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The following is additional documentation for Flipper's multiple
configuration capability, including the use of the F command,
Flipload, Flipsave, and Flipext.

All of the changes that you make to the way Flipper works,
including it's voices, the character set, option settings,
search strings, etc., are referred to as a "configuration".
Once you have Flipper set up the way you want within a
spreadsheet, for example, or for a spelling checker, you will
undoubtedly wish to save the configuration so that you can use
it again later.

Flipper not only lets you save and reload a configuration, it
will allow you to you to make up several of them and switch
between them quickly.  For example, if when you use WordPerfect,
you start it with a "/NF" on the command line like this:

wp /nf

then WordPerfect will write text on the screen in such a way
that Flipper's automatic output facility will read everything.
That is useful, because all prompts will be spoken
automatically, for example.  However, if you start typing in
text, too much will be spoken, which is very distracting.  The
solution is to turn off automatic output when you are entering
text.  It would be very clumsy, of course, to always enter the
review mode, turn on or off the automatic output, leave the
review mode, etc.  However, you can turn the automatic output on
or off with a single keystroke by doing the following:

First, set up a configuration for WordPerfect the way you want
it.  Then make the other configuration the same by pressing
shift F.  Now both configurations are the same, set up for
WordPerfect.  Now you can turn the automatic output off in the
primary configuration, then flip the configuration with the f
command, and turn the automatic output on in the secondary
configuration. When you use the flip configuration command, alt
F,  the automatic output turns on and off, and nothing else
changes, because their are no other differences between the
primary and secondary configurations.  Now you when you are
ready to do a command within WordPerfect, you can just press alt
f, to turn on the automatic output, then do the command, and
when you are ready to enter text again, you just turn off the
automatic output again by pressing alt f, switching back to the
primary configuration.

It is often useful to have two configurations, primary and
secondary, that only have one difference, so that you can change
that one thing quickly.

Now that you have set up these two configurations for
WordPerfect, you can save them for use later on.  To save them
permanently, after you exit WordPerfect, flip to the primary
configuration, then execute the following command:

flipsave wpprime.flp

then flip to the secondary configuration with the alt f, and
execute the following command:

flipsave wpsecond.flp

you can then load those configurations later by executing the
command:

flipload wpprime.flp wpsecond.flp

The names wpprime and wpsecond are arbitrary, of course.

You can also set up a batch file that will enter wordperfect and
load your configurations.  Just make up a file called WP.BAT
with the following contents:

echo off
flipload wpprime.flp wpsecond.flp
wp /nf
flipload \flipper\start.flp \flipper\start.flp

the last flipload command loads your starting configuration into
both the primary and secondary configurations.

FLIPEXT:

Flipext is a command that you can use to set up other
configurations in memory, in addition to the primary and
secondary configurations that are built into Flipper.  For each
configuration that you set up with Flipext, you will use up 1
kilobyte of your system memory.  As you set up each
configuration with flipext, it is given a number, 1 for the
first one that you make 2 for the second, and so on.  Flipext is
used with configurations that you have saved earlier with the
flipsave command.  For example, you can set up your starting
configuration as an external configuration by executing the
command:

flipext \flipper\start.flp

at the DOS prompt.  You use the configurations that you loaded
by going into the review mode, pressing the number of the
configuration that you want, then pressing the f key.

An simple example of the use of configurations set up with the
flipext command is the case of a computer which is used by both
blind persons and by sighted persons.   You can set up a
"silent" configuration for use by sighted persons, and a regular
one for use by Blind operators.  You do this by going into
Flipper's review mode and then turning off all of Flipper's
speaking options, including automatic output, keyboard echo,
reading after arrow keys, reading after backspace and delete,
the backslash command, and you can also turn of the quick keys,
and the alt number keys.  With this configuration, the only
difference that Flipper being loaded makes is the ability to pop
into review mode, and memory use.  You can then save this silent
configuration by leaving the review mode, and then executing the
command:

flipsave silent.flp

Then if you put in the autoexec.bat file the lines:

flipext start.flp
flipext silent.flp

then you can turn off Flipper for use by a sighted person by
entering the review mode at any time, and then pressing 2 f.
When you need to use the computer again, you can press 1 f,
loading the starting configuration again, and making Flipper
interactive again.

You can also make temporary changes to external configurations
by going into the review mode setting the configuration the way
you want it, and then pressing the number of the configuration
that you want to change, and then shift f.  Remember that you
need to change the configuration that you load from on the disk
to make permanent changes that will be there when you reboot.