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SECTION 5.0 COMMAND REFERENCE

This is the command reference for Flipper.

Section 5.1 This table of contents

Section 5.2 General information.

Section 5.3 Quick commands.

Section 5.4 Using Flipper's review mode.

Section 5.5 Advanced review mode features.

Section 5.6 Searching.

Section 5.7 Searching wildcards.

Section 5.8 Customizing Flipper, choosing configurations.

Section 5.9 Choosing symbol sets.

Section 5.10 Loading and saving configurations.

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Section 5.2 General information.

You will interact with Flipper in four main ways.  First of
all, Flipper will echo what you type so you can catch typing
mistakes.  Next, Flipper will read the output of some
programs automatically, as it is being written to the screen.
Any of these features can be turned off if you desire.  If you
move around the screen with the arrow keys, Flipper will
read the material you are moving over.  For example, if you
move line by line up or down, Flipper will read the lines as
you move onto them.  If you move left or right a character
at a time, Flipper reads the character.  If you move a word
at a time using control "left arrow" or control "right arrow",
Flipper reads a word at a time.  You can also move a
sentence at a time, forwards or backwards right in your word
processor or editor, using the alt "left arrow" and "right
arrow" keys.  Refer to section 5.3, for further information.

The third method for accessing information from the screen
is to use the quick keys described in section 5.3. The quick
keys allow you read or spell words or lines in the vicinity of
the cursor without removing your hands from the home
positions on the keyboard.  They are accessed by holding
down alt and pressing keys near the right hand home row.
You can also set Flipper so that when you hold down alt
and press a number key on the top row, it will read a
section of the screen that you have chosen, such as a status
line for a word processor.  See the paragraph on the "D"
command in section 5.4 for an example.

The most powerful tool you have for reading the screen is
the review mode, which you start by pressing alt "semicolon".
The features available in the review mode are explained in
section 5.4.  While you are in the review mode the computer
is stopped, and you can move across the screen having its
contents read to you.  Many of Flipper's other functions are
also controlled from the review mode.

Whenever "alt" is pressed, if Flipper is speaking, it stops.
The automatic output is silenced only until you strike
another key, such as the "shift" key.  The computer
continues to execute the program, even if you silence the
voice.

You can stop Flipper and get back to your application
program by pressing alt "space bar" at any time.

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Section 5.3 Quick commands.

The quick commands are accessed by holding down the alt
key with your left hand and pressing one of the keys near
the right hand home row.  Since your hands do not have to
leave the home row, you can check something quickly while
you are typing without losing your place on the keyboard. If
you need to use one of these keys for a program, you can
use the alt "N" command which is described at the end of
this section. There is also an option (control alt function key
2) which will switch to the use of control instead of alt for
the quick keys.

The alt key is the key to the left of the space bar.  Holding
down the alt key and pressing "slash" will announce the
position of the cursor.  The keys on the right hand home
position, "J", "K", and "L", will read the word to the left of
the cursor, the word under the cursor, and the word to the
right of the cursor, respectively.  The keys below them, "M",
"comma", and "period", will spell these same words.  The keys
above the right hand home row, "U", "I", and "O", will read
the line above the current line, the current line, and the line
below the current line, respectively. In addition, alt "Y" reads
the line before last.  Note that these keys form a block on
the keyboard around the right hand home row.  The middle
key reads the current item, the right key reads the next, and
the left key reads the last.  The top keys, "U", "I", and "O",
refer to lines, the next row to words, and the bottom row
refers to characters.

Flipper will read a sentence at a time if you use alt "left
arrow" or alt "right arrow".  It will actually scroll through
the text in your word processor.  Flipper can also read
continuously, sentence by sentence.  Continuous reading is
started by alt "down arrow".  You can stop it at any time
with an "alt", and you will be at the end of the current
sentence.  After you are done making changes or reviewing
that section, you can start Flipper reading your text from
that point on with an alt "down arrow".

Alt "semicolon" will start the review mode.  See section 5.4
for documentation of the review mode.

