Copyright (c) 1987 Blue Sky Software. All rights reserved. #ovhelp HOW TO USE HELP IN OVERVIEW text OverView uses the last two lines of your computer's screen to show you what topics have help information available. The next to last line displays the list of topics available while the very last line displays a short message about one of the topics listed. You can select a topic for further help in one of two ways. You can "point" to the topic by using the space bar, tab key, or backspace key to move the highlighted bar over the desired topic and press the Return key. As you move the highlighted bar, the last line will change to display a short message about the currently highlighted topic. The other, faster method of selecting a help topic is to simply press the key that is the first letter of the topic. For example, to get help on OverView commands ("Cmds" on the topic line below) you can either press the space bar twice (to highlight "Cmds") and then press the Return key, or just press the C key once. For more information on using HELP, press the M (for More) key. txet menu More More help on using Help Menus Help on using menus Cmds Help on OverView commands Fkeys Help on function key usage Keys Help on other key usage Screen Help on OverView screen displays unem #more MORE HELP ON USING HELP text Each help screen contains a topic named "Quit." Selecting the Quit topic will exit OverView's help facility and return you to whatever you were doing before you asked for help. All help screens except the first screen contain a topic named "Prev." If you select the Prev topic, you will be returned to whatever help screen was displayed prior to the current topic. txet #keys OTHER KEY SUMMARY text Esc - Returns you to the top level menu of the current function. - Interrupts an operation (copy, rename, etc) on tagged files. - Aborts operation when answering prompt.  - Moves the file or dir pointer, scrolls up in VIEW.  - Moves the file or dir pointer, scroll down in VIEW. -> - Moves the file or dir pointer, scrolls right in VIEW, moves cursor right when answering prompt. <- - Moves the file or dir pointer, scrolls left in VIEW, moves cursor left when answering prompt. Home- Goes to first file name, moves to top of file in VIEW, moves to root dir in DIR. End - Goes to last file name, moves to bottom of file in VIEW. PgUp- Moves up a screen of file names, moves up a screen in VIEW. PgDn- Moves down a screen of file names, moves down a screen in VIEW. Ins - Toggles insert mode when answering prompt. Del - Deletes char under cursor when answering prompt. <- - (backspace) Deletes char left of cursor when answering prompt. txet #menus USING MENUS text The last two lines of the computer's screen display a menu of the commands and command options you can currently perform (in HELP, they display the help topics available). The next to last line lists the individual commands or options available, while the very last line displays a short message about the highlighted command or option. You can select a command or option from the menu in one of two ways. You can "point" to the command or option using the space bar, tab key, or backspace key to move the highlighted bar over the desired topic and press the Return key. As you move the highlighted bar, the last line changes to display a short message about the currently highlighted command. The other, faster method of selecting a command or option is to simply press the key that is the first letter of the topic. txet #screen SCREEN LAYOUT text OverView has four distinctly different screen displays. They are: File name display - displays the names of the files in the current directory or drive. Detailed information about each file will be shown if selected by the INFO command. This is the normal display. Directory tree display - displays the directory organization of the current disk in a graphical, tree-like manner. This display is selected by the DIR command. Help display - displays a screen of help information. You are looking at the help display now. This display is selected by the HELP command or the F1 function key. View display - displays the contents of a file in ascii or hexadecimal format. The view display is selected by the VIEW command. The file name and directory tree displays share a common header that displays information about the current disk and directory. For more information on the header, select the More option from the menu below. txet menu More More information on the header format unem #more HEADER FORMAT text The top of the file name and directory tree screens show OverView's current status. Included is information about the current disk Volume, the current directory Path, the Files in the current directory and Selection criteria used to pick the files displayed. The Volume section displays the current disks volume label, the size of the disk in bytes and the amount of free space available on the disk. The Path section displays the full pathname of the current directory. The Files section displays the number and size in bytes of the selected files in the current