This section briefly discusses the various menu selections that appear in the standard A-Shell/Windows environment.

Note that it is possible that some or even all of these menu selections have been disabled or removed by your application software, and that many others have been added or substituted in their place. You would need to consult the application documentation for details in such a case.

The menu-bar options are set according to the LANGUAGE option in miame.ini.

As with other Windows programs, A-Shell menus can be selected either by the mouse, or by holding down the ALT key while typing the underline letter in the menu item name. This will cause the associated drop-down menu to appear, at which point you can again select the menu item with the mouse or by typing the underlined letter, or by using the Up-Arrow and Down-Arrow keys to move the selection bar and hitting Enter to select the item. The only deviation here between A-Shell and some other Windows programs is that A-Shell does not support the Control key shortcuts that you might be familiar with. For example, Ctrl+V works as a shortcut in many windows programs to select the Paste option on the Edit menu. A-Shell doesn’t support these shortcuts because by convention, virtually all of the Control key sequences have been assigned to another purpose, typically editing operations within the current input context. (Ctrl+V, for example, was the traditional command to delete a word from the current input line.)