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GETTING ACQUAINTED This chapter introduces you to the main features of ShortCut. It is important that you have ShortCut up and running so that you can try out our suggestions. You will learn most quickly by doing. Many of ShortCut's commands use the alternate key, the shift keys, the function keys, and the control key. They are found on the standard IBM PC keyboard in these positions: Alt The gray key to the left of the Space Bar Shift The gray key with an up arrow just above the Alt key or the gray key with an up arrow above the Caps Lock key Ctrl The gray key just to the left of the "A" key F1, F2, etc. The gray function keys at the very left side of the keyboard You will see combinations of keys printed together in this docu- mentation. For example, you will see <Alt-M > or <Shift-F3>. You should press the first key and hold it down while you press the second key. Then release them both. A Brief Look at the ShortCut Screen As you look at the ShortCut screen on your monitor, you will see that there are several sections. Let's begin at the top, left-hand side of the screen. Here you will see a large rectangle bordered by double lines. This is the Directory Window. In the Directory Window you will see a list of your files in the current directory. If you started ShortCut from drive A, you see a list of your ShortCut files. If you have a hard disk and started ShortCut from drive C, will see the ShortCut files in your current directory, SHORTCUT. The current directory displayed in the Directory Window will be called the Current Displayed Directory from now on. The skinny rectangle to the right contains Drive boxes on the top, a Sort On box in the middle, and Modes that can be toggled on or off at the bottom. The next large rectangle shows you the status of your disk drive and your computer's memory. Below this information you will see four boxes: pause, verify, break, and a box that says either color or monochrome. These will be explained later. The fourth rectangle displays the date and time, the file pattern, and some additional information about your system. TUTOR.DOC - 1 The meaning of all these boxes will be described fully; we just want you to be able to find them now. Right below these four rectangular columns you will see a highlighted line of text that says "Press a function key for the Command Bar. Use the cursor keys to move about". It will be colored green if you have a color monitor. This is the message line. As you do things with ShortCut, the message line will change to say different things. Sometimes it will ask you to answer a question, sometimes it will display an error message if you have made a mistake, always it will give you helpful advice. Get in the habit of reading the message line if you do not know what to do next. At the bottom of the screen is the Command Bar. Each box contains a ShortCut command. Hold down a <Shift> key and you will see a second Command Bar appear with a new set of commands. Release the <Shift> key and the first Command Bar reappears. Now hold down the <Ctrl> key. This is the third Command Bar. Press and hold down the <Alt> key and the fourth Command Bar is displayed. Later you will learn how to put your own commands on the third and fourth Command Bars. Moving Around the ShortCut Screen On the left side of the Directory Window you will see a small triangular arrow. This is the screen arrow and you will use it point at files and to move around the screen. Find the down arrow cursor key on your keyboard. Press it and the screen arrow will move down one file in the Directory Window. Now try the up arrow cursor key. The screen arrow moves up one file. Try pressing the right arrow cursor key from anywhere in the Directory Window. The screen arrow will jump up and over to the box that says SIZE in highlighted letters at the top right of the Directory Window. If you press the right arrow cursor key again, the screen arrow moves to the Display Drive box. Press the down arrow key. The screen arrow moves down to the Default Drive box. Or press the up arrow key and it moves back up to the SIZE box. Press the down arrow key again from the Default Drive box and the screen arrow moves to the Sort On box. If you press the down arrow key once more, ShortCut will politely beep at you informing you that you can't go any further in that direc- tion. You can press the up arrow key to go back up to the Default Drive again, or you can press the left arrow key to move back to the Directory Window. You can always go back to the TUTOR.DOC - 2 Directory Window with the left arrow key no matter where you are. Spend a moment to practice moving the screen arrow among these five areas on your screen. If you are in the Directory Window, you can quickly move to the Sort On box with <Ctrl-Right Arrow>. ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you find that you cannot move the screen arrow at all, you are in NumLock mode. Press the <NumLock> key on your keyboard. Now you should be able to move the screen arrow. