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****** Should F-PC use Screen Blanking on a COLOR display. Blanking will be needed to reduce the SNOW on most CGA displays. EGA, MCGA (Hercules), and VGA displays will NOT need blanking. ┌──────┐ │ F-PC │ ┌─────────────────────────┴──────┴────────────────────────────▄ │ Based on Original F83 Henry Laxen & Michael Perry █ │ Separated Heads ── John D. Hopper █ │ Handles & Sequential files ─┐ █ │ SED the text editor │ ╔════════════╗ █ │ Compiler Optimization │ ║ Tom Zimmer ║ █ │ Separate : (colon) LISTs │ ╚════════════╝ █ │ Only memory limits LISTs │ assisted █ │ Direct Threading Nucleus │ by █ │ Prefix/Postfix Assembler │ Robert L. Smith █ │ Control BREAK deferred ─┘ ─────────────── █ │ 8087 Floating Point ── Mark Smiley & Robert Smith █ │ Software Floating Point ── Robert Smith █ │ Documentation & debugging ── Dr. Ting and the gang at █ │ MAXTOR with assistance from █ │ the SVFIG chapter & ECFB █ │ █ │ Special thanks to MAXTOR for supporting the Forth community █ └▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█ ****** F-PC is currently using DOS for all display operations. Direct video screen buffer output is supported by F-PC, and is MUCH faster than DOS. Unfortunately this requires very compatible video hardware. I recommend you try the default which is direct screen output, to see if it will work on your computer, then if it doesn't try the DOS output. ****** You are using a COLOR compatible display. If your display can really display colors, or if you are using a portable computer that can display various gray levels, try selecting COLOR below. On an LCD display the default color combinations F-PC selects may not be compatible with the gray levels your LCD display has assigned, so you may need to use LCD until you have re-assigned F-PC's color assignments. If your display does not display color or any gray levels, and only supports REVERSE, then select LCD below. To re-assign the colors that F-PC has setup, examine the file COLOR.SEQ. Make a word like ">COLOR" and assign it into INITCOLOR. ****** F-PC can display LIGHT text on a DARK background as it is doing now, or it can display DARK text on a LIGHT background. If you have a BLACK and WHITE monocrome monitor rather than green or amber, you may want this option. You can also try it on a colon monitor. ****** The current PATH where F-PC searches for system sources when viewing is Type in the New VIEW PATH (where the system sources are located), or press <enter> alone to leave the VIEW PATH the same. ****** You can press 'Control-Break <Enter>' at any time to abort the installation program. ****** F-PC is uses memory for COLON ":" definitions, you can adjust the amount of memory F-PC uses for this purpose. This usage is traded off against the file edit space and the available memory in your computer. The larger the LIST segment, the smaller will be the file you can edit. You should limit yourself to 100k or so unless you really need more space for your program. ****** F-PC will now create the executable program file on disk. ****** The editor can be configured to automatically create backup files of your edits, this is more secure than not having backup files, but requires more disk space. If you are using a FLOPPY based system, you MAY not want backup files created for you. Do you want the editor to automatically create backup files? Main Menu Help for the SED Editor ESC leaves Help ─────────────────────── Press a NUMBER key for the help area of interest ════════════════════════════════════════════════ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ │ 1 │ WordStar, Leaving & Printing │ 6 │ Margin Control commands ├───┤ ├───┤ │ 2 │ Keypad functions │ 7 │ Other functions ├───┤ ├───┤ │ 3 │ Search, Replace & Goto │ 8 │ SED Specifications ├───┤ ├───┤ │ 4 │ Cut, Copy, Paste & Append │ 9 │ Drawing lines & Sorting ├───┤ ├───┤ │ 5 │ Line & Word commands │ 0 │ Bold, Underline & DOS └───┘ └───┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ Press ESC while editing to display the MENU bar. ║ ┌──────═╩══════════════════════════════════════════════════╩═────────┐ │ Type the first CAPITAL letter of any menu item to invoke the item. │ │ Short cut Alt, Ctrl, and Function keys are shown to the right. │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Press F1 for Main Menu More Neat Stuff Menu 10 of 10 ESC leaves Help ─────────────── press 0 to 9 for more help SED can "Shell" to DOS with "ESC F D" under the FILE menu. This is useful for manipulating files on a disk that is TOO full to save to, or to go out and format a new disk if needed. You can even run other programs from within the editor if you need to. Type EXIT to get back to SED. BOLD UNDERLINE & USER DEFINED PRINT CONTROL ─────────────────────────────────────────── %B This line will be printed BOLD %B %U This line will be printed UNDERLINED %U %B%U This line will be both BOLD and UNDERLINED %U%B %1, %2 & %3 are user defined printer attributes. See an example in the file PROPRINT.SEQ. Press F1 for Main Menu WordStar Keys Menu 1 of 10 ESC leaves Help ───────────── press 0 to 9 for more help ┌─────────────┬────────────┬────────────┬─────────────┬────────────┐ │ ^W scroll │ ^E line │ ^R page │ ^T Word Del │^Y Line Del │ ┌─────┴─────┬───────┴────┬───────┴─────┬──────┴─────┬───────┴─────────┬──┘ │ ^A -word │ ^S -left │ ^D right- │ ^F word- │ ^G char Delete │ └─────┬─────┴───────┬────┴───────┬─────┴──────┬─────┴─────────┬───────┘ │ ^Z scroll │ ^X line │ ^C page │ ^V INS toggle │ ^=Control └─────────────┴────────────┴────────────┴───────────────┘ Leaving, Saving, and Printing in the F-PC editor ──────────────────────────────────────────────── F10 = Save changes and leave editor Alt F10 = Discard changes and leave editor Ctrl-U = Save changes and continue editing Alt-P = pops up the printing menu display Press F1 for Main Menu Keypad keys Menu 2 of 10 ESC leaves Help ─────────── press 0 to 9 for more help ┌──────┐ │ Esc ├─ = Pops up the MENU display └──────┘ Ctrl-Home = Beginning of file Up-arrow = Up a line in document ┌──┴───┬──┴───┬──────┐ Goto beginning of line ─┤ Home │ │ PgUp ├─ Previous page in document ├──────┼──────┼──────┤ Left a character on line ─┤ - │ │ - ├─ Right a character on line ├──────┼──────┼──────┤ Goto end of line ─┤ End │ │ PgDn ├─ Next page in document └──┬───┴──┬───┴──────┘ Ctrl-End = End of file ────┘ Down-arrow = Down a line in document ┌─────────────┬──────┐ Insert/Overwrite toggle ─┤ Insert │ Del ├─ Delete char under cursor └─────────────┴──────┘ Press F1 for Main Menu Search, Replace & Goto Menu 3 of 10 ESC leaves Help ────────────────────── press 0 to 9 for more help Search for text commands ──────────────────────── F6 = Search the first time (prompts for text) Alt-F6 = Search for same again Shift-F6 = Search for same again BACKWARDS Shift-Alt-F6 = Srch again cAsE Sensitive Replace text commands ───────────────────── F8 = Replace the first time (prompts for text) Alt-F8 = Replace same again and search same again Shift-Alt-F8 = Same as Alt-F8, but cAsE sensitive Shift-F8 = Replace All occurances Goto Page ───────── Alt-G = Goto specified page (prompts for page number) Press F1 for Main Menu Cut, Copy & Paste Menu 4 of 10 ESC leaves Help ────────────────── press 0 to 9 for more help Mark and Copy in memory ─────────────────────── F3 = MARK first line of copy or cut F5 = Copy a line from MARK to cursor line Use F3 to MARK the start of ALL Cut, Copy & Append operation. Cut, Copy, Paste & Append with DISK ─────────────────────────────────── * Alt-X = Cut from MARK through cursor line to TEMP.SEQ * Alt-C = Copy from