directory and the number and size of the tagged files. The Selection section displays the current file name mask and attribute settings used to selection files from the current directory. Only files that match the selection criteria are displayed in the file name screen. txet #cmds OVERVIEW COMMAND SUMMARY text HELP - Provides on-line help on OverView usage COPY - Copies the current or all tagged files DIR - Display the current disk's directory tree ERASE - Erases the current or all tagged files INFO - Toggles the display of additional file information NEW - Reread and redisplay the current directory RENAME - Rename (or move) the current or all tagged files SORT - Sort files by name, extension, date, size, unsorted TAG - Tag one or more files for other operations VIEW - View the current file on your screen OTHER - Display secondary menu of commands QUIT - Quit to DOS txet menu Dir Help on DIR commands Info Help on Info Sort Help on SORT commands Tag Help on TAG commands View Help on VIEW commands Other Help on OTHER commands unem #fkeys FUNCTION KEY SUMMARY text F1 - Get Help F2 - Tag/Untag the current file (toggles current tag state) F3 - Login to the parent directory F4 - Login to the subdirectory under the file pointer F5 - Goto the next tagged file F6 - Goto the previous tagged file F7 - Open another file name display window F8 - Close the current file name display window F9 - Goto the next file name display window F10 - Goto the previous file name display window txet #dir DIR COMMAND text The DIR commands let you view, make, remove, and change directories. When DIR is selected from the main menu, the current disks directory structure will be displayed in a graphical tree format. When first displayed, the current directory will be highlighted. You can move this dir pointer by using the keypad arrow keys and the home key. As you move the dir pointer, the pathname displayed at the top of the screen will be updated. Moving the dir pointer does not actually change the current directory unless you use the Dir Login command to log in to the currently highlighted directory. If you quit the dir tree display (instead of logging into a directory) you will be returned to same directory that was displayed before displaying the dir tree (regardless of where you move the dir pointer). txet #info INFO COMMAND text The INFO command turns on and off the display of extra information for the files displayed. When the extra information display is off, only the names of the selected files are displayed. When the extra information display is on, the following information is also displayed about each selected file: 1) the file size in bytes, 2) the amount of disk space used by the file, 3) the date the file was created or last modified, 4) the time the file was created or last modified and, 5) the file attributes. txet #sort SORT COMMAND text The SORT commands allow you to display file names sorted by primary file name, by file name extension, by date, by size, or in DOS directory order (unsorted). Additionally, with the sort options command, you can have the file names sorted in ascending or descending order. txet #tag TAG COMMAND text The TAG commands allow you pick files to be operated on by other commands. For example, with TAG you can pick all the files that have been created or modified after a particular date and use the copy command to copy these files to another disk or directory. Tagged files have a -> displayed in front of the file name and the name is displayed in a different (user selectable) video attribute so that tagged files visually "stand out" from untagged files. The number of files current tagged, and the size of the tagged files is displayed in the Files section of the header at the top of the screen. The TAG CURRENT command will tag the current file. The current file can also be tagged with the F2 key. The TAG INVERT command will flip the tag state of all displayed files. Tagged files become untagged, untagged files become tagged. The TAG RESET command untags all files. txet menu More More help on TAG commands unem #view VIEW COMMAND text The VIEW command allows you to view the contents of the current file. VIEW will attempt to display as an ASCII text file. The file can be viewed in a hexadecimal "dump" format by selecting the HEX subcommand. The VIEW 7BIT and 8BIT subcommands display the ASCII data as either 7 or 8 bit characters. Some word processing programs my leave the high order bit of some characters turned on, making the text difficult to read without the 7 bit option. The VIEW TOF and EOF subcommands allow you to skip the the Top or End of File without viewing all the intervening data. VIEW allows you to set from 1 to 5 markers anywhere in the file with the SET subcommand. The GOTO subcommand can be used to returned to any set marker location from anywhere else in the file. The DWN subcommand (and PgDn key) display the next screen in the file. UP (and PgUp) display the prior screen. NXT (and ) move down a line. PRV (and ) move up a line. RIGHT (and ->) move right 8 columns. LEFT (and <-) move left 