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- PAD At a Glance
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- PAD.COM is a memory-resident notepad that pops up over running applications
- programs and allows you to save up to five pages of comments, phone messages,
- and the like. The contents of PAD remain in memory until the PC is rebooted,
- but can be saved to a disk file called PAD.TXT by entering SAVE at the DOS
- prompt.
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- The installation syntax for PAD.COM is
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- [d:][path]PAD
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- The default trigger key for PAD.COM is Ctrl-N, but this and the foreground and
- background color parameters may be changed by creating the .COM file using
- the self-prompting PAD.BAS program. When its pop-up window is open, the F1
- and F2 keys may be used temporarily to reset letter and background colors,
- respectively. PgUp and PgDn scroll through the 5 window pages, and Del
- deletes an entire page. The Backspace key can also be used in editing.
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- While compatible with most TSR (memory-resident) programs, some
- difficulty has been experienced with XyWrite. Multiple copies of PAD.COM
- (under different names) using different trigger keys and different colors can
- be used to provide more storage, but care must be exercised to rename the
- created PAD.TXT files, each of which would otherwise overwrite its
- predecessor.
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