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_____ _ _________ | __ \ | | _ |____ ____| | | \ \ | | / / | | | | | | | | / / | | | | | | ___ ____ | |/ / | | | | | | / __ \ / ___| | / | | ____ _______ | | | | / / _\ \ | \_ | \ | | / __ \ | ___ \ | | / | | ||___| \__ \ | |\ \ | | | / \ | | | | | | |__/ / | \___ ___| | | | \ \ | | | \__/ | | |___| | |_____/ \____| |____/ |_| \_\ |_| \____/ | |_____/ | | | | ________ _ ________ | | | _____| _ | | | _____| |_| | | |_| | | | | | |____ _ | | ____ | |____ ______ __ __ | _____| | | | | / __ \ | _____| / __ || \ \/ / | | | | | | | | \ | | | | | \ || \ \/ | | | | | | | \__/ | | | | \__/ || /\ \ |_| |_| |_| \____/ |_| \_____|| /_/\_\ by Keith Theobald Here to help you organize your life. Help Version 5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Boring Bit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is Shareware, if you like this program, and wish to use it after a 30 days trial, then you must register. To register just send me a mere £5 sterling (only). To obtain the latest version please send me a disc and return postage. I can be reached at Keith Theobald 54 Rosebery Road, Ipswich. SUFFOLK. IP4 1PS. Theobald@arcade.demon.co.uk or User 2180 Arcade. BEFORE YOU START READ THIS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Desk Top Filo Fax looks at the internal clock, to set it self up, therefore there is no need to set up the Day, Date, Month or Year within Filo as this is can be handled within the !Alarm application. It is most important that the correct Day, Date, Month and Year are set before using !Filo, this will enable !Filo to be be used to its best of its ability. If filo is used for data other than personal record keeping, if might fall within the scope of The Data Protection Act, that requires data to be registered. To Start ~~~~~~~~ Either drag to the icon bar or double click the !Filo icon, after a few moments the Filo icon will appear on the icon bar. Depending on what options are set will depend on which windows open at the start. Clicking on the icon with either Select or Adjust, will open what ever windows are set in the options, initially the diary and day window will open. To set up your own preferences see Options below. NB - Interactive Help ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Version 2.06 and above of Filo uses acorn's interactive help, which can be found in your Applications directory on the icon bar. Simply load !Help, by double-clicking on it's icon, and move the pointer around any of the window from Filo. !Help will then tell you all there is to know about it. Iconbar Menu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Info - tells you about filo. Dial - Allows you you to enter a telephone number in which will then be dialled by the computer, placing the mouth piece by the speaker, will allow Tone dialling phone to pickup these tones and then connect you. Windows - Allow you to access the other windows that make up Filo. These are explained below, the windows are: Diary Day Window Address Create Diary Options Appointments Warnings Notebook Edit Password Security - Allows easy switching of password protection, click on this option freezes out either Filo or the desktop, see Options below. Quit - Finish using Filo, why you would what to do this is beyond me, but I'll put this option in anyway. Here is the big list of explanations The Control Window ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NB - No keyboard short cuts availble at present. Diary + Day - Opens the Diary and the day window, check Options. Address - Opens the address book. Create Diary - Opens the Create Diary to produce a file ready for be printing and then sliped into your filofax. Option - Configure Filo the way you want it. Appointments - Opens a window of known appointments that were in the Filo fax when the program was loaded. See Appointments below. Warning - Re-checks to find what appointments are up and coming, and displays them. See Warnings below. Notebook - At last the Notebook has arrived, it can contain 20 pages, of 13 lines each. Pages can be outputed in a text file format. Pages can be flicked through at the click of a button Newpages can be added when needed and deleted or wiped clean when no longer required. Security - Requires Password to continue. See Options for more information. Dial - Allows you you to enter a telephone number in which will then be dialled by the computer, placing the mouth piece by the speaker, will allow Tone dialling phone to pickup these tones and then connect you. Edit Password - Allows you to change the current password. The Diary ~~~~~~~~~ When the main window opens you are presented with a whole month laid out in front of you. Each day is given its own button. By clicking on any of these buttons you can view that particular day in great detail. See Day Below. These options are available from the icons on screen, by clicking menu over the Diary window, or over the icon bar. Month - displays the current Month. The Pop-Up-Menu lists all twelve months, for you to choose the one that you wish to view. Date - displays the current Day and Date. Year - displays the current Year. The Pop-Up-Menu lists all the years which have had a diary made for them. You can then choose the one that you wish to view. Search - allows you to search for an appointment. Output - allows you to export an appointment to another application or directory. Previous - shows the previous month to the the one being shown. Next - shows the next month to the the one being shown. Day Window ~~~~~~~~~~ This contains the Day, Date, Month and Year, below which are five writable icons, these can be used to enter appointments that you have coming up in the near future. You then have the option of choosing how much notice !Filo gives you, for each given appointment. None - which means filo will take no notice of this what so ever and will not inform you ever. 7 Days - when the date is within 7 days, Filo will warn you when ever it is run 14 Days - when the date is within 14 days, Filo will warn you when ever it is run. 1 Month - when the date is within 30 days, Filo will warn you when ever it is run. You can also set how often Filo warns you of an appointment. Yearly - Birthdays, Wedding Anniverlies, etc. Monthly - Clubs, etc. Weekly - TV programs, clubs, driving lessons, etc. Once - Anything else. The first three of the above options simply copies a number of lines from one day to another. BE WARNED - it does what it says it does, it writes over deleting any thing that was in the new day. You can choose how many lines are copied, see Options below. Once, Yearly, Monthly and Weekly, all warns you either 7, 14 or 30 days ahead of the date. Once the does nothing more, while Yearly, Monthly and Weekly automatically set another appointment for the required period into the future. ie. setting a Weekly, seven day warning, will mean that when Filo reads this it warns you of that appointment, and sets the same appointment for the save day on the following week. Once you have entered your appointment and chosen the amount of warning that you require, just click OK and Filo will automatically save the data. If you suddenly find that you have made such a mistake, that you rather start from scratch, just click on Cancel. Address ~~~~~~~ This allows for fifty records to be kept for each letter of the alphabet. You have the following fields. Name Address Telephone (1) Telephone (2) Fax E-Mail address Search Note Reference I think they all speak for themselves, apart from Search and Reference. Search is there because I think it is always handy to be able to select a group for mail merge, or printing a list of names telephone numbers, etc. Reference is there to allow the !Filo to sort out your names and address in alphabetic order, but also in a fashion that suits you. The two telephone number can be dialled simply by clicking over the word telephone, opposite the number you require to be dialled. These options are available from the icons on screen, or by clicking menu over the address window. Previous - shows the last record to the the one being shown. Index - displays an menu, breaking down the records, one item for each letter being used. Moving across you can view all names under that letter. Search - Opens the Search window. See Search below. Next - shows the next record to the the one being shown. Delete - Deletes current record. Export - Open the Export window, and allows current entry to be exported. See Export below. Add - Allow a new record to be added. See Add/Edit below. Close - Closes the address window. Dial - Allows you you to enter a telephone number in which will then be dialled by the computer, placing the mouth piece by the speaker, will allow Tone dialling phone to pickup these tones and then connect you. Edit - Opens the Edit window, See Add/Edit below. Create Diary ~~~~~~~~~~~~ This allows for easy creation a diary in the format of your choice, or a calandar for an A4 page. It does this by asking the following questions. Year ~~~~ • Year (1989 - 2050), enter the year of your choice. This defaults to current year +1. Page ~~~~ • Filo Fax, 8pt font used. • A5, 10pt font used. • A4, 12pt font used. • A4 Calandar 10.5pt font used. Yea I know its weird but it fits. Layout ~~~~~~ • One Week to a Page - This is a little small if your are a busy person. • One Week to two Pages - This gives you a little more room. • One Day to a Page - For those sad people who just spends all day writing in their Diary. Looks better if there is a line at the bottem of each page, the quickest way to do this would be to use, a footer, move it to the bottem of the frame, cancel the Replel text outside frame and select the bottem frame border to 1. Size ~~~~ • January to June - The first six months of the year. • July to December - The second six months of the year. • January to December - The whole year. In fact all of the above should print an extra half month as well. Output ~~~~~~ • Impression Format - Just drop this in to one of the files in the Documents directory, and press print. • Text Format - Well it not quite Text format, but it’s very close, • Tells Impression to continue printing on the next frame, in this the next page. • either turn the style “on” or “off”, used then setting out the calendar. • either turn the style “on” or “off”, used when setting out the diary. • either turn the style “on” or “off”, prints a line across the page. • shifts to the next “tab”. Creating The Diary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Simply click on the OK button and the computer will think a little while, the hour glass will appear. Then a save box will open. Clicking on cancel will stop the creation of a diary. Saving The Diary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Simply click and drag the file icon to either a directory or another application such as Impression Style. In side the Filo application, in a directory call Documents, there are some master pages set up for Impression, to allow for correct printing. Options ~~~~~~~ This allows you to set up Filo the way you choose to do so. 1 - You can choose as to which window open when Filo is first started. 