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Try pressing any function key (F1, F2, etc.). The screen arrow does not move, but one of the commands on the Command Bar is highlighted. You can move along the Command Bar with the left and right arrow keys. Try moving to the COMMND command box at the far right. Then press the right arrow key once more. You are now on the second Command Bar. In the same way you can move to the third and fourth Command Bars and then back to the first again. A quicker way to move to a specific command on any of the Command Bars is to press the function key corresponding to that command. By looking at the Command Bar you can see that <F3> is the function key to press for the COPY command. Commands on the second Command Bar are reached with Shift- function key combinations, the third Command Bar commands use the <Ctrl> key along with the function keys, and those on the fourth Command Bar use the <Alt> key. Press <Esc> to leave the Command Bar. You can still move the screen arrow up and down in the Directory Window while you are on the Command Bar, but you must press <Esc> to leave the Command Bar if you want to move the screen arrow out of the Directory Window. Putting ShortCut to Work Now that you are a pro zipping around the screen, it's time to give ShortCut some orders. Let's try renaming one of your practice files. Move the screen arrow in the Directory Window to the file named AFILE.TXT. Press the <Space Bar>. The filename is highlighted. You have just "marked" a file and told ShortCut this is the file you want to act upon. You can "unmark" a file by pressing the Space Bar again. The number of bytes in a marked file appears highlighted in the Disk Status box. Mark AFILE.TXT again, if it is not already, and press <F9>. The Rename command box is highlighted. The message line tells you what to do next - to press <Enter>. Do it. TUTOR.DOC - 3 At this point the message line asks you type a new file name. For now, type MYFILE.TXT and press <Enter>. It does not matter if you use capital or lowercase letters. The message line tells you ShortCut is busy renaming your file and you will see the new file name appear and the old name disappear in the Directory Window. If you make a mistake and decide you don't want to give a command but you have already hit <Enter> while you are in a command box, press <Ctrl-Esc> and the command will be can- celled. Sometimes you may forget to mark a file before you give a command. Your computer will beep and the message line will tell you that no files are marked. After you press any key, you can try again. View a File Let's see what is in MYFILE.TXT. Move to the TYPE command box on the Command Bar by pressing <F5>. Move the screen arrow to MYFILE.TXT in the Directory Window. Press the <Space Bar> to mark it. The message line tells you to press <Enter> to view the contents of the marked file. Hit <Enter>. The ShortCut screen will disappear. Don't worry, it will come back. You will see the contents of MYFILE.TXT "typed" on your screen. Press <Ctrl-NumLock> to stop the screen scrolling if you wish. Press the <Space Bar> to continue. When the end of the file is reached, you will see a prompt to press any key. Do it and the ShortCut screen will return. Switch to DOS Screen Suppose you return to ShortCut's screen and later you wish to see the DOS screen again. Press <Alt-D> and the DOS screen will reappear. When you are ready, press any key to switch back to ShortCut's screen. Help Perhaps you want to switch to the DOS screen, but you can't remember what keystrokes to use. Or you forgot how a Short- Cut command works. ShortCut is ready to help! Press <F1> to move to the HELP command on the Command Bar and hit the <Enter> key. You will see a help screen appear with the ShortCut commands and features listed. For more in depth information on any command or feature, press the correspond- ing highlighted key or key combination. Let's look at the information available for TYPE, the command we just used. With the Help Main Menu displayed, press <F5>, TUTOR.DOC - 4 the command you use to move to the TYPE command box on the Command Bar. You will see information about the TYPE command and how to use it. After you have read the help screen you have the option of pressing the <Space Bar> to return to the Help Main Menu, or you may press <Esc> to exit the help system all together. ShortCut gives you another way to seek help. Simply press <Alt-H> and a help screen will be displayed. Which help screen depends on what you were doing at the time you asked for assistance. Information on the ShortCut Screen ShortCut displays lots of useful information on its screen even without help screens. As you have already seen, you always know which directory you are in as it is highlighted in the Directory Window. In addition, the disk drive you are using is highlighted in the Display Drive