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- HELP
-
- Help on Help
-
- Once in help (like you are now), the following commands
- are available :
-
- F1 - Help on Help (this screen)
- F2 - An ~index` (keywords) for items in the help file
- F3 - Goto the previous screen (limited)
- F5 - Zoom/Unzoom the help screen
-
- Arrow keys - Scroll the help screen contents left, right,
- up and down
-
- TAB / SHFT+TAB - Highlight the next/previous visible
- keyword
-
- PAGEUP/DOWN - Move up and down a page at a time
-
- HOME/END - Goto the beginning/end of the help info for
- the current item
-
- ENTER - Get help on a highlighted keyword
- ESC - Exits help
- /
- INDEX
-
- Index for heXEdit
-
- ~Help` on Help ~Goto` offset
- ~About` ~Load` a new file
- ~View`ing ~Mark`er stack
- ~ASCII` chart Goto marked ~position`
- ~Base` conversion ~Retrieve` position
- ~Clear` marker stack ~Search`
- ~Colors` Search ~again`
- ~Edit`ing
-
- /
- ABOUT
-
- heXEdit v3.6 ^^ Rob Stuntz 2-5-93
-
- If you have any questions or comments I can be
- reached at one of these spots :
-
- 1. GEnie
- address : R.STUNTZ
-
- 2. CompuServe
- address : 71043,117
-
- 3. and of course the good ole' U.S. Postal Service at
-
- Rob Stuntz
- 565 Dorothy Dr. Apt. 1
- Des Plaines, IL. 60016
-
- /
- VIEW
-
- Viewing Commands
-
- F1 - ~Help`
- A/Alt+A - Show ~ASCII` chart
- B/Alt+B - ~Base` conversion
- C - Set ~Colors` (color adapters)
- D/H/O - Display offset #'s as Dec/Hex/Oct
- E - ~Edit` the file
- G - ~Goto` offset
- L - ~Load` a new file
- M - Push position on ~mark`er stack
- N - Search ~again`
- R - ~Retrieve` position from marker stack
- S - ~Search` the file
- Z - ~Clear` all entries from marker stack
- Alt+1 thru Alt+9 - Goto marked ~position`
-
- / - Scroll up/down 1 line
- PGUP/PGDN - Scroll up/down 1 page
- HOME/END - Go to beg/end of file
- ESC/Alt-X - Quit heXEdit
- /
- ASCII
-
- ASCII Chart
-
- A / Alt+A
-
- ASCII chart commands
-
- LEFT arrow key - go back 16 characters
- RIGHT arrow key - go forward 16 characters
- PAGEUP - go back 128 characters
- PAGEDOWN - go forward 128 characters
- D - display numbers in decimal
- H - display numbers in hexadecimal
- ESC or ENTER - exits ASCII chart
-
- /
- BASE
-
- Base Convert
-
- B / Alt+B
-
- Convert a number from either decimal, hexadecimal or
- binary to the other two.
-
- Base convert commands
-
- UP/DOWN arrow keys - select the base of the input number
- ENTER - convert the number
- ESC - exit the base convert routine
- /
- COLORS
-
- Set Colors
-
- C
-
- This command will allow you to change the color of just
- about anything. You can also save the colors you choose
- so that XE will startup with those colors.
-
- Simply select the area you want to change the color in by
- pressing a letter 'A' thru 'O'. A colorbox of all
- possible colors will appear. The current color of the
- item you selected will have two white bars on either side
- of an 'X'. You can now move those white bars around with
- the arrow keys to select a new color. With the white bars
- around the color scheme you want, press ENTER. If you
- change your mind and don't want to change the color after
- all, press ESC.
-
- There are a couple areas that have a color selection
- restriction. Area 'G', Altered bytes background, you can
- only select the background, the foreground is the same as
- the main bytes (area 'A'). And the border for Help, only
- the foreground can be selected as it's background is the
- same as the Help text (area 'L').
-
- Color change commands
-
- F1 - get ~help`
- A-O - select the area you want to change
- S - save the currently selected colors to XE.EXE
- ESC/ENTER - exit the color change screen
-
- The 'S' command will save the currently selected colors
- to the executable file (XE.EXE). If XE.EXE is not
- available where it was started from, an error message
- will be displayed to that effect, which means your colors
- have not been saved.
-
- If you want the default colors back, start-up XE with the
- /C option. If you want to retain the default colors make
- sure you then save the colors, otherwise the next time
- you start XE you will have whatever colors were last
- saved in XE.EXE.