2 - You can now choose whether you use Outline font for Filo or System fonts, this is hopefully going to help all those RiscPc user who kepted moaning that filo messed up their desktop fonts. 3 - Security Control allows the password protection to be turned on and off, the default password is FILOFAX. This can be changed see Edit Password below. 4 - Security Area, Filo allows you to set the password protection to either just Filo or to include the whole Desktop, this is not full proof but will keep out most unwanted intruders, especially if Filo is started up in your boot sequence, see below. 5 - The second part allow you to set the number of lines which are copied when using the Timing options on the Day window (see Day for more information). Be warned as this option simply over writes what ever is in the field before. It is there on idea keep this to a minimum, leaving these lines blank unless you wish to set up on of the Timing options. 6 - The control window can be made to fix itself to some windows, either on the right or left. It can also be indepenant and behave like a normal window. 7 - The control window needs to be told which window to stick to if set in option (6). The options are the Diary, Appointment, Address, or the Notebook windows, one, some or all can be selected. 8 - Misc option, allows things like making the current day window to open with the Diary window, or "Edit Password" to be removed from both the Control window and all menus. Lastly you can choose to have both the Warnings and Appointment windows opening together or not. 9 - The next part allows you to set the volume control for the tone dialling. Cancel - will ignore any changes made. OK - will save any changes made, which will take effect from then on. Appointments ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Allows easy view of all known appointment, these being any that were present and correct at the initial load up of Filo. Any new appointments that have been added this time, will not be within this list. See Warnings. You have the standard options here. The most up and coming appointment is displayed, with a Pop-Up-Menu or a step forward or back option to allow you to view all appointments. Delete - allows an appointment to be deleted, from Filo completely. Filo then saves the new amended file. Save - Any changes that you wish to make, can then be saved using this button. OK - Closes the window. Does NOT save any changes that you may have made. To do this use SAVE. Warnings ~~~~~~~~ Gives you the details of any up and coming appointments. The most up and coming appointment is displayed on the top of the pile. These cannot be changed in any way what so ever. Notebook ~~~~~~~~ At last the Notebook has arrived, it can contain 20 pages, of 13 lines each. Pages can be outputed in a text file format. And can be flicked through at the click of a button. Newpages can be added when needed and deleted or wiped clean when no longer required. Edit Password ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To edit the current password, first off you must enter the current password, it is currently set to FILOFAX, then press enter. (NB: If you do pass a copy of this program on to your friends, please reset this password and switch off the password protection). The enter your new password, it can be made up with any letters, upper or lower case, spaces, and any sysbol that can be found on the keyboard. It appears in the window as a series of 'x'. When you ave entered your new password, then press return, and re-enter it to confirm you have typed it in correctly. Please remember your password, I will take no responsibility as to any lost of data, and remember don't write it down, otherwise it defeats the object. Other window which appear in Filo are explained here. They include Search Found Export Add/Edit Save Search ~~~~~~~ You may simply enter in a string which will then be searched for in the given field. This is now fully functioning, by typing a string, Filo will then search for any occurences of that string, in which ever field you wish to search. You will not be given multiple copies however. eg. by searching for the number 65, in telephone field in which you had the following numbers, those marked with an '*' will be found. 123456 654512 * 646549 * 715042 174605 245656 * Once you click on OK or press Return, you will either see the found window or a message telling you that there were no matches. PLEASE NOTE: This is a great improvement on earlier versions of Filo, it is not however case sensitive. Found ~~~~~ Very similar to the Address window, with a few icons missing from the bottom, These options are available from the icons on screen, or by clicking menu over the Found window. Previous - shows the last record to the the one being shown. Next - shows the next record to the the one being shown. Delete - Deletes current record. Export - Open the Export window, and allows the current entry to be exported.See Export below. Close - Closes the address window. Any changes will be queried before updating the main record. Edit - Opens the Edit window, See Add/Edit below. OK - Any changes that have been made, will be carried across to the main record. Export ~~~~~~ Exports either single entry, or a selection. This can be exported in either a Text file, CSV or TSV format, you can also choose which fields may be exported, by clicking on the pop-up menu and making your choice before dragging the file icon to a directory or