.Numeric Input

    This field is a numeric field. Ie.
    it allows only a number to be entered.
    Enter in only digits.  An easy way to
    increment/decrement the number is to
    press the control right/left arrow keys
    (ie. press the control key and arrow key
    at the same time).

.General Input

    You can delete and insert characters using
    the "Del" and "Ins" keys respectively. To
    move to the end of the text press the 
    "End" key.  Pressing the "Home" key does
    the opposite of the "End" key. The edit 
    line may scroll if you enter more 
    characters than can be held in the field, 
    but the characters will not be lost.  
    Pressing the "Esc" key exits without 
    your changes taking affect.

.name

        Enter the name of the person for
        the telphone number.  The name will
        be sorted alphabetically

.Tele_num

        Enter the telephone number of the
        person for the telphone number.   

.Using the tele List

        Use the up/down arrow keys to 'scroll'
        through the telephone list. Press Alt-D
        to delete the currently hilighted 
        telephone entry.  Press return to edit
        the currently hilighted entry. Press
        the insert key to insert a telephone
        entry before the currently hilighted
        entry. Press the escape key to exit
        from reviewing the telephone list.

.Using the Remind List

        Use the up/down arrow keys to 'scroll'
        through the reminder list. Press Alt-D
        to delete the currently hilighted 
        reminder entry.  Press return to edit
        the currently hilighted entry. Press
        the insert key to insert a reminder
        entry before the currently hilighted
        entry. Press the escape key to exit
        from reviewing the reminder list. Press
        Alt-C to clear the 'done' check mark.
        The 'done' check mark indicates that
        a reminder has expired and been ack-
        nowledged. Clearing it allows you to
        reuse the reminder.

.Using the Todo List

        Use the up/down arrow keys to 'scroll'
        through the todo list. Press Alt-D
        to delete the currently hilighted 
        todo entry.  Press return to edit
        the currently hilighted entry. Press
        the insert key to insert a new todo
        entry before the currently hilighted
        entry. Press the escape key to exit
        from reviewing the todo list.

.Perpetual Calender

        Press the Page Down/Page Up to
        increment/decrement by years.

        Press the down/up arrow to
        increment by months.

        Press the ESC key to escape.

        Press the home key to goto
        the current month and year.


.General help

        Available any time keys:

          Alt-T: Pops up a telephone list

          Alt-P: Pops up a perpetual calender

          Alt-K: Pops up a TODO list keeper.

          Alt-G: Edit a file. Good for editing
                 your submenu files.

          Alt-R: Pops up a Reminder list
                 keeper.

          Alt-H: This help.

        If EDIT option selected (-z)

          Alt-A:  Adds a blank choice at end of
                  choices.
          Alt-D:  Deletes the currently selected
                  choice.
          Alt-E:  Edits the currently selected 
                  choice
          Alt-I:  Inserts a blank choice before
                  the currently selected choice.
          Alt-M:  Edits the menu parameters.
          Alt-X:  Allows you to change the cursor
                  size and color,menu dimensions
                  ,menu location,color pallete,and
                  save the current menu.
.Save

	Use Save to:

         Save the current menu to
          a file

.Title string

        Enter in this field the title for the menu.

.Change dimensions

        You can change the height/width/location
        /number of choice rows, number of columns
        of the menu.

.Menu location
   
    When you select this option you can change
    the location of the menu. Press the arrow
    keys to move the menu where you want it to
    appear on the screen.  Press the escape key
    when you are done.

.Menu row
  
   When you select this option you can change
   the 'row offset' of the menu. That is the
   number of rows from the top of the menu
   where the rows of choices begins. Use the
   up/down arrow keys to change it and
   press the escape key when you are done.

.Menu width

   When you select this option you can change
   the width of the menu.  Use the left/right
   arrow keys.  Press the escape key when you
   are done.

.Menu row spacing

   When you select this option you can change
   the number of spaces that will appear 
   between rows of choices.  Use the up/down
   arrow keys to do so.  Press the escape key
   when you are done.

.Menu col spacing

   When you select this option you can change
   the number of spaces between the columns
   of choices.  Use the left/right arrow keys
   to change the spacing. Press the escape key
   when you are done.