-
- /
- EDIT
-
- Editing
-
- E
-
- Edit commands
-
- F1 - get ~help`
- Alt+A - displays the ~ASCII` chart
- Alt+B - ~base` number conversion
-
- BackSpace/LEFT arrow - move cursor left 1 byte
- RIGHT arrow - move cursor right 1 byte
- PAGEUP - move cursor to first line on page
- PAGEDOWN - move cursor to last line on page
- HOME - move cursor to beginning of line
- END - move cursor to end of line
- TAB - toggle cursor position between the
- hexadecimal display and the ASCII display of the
- file. The above editing commands will move the
- cursor within the area the cursor is in.
- You can edit the file making changes in both
- areas at the same time, if so desired.
-
- ENTER - quit editing. If you made changes to
- whole bytes you will be prompted to save the
- changes or not. Press 'Y' to save the changes or
- 'N' to lose the changes. Only the portion of the
- file that is in memory is actually saved. So
- don't worry about waiting for a long save if you
- are editing a large file. You are then returned
- to the View mode.
-
- ESC - quit editing. This will return you to
- the View mode and will not save any changes you
- made.
- /
- GOTO
-
- Goto offset
-
- G
-
- You are prompted for an offset to go to. You can enter
- either a decimal number or a hexadecimal number. If you
- press ESC while entering a number you will be placed
- back in the ~View` mode with no repositioning taking
- place. The BACKSPACE key can be used to edit your entry.
- If you enter an offset that is beyond the End-Of-File
- (or < 0) you will be prompted again for a number.
-
- To enter a decimal number just type in the number, no
- commas, and press ENTER.
-
- To enter a hexadecimal number, type a '$' as the first
- character and then continue entering the hex number.
- /
- LOAD
-
- Loading files
-
- L
-
- Loadfile box commands
-
- UP/DOWN arrows - move highlight bar one file at a time
- PAGEUP/PAGEDOWN - move a page at a time
- HOME/END - move to beginning/end of file list
- ENTER - load the highlighted file or change
- directories or change drives
- ESC - exit without loading
-
- F5 - toggles the Archive bit
- F6 - toggles the System bit
- F7 - toggles the Hidden bit
- F8 - toggles the Read_Only bit
- /
- MARK
-
- The marker stack
-
- M
-
- Your current position in the file can be saved and then
- retrieved later on.
-
- Your position is saved on a stack. If the stack is full
- the oldest position will be deleted and the rest of the
- entries will move down the stack to make room for the new
- entry. The maximum number of positions you can save is
- 100. Also, when your position is saved, it's location on
- the stack is reported to you so you can see how full the
- marker stack is.
- /
- AGAIN
-
- Search again
-
- N
-
- ~Search` again using the last used search string. If
- there is no previous search string, you will be prompted,
- as if you pressed 'S', to enter a search string.
-
- /
- RETRIEVE
-
- Retrieve position
-
- R
-
- While ~view`ing the file, if you do this command you will
- be moved to the location specified by the top ~mark`er
- stack entry. Once you have been moved to the new
- location, the entry you retrieved will be deleted from
- the marker stack. If there are no markers on the stack,
- then nothing will happen.
-
- /
- POSITION
-
- Goto marked position
-
- Alt+1 thru Alt+9
-
- Using these commands will move you to a previously
- ~mark`ed position without deleting the mark information.
- The retrieve command 'R' moves you to the last position
- and deletes the mark, using Alt+1 - Alt+9 does not delete
- the mark. Alt+1 moves you to the first marked postion,
- Alt+2 moves you to the second marked position, etc etc.
- If you try to move to a position that has not been marked
- yet, nothing will happen except a message telling you so.
-
- /
- SEARCH
-
- Searching
-
- S
-
- Search the file for a byte or text sequence.
-
- You will be prompted for the type of search (B)yte or
- (T)ext.
-
- For a byte sequence, enter the bytes in hexadecimal
- notation then press ENTER. As with ~edit`ing, you must
- enter a complete byte, for the search to work correctly,
- although I don't check for that here. You can use the
- BACKSPACE key to go back and make corrections. The
- maximum length for a byte sequence is 9 bytes. There is
- no need to enter a space between each byte as I do that
- for you while you're entering your bytes.
-
- For a text sequence, just type in the text to search for,
- no quotes are needed, and press ENTER. The maximum
- length for a text sequence is 25 characters. The search
- is case insensitive.
-
- While XE is searching, you can press any key to interrupt
- and stop the search.
- /
- CLEAR
-
- Clear marker stack
-
- Z
-
- This command will delete all entries from the marker
- stack.
-
- /
-