box. The Sort On box tells you how your files are sorted in the Directory Window. Right now they are probably unsorted. You will learn how to sort them yourself a bit later. The box that says SIZE on top of the Directory Window is one that you practiced moving the screen arrow to. Move to it now. You can display additional file information by choosing among three options: Size, Date, or Time. Try pressing D for Date, then T for Time, and finally S for Size. Date tells you when the file was created or last updated, Time tells you what time of the day the file was created or last updated, and Size tells you how many bytes are in the file. Mode Indicators Beneath the Sort On box are several mode indicators. When these modes are active, they are highlighted and capital- ized. Press the keyboard key once to turn the mode on and press it again to turn the mode off. The modes are: Mode Key Use Caps CapsLock Capitalizes all letters you type. Num NumLock Activates the numeric keypad on the IBM PC - useful for entering columns of numbers. When NumLock is on, the cursor control keys will not work. Ins Ins Insert mode. Allows characters typed to be inserted in a line and all text to the right of the cursor is pushed right. You can use insert any time ShortCut asks you to enter information. TUTOR.DOC - 5 Prn Ctrl-PrtSc All keystrokes typed on the command line and everything displayed on the DOS screen is sent to the printer. Scroll ScrollLock Your application programs may or may not Lock use ScrollLock. ShortCut uses Scroll- Lock to freeze the screen arrow in the Directory Window so that the up and down arrow keys will now scroll the filenames around it. Disk and Memory Status The Disk Status box displays information about the disk you are using. It tells you how many bytes you have available on your disk, how many of those bytes you have used to store files, and how many bytes are still free for your use. It also informs you how many files are in your directory, how many of the files are user files (read/write files), and how many are hidden. The Memory Status box shows you how much random access memory (RAM) in bytes your computer has, and it tells you how much of that memory is still available for you to use. Date and Time ShortCut displays the date and time in the top, right-hand corner of the screen. This is the date and time your com- puter thinks is correct. You can make changes with the DATE and TIME commands located on the second Command Bar. Press <Shift-F4> to reach the DATE command box. Press <Enter>. ShortCut asks you to enter a date. You may choose either of these formats: mm-dd-yy or mm-dd-yyyy You may leave out any leading zeros. After you hit <Enter> ShortCut will display the date you entered including the proper day of the week. <Shift-F5> will give you access to the time of day. Press <Enter> and type in a new time. The format to use is: hh:mm:ss It is not necessary to use colons to separate the hours, minutes, and seconds. You can use any character you like. For example, you could use hyphens to separate the hours, minutes, and seconds. TUTOR.DOC - 6 You must use military time which adds 12 to any hour after noon. You don't have to type in the minutes and/or seconds. If you don't, ShortCut will display the minutes and/or seconds as zero. You may omit any leading zeros. When you hit <Enter>, ShortCut will display the time you entered on its screen and will continue to update it every second. Additional System Information In the bottom corner of the right-hand side of the screen ShortCut shows you some additional information about your computer system. The Equipment Installed box displays how many serial ports your computer has, how many parallel ports it has, how many disk drives your computer is set up for, and whether or not your computer has a game port. If you don't understand what these things mean, don't worry. You do not need to know these things to use ShortCut. By the way, if you think the number of disk drives ShortCut reports is in error, see Equipment Installed in the REFER.DOC for an explanation and how to change it if you wish. Beneath this box ShortCut tells you which version of DOS you are using. To the immediate left you will see a box labeled either MONOCHROME or COLOR CARD. If you and your computer are using a monochrome display adapter, it will say MONOCHROME. If you are using a graphics card instead, the box will say COLOR CARD. Print a File Let's get back to bossing ShortCut around. If you have a printer, you can print any ASCII file. Move the screen arrow to MYFILE.TXT and mark it by pressing the <Space Bar>. Press <F6> to reach the PRINT command box. Hit <Enter> and ShortCut reminds you to get your printer ready for printing if you haven't already. When you press any key, the contents of the marked file will be sent to your printer. You can use this method for printing out the other ShortCut documentation files. TUTOR.DOC - 7 Make a Directory Let's get organized. You