Re: memory use

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

Reply to note from "J. R. Fox"  Sun, 29 Jun 2003
09:39:04 -0800

> the one where you filled in the blank to find the nearest
> match,

Gone. Replaced by the Help Index in XY4.HLP.

> I always wondered if they could be reintegrated back into the
> Xy4 Help system, but it sounds like the answer is NO. I don't
> suppose there are any XPL or U2 ways to finesse that
> limitation, either . . . ?

Well, U2's TABLE command gives access to a wide variety of Help
topics. Issue HELP TABLE to see what's available.

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 . 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 .)

But U2 aside, there's a lot of oomph in the native Help file system
itself. It wouldn't be too hard to write a dialog box with a fill-
in field for Help topics, much like the Xy3 fill-in. But, with so
many other ways to summon help, is there a crying need?

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Carl Distefano
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