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 Message 285 
 andrew clarke to Martin Foster 
 Announcing timEd 1.30! 
 10 Nov 18 00:12:12 
 
06 Nov 18 09:29, you wrote to me:

 MF>>> However, I've dragged a copy out of the source and put it in my
 MF>>> timEd directory but when I now press F1, nothing at all happens.

 ac>> I can't replicate that here in Windows 7. It works for me.

 MF> Further to my previous post about this, I've discovered that it
 MF> depends on a combination of "Screen Buffer Size" and "Window Size" in
 MF> my Win7 console along with the "Startup_Lines" setting in "timed.cfg"
 MF> as to whether the online help displays or not.

Ah. My guess is the help file is being displayed but is off-screen. There are
similar issues running the NT version of timEd in Windows 10 if the screen
buffer isn't setup correctly. Other fullscreen text mode apps will have
similar problems. IIRC there was an earlier thread about this.

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