Index to the DATAdesign Manual

This file contains a list of key terms and commands that are used in DATAdesign. If used with the PROGS Reader it will enable the user to go immediately to any part of the DATAdesign Manual, Appendices, Glossary, or Header File.

A

  1. Accessing the DATAdesign Commands by shortcut keystrokes : DATAdesign Manual : Section 7
  2. The Again Icon : DATAdesign Manual : Section 4.3.7
  3. Appendix A : Version History and Motivation
  4. Appendix B : Glossary of Terms
  5. Appendix C : ProWesS programs and other extensions

B

  1. The 'Backup of File' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.1.7 :
  2. The 'Begin/first' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.2.1
  3. Buffers : Appendix B. Section 2.

C

  1. Character or String Fields in DATAdesign : Appendix B. Section 5.2.
  2. The 'Clear Field' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.3.3
  3. The 'Clear All Mark' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.2.8 :
  4. Colourways available from the Config Blocks : Appendix A. Section 3.2.
  5. The Command Menu : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.2
  6. The Commands Window : DATADesign Manual : Section 4.2
  7. Configuring DATAdesign : Appendix A. Section 3.
  8. Control Keys for general use in the program. : DATAdesign Manual : Section 7.1
  9. Control Keys for use in editing a database. : DATAdesign Manual : Section 7.2
  10. Creating a New Database : DATAdesign Manual : Section 6

D

  1. Disk based Files : Appendix B. Section 7.1.
  2. The Display Menu : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.5
  3. The Delete Record Icon : DATAdesign Manual : Section 4.3.10
  4. The 'Delete record' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.4.2
  5. The 'Duplicate record' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.4.3

E

  1. The Edit Window : DATAdesign Manual : Section 4.4
  2. The 'End/Last' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.2.2
  3. The (DATAdesign) Engine : DATAdesign Manual : Section 1
  4. The 'Erase Field' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.3.2

F

  1. The Fieldnames Window : DATAdesign Manual : Section 4.5
  2. Fields : Appendix B. Section 4
  3. The Fields Menu : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.3
  4. Field Types : Appendix B. Section 5
  5. Filenames in DATAdesign : Appendix B. Section 10
  6. Files : Appendix B. Section 1.
  7. F2 : The Files Menu : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.1
  8. File Sorting : Appendix B. Section 13
  9. File Status : Appendix B. Section 7
  10. The 'Filter' File Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.2.5 :
  11. Floating point number fields in DATAdesign : Appendix B. Section 5.6.
  12. The 'Forget File' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.1.3

G

  1. Garbage Collection : Appendix B. Section 8.1.

H

  1. The Help Icon : DATAdesign Manual : Section 4.3.2
  2. History of DATAdesign : Appendix A. Section 2

I

  1. The Icon Bar : DATADesign Manual : Section 4.3
  2. The 'Indexed Find' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.2.7
  3. The Information Icon : DATAdesign Manual : Section 4.3.1
  4. The 'Information' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.2.9
  5. Initialisationof the DATAdesign Engine : Appendix B. Section 6.
  6. Installation Into an existing Boot Program : Section 2.4
  7. Installation Into ProWesS : Section 2.1
  8. Installation As a Thing : Section 2.3
  9. Inter Record Space : Appendix B. Section 8

J

K

  1. Kinds of Medium Files used by DATAdesign : Appendix B. Section 9

L

  1. The Load File Icon : DATAdesign Manual : Section 4.3.3 :
  2. The 'Load File' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.1.1
  3. Loading the Program : DATAdesign Manual :Section 2
  4. Long Integers in DATAdesign : Appendix B. Section 5.4.

M

  1. Mark Status : Appendix B. Section 11.
  2. DATAdesign Menus : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5
  3. The 'Merge File' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.1.2
  4. Motivation in writing the program Appendix A. Section 1.

N

  1. The New Record Icon : DATAdesign Manual : Section 4.3.11
  2. The 'New Field' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.3.1
  3. The 'New record' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.4.1
  4. The 'Next Record' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.4.7
  5. The Next Record Icon : DATAdesign Manual : Section 4.3.8

O

P

  1. The Previous Record Icon : DATAdesign Manual : Section 4.3.9
  2. The 'Previous record' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.4.8 :
  3. Principles : DATAdesign Manual : Section 3
  4. The Print Icon : DATAdesign Manual : Section 4.3.5
  5. The 'Print Records' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.1.8

Q

  1. Quitting The Program : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.2.12

R

  1. Raw data in DATAdesign : Appendix B. Section 5.1
  2. RecordIDs : Appendix B. Section 12
  3. Records : Appendix B. Section 3.
  4. The Records Menu : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.4
  5. The 'Replace' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.2.4

S

  1. The 'Save File' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.1.4
  2. The 'Save File and Quit' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.1.5
  3. The Save File Icon : DATAdesign Manual : Section 4.3.4
  4. The 'Save File With a New Filename' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.1.6
  5. The Search Icon : DATAdesign Manual : Section 4.3.6
  6. The 'Search' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.2.3
  7. Set Memo Field : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.4.5
  8. Short Integers in DATADesign : Appendix B. Section 5.3.
  9. The 'Sort File' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.2.6
  10. 'Sorted' files
  11. Statistics : Appendix A. Section 7.
  12. The Status and Icon Window : DATAdesign Manual : Section 4.1
  13. The 'Status' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.2.10
  14. Stuff Record : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.4.6

T

U

  1. The 'Undo / Truncate' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.4.4 :
  2. Updating to version 4 of DATAdesign. : Section 2.2

V

  1. Version history : Appendix A. Section 2
  2. Version 3 : Appendix A. Section 4.
  3. Version 4 : Appendix A. Section 5.
  4. The 'View' Command : DATAdesign Manual : Section 5.2.11

W

  1. (DATAdesign) Windows : DATAdesign Manual : Section 4 :

X Y Z

This document forms the index for the DATAdesign Manual compiled in html format by Roy Wood for
PROGS, Professional & Graphical Software
last edited Thursday 11 July 1996.