Alt "H" starts the help mode.

All of the alt number keys can be set to read predefined
windows.  This is useful, for example, if you want to be able
to read a status line or part of a status line that your
application programs puts on the screen.  Definition of the
area to be read is started by pressing "D" during the review
mode.  For example, if your program has a status line on
line 25, you can set alt 9 to read it by pressing D, then 9 for
the key you want to define, then 1 for the starting column,
80 for the ending column, 25 for the starting row, and 25 for
the ending row.

Alt "P" reads the page meaning read the whole screen.

Alt "F" flips between the primary and secondary
configurations.  Refer to section 5.8 and section 5.10 for
more information about setting up and using configurations.

Alt "space bar" stops Flipper at any time, and leaves the
review mode.

If you need to use one of the above keys for a program, you
can just press alt "N".  Flipper will then say "normal",
meaning that the next key press will be treated normally
instead of being captured as a command to Flipper.  For
example, if your communications program uses alt "H" to
hang up the modem, you would press alt "N", to get Flipper
to disregard the next key, and then the alt "H".

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Section 5.4 Review mode

Flipper's review mode is started by pressing alt "semicolon".
When it is active, the following functions are available.
Review mode is extensively self documenting.  If you hold
down control while pressing a letter key, the instructions for
that key are read.

Many of the functions of the review mode are similar to the
alt keys in the regular mode.  "J", "K", and "L" read the
previous, current or next word.  The difference between
using the review mode and the alt keys is that when you use
the alt keys, you read the material without moving, where in
the review mode, these keys also move your location. For
example, if you continue to press the "L" key in the review
mode, you will advance a word at a time, reading out each
word. Similarly, the "U", "I", and "O" keys will take you to
the last line, read the current line, and take you to the next
line.  The "M", "comma", and "period" keys do the same one
character at a time.

Additionally, there are keys in the review mode which do
functions which are unique to the review mode.  For
example, the "T" key will announce the time of day.

The "B" key will take you back to where you were the last
time you were in the review mode.  This is useful for
example, if you are referring to information from one part
of the screen while typing it into another part of the screen.
You just hit the "B" key each time you reenter the review
mode, taking you back to the area of the screen that you
are using the review mode to examine.

The "C" key will take you out of the review mode, and move
the cursor to the present position, if it is possible.  If the
cursor can not be moved into a location, for example away
from the DOS command line or onto a status line for a
program, Flipper will say "failure" after moving the cursor as
close as it can to the indicated location.  The "S" key will
allow you to enter a search pattern as described in section
5.6.  The semicolon key moves your position back to the
cursor.

The "P" key will read the current page, or screen.  If you
want to read only a portion of the screen, you will need to
set up one of the alt number keys.

The "E" key will read the enhancement at the current
position.

The "G" command lets you change the right margin gong
position.  This is similar to a typewriter margin bell, which
lets you know when you are getting close to the right
margin.  You can also set it to a column where you are
aligning text, for example.

Slash in the review mode will announce current position,
row and column.  Alt slash in the review mode will
announce the position of the cursor.

You can use the "V" command to change Flipper's voice, as
documented at the end of section 6.0.

You can also use the cursor keys, "left", "right", "up", and
"down". The "left" and "right" keys move a character at a
time in each direction and read that character.  The "up"
and "down" keys move a line at a time, and the lines are
read.  These same keys, with control, move words to the
right or left, and single lines up or down, and read off the
word at that position.

Pressing "W" sets the width for the area of the screen which
is read.  Any command that reads a line will then only read
between the defined margins which you are asked to enter.
This is useful to read columns of information or to eliminate
unwanted information at the edge of the screen, or allows
you to select one column of a menu.  There is also an
option key to allow you to turn the margins on or off
without having to reenter the left and right columns.