MARK through cursor line to TEMP.SEQ * Alt-V = Paste Cut/Copied text at cursor line from TEMP.SEQ * Alt-A = Append from MARK through cursor line to TEMP.SEQ (You may need to load SEDAPND.SEQ to use append) Paste Date and Time ─────────────────── Alt-O-P = Paste the current dat and time into text at cursor. * Use SHIFT-Alt to specify the file to Cut, Copy, Paste or Append with. Press F1 for Main Menu Line & Word Commands Menu 5 of 10 ESC leaves Help ──────────────────── press 0 to 9 for more help Split and Join lines Word Delete & Undelete ──────────────────── ────────────────────── Ctrl-N = Split this line at the cursor Ctrl-T = Word delete and save Alt-N = Join this line with next line Alt-U = Word Undelete * Line Delete and Undelete ──────────────────────── * Ctrl-Y = Delete this line and save in delete buffer * Alt-Y = Undelete a deleted line from the delete buffer * The line delete buffer can hold 100 deleted lines. * The word delete buffer can hold 128 characters total. Press F1 for Main Menu Margin control Menu 6 of 10 ESC leaves Help ────────────── press 0 to 9 for more help Ctrl-L = Set left margin to current column. Alt-L = Prompt for the number of spaces to insert before all lines of the current paragraph. Table move right. ──────────────── Shift-Alt-L = Remove all space from the current paragraph to the right of the current cursor column. Table move left. ─────────────── Alt-S-R = Prompt for value to set Right Margin. Home = Set cursor to column 0 and reset Left Margin to 0. Ctrl-B = Reformat current paragraph. The left margin is also set at the new cursor position after pressing TAB when there are only spaces to the left of the cursor. This is useful for maintaining or setting an indent while editing source. Press F1 for Main Menu Other help Menu 7 of 10 ESC leaves Help ────────── press 0 to 9 for more help Write to a new filename ─────────────────────── Alt-W = Write the file in memory to a NEW file (prompts for filename) TAB Control ─────────── Alt-T = Set tab increment to current column value. Alt-O-X = eXpand all TABs to spaces in the file in memory. Case Conversion ─────────────── Alt-O-U = Convert the current cursor line to UPPERCASE. Alt-O-L = Convert the current cursor line to lowercase. Alt-O-W = Toggle case of WORD under cursor, starting at cursor. Alt-O-C - Toggle case of the CHARACTER under the cursor. Press F1 for Main Menu SED Specifications Menu 8 of 10 ESC leaves Help ────────────────── press 0 to 9 for more help ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Maximum Characters in a File limited by memory │ │ 640k can edit ≈120k file │ │ 512k can edit ≈64k file │ │ │ │ Maximum Lines in a File Adjusted to memory │ │ 640k has 8000 lines │ │ 512k has 6000 lines │ │ │ │ Maximum Characters in a Line 132 │ │ │ │ Maximum # of Deleted Lines Saved Adj to memory │ │ available edit memory > 48k, save 100 lines │ │ < 48k, save 20 lines │ │ │ │ Printed # of Lines on a Page 55 │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Press F1 for Main Menu Line Drawing & Sorting Menu 9 of 10 ESC leaves Help ────────────────────── press 0 to 9 for more help ┌┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┐ Line drawing commands └┴┴┼┼┼┴┴┘ ───────────────────── ├┼┤ ├┼┤ F9 Start/Stop drawing lines ├┼┤ Ins Pen up/down command ├┼┤ - Select single width lines (minus) ├┼┤ ┌┐ = Select double width lines (equal) └┴┘ └┘ Del Clear char under cursor Arrows Move and draw a line ┌┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┐ └┴┴┴┴┴┼┼┤ ├┼┘ Sorting the lines of a Paragraph ┌┼┘ ──────────────────────────────── ┌┼┘ ┌┼┘ F7 Sort paragraph lines starting at current ┌┼┤ line and column. This sort is cAsE ┌┼┼┼┬┬┬┐ ╔╗ sensitive. └┴┴┴┴┴┴┘ ╚╝ Shift-F7 Sort NON-case sensitive. * You may need to load SEDDRAW.SEQ, or SEDSORT.SEQ to use these functions.