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- This is the REC and Convert documentation disk. It contains the following
- files (names given in CAPITALS), whose contents and purpose are described
- in the interspersed text:
-
- REC86.EXE
- CNVLIB.REC
-
- REC compiler and Convert library, respectively. These are included
- for convenience in the execution of AYUDA.REC, a help file utility.
- (Ayuda is Spanish for help.)
-
- AYUDA.CNV
- AYUDA.REC
-
- Convert source code and its REC translation for a help file utility.
- Help files are structured as follows:
-
- Menu items (one to a line, no colons in the first column).
- :Beginning of section (signalled by a colon on column 1;
- one section per menu item)
- :Copyright notice and hidden comments (never displayed by
- AYUDA)
-
- Given n menu items, there should be just n+1 lines starting with
- a colon in the rest of the file. A section may consist of a
- single line
-
- ::xxx.HLP
-
- where xxx.HLP is a help file in the current directory or in any
- of the directories listed in the PATH variable, to be loaded
- when the corresponding menu item is selected. Once loaded, it
- remains in memory. Files may be loaded limited only by the
- available memory.
-
- If AYUDA is executed with no arguments (REC86 AYUDA), it searches
- the current directory and those in PATH for files with extension
- HLP, then prompts the user for a selection; if there is an argument
- (e.g., REC86 AYUDA CONVERT), the indicated file is loaded if found.
-
- CONVERT.HLP
- CNVRT.HLP
- CNVPRG.HLP
- CNVADV.HLP
-
- Convert help files. The first one has only three sections, each
- of which loads one of the remaining three files.
-
- REC.HLP
- REC3.HLP
- REC4.HLP
- REC5.HLP
- REC6.HLP
-
- REC help files. The first one loads the other four on demand (as
- sections E, F, G and H, respectively).