.Menu Column Offset

   When you select this option you can change
   the 'column offset'.  The column offset is
   the number of spaces from the left of the
   menu the choices will appear at.  Use the
   left/right arrow keys to change the spacing.
   Press the escape key when you are done.

.Menu number rows

   When you select this option you can change
   the maximum number of rows you can have for
   your choices.  Use the up/down arrow keys
   to change the number of rows.  Press the
   escape key when you are done.

.Color pallete

   This option allows you to change the color 
   pallete of EGA/VGA monitor you are using.  
   With this option you can change black to red. 
   Or change green to a dark green. The color 
   pallete changes remain only in effect during 
   the running of yamm.  The default color pallete 
   is restored  when yamm exits.

.Time Format

    You can change the time format from US to European 
    or Japan.  Also, the time format may be in either 
    military time or Am/Pm time.

.Bar_width

    Change the width of the cursor bar with this option.

.Screen_char

    Select this field and a 'pop-up' window will
    appear with all the available characters for
    the character to be drawn on the background 
    screen.  On this 'pop-up' window select the
    character by either moving the mouse cursor
    to the character or moving the field hilight
    the character and pressing return.  To NOT
    select a character press the 'ESC' key.

.Help_line

    Enter in the help line to appear at the
    bottom of the screen for this choice 
    when the choice is hilighted.  

.Help

       Use Help to :

          Get help on using the YAMM
           Editor
          Find out more about who wrote
           Yamm 

.All

   "All" allows you to change the color of all
   the different parts of the menu at the same
   time.  When "All" is pressed it will present
   a color selection window.  See how different
   foreground and background colors actually
   look by using the up/down arrow keys and
   pressing the RETURN key.  To accept the color
   combination move the cursor to the accept
   field and press return. You may exit at
   any time without accepting the current colors
   by pressing "Esc".

.Password

   Use "Password" to enter or change passwords
   for each choice. You can multiple passwords
   per choice - just seperate them by commas.

   Use the left and right cursor keys to edit 
   the password.  Use the "Ins" key to insert, 
   the "Del" key to delete a character. The 
   edit line will scroll if you enter more 
   characters than can be held in the field, 
   but the characters will not be lost.  Please 
   note that the maximum number of passwords 
   per choice is ten. You seperate passwords 
   with a comman (","). If you press the "Esc" 
   key while editing a password the password 
   will NOT be changed. To enter the changes, 
   press the RETURN key.

.Submenu Filename

   "Submenu" allows you to have a "Pop Up Menu"
   for each choice.  This is implemented by
   having a second file which contains all the
   choices (and their DOS commands).  To create
   the "Submenu" file use YOUR editor to do so
   or Yamm's built in editor (ie. Alt-E).
   When this option is chosen enter in the
   "Submenu" file name only. 

   Submenus' can have choices which "point 
   or call" another submenu. To do so just 
   have as your dos command within the 
   submenu file:

        >submenu_file_name


.Pick_ltr

    Enter the letter to be used as the "pick"
    letter for the current choice.  A pick letter
    is the letter that will cause the cursor bar
    to jump to this choice when the pick letter
    is pressed.  If the pick letter is unique among
    all your pick letters, the choice will be 
    selected. Enter in nothing if you don't want 
    a pick letter.


.Hide_opt

    Hide option allows you change the password
    data entry technique used when a password is
    entered for a choice (if the choice has
    password(s)). There are three input
    techniques available:
         
        Showing the password as its typed in,
        Replacing the typed in characters with 
         '.', 
        Not showing the password prompt and the 
         typed in characters.

.Dos_cmnds

    "Dos Commands" is where you type in the DOS
    commands necessary to do what the choice
    says.  For example if you had a choice for
    "Lotus 1-2-3", you might have the following
    DOS commands to activate it:

        cd \lotus
	lotus

    Also, you would have the DOS commands
    necessary to reactivate the YAMM menu system
    (if you so choose too).  When you do pick
    "DOS Commands" option you must first select
    the choice to be modified.  After you make
    your selection a window will appeare with the
    current DOS commands for that selection.  Use
    the Up/Down cursor keys to move the cursor to
    the line which must be modified.  Start
    typing to modify the line or press the right
    arrow to get to the character(s) to be
    modified.  You can delete and insert using
    the "Del" and "Ins" keys respectively.  Also,
    note that the edit window can scroll - so you
    can have many lines of DOS commands.  To
    insert a DOS line press the RETURN key once
    or twice and a new line will be inserted.  To
    delete a line press the "Ctrl" and 'Y' key at
    the same time(ala WordStar) and the line
    under the cursor bar will be deleted.  To
    exit the edit window press the "Esc" key.

