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- LIST
-
- A File Viewing and Browsing Utility
-
- Version 7.5 September 1990
-
- Licensed Material. Unauthorized distribution is prohibited.
- (c) Copyright Vernon D. Buerg 1983-90. All rights reserved
-
- Excerpted material follows:
-
- Note: This utility is used throughout this program to browse
- or view various reports and Help screens. The commands
- presented below are for your information should you
- wish to go beyond the passive view or browse function
- it performs.
-
-
-
- Command key summary:
-
- Cursor key Function
- ----------- -----------------------------------------------
-
- left arrow scroll left 10 columns
- right arrow scroll right 10 columns
-
- up arrow up one (previous) line
- down arrow down one (next) line
-
- Enter continue to next page
-
- END position to end of file (bottom)
-
- ESCape Exit program unconditionally
-
- HOME restart from first line (top)
-
- PgUp scroll up one page, 23 lines
- PgDn scroll down one page, 23 lines
-
-
- F- function keys
-
- Function key Function
- ------------ ---------------------------------------------------
-
- F1 Displays the HELP screen
-
- F3 Find NEXT occurrence of text after Scan or Find
-
- F9 FInd the PREVIOUS occurrence of text
-
- F10 Exit to DOS
-
- è For changing display colors:
-
- F2 Change background color for Find/Scan text
- F4 Change foreground color for Find/Scan text
-
- F5 Change background color for main body of display
- F6 Change foreground color for main body of display
-
- F7 Change background color for top and bottom lines
- F8 Change foreground color for top and bottom lines
-
-
-
- Letter keys:
-
-
- The Letter key commands are mnemonic. That is, the letter in some
- way, indicates what the command does.
-
- Letter(s) Function
- --------- -----------------------------------------------
-
- A Find next occurrence of 'text' (Again)
-
- B Skip to end of file (Bottom)
-
- C Toggles Continuous scrolling
-
- D Scroll Down one page
-
- F Find 'text' regardless of case
-
- G Get new filename/filespec (also Alt-F)
-
- H Display the Help screen.
-
- K Toggles keyboard key-ahead.
-
- L Scroll LEFT 10 columns
-
- M Toggles Monitor retrace testing to eliminate snow
-
- N Down one (Next) line
-
- P Toggles the printing of displayed lines.
-
- Q Quits current file and displays next file, if any
-
- R Scroll Right 10 columns. command, the 'R' command
-
- S Scan for exact text match, case dependent
-
- T Restart from first line (Top)
-
- U Scroll Up one page (23 lines)
- è
- W Toggles the Wrap option for displaying long lines
-
- X Terminate, clear screen and eXit to DOS
-
- Z Display the previous file.
-
- 7 Toggles the 7-bit filter
-
- 8 Toggles the 8-bit filter
-
- * Toggles the star filter
-
- + Position a given number of lines forward
-
- - Position a given number of lines backward
-
- ? Displays the Help screen
-
- space Scrolls down one page
-
- \text Find any case 'text' going forward
-
- /text Scan exact case 'text' going forward
-
- ` or ^ Find any case 'text' going backward
-
- ' or v Find exact case 'text' going backward
-
-
- Control- keys:
-
- The Ctrl- key commands are entered by pressing the Ctrl key at the
- same time as you press one of the following letter keys:
-
- Control key Function
- ----------- ---------------------------------------------------
-
- Ctrl-HOME Position to a specific line by number
-
- Ctrl-PgDn Display next file
-
- Ctrl-PgUp Display previous file
-
- Ctrl-left Reset display to column 1, i.e. scroll full left
-
- Ctrl-right Scroll full right (to the end of the current line)
-
- Ctrl-A Scroll full left
-
- Ctrl-C Display next page, scroll down
-
- Ctrl-D Scroll right 10 columns
-
- Ctrl-E Display previous line, scroll up 1 line
- è
- Ctrl-F Send a formfeed control character to the printer
-
- Ctrl-H ** Hang up the telephone
-
- Ctrl-N Display previous file
-
- Ctrl-P Print the entire file
-
- Ctrl-R Display previous page, scroll up
-
- Ctrl-S Scroll left 10 columns
-
- Ctrl-T ** Dial a telephone number
-
- Ctrl-U Display previous file
-
- Ctrl-V ** Switch display windows
-
- Ctrl-W Display previous line, scroll up one line
-
- Ctrl-Y ** Save current line number as bookmark line for Alt-Y
-
- Ctrl-X Display next line, scroll down one line
-
-
- Alt- keys:
-
-
- The Alt- key commands are entered by pressing the Alt key at the
- same time as you press one of the following letter keys:
-
- Alt- letter Function
- ----------- ---------------------------------------------------
-
- Alt-A Search for next occurrence of text, continue to next
- file until found
-
- Alt-B Mark bottom line of display
-
- Alt-C Copy options and setting to LIST.COM
-
- Alt-D Write marked lines, or found line, to a file
-
- Alt-E Toggle 25 or 43/50 line display with EGA or VGA
-
- Alt-F Enter additional filenames to display
-
- Alt-G Goto DOS temporarily to enter DOS commands
-
- Alt-I ** Insert a filespec from the screen display
-
- Alt-H Toggle Hex display mode
-
- Alt-J Toggle the "junk" filter
- è
- Alt-L Toggle preloading of files
-
- Alt-M Mark the line at the top of the display
-
- Alt-N Toggle the Alt-X screen saving feature
-
- Alt-O Write marked lines, or found line, to the same file
- used by Alt-D
-
- Alt-R Toggle the display of a ruler line on top line
-
- Alt-S Toggle the file Sharing option
-
- Alt-T Toggle the TAB control character filer
-
- Alt-U Unmark lines marked by Alt-M and Alt-B
-
- Alt-V ** Invoke the File Selection Menu
-
- Alt-W Toggle split screen
-
- Alt-X Exit to DOS and display the original screen
-
- Alt-Y Reposition to the last "active" line (bookmark)
-
- Alt-Z Toggles the command line in the bottom line. The
- default is to display the cursor key usage. Using
- Alt-Z changes the bottom line to show the option
- switches "Toggles:" settings.
