Hi Randy:
I think Cy's and Brian's suggestions may have more merit than my original
dBASE III+ solution.  Briefly, if you're still interested, it was a .dbf/
.fpt combination which had two fields, screen C(10) and help M.
The program simply used  ON KEY LABEL F1 DO Helper.
Everytime the situation changes, a variable, gcScreen, is changed to a
keyword that corresponds to the field, screen in Help.dbf.
Helper LOCATEs for the gcScreen and then displays the contents of the memo
field, help.  Simple, huh?  Not elegant, not clever.  But it is still working
in several projects years later.
Good to be back.  Thanks.
David in Dallas.
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