.Delete Choice

    Use "Delete Choice" to delete a choice. 
    First select the choice then press the RETURN
    key.  If you don't want to delete the choice,
    press the "Esc" key.

.Insert Choice

    Use "Insert Choice" to insert a choice. 
    First select the choice you want to insert
    before and then press the RETURN key.  If you
    don't want to insert the choice, press the
    "Esc" key.

.Edit

    Use "Edit" to change the text of a choice. 
    First select the choice you wand to edit and
    press the RETURN key.  A edit window will
    appear with the current text of that choice. 
    You can use the "Del" and "Ins" key to delete
    and insert text, use the left/right arrow
    keys to move the cursor.  Press the RETURN
    key to make the changes you made permanent,
    or press the "Esc" key to NOT make the
    changes.

.Cursor Bar

    Use "Cursor Bar" to change the color of the
    menu' cursor and its width.

.Title

    Use "Title" to change the text of the menu
    title.  A edit window will appear with the
    current text of the title.  You can use the
    "Del" and "Ins" key to delete and insert
    text, use the left/right arrow keys to move
    the cursor.  Press the RETURN key to make the
    changes you made permanent, or press the
    "Esc" key to NOT make the changes.

.Title Color 

    Use "Title Color" to change the color of the
    menu's title.

.Border 

    Use "Border" to change the border type. 
    Their are eight border types (1 to 8).  Enter
    in the border type number and the type of IBM
    graphic characters used will be changed to
    make different type of borders.

.Border Color 

    Use "Border Color" to change the color of the
    menu's border and empty space color.

.Border type

    You can change the border character set
    used around the edge of the menu with this
    option.  Their are single line sets, double
    lines, solid lines, etc. A 'pop-up' menu
    will appear describing the available 
    borders.

.Menu type

    You can change whether the menu has a box
    at the top (for the title) and/or a box
    at the bottom (for the help line).

.Menu Help Line

    This field is the "Help Line" of text
    which appears at the bottom of the MENU. 

.Help_string 

    Enter the help string to appear when this
    choice is hilighted with the cursor bar.

.Time row

    Enter the row location for the time
    to be displayed on.

.Time col

    Enter the col location for the time
    to be displayed on.

.Time format

    Select this field to change the time format 
    from US to European or Japan.  A 'pop-up'
    menu will appear to choose the type of
    format you want. Press the 'ESC' key to
    exit the pop-up window without making a
    choice.

.Military time

    Enter yes if you want the time displayed
    in military format - ie. 4 in the afternoon
    would be displayed at 16:00.

.Log Option 

    Use the "Log Option" to turn on('Y') or
    off('N') the log option.  The log option if
    on will automatcally write to "Yamm.log" the
    choice made,time,password,etc.  whenever a
    choice is made.  It also will write the time
    and date whenever YAMM is first called up. 
    This log can be usefull to obtain usage
    statistics of the PC.

.Save Yes

    "Save Yes" will save the choice file as
    modified to either the name entered when
    YAMMED was started or a new file name.

.Input
	
    You can use edit using the left/right arrows
    to move the cursor.  Pressing the INS key
    will put you into insert mode.  Pressing the
    DEL key will delete the character to the left
    of the cursor.  Pressing the ESC key will
    escape from the input mode and any changes to
    the CURRENT line of input will be ignored. 
    Pressing the END/HOME will move the cursor to
    end/begining of the line.  While editing the
    line it may "scroll" of the screen if the
    input cannot fit onto the defined input area
    - don't worry nothing will be lost, just use
    the cursor movement keys to "scroll" to where
    you want to.