another application. Add/Edit ~~~~~~~~ Allows you to enter in a new or edit an old entry, click Cancel to end operation, or OK to preserve the changes. Save ~~~~ Just like any other save dialog box, simply type in the required file name and drag the file icon to a directory or another application. Keyboard short cuts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ General - not including Contorl Window ~~~~~~~ F1 - Opens Diary and Day Window F2 - Opens Address Window F5 - Create Diary F6 - Options Window F7 - Appointments Window F8 - Warnings Windows F9 - Notebook Window F10 - Password required F11 - Dial Window Pressing Shift+ any of the above keys causes current window to close. Ctrl+F9 - Removes all appointment window from screen Ctrl+F11 - Cancel Shift+Ctrl+F9 - Removes all windows from screen, and opens the control window. All Writeable Icons ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ctrl C - Copy contains of writable icon to clipboard. Ctrl U - Deletes contains of writable icon, without coping it to the clipboard Ctrl V - Pastes contains of clipboard to writable icon containing caret. Ctrl X - Copy contains of writable icon to clipboard, and clears contains of writable icon containing caret. Diary Window ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Page Down - Previous Month Page Up - Next Month Ctrl I - Month Index Ctrl Y - Year Index Day Window ~~~~~~~~~~ Ctrl+F1 - Select 1 Month Ctrl+F2 - Select 14 Days Ctrl+F3 - Select 7 Days Ctrl+F4 - Select None Ctrl+F5 - Select Yearly Ctrl+F6 - Select Monthly Ctrl+F7 - Select Weekly Ctrl+F8 - Select Once Ctrl+F10 - Clear Day Window Ctrl+F11 - Cancel Address Window ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Page Down - Previous Address Page Up - Next Address Insert - Add Address Shift Insert - Delete Address Home - Close/OK Ctrl F11 - Cancel Ctrl I - Address Index Ctrl E - Edit Address F3 - Save/Output Address F4 - Search Address Add Address ~~~~~~~~~~~ Home - Close/OK Ctrl F11 - Cancel Ctrl ⇧ - Increases address references Ctrl ⇩ - Decreasesaddress references Edit Address ~~~~~~~~~~~ Home - Close/OK Ctrl F11 - Cancel Ctrl ⇧ - Increases address references Ctrl ⇩ - Decreasesaddress references Address Window ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Page Down - Previous Address Page Up - Next Address Shift Insert - Delete Address Home - Close/OK Ctrl F11 - Cancel Ctrl I - Address Index Ctrl E - Edit Address F3 - Save/Output Address Create Diary ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Home - Close/OK Ctrl F11 - Cancel Options Window ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Home - Close/OK Ctrl F11 - Cancel Appointment Window ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Page Down - Previous Appointment Page Up - Next Appointment Shift Insert - Delete Appointment Home - Close/OK Ctrl I - Appointment Index F3 - Save Any Changes Notebook ~~~~~~~~ F3 - Save/Output (Notebook, Address, Found Windows only) Page Down - Previous Page Page Up - Next Page Insert - Add Page Shift Insert - Delete Current Page Home - Close/OK Shift+Ctrl+F10 - Clear Page Contents Search Window ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Shift+Ctrl+F1 - Select Name Shift+Ctrl+F2 - Select Address Shift+Ctrl+F3 - Select Telephone 1 Shift+Ctrl+F4 - Select Telephone 2 Shift+Ctrl+F5 - Select Fax Shift+Ctrl+F6 - Select Email Shift+Ctrl+F7 - Select Search Shift+Ctrl+F8 - Select Note Ctrl F11 - Cancel Home - Close/OK Mouse/Keyboard Shortcuts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Select | Adjust ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alone | Diary + Day | Address Shift | Notebook | Password Ctrl | Appointments | Warning Alt | Dial | New Address Shift + Alt | Search Address | - Ctrl + Alt | - | - Shift + Ctrl | Options | Create Diary Shift + Ctrl + Alt | - | - The following windows will allow Return to complete the operation. Dial Year Search Export Options Save Edit Password Enter Password Boot Squence ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Just place the following in your boot file, and Filo will automatically run at start up. Filer_Run !Filo How To Receive The Next Version ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is Shareware, if you like this program, and wish to use it after a 30 days trial, then you must register. To register just send me a mere £5 sterling (only) and I will send you the latest version. I will from time to time upload new versions of Filo on to Arcade, when you see these simply sendme a disc and return postage and I will send you your new registered version to you. I can be reached at Keith Theobald 54 Rosebery Road, Ipswich. SUFFOLK. IP4 1PS. Many thanks got to the following people. Tone Dialling ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks go to Michael Davis and Lee Archer who back in 1991 wrote !ToneDial, this was a basic module which allowed your computer to handle tone dialling from the command line. It was from this module that I was able to produce the tone dialling within !Filo. If you wish to check out this module you can find it on APDL disc number B082. Once again guys, thanks. !Zap ~~~~ Thanks also goes to Dominic Symes for his excellent text editor, without which I never would have managed. DRwimp ~~~~~~ I could never have written this program without the help of Drwimp, by Andrew Ayre. Drwimp is so easy to use I was writing my first Desktop program before I had finished reading the manual or working through the tutorials. Drwimp has being rewritten see WimpHelp file for more details of what it can do. 