are going to create a new subdirec- tory on your disk and put your practice files in it. Press <F8> to move to the MKDIR command box. Hit <Enter>. Type PRACTICE as the name of the new subdirectory and press <Enter> again. ShortCut will create a new subdirectory named PRACTICE. Subdirectories that belong to the current directory displayed in the Directory Window are listed after the filenames. You will see the new subdirectory as the last entry in the Directory Window. If you have a hard disk, you may have more files and sub- directories than the Directory Window will hold. You can press <PgDn> to page through your files to find PRACTICE. You can press <Ctrl-End> to reach the end of your files. Return to the top of your Current Displayed Directory with <Ctrl-Home>. Copying Files to a Subdirectory Now mark all of the ShortCut practice files, the ones that have a filename extension of TXT. Point at each file with the screen arrow and press the Space Bar. Each filename is highlighted as it is marked. Press <F3> to move to the COPY command box. Press <Enter> to begin the copy process. Now move the screen arrow to the PRACTICE subdirectory. Press the Space Bar. You have just changed directories! Now PRACTICE is the Current Displayed Directory. Following the instructions on the message line, hit the <Enter> key. You will see all of the files you marked copied to the new subdirectory. Before you go on, take a good look at the Directory Window. At the top you will see the root directory of your disk. After that you will see PRACTICE, the name of your Current Displayed Directory. It will be highlighted as the Current Displayed Directory is always highlighted. Later you may want to read the DWINDOW.DOC file for a complete explanation of how subdirectories are displayed in the Directory Window. Erasing Files You now have two copies of the practice files on your disk, one in the root directory and one in the PRACTICE subdirec- tory. Let's erase the ones in the root directory. To get back to the root directory, move the screen arrow to the first entry in the Directory Window. If you have never TUTOR.DOC - 8 given your disk a volume label, the root directory will be called NO LABEL. Otherwise, it will have a different name, but it will always be the first entry in the Directory Window. Press the Space Bar to change directories. Now the root directory will be highlighted. Mark all of the practice files (those files with a .TXT extension). Press <F7> to move to the ERASE command box. Press <Enter>. ShortCut will erase all of your marked files, pausing before each one to seek your confirmation. Moving Files There is a quicker way to move files to a new subdirectory: the MOVE command. MOVE puts the files in a new subdirectory and removes them from the old. Let's try it out by moving the practice files back to your root directory. Make PRACTICE the Current Displayed Directory by moving the screen arrow to PRACTICE and pressing the Space Bar. Mark all the files. You can press <Ctrl-Space Bar> and all the files in the Current Displayed Directory will be marked at once. Press <Shift-F3> to reach the MOVE command. Press <Enter>. Change to the root directory once again by pointing at it with the screen arrow and pressing the <Space Bar>. Press <Enter> once more. Your practice files are now back in the root directory, and they no longer exist in the PRACTICE subdirectory. Copying Files to Another Drive Often you will want to copy files from one disk drive to another. Before you do that, you need to learn how to display the files of other disk drives on your system. If you have a second floppy disk drive, make sure it has a diskette in it before we go any further. With the screen arrow in the Directory Window, press the right arrow key twice. The screen arrow will move to the Display Drive box. Now press the letter of a drive on your system that differs from the one you are currently on. For example, if you are using drive A and you want to see the files on drive B, you would press the letter B. If you are on drive C and you want to see A, press the letter A. ShortCut will not let you choose a drive you don't have; however, if you select a floppy drive, you must have a diskette in that drive or you will receive a DOS error message. TUTOR.DOC - 9 As soon as you press a drive letter, the files of that drive will be displayed in the Directory Window. Switch back to the drive from whence you came as this is where you must be to start the copy process. Mark all of the practice files once more. Press <F3> and then <Enter>. Move the screen arrow to the Display Drive box and select the drive you want to copy the files to. If you want to put the files in a subdirectory on that drive, make it the Current Displayed Directory by moving to it and pressing the Space Bar. When the directory you want to copy the files to is displayed, press <Enter> and let ShortCut do the work. A Tree Diagram of Your Disk The easiest way to keep track of the