      FLEXPAD 2.0  Help

Copyright (C), 1996-97, Paul Kramer

FLEXPAD is shareware, see the file
README.TXT for registration and
support information.

Author's Compuserve ID: 72276,3602
       Internet: pakman@.mother.com

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 @Help on Help   Flexpad's help is
context sensitive--if you have a
question about a particular feature,
go to it and press F1 to see helpful
information regarding that feature.

Help Keys:

Up, Down, PGUP, PGDN, Home - scroll
              help text
ESC exit help
F7  search for a phrase in the help
    file. The search begins at the
    second line shown in the help
    window; if you want to search
    from the top of the file, press
    HOME before you press F7.

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 Display layout:

(the information below is shown in
 those views where it is relevant)

File name (text view)/
View type (other views)
  │              Current Date/Time
                              
Sections              8/21/96  6:34 am
*───w:34────────────────w:34──H─S───
                               
│  Week Number for       │    │ │   ││
│    display date        │    │ │   ││
Unsaved data             │    │ │   ││
         Current Week Number  │ │   ││
                 Matches Hidden │   ││
                  Text Sorting On   ││
        Info above/below screen limits

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Text View shows the full text of your
file.  Edit, add or delete text as you
wish.  To selectively view portions of
the file, select a view type with F3.

 ?Text View Keys:

 /, Menu (HP Palmtops) - for menus
   (press / again to insert a "/" in
    the text)

 F1  HELP
 F2  edit label at cursor
 F3  select view (day, month, etc)
 F4  display currently selected view
 F5  goto new view date
 F6  toggle label disp on/off
 F7  FIND text
 F8  INSERT new label (also F8)
 F9  MARK text
 F9 Mark current paragraph
 F10 SAVE data file

 Up, Down, PGUP,     \
 PGDN, Home, End,     > move cursor
 Ctrl-Home, Ctrl-End /
 Ctrl-Up, Ctrl-Down /

 Alt-C   copy marked text to clipboard
 Ctrl-C  append marked text to
         clipboard
 Alt-X   cut marked text to clipboard
 Ctrl-X  cut & append marked text to
         clipboard
 Alt-V   paste (insert) text from
         clipboard at cursor
 Alt-M   move marked text to new
         position
 Ctrl-N  move the cursor to the next
 Ctrl-P  or previous matching label in
         the current view
 Alt-P   show the context (preceeding
         section label and outline
         levels) for current paragraph
 Alt-H   hoist paragraph at cursor
         to top of screen
 Ctrl-T  delete from cursor to next
         space
 Ctrl-Y  delete line
 INS     toggles between Insert (new
         text moves existing character
         to the right) and Overstrike
         (new character replaces
         existing character) modes.
         Overstrike mode, if active,
         is indicated on line 2.

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View Screen   Flexpad's views show
you your data in different ways.  The
type of the current view is shown in
the upper left corner of the screen.
To change the view, press F3.  To
switch to text view, press F4.

 >View Screen Keys:

 /, Menu (HP Palmtops) - for menus

 F1  HELP
 F2  edit label at cursor
 F3  select view (day, month, etc)
 F3 toggle display sorting (selected
       views only)
 F4  switch to text view
 F5  goto new view date
 F6  toggle label disp on/off
 F7  FIND
 F8  INSERT new label at end of file
 F8 INSERT new label at text cursor
 F10 SAVE data file

 Up, Down, PGUP,    \
 PGDN, Home, End     > move cursor

 +, -   change view date +/- 1 day or
                 month, as appropriate
 Right, Left -   change view date +/-
       1 week or month, as appropriate

 Enter  switch to text view (cursor on
        entry under view cursor bar)
 .      temporarily hide entry under
        cursor bar
 Alt-H  hoist entry under cursor bar
        to top of screen
 Alt-J  (Daily view only) hoist 1st
        Todo or 1st Appt to top of
        screen
 Alt-P  show the context (preceeding
        section label and outline
        levels) for entry at cursor

 [alpha keys] move cursor to first
 line beginning with text you type.
 Ctrl-N/Ctrl-P move to next/previous
 line beginning with same text

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Weekly/Monthly Grid Views:  Show a
week or month's appointments in a
calendar-like format.  Highlighted
arrows indicate that there are more
label matches than will fit into a
days's box.

  PWeekly/Monthly Grid View Keys:

 /, Menu (HP Palmtop) - for menus

 F1  HELP
 F2  edit label at cursor
 F3  select view (day, month, etc)
 F4  switch to text view
 F5  goto new view date
 F7  FIND
 F8  INSERT new label at end of file
 F8 INSERT new label at text cursor
 F10 SAVE data file

 Up, Down    \
 Home, End    > move cursor among days
 Right, Left /

 PgUp, PgDn  move cursor among entries
             for a given day

 +, -     change view +/- 1 week/month
                 
 Enter  switch to text view (cursor
        on currently highlighted
        matching label)
 Alt-P  show the context (preceeding
        section label and outline
        levels) for entry at cursor

 [alpha keys] move cursor to first
 line beginning with text you type.
 Ctrl-N/Ctrl-P move to next/previous
 line beginning with same text

