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2.6 Help Screens

The 3270 emulation program's menu interface includes help screens to guide you through using the program. A help screen is provided for each of the following items:

To invoke the help screen for a particular dialog box or menu item, press the F1 key. The help screens are context-specific, that is, the information displayed relates to the particular dialog or menu item on which the cursor was positioned when the F1 key was pressed.

Help Screen for File Menu, shows the help screen for the 3270 emulation program's File menu.

Help Screen for File Menu

When more help information is available than can be displayed on the screen at one time, the <Next> and <Previous> push buttons at the bottom of the help screen can be used to display the next or previous page of information. To finish with the help screen and return to the dialog from which it was called, use the <OK> push button or the Esc key.

The <UI Info> push button at the bottom of the help screen displays help information about the 3270 emulation program user interface. You can move forward and backward through this information using <Next> and <Previous> push buttons, as for the other help screens.

While a help screen is displayed, you can press F1 again to display a screen that gives more information about the help facility. When you are finished with this screen, use the <OK> push button or the Esc key to return to the help screen you were previously viewing.

The <UI Info> push button is not supported in the Motif interface.

When you are finished with a help screen or with the help-in-help screen, use the <OK> push button; the Esc key does not exit from these screens in the Motif interface.

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