Q-REF by Graham Carl Brown

Q-REF is a Quick REFerence guide to DOS a vital utility that is often
miss-placed or non-existant.

Q-REF is easy to use, the following keystrokes are valid :-


UP ARROW - move to the next command.

DOWN ARROW - move to the previous command.

PAGE UP - move up ten commands.

PAGE DOWN - move down ten commands. 

FIRST CHARACTER - next occcurence of command with same initial character.

F10 - quit Q-REF


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Note that after quitting Q-REF you are left ready at the DOS prompt with
the help screen still displayed - VERY USEFUL.
  
All you need to use Q-REF is a copy of QREF.EXE in a directory and include
the directory in your PATH. 

You may wish to add or modify the text file DOSDATA.DAT to include all those
usefull utilities and progams that are invaluable on occasions
but so infrequently used that you can't quite remember how to use it or even
its name.  THANKS to Q-REF this will never be the case again.

The format of the file DOSDATA.DAT is as follows :-

append                     <- maximum eight characters for command or filename.
APPEND - Set a search path for data files.             <- start of description.

APPEND [d:]\path;[;[d:]\path....]                          \
~                                                           |  Description
NOTES                                                       |    
                                                             \  Max lines = 20 
  Each path must start from a root directory.                 >
                                                             / Max line length
  The directories are searched one by one in order given.   |  = 58
                                                            |
  Not all programs can make use of APPEND.                 /
****                                            <- Signifies end of description
attrib                                                 <- start of next command
ATTRIB - Set file attributes.

ATTRIB [+R][-R] [+A][-A] [d:][\][path]filename.ext

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NOTES

Always use a text editor or wordprocessor in Non-Document mode since
Q-REF will not function correctly with non printable characters in the file.

The ~ character in the first column is used to indicate that the next line
sould be highlighed, this line will not be displayed and is not included
in the maximum lines limit.

Always finnish the file with *'s. ( Only one * is required at the leftmost
marrgin to signify end of file or end of description).

Lines longer than 58 will wrap-round.

More description lines than 20 will be ignored.
  
Feel free to modify the text file to accomodate your needs.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO MODIFY QREF.EXE