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Monthly Graphical View  Shows a
month's appointments in a graphical
format.  As you move the cursor,
matching entries for the selected
hour and day are shown at the bottom
of the screen

  QMonthly Graphical View Keys:

 /, Menu (HP Palmtop) - for menus

 F1  HELP
 F2  edit label at cursor
 F3  select view (day, month, etc)
 F4  switch to text view
 F5  goto new view date
 F7  FIND
 F8  INSERT new label at end of file
 F8 INSERT new label at text cursor
 F10 SAVE data file

 Up, Down    \
 Home, End    > move cursor
 Right, Left /

 +, -    change view +/- 1 month

 Enter  switch to text view (cursor
        on first entry on bottom
        of screen)
 Alt-P  show the context (preceeding
        section label and outline
        levels) for single entry on
        bottom of screen

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 Function key details

 F1  HELP  where possible, help takes
you to the topic relating to what you
were doing when you pressed F1

 F2  allows you to edit the label that
is under the cursor in text view or
one of the search views, or the first
label shown at the bottom of the
monthly graphical view.

 F3  activates the view selection
menu.  To see descriptions of the
various views, press F1 while the view
selection menu is displayed.

 F3 toggles sorting (by the first non
space character after the label) of
entries in a view on and off.  Sorting
only applies to the Sections, Bookmark
and single Category views.  If sorting
is on, an "S" is displayed on the 2nd
line of the display under the time

 F4  switches between text view and
the currently selected view.

 <F5  GOTO changes the display date.
Press F5 twice to pick dates from a
calender.  If the current view is not
date based, the Daily view will be
activated.

 MDate entry options:
    mm/dd/yy [or dd/mm/yy]
        (range: 1/1/1980 ─ 11/17/2065)
    mm/dd [or dd/mm]= date in or after
        current month (system date)
    dd = next occurrence of this day
        number after system date

    TO (today) or [blank] system date
    MO TU WE TH FR SA SU  the first
        Mon, Tues, etc. AFTER the
        system date
    -MO -TU ...  place a minus ("-")
       before MO, TU, etc. for the
       Mon, Tues ... BEFORE the
       system date
    TM (tomorrow) date 1 day after
        system date
    Y  (yesterday) date 1 day before
        system date
    LA (last) last day of current
       month

 DATE MATH: type "--" or "++" followed
by a number of days to be subtracted
from or added to the date specified
by one of the above methods (or to the
display date if none specified).

	(i.e., "1/31/97 ++1" gives 2/1/97)

 Before or after typing in a date or
date command, you can press F5 for a
calendar display:

 BCalendar keys:

    ESC  exit without changing date
    Enter  chose date at cursor
    Up, Down, Left, Right  change day
    +, -  move back or forward one
        month
    Home, End  move to start or end
        of month
    T, F5  set cursor on system date

F6  toggles display of labels on and
off.  If you've set a label leading
character {Settings|Display} it will
always display to remind you that the
label is there.  Labels are toggled
separately for text view and the other
views and the Alt-P context (parents)
display.

 AF7  FIND  search the file for a
specified phrase.  When you activate
this function, you will be shown the
last search phrase.  To change the
search phrase type in the new phrase
or press F5 to pop up a calendar from
which you can insert a date into the
search phrase.  Then press F6 to
search backwards from the current
position, enter or F7 to search
forward or F8 to search from the
beginning of the file.  To cancel the
search, press ESC.  Use ? as a wild
card character except in the first
character position of a phrase.  To
search for up to 5 different phrases,
type each phrase, separated by "||".

F8, F8  INSERT  Inserts a new label
in the file (when you are not in text
view, use Shft-F8 to override the
default placement of the new label at
the end of the file and instead place
it at the current cursor location)

 qThere are 5 types of todos and
        appointments:

  Daily - one date only
  Every Day - all or selected days of
              the week
  Interval - every X days or weeks
          beginning on a specified day
          To set a multiple day
          appointment, set the
          interval to 1 day & specify
          the start & end dates
  Monthly by day - 2nd, 14th, etc. day
       of one or more months
  Monthly by position - 1st Wed, 3rd
       Fri, etc. of one or more months

  (Yearly entries are created by
     deselecting all but one month in
        the monthly entries)

 Other labels:

  Todo - a shortcut way of creating a
         single date todo. A todo can
         also be created from any of
         the appointment types by
         pressing F3 while editing
  Category - apply customizable labels
             (99 allowed) to a
             paragraph
  Bookmark - mark positions for
             navigation using the
             Bookmark view
  Section  - mark the start of a new
             topic or subject (this
             label is always shown as
             the beginning of a line)

    Once you select the type, the
label editor opens to allow you to
change the label's settings (Bookmark
and Section labels have no settings to
change and the editor does not open
when you create them).  Press ESC and
answer "Y" at the "Lose changes[Y/N]"
prompt if you wish to cancel the
insertion, otherwise press F10 to save
the new label when you are done.

 =F9  MARK turns text marking on. To
cancel marking, press ESC.  Press F9
again to mark the current word, then
the current sentence and then the
current paragraph.