directory structure of your disk is with ShortCut's Tree command. Move back to the root directory of the disk with the ShortCut files. Now press <Alt-T>. You will see a visual tree of the direc- tory structure of your disk. If you are using a hard disk, you may have many directories; if you are using a floppy diskette, you will probably see only the root directory and the PRACTICE subdirectory. You can change directories with the Tree screen. Press the Down arrow key until you reach the PRACTICE subdirectory. Hit <Enter>. The regular ShortCut screen reappears and PRACTICE is now the Current Displayed Directory! Use Tree again to go back to the root directory. Remove a Directory Now that your PRACTICE subdirectory is empty, you can remove it. Point the screen arrow at the PRACTICE subdirectory. Do not mark it! If you try, you will make PRACTICE the Current Displayed Directory and ShortCut will not let you remove it. With the screen arrow pointing at PRACTICE, press <Shift-F8> to move to the RMDIR command and hit <Enter>. Your subdirec- tory is gone. Changing or Creating a Volume Label Your disk may or may not have a volume label. If it doesn't, the root directory name will say NO LABEL; otherwise it will have another name. In either case, press <Shift-F2> followed by <Enter> to change it. ShortCut will ask you for a new name. Type any name you want and hit <Enter>. You will see the new name appear at the top of the Directory Window. You can change it back if you wish. TUTOR.DOC - 10 Shortcuts to Locating Files If you have many files in your Current Displayed Directory, it can take a while to find the file you want in the Direc- tory Window so that you can point at it with the screen arrow. ShortCut offers a several features to help you out. First of all, ShortCut can sort the files for you. When you first start up ShortCut, the files on your disk will appear in the Directory Window in the same order that they are written on your disk. You can change this. Move the screen arrow to the Sort On box directly by pressing <Ctrl-Right Arrow>. Press N for Name. Your files will be sorted al- phabetically (in ascending order). Try D to sort the filenames in descending order from Z to A. Press A to get them back in ascending order again. Try S to see your files sorted by Size, or T to have them sorted by Date and then by Time. Pressing E will sort them in order by the filename extensions so that types of files are grouped together. You can get them back in Unsorted order with U. Put them back in unsorted order for now. Just having your files in order will help you find the file you want. But ShortCut doesn't stop here. The Locate File command will move the screen arrow to any filename in the Current Displayed Directory very quickly. Press <Alt-L> and type the first letter of the filename you want to find. Suppose you want to move the screen arrow to MYFILE.TXT. The first letter is M, so that is what you should type. As soon as you do, ShortCut will sort your files by Name in alphabetical order and will point the screen arrow at the first filename beginning with M. If you have more than one file starting with M, you would continue typing the next letter and then the next, etc., until the screen arrow is pointing at the file you want. You may erase typed letters with the <Backspace> key. You need type only as many letters as necessary to point the screen arrow at the correct file. Press <Enter>, <Esc>, or the Up or Down Arrow key to stop Locate. You can also press the <Space Bar> which will stop it and also mark the filename in the Directory Window. Now move the screen arrow to the Sort On box and sort your files by Extension with E. This will group all your file types together. Press <Alt-L> again. This time the filenames will not be resorted. Now you type the first letter of a file extension you want to find. For MYFILE.TXT that would be the letter T. As you continue typing, the screen arrow will zero in on the correct extension if it is not there already. Again end TUTOR.DOC - 11 Locate with <Enter>, <Esc>, Up Arrow, Down Arrow, or <Space Bar>. Searching for a File Great, you say. But what if I don't remember what subdirec- tory or disk I used to store a file, or maybe I don't remem- ber the exact filename? ShortCut can help with its SEARCH command. You need to set things up a bit to see how SEARCH works. Starting in the root directory of your disk, make two more subdirectories using the Mkdir command. Name them ASUB and BSUB. Using the COPY command, put a copy of each practice file in each subdirectory. You can use the Tree command to change directories while you are using COPY. You will now have three copies of each practice file on your disk. You know that each file is identical, but for now, imagine that each contains different information. Suppose you want to find a file that you know begins with the letters MY, but you do not remember the rest of the name and you do not know what subdirectory you stored it in. Press <Shift-F9> to move to the SEARCH command and press <Enter>. When ShortCut asks you for the filename, type MY*.