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Editor EDIT ENTRIES 10 4 2 6 28 30 Commands Keys Help for Help Modes Use the Editor like a word processor. The cursor keys and editing keys (Ins, Del, etc.) work as you might expect. Use F3 and F4 (or F6) to mark a block of lines, then use a command (listed in the lower portion of the main screen) to perform an operation on the block. Select "Commands" or "Keys" for details about commands and editing keys. Select "Help for Help" (or press AltF1) for details about using the help system. (AltF1 means "hold the Alt key and press F1".) Commands COMMANDS 13 6 3 8 9 10 11 12 More (find) Again Clear Dupe Exchange Find Again: repeats Find, using the previous search text rather than prompting for a new one. Clear: sets the Name, Number, Script, Password and LastCall fields to blanks, zeros the Total field, and sets all others to default values over a marked block or at the cursor line. Dupe: copies selected fields from the cursor line over a marked block. Exchange: swaps the locations of two blocks. Find: searches for specified text from the line after the cursor through the rest of the .FON. Commands Continued.. COMMANDS 12 6 4 13 14 15 16 17 More Insert Kopy Load Move Other info Insert: places empty lines in a block or at the cursor line, by pushing non-empty lines down. Kopy: if two .FONs are loaded, copies a marked block from the one that is not visible to the one that is. Load: loads another .FON, optionally keeping the present one loaded. Move: moves a block to the cursor line. Other info: changes the displayed fields from Number, COM and Script to Password, LastCall, Total, P and D. Commands Continued... COMMANDS 9 6 5 18 30 19 20 1 More Pack Revise Sort Undo Editor Help Pack: moves the empty lines in a block to its bottom. Revise: change from Command Mode to Edit Mode. Sort: sorts a block on selected fields and directions. Undo: restores the state of the directory and the Editor to that saved at a previous time. Commands Concluded COMMANDS 7 4 21 22 7 1 sWitch .FONs eXit Quit .FON File Editor Help sWitch .FONs: if two .FONs are loaded, changes which one is displayed. eXit: finishes the session, offering to save the .FON files, if they may have been changed, and returns to DOS. Quit: offers to save the displayed .FON file, if it may have been changed, and discards, making the RAM available for other uses. Editing Keys (In Edit Mode) EDITOR KEYS 40 2 1 2 Editor Help Commands - Cursor Movement - Enter : cursor to start of next line RtArrow/^D : cursor right one column LfArrow/^S : cursor left one column Tab/^I : cursor right to start of field End: : cursor right to end of field ShiftTab : cursor left to start of field ^RtArrow/^F : cursor right to next "word" ^lfArrow/^A : cursor left to previous "word" UpArrow/^E : cursor up one line DnArrow/^X : cursor down one line PgUp/^R : cursor up one page PgDn/^C : cursor down one page Home : cursor to first column of line ^PgUp : cursor to first page ^PgDn : cursor to last page - Editing - Del/^G : delete character at cursor BackSpace/^H : delete character at left of cursor ^Y : delete to end of field Ins/^V : change between insert and overwrite (overwrite is forced in some fields, including the LastCall field) - Function Keys - F1/AltH : Help F2 : turn marks off F3 : mark start of block F4 : mark end of block F6 : mark entire .FON - Function Keys in Help - AltF1 : Help for Help Shift F1 : Last Help (AltH means "hold the Alt key and press H or h".) Quit .FON File COMMAND 11 3 23 22 1 Save eXit Editor help To Quit the displayed .FON file: Press Q in Command Mode. Quit disposes of the displayed .FON file, after a confirming prompt, and makes that RAM available for other purposes. If the .FON file has been changed, Quit will prompt to save it. See Save for more information. At either prompt, to quit the .FON file simply press Y or y. To return to the Editor without quitting the file, press N, n or Esc. Quit only works if you have two .FON files. Otherwise, QFE will display an "oops" message. (Find) Again COMMAND 6 2 12 1 Find Editor help To (find) Again: Press A in Command Mode. Again repeats a previous Find, starting from the line after the cursor line and continuing to the end of the .FON. Again is like Find in all ways except that Again does not prompt for a search text, but uses the previous one. Clear Lines COMMAND 10 1 1 Editor Help To Clear: Press C in Command Mode. If a block is marked, Clear replaces the lines in the block with empty lines. If no block is marked, Clear replaces only the cursor line. In the empty line(s), the Name, Number Script, Password and LastCall fields will be filled with blanks. The Total field will be zeroed. The remaining fields will be set from default values. Duplicate (Copy) Entry over Block COMMAND 20 1 1 