To CUT text (and labels) from the
file, press Alt-X. To COPY, press
Alt-C.  The marked area will be copied
to the file FLEXPAD.CLP, FLEXPAD's
clipboard.

To add the marked area to the existing
contents of the Clipboard, press
Ctrl-X (CUT) or Ctrl-C (COPY).

To MOVE marked text, move the cursor
to the new position and press Enter

 F9 (Shift-F9) Marks the current
paragraph in text view.  If text was
already marked, the begin and end
points are relocated to those for the
current paragraph.  This is the
equivalent of pressing F9 four times

 F10  SAVE  Saves the data file to the
disk.  You can specify whether the
file is written only when there is
unsaved data or always {Settings|File|
Savekey}.  Shift-F10 saves data in the
same manner but skips updating the
alarm file used to set alarms on the
HP Palmtops.

 Alt-Q  exits FLEXPAD after allowing
you to save any unsaved changes you've
made.  In TSR mode quit returns you to
to the underlying application but
FLEXPAD remains in memory, ready to
resume work. If you've set FLEXPAD to
automatically save data on exit
{Settings|File|Quitsave}, it will save
the data without asking you for
confirmation.  A "No" setting,
recognized only when in TSR mode, will
skip saving data to allow quicker
jumps to other applications (you can
save the data when you return to
FLEXPAD).

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 Menus

    On all PC's, pressing / or ESC
activates the menus, which are
displayed on the top line(s) of the
screen.  On the HP palmtops, the Menu
key also has this effect.  To insert
a slash {/} in the text, press Menu or
/ twice.  In the notes below, function
key equivalents for menu choices are
listed in []'s.

 dMenu choices:

 h File|Open   open another file.  If
unsaved changes to the current file
exist, you are given a chance to save
them.

  File|Save [F10] saves data to disk.
The menu version always saves, even if
no changes were made to the file.  F10
can be set to save only when unsaved
changes exist {Settings|File|Savekey}.
 
 File|saveAs  saves data to a disk
file after giving you an opportunity
to specify a new file name.  If the
file already exists, you will be asked
to confirm overwriting.

 File|New   create a new file.  If
unsaved changes to the current file
exist, you are given a chance to save
them.

 File|Previous  allows you to pick a
file to load from a list of the last
5 files you've loaded.  You can delete
a file from the list (but not from the
disk) by moving the cursor to its name
and pressing DEL.

 File|Import  inerts the contents of
the file you specify into the current
file at the cursor position.  If the
import file was created by Flexpad,
its configuration information is
ignored

 U File|Export  writes all or part of
the current file to a file whoose name
you specify with various options:

First you give the destination file
name.  If it already exists you choose
whether to replace it or append to the
end of it.  Then a menu for selecting
among the available options appears.
Select Startexport once you have
finished selecting your options or 
press ESC to cancel the export.

The export option settings are shown
on your display.  The settings are not
saved between Flexpad sessions and
will revert to their default states.

If you are in text view when you begin
the export, Flexpad will write the
portion of the file that is marked, or
the whole file if none is marked.  If
in a view, the portions of the text
corresponding to the view matches are
exported.

 zThe export options interact and some
will have no effect in some
combinations.  This is indicated by an
"*" to the left of the option

 File|Export|Startexport  Begins the
export using the settings you've
selected

 File|Export|Type  Flexpad binary
writes the data with Flexpad labels
kept in the binary format that Flexpad
understands.  Text writes the data as
ASCII text, converting labels to text

 File|Export|Addblank  Operative in
views only, adds a blank line between
each matching entry exported from the
view

 File|Export|From  Operative in views
and then only when Labels is not set
to "Time/Pty"--Label begins the
export at the label location, possibly
in the middle of the paragraph;
Paragraph start begins at the start
of the paragraph containing the label

 File|Export|End  Operative in views
only, New paragraph ends a match's
export at the end of the paragraph
containing the matching label.  Blank
line ends it when a blank line is
found.  Outline level ends it when a
paragraph with the same or lessor
degree of indentation is found.

 File|Export|Delete  Whether to delete
the data that was exported from the
current file after the export is
completed

 File|Export|Labels  Inoperative when
Type = "Flexpad binary," Include
includes labels in the export, Exclude
excludes them.  Time/Pty has the same
effect as Include for non-calendar
views; in calendar views, it shows
only the times or priority of the
matching label, excluding all
following labels for the matching
entry.  Time/Pty is best used to
export calendar listings for external
printing or reference

Because of the interaction of the
export options, experimentation is
necessary to obtain the results you
desire.

 f Edit|Label  [F2] brings up the edit
box for the label under the cursor; if
the cursor is not on a label, nothing
happens

 Edit|Find  [F7] prompts for a search
phrase and then searches the text for
the phrase.  You specify whether the
search is in a forward or backward
direction or begins at the begining of
the file

 Edit|Mark  [F9] activate highlight to
mark text to be copied, cut or deleted
from the file. Selecting this multiple
times will select the word, sentence &
paragraph at the cursor position.

