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- FRED EDITOR REFERENCE V1.23B
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- (c) 1983 and 1984 by
- David N. Smith
- 44 Ole Musket Lane
- Danbury, CT 06810
- 12 October 1983
- 21 April 1984
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- FRED is the FRee EDitor. FRED comes with no warranties of any
- kind; it is available AS IS. The author would like to know of
- problems that users have but makes no promise or guarantees that
- any problem will be fixed. There are no plans for extensions to
- FRED.
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- ABOUT FRED
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- FRED is a full screen editor for the IBM PC. It displays files
- up to 1500 lines long and with lines up to 254 characters long on
- a monochrome display or 80 column graphics display.
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- FRED is similar to the editor in LadyBug. Most of the keys are
- and its approach to handling the screen is about the same.
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- This document is a supplement to Appendix A of the LadyBug document;
- it describes those things which are different in FRED.
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- If you want to try FRED immediately, remember that F1 puts you in
- command mode and displays a list of the commands and that F10
- describes the other function keys; then just start trying things.
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- STARTING FRED
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- Type FRED. When FRED loads it will ask for the name of the file
- to edit. If the file cannot be found, it is assumed to be new
- and an empty file with that name is edited. It does not exist on
- disk until you file it.
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- FRED COMMANDS
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- Commands are entered only after pressing the F1 key. Commands
- may be typed in uppercase or lowercase; in the following
- descriptions, uppercase is used for command names and lowercase
- for operands.
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- SAVE
- Save the file to disk. The new file is written as
- FREDFRED.TMP. Then the old file is renamed FREDFRED.BAK and
- FREDFRED.TMP is renamed with the right name. Then
- FREDFRED.BAK is erased. This process assures that that
- there is always one correct copy of the file on the disk.
- However, it does require enough working space to hold the
- largest file to be edited.
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- QUIT (or 'Q')
- Quit editing. If the file has been changed, you will be
- prompted for a 'y' before FRED really quits.
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- /string/
- .string.
- Locate the string between the slashes or dots. The trailing
- slash or dot can be omitted unless trailing blanks are
- important. The string can contain slashes or dots.
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- NAME fileid
- Give the file a new name.
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- FRED KEYS
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- The following list defines the meaning of each key when in full
- screen mode. When the command prompt is up, normal BASIC line
- editing is in effect.
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- F1
- Enter command mode. A list of the allowed commands is
- displayed.
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- F2
- Repeat the most recent locate command (see the "/" command).
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- F7
- Does nothing. In LadyBug it quits the editing session.
- Use F1 and then type 'Q'.
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- F10
- Display what the other function keys do.
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