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Section 5.5 Advanced review mode

Many of the commands in the review mode can be preceded
by a number, which can be typed using the keypad or the
regular number keys.  That will result in the forward or
backward motion being done that many times.  For example,
"50 L" will move forward 50 words.  The keys which usually
read the current line, word, or character, "I", "K", and
"comma", will move to an absolute coordinate, for example
"10 I" will move to line 10, "10 K" will move to the tenth
word on the line, and "10 comma" will move to the tenth
character or column on the line.  A number before the "P"
command will result in the current page being read starting
from that line.

Whenever you are asked for a row or column number, you
can press "return", to use the old value.  Flipper will read it
out to you, so you can check a defined window setting, for
example, by pressing "D" to start the definition, then
selecting the window, and then pressing return in response
to the questions.  You can also answer "C", to use the
current cursor position, or "X", to use the position of the
marker.

Holding down shift while pressing the "U", "I", and "O" keys
will move you to the first line, the middle line, and the last
line of the screen, respectively.  The "J", "K", and "L" keys
will move you to the beginning, middle or end of the current
line, respectively, and the "M" and "period" will move you to
the beginning or end of the current word.  As odd man out,
shift "comma" will spell the entire current word.

Holding down the alt key while pressing "M", "comma", or
"period" will move you character by character while
pronouncing the military alphabet word for the appropriate
character.  It will also read the extended ASCII number for
any other symbol.

The "F" command allows you to flip between two
configurations, primary and secondary.  This allows you to
configure Flipper two different ways, and then easily switch
between them. You can also load an unlimited number of
configurations into the computer's memory using the
"FLIPEXT" command and then load them using the "F"
command.  To retrieve the third configuration that you
loaded with the "FLIPEXT" command, for example, you
would type "3 F".  See section 5.10 for additional
information on the use of "FLIPEXT", "FLIPLOAD", and
"FLIPSAVE".

The "X" command is used to mark a location on the screen.
You can use the marked location in several different ways.
You can move to the marked location with a shift "X".  If
you type "X" when you are being asked a row or column
number, the position of the mark is used, row or column.
Additional marks can be used by preceding "X" with a
number up to nine.  For example, "2 X" sets the second
mark.  "2" shift "X" jumps to the second mark.  Whenever
you are asked for a row or column number, you can reply
with the "C" key, to use the current position, or "X", to use
the marker position, or number "X", to use another marker.
You can also read from where you are to the mark using
the "R" command.

The "insert" and "delete" keys are used in the review mode to
insert into Flipper's spoken set or delete characters from
Flipper's spoken set.  They are documented in section 5.9.

The "Q" command, for quiet, allows you to select areas of
the screen which are not automatically read.  Do not
confuse them with the defined blocks of the "D" command.
Quiet windows are useful, for example, if a clock is on the
screen and is being read every second.  You can just put a
quiet window over the clock to silence it.  Quiet windows
are particularly useful when you have extended automatic
output on, which tends to read too much otherwise.  Up to
ten quiet windows can be defined at a time, each associated
with a number key one through nine, or zero.  When you
are defining a quiet window, you can respond "D" instead of
picking a window, to deactivate all quiet windows.  Or, once
you have selected a particular window, you can press "D" to
deactivate that quiet window.  The only speech that the
quiet windows will suppress is that from the automatic
output, or the extended automatic output.  When you read
an area with a command, the quiet windows have no effect.

You can use the alt "underscore" key just like the alt
number keys with the "D" command, defining its margins,
top, bottom, left and right.  However, it also has an
additional feature.  It will either read areas within its
borders which are enhanced in a particular way, or
everything but the areas which are enhanced in a particular
way.  You select the special enhancement by moving to a
position on the screen which is enhanced in the desired way
and then pressing shift underscore.  It will also read out the
number of the enhancement, which you can use to refer to
that enhancement later.  To select an enhancement where
you know the number of the enhancement, type the number
followed by the shift underscore.

