home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- *TICKER ABOUT,A
- Ticker
- Version 1.1.3
- (c) 1992 by Management Systems Group
-
- TICKER was created to provide you hours of mindless entertainment in
- in preference to doing actual work. It is easy to use. All you have to
- do is to set up the configuration as you desire once. Ticker will save this
- configuration and restore it each time the program is run.
-
- Key Function
- ---------------------------------------------
- 'a' Displays this screen
- 'd' Load new database
- 'o' Change options
- 'c' Change active categories
- 'j' or ENTER Advance ticker
- ESC Leave current function
- F1 Context-sensitive help (press when in doubt)
- 'q' Quit Ticker
-
- Ticker is a shareware program. If you use and enjoy Ticker, we ask that
- you send $15 to the following address to support our work:
-
- Management Systems Group
- P.O. Box 768
- Havertown, PA 19146
-
- Have fun!
- *ACTIVE CATS,A
- Use this screen to choose those categories which are active. Active
- categories will have items chosen from them and displayed, while
- inactive ones will be ignored. Use a 'Y' to make a category active, and
- a 'N' to make it inactive. At least one category must be active at all
- times.
- *OPT MAIN,A
- Use this screen to set the options of ticker.
- *OPT AUTO,A
- When this function is selected, the display will advance to the next
- text item in the database automatically, delaying the number of seconds
- given in the following item.
- *OPT WAIT,A
- This gives the number of seconds to pause before advancing to the next
- item in the database. For this option to be functional, the AUTO option above
- must also be selected.
- *OPT WIDTH,A
- This gives the width of the window to be displayed, in characters.
- *OPT HEIGHT,A
- This gives the heigth of the window to be displayed, in characters.
- *OPT DIR,A
- This gives the direction in which the database is to be traversed, either
- forward or backward.
- *DATABASE CL,A
- Select the database you wish to load and press ENTER.
-