*. This tells ShortCut to look for a filename beginning with MY, but any combination of characters may follow and the file may have any combination of characters for an extension. When you press <Enter>, ShortCut will search all the direc- tories on your disk for a filename that matches that pat- tern. When it finds one, ShortCut asks you if this is the file you want. Type N for No and the search continues until the next file is found. Suppose you are not sure this is the file you want. Press V to View the file. The ShortCut screen disappears and the file contents are displayed just as they are with the TYPE command. Press any key to return to the ShortCut screen. No, that is not the file you want, so type N again for No and the search resumes. The last file is the one you want so this time you respond with Y for Yes. When you do, ShortCut makes the directory the file is in the Current Displayed Directory. Also the filename is highlighted and put at the very top of the Directory Window. If ShortCut cannot find the file on your disk, the search stops. If you are on drive A, however, you will be prompted to put another diskette in drive A and the search resumes until the file is found or you stop the search by pressing TUTOR.DOC - 12 <Esc>. This is handy if you can't remember which floppy diskette you used to store a file. Wildcard Characters When you used an asterisk (*) to specify a filename pattern for ShortCut to use for the search, you used a wildcard. A wildcard is a special character which means "any character or characters". Besides the asterisk, there is one other wildcard - a question mark (?). * means any series of characters ? means any single character This may be clearer if we look at a few examples. *.TXT Any filename with a TXT extension. ?FILE.TXT Files with any single character followed by the letters FILE.TXT. Your MYFILE.TXT file would not match this pattern but the rest of the practice files would. ?????.* Any file with five characters and any extension. BFILE.TXT would match this pattern. MYFILE.TXT would not. G*.* Any file that begins with a G. *.* Any file; all files. Setting Up a File Pattern ShortCut uses wildcards with another command that will help you find the file you want quickly. You may have noticed the *.* pattern in the File Pattern box on the ShortCut screen. This means that all the files in the Current Displayed Directory are displayed in the Directory Window. You can tell ShortCut to display only the filenames that match a specified pattern. Go back to the root directory of your disk. Press <ALT-F> for File Pattern. When ShortCut prompts you, type ?FILE.*. Strike <Enter>. Only the files matching this pattern are displayed in the Directory Window. It is as if ShortCut put all the filenames through a filter, and only the ones fitting the pattern you specified made it through. The files are still on your disk; you just can't see them. TUTOR.DOC - 13 Use <ALT-F> again and specify *.*. All your files will become visible again. Running a Program Move the screen arrow to a program file such as a word processor or a spreadsheet. You may have to change direc- tories or insert another diskette and change drives to find the file you want. Any time you switch diskettes, you can force ShortCut to read the new one. Just move the screen arrow to the Current Displayed Directory and press the <Space Bar>. Press <F2> to move to the RUN command box on the Command Bar. Hit <Enter> to run the program. Pop Up ShortCut Now that your program is up and running, press <Alt-Left Shift> to pop up ShortCut. The ShortCut screen will appear and the words POPPED UP will blink on and off at the top of the screen. This is to remind you that another program exists under the ShortCut screen. You can now use many of ShortCut's commands and features and then when you are done, return directly to your waiting program by pressing <Alt-Left Shift> again. If you change drives or directories or switch diskettes while you use ShortCut in its popped up state, you must remember to return everything as it was before you "unpop" back to your program or it may not be able to find the files it needs to run. Depending on the program, the results could be dis- astrous. Of course, while ShortCut is popped up you must also remember not to erase any files your program uses. For Hard Disk Users Only Up until now, your ShortCut files have been in your root directory of your hard disk. Now that you are familiar with how ShortCut works, you will probably want to put your ShortCut files in a directory of their own. Press <F8> and <Enter>. Type in a name for the new direc- tory: either SHORTCUT or SC, and press the <Enter> key. Now mark all ShortCut files and move them to the new directory with the MOVE command (Shift-F3). A Summary of ShortCut Commands You should now be familiar with most of the commands