Use arrows and Page Up/Page Down to move around in these help windows. .
The F1 key gives "context sensitive
F1
help" i.e. help on what you are
doing right now. So if you press F1
while on a certain menu item or in a certain
dialog window, you will get help on that menu
or dialog. Else you will get the general help
text you are reading now.
Alt-H gives you a FULL help text (if you want to read a help text outside the context sensitive help texts).
The menu items on the top line of the screen may be reached by pressing simultaneously the Alt-key and the first letter. Mouse may also be used. %
In the submenus you can use arrows or the enhanced letters to execute the individual items. Hotkeys may be conntected to these items. For instance, Alt-L is a hotkey to generate a list of persons. You can use the hotkeys outside the menus. A "
" sign in a submenu indicates further submenus. %
In a help window (like this) there may be enhanced words that lead to other help windows. Use the Tab key to go to an enhanced item. The Shift-Tab combination moves "backwards". Press the Enter key to display help on the item in question (or click twice with the mouse on the enhanced item).
You can "zoom" a window to full screen and back to "normal" size with the F5 key (or click with the mouse on the "zoom icon" in the upper right corner of the window). F
If you want to move or resize the window (in smaller steps than "zoom"), you can press Ctrl-F5. Then the arrows will move the window, and the arrows with SHIFT pressed will resize the window. With the mouse you click on the bottom right corner and "drag" to the desired size. Click on the top edge of the window to move it. v
Press Esc when you finish looking at a window (or click on the "close icon" in the upper left corner of the window). 7
If there is an
OK
-"button" in a win-
dow, you can
click with the
mouse on it to accept the contents of the
window, or press [Enter] which has the same
effect). (Of course this does apply, if you
have moved to the [Cancel]-button and press
[Enter] there).
If there is a
Cancel
-"button" in a win-
dow, you can
click with the
mouse on it to leave the window (and ignore
the contents). Pressing [Esc] has the same
effect.
So, as a rule of thumb:
OK
Press
Enter
Cancel
Press
Esc
See also:
General
Biorhythm
theory
Litterature
Biorhythms
Persons
Multi
Analysis
Command
parameters
Hotkeys
Memory
Date
General help
Alt-H
Use arrows and Page Up/Page Down to move around in the text. u
Ctrl-Page Up moves to start of text.
Ctrl-Page Down moves to end of text.
Esc closes the window.
The general help contains a collected help text, which contains many of the "context sensitive" help texts you get, when you press F1, so you can read the help as a whole instead of split up.
See also more
general
help.
Hotkeys
Alt-X Terminate program
F1 Context sensitive help
F10 Menu (Top line is "activated")
F5 Zoom window
Ctrl-F5 Move/resize window
F2 Add Person
F3 Edit Person
Ctrl-Del Delete Person
F4 View Person
Alt-Y View Sympathy quotients
F6 View Parallel curves
Alt-M View Multi Analysis
Alt-L View List of Persons
F7 Print Person
F8 Print Sympathy quotients
F9 Print Parallel curves
Alt-A Print multi-analyse
Ctrl-Prtscr Print List of Persons
Alt-S Sort Persons
See also more
general
help.
Memory
In the bottom right corner you can see how much memory is available at the moment (in bytes). (The available memory will change as you use different program functions).
See also more
general
help.
Date & time
In the upper right corner date and time is indicated, as per the computer's clock. The indication must be correct if you want to use the automatic function to print biorhythms "from today". If the date/time is wrong, please go to DOS and put the correct date/time, using the DOS commands DATE and TIME.
See also General
help.
"Dialog windows"
In "dialog windows" there may be different items you have to fill in or answer. In general:
Tab
is used to move between the differ-
ent "fields" in the dialog window.
Shift
Tab
moves "backwards".
If some letters are enhanced, you can move directly to the corresponding fields by pressing the Alt-key and enhanced letter simultaneously.
If there is an
OK
-"button" in a win-
dow, you can
click with the
mouse on it to accept the contents of the
window, or press [Enter], which has the same
effect.
If there is a
Cancel
-"button" in a win-
dow, you can
click with the
mouse on it to leave the window and ignore
the contents. To press [Esc] has the same
effect.
