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3]HOW I RUN: With a Preface for Beginners
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     This is the October 1988 issue of JUMPDISK, the
original disk magazine for the Amiga. It is the 27th
consecutive monthly issue.
     JUMPDISK requires a minimum of 512K memory to work.

3]TEXT 80, NOT 60
     If you're a beginner . . .
     Can you see the letter X at the end of this line? ----------------->  X
     If not, your Amiga Preferences is set for TEXT 60,
while you should have it set for TEXT 80. To make the
needed change:
     1. Remove JUMPDISK, and restart the system with
a COPY of Workbench, not the original that came with
the Amiga.
     2. Open the Workbench window, and in that window
double-click on the Preferences icon.
     3. In the Preferences window, see the characters
TEXT 60 80. Click on the `80' so it changes color.
     4. At right of screen, click on the word `SAVE'.
This returns you to the Workbench screen.
     5. Click off the Workbench window.
     6. Restart JUMPDISK.

3]MARGINS AT 1 AND 80
     For the print utility in the Articles Menu program to work correctly,
you should set your Preferences margins for 1 and 80, rather than the
defaults of 5 and 75.

3]BASIC LOADED YET?
     See the separate article HOW TO INSTALL BASIC ON THIS DISK. Three
alternative methods are described. If you can't get one to work, try
another. Basic must be installed for Basic programs on the disk to load and
run.

3]DOUBLE DOCS
     The Articles Program leads to a menu that contains most of the text
material in this issue. An effort has been made to also make documentation
and notes related to programs available in the drawers holding such
programs. In most cases, there is an "eye" icon ending in the suffix .Doc.
Double-click this icon to see the text.
     This icon text system uses John Beale's Read program, which was
documented in the September 1988 issue. In brief: Scroll through the text
using the Up- and down-arrow keys, or click the left mouse on the slider
gadget at right of screen. Escape the display by clicking the northwest
corner.

3]FOR ALL NEW TO THE AMIGA
     The following will be helpful to the person who is new to the Amiga and
not familiar with the Workbench interface:

     -- An icon is a picture representing a program or activity on an Amiga
disk. Icons always have names in type beneath them.

     -- To `double-click' an icon means to put the mouse pointer over it and
click the left mouse button twice rapidly.

     -- Some double-clicking opens drawers, which have programs and
activities within them. When you finish work in a drawer, single-click the
small square in its northwest corner to close it.

     -- If you have two disk drives, keep the Workbench disk in one and
JUMPDISK in the other while running JUMPDISK. On single-drive systems, you
will at times see a requester box at northwest of screen, asking you to put
Workbench temporarily in the drive, then replace it with JUMPDISK.

     -- To read, hear or print articles, double-click the ARTICLES icon. It
leads to the Article Menu, which has further instructions. Here you will
find articles, as well as documentation for programs requiring it. Some
articles may be found by double-clicking icons associated with program
icons. And some may be accessed in both ways.

     -- To run a program or start an activity, double-click its icon. If you
double-click a drawer, a second window opens, and you then double-click the
icon(s) you find there. Drawers are not always in the characteristic drawer
icon format.

     -- When a program is running, you may escape back to the Workbench
screen by pressing the CTRL and C keys at the same time, or by selecting
STOP from the pulldown RUN menu on the bar across the top of the screen.
Some programs give other instructions on how to exit.

     -- Please do not exit a Basic program by clicking the northwest corner;
this retains current palette colors when the Workbench screen returns.

     -- Double-click the HOUSEKEEP icon to find programs published every
month to enhance JUMPDISK's usefulness: PRINTALL, SPEAKALL and READ40.

     -- Sometimes the Amiga uses memory and doesn't give it back. If the
memory meter number on the top bar of the Workbench screen falls below
350000, some programs on this disk may signal error messages related to
HEAP SPACE and MEMORY. The system may even crash. The solution is to reboot
with Workbench and try again.

     -- To reboot means to put Workbench in DF0: and simultaneously press
the CTRL key and the two keys on either side of the space bar. The latter
two are red A keys on the A1000, and a Commodore symbol a black A key on
other models.

    -- Available memory can be increased by clicking off the main J: window
when you are working from a drawer, and by dragging a program or icon
outside the J: window, clicking off the window, and double-clicking the
program icon.

     There are many other activities on the disk, but their existence is
either evident or instructions are given where germane, so we will leave
them for your discovery.

     Thanks for trying JUMPDISK.

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