 Edit|Del   [DEL] remove marked text
(or the character at the cursor) from
the file

 Edit|cuT   [Alt-X] copy marked text
to the clipboard file (FLEXPAD.CLP)
and remove it from the file

 Edit|Copy  [Alt-C] copy marked text
to the clipboard file (FLEXPAD.CLP)

 Edit|Paste [Alt-V] copy text from the
clipboard file (FLEXPAD.CLP) into the
file

 g Edit|clpAppend|cuT  [Ctrl-X]
removes marked text from the file and
adds it to the end of the clipboard
(regular cuT replaces the previous
contents of the clipboard)

 Edit|clpAppend|Copy  [Ctrl-C] adds
marked text to the end of the
clipboard (regular Copy replaces the
previous contents of the clipboard)

 Edit|moVe  if text is marked, marking
is frozen so that you can move the
cursor to a new location in the file.
Press Enter to move the marked text to
that location or ESC to cancel

 Edit|cloNe  if the cursor is on a
label or text is marked in text view,
Flexpad inserts a copy of the label or
text following it

 Edit|textSort [F3]  toggles sorting
(by the first non space character
after the label) of entries in a view
on and off.  Sorting only applies to
the Sections, Bookmark and single
Category views.  If sorting is active,
an "S" is displayed on the 2nd line of
the display under the current time

 e Insert|Label [F8]  Insert a label at
the cursor position.  For a list of
the different label types, see the
F8 key description, above, or select
this menu item and press F1.

 Insert|Date [D]  Pops up a calendar
from which you can pick a date to
insert in the text at the cursor.
Alt-D is the shortcut key for this
function

 Insert|Time [T]  Inserts the current
time in the text.  Alt-T is the
shortcut key for this function

 Insert|Character [I]  Allows you to
insert a character by typing its ASCII
value.  This is useful for inserting
characters that correspond to function
keys (i.e., ASCII 20 =  = Ctrl-T)
that Flexpad would interpret as a
command if you entered it the normal
way.  Alt-I is the shortcut key for
this function.  Note: type in the
ASCII value as a number (1-255); you
cannot use the Alt-keypad method.

 p View|Text  Shows the full text of
the file.  This is where text is
added, rearranged or deleted

 View|Day   Shows all appointments for
and todos which are due on or before
the view date

 View|Week  Shows all appointments for
the week of the current view date.
The week start day may be set at any
day {Settings|Screen|weekStart}.
Todos are excluded.

 View|weeKgrid  Shows a week of
appointments in a calendar-like grid
format

 View|Month   Shows all appointments
for the month of the current view
date.  Todos are excluded.

 View|moNthgrid  Shows a month of
appointments in a calendar-like
format.  The day of the week in the
first column may be set to Sunday or
Monday {Settings|Screen|Monthstart}

 View|monthGraph   Shows all the
appointments for the month in a graph
format.  Todos are excluded.  As you
move the cursor over an occupied time
period, up to three of the matching
appointments for that time are shown
on the bottom of the display.  Weeks,
which begin on the day of the week
set via Settings|Screen|weekStart,
are separated by one or more empty
columns.

 L View|Only  Shows all paragraphs
which contain a specified phrase.
Type in a phrase or press F6 to pick
from a list of previous searches.  To
search for up to 5 different phrases,
type the phrases, separated by "||".
If you blank the search phrase (press
Backspace), all paragraphs in the
file will be shown

 View|Sections   Shows all section
labels in the file.  Sections are a
good tool to group a file's contents
by subject

 View|pReview   Shows all appointments
for 7 days beginning with the view
date and todos which first become due
during that period.  A good way of
looking at things that are coming up.

 View|oVerdue   Shows those todos
which are marked as Deadline (not
target) todos and are due on or before
the view date.  Useful for finding
todos that really have to be done now.

 View|outLine   Shows nonblank
paragraphs.  Tabs at the beginning of
a paragraph are treated as outline
level indentations.  Display of
outline levels can be limited by
pressing Alt-L and selecting a cutoff
level from 0(all) to 10 or by pressing
Alt-1 to Alt-0 or Alt-A

 View|Priority  Shows todos assigned
to the priority level that you select
from the picklist.  To see all todos,
select {View|otHer|allTodos}

 View|Category  Shows category labels
assigned to the category level that
you select from the picklist.  To see
all category labels, select
{View|otHer|allCategories}

 View|Bookmarks  Shows all bookmarks

 r View|otHer|Archivable  Shows all
labels which are appointments which
will not appear again on or after the
view date and done todos.  CAUTION:
take care in exporting from an archive
file as there may be other labels in
the matching paragraphs which are not
"expired;" exporting and deleting a
single paragraph containing an expired
label may destroy the context for the
exported paragraph and those that
remain in the file after exportation.

 View|otHer|Donetodos  shows all
checked off todos, sorted by checkoff
date.  This can provide an overview
of the work you've recently completed

 View|otHer|allLabels  Shows all
labels in the order in which they
appear in the file

 View|otHer|allTodos  Shows all todos
(including checked off todos)

 View|otHer|allCategories  Shows all
category labels

 w Goto|Date [F5]  Type in a new view
date or press F5 again to pick from
a calendar.  For a description of the
date entry options, press F1 when this
function is selected.

