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Creating help displays, Sample help file – Texas Instruments 4000M User Manual

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; — (semicolon) in column 0 precedes a comment line,
which is ignored by the program. You can insert any
number of comment lines for your own information;
comment lines are not displayed in the Help screens.
You also can use the ; (semicolon) character anywhere
on a menu color line after the :C X Y characters when
preceded by a space character; for example,

: C 1 0f ; this is a sample color comment line.

Column length of the subject name box is 13 characters
maximum; the description box is 52 characters maximum.

Sample Help File

The following figure shows a sample help subject entry,
with comment lines explaining the command lines.

Creating Help Displays

Creating Help Displays I-3