¯ Editor ®
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Use the Editor like a word processor. The cursor keys and
editing keys (Ins, Del, etc.) work like you might expect.
Use F2, F3 and F4 to mark a block of lines, then use an
Alt-key combination to command an operation on the block.
(The Alt-key commands are listed in the lower portion of
the screen.)

See "Commands" for more details on commands, "Keys" for
more about keys.
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¯ Pack ®
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To Pack: Mark the top and bottom of a block of lines.
Press Alt-P. Pack will move the empty lines in the block
to its bottom, pushing the rest to the top. Empty lines
are those that are filled with either spaces or dots and
dashes in both the Name and Number fields. If the block
starts and stops on page boundaries, and covers more than
one page, you will be asked whether to pack individual
pages or the block as one unit. See "Page or Block" for
more information on that.
Page or Block
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¯ Move ®
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To Move: Mark the top and bottom of a block of lines,
then put the cursor where you want to move them. Press
Alt-M. The block will be inserted at the cursor line and
the line which was at the cursor will be the next one
after the block. (If the cursor is on the last line, the
block will be moved to the end of the file, and the
cursor line will move up.) The cursor cannot be within
the block for Move to work.
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¯ Undo ®
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To Undo: Press Alt-U. Undo puts the file and the Editor
into the same condition they were at an earlier time,
when BackUp was called. If an Undo can be made, the U of
"Alt-U" will be visible in the command key list. A number
to the right of "Undo" will show how many backups are
available for Undo. (The displayed number will change as
BackUp is called or other procedures require the memory
used by Undo.)
BackUp
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¯ BackUp ®
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To BackUp: Press Alt-B. BackUp saves the condition of the
file and the Editor, to be restored by Undo. BackUp is
also called internally before each operation which
changes the file (other than BackUp and Undo). After
every such operation, and at the start of the session,
the first change made in the Editor also makes a call to
BackUp. (A number displayed to the right of Undo shows
how many backups are available. The displayed number will
change from time to time.)
Undo
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¯ Insert Lines ®
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To Insert: Press Alt-I. If a block is marked, Insert will
push the marked lines down, replacing them with empty
lines. If no block is marked, Insert will push the line
at the cursor down, replacing it with an empty line. The
empty lines are moved from below the block, so Insert is
similar to Pack, but in reverse. If there are not enough
empty lines below the cursor to replace those being
pushed down, a message window will open.
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¯ Exchange ®
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To Exchange: Mark the top and bottom of a block of lines.
Put the cursor at the top of another (unmarked) block of
lines. Press Alt-E. Exchange will move the marked block
to where the cursor line is, and move an equal sized
block, starting at the cursor line, to where the marked
block had been. If the two blocks overlap before the
exchange, or if the cursor is too near the end of the
file, a message window will open and Exchange will not
operate.
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¯ eXit ®
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To eXit: Press Alt-X. eXit quits Profonedit and returns
to DOS. eXit displays to prompt to confirm the command.
To quit, simply press Y or y. To continue, press N, n or
Esc. If the file has been changed, another prompt will
occur to save the file. See Save for more information.
Save
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¯ Save ®
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Save is called by eXit, if the file has been changed. To
save the file and quit Profonedit, press Y or y. To quit
Profonedit without saving the file, press N or n. To
continue with Profonedit, not quitting or saving, press
Esc. If the original disk file is not still on the disk,
a message window will open. If space is available on the
disk, the original disk file will be kept with the
extension ".BAQ". (Any existing file with the same name
and the extension ".BAQ" will be erased.)
Exit
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¯ Page or Block ®
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The prompt "Page by page or the entire block (P/B)"
occurs when the marked block extends over two or more
whole pages (starting on a line number ending in "1",
ending on a line number ending in "0") and the command is
Pack or Sort. Choosing Page (by pressing "P" or "p") will
cause all lines to stay on the page where they start.
Choosing Block (by pressing "B" or "b") will cause the
command to treat the entire block as one unit. Pressing
Esc will close the prompt window and cancel the command.
Pack
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¯ Sort ®
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To Sort: Mark the top and bottom of a block of lines.
Press Alt-S. A window will open, listing the fields on
which you may sort: Name, Number, Area Code, Exchange,
and Baud; as well as the directions in which you may
sort: Asc(ending) and Des(cending). Use the space bar,
the cursor keys, and Enter to move the cursor from field
to field and between the two columns. Number the fields
on which you wish to sort, with "1" being the most
significant field, and "4" being the least. Continued...
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¯ Help for Help ®
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When a Help window opens, its contents depend on factors
such as whether a message window is open. Each Help
window is linked to others, whose subjects are listed at
the its bottom. One subject will be highlighted. To move
the highlighting, press the space bar or the cursor keys.
To see the window for a particular subject, press Enter
when the subject is highlighted. To close the Help
window, press Esc. "Editor Help" is the starting point of
the Help window system.
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¯ Windows ®
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Any Profonedit window can be moved by pressing the
shifted cursor keys, and closed by pressing Esc. Windows
that require some other keypress for input will usually
prompt for that input. Profonedit never cares about
letter case when accepting input. For example: "Quit?
(Y/N)" would accept "Y", "y", "N", or "n" as input, as
well as being closed by Esc or moved by shifted cursor
keys. The only more complicated window is the Sort fields
window. See Sort for more information on that.
Sort
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¯ Commands ®
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BackUp: saves the state of the directory and the Editor,
for subsequent use by Undo.