 Goto|Nextmatch  [Ctrl-N]  When in
text view, this takes you to the
location of the next matching entry
from the current search.  Used for
navigating between entries in a view
without constantly returning to the
view.

 Goto|Previousmatch  [Ctrl-P]  When
in text view, this takes you to the
location of the previous matching
entry from the current search.  Used
for navigating between entries in a
view without constantly returning to
the view.
 j
 l Settings|Colors  Select one of the
screen elements and use the cursor
(arrow) keys to change its color to
one you prefer

 n Settings|File|File  Specify the
drive and/or subdirectory where you
want FLEXPAD to look for files when
you do not specify a full path and
the [optional] file specification.
Example: c:\flpdata\*.flp

 Settings|File|Help  Specify the
full path and name of the FLEXPAD help
file (i.e., c:\flexpad.hlp)

 Settings|File|Autosave  3 choices:
   Yes--always saves when you quit
   Ask--always asks you if you want
 to save unsaved data.
   No--this only works when FLEXPAD
 is loaded as a TSR (popup). It does
 not save on quitting (which is OK
 because your data is still in
 memory).  It behaves like Ask when
 not loaded as a TSR.
 
 Settings|File|Tbackup  When a data
file is saved it is safer to keep the
old copy on the disk until the save is
completed. This temporarily requires
twice as much disk space, however.
Those with nearly full disks can turn
this off but at some risk of data loss
should the disk become too full, etc.

 Settings|File|Savekey  Whether F10
saves data only when its "Unsaved" or
"Always".  This was added for users
who were concerned about unnecessary
battery drain or disk wear from saving
unchanged data.

 Settings|File|aLarm  Whether to save
alarm information to a file
(ALARMS.ABK) for use by the HP
Palmtops' alarm function.  For more
information, see the discussion of
alarms, below.

 m Settings|Defaults|Date  Choose from
MM/DD/YY, M/D/YY, D.N.YY or DD.MM.YY
formats for display and entry of dates

 Settings|Defaults|Time  Choose from
12 hour (5:00p) or 24 hour (17:00)
time display formats

 Settings|Defaults|duRation  If not
zero, whenever you edit a start time,
the end time is checked and, if it's
before the start time, it's set to the
start time plus the duration (in 5
minute increments).  A duration of 0
turns this feature off.

 Settings|Defaults|aLarm   Select a
default alarm leadtime setting for new
appointments--Off (blank the entry to
select) or 0 to 240 minutes.

 Settings|Defaults|Autopm  If between
0 and 12, converts any time you enter
which is before that hour to the PM
equivalent unless you specify an AM
time by adding "a" to your entry.
Disabled when 24 hour display format
is selected.

    Examples:
    When autopm is set to 8,

    7 is translated to 7pm
    9        =         9am
    5a       =         5am

 Settings|Defaults|Priority  Select
the default priority to be used when
new todo labels are created

 Settings|Defaults|Category  Select
the default category to be used when
new category labels are created

 Settings|Defaults|todotYpe  Select
the default todo type (No Carry,
Target or Deadline) to be used when
new todo labels are created

 Settings|Defaults|Marked  Select
whether typed or pasted text replaces
text that has been marked

 Settings|Defaults|autoIndent  Select
whether Tabs are added to a new line
to match the number of tabs at the
beginning of the current paragraph
when you press Enter (except when the
cursor is at the beginning of the
paragraph)

 x Settings|Screen|Label  Specify the
character that will preceed each label
as it is displayed in text and view
modes.  To insert a graphics character
hold down the Alt key and type its
ASCII value on your number pad.  The
default small box is ASCII 254.

 Settings|Screen|Graphint   Specify
how many minutes each line in the
monthly graphical view represents.
Toggles between 15, 20, 30, 60 & 120
minutes

 Settings|Screen|weekStart  Toggle
the day of the week (Sun - Sat) on
which the Week view, weeKgrid and
monthGraph views' weeks start

 Settings|Screen|Monthstart  Toggle
the day of the week (Sun or Mon) on
which the moNthgrid views and popup
calendar start

 Settings|Screen|Tab  Set the spacing
used when tabs are encountered in the
text

 Settings|Screen|Height  Set the
number of diplay rows in the range
from 16 to 25.

 Settings|Screen|Width  Set the
number of diplay columns in the range
from 40 to 80.

 T Settings|Screen|startView  Sets the
view that will be used when the file
is loaded.  This setting is stored
with the file rather than in the
FLEXPAD.CFG global configuration file.
Valid values are:

   0 - text view
   1 - all labels
   2 - only
   3 - outline
   4 - all bookmarks
   5 - categories
   6 - all sections
   7 - priorities
   8 - done todos
   9 - archivable
  10 - overdue
  11 - preview
  12 - day
  13 - week
  14 - weeKgrid
  15 - month
  16 - monthgraph
  17 - monthgrid

 Settings|Screen|Ignore  Disables
display of the alarm setting in the
appointments label editing dialog box

 R Settings|Prioritylabels   Change
a priority level's text by placing the
cursor on it and pressing F2.  Edit
the text and press Enter to save your
changes, ESC to cancel.

