                                                                                                                 Main Menu                                                                                                                Press the letter key of the option to go to.  <S> will take you to the <S>ongsmenu, <C> to the <C>onfigure menu, <A> to the Add songs menu.  <P> prints an  order form and <X> exits the program.                                                                                                                       The Songs menu is where you select and listen to the built-in songs and       install them into Telemate.                                                                                                                                 The Configure menu is where you tell TMusic what directory Telemate is to be  found in, and the directories for user-written song files, for BASIC programs,and for your text editor.  Other options, such as the screen colors, can be   set in the Configure menu.                                                                                                                                  The Add Songs menu is where you edit, test, and install your user-written     songs.                                                                                                                                                                                        Songs Menu                                                                                                                The Songs menu is where you select and listen to the built-in songs and       install them into Telemate.                                                                                                                                 Pressing <T> toggles whether to test (listen to) songs when you select them.  If Test songs is ON, the song you select will be played for you when you pressENTER on it.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Pressing <S> brings up the song list window.  You can scroll up and down      through the 30 songs with the  and  keys, and jump to the beginning or end  of the list with Home or End.  Pressing ENTER on a song selects it (and if    Test Songs is on, plays it).  While a song is being played, you can press any key to stop playing.  Once you have selected the song you want, you can press ESC to get out of the song list window.                                                                                                                     Pressing <I> installs the selected song in the Telemate TM.CFG file.  If you  have a Disk/File error message when you try to install a song, you may not    have specified the directory in which to find Telemate.  Exit the Songs menu  (press <Q>) and go to the Configure menu to set the directory for TM.CFG.                                                                                                                                                                                                 Configure Menu                                                                                                              The Configure menu sets the screen colors, the directories to find Telemate,  song files, BASIC programs, and your text editor in, and whether to make a    backup of Telemate's TM.CFG file.                                                                                                                           <F>oreground and <B>ackground set the colors for normal text, and <H>ighlight foreground and h<I>ghlight text background set the colors for hightlighted    text.  These are expressed in numbers from 0 to 15 whose color values are     shown just below the menu title.                                                                                                                            <T> sets the directory in which to look for TM.CFG, Telemate's configuration  file.  If this is not set correctly, the Songs menu will be unable to Install songs.  Press <D> and type the name of the directory where you keep Telemate, e.g.  C:\COMM\    or   D:\TELEMATE\   or   C:\TM\    You don't need to set    this if you have TMusic in the same directory as Telemate.  If you have it in a subdirectory immediately below Telemate (e.g. Telemate is in C:\COMM\ and   TMusic is in C:\COMM\TMUSIC\ ) then you can specify the Telemate directory as ..\  (two periods), that is, the directory above the current one.  The drive  is optional if TMusic is on the same disk as Telemate (i.e. \TELEMATE\ is as  good as C:\TELEMATE\ ).                                                                                                                                     <D> sets the directory in which to find your user-written song files.  The    same remarks apply to it as to the Telemate directory.                                                                                                      <E> sets the drive, path and filename of your text editor.  You *could* use   DOS text editor, EDLIN; but I strongly suggest that you procure a better text editor such as EMACS, QEdit, Boxer, or *something* besides EDLIN.                                                                                           <P> sets the directory in which to find BASIC programs for importing them intoTMusic song file format.  The same remarks apply to it as to the other        directory names.                                                                                                                                            <M>ake backup or not?  If this option is Yes, then before it installs a song, TMusic will make a copy of TM.CFG as TM-CFG.OLD. For details on restoring thisbackup if necessary see TMUSIC2.TXT.                                                                                                                        When you have set all the options as you want them, you can press <S> to save the options in the TMUSIC.CFG file.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Add Songs Menu                                                                                                              This is where you edit, test, and install your user-written songs.                                                                                          <F> selects the directory in which to find your user-written song files.                                                                                    The <T>ext editor command line and <D>irectory for BASIC programs are         explained more fully under the Configure menu.                                                                                                              <S> selects the user-written song file to edit.  This is an ASCII text file   containing music commands.  (For information on how to use the music commands,see the file TMUSIC2.TXT, under "Writing your own songs.")  When you press S  the cursor will appear in the song file [     ] brackets.  You can type the   name of the file to edit here (you must do so if this is a new file and       doesn't yet exist), or you can press <TAB> to load the song files directory.                                                                                You can use the  the  and  keys, PageUp and PageDown, Home and End to scrollthrough the directory listing.  Pressing a letter key will jump to the next   file or directory whose name begins with that letter.  Pressing <ENTER> on a  file will select that as the song file to edit, play or install; pressing     <ENTER> on a directory (marked as <DIR>) will load that directory to view.  Tochange drives, you can press <TAB> again and the cursor will appear in the toppart of the directory window for you to type the drive and/or directory name  there.  When you press <ENTER> on this, the new directory you have typed will be loaded.                                                                                                                                                  To get out of the directory window, you can press <ESC> or press <ENTER> with the highlight bar on the file you want to select.                                                                                                           <E> shells out of TMusic to your text editor to edit the selected song file.  You must have already specified both the text editor command line and the songfile.                                                                                                                                                       <P> plays and tests the selected song file.  Each line of the song will appearon the screen, and each note will be hilighted as it is played.  If any errorsare found in the song file, a message will say so and the bad command will    remain highlighted.                                                                                                                                         <B> imports from a BASIC program containing PLAY statements and writes the    music commands to the selected song file.  You must first have selected a songfile to edit.  This option loads the directory and you can scroll through the directory window and select the program you want to import.  For details on   using the directory window, see above under the <S>elect song option.                                                                                       <U>se comments in conversion?  If this option is Yes, when a BASIC program is imported to a song file, all REM, ', and PRINT statements will be sent to the song file as comments ( ' ).                                                                                                                                <I> installs the selected song file into Telemate.  You must have already     selected a song file (see <S> above).                                                                                                                                                       Error Messages                                                                                                              More details on these can be found in TMUSIC2.TXT.                                                                                                          Invalid file name -- You used illegal characters in the filename or directory     name, such as +<>/\*? and some others.                                                                                                                  Possible read-only file -- Use the DOS ATTRIB command or the Norton Utilities     FA command (see the respective manuals for details) to check if it is         read-only.                                                                                                                                              You must specify a text editor to use. -- To specify the editor, use the <T>      command on the Add Songs menu or the <E> command on the Configure menu.                                                                                 FILENAME exists; <O>verwrite, write to <E>nd, <C>ancel? -- Unless you are         quite sure you want to erase what is already in the song file, type E or      C.                                                                                                                                                      Bad music command: -- After by a line of music commands, with the bad one         hilighted.  Go back and edit the song file to remove or correct the           offending command, and try again.                                                                                                                       Error # nn -- Oops!  This means a bug I didn't catch before I released TMusic.                                                                              [end of onlinehelp]                                                           