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- INFOPOP version 1.16 (c) 1992, GMUtant Software
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-
- InfoPop is memory-resident utility, designed to help you use Telnet
- and/or your modem to reach a variety of information systems. Library
- systems in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe accessible via the
- Internet are covered, as are commercial online systems like CompuServe,
- the Well and a couple hundred BBS systems.
-
- The idea behind InfoPop is simple. Assuming you use a PC to access the
- Internet, loading IP.EXE first will enable you to have an online help
- system during your session. When inactive, InfoPop shrinks to a 9K
- kernel, preserving your system RAM. When activated (by pressing Left
- Shift F1, Left shift F2, or Left Shift F3) Infopop brings up an
- information window. You can copy and paste information from the info
- window to your underlying application--great for putting in those
- Telnet addresses. Note that IP will not work with certain connectivity
- options...it really is designed to safely interact with communication
- programs that use the serial port (e.g., with a modem).
-
-
- Network / LAN / CUTCP users
-
- Be sure to load ALL of your network shells and/or
- connectivity drivers before loading the TSR
- version of InfoPop (IP.EXE). Doing so won't
- guarantee that IP will run properly but if
- you load IP then a network driver or shell
- it surely will eventually crash or hang your
- system.
-
-
- Hot Key Action
-
- LeftShift-F1 Displays Master InfoPop Index
- LeftShift-F2 Displays topic that was on screen last time InfoPop
- was activated
- LeftShift-F3 Searches InfoPop database for term at cursor when
- hot key was press. If no match is found, master index
- displays.
-
- When you first load InfoPop from the DOS command line, you may
- control aspects of the program's behavior via arguments; that is,
- additional words or letters written after IP at prompt.
-
- Here are the command line arguments accepted by InfoPop:
-
- /B Force use of black and white video attributes
- /E ProgToRun Execute a program instead of going resident. This option
- must be the last one on InfoPop's command line.
- /D Force swapping to disk even if EMS is available
- /H Set initial height of help window. Defaults to 12 lines.
- /I HotKey Specify alternate Hot Key for Help Index
- /L HotKey Specify alternate Hot Key for Onscreen Lookup
- /P HotKey Specify alternate Hot Key for Previous Topic
- /X Turn off mouse support. May be needed if you have
- an old mouse driver.
- /N Force entire program (TSR) to remain in memory.
- /S Path Specify disk and directory for disk swapping
- /U Unload InfoPop from memory
- /? Display all options available
-
- Mouse support
-
- Programmers will recognize that putting mouse handlers in TSR
- applications is a very tricky subject. Not so much the dealing with
- the mouse during the popup program, but rather storing the state of
- the mouse from the underlying application and restoring it when
- the TSR goes back to sleep..
-
- InfoPop makes every attempt to coordinate existing mouse activites
- that may be going on in your underlying application with the mouse
- handler built into InfoPop's help window(s). If you find that InfoPop
- is destroying your mouse cursor when you return to your underlying
- application, you can turn off the InfoPop mouse with the /X command.
-
- Mouse commands
-
- Left button: Pressing left button once will move the cursor to the
- highlighted term at your mouse pointer. Double clicking will activate
- that term's associated text.
-
- Right button: closes InfoPop help system and returns to underlying
- application
-
- BOTH BUTTONS: calls up the main index (like pressing LeftShift-F3).
-
- You may click on the scroll bars to move around in the displayed
- window. Click on the arrows at the top and bottom of the scroll
- bar to scroll a single line in either direction.
-
- To explore INFOPOP, type IP at your DOS prompt, then press LEFT-SHIFT F1
- to pop up the information window. With cursor over INFOPOP HELP, press
- return then follow the text.
-
- F2 open text search box
- ^L (Control-L) if in search mode, takes you to next hit
- TAB or RIGHT ARROW move to next highlighted (linked) topic
- SHIFT-TAB or LEFT ARROW move back to previous highlighted entry
- Control-Right Arrow move to main topic index screen
- Control-Left Arrow move to previous topic screen
- Control-PageUp move to top of the topic
- Control-PageDown move to the bottom of a topic
-
- The TSR version of Infopop (IP.EXE) allows you to cut and paste
- between the InfoPop information window and your underlying application.
- Press ^KB to begin the block (or F7) and ^KK (or F8) to mark the end.
- Pressing F4 after a block is highlighted closes the InfoPop window
- and writes the highlighted text to your application (at the cursor).
- Great for pasting TELNET
- addresses!
-
- New INFOPOP.HLP files will be developed during the coming months.
- Check GMUtant OnLine BBS for an updated file. (703) 993-2219
-
-
- revision history
-
- 1.00 initial release
- 1.10 mouse support added.
- 1.11 ability to handle a larger
- number of cross-references
- per topic added. Minor
- tweaks in user interface
- 1.12 changed a couple of onscreen
- messages to say IP instead
- of InfoPop.
- 1.13 minor window change, name
- of program now appears on
- the opening window. IPR
- (non-TSR) version released.
- 1.14 window resized an additional
- line. Support added for
- Control-PgUp and Control-PgDn
- inside a given window.
- 1.15 Color for highlighted linked
- termed changed to WHITE.
- Control LEFT arrow moves back to
- previous link term.
- Control RIGHT arrow moves to
- next link.
- HOME key brings up the MAIN
- index screen (like F1 or
- clicking both mouse buttons)
- 1.16 Search [F2] capability added. You
- may now search the Infopop.hlp
- file for any word that appears
- in the file.
-
- Author: Clyde W. Grotophorst, Library Systems Office, Fenwick Library
- George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030
- voice: 703-993-2239 BBS: 703-993-2219 CIS: 70404,3376
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