Editor Help To Duplicate : Mark a block and press D in Command Mode. A window will open displaying all fields from the cursor line. Duplicate will copy fields from the cursor line over a marked block. If you don't want a particular field (such as the Number field) to be copied, use Tab or ShiftTab to move the cursor to that field, and press AltB. The field will fill with #### to show that it won't be copied. (Pressing AltB on a #### field will restore its contents, and it will be copied.) After selecting the fields to copy, press AltF10, or press Esc to close the Duplicate window without copying. Note that Duplicate can be used to clear fields--such as the Password field--by blanking those fields on the cursor line, and using Duplicate to blank that field over the block. Duplicate can also be used to change the baud rate over a block, by changing it on the cursor line, and using Duplicate to change it over the block. (AltB means "hold the Alt key and press B or b".) Exchange Lines COMMAND 8 1 1 Editor Help To Exchange: Mark a block. cursor at the top of another (unmarked) block of lines. Press E in Command Mode. Exchange moves the marked block to where the cursor line is, and moves an equal sized block, starting at the cursor line, to where the marked block was. If the two blocks overlap before the exchange, or if the cursor is too near the end of the file, a message window will open and the exchange will not be made. Find COMMAND 16 2 8 1 (find) Again Editor Help To Find: Press F in Command Mode. A window will open to accept search text. Enter the text you want to find, up to the limits of the input area. Press Enter when you have finished input, or press Esc to close the window without doing a search. Find will search for a match for your text, starting with the line after the cursor line and continuing to the end of the .FON. If a match is found, Find will adjust the display to show the line where the match occurred, and put the cursor on that line. Find does a case-insensitive search. For example, 'FORBIN', 'FoRbIn', and 'forbin' are all the same to it. To continue searching for the same text, use the (find) Again command, pressing A. Insert Lines COMMAND 14 1 1 Editor Help To Insert: Press I in Command Mode. If a block is marked, Insert pushes the marked lines down, replacing them with empty lines. If no block is marked, Insert pushes the line at the cursor down, replacing it with an empty line. The empty lines move from below the block. If there are not enough empty lines below the cursor to replace those being pushed down, a message window will open and the insert will not be made. (Empty lines are those that are filled with blanks in the Name, Number and Script fields.) Kopy from Other .FON File COMMAND 16 3 15 21 1 Load new .FON sWitch .FONs Editor Help To Kopy: Switch .FON displays. Press K in Command Mode. If a block is marked in the .FON which is not displayed, that block is copied to the displayed .FON, starting at the cursor line. If not block is marked in the nondisplayed .FON, the entry at that .FON's cursor will be copied to the displayed .FON at the cursor line. If the cursor is too near the end of the file, QFE will display an "oops" message and not make the copy. The purpose of Kopy is to let you move entries from one .FON to another. You must have two .FON files loaded in order to Kopy. Kopy writes over entries in the displayed .FON--it does not try to push them out of the way. Load New .FON File COMMAND 11 4 29 1 21 14 Keep .FON Editor Help sWitch .FONs Kopy To Load a new .FON: Press L in Command Mode. Load prompts for the name of a .FON file, including drive, path and extension, as required. (The extension will be forced to .FON.) Load prompts whether to keep the displayed .FON file, then attempts to locate and read in the requested file. If two .FON files are already loaded, Load will require that one of them not be kept before it loads a new one. If the current file has been changed, Load prompts to save it. Move Entries COMMAND 11 2 20 1 Undo Editor Help To Move: Mark the top and bottom of a block of lines. Put the cursor where you want to move the block. Press M in Command Mode. The marked block will be moved to where the cursor is. The exact positioning of the block and the lines moved to accomdate it depends on the direction of the move (toward the beginning or end of the .FON file) and the location of the block relative to the cursor. The results may not always be what you expect. See the entry on Undo. Move is nondestructive--entries are moved, but not overwritten or otherwise changed. Other Info Display EDIT or COMMAND 9 1 1 Editor Help To display other .FON information: Press O in Command Mode or AltO in Edit Mode. Not all of the .FON information can be displayed at the same time. Sometimes the screen