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- "FILE SELECTION HELP"
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- "The program has read your data disk and displayed a list of files for"
- "you to view. The kind of files displayed depends on where you were"
- "in THE DATAMAGE when you directed the program to display a list of"
- "files. You could be viewing data, marker, I/O group or macro files."
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- "The program has the capacity to hold fifty files of each type. Press"
- "the up/down arrow, page up/down or home/end keys to highlight the"
- "file of your choice. Press return to select the file, or the D key"
- "to permanently erase it from the disk."
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- "Pressing escape, if you are selecting marker, macro or I/O groups,"
- "will abort the disk load and return you to the program."
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- "If you are viewing datafiles pressing escape enables the program to"
- "access files not recorded in sub-dirs off the directory holding the"
- "programs. You will be prompted to enter the pathname holding the des-"
- "ired file. The way the program will respond to your entry depends on"
- "the last character you enter."
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- "If you have several files in sub-dirs off the root on A: and you want"
- "the program to make you a menu of them enter A:, and press return."
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- "If you have only one file on A:, in the root directory, and wish to"
- "load that file then enter A:\, and press return. If you record files"
- "that way the program WILL NOT make a menu, as there are no sub-dirs"
- "on A:, and the menu is made by checking sub-dirs for DATAMAGE files."
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- "If you have more than fifty datafiles on C: you must put the fifty-"
- "first someplace else, as the program can access only fifty datafiles"
- "on one menu. So, make a new dir off the root on C:, and call it"
- "DATABNK1, or whatever."
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- "To access a file in the databank press escape from the menu and enter"
- "\DATABNK1. The program will make a menu of the datafiles in sub-dirs"
- "of C:\DATABNK1, and you may select your file in the normal manner."
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- "If you are in a hurry and you know the complete pathname, enter it"
- "and add a backslash (\) as the final character. You might enter the"
- "full path as \DATABNK1\INVNTORY\. Provided there is a path of that"
- "name, and it contains a DATAMAGE file, the program will bypass the"
- "menu operation and load the datafile."