The "backslash" command allows you to tell Flipper to
watch a portion of a row, and either beep or read something
when it changes.  This is useful for programs that pop
information onto the screen in a specific place, particularly
if the information comes up at random times.  An example
is the status line for a word processor.  The area to read is
defined separately from the area which Flipper is to watch,
so that you can have Flipper watch only a small area, for
example, which is very efficient, and then have it read a
whole line or even a block of text once it is triggered.
The option toggles shift function key 5 and 6 turn the beep
on and off and selects whether a block is read.  The area to
be read is changed the same way a number key block is
defined, using "D", to start the definition, selecting the
"backslash" when you are asked for the number key that you
want to define, and so on.

Flipper can send selected text to a electronic Brailler, or to
a Braille display.  Set up a serial device by putting a plus
sign on the command line for Flipper, followed by a "1" for
com1 or a "2" for com2.  You then need to set up the
communications port with the mode command to the correct
baud rate, etc.  To set up a parallel device, put an equal
sign on the command line, followed by a "1" for LPT1 or
PRN, a "2" for LPT2, a "3" for LPT3, etc.  Once the device
is set up, you can Braille the line the cursor is on by
pressing alt "equal".  In the review mode, you can Braille
several lines starting with the line the review cursor is on by
typing a number followed by the alt "equal".  If the margins
set using the "W" key are on, they will be used. Flipper
requires full hardware handshaking for serial Braille devices,
and com3 and com4 may be used if your computer BIOS
supports them.

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Section 5.6 Searching

Searching is the process of having Flipper look for
something on the screen.  You tell Flipper what you want to
search for by pressing "S" in the review mode, typing what
you want to look for, and then pressing return.  Flipper will
then search forward and tell you if it finds what you were
looking for by giving its position and moving there.  Once
the pattern is defined, you can search for the pattern
repeatedly by pressing alt "J", "K", or "L" in the review
mode. Alt "L" is used to search forward from the current
location on the screen.  Alt "J" will start a backward search,
and alt "K" will do a forward search over the whole screen,
starting at the top.

For example, to search for the word "dog" on the screen,
first enter the review mode.  Then press "S" and then type
"d o g" followed by a return.  Flipper will jump to the first
letter of the first occurrence of "dog" on the screen, and
announce where that is, row and column.  To search for
other occurrences of the word "dog" on the screen, press alt
"L" repeatedly.  Flipper will continue to advance to the first
letter in each of the following occurrences of the word dog.
When there are no more on the rest of the screen, Flipper
will say "pattern not found," and will not move.

In addition to searching for simple words, you can also
search for enhancements and other types of things on the
screen using wild cards.  They are entered into the search
pattern by pressing control and a letter.  Wildcard characters
are special characters in a search string.  They can be
entered into search strings along with plain characters to
search for classes of characters, or attributes like
enhancements or the beginning of a line.

The wild cards are tabulated in section 5.7.  The option keys
also allow you to choose whether capital letters will match
small letters during a search.  For example, if you want to
search for changes in the video enhancements on the screen,
you would press "S", to start the search, control "E", for
enhancement, and then "return", to show that you have
finished the string, and then alt "J" or "L" as many times as
you wish to find wherever the enhancements are changed on
the screen.

To find, for example, a regular, non-enhanced character
followed by an inverse video character, you would press "S",
to start the search, control "R", for regular, control "A", for
anything, control "I", for inverse, and then return, and the
search string is defined.  You can then press alt "J" or "L"
as desired to find that on the screen as many times as it
occurs.  The search string is saved until you change it or
restart Flipper when you boot the system.  The search string
is also saved and reloaded with the configurations.

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Section 5.7 Searching Wildcards

This section lists the wildcards that can be used in searches.

control "return" matches any end or beginning of a line.
control "D" matches any digit.
control "L" matches any letter.
control "S" matches any non-alphabetic symbol.
control "A" matches anything.
control "C" matches any capital letter.
control "F" matches any form symbol.
control "left square bracket" matches any upper left corner
form symbol.
control "right square bracket" matches any lower right
corner form symbol.

