----------------------------------------------------------------- SamfB - The Morse Code Program Copyright (C) 1988 Tranzoa, Co. P.O. Box 911 Maple Valley, WA 98038 ----------------------------------------------------------------- SAMFB ----------------------------------------------------------------- SamfB helps you learn to "key" and "copy" Morse code. SamfB runs on an IBM-PC or clone with at least 180k of program memory. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FILES ----------------------------------------------------------------- The SamfB "shareware" package consists of the following files: &READ.ME This file. SAMFB.EXE The SamfB program. SAMFB.HLP The on-line, context sensitive help file. ----------------------------------------------------------------- SamfB creates the file "SAMFB.CFG" when you stop the program with ALT X. This file stores SamfB's configurable options, including screen type, colors, windowing and sound attributes, program operation mode, and operator experience. SamfB may also create the file, "OPPRINT.PCF" to store printer characteristics. Print-outs to files always go to the file, "SAMFB.PRN". ----------------------------------------------------------------- QUICK-START ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you have no experience with SamfB, do this: ---> Make sure that you DO NOT have a file named SAMFB.CFG in your current directory or in your PATH. ---> Make sure that you DO have the file SAMFB.HLP in your current directory or in your PATH. ---> Run SamfB from the DOS command line. ---> If you've a "black and white" monitor on a color adapter (CGA, EGA, VGA, for example), you may want to tell SamfB so. When SamfB first starts, press ALT F10. This will "pop-up" a service called the "colorizer." Repeatedly pressing SPACE-BAR to the colorizer will cycle between the four possible "color sets." Find the one you prefer, and strike the RETURN/ENTER key to make it permanent. ---> If SamfB does not find SAMFB.CFG, then you'll be put into the Help System immediately. You can read whatever you want in the help system. When you want to get going with the program, press the ESC key. You'll be put into the Menu System. Specifically, you'll be able to choose which of six "modes" you want to start with. Choose one and press ENTER. SamfB will put you back into the Help System to explain the mode. Read it, ESCape out of it, and - finally - you're on your own. ---> Enjoy the program. Remember that it got written as an accident. It was supposed to be a file card/address book program! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Please support the development of SamfB and its underlying system by contributing $20 to: Tranzoa, Co. P.O. Box 911 Maple Valley, WA 98038 Feel free to copy SamfB. Give it to your friends. Don't sell SamfB or include it with a product sold for more than $10 without written permission from Tranzoa. ----------------------------------------------------------------- SamfB OVERVIEW ----------------------------------------------------------------- SamfB has 4 logical sections that you can be "in": 1) The main screen. 2) The menu system. 3) The help system. 4) The colorizer. You're "in" the MAIN SCREEN - the 2nd through 24th lines on the screen - when you see a cursor or a black main screen, and are sending or receiving Morse code. In the main screen you can be "in" one of six different "modes." Use each mode to do different things. Use the "Free keying" mode, for instance, to send Morse code to SamfB. Use the "Practice copying" mode to practice recognizing Morse code when SamfB sends it to you. You choose which mode you are in by selecting one from a menu. You control SamfB through the MENU SYSTEM. SamfB's menu system may be a familiar style to you. The menus drop down from a horizontal, top menu. You move a highlighted scroll-bar with the arrow keys, select a menu item with ENTER, and get out of whatever mess you've gotten into with the ESC (escape) key. From the main screen, you get the menus by pressing the ESCape key. SamfB can print the entire menu "tree" for your easy reference. The HELP SYSTEM is always available. You get "into" it by pressing Function Key 1 ( F1 ). The help system is a text file with "frames" that pop up in windows. Most have an associated menu that lets you choose another "frame" to read. You can always use the PgUp and PgDn keys to move between frames, too. SamfB can print the entire help file in a readable, paginated form. The COLORIZER is the program author's son's favorite toy. It is always available at the touch of ALT F10. It's serious purpose is to let you adjust SamfB so that the screen looks good to you. Less seriously, it lets you leave your machine on at night with a very, very flashy look. ----------------------------------------------------------------- END OF "&READ.ME" FOR SamfB ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 5/30/89