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- - This is a basic explanation of how to use the text display -
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- - programs created by BigText v2.3 -
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- - USAGE -
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- From the DOS prompt enter the program's name then press the
- enter key to run it.
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- If you get a message "Cannot execute . . ." or "Out of memory"
- then unload other programs like TSR's from memory to make more
- memory available.
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- If you have a colour monitor you can select to use your
- favourite screen colours by entering a number as command line
- parameter in the range of 0..18 . See the program COLOURS.EXE
- for a display of the different colour combinations available to
- you.
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- For example,
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- text_viewer_name 9
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- will select colour set 9
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- Alternatively, select colours from within the text viewing
- program by pressing Alt-C as described below.
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- From within the viewer program:
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- Press Alt-C to toggle between different sets of screen colours.
- (only works on colour screens)
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- Page Up and Page Down keys to move up and down by the screen full.
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- Up and Down arrows to scroll by the line.
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- Left and right arrows to scroll left and right by the character.
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- Tab and shift-Tab to scroll left and right in jumps of eight.
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- Press "M", or F10, or Esc to return to the main menu (if present).
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- Press "I" for an information screen.
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- Press "T" to send the text to a text file on disk. (if enabled)
- - you can select either current section, the entire
- manuscript, or the just the screen.
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- Press "P" to print text. (if enabled)
- (print the current section, entire manuscript, or the screen)
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- Press "F" to find text.
- (either globally, or restricted to current section)
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- Press "X" to execute a program that is described on the screen.
- If there is more than one program to execute you will be
- prompted to select a program with a highlight bar. In the
- latter case, use the arrow keys to select, then press Enter
- to execute.
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- Press "Q" to quit.
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