8 columns. txet #more ADDITIONAL TAG COMMANDS text The TAG TODAY command is a shortcut method of tagging all files that have been created or modified since 0:00 a.m. this morning. The TAG MODIFIED command will tag all files that have the DOS Archive attribute set. DOS turn on this attribute whenever a file is created or modified. The TAG NAME command allows you to tag files by giving a file name. You can supply a specific file name to tag an individual file, or you can enter a pattern to tag all matching file names. OverView supports the standard DOS * and ? wildcard characters. For example, entering OV*.C will tag all files that start with the letters "OV" and have an extension of "C". The TAG DATE command allows you to tag all files created or modified between two dates and times. You must specify the From and To date/times in MM/DD/YY HH:MM:SS A/P format. Remember to give the time in a 12 hour format and specify A for a.m. or P for p.m. Hit return to move between fields. txet #other OTHER COMMAND SUMMARY text ATTRIB - Set DOS file attributes for current or tagged files COMMAND - Execute a single DOS command DEFINE - Define the screen parameters INTERPRETER - Spawn a copy of the DOS command interpreter SELECT - Specify file selection criteria VOLUME - Create or change the volume name WINDOW - Open, close, or switch file name display windows XECUTE - Execute the current file txet menu Attrib Help on the ATTRIB command Define Help on the DEFINE command Select Help on the SELECT command Window Help on the WINDOW command unem #attrib ATTRIB COMMAND text The ATTRIB command allows you to set the DOS file attributes for the current or all tagged files. There are four attributes that you can set: Read/Only, Hidden, System, and Archive (R H S A). Refer to your DOS documentation for the meaning and usage of each attribute. When you select the ATTRIB command, a dialog box will appear on the screen showing the file name (or "TAGGED FILES" if you select ATTRIB TAGGED instead of ATTRIB CURRENT) and the file's current attributes (none if tagged selected). The attributes are displayed as the letters R, H, S, and A for Read/Only, Hidden, System, and Archive, respectively. If a particular attribute is not set for a file, it will be displayed as a period (.). Chose the attributes that the file(s) is (are) to have by selecting the corresponding menu options. Each time an attribute menu option is selected, the attribute will be toggled (turned on if off, off if on). When the desired attributes are shown, select ENTER to actually change the attributes for the file(s). QUIT will exit without changing any attributes. txet #define DEFINE COMMAND text The DEFINE command allows you to customize OverView's screen display to your own preferences. With DEFINE you can change the video attributes used to display various types of information. On a color display monitor, the video attributes determine which colors are displayed. On a monochrome monitor, the attributes select display options like underlined, inverse video, and intensity. You can specify video attributes for seven different types of displayed text. They are: Normal text, Highlighted text, Window text, Highlighted window text, Heading text, Background text, and Tagged file name text. The easiest way to determine what the different types of text are is to try changing the colors and observing the results. Note that the attributes selected will not be made permanent unless you use the WRITE subcommand to write the setting to disk. txet menu Colors Help on setting display "colors" Snow Help on enabling/disabling video "snow" Write Help on writing current video settings to disk unem #colors SETTING DISPLAY COLORS text The DEFINE COLORS command enables you the change the display colors (attributes) used by OverView. When you select the COLORS subcommand, a small window will pop up showing the keys to use to select the attributes. The PgUp and PgDn keys on the numeric keypad select the type of text to define, while the cursor keys select the particular display attribute for that type of text. The current type of text and the current attribute are always indicated by  TEXT  characters. When you have set the attributes you like, use the SET subcommand to end color/attribute selection and begin using the new attributes. Note that the attribute selections are not make permanent until the DEFINE WRITE command is used. If you've selected a set of attributes you don't like, you can use the QUIT subcommand to return to the previous attribute settings. By using the RESET subcommand, you can restore the default (permanent) settings even if you have SET other attributes. RESET will restore the last settings that you made permanent with the DEFINE WRITE command. txet #snow ENABLING/DISABLING VIDEO SNOW text The DEFINE SNOW command allows for faster screen updates on those systems that do not make "snow" when writing directly to video memory. This command is only useful for systems with color display adapters - monochrome adapters do not make "snow" and OverView knows not to check for snow when using