Help (general)

This selection contains additional help information relating to overall system operation and file naming conventions.

When you select Help (general) from the Source-IV Main Menu the system displays the following:

Context sensitive help The most important feature of all Thoroughbred Software products is the Context Sensitive Help. The key to remember is F6. At any point the computer is waiting for an operator input, you can press F6 to display a help screen. From the displayed help the input options will be explained.

Terminate F4
To terminate a function press F4. The F4 key has been reserved for this purpose in all Thoroughbred Software products.

Escape from function To escape from a function that is executing, depending on the type of terminal, you can use one of the following keys:

Del

Shift-Delete

Ctl-X, Ctl-E, or Ctl-C

Esc

File naming conventions All Source documents maintained by Source-IV are kept in files call libraries and within the library each Source document can have a name up to 8 characters long. When the Source document is compiled by Source-IV an executable object file is created using the 8-character name as the executable program name.

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