displays the fields Number, COM, and Script. Other times it displays Password, LastCall, Total, P(arity), and D(uplex). The Other info command changes which set of fields is displayed. (AltO means "hold the Alt key and press O or o".) Pack Entries COMMAND 11 2 24 1 Page or Block Editor Help To Pack: Mark the top and bottom of a block of lines. Press P in Command Mode. Pack moves the empty lines in the marked block to its bottom, pushing the rest to the top. (Empty lines are those that are filled with blanks in the Name, Number and Script fields.) If the marked block consists only of complete pages, and is longer than one page, Pack prompts whether to pack individual pages or the block as one unit. See "Page or Block" for more information on that. (A complete page is one on which all entries are marked.) Sort Entries COMMAND 30 2 24 1 Page or Block Editor Help To Sort: Mark the top and bottom of a block of lines. Press S in Command Mode. A window will open, listing the fields on which you may sort: Name, Number, Area Code, Exchange, Baud, Total Calls, Last Call, Script and Password; as well as the directions in which you may sort: Asc and Des. Use the space bar, cursor keys, and Enter to move from field to field and between the two columns. Number the fields on which you wish to sort, with "1" being the most significant field, and "6" being the least. Place the numbers in the column under the direction you wish to sort for each field. Example: Put "1" across from "Baud," under "Des," to sort by speed, in descending order. When you have numbered as many fields as you wish, press F10 to begin the sort--or press Esc to cancel it. The next time you command Sort, your last chosen fields and directions will appear as the defaults. Accept them by pressing F10, edit them in the same way you originally entered them, or press Esc to cancel the sort. You cannot sort on Number if you sort on Area Code and/or Exchange (and vice versa). Sorts on Area Code and Exchange will probably not be correct if your numbers are not right justified, in the format "aaa eee nnnn" (where aaa is an area code, eee is the exchange, and nnnn is the rest of the number). If the block being sorted is two or more complete pages, Sort prompts whether to sort individual pages or the block as one unit. See "Page or Block" for more information on that. (A complete page is one where all entries on that page are marked. Undo Changes EDIT or COMMAND 19 1 1 Editor Help To Undo: Press ^U in Edit Mode or Command Mode. Undo puts the .FON file and the Editor into the same condition they were at some earlier time, when an internal "backup" was made. Internal backups are made when the .FON file is first loaded and before executing every command which changes the file. (Eg, Sort causes a backup, but Other info does not.) The number of available internal backups varies. If none are available for Undo, "^U" will not be visible in the command key list; otherwise, the number available will be displayed. Note that you can only Undo changes made before quitting QFE. The internal backups are not written to disk, so there is no way to recover them later. However, if disk space is available when you quit QFE, your unedited .FON file will be saved with the extension ".BAQ". (^U means "hold the Ctrl key and press U or u".) sWitch .FON Files COMMAND 9 3 15 14 1 Load new .FON Kopy Editor Help To sWitch .FONs: Press W in Command Mode. If you have two .FON files loaded at the same time, sWitch will let you change which one is being displayed and edited. Only the displayed .FON file is affected by any commands which change the .FON file's contents. The nondisplayed .FON file is available as a source for the Kopy command. eXit QFE EDIT or COMMAND 10 2 23 1 Save Editor Help To eXit: Press X in Command Mode or AltX in Edit Mode. eXit quits QFE and returns to DOS, after a confirming prompt. To quit, simply press Y or y. To return to the Editor, rather than quitting, press N, n or Esc. If the .FON file has been changed, Exit will prompt to save it. See Save for more information. (AltX means "hold the Alt key and press X or x".) Save .FON File PROMPT 12 3 22 21 1 eXit sWitch .FONs Editor Help Save is called by eXit and Load if the displayed file has been changed. (Save is called by Load only if you answer no to the "Keep this file?" prompt. To save the file and eXit or Load, press Y or y. To eXit or Load without saving the file, press N or n. To continue with QFE without eXiting or Loading, press Esc. If space is available on the disk, the original disk file will be kept with the extension ".BAQ". In that case, an existing file with the same name and the extension ".BAQ" will be erased. In any other case, QFE will prompt you before erasing a file. Page or Block PROMPT 10 3 18 19 1 Pack Sort Editor Help The