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- - EXEMENU -
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- Quick Menu Maker
- v2.0
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- (c) Kevin Solway, 1993.
- PO Box 207,
- Australia 4067
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- This program makes a menu (sorted alphabetically) out of the .EXE
- files (other than itself) found in same directory as itself.
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- This program is specially designed for use with programs like
- Textlife, Bigtext, and Breeze (by the same author). Textlife and
- Bigtext create executable self-displaying text programs. If you
- are distributing numerous such .EXE files then EXEMENU can be
- used to simplify and control their execution.
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- You can optionally create a text file called EXEMENU.CFG
- specifying screen colours, menu titles, and whether to
- pause after executing a program.
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- You can also specify special text to use for a menu entry
- as an alternative to the program file name. See "Special
- menu entry text" below.
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- For example, the file might contain the following lines:
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- 1
- Computer Magazine
- July, 1992
- no pause
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- Colour options are 1..7. The above example will create a menu
- out of all .exe files (except itself) in the current directory,
- using colour option 1, with the specified title and sub-title,
- and not pausing after executing programs. You may also specify a
- sub-sub-title if you please.
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- - SPECIAL MENU ENTRY TEXT -
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- Rather than having the program create a menu of simply the names of
- the .EXE files, you can specify the text which is to appear on the menu
- instead of the file name.
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- In the configuration file you must specify the text which is to
- replace a file name. This instruction must be of the form
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- filname.exe = Text to appear on menu
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- For example, the configuration file might contain the following lines:
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- 1
- Computer Magazine
- July, 1992
- no pause
- c3.exe = Execute Control 3 file manager
- qmem.exe = System Memory Report
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- When you use this method any .EXE files which are not mentioned in
- configuration file will not appear on the menu. That is, the menu
- will only contain the entries and the text you have specified.
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- If you specify text in the configuration file, but the associated
- .EXE file is not found when the menu program is run, then that text
- will not appear on the menu.
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- You can make a maximum of 20 such specifications.
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- The maximum length of a text instruction to appear on the menu is 40
- characters (half a screen width).
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- - Renaming EXEMENU.EXE -
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- You may rename EXEMENU.EXE to any name you wish (such as GO.EXE),
- but the configuration file must always be named EXEMENU.CFG
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