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HELP SYSTEM QUICK INDEX
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A) GENERAL OVERVIEW #2
B) MAIN MENU COMMANDS #6
C) DATABASE COMMANDS #10
D) FILE COMMANDS #14
E) INDEX DATABASE #25
F) MENU COMMANDS #26
G) SETUP #31
H) TREE COMMANDS #33
I) PROTECTION & USAGE #39
J) USING A MOUSE #40
GENERAL OVERVIEW
At any time during the operation of the program, you may press the [Alt-C]
key combination to activate an on-screen calculator. The [Esc] key will
return you to the program at the point from which you started the
calculator. Another "always available" command is the [Alt-S] command
which displays the current space statistics of your disk drives and other
program option settings. Again, the [Esc] key will return you to the
point at which the statistics screen was activated. [Alt-P] displays a
detailed copyright notice and [Alt-H] displays help information. When you
use [Alt-H], the first screen to appear is a quick index for the help
system. You may jump to a section of the help file by pressing the
appropriate hilited letter. You may always return to the help index by
pressing [Home]. [Alt-L] displays a calendar and [Alt-D] provides quick
access to the DOS prompt. The current directory will be whichever
directory was currently in use by the FILE command of the program. From
the DOS prompt, you may enter any DOS command (given sufficient memory).
[F1-F10] recalls the last 10 DOS commands. [Esc] returns to the program.
Most of the program functions are executed through the list of commands
shown in the bottom area of the screen. The [Space] or [BackSpace] keys
may be used to highlight the desired command. The one-line description of
the command shown on the last line of the screen will change
appropriately. To execute any of the functions, press the first letter of
the command. The command corresponding to the selected letter will be
immediately executed.
Some commands will move to another command list. The name of the current
command list is always shown on the left side of the command list. You
may move to a previous command list by pressing the [Esc] key. Most
command lists also have a QUIT command which will move to the previous
command list.
Occasionally, you will be presented with a vertical list of choices for
some program function options. Select from these lists by pressing the up
or down arrow keys and press [Enter] when the desired option is
highlighted. If the first letters of the options are shown in bold
characters, you may press the corresponding letter to make a selection.
You may optionally press the [Esc] key to abort the selection process. In
general, the [Esc] key serves to abort any operation or selection.
At many points in the program, you will be entering or changing
information on the screen. The procedure is generally the same and is
outlined here. Differences that occur in this procedure are covered in
the appropriate detail sections of this documentation.
When entering or updating data screens, a flashing "*" will appear on
the data screen to indicate where information is to be entered. A
cursor will also show the current position within a data field. Data
fields are the hilited areas of the screen. Some or all of the following
commands will be available for data entry:
[left/right arrow]: Moves the cursor within the current field. If the
the cursor is at the first position within a field,
then the previous field will be selected. If the
cursor is at the last position within a field, then
the next field will be selected.
[ctrl-left/right]: Moves the cursor to the first position or last
character of the field.
[F1/F2]: Enters the current date/time if appropriate.
[F5/F6]: Moves to the previous/next record (databases only).
[ctrl-home/end]: Moves to the first or last record (databases only).
[up/down arrow]: Selects the previous or next data field for editing.
[Enter/return]: Same as right or down arrow for next field.
[F8]: Blanks the current data field.
[Esc]: Aborts changes made to the data screen and completes
enter/update action.
[F10]: Accepts changes to the data screen and completes
enter/update action.
MAIN MENU COMMANDS
BACKUP
Attempts to locate and execute the Backup/Restore program to perform a
perform a hard disk backup or restoration. The Backup/Restore program is
a separate program available from AMST that is used to backup your hard
disk to floppy disks. If you have not purchased and installed the
Backup/Restore program, a message will indicate that the program could not
be found.
DISKFORMAT
The DISKFORMAT command is used like the DOS FORMAT command to format
diskettes. For your protection, the DISKFORMAT command will only operate
on drives A and B. When you select the DISKFORMAT command, a screen will
appear for you to enter the format specifications:
FORMAT DRIVE: The letter designating the drive to format.
TYPE: This is the type of drive to format:
1 = 360K 3 = 720K
2 = 1.2M 4 = 1.4M
VOLUME LABEL: Up to 11 characters may be entered as a volume
label to be placed on the disk.
When you have entered the appropriate data for the format specification,
[F10] will begin the format process. All disks formatted with the
DISKFORMAT command will be checked for bad sectors. Progress of the
format operation will be shown on the screen. When the format operation
is complete, the total and available bytes on the formatted disk will be
shown, as well as the number of bytes in bad sectors found and marked. If
you wish to format another disk, you may press [F10] when the format
specification screen is showing again. Press [Esc] to end the formatting
session.
FILE
Moves to the FILE command list described later.
INDEX
Moves to the INDEX database. See the section on DATABASE COMMANDS.
MENU
Moves to the MENU command list described later.
SETUP
Moves to the program setup data screen described later.
TREE
Moves to the TREE command list described later.
USAGE
Provides access to the protection and usage log features of the program.
See the sections on DATABASE COMMANDS and PROTECTION & USAGE.
DATABASE COMMANDS
There are three databases in the program: the Index, Timelog, and User
databases. In general, the program databases operate in the same fashion.
After you select a database from the program main menu, a screen appears
that displays information relative to the database in use. Line 24 of the
screen will display information related to the current database. This line
will show, in order, the name of the current database, the current order
of the database, the page and number of pages total, the current record
number, the number of records currently stored in the database, the total
number of records counting previously deleted records, and