The following control characters can be used before any
other symbol, to specify a particular enhancement.

control "E" matches any change in enhancement.
control "I" matches any inverse video.
control "U" matches any underline.
control "H" matches any high intensity video.
control "B" matches any blinking.
control "R" for regular matches only non enhanced areas.

If you know the number for a symbol or enhancement, you
can enter it into the search pattern by using control "N".
Flipper will prompt you for the character number.  You can
use the military spell commands, alt "M", "comma", and
"period" in the review mode, to find the number for a
character that is on the screen.  You can also use the "E"
command to get the number for an enhancement that is on
the screen.

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Section 5.8 Configurations

Flipper keeps two complete configurations inside its own
memory. These include the current search string, defined
blocks, margin settings, symbol sets, option choices, etc.  To
switch back and forth between them, you press the "F" key
(for "flip") during the review mode, or alt "F" outside the
review mode.  See section 5.10 for more information.

Changing Flipper's voice.  Voices are changed by pressing
"V" during the review mode, and pressing the function keys.
Keys one and two raise and lower the speed of Flipper's
voice during normal output.  Similarly, keys five through ten
control the pitch, inflection, and amplitude of Flipper's voice.
You can change Flipper's three voices separately, keyboard
echo, command, and automatic output, by using alt, control,
or shift with the function keys.  Press return when you are
done.

Flipper's characteristics can be modified either temporarily
or permanently, to match your changing needs.  Many of
these can be changed by pressing the function keys during
the review mode, and others are changed by holding down
alt and pressing function keys.  All of them alternate on and
off, so the best way to use them is not to memorize where
they are, but to just try them until you find the one you
want.  After you have Flipper set the way you want, there
are two programs, called "FLIPSAVE" and "FLIPLOAD", that
you can run from the DOS prompt that will save the
configuration in a file that you specify on the command line.
Flipload is automatically run with the file "START.FLP", so
you can change this file to make Flipper start up in your
favorite configuration.  Flipper has many other facilities for
handling configurations, which are described in section 5.10.
Section 6.0 of the instructions describes the available
options.

Having Flipper place the cursor at the best point on the
screen, the place where the action is, is particularly
important to make a program easy to use.  Most of the
time, Flipper will chose that place automatically.  However,
application programs can draw attention to a point in many
different ways, sometimes using different methods for
pointing out different things.  Flipper will actually look for
several different characteristics, and attempt to choose the
one that makes the most sense.  Sometimes it is necessary
to give Flipper a hint, to make it use another method for
selecting the cursor position that works better for a
particular program.  Sometimes it is necessary to make
Flipper use different techniques in different parts of a
program, by loading different configurations.  The different
techniques that Flipper uses include using the cursor
location that DOS thinks is correct, which is called normal
cursor, using the cursor location that is actually programmed
into the hardware of the display adapter, or looking for a
pattern of enhancements on the screen, such as dark on
light text vs. light on dark text, called inverse video,
underlining, or color changes.

For example, at the DOS prompt, the cursor is naturally at
the location where DOS thinks it is.  In word processors,
this usually works, but in special modes, such as the spelling
checker of WordPerfect, an inverse video cursor is used for
the location of the misspelled word, which is the important
point on the screen.  The normal cursor is just sitting down
on the status line, waiting for your choice of what to do
about the misspelled word.  In this case, you will want to tell
Flipper to forget about the normal cursor, and put you on
the misspelled word using the enhancement cursor.  The
option actually tells Flipper to use the enhancement cursor
only if there is one, so if you leave the spelling checker and
there is no enhancement cursor, Flipper will track the
normal cursor.  In other words, Flipper will work correctly
inside and outside of the spelling checker if you tell it to
prefer an enhancement cursor.

By default, Flipper will assume that the cursor is where the
operating system says it is, and this usually works.  If it fails,
Flipper may know it is not working and try something else.
What it tries next is called the enhancement cursor. There
are several options which change exactly what the
enhancement cursor is, what color it is, how to look for it
(start at bottom of the screen and go up, for example) and
so forth.