OK
Press
Enter
Cancel
Press
Esc
With a mouse you can click on just about anything in sight. $
The different types of fields are:
1) Text, e.g. names, example: (
Name:
Write the text and edit it. Arrows, [Backspace], [Home], [End] and [Insert] may be used. Press [Enter] to accept the content of the field, or [Esc] to quit the field unchanged. L
2) "Radio buttons" - multiple choice, where there is only one possibility: 7
Example: Sorting
( ) Name
) Birthday
( ) Age
You move to an option by moving the "dot" by the arrow keys. Press [space] to select the item. You can also press simultaneously the Alt-key and the enhanced letter. Y
3) "Check box" lists. Here you can "check" as many or few options as you like. Example: n
Print Options:
[ ] Pause at New Page
[X] Help text to be printed first
[X] Special characters on printer
As with the "radio buttons" you move by the arrows and select/deselect by the [space] key.
See also General
help.
Sorting
Alt-S
The persons may be sorted according to 3 criteria: f
) Name (alphabetically)
( ) Birthday (not year) (birthday list!)
( ) Age (birthday and year)
Use the arrows and the [space] key to select/deselect an option in the (
) brackets.
When a sorting criterion has been chosen the persons will be sorted in this order automatically - also next time you run the program.
See also General
help.
Add / Edit / Delete Person
F2 F3
Ctrl-Del
A new person may be added to the list and inserted automatically in the chosen sorting order. Later you can edit, i.e. change name and/or address. Finally you can delete the person. The sorting chosen will be kept until a new is chosen.
At the close of the program all persons will be stored in the file PERSONS.DAT.. The storing will not take place until the end of the program session, so please remember always to finish "properly" by hitting Alt-X (don't shut down the computer in mid-session).
See also General
help.
Storing of persons
At the start of a program session, the names and birthdays of persons are read from the file PERSONS.DAT. If this file does not exist, a new "empty" data file is created. When the program is terminated, names and birthdays of all persons are stored with possible changes. There is room for 200 persons in the data file. If you need more, you can have several data files (rename PERSONS.DAT to some other name, and then a new "empty" data file will be created next time you run the program).
The file PERSONS.DAT on the original disk contains data of historical persons. If you have an older version of the biorhythm program, you can use your data in this version, by using your "old" PERSONS.DAT instead of the version on the original disk.
See also General
help.
Enhanced words in help texts
The enhanced words in help texts lead to other help texts. use the TAB key to go to the next enhanced word (which will change color) and press Enter to see help on the enhanced subject. Shift-Tab will move "backwards" through the enhanced key words. A
With a mouse you just need to click twice on the enhanced word.
See also General
help.
Mouse
A mouse is used by clicking with
the left mouse button on menu
items. You can drag the mouse to
submenu items (click and hold
down the button while the mouse
is moved the desired submenu
item, then release the button).
In windows you can enlarge/decrease ("zoom") the window by clicking on the "zoom icon" in the upper right corner. You can close the window by clicking on the "close icon" in the upper left corner (the same result is is obtained by pressing Esc). If there is a "resize icon" in the bottom right corner of a window you can change size of the window in small steps by dragging the corner. You move a window by dragging the top edge of the window.
If there are one or two scroll bars in a window, there is also an "elevator" showing your position in the text. You can click below or above the elevator to move up or down, or you can drag the elevator. D
In "dialog
windows" you can click the mouse on the relevant items.
See also General
help.
The Biorhythm theory
The biorhythm theory is mainly based on a large statistical material. There are three classical curves in the biorhythm calendar: the physical, the psychical (or emotional), and the intellectual. The duration of a cycle of a curve is 23, 28 or 33 days, respectively. When these curves are above the middle line (i.e. to the right on the graph), you have extra energy, and when they are "down" i.e. to the left on the graph), you have low energy in the areas in question. When a curve crosses the midline, you call it a "critical day", where you may be instable and out of balance in the respective fields (physically, emotionally or intellectually). If several curves crosses the midline simultaneously, you have to be extra careful and take your precautions.