 S Settings|categoryLabels   Change
a category level's text by placing the
cursor on it and pressing F2.  Edit
the text and press Enter to save your
changes, ESC to cancel.

 k Settings|Resetfilesettings
Reset the settings that are stored in
the file (Priority & Category labels,
Save to alarm file) to their defaults

 Settings|copyfilesettinGs
Copy the settings from another file to
the current file.  This would be used
to give an archive file the same
settings as the file from which the
archive entries are taken

 o Tools|showParents [P] displays the
Section label and any parent outline
levels for the current paragraph.
To go to one of the displayed para-
grpahs in text view, move the cursor
over it and press Enter.  Press ESC or
F10 to exit this display.

 Tools|Hidematch [.]  Removes a match
from a view screen temporarily.  The
label remains in the file and will
reappear if you remake the view.  When
matches are hidden, "H" is displayed
on the status (second) line.

 Tools|Info  Shows the name of the
current file, its size, the number of
matches in the current view and the
amount of free data space

 Tools|Restorelastdeletedlabel
the last label you deleted with Del or
Bkspace is saved until you exit
Flexpad.  You can insert it at the
current cursor location with this
command

 Help  [F1]  Opens the help file
specified in {Settings|File|Help}

 Quit  [Alt-Q]  Exits the program

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 Alarms

If you are not using FLEXPAD with an
HP palmtop you may want to disable
FLEXPAD's support for the alarm
settings on calendar entries.  To do
this, simply select {Settings|Screen|
Ignore}.  You will no longer see the
alarm on/off or leadtimes on the label
edit screen and the alarm flag ()
won't be displayed on the view
screens.  Default alarm settings will
still be added to the entries as they
are created and you can switch back to
editing them at any time.

If you want FLEXPAD to create a file
that can be read by the HP Palmtops to
set their alarm files, set {Settings|
File|aLarm} to Yes.

FLEXPAD doesn't set the built in alarm
on the HP palmtops; if you change or
set alarms on any entries, you must
cause the built in appointment program
to read the file and reset its alarms
by one of the following methods.  In
each case you must first save the file
using one of FLEXPAD's save commands
(but not Shift-F10, which skips alarm
updating).

1. Reboot your computer.  Provided
that the alarms.abk file containing
your alarm entries was the last file
read by the Palmtop's APPT program,
the Palmtop's SYSMGR will read the
file as a part of its initialization
routine.  This is true on the 95LX; on
the 100/200LX, you must manually
reload the .ABK file into APPT.

2. Load the file into APPT and then
immediately exit APPT.  APPT will
reset the system alarms when it reads
the file.  On the HP 100/200LX, you
must manually load the .abk file or
use a macro.  See the TOUR.FLP file
for a sample macro for this purpose.

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 CDay of week entry

Enter at least the first two letters
of the day of the week (SU MO TU WE
TH FR SA or the first two letters of
the day if you have changed the
weekday names) or use one of the other
date commands (TO, CU, YE, etc.), to
insert the day of the week that
corresponds to that date.

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 NDays of week to repeat

Move among the weekday initials with
the Left, Right, Home & End keys.  + &
- always turn the days on or off,
repectively.  Press any other key to
change a weekday's setting to the
opposite value.  Highlight as many
or as few days as you desire.  You
must select at least one day.

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 DWeek of month entry

Move among the positions (1st 2nd ...)
with the Left, Right, Home & End keys.
+ & - always turn the weeks on or off,
repectively.  Press any other key to
change a position to tho opposite of
its current value.  Highlight as many
or as few positions as you desire.
Press DEL to clear all of the months.
You must select at least one position.

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 HMonth entry

Move among the month names with the
Left, Right, Home & End keys.  + & -
always turn the months on or off,
repectively.  Press any other key to
change a month's setting to the
opposite value.  Highlight as many
or as few months as you desire.  Press
DEL to clear all of the months.  You
must select at least one month.

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 %Must select at least one

FLEXPAD requires that at least one
day, week or month be selected.

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 OEvery: (repeat frequency)

Specify the interval at which this
appointment or todo repeats.  Add
"W" after the number to indicate weeks

i.e.

   7  = 7 days  = 1 week
   1W = 7 days  = 1 week
   6W = 42 days = 6 weeks

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 EDay number entry

Enter the number for the day of the
month you desire (i.e., 2[nd], 12[th],
31[st], etc. The number must be in the
range 1-31, or 32 for the Last day of
the month.

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 FTodo Type

Todos can be one of three types:

Target - due date is soft.  Entries
      won't show in the overdue view.
      Carries over until marked Done.
Deadline -  due date must be met.
      Shows in overdue view.  Carries
      over until marked done.
No-carry - shows only on due date, not
      in overdue view

Press T, D or N or the Spacebar to
      change the type.

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 GAlarm lead time entry

This is the number of minutes before
an appointment that an alarm (if set)
will ring.  It must be in the range
0-240.  To set the alarm to off, make
the field blank by backspacing out
the existing number.