prompt "Page by page or the entire block (P/B)" is given when the marked block contains only complete pages, is longer than one page, and the command is Pack or Sort. (A complete page is one on which all entries are marked.) Choosing Page (by pressing "P" or "p") causes all entries to stay on the page where they start. Choosing Block (by pressing "B" or "b") causes the command to treat the entire block as one unit: entries may be moved to different pages. Pressing Esc closes the prompt window and cancel the command. Backup INTERNAL COMMAND 14 2 20 1 Undo Editor Help Backup is called internally by commands which change the .FON file, before the changes are made. For example, Sort calls Backup before the sort is actually done. Backup saves only those pages which may be changed by the command. It also saves some other information, such as which entries are marked and which page is displayed. The Undo command restores the .FON file and the Editor to the conditions saved by the most recent Backup. Nothing should ever go wrong with Backup. You should never see this display unless you are "peeking" into the help file. If QFE shows you this display, please let me know what the situation was. Get New .FON File INTERNAL COMMAND 13 3 15 27 1 Load New .FON Startup Editor Help Get New .FON File is called internally by QFE's startup routine and by Load New .FON. The calling routines give the .FON file's name to Get New .FON File. QFE will display "oops" messages if: --there is no RAM available for the new .FON file or its buffer; --the file cannot be found; --the file is the wrong size; --a DOS error occurs opening or reading the file. If the "cannot be found" message is displayed during startup, QFE will stop. Startup INTERNAL COMMAND 14 1 26 Get New .FON QFE's startup routine: --determines the screen colors which were active before QFE was called; --checks the DOS "environment" for QMODEM=; --reads the .FON file name from the DOS "command line"; --reads other parameters from the "command line"; --looks for QMODEM.CNF and reads it, if found; --determines QFE's screen colors; --determines the path to the .FON file; --may prompt for keyboard input to continue (unregistered version only); --calls Get New to open and read the .FON file. If Get New is unable to open and read the .FON file during startup, QFE will display an "oops" message and stop. Help for Help EDIT or COMMAND 22 1 1 Editor Help QFE's help system is available any time after the earliest parts of the startup routine. Although F1 is the designated "help key", AltH will also call up help. To see this help screen, press AltF1 while in the help system. Help uses the PgUp, PgDn, up arrow and down arrow keys to display more information than one screen can hold. The bottom line on the help screen shows one or more related topics. One will always be highlighted. If you want to see a related topic's information, move the highlighting to that topic and press Enter. Use the Tab, Shift Tab, Space, and/or the left and right arrow keys to move the highlighting. You can also move from the current help screen to the last one that you viewed by pressing Shift F1. One topic that usually appears is Editor Help. From the Editor Help screens, you can switch to topics covering all QFE commands and keys. (AltH means "hold the Alt key and press H or h".) Keep .FON PROMPT 6 2 21 1 sWitch .FONs Editor Help The command Load new .FON prompts to find out if you want to keep the currently displayed .FON file. To keep the currently displayed .FON, answer the prompt with Y or y. To abandon the currently displayed .FON, answer with N or n. To return to the Editor without loading a new .FON file, press Esc. Modes COMMAND/EDIT MODES 20 3 2 6 1 Commands Keys Editor Help QFE operates in one of two modes: Command and Edit. The current mode is displayed in the upper right portion of the .FON display. When in Command Mode, QFE responds to keys much as Qmodem does. Pressing a key will cause some command to be carried out, rather than putting that key's character into a .FON entry. For example, the S key commands QFE to Sort the marked block. When in Edit Mode, QFE acts as a full-screen directory processor, much like a word processor. Pressing a character key puts the corresponding character into the .FON at the cursor location (if the character is proper for that location). For example, the S key would put the character "S" (or "s") into the .FON at the cursor. To change from Command Mode to Edit Mode, press R (for Revise, as in Qmodem). To return from Edit Mode to Command Mode, press Esc. Note that, unlike in Qmodem, you will not need to press F10 to save the changes when leaving Edit Mode, and Esc will not undo those changes. However, the changes will not be written to disk unless you choose to do that when quitting QFE.