Other toggles tell Flipper to use the hardware cursor instead
of the normal cursor.  This is needed, for example, for Lotus
123 and in most IRMA type mainframe connection boards.
Flipper will actually still switch to an enhancement cursor,
if the hardware cursor does not appear to be valid.

It may be necessary to use searches for enhancement
changes, moving around in review mode, and using the "E"
command to locate the enhancement changes that are being
used for a cursor in a particular program.  Once you have
found the enhancement that you want to track, use the shift
"C" command to select the enhancement where the review
position is as the color to track as a cursor.  Once you have
found the cursor enhancement, you may also need to change
the search that Flipper uses for the enhancement cursor
from top to bottom or bottom to top.  The enhancements
that a program uses may change depending on how it is set
up, and on whether it is being used on a color system or on
a system with a monochrome monitor.  In general, using a
program on a monochrome monitor, or configuring it as
though it was on a monochrome monitor system, makes it
easier for Flipper to figure out what is going on, or for you
to tell it what to use as a cursor.

A related topic is automatic lightbar mode, which is selected
using control function key 4.  If automatic lightbar mode is
on, what Flipper reads after the arrow keys is determined by
the kind of cursor Flipper decided to use.  If the cursor is
normal, then Flipper reads a character after the left or right
arrow keys, and it reads the whole line after the up and
down arrow keys.  If the cursor that Flipper decided to use
was an enhancement cursor, however, then Flipper will read
that enhanced area after any of the arrow keys.  This results
in automatically reading the appropriate material in
spreadsheets and when using pull down menus, as described
below.

One very common use of enhancement cursors is for pull
down menus.  These menus, which are similar to those used
with mice in the Macintosh computer, are becoming more
and more common. In general, these menus consist of a row
of keywords across the top of the screen, and when a
particular item is selected, a list of choices appears below it.
One item of the list is usually highlighted, and you can move
up and down the list using the arrow keys.  If the item is
highlighted using inverse video, or if you select the proper
enhancement using the shift "C" command, then Flipper will
track up and down the menu as you move the selected item.
If automatic lightbar mode is on, then the selected item will
be read as you move onto it.  This makes use of these menu
systems very easy and natural once Flipper has been set up
for them.  You simply move through the menu with the up
and down arrow keys until you get to the choice you want,
and you then select that item by using the return key
(typically).

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Section 5.9 Symbol Sets

Flipper can read any character or symbol that appears in the
IBM character set.  This includes the letters and symbols
which appear on your keyboard, but also includes such
things as forms drawing characters and shaded boxes.  These
additional symbols are off by default, but you can turn them
all on by using the override all symbols on option (function
key 6 during the review mode).  You can tell Flipper which
selected symbols to read by pressing insert during the review
mode and then pressing the function keys.  The symbols are
divided into descriptive sets such as forms drawing symbols,
mathematical symbols and foreign symbols.  You can also
turn on symbols from the keyboard by typing them.  If you
want to turn on specific special symbols, Flipper can read
through a list of them and you can tell it to read them or
not one at a time.  To get the list of symbols which are to
be turned on or off, press insert, then control "F", control
"M", control "D", or control "A", and you will be given a list
of form symbols, math symbols, decorative symbols or accent
and other foreign symbols, respectively, and asked to select
the ones you want.

To delete characters from the character set, you can press
delete during the review mode and then type the symbols
which you want to remove from the character set.

If you know the ASCII code for a symbol that you want to
turn on or off, you can put that symbol into the character
set by typing the number and then the insert key.  Similarly,
you can remove a symbol from the symbol set by typing its
number and then the delete key.  Flipper will tell you what
the ASCII code for the characters that you are moving over
when you use the military spell commands alt "M", "comma",
and "period" over non alphabetic symbols.

The selected set of symbols are saved and reloaded with the
configuration, and primary and secondary sets are
maintained along with the rest of the configuration.

If you are spelling or moving one character at a time, all
symbols will be read whether or not they are  turned on.