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 ITime entry

Enter the time without punctuation.
Add "P" to indicate PM times ("12" is
treated as 1200p-Noon unless "a" is
added for midnight at the beginning of
the day or "m" is added to indicate
midnight at the end of the day).  The
ending time you specify will be set to
the corresponding time which is after
the start time unless you override it
with an "a" (auto am/pm function).
When the Duration of appts {Settings|
Defaults|duRation} is nonzero, the
ending time, if less than the
beginning time, will be set to the
beginning time plus the duration.
Note: if Auto PM is set {Settings|
Defaults|Autopm}, any time you enter
which is less than the AutoPM setting
will be converted to a "PM" time
unless you override it by specifying
"a" with the time number.  (AutoPM is
disabled while the 24 hour display
format is active.)

Blanking the start time will cause
the label to appear without a specific
time and disable alarms for the label.

Examples:
  AutoPM = 0
     Entry    12 hr fmt  24 hr fmt
       1    =   100a       0100
       10   =  1000a       1000
       101  =   101a       0101
       1010 =  1010a       1010
       1p   =   100p       1300
       12a  =  1200a       0000
       12m  =  1200m       2400

  AutoPM = 8  12 hr display format
     Entry
       1    =   100p
       10   =  1000a
       101  =   101p
       1010 =  1010a
       1a   =   100a
       12a  =  1200a

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 JPriority entry

Todo labels are sorted and displayed
in priority order, 1 being the highest
priority.  Cursor to a priority on the
picklist and press enter to select it.
You can modify the text for a priority
level by placing the cursor on it,
pressing F2, typing the new text and
pressing Enter or F10 to store the
change.

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 KCategory entry

Category labels are selected from the
picklist.  Cursor to a category label
on the picklist and press enter to
select it and and save the label.  To
modify the text for a category level,
place the cursor on it, press F2, type
the new text and press Enter or F10 to
store the change.

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 yCheckoff repeating todo:

You can quickly checkoff a todo while
editing it by pressing F4.  If you're
editing a repeating todo, you're
given the following choices:

  settoNextrepeat - this sets the
Next date to the first date that is
greater than the current system, Next
and Start dates and matches the
repeating specification (3rd Wed, 25th
of the month, etc.)

  Final - this permantly checks off
the todo; it will not show up in any
view as an active todo.  You are asked
for the date of completion, which is
entered into the End date field.  The
Next field is set to the following day

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 Command line switches/parameters:

  [path\]filename - tells FLEXPAD to
       load the specified file; if no
       path is specified, the default
       data file directory is assumed

  /C:[path] - tells FLEXPAD to store
       its configuration file in the
       specified directory; this
       setting overrides any setting
       in the DOS environment

  /B:[number] - tells FLEXPAD how many
       4k (4,000 byte) memory blocks
       to allocate for holding the
       data file in memory. By default
       FLEXPAD claims all available
       memory.

  /R - installs FLEXPAD as a memory
       resident program (on HP
       Palmtops only).  See
       README.TXT for further
       information.

  /W: - this allows you to change the
       names of days of the week. Type
       the names, in 3 letter format,
       right after the ":".
       (/W:SunMonTueWed...)

  /M: - this allows you to change the
       names of months of the year.
       Type the names, in 3 letter
       format, right after the ":".
       (M:JanFebMarApr...)

  /L: - change the name and location
       of the Clipboard file.  By
       default its [config directory]\
       FLEXPAD.CLP.  With this switch,
       you specify a new name [and
       subdirectory].  If you do not
       specify a directory, the file
       will be given the specified
       name in the config directory.

  /8 - tells Flexpad to automatically
       switch into 80 by 25 display
       mode on the HP 100/200LX
       Palmtops whenever the Week or
       Monthly calendar grid views
       are selected.  When you switch
       to another view, the previous
       display mode will be
       reactivated.


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 Unable to create config file

FLEXPAD was trying to create a file to
hold user configuration information.
This error suggests a problem with
disk access that will likely affect
the rest of the program. FLEXPAD
therefore terminates after you clear
the message. FLEXPAD looks for the
file (FLEXPAD.CFG) in the "C:\"
directory and creates a new file if
none is found.  The disk may be full
or write-protected.  To specify
another drive/subdirectory, use the
/C: command line switch or the FLPCFG
environment variable.  For examples,
see the readme file.

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 Config settings reset

Something was wrong with the settings
data in the configuration file and
FLEXPAD reset the settings to their
default values. This can occur if your
config file was missing or damaged.
It might also happen when you first
start up a new version of FLEXPAD if
the config file format was changed
between versions (generally the
readme.txt file will warn you that
this will happen).

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 File not found

The file you specified was not found.
If the file is not located in the
default directory then you must
specify the complete path.

 ────────────────────────────────────
 File not found-empty file created

FLEXPAD was unable to find the data
file specified on the command line or
in the config file. This could be
because you deleted the file or an
incomplete path was specified and
FLEXPAD is looking in the wrong
place. (It is best to use a complete
Drive and path file specification.) At
this point FLEXPAD has set up an empty
file with no name.  When you try to
save the file, you will be asked to
give it a name. This message will only
appear at program startup. At other
times FLEXPAD will inform you that a
file cannot be found and will not try
to load a non-existent file.