.Color_select

    Use the up/down/right/left arrow keys to move
    the cursor from color attribute choice to
    attriubte choice.  Press the RETURN key to
    see what that attribute will look like.  The
    attribute you select will appear on the
    bottom of the window.  Move the cursor thrugh
    the different attributes untill 'Press Return
    to Accept' appears.  If you want to make the
    current attributes permenent press the RETURN
    key.  If at any time you whish to leave
    without making the changes permenant press
    the ESCAPE key.

.Color Pallete

    Use the up/down/right/left arrow keys to move
    the cursor from color to color.  Press the 
    RETURN key to select the color to work on.
    Press the ctrl right/left arrow to 
    increase/decrease the color number. 

    Immediately the sample color will be changed 
    to reflect your selection. At any time you 
    whish to leave press the ESCAPE key. The 
    color pallete changes will only be in effect 
    will Yamm is running. The default color 
    pallette will be reloaded when Yamm is done.

.Choice color

    Select this field and change the color the
    choice will appear in.

.Choice

    Enter the text you whish to see on the menu
    for this "choice". To print a character 
    within a selection a different color,
    intensity/blink than the rest you can use
    an escape string. An escape string has
    the following form:

     [NN,FF,BB,II,B]

       Where 
          NN => ASCII number of the character to 
                be printed
          FF => Foreground color number for 
                character
          BB => Background color number for 
                character
          II => If 1 then foreground color is 
                intense, else not intense
          B  => If 1 then foreground color will 
                blink else it will not blink

         Example
                  All my [63,7,4,1,0]hildren

        This will print "All my Children" in the 
        current foreground, background color, 
        blink, and intensity except the 'C' will 
        be printed white on red in high intensity 
        with no blink.  Note: 63 ASCII equals upper 
        case 'C' - all 256 IBM-PC characters may be 
        specified.

.Window

     In this window editor you can use the normal
     input keys to edit a line (right/left arrow
     and insert/delete keys).  The line will
     scroll as the cursor is moved through the
     line (if the line is wider than the window). 
     You use the up/down arrow keys to move from
     line to line.  To delete a line press the
     control key and the 'Y' key at the same time. 
     Press the return key twice at the begining of
     a line to insert a line.  To finish editing
     press the 'Esc' key.  Please note that this
     editor is a window into a list, You will
     'scroll' through the list (if its bigger than
     the window) as you press the down/up arrow
     keys.  Also, the HOME key will move the
     window to the top of the list.  

.Video turn off time

     Enter the time (in minutes) before the
     screen will blank if no keyboard input
     is received.

.Remind Date

     Enter date of the day in month-day-year 
     you whish to be reminded on.


.Remind Time

     Time at which to be reminded.  Time
     is in military format -ie. 6:45pm is
     entered as 18:45, 3:15am as 3:15. An
     easy way to convert time to military
     time is to simply add 12 to hours 
     after and including 1pm to 11pm.

.Remind Message

     Message to display when reminder is
     displayed on the screen.

.Priority

     Priority of this task. After date
     messages will be sorted by priority 
     - High priority first (low numbers).

.Date

     Date in month-day-year format. Tasks
     will be sorted by date.
     
.Todo Task

     Task description

.Editing a Text File


     To edit a text file use the up/down keys
     to move the hilight bar to the line you
     whish to edit.  Use the left/right arrow
     keys to move the cursor to the text you
     you whish to change.  You can press the
     delete key to delete the at the cursor
     location.  To delete the current line
     press CTRL-Y.  To insert a new line
     press the return key.  To exit the editor
     press the ESC key.


.Editing Dos Commands


     To edit the DOS commands use the up/down keys
     to move the hilight bar to the line you
     whish to edit.  Use the left/right arrow
     keys to move the cursor to the text you
     you whish to change.  You can press the
     delete key to delete the at the cursor
     location.  To delete the current line
     press CTRL-Y.  To insert a new line
     press the return key.  To exit the editor
     press the ESC key.