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Section 5.10 FLIPLOAD, etc.

This section describes Flipper's multiple configuration
capability, including the use of the "F" command and the
utility programs "FLIPLOAD", "FLIPSAVE", and "FLIPEXT".

All of the changes that you make to the way Flipper works,
including its voices, the character set, option settings, search
strings, etc., are referred to as a "configuration". Once you
have Flipper set up the way you want within a spreadsheet,
for example, or for a spelling checker, you will undoubtedly
wish to save the configuration so that you can use it again
later.

Flipper not only lets you save and reload a configuration, it
will allow you to you to make up several of them and switch
between them quickly.

For example, you might want to have one configuration for
entering text into WordPerfect, and a different configuration
for proofreading your text, with punctuation and
capitalization turned on.  It would be very clumsy, of course,
to always enter the review mode, make the changes, leave
the review mode, etc.  To set up Flipper to make this faster,
first, set up a configuration for WordPerfect the way you
want it.  Then make the other configuration the same by
pressing shift "F".  Now both configurations are the same,
set up for WordPerfect.  Now you can put in the changes
for the differences you want.  When you then flip the
configuration with the alt "F" command, Flipper will flip
between  the editing mode and the writing mode.

It is often useful to have two configurations, primary and
secondary, that only have one difference, so that you can
change that one thing quickly.

Now that you have set up these two configurations for
WordPerfect, you can save them for use later on.  To save
them permanently, after you exit WordPerfect, flip to the
primary configuration, then execute the following command:

flipsave wpprime.flp

then flip to the secondary configuration with the alt "F", and
execute the following command:

flipsave wpsecond.flp

you can then load those configurations later by executing the
command:

flipload wpprime.flp wpsecond.flp

The names wpprime and wpsecond are arbitrary, of course.

You can also set up a batch file that will enter WordPerfect
and load your configurations.  Just make up a file called
WP.BAT with the following contents:

echo off

flipload wpprime.flp wpsecond.flp

wp /nf

flipload start.flp start.flp

the last flipload command loads your starting configuration
into both the primary and secondary configurations.

"FLIPEXT:"

Flipext is a command that you can use to set up other
configurations in memory, in addition to the primary and
secondary configurations that are built into Flipper.  For
each configuration that you set up with Flipext, you will use
up less than 1 kilobyte of your system memory.  As you set
up each configuration with flipext, it is given a number, 1 for
the first one that you make 2 for the second, and so on.
Flipext is used with configurations that you have saved
earlier with the flipsave command.  For example, you can set
up your starting configuration as an external configuration
by executing the command:

flipext start.flp

at the DOS prompt.  You use the configurations that you
loaded by going into the review mode, pressing the number
of the configuration that you want, then pressing the "F"
key.

An simple example of the use of configurations set up with
the flipext command is the case of a computer which is used
by both blind persons and by sighted persons.  You can set
up a "silent" configuration for use by sighted persons, and a
regular one for use by Blind operators.  You do this by
going into Flipper's review mode and then turning off all of
Flipper's speaking options, including automatic output,
keyboard echo, reading after arrow keys, reading after
backspace and delete, the backslash command, and you can
also turn of the quick keys, and the alt number keys.  With
this configuration, the only difference that Flipper being
loaded makes is the ability to pop into review mode, and
memory use.  You can then save this silent configuration by
leaving the review mode, and then executing the command:

flipsave silent.flp

Then if you put in the autoexec.bat file the line:

flipext start.flp silent.flp

then you can turn off Flipper for use by a sighted person by
entering the review mode at any time, and then pressing "2
F".  When you need to use the computer again, you can
press "1 F", loading the starting configuration again, making
Flipper interactive.

You can also change external configurations by going into
the review mode, setting the configuration the way you want
it, and then pressing the number of the configuration that
you want to change, and then shift "F".  Remember that you
need to change the configuration that you load from on the
disk to make permanent changes that will be there when you
reboot.