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When changing the help menu files, you must note that Terminate will use
some search strings that is in the default help files. You should not
remove those entries or put simular string other places in the help file.
You risk that a subject will be located the wrong place when showing the
help file. I you don't understand the rest of this document you should
not try to change the helpfiles.
You can insert a ascii #12 () anywhere to force a new page on the printer,
the #12 will be ignored when showing the help online.
Maximum help file size is 600 lines of each maximum 105 characters, maybe
this sound as a weird number to you. But is you calculate the amount of
memory needed is appr. a 64k segment. The helpfiles are loaded directly
into a buffer for maximum performance a linked-list is not used. The
reason why not 80 chars is that you sometimes will need colors like ^h,
so you can use 25 chars extra on each line for colors.
Color codes
Default
^n Normal text color Gray
^h Highlighted text color Cyan
^b Bold text color Yellow
^r Menu bar color Blue on gray background
^m Menu color Bright cyan
^t Menu head color Yellow on blue background
^f Toggle flash/blink No flash, always after a color command
Terminate has a lot of keywords inside the TERMINAT.EXE file. These
words are used for placing the cursorbar in the helpfiles, so you will
faster access help for the current item. Generally do not change the
text inside headlines or highlighted text like: ^hConfiguration^n
Terminate will show which keyword you are missing when calling the
help menu. Then look at the keyword and change it back in the .HLP file.