 ────────────────────────────────────
 File name error

The file name you've given has too
many characters (more than 8) before
the "." or too many (more than 3)
after the "."

 ────────────────────────────────────
 	Not Found

No matches were found. Searches begin
at the position following the cursor
unless you press F8 to begin at the
top of the file.

 ────────────────────────────────────
 File loading error
 File save error
 Unable to modify config file

DOS reported an error during the
attempt to load or save the data file
or modify the config file.  Check the
disk drive.  If you specify a drive or
subdirectory in the file name you must
give a complete path (i.e., "B:temp"
fails but "B:\temp" is acceptable).

 ────────────────────────────────────
 Text sort not allowed in this view

Text sorting of matching entries is
available only in the Section,
Bookmark and (single) Category views

 ────────────────────────────────────
 Unable to allocate data memory

Flexpad was unable to allocate the
memory space it needs to store its
working copy of your data file.  This
error is so serious that Flexpad
terminates as it will be incapable of
working with your data

 ────────────────────────────────────
 Not enough room in memory

This messsage appears when FLEXPAD has
run out of memory to store your data.
You need to archive some of the data
to another file.

(FLEXPAD normally allocates all
available memory as DOS will allow it
to have, unless you instruct it to
request only a specific number of
memory blocks with the /B: command
line switch.  Try increasing the /B:
setting.)

 ────────────────────────────────────
 File too large for memory

The data file is too large to fit in
the memory space available.  It may
have been created on a computer where
FLEXPAD had more memory available than
at present.  If you need to increase
the memory allocated to FLEXPAD when
it is running as a TSR (popup)
program, add the "/B:" command line
switch to the command that loads
the program (probably in AUTOEXEC.BAT)
See the section on command line
switches for further information.

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 Start date past end date

A repeating label where the start date
is greater than the end date will
never appear in a calendar view.
FLEXPAD refuses to save an entry
containing this error.

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 Date beyond limits

The date you've specified is not a
valid date. Dates must be in the range
Jan 1, 1980 -- Nov 17, 2065.

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 "Must provide a date

The date in this label can't be left
blank as it marks the first day from
which the interval repetitions follow.

 ────────────────────────────────────
 Past End date--marked done

Your attempt to set a repeating todo's
Next: due date with settoNextrepeat
resulted in a date past the current
End date for the todo; the todo has
been set to the completely done status
(Next date = End date + 1).  To set a
later Next date, you must blank out
the End date or set it to a date
after your chosen Next date

 ────────────────────────────────────
 Can't find help file

The help file cannot be found.  Either
it was deleted or its not at the
location specified on in the config
file. You can change the help file
location {Settings|File|Help}.

 ────────────────────────────────────
 Directory not found

The directory you specify must exist.
You can create it using DOS or the
95LX' Filer.  An "\" is required at
the end of the specification.

 ────────────────────────────────────
 Disk is full

There was not enough room on the
specified disk to hold the file that
FLEXPAD attempted to save.  If you
have "Use temporary backup files"
{Util More·config} set to "Yes," you
might try setting it to "No."  That
will prevent FLEXPAD from making a
temporary backup copy of the original
file during the save process but at
the RISK of losing the last saved
copy of your data.

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Too many matches

In keeping track of which entries are
displayed in a view, FLEXPAD allocates
a finite number of match slots.  That
capacity can be overrun only when your
file contains many repeating entries
and you are using the Monthly view,
you search for all paragraphs in a
large file or search for a very common
phrase ("the" or "e", for example).

 ────────────────────────────────────
 #Too many labels in file

FLEXPAD keeps track of the labels in
your file in order to speed searches.
A finite amount of memory is set aside
for this task.  You have more labels
in your file than FLEXPAD can track.
FLEXPAD will keep working but the
search results may be incomplete.

To remedy this, you need to break your
file into two or more files or delete
or archive some labels.

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 Too many search phrases

Flexpad allows up to 5 separate search
phrases to be entered, separated by
the "|" character.  You've entered 6
or more phrases.

 ────────────────────────────────────
 Label truncated

FLEXPAD limits custom priority and
category labels to 30 characters each.
You have entered a label longer than
this and FLEXPAD has deleted the
characters beyond position 30.

 ────────────────────────────────────
 'Appends you were making to the
    clipboard will be lost

This warning is given when you perform
a regular cut or copy to the clipboard
after having added to it with the
clipboard append functions.  Its
purpose is to make sure that you want
to lose the clipboard's contents.

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 HP Palmtop required for TSR mode

FLEXPAD is designed to be run as a
popup (TSR) program on the HP 95LX
palmtop only.  On other PC's,
multitasking programs such as
Windows or DESQview allow switching
among programs.  FLEXPAD's memory
requirements make it unlikely that
you would have enough room to run any
other significant applications along
with it if it loaded as a TSR on
those computers.  On the HP 95LX
Palmtop, running FLEXPAD as a TSR
allows you to switch between it and
the built-in programs without having
to exit and restart FLEXPAD.

On the HP 100/200LX Palmtops, you
can switch between Flexpad and the
built-in programs by using their
Application Manager just as you would
with any other DOS based program


FLEXPAD Help Ends
