Re: memory use

["J. R. Fox" jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

Carl Distefano wrote:

> > the one where you filled in the blank to find the nearest
> > match,
>
> Gone. Replaced by the Help Index in XY4.HLP.

>From Day One, I found the (regular) XY4 Help Index vastly inferior to
the one in 3+. The 4 index misses the existing location of -- or
totally fails to find -- specific topics I could always find when I used
3+. (You're probably going to ask me for examples next. Can't pull any
out of thin air just now. I really should have taken some notes on
this, over the years. Guess I'll have to start doing so, next time I
encounter this.) This probably is not even one of those examples, but I
badly missed the hyperlink-equipped FUNC and  Xy COMMANDs  reference
frames from 3+. That loss was a grating absence, until I took up U2,
and found its pretty good substitutes for these. Actually, I just went
looking for the full Command List in U2, and now can't find it. In any
case, the contents don't have those hyperlinks.

> Also -- little known facility -- you can directly call up any frame
> from the loaded Help file with HL [framename]. XY4.HLP
> documents many commands in standalone frames having names that start
> with "<" followed by the command name. So, for example, to view the
> Help screen on the SS (Save Style) command, you'd issue
> HL .

O.K., that one works. But several others I tried, with the exact
framename (such as DELTAGS), with or without any "<", yields a "No Help
is Available for that Item." No big deal, since the full HELP
_whatever_  delivers the goods.

> There's an analogous U2 command to summon Dialogs;
> for example, try DG PRINT. (To get a complete list of
> framenames in the loaded Help file, issue HLIST HL; for a
> list of frames in the loaded DiaLoG file, issue HLIST DG .)

That works here. All good to know. Thanks, Carl.

Jordan