a monochrome adapter. Disabling "snow" checking will significantly speed up screen updates. If you are not sure if your color display adapter makes snow or not, try disabling OverView's snow checking. It will be immediately obvious if you need to re-enable the snow checking. txet #write WRITING VIDEO SETTINGS TO DISK text Color/attribute settings and video "snow" checking selection are not make permanent until you use the DEFINE WRITE command to actually write the settings to disk. This command will actually modify the OV.EXE program on disk so the next time you run OverView, the new settings will be the defaults. Note that OverView will first look for the OV.EXE file in the current directory. If its not there, the directories identified in the DOS PATH command (if any) will be searched. If OV.EXE can't be found in any of these directories, you will be prompted for the location of the file to be updated. txet #select SELECT COMMAND text The SELECT command allows you to specify a set of criteria to limit the file names displayed by OverView. In addition, the SELECT SHOWALL command displays all the files on the disk as if they were in the same directory. With a selection mask you can display only the files that match a specific file name pattern. For example, a selection mask of *.C will display on files that have an extension of .C. You can also invert a selection mask to display only those files that do not match a specific pattern. The file name selection mask is set, cleared, and inverted by the SELECT MASK SET, SELECT MASK CLEAR, SELECT MASK INVERT commands, respectively. The current file selection mask is displayed in the Selection area of the header at the top of the screen. By default, there is no selection mask, allowing all files to be displayed. With the SELECT ATTRIB command you can specify a set of DOS file attributes to select which files wil be displayed. A file with a given attribute will only be displayed if that attribute is enabled. The list of selection attributes is displayed in the Selection area of the header at the top of the screen. By default, all attributes are enabled, allowing all files to be displyed. txet menu More More help on the Select command unem #more MORE HELP ON SELECT text The SELECT SHOWALL command displays all files on the current disk. Note that you can use this command in conjunction with the selection mask and/or selection attributes to limit the files displayed. For example, a selection mask of *.EXE combined with SELECT SHOWALL will display all .EXE files on the current disk. The SELECT TAGGED command selects all the tagged files currently displayed. All non-tagged files are removed from the display. The SELECT RESET command restores the file selection mask and selection attributes to their default condition. Note that SELECT RESET does not turn off SELECT SHOWALL. txet #window WINDOW COMMAND text The WINDOW command allows you to work with additional file name display windows. OverView can have up to four windows active at any one time - there is always at least one window active. Each file name display window can access a different drive and directory, or all the windows can access the same directory. Only one of the displayed windows will contain the highlighted file pointer at any given time; this is called the current window. The name of the directory shown in the current window is displayed in the header at the top of the screen. Commands that operate on files will only work on the files in the current directory. For example, the ERASE TAGGED command will erase all tagged files in the directory shown by the current window. ERASE TAGGED will not affect any tagged files displayed in other windows, provided the other windows display different directories. When more than one window is displayed, the WINDOW NEXT and WINDOW PREV commands will switch the current window to be the next or previous window. The WINDOW NEXT and WINDOW PREV commands can also be activated by the F9 and F10 function keys, respectively. txet menu Open/Close Help on Opening and Closing Windows unem #open/close OPENING AND CLOSING WINDOWS text When you "open" a new window (with the WINDOW OPEN command), OverView initializes that window to use half the screen area of the current window. Additionally, the new window will display the same directory as the current window, and it will inherit the current window's sort options, tagged files, and selection mask. If you want the new window to display a different directory, simply use the LOGIN command (or F3/F4 keys) to switch to the desired directory. "Closing" a window (via the WINDOW CLOSE command) will remove the window from the screen display. Closing a window has no affect on the files in the window's directory, it simply removes the window from display. The WINDOW EXPAND command will close all windows except for the current window. This has the effect of making the current window to "expand" to the full file name display area. Note that the WINDOW OPEN and WINDOW CLOSE commands can also be executed by the F7 and F8 function keys, respectively. txet