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                               │ Main Help Menu │
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                                Enter Topic Code
                                ────────────────

    TH ··· HOW TO USE HELP                TC ··· Main Config Menu Commands

    TZ ··· What is NIST-ACTS?             TW ··· Command Line Parameters

    TA ··· Common Offsets from GMT        TR ··· How to Register {TIME}

 {TIME} Help  (C)Copyright 1993 Carl Morris  All Rights Reserved
 Portions of Help  (C)Copyright 1989-1993 Fred P. Brucker  All Rights Reserved

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                       │ {TIME} Main Config Menu Commands │
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 The Main Config Menu of {TIME} allows you to set all of {TIME}'s operating
 parameters.  Such parameters define how often {TIME} is allowed to call
 NIST and how many minutes from Greenwich Mean Time the current time zone
 is.

 ┌─────────────────────────────────┐
 │ Keys in Main Config menu Window │
 └─────────────────────────────────┘

      [F1]              Gets this help text.

      [C]               Causes {TIME} to save the current configuration
                        and call the atomic clock to update the time.

      [T]               Toggles the status of the Day light Savings flag.
                        when this flag is set to `Yes' then {TIME} will
                        check for day light savings when NIST is called.

      [O]               An Input Window will be displayed asking for the
                        offset in minutes from GMT to the current time zone.
      
      [D]               Another menu window will appear asking whether to set
                        the day to call or the number of days between calls.
                        Selecting 9 will display an Input Window asking the
                        for the number of days between calls.

      [S]               Saves the current settings to TIME.CFG.

      [Escape]          Exits {TIME} without saving current settings.



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 │ Common Offsets from GMT │
 └─────────────────────────┘

 Common time offsets from GMT are as follows.  Please realize I live in the
 United States so the only time offsets I know are those for the United
 States.  I am not sure of the offsets for Hawaii and Alaska.

        -300            Eastern Standard Time
        -360            Central Standard Time
        -420            Mountain Standard Time
        -480            Pacific Standard Time

 Additions to this list are welcome.

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 │ NIST-ACTS  What Is It? │
 └────────────────────────┘

 NIST stands for National Institution of Standards and Technology and ACTS
 stands for Automated Computer Telephone Service.  When they are called with
 a 1200 baud modem they constantly print out a time referred as UTC, Universal
 Time Coordinated.  That time is referred to as GMT, Greenwich Mean Time.  All
 time in the world is said to start there.  Basically it is measured at that
 point in London as the Zero Meridian runs though an observatory there.  Any
 way NIST maintains several atomic clocks that never loose time.  They count
 how fast a particular element decays by counting radiation particles the
 element gives off.

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 │ Command Line Parameters │
 └─────────────────────────┘

 The CTIME.BAT file allows the following parameters, one at a time:

      SETUP                 {TIME} will start with its configuration window
                            shown.  This allows the configuration to be
                            changed.  No parameters on the command line also
                            causes {TIME} to start in the config menu.

      FORCE                 {TIME} will dial NIST whether it needs to or
                            not.  The time will be updated when NIST is
                            reached.

      AUTO                  {TIME} will attempt to dial NIST if today is 
                            the selected day, the selected number of days    
                            has passed since the last call, day light
                            savings may take into effect, or if the PC's
                            clock appears to be far off.

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                           │ The Input Line Editor │
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 The INPUT LINE EDITOR is used to enter data at various prompts, usually
 indicated with a  character.

 ┌──────────────────────────────────┐
 │ Keys used with Input Line Editor │
 └──────────────────────────────────┘

      <--     -->        Cursor left/right.
      Home    End        Cursor to beginning/end of data.
      Ins                Toggle insert mode.
      Del                Delete character under cursor.
      Backspace          Rubout character to left of cursor.
      Alt-Y, Ctrl-Y      Clear input field.
      Enter              Accept input field.
      PgUp               Look behind the window.

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                        │ F1 │ How to Use Online Help │
                        ╘════╧════════════════════════╛


 NOTE: Many Help topics are longer than one page (depending on the size of your
 screen).  You may need to scroll lines or pages to view the entire topic. When
 you see a bar "▒▒▒▒▒▒T0▒▒▒▒▒▒" you are at the end of the topic.

 ┌────────────────────────────┐
 │ Keys in Online Help Window │
 └────────────────────────────┘

                      Scroll screen up/down one line.

      PgUp    PgDn      Scroll screen up/down one page.
      ^PgUp   ^PgDn     Go to beginning/end of Help File.

      [S]               Search for text from top of file.
      [D]               Search from current top of page.
      [A]               Search again, same text.

      [H]               How to use Online Help.
      [M]               Go to Main Help Menu.
      [C]               Go to {TIME} Main Config Menu Commands.
      [T][x]            Select a topic, [x] is the topic code.

 Help is always started with the [F1] key command.  From the Terminal Screen
 you will first see the list of Key Commands.  From other windows you will go
 directly to context-related topics.  Once in Online Help you may navigate to
 any other area.

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                            │ How to Register {TIME} │
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 {TIME} is free!!!  If you like this macro though please let me know.  This
 macro has taken me some work to translate basic subroutines to {COMMO} macro
 language.  I would be interested in any thing that has to do with {TIME}.

 I may be reached at the following address:

                                       Carl Morris
                                       Morris Softronics
                                       PO Box 48
                                       Hooper, NE 68031

   Hooper Connections BBS  402-654-2102


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