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- │ THE PROGRAM WIZARD INSTRUCTIONS │
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- CONTENTS
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- INTRODUCTION ............................. 1
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- USING THE PROGRAM WIZARD ................. 1
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- Getting Started .................... 1
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- OVERVIEW ................................. 2
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- RUNNING THE PROGRAM WIZARD................ 2
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- The Menu ........................... 3
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- Formatting a Disk (F1 & F2) ........ 3
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- Printing the Manual (F3)............ 3
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- DOS Commands (F4) .................. 4
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- Modify Menu (F5) ................... 4
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- PASSWORDS ................................ 6
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- RETURN TO DOS ............................ 6
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- ADDITIONAL BAT FILES...................... 7
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- Copyright (c) 1986 DSF Associates
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- OVERVIEW
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- The Program Wizard is designed for hard disk and 1.2MB
- floppy disk users who would rather start their programs
- from a single menu and keystroke rather than have to
- recall and enter the DOS commands necessary to run the