Clear: sets the Name, Number, and CMD File fields to
blanks over a marked block or the cursor line.

Exchange: swaps the locations of two blocks.
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¯ Keys ®
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Del/^G       : delete character at cursor
BackSpace/^H : delete character at left of cursor
^Y           : delete to end of field
Ins/^V       : change between insert and overwrite
F1           : Help
F2           : change between marking on and off
F3           : mark start of block
F4           : mark end of block
(^G means "hold control key and press G or g")
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¯ Commands continued (I) ®
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Insert: places empty lines in a block or at the cursor
line, by pushing non-empty lines down.

Move: moves a block to the cursor line.

Pack: moves the empty lines in a block to its bottom.
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¯ Commands continued (II) ®
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Register: displays licensing and registration information
and offers to print a registration form.

Sort: sorts a block, based on selected fields and
directions (ascending, descending).

Undo: restores the state of the directory and the Editor
from that saved by a previous BackUp.
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¯ Keys continued ®
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Enter       : cursor to start of next line
RtArrow/^D  : cursor right one column
LfArrow/^S  : cursor left one column
Tab/^I      : cursor right to start of field
ShiftTab    : cursor left to start of field
^RtArrow/^F : cursor right one "word"
^LfArrow/^A : cursor left one "word"
UpArrow/^E  : cursor up one line
DnArrow/^X  : cursor down one line
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¯ Keys concluded ®
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PgUp/^R  : cursor up one page
PgDn/^C  : cursor down one page
^PgUp/^W : screen up one line, cursor unmoved
^PgDn/^Z : screen down one line, cursor unmoved
Home     : cursor to start of line 1
End      : cursor to start of line 100
^Home/^T : cursor to start of top line on screen
^End/^B  : cursor to start of last line on screen
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¯ Clear ®
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To Clear: Press Alt-C. If a block is marked, Clear will
replace the lines in the block with empty lines. Their
Name fields will be filled with ".......", their Number
fields with "...-....", and their CMD File fields with
blanks. The Baud, P, D, S and E fields will be unchanged.
If no block is marked, Clear will operate only on the
line where the cursor is.
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¯ Sort continued ®
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Place the numbers in the column under the direction for
each field. Example: Put "1" across from "Baud," under
"Des," to sort by speed, in descending order. When you
have numbered as many fields as you wish, press F10 to
begin the sort--or press Esc to cancel the sort.The next
time you command Sort, your last chosen fields and
directions will appear as the defaults. Accept them by
pressing F10, edit them in the same way you originally
entered them, or Esc to cancel. Continued...
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¯ Sort concluded ®
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You cannot sort on Number if you sort on Area Code and/or
Exchange (and vice versa). Sorts on Area Code and
Exchange will probably not be correct if you numbers are
not in the ProComm ". ... ...-...." format. If the block
being sorted both starts and stops on page boundaries,
and covers more than one page, you will be asked whether
to sort individual pages or the block as one unit. See
"Page or Block" for more information on that.
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¯ Registration ®
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Register displays licensing and registration information,
and offers to print a registration form on your printer.
To exit Register, press Esc. To move through the
information screens, press any other key. When the prompt
is given for printing the registration form, press "P" or
"p" to print the form, or Esc to exit. In most cases, if
your printer is not accepting input, Profonedit will tell
you that, and return you to Register, where you may
repeat the attempt or exit without printing.
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¯ Commands concluded ®
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eXit: finishes the session, offers to save the directory,
and returns to DOS.
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