-
-
- Configuring LIST
- ______________________________________________________________________________
-
- Screen Colors
- The screen's lines may be in one of three different colors:
-
- o the 'special' color for the top status line and the
- bottom command line
- o the 'normal' color for the file's text windows
- o the 'bright' color for lines with Find/Scan text,
- and for the upside-down question mark in 7-bit mode
-
- There is a pair of function keys assigned to each color. You use
- these function keys at any time to change the background and
- foreground colors temporarily, or use the Alt-C cloning command to
- make the colors permanent. Alt-C requires that the LIST.COM program
- file be on the current drive and in the current directory unless you
- are using DOS version 3.3 or later. With DOS 3.3, the program file
- may have any name and may reside in any subdirectory.
-
- The border is not changed. The foreground color applies to the
- color of the characters.
-
- è You may clone a second set of text colors for the second, and any
- other windows that you may create.
-
- The color attributes may be changed by using these function keys:
-
- For the main body of text:
-
- F5 - background color
- F6 - foreground color
-
- For the top and bottom lines:
-
- F7 - background color
- F8 - foreground color
-
- For the line with Find/Scan text:
-
- F2 - background color
- F4 - foreground
-
- Once you have decided upon the colors, use the Alt-C key combination
- to change the LIST.COM program file. This process is described
- below.
-
-
-
- Cloning
- The screen colors, the display retrace testing (M), the file sharing
- (S), ruler (Alt-R), and other options may be permanently set in the
- program COM file by using the Alt-C cloning function.
-
- For cloning to take effect, the program should be called LIST.COM
- and on the current drive and in the current directory.
-
- There are THREE versions of the LIST program file. One is the
- normal full program, which is LISTR.COM. The other, which is called
- LISTS.COM, is a slightly smaller file that excludes the Help screen.
- The third is LIST PLUS, found as LIST.COM. You may use any of the
- three COM files for cloning. After cloning, you may continue
- viewing the file. Several of the command toggles are also
- 'clonable'.
-
- The values and toggles that are cloned are:
-
- M = Mono monitor, affects retrace testing. If you see
- "snow" on your color monitor, turn off this option
-
- Alt-S = file(s) are shared
-
- W = Wrap long lines
-
- 8/7/* = display all 256 values, or 7-bit, or special case
-
- K = flush Keyboard each time a command is read
-
- è Alt-H = hex dump display, like the DEBUG format
-
- Alt-J = toggle "junk" filter, add LF to CR, fix backspaces
-
- Alt-L = set on to force preloading (reading) of the entire
- file before any lines are displayed, Default is OFF.
-
- Alt-N = toggles screen saving (see Alt-X) feature
-
- Alt-R = toggle columnar ruler on top line
-
- Alt-T = toggle expansion of TAB characters (also Ctrl-I)
-
- Alt-V = number of filenames per line (up value) and sort method
-
- F2 = change background color for Find/Scan text
- F4 = change foreground color for Find/Scan text
-
- F5 = change background color for main body of display
- F6 = change foreground color for main body of display
-
- F7 = change background color for top and bottom lines
- F8 = change foreground color for top and bottom lines
-
- Note: Be sure you have no other copies of LIST.COM which are
- accessible (because of an APPEND type of utility). If you are
- familiar with the DOS utility DEBUG, you may want to modify LIST in
- that way. This is described in the next section.
-
-