If two curves cross each other below the midline (cross combinations), it is not as serious as a critical day, but has some influence. r
A biorhythmical "day and night" starts 12 hours before you birth time of day, and ends 12 hours after that hour. D
Please see the litterature for further elaboration of the subject. V
See also:
Full
moons
Biorhythms
persons
Multi
Analysis
See also General
help.
Litterature
Hugo Max Gross : Biorhythmik. Hermann Bauer
Verlag. 1959. 6. opl. 1979.
(German).
Barbara O'Neil : Biorhythms: How to Live
with Your Life Cycles.
New York 1976.
Arbie Dale : Biorhythm. New York 1976.
See also Biorhythm
theory
General
help.
Multi Analysis
Alt-M: View Alt-A: Print
With multi analysis 16 persons will be shown. These 16 persons must be already be entered. You can see critical days, top and bottom of curves and see whether the curves are below or above the midline. When you View the multi analysis you can get a Legend. When you Print multi analysis there are three different print methods (illustrated on screen). Further, the item . "Special characters on printer" in the window Print
options also plays a role here. Please try the different options on your printer. I
If you want to change the order of persons, so that you can have 16 particular persons for one multi analysis, you can change the names, for instance letting them start with hyphen, then sort according to names, and all the persons starting with a hyphen will be together. See Sorting. Another group may begin with [space] etc.
Only the first three characters of the name are shown in the heading of the multi analysis. So you might enter the names thus:
TW TOM WILSON
If there are two critical days just after each other (on the same curve), e.g. 2 "P"s, et means that the critical point is right between two days. 9
AN EXAMPLE OF USE: DRIVERS
Biorhythms have often been used in planning transport firms, where the number of accidents according to many investigations can be lowered. In general all critical days should be treated with care, but special conditions may play a part. b
One research thus showed that 3 kinds of curves had particular bad influence on the driving abilities of drivers: 1) a psychic crisis going down (the curve going down), 2) a physical crisis going up, and 3) a cross combination of the physical and the psychic curve below the midline. (Source: Alice Laursen: Politikens bog om biorytmer, 1990 (Danish)). Z
Concerning the further interpretation of critical days etc., please see the litterature.
Multi Analysis is only available in the Professional edition. You can print an order form if you want to order the Professional edition. Type (from the DOS prompt) ORDER to print the order form.
See also General
help.
Print options
Use the Tab key to move from one field to another. Shift-Tab moves "backwards". Use the [space] key to select/deselect a possibility in the check boxes. H
Number of days: the number of days to display/print the biorhythms.
Lines from top to bottom of paper (often 66): may be changed if necessary (often necessary with laser printers). If you don't know the figure, you may have to experiment a little, or look in your printer manual). 8
Pause at new page: e.g. with single-sheet printers.
Print help text first: The file GUIDE.TXT is printed before the biorhythms. (This is an ordinary ASCII text file which you can edit yourself). h
Special characters on printer: some printers (e.g. type wheel printers) do not have access to the full set of IBM's "graphic" characters (e.g. vertical line). If the print looks strange, you should deselect Special characters. Sometimes the printing becomes slower with special characters, even though they exist. (Try both possibilities on your printer).
Filename: This should ONLY be entered if you want print to a file instead of to a printer. A file may afterwards be edited in your own text editor (as an ordinary ASCII text file). n
The following printer choices are stored on disk (in the file BIO4.DAT) until next time you run the program: u
Lines top/bottom of paper
Pause at new page
Guidance is printed first
Special characters on printer
See also General
help.
Storing of various data
Various data are stored ready for next time you use the program, in the file BIO4.DAT. The following information is stored:
Special characters on printer or not
Sorting field: name, birthday or age
Number of lines from top to bottom of paper
Pause at new page or not
Guidance text to be printed before
biorhythms (file GUIDE.TXT)
Sound on/off
Certain other internal data
The file BIO4.DAT is created the first time you run the program: it is not on the original disk. So if you copy the shareware edition of the program to others, please DO NOT copy this file. :
See also: Storing
persons
Print
Options
See also General
help.
