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%% default Help help
SuperDisk Help on Help
This is the SuperDisk Help  on  Help.  To  get help at any
time,  type |[F1|$  and  a   relevant  help page  will appear.
Within Help you  can  cross  reference  to  items  in this
colour:

                          |<Index|$

by double-clicking on the  item,  or  moving the cursor to
the item and pressing [Return].

You can re-size, close,  zoom, un-zoom and move most boxes
with the mouse as  shown  below.  The scroll bars indicate
where within the text you are,  and you can move around in
the text by dragging  the  thumb-tabs, clicking the arrow-
heads, or using the  Up,  Down,  Left,  Right, Page-Up, or
Page-Down keys.

You can jump to  the  end  of  the  text with [Ctrl][Page-
Down], or to  the  start  with  [Ctrl][Page-Up].  On those
boxes which allow it, you can re-size it by any corner.

      click to    drag      click to
      close       box       zoom
          \        │        /
         ╔═[]═══ title ═══[]═╗
         ║                     ── click up
         ║                     ░
         ║                     ■── drag up & down
         ║                     ░
         ║                     ── click down
         ╚═░░░░░░■░░░░░░░░░░═╝
          /       │           \
     click    drag left     click
     left     and right     right

If you don't have a mouse,  you can move and re-size boxes
with the Scroll Lock like this:

Press the Scroll Lock once and  you'll be able to move the
box with the arrow keys. To re-size  the box use the Home,
End, Page-Up and Page-Down keys. You'll probably find this
works best on the numeric  keypad. Remember to release the
Scroll Lock after use.

To get you started, here are some topics:

           |<Contents|$
           |<Index|$
           |<Selecting|$ programs from this Disk

%% Contents
SuperDisk Help - Contents

Help is available on:

                 |<Index|$

                 Help on |<Help|$

                 |<Selecting|$ programs from this Disk

                 |<PC-PLUS|$ SuperDisk Information

%% Index
SuperDisk Help - Index
Help topic Index:


     Help on |<Help|$            |<Info|$
             |<About|$           |<Install|$
             |<Browse|$          |<Options|$
             |<Cancel|$          |<PC-PLUS|$ SuperDisk Info
             |<Contents|$        |<Run|$
             |<Diagnostics|$     |<Selecting|$ programs
             |<Disk|$ Space      |<Shell|$
             |<Exit|$            |<View|$


%% Run
SuperDisk Help - Run button
Select this button by clicking on  it or typing it's first
letter to run the program, or  press [Escape] to exit from
the dialogue box. If the button isn't visible in its usual
place it means  you  can't  run  the  program  because you
haven't installed it yet.

It will reappear after you have installed the program. See
also:

          |<View|$         |<Install|$        |<Cancel|$

                  |<Index|$      |<Contents|$

%% View
SuperDisk Help - View button
To view  the  documentation  for  a  program,  select this
button by clicking on it  or  typing it's first letter, or
type [Escape] to exit the dialogue box.

If the button is not visible  in  its usual place it means
that you can't view the  documentation because you haven't
installed it yet.

It will  reappear  after  you  have  installed  the  docu-
mentation. See also:

        |<Run|$           |<Install|$          |<Cancel|$

               |<Index|$            |<Contents|$

%% Continue
SuperDisk Help - Continue button
Select this button by clicking on  it or typing it's first
letter, or press [Return].  Or  you  can press [Escape] to
exit the message box.

                     |<Index|$            |<Contents|$

%% Install
SuperDisk Help - Install button
To install a program select this  button by clicking on it
or typing it's first letter. You will then be prompted for
details on where you want the program installed. See also:

              |<Run|$         |<View|$         |<Cancel|$

           |<Confirm|$   |<Browse|$   |<Install-Directory|$

                   |<Index|$        |<Contents|$

%% Cancel
SuperDisk Help - Cancel button
To close a dialogue box with no changes select this button
by clicking on it or   typing   it's  first letter. Or you
can press [Escape].

               |<Index|$            |<Contents|$

%% Selecting Select
SuperDisk Help - Program Selection
You make a selection by using the Up, Down and Enter keys,
or by double clicking on a  selection and using the scroll
bar.

When a selection is made a dialogue box opens allowing you
to run a program,  read  the  documentation,  or install a
program. In some cases,  you  must  install the program or
documentation before they can be used.

               |<Index|$            |<Contents|$

%% Browse
SuperDisk Help - File Viewer
To move up and down the file, use the Up,  Down,  Page-Up,
and Page-Down keys. You can  zoom  the window to full size
and back with F5 or  you  can  click on the maximise frame
gadget.

You can re-size, close,  zoom, un-zoom and move most boxes
with the mouse as  shown  below.  The scroll bars indicate
where within the text you are,  and you can move around in
the text by dragging  the  thumb-tabs, clicking the arrow-
heads, or using the arrow keys, Page-Up or Page-Down.

You can jump to  the  end  of  the  text with [Ctrl][Page-
Down], or to  the  start  with  [Ctrl][Page-Up].  On those
boxes that allow it, you can re-size them by any corner.

      click to    drag      click to
      close       box       zoom
          \        │        /
         ╔═[]═══ title ═══[]═╗
         ║                     ── click up
         ║                     ░
         ║                     ■── drag up & down
         ║                     ░
         ║                     ── click down
         ╚═░░░░░░■░░░░░░░░░░═╝
          /       │           \
     click    drag left     click
     left     and right     right

If you don't have a mouse,  you can move and re-size boxes
Using the Scroll Lock, like this:

Press the Scroll Lock once, and  you  will be able to move
the box using the arrow  keys.  To re-size the box use the
Home, End, Page-Up  and  Page-Down  keys.  You'll probably
find this works best  on  the  numeric keypad. Remember to
release the Scroll Lock after use.

               |<Index|$            |<Contents|$

%% PCPLUSinfo PC-PLUS
SuperDisk Help - Information Hypertext
This Information  section  provides  the  latest  in news,
events, how to submit your programs, tips and other items.
Like the SuperDisk Help it  can  also  be a full hypertext
system.