.Special Parameters

     Make this selection to edit the following
     special paramters of the menu:

        Cursor Width and Attribute
        Color Pallete
        Menu Dimensions
        Lop Option (Turn it on or off)
        Change time display (location,
          color, and type of time displayed)
        Change the colors of ALL the choices
          at one time.
        Screen saver time out time
        Save the menu with its current settings


.Menu Parameters

     Make this selection to edit the following
     menu paramters of the menu:

        Title of menu and its colors
        Border type for the menu (double line,
          single line, solid block, etc.)
        Menu type (no partition, upper partion
          - for title, lower partition - for
           help line, both)
        Color of menu
        Help text to appear at bottom of menu
        Help text color
        Screen character to be painted behind
          the menu 
        Screen character color
        

.Choice Parameters

     Make this selection to edit the following
     paramters of the current hilighted choice:

        Text to be displayed for the choice
        Color of choices text
        Password for choice(optional)
        Password (if used) data entry 
          technique to use
        Submenu file name(optional0
        Pickletter - ie. letter to highlight
         so when letter is pressed the choice
         will be selected and automatically
         chosen(if pickletter is unique)
        Help line to display at bottom of
         screen for the choice(optional)
        Dos commands to execute if the choice
         is selected.
        
.Submenu Color

   Select this field to modify the color
   the submenu will appear in.  
   When this field is pressed it will 
   present a color selection window.  See 
   how different foreground and background 
   colors actually look by using the 
   up/down arrow keys and pressing the 
   RETURN key.  To accept the color 
   combination move the cursor to the accept
   field and press return. You may exit at
   any time without accepting the current 
   colors by pressing "Esc".

.Done Button

    Select this field to exit the form. You 
    can also press the escape key to exit as 
    well.

.Title_color

   Select this field to modify the color
   the title will appear in.  
   When this field is pressed it will 
   present a color selection window.  See 
   how different foreground and background 
   colors actually look by using the 
   up/down arrow keys and pressing the 
   RETURN key.  To accept the color 
   combination move the cursor to the accept
   field and press return. You may exit at
   any time without accepting the current 
   colors by pressing "Esc".

.Menu Color

   Select this field to modify the color
   the menu will appear in.  
   When this field is pressed it will 
   present a color selection window.  See 
   how different foreground and background 
   colors actually look by using the 
   up/down arrow keys and pressing the 
   RETURN key.  To accept the color 
   combination move the cursor to the accept
   field and press return. You may exit at
   any time without accepting the current 
   colors by pressing "Esc".

.Help Color

   Select this field to modify the color
   the help at the bottom of the menu 
   will appear in.  
   When this field is pressed it will 
   present a color selection window.  See 
   how different foreground and background 
   colors actually look by using the 
   up/down arrow keys and pressing the 
   RETURN key.  To accept the color 
   combination move the cursor to the accept
   field and press return. You may exit at
   any time without accepting the current 
   colors by pressing "Esc".

.Pick Color

   Select this field to modify the color
   the 'pick' letter will appear in.  
   When this field is pressed it will 
   present a color selection window.  
   See how different foreground and 
   background colors actually look by using 
   the up/down arrow keys and pressing the 
   RETURN key.  To accept the color 
   combination move the cursor to the accept
   field and press return. You may exit at
   any time without accepting the current 
   colors by pressing "Esc".

.Screen Color

   Select this field to modify the color
   screen behind the menu will appear in.  
   When this field is pressed it will 
   present a color selection window.  See 
   how different foreground and background 
   colors actually look by using the 
   up/down arrow keys and pressing the 
   RETURN key.  To accept the color 
   combination move the cursor to the accept
   field and press return. You may exit at
   any time without accepting the current 
   colors by pressing "Esc".

.Time Color

   Select this field to modify the color
   time will appear in.  

   When this field is pressed it will 
   present a color selection window.  See 
   how different foreground and background 
   colors actually look by using 
   the up/down arrow keys and pressing the 
   RETURN key.  To accept the color 
   combination move the cursor to the accept
   field and press return. You may exit at
   any time without accepting the current 
   colors by pressing "Esc".

.Reset Pallete

   Select this field to reset the color 
   pallete to the normal colors.

.Screen Character Select

    Use the up/down/right/left arrow keys to move
    the cursor from character to character choice.
    Press the RETURN key to select a character.
    If at any time you whish to leave without 
    selecting a character press the ESCAPE key.


