the PATH INPUT
                      BOX.
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If you have a Super VGA graphics card, by running
your VESA driver you can get SIGNIFICANT GRAPHIC
ENHANCEMENTS when viewing picture files.  Make sure
to run the driver before running Bobby!
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With a Sound Blaster compatible sound card, you can
have CRYSTAL CLEAR Sounds for the STARTUP of Bobby,
each Directory Window, Action & Drive Button, HELP &
Quit pop up.  Setting this up is simple!  Just go to
the Config Options Screen by clicking the "SMILEY"
face on the bottom right side of this screen.
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Use the Up/Down Arrow keys to SCROLL the Active Dir
Win up and down.  Use the PAGE-UP/DOWN keys to sroll
up/down the Dir Win screen by a page.  Use the HOME/
END keys to go to the top/bottom of the Active Dir
Win.
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To quickly highlight certain patterns in the Active
Dir Win, click on the action button MARK.  Here you
can enter in multiple patterns of file/directory
names with wildcards.  Using this command is
equivalent to manually highlighting the desired
files except it makes life MUCH quicker.
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Using the action button COPY SMART will help you get
many highlighted files onto the smallest number of
disks!  It does this by selecting the files which
BEST FIT the current free space of the disk.
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The BYTES OF FREE SPACE for the drive belonging to
the Dir Win is shown in the Dir Win Information Bar
to the far right.
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A DIRECTORY in the Dir Win can be identified by a
file name that is in all CAPS and has a small
yellow (default) drawer icon to the right of it.
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If you have NEW FILE SINCE set for at least 1 day
ago, you will see all the files you received within
a day specially highlighted informing you that they
are NEW files!  This special highlighting is done by
the highlighting of ONLY the file date of the new
file.
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The PATTERN BOX for the Dir Win can accept the
multiple of any type of WILDCARD or filename.  It
can aso accept the keywords: NEW, ALL, ~(wildcard)
With these forms of patterns, you can display
specific types of file names in the Dir Win.
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Bobby can inform you of problems and/or try to get
your attention in 2 ways; Produce a SPEAKER SFX or
FLASH the SCREEN.  Go to the Config Option Screen to
set these.
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Set the SCREEN-BLANKER time to best suit you!  You
can set the time for blanking from 1 minute to 10
minutes. For NO blanking of the screen, you can
simply turn the option off.
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Have Dir Buffering for your highlighted files/
directories when you enter another directory. This
allows you to highlight any files you want and if
you want to enter a directory, do so.  On return,
those previously highlighted files will still be
marked!
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By clicking on the "Q" Button located at the lower
right side of this screen, you bring up the QUIT
WINDOW.  Here you can shell out to the DOS prompt
in two ways while still having Bobby in memory; jump
to DOS with the path of the directory we had just
before loading up Bobby or jump to DOS+ with the
path of the Active Dir Win.  We can also QUIT out of
Bobby from here.
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When Bobby STARTS UP for the first time, you can get
each Dir Win to show a certain directory path.
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Use the DRIVE BUTTONS to make life easier for you on
long directory paths.  By creating a DRIVE BUTTON
for a favorite directory path, you simply click the
DRIVE BUTTON to enter that path!  No Typing!
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This is the first PC programming venture for Jimmy &
Jon Yergaw especially in the file manager arena!
Not bad, huh?  If you have ANY questions, comments
(we hope positive ones), or anything else, PLEASE
contact us!  See the Option Screen or MANUAL on how.
             THANKS FOR USING BOBBY...
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  !!!!    Bobby IS FREEWARE.  Spread the Joy   !!!!
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Bobby was designed, programmed, and dished-out WHILE
we were learning how to program under the PC.  Whoa!
You don't want to see this picture -- Its
Rated X(tra long hours).  We really hope you find
the quality satisfactory!
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~ = NOT expression
In the PATTERN BOX for the Dir Win use the ~ symbol
in conjunction with wildcards to display file names
which DO NOT match the wildcard.
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On special days like CHRISTMAS, HALLOWEEN, MOTHER's
DAY, etc. watch the bottom right corner where the
time/date is for a BIG SURPRISE!
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You can set the color for the Action/Drive Buttons
and its text customizing your own genuine button.
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Check out the upcoming features for the next
generation of Bobby.  And it'll STILL be FREE!!!!!
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You can enter up to 2 optional directory paths
with multiple WILDCARDS at the command line
following the BOBBY.EXE filename.
Type:  BOBBY /?  (at the DOS prompt) for more info!
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Windows with the word MOVEABLE on the top right
corner means you can drag the window around the
screen with your mouse by clicking, holding, and
dragging with the LEFT BUTTON the box area where
MOVEABLE resides in.
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ALL the special keys for Bobby have been neatly
organized and placed into the file BOBKEYS.TXT
located in the drawer where Bobby is installed to.
Print this file out for QUICK look-up reference
to do any key action during your stay in Bobby!
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In the DRIVE BUTTON area you may see the button
labeled BOBBY. Clicking this will get the Active
Dir Win to show the contents of the location of
where you installed Bobby to; Automatic, easy
and a quick route to the location of Bobby on your
hard drive.
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SHOWPIC, Bobby's picture viewing button, can view
JPEG, BMP, GIF, PCX picture file formats ranging
from 2 to 16.7 Million colors with resolutions
from 320x200 to 1280x1024 or HIGHER!!
** With SVGA modes, a VESA driver must be run.
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PLAYSND, Bobby's sound playing button, can play
WAV and VOC sound file formats with 8-16 bit
clarity.  Compressed files (ALAW, MULAW, ADPCM)
can also be played with sound cards supplying
the ASP (Advanced Signal Processor) Chip.
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