on the Command Bar plus a few of ShortCut's Alt key commands. Below is a list of all of ShortCut's commands with a brief descrip- TUTOR.DOC - 14 tion of each. An asterisk (*) indicates the command is available when you have ShortCut popped up over another program. The First Command Bar F1 Help * Displays a help screen listing ShortCut commands. Detailed help is available by pressing the keys for any command from this screen. F2 Run Executes the program pointed at by the screen arrow. The file must have an extension of .COM, .EXE, .BAT, or .BAS. F3 Copy * Copies the marked files to the directory or drive you select. F4 Edit Edits the marked file with the text editor or word processor of your choice. This command will be covered in SETUP.DOC. F5 Type * Displays the contents of the mark file(s). Files must be an ASCII file or the characters "typed" on your screen may not be readable. F6 Print * Sends the contents of the marked file or files to your printer. F7 Erase * Erases the marked file or files. F8 Mkdir * Creates a subdirectory that belongs to the Current Displayed Directory. F9 Rename * Renames the marked file or files. F10 Commnd Displays the normal DOS command line. You may enter any DOS command. COMMND.DOC explains this feature. The Second Command Bar (Shift) All commands on the second Command Bar use the <Shift> key plus a function key. For example, use <Shift-F1> to reach the PATH command. F1 Path * Displays the path DOS uses to find executable files, and allows you to change it if you wish. F2 Labl * Changes the volume label of your disk. F3 Move * Moves files from one directory to another on a disk. TUTOR.DOC - 15 F4 Date * Displays the system date and allows you to change it. F5 Time * Displays the system time and allows you to change it. F6 Dcopy Formats a disk in drive B and copies all files from the disk in drive A to the disk in drive B. F7 Setup * Allows you to configure ShortCut to your specifications. SETUP is covered in detail in SETUP.DOC F8 Rmdir * Removes the empty subdirectory pointed at by the screen arrow. F9 Search * Searches all directories on a disk for a file matching a pattern you specify. F10 Format Formats a disk in drive B. The Third Command Bar (Ctrl) All commands on the third Command Bar use the <Ctrl> key plus a function key. F1 - F10 Your commands You determine what these commands will be. SETUP.DOC will tell you how to "install" these commands. The command boxes will say Ndef for not defined until you put your commands in them. The Fourth Command Bar (Alt) All commands on the fourth Command Bar use the <Alt> key plus a function key. F1 - F10 Your commands You determine what these commands will be. SETUP.DOC will tell you how to "install" these commands. The command boxes will say Ndef for not defined until you put your commands in them. Alt Key Commands All Alt key commands use the <Alt> key plus a letter. For example, press <Alt-C> to turn CHIME on or off. Alt key commands are explained in detail in REFER.DOC. TUTOR.DOC - 16 Alt-B Break * Toggles Break on and off. When break is active, it may be easier to stop a program while it is running. If break is on, the Break box will be highlighted on ShortCut's screen. Alt-C Chime * Toggles on and off. When on, a musical note is present in the box ShortCut uses to display the time and a chime will sound every hour on the hour. Alt-D DOS Screen * Replaces the ShortCut screen with the DOS screen. Alt-E Exit ShortCut Exits ShortCut removing ShortCut from your com- puter's memory. Alt-F File Pattern * Allows you to specify a file pattern (template) and displays only those files that match that pattern in the Directory Window. Alt-G Go to Marked Directory * Returns to the directory marked with <Alt-M> (Mark Directory). Alt-H Help * Displays context-sensitive help. Alt-L Locate File * Sorts the filenames alphabetically and puts the first filename beginning with the letter you specify at the top of the Directory Window. If the files are sorted by extension when <Alt-L> is pressed, the filenames containing an extension beginning with the letter you specify are put at the top of the Directory Window. Alt-M Mark Directory * Marks a directory. Once marked, you can leave this directory and then return to it quickly with <Alt-G> (Go to directory). Alt-P Pause * Toggles Pause mode on and off. When Pause is on, before the DOS screen is replaced with ShortCut's screen, you must press a key. When it is off, ShortCut's screen reappears after a DOS command is executed without any input from you. Pause gives you the opportunity to read the DOS screen before it is replaced with ShortCut's screen. TUTOR.DOC - 17 Alt-S Save Configuration * Saves the way you have ShortCut set up at the present time to the SHORTCUT.DAT file. Alt-T Tree * Displays a visual tree of the directories on your current Display Drive. Permits you to change directories. Alt-V Verify * Used to turn on and off the verification of files after they are copied. TUTOR.DOC - 18