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- THE CONFIDANT (tm)
- QUICK REFERENCE CARD
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- Copyright (C) 1983, 1984 by Data Sage
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- TO START THE CONFIDANT:
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- Place The Confidant in the logged drive and type: CONFIDE
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- TO USE THE CONFIDANT:
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- Fill in the SOURCE, DESTINATION, and PASSWORD boxes. Choose the
- function you want from the list at the bottom of the screen and press the
- corresponding Function Key.
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- The DESTINATION tells The Confidant where to send the text it
- processes.
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- The SOURCE tells The Confidant where to take its text FROM for
- processing.
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- The Confidant combines the PASSWORD with the text in the SOURCE to
- create encrypted or decrypted text. The PASSWORD may consist of any
- characters you can generate from the keyboard, except for the special
- editing keys.
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- FUNCTIONS
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- <F1> DES Encipher: causes the text in the SOURCE to be encrypted, using
- the Data Encryption Standard (DES) algorithm.
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- <F2> DES Decipher: causes the text in the SOURCE to be decrypted, using
- the Data Encryption Standard (DES) algorithm.
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- <F3> Privacy: causes the text in the SOURCE to be encrypted (or decrypted),
- using a special algorithm that is much faster than the Data Encryption
- Standard (DES), though not as secure.
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- <F4> Copy: causes the text in the SOURCE to be copied to the DESTINATION.
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- <F5> Flip: exchanges the names in the SOURCE and DESTINATION fields.
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- <F6> Hide: hides (and reveals) the information in the PASSWORD, SOURCE and
- DESTINATION fields.
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- <F7> Directory: will display a directory listing of all files that match
- those specified in the SOURCE field of The Confidant's main menu.
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- <F8> Erase SOURCE: will erase the file or files specified in the SOURCE
- field of The Confidant's main menu.
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- <F9> Help: provides a brief explanation of The Confidant's functions.
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- <F10> End: will stop The Confidant at any time and return you to the place
- at which you you gave the last command.
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- EDITING KEYS
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- Name of Key Purpose
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- Backspace Move backward one space
- Left arrow
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- Right arrow Move forward one space
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- Return Move to next box, using a downward
- rotation. while entering text from
- the CONSOLE, send the line to the
- computer for encrypting.
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- Down arrow Move to next box, using a downward
- rotation. Does not work when entering
- text from the CONSOLE
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- Up arrow Move to next box, using an upward
- rotation. Does not work when entering
- text from the CONSOLE
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- Home Move to the top (SOURCE) box. While
- entering text from the CONSOLE, move
- to beginning of the line.
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- End Move to the bottom (DESTINATION) box.
- While entering text from the CONSOLE,
- move to beginning of the line.
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- Ins Toggle between insert and type-over modes
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- Del Delete the character above the cursor
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- SHIFT PrtSc Print a copy of the screen on the printer.
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- Ctrl-Num Lock Stop scrolling of screen temporarily
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