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- ABOUT MODEIF.EXE
-
- MODEIF.EXE is a program from the kit, PIECES, by Another
- Company. With PIECES, you can create just about anything for
- IBM-compatible computing. No programming skill is necessary.
- See end of this file for more information about PIECES.
-
- What It Does
-
- MODEIF.EXE will determine the capabilities of the end user's
- system. It reads a text file containing five lines of text.
- These lines tell your presentation what to do if: 1) The end
- user has VGA, or 2) the end user has EGA or 3) the end user
- has only CGA or 4) the end user has a Hercules-equipped
- system or 5) the end user has no graphics capability.
-
- How To Use It
-
- MODEIF requires one parameter, the name of a standard ASCII
- text file containing the five lines of text. Therefore, you
- might make a file called STUFF.1 which contains the following
- lines:
-
- RUN.EXE HASVGA.CFG
- RUN.EXE HASEGA.CFG
- RUN.EXE HASHERC.CFG
- RUN.EXE HASCGA.CFG
- RUN.EXE NOGRAPH.CFG
-
- Then if you type MODEIF STUFF.1, MODEIF.EXE will then call
- the RUN.EXE program no matter what, but it will run it with
- one of your five various .CFG files, depending on what kind
- of graphics support is on the end user's machine.
-
- To create a file for MODEIF, start your favorite word
- processor. On the first line, type what you want to happen
- if the user has VGA graphics capability. On the second line,
- type what you want to happen if the user has an EGA system,
- on the third line type what to do in case of Hercules, on the
- fourth line, what to do for CGA, and on the fifth line, type
- what you want for systems with no graphics card.
- Your word processing program must operate in standard
- ASCII mode. If you cannot figure out how to do this, look
- for shareware word processing programs such as VDE or Galaxy,
- or use Windows Notepad which comes with every copy of
- Microsoft Windows.
- The .CFG extensions used in the above example are not
- necessary, you can use any extension you want for script
- files, but to avoid confusion you'll want to avoid extensions
- which already have meanings such as .EXE, .PCX, .BAT, etc.
- All five lines must contain text. It is ok to call the
- same operation for various video modes like this example:
-
- HLINK.EXE HASEGA.CFG
- HLINK.EXE HASEGA.CFG
- HLINK.EXE NOGRAPH.CFG
- HLINK.EXE NOGRAPH.CFG
- HLINK.EXE NOGRAPH.CFG
-
- The above example, might be used in a presentation which uses
- EGA images. This would call a script employing those EGA
- images if the user has VGA or EGA graphics, but run a
- different script employing text-only programs if the user
- does not have at lease EGA capability.
-
- Additional Information
-
- MODEIF can also MODEIF .COM files and .BAT files, but it
- cannot display text or graphics files directly. It must
- run programs which will display text or display graphics.
-
- Filename extension is not usually required. You can type
- DELAY or DELAY.EXE, for instance, and the effect will be the
- same. In the case where there are more than one file with
- the same name, but different extensions, then .BAT files will
- be run instead of .COM or .EXE files, and .COM takes
- precedence over .EXE.
-
- MODEIF can handle optional parameters for the programs it
- runs of up to 100 characters in length.
-
- MODEIF.EXE can be executed from within other programs, and of
- course, you can execute programs from within MODEIF. MODEIF
- supports all standard text and graphics modes.
-
- About Pieces
-
- PIECES is a shareware disk containing several small programs
- that can be combined to do a variety of tasks with
- a super-professional look and feel. No programming experience
- is needed. PIECES can be expanded to incorporate your
- favorite programs as well, so it's possibilities for making
- and enhancing pictures shows, text presentations, multimedia,
- electronic catalogs, teaching materials, executable software,
- games, shareware and more are limitless!
- You can register as many or as few PIECES as you wish.
- Registered users are licensed to copy and distribute the
- PIECES along with their finished products. Unregistered
- users may copy and distribute the complete unmodified PIECES
- package, but may not use only portions of it until purchase
- of registration. Use of PIECES beyond 30 days requires
- registration.
- Most unregistered PIECES programs have a "unregistered"
- notice which pops up randomly, approximately every 200 times.
- This is removed from the registered versions, and also saves
- as much as 3,000 bytes disk space per program.
-
- This software is copyrighted by Jeff Napier of Another
- Company, and distributed by Gary Smith of OEC Systems.
-
- The shareware or registered versions of PIECES may be
- purchased from Gary Smith at OEC Systems:
-
- Gary Smith
- c/o OEC Systems
- 4646 North Shallowford Road
- Atlanta, GA 30338-6304
-
- phone: 404-394-1000
- orders only: 800-444-2424
- fax: 404-394-1006
- BBS: 404-804-7889
-
- MasterCard and VISA accepted
-
- Neither Another Company nor Gary Smith/OEC Systems assume
- any responsibility for your use of this product or any
- Another Company product.
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