The correspondance of two
persons' biorhythms
When you choose "Two persons" in the menu, you can choose "Sympathy quotients" or "Parallel curves". B
Sympathy quotients Alt-Y: View F8: Print
are also shown graphically. 100% is identical rhythms. 0% is out of phase. (When one is on top, the other is at bottom). This has importance when evaluating the cooperating of two persons in a particular area (physical/ emotional/intellectual). ;
Parallel curves F6: View F9: Print
means that you can see two biorhythm charts side by side, and that you can immediately see which days the persons are in harmony and which days they are not. If two persons have a general bad harmony, say on the emotional curve - the best moments for cooperation in this area will be when the two curves are moving towards the midline (but before the critical days).
See also the litterature
list.
See also General
help.
List of persons
Alt-L: View
Ctrl-PrintScr: Print
A list of stored
persons may be had on screen or printer. They will be in the sorting order you have chosen (or which the program is "born" with: alphabetical sorting of names.
Full and new moons
The moon has influence on the mind (on some more than others).
On full and new moons there is statistically a greater frequency of murder, violence, suicide, etc. Full and new moons are suitable for meditation etc. A light diet is recommended. Thus you can benefit from taking the full and new moons into account. 2
In the biorhythm chart the moons are marked thus '
F Full moon
N New moon
When you for the first time ask for a chart for a particular year, the program first has to calculate the moon phases. Then the information is stored till next time. On the disk are probably information for "this year". T
If you choose very old dates (e.g. before 1800), the moon phases may not be exact.
See also General
help.
Survey of command line parameters
There are some parameters you can give from DOS when you start the program. They may be combined (there should just be a space between them all, e.g. BIO U IP.
BIO U Skip start screen (the one with the
graphic curves).
BIO IP No pause when viewing graphs on
screen. (May be stopped with the
[Pause] key and resumed with the
[space] key).
BIO M Monochrome (black/white) display
(even though you have color screen).
Affects only a part of the program.
BIO F Full and new moons are NOT displayed.
See also General
help.
Entering of dates
Dates are entered with space between day, month and year. 1
Example: 27 12 92
Please note that you don't have to write '19' before the year. (If you want dates years 1-99 write 21 in front, i.e. 2101 for year 01. (The moon phases may not be exact here)).
If there is already a date in the date field, it is the date today, and you only have to press [Enter] to accept it, or press [right arrow] and edit the date, or enter a new date. 5
See also dialog
windows.
General
help.
1st person's No (with multi analysis)
Usually No. 1 is used here. Then the first 16 persons of the person list are shown. If you have several groups, you may have to enter 17 to get group 2, etc. (Please see further under multi
analysis on how to group persons by using the alphabetic sorting).
See also dialog
windows.
General
help.
Entering a new person
The name must not be "empty". The letters will automatically be made into upper-case letters.
The birth date must be entered in European format as e.g. 31 12 62 (or 31 12 1962). Use [space] between date, month and year. It is not necessary to write the '19' before the year.
See also dialog
windows.
General
help.
Search for a person
When you search for a person who is stored, you may just write a part of the name, e.g. "To" or "Wi" if you search for "Tom Wilson". You can write with small or capital letters as you like.
See also General
help.
- Enter new data of Persons
- Edit data of Persons
- Erase data of Persons
See also General
help.
Enter a new person
See Info about Shareware
See also General
help.
General Help text (collected into one big help text, as a contrast to the context sensitive help)
See also General
help.
Print Curve for 1 person
See also General
help.
Sound On/Off
See also General
help.
View Multi Analysis (up to 16 persons at a time, in table form)
See also General
help.
Print Multi Analysis (up to 16 persons at a time, in table form)
See also General
help.
See List of persons
See also General
help.
Choose Sort Criterion (name, birthday, age)
See also General
help.
Print Sympathy Quotients between 2 Persons
See also General
help.
Print Parallel Curves for 2 Persons
See also General
help.
View Sympathy Quotients between 2 Persons
See also General
help.
View Parallel Curves for 2 Persons
See also General
help.
See info about program
See also General
help.
View List of persons
See also General
help.
Print list of persons
See also General
help.
Erase person from list and data file
See also General
help.
Technical information about program
See also General
help.
Info on how to make a copy of the program to others
(.txt)