When available, just click on  the  topic of interest, and
it will  appear. Remember that |[Alt-F1|$  will recall earlier
items just like Help.

               |<Index|$            |<Contents|$

                      |<Help|$ on Help

%% About
SuperDisk Help - About
Details about the SuperDisk menu program itself.

               |<Index|$            |<Contents|$

%% Exit
SuperDisk Help - Exit menu
Select |[Yes|$  to terminate the SuperDisk,  |[No|$ or [Escape] to
carry on.

               |<Index|$            |<Contents|$


%% Diskspace Disk
SuperDisk Help - Disk Space
Selecting this  menu  entry  provides  an  information box
showing the capacity of any disks in each drive (up to F:)
in Kbytes, the free space in Kbytes, and the percentage of
free space.

If your floppy drives have no disks in them, there will be
a short delay while the program determines this.

This information is provided  to  help  you  plan where to
install  SuperDisk  programs  on  your  disk  drives.  The
SuperDisk menu program understands  single and dual floppy
drive systems without a  hard  disk,  and  will even allow
installation on RAM drives if  they  are large enough, and
as long as they are not JOINed.

               |<Index|$            |<Contents|$

%% Diagnostic Diagnostics
SuperDisk Help - Diagnostics
This menu option executes a  series of diagnostics on your
PC and writes the results  to  a  file.  This need only be
used if you have problems  using  the SuperDisk, and is to
assist us in solving any problems you may come across.

To do this select the diagnostics option,  which will save
a file  called PCPLUS.DIA  to the root  directory of  your
hard disk  (if you have one),  or to the root directory of
the disk in your second floppy drive (if you have one).

This report  will not be  saved on systems  with one drive
and no hard disk.

Once saved, you should print out the file by typing:

	COPY PCPLUS.DIA PRN

and send it to us at the usual address,  along with a note
detailing everything about your problem.

               |<Index|$            |<Contents|$

%% Shell
SuperDisk Help - DOS Shell
This option temporarily returns you to  DOS in the form of
a "shell". On floppy drive systems  you may be prompted to
load a boot disk, to enter the shell.

You will then be able to  perform  any DOS actions you may
need (such as disk formatting).

Type EXIT to resume execution of the SuperDisk.

               |<Index|$            |<Contents|$

%% info Info
SuperDisk Help - Info
This menu bar option opens a menu with the two entries:

               |<PC-PLUS|$          |<About|$

PC-PLUS gives you various  details about the current disk,
and About tells you about the menu program itself.

               |<Index|$            |<Contents|$

%% Options
SuperDisk Help - Options
This menu bar option opens a menu with the entries:

                      |<Disk|$ Space
                      |<Diagnostics|$
                      DOS |<Shell|$

Click on one of the above for details on what they do.

               |<Index|$            |<Contents|$

%% instdir Install-Directory
SuperDisk Help - Install to
This text entry field is for entering the full drive, file
and path name of a directory on disk a to which a program,
or it's documentation, will be copied from the SuperDisk.

The SuperDisk program  provides  a  default directory name
for you (which will usually be  acceptable) - to accept it
just press [Return]. To  change  it  use  the Left, Right,
Home and End keys  (or  the  mouse  to position the cursor
where you wish) and edit the name as required.

Press [Return] or [Tab] when you have finished.

NOTE: You may not  specify  a  directory  on the SuperDisk
itself, and on single floppy  drive  systems, you may only
install to hard disk or RAM disk.

See Also:

           |<What|$ to Install             |<Start|$

               |<Index|$            |<Contents|$

%% chk_inst What
SuperDisk Help - What to Install
This check box allows  you  to  specify whether to install
just the  program  or  the  documentation,  or  both.  The
default  is both  (when there  is both a  program and some
documentation, sometimes it may be just one or the other).

To toggle a check box  that  sets the option, position the
cursor on the box and press [Return], or click on it.

In some cases, there is only  a  program or a document and
not both. When this is  the case, the impossible selection
will be invisible.

However, in the case of programs that require installation
you  may find that  previously unavailable  buttons become
available when installation is complete.

See Also:

                          |<Start|$

               |<Index|$            |<Contents|$

%% Start
SuperDisk Help - Start
This button is used after you have specified the directory
where a program  or documentation is to be installed,  and
what you want installed.  If  the  directory you specified
already exists, you are asked if  you want to proceed with
the installation.

If the  SuperDisk  detects  that  either  the  program  or
documentation are already  installed,  and  you have asked
for one or both to be installed,  you will be asked if you
wish to proceed with the re-installation.

If you proceed with the re-installation a window opens and
shows you its progress.

               |<Index|$            |<Contents|$

%% Yesno Confirm
SuperDisk Help - Confirm box
You should answer the question asked in  this box  with 'I'
(for 'Install')  to continue this part of the installation,
or 'C' (for 'Cancel') to abandon installation.

Pressing  [Escape] is  the same  as 'Cancel'.  Whatever you
reply, the box will then close.

               |<Index|$            |<Contents|$