FILE Menu: Open

Use the "Open" option to create a 
new document or to load an existing 
file from your disk. The ITEM
SELECTOR box will appear, and you 
can select an existing file or enter 
a name for a new file. The open file 
will appear in a window on your 
display. You may have as many as 
four windows on your display at one 
time.

FILE Menu: Save
           Save and Abandon

The "Save" option writes your 
current document onto your data 
disk. You should save a document
every 30 minutes or so as you type 
or edit to guard against data loss.

"Save and Abandon" writes the file 
to disk and closes the window, 
erasing the document from the 
computer's memory.
FILE Menu: Save as
           Save as ASCII

"Save as" allows you to enter a new 
file name when you save a file on 
disk.

Use "Save as ASCII" to convert your 
file to pure ASCII characters. This
option saves your document without 
its special characteristics, such as 
page breaks or headers and footers.

FILE Menu: Merge, Erase, Status

"Merge" allows you to insert the 
contents of a file into the document
that is currently in the computer.
 
"Erase" allows you to delete a file 
from your data disk.

The "Status" option tells you the 
size of the current document in 
terms of the number of words, lines, 
pages, and bytes that it contains.
FILE Menu: Set Path

This option allows you to specify 
where the computer should look for 
the dictionary, thesaurus, help,  
and data files. You may place these
files in whatever drive and/or
folder you find most convenient. 
Your personal dictionary will follow
the dictionary's path.



FILE Menu: Abandon, Quit

Use "Abandon" to close, or remove,
the current window without saving 
the text in that window. (The Close 
Box in the top left corner of the 
window serves the same purpose.)

"Quit" allows you to exit the 
program and return to the GEM 
Desktop. Any open windows will be 
abandoned when you use "Quit".