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- ADVMENU
-
- ADVMENU is a data base designed to work with the Norton Guides
- on line help program. To use it you must own a copy of the Norton
- Guides (NG.EXE which comes with any of the language data bases.
- The file ADVMENU.NG contains help on the ADVBAS Basic Library by
- Mr. Tom Hanlin III. ADVMENU was created and released by P. Sanders
- of Carlin, Western Australia.
-
-
- THANK YOU to
- Thomas Hanlin III, 1985-1987
- 1712 Maple Hill Place
- Alexandria, VA 22302
-
- and Wayne Hammerly
- Hammerly Computer Services, Inc.
- 8008 Sandy Spring Rd
- Laurel MD, 20707
- (301) 953-2191
-
- for providing the ADVBAS routines and information on the commercial
- version of ADVBAS, the excellent ProBas Professional Basic Programming
- Library (available from Hammerly).
-
- THANK YOU to
- Peter Norton Computing Inc
-
- for providing the NORTON GUIDES
-
- This on line guide was produced with the NORTON GUIDES program (c)
- Peter Norton Computing.
-
-
-
- To use the on line guide, all you need to do is type "NG" (without
- the quotes of course). The help facility is then called by pressing
- the shift and the F1 key. The setup and use of the guide is then
- accessed with the cursor keys, the page, home, and end keys. You will
- find that the help screen normally occupies half of the screen,
- however if you press the F9 key the screen expands to full screen.
- The rest of the on line help is self explanatory, and intuitive in
- use.
-
- The help is context sensitive, using the memory resident program to
- access a section of the database on disk. This access is very fast.
-
- i.e. if you type the word print, and then press SHIFT F1 the on line
- help will display the first entry it finds with the word "print".
-
- You may also start the Norton Guides with another program e.g.
- QuickBASIC, this will run both the guides and QuickBASIC, and when
- exiting QuickBASIC, the memory resident portion of Norton Guides will
- be removed from memory.
-
- e.g. NG QB /h filename /L ADVBAS
-
- The information contained in the on line help is essentially the
- ADVBAS.DOC file supplied with the ADVBAS.ARC program. It has been
- edited slightly to enable use with the NORTON GUIDES.
-
-
- I would reccommend that anybody using ADVBAS routines consider the
- purchase of ProBas, as it has more facilities, and works with
- QuickBASIC v4.
-
- You are not obliged to keep this file on disk, however I would
- suggest that you include it with any copies you provide to other
- users.