-- A short Poppy Manual -- Use Poppy to: (1) Look up information in the "Documentation Net", (2) Browse "HyperText"-style through your programs, (3) Retrieve and look at files available from a remote file server. To visit a file for hypertext browsing, bug GET. Then enter a file name, such as prog.mesa or [Ivy]<Grows>On.Trees . Nonlocal files are copied onto your local disk with names like IvyGrowsOn.Trees$ . To see the Documentation Net, bug INFO. This GETs the root file of the net. Use INFO for more information about Poppy. To move around in a file, scroll and "thumb" as in Bravo. (You need to scroll to see all of this help file.) Each file F has an associated index file named F+ . When displaying F , terms defined in F+ (or its subindices) are shown in boldface. Indexing proceeds in parallel with user interaction, and is in progress when the word Poppy is preceded by *. If you GET an index file it will index itself. To jump to the definition point of a defined term, bug the term. (To see just the file name and first line of its definition (as stored in F+), bug the term with the blue button.) To jump to the definition point of a term defined in F+ which is not displayed, bug LOOKUP and then typein the term desired. To undo the last GET or jump, bug BACK or hit the yellow button. Repeated BACKS take you further back using a small ring buffer. To enter a definition for a term into F+, bug DEFINE and then (1) Select or enter the term to be defined. (2) Move to its "definition" position (possibly in another file). (The top text line shown must uniquely define the position within the file.) (3) Bug AsHere To enter bravo with the current file selected at the current position, bug BRAVO. To temporarily select a new index file, bug SETXF, then enter index file name. To add a "subindex" to the current index file, bug ADDXF. (The subindex name is recorded in the current index file. All definitions go into the current index, but terms defined in the subindices are buggable, etc. Subindices of a subindex are ignored.) To select a remote directory to do all lookups in, bug SetDir. Then enter a string such as [Ivy]<Poppy> which will be prefixed to all files which do not already begin with a "[" before retrieval. This includes all subindex names, etc. To terminate a typein or confirm a selection, hit ESC, CR, or SPACE.