Using the menu at the top
"Surfing" the Intranet
Customizing IntraDOS
Known Limitations
How to Register
Redistribution Limitations
The Readme.HTM file that comes with IntraDOS contains further information on launching the program and setting it up on a network.
Using the keyboard, you can press the Alt key to activate the menu. Menu entries will have one letter (the "accelerator key") that stands out in a different color. You can either press that key to activate a particular menu selection or use the left, right, up, and down arrow keys to move to a menu selection, which is then activated by pressing Enter.
Here is a list of keystrokes to make menu selections:
Get help: ..................................................... Alt+h
Get out of (exit) IntraDOS: ................................... Alt+x
Go back to the next earliest page you looked at: .............. Alt+b
Fo ahead to the next more recent page you looked at: .......... Alt+a
Go to your start-up "home" page: .............................. Alt+o
Take a look at the history of pages you've surfed: ............ Ctrl+h
Find (search for) particular text somewhere in the document: .. Ctrl+f
Look for more of the same text without retyping: .............. F3
Manually choose a file to open from a diolog box: ............. Ctrl+o
Additionally, you can search for particular text by pressing Ctrl+F, and to repeat the search without retyping the text you're looking for, you can press F3.
Like popular Windows-based browsers, you may follow hypertext links by clicking on them with a mouse.
IntraDOS also allows you to follow a link without a mouse by means of the TAB key. To select a link, press TAB until the desired link is highlighted (or Shift+TAB to cycle through the links in the reverse direction). Then, you press ENTER to activate the link. If you scroll so that the active link is out of view, IntraDOS interprets a TAB as calling for the first link on the screen rather than the next link in order.
More commonly, you can move backward in the sequence by clicking the Back menu item, and you can move forward in the sequence by clicking the Ahead item. The Home item takes you back to the start-up, or "home" page.
You can also manually select a document to view after pressing Ctrl+o or activating the menu by alt+ File, Open.
Here are some of the more important known limitations:
Extended or "special" characters are displayed based on the ASCII character set rather than the Windows set. Thus the image marker (above) appears as the Greek letter phi in IntraDOS, but as e-grave in Windows.
Colors are limited to 16 and cannot be changed by coding the HTML page. Thus links have one color (yellow) whether one has used them or not. The user can select a preferred color for the background, normal foreground, bold, italics, and H1 to H6 tags.
Only one font and font size are available. Emphasis can be accomplished only by codes such as <B>, <I>, <H1>, etc. Codes such as <Font size=+1> affect only the color of the text.
Frames are not supported. Network administrators should have IntraDOS users link to the most informative frame page.
Nesting of lists (<UL> and <OL>) is supported up to 9 levels and only so far as the left margin is less than 50% of the space available for text (i.e., fewer levels in tables). Attempts to make deeper levels of nesting will yield unpredictable results.
Due to formatting limitations, numeric ordered lists will start over at 1 after 99, and alphabetical ordered lists greater than 26 (a-z or A-Z) will repeat. For the same reason, Roman numerals are not supported in ordered lists.
Tables wider than the screen are not supported, and will yield
unpredictable results. Therefore, tables with many columns are
also problematic, since space must be allowed for the cell walls and
text in each. For example, a table of eight columns will
leave about six letters per cell.
One less than ideal solution is the use <PRE> and </PRE>
tags and place a preformatted table between them.
Tables narrower than the screen are expanded to fill the screen. Thus, text set to appear on either side of a table, but not within it, will appear elsewhere.
Tables with about 32,000 characters may cause unpredictable results.
Tables whose cells exceed 16,000 characters may cause unpredicable
results.
Solution: Break up your tables/cells into smaller tables/cells.
In tables with different numbers of cells per row, cells are filled with data from left to right. Thus some unusual configurations of tables are not supported.
Special formatting of tables, such as combining cells and cellpadding, is unsupported. Borders are either off (invisible) or on (single line around each cell).
Because of line width limitations, column widths are calculated without regard to command arguments such as <TD width=60%>.
The normal registration fee is $35 for a stand-alone computer, $15 per additional computer on a local network, with a maximum fee for an entire local area network of $80. Certain discounts also apply:
Register by sending a check or money order to:
Charles M. Cork, III
P. O. Box 6897
Macon, Georgia 31208-6897
Please include your name, your business's name (if applicable), your mailing address, and your e-mail address. By return e-mail or mail, you will get registration information.
Beyond the satisfaction of doing the right thing and making the registration request at the end of the program disappear, registration will entitle you to notifications of upgrades (free to registered users, unless the upgrade is really colossal) and to such support as I may be able to give via e-mail to ccork000@counsel.com.
A registered user of IntraDOS at the $80 level may freely distribute the program without alteration or deletion of files, except that the Home.HTM file may be altered and other files may be added. This will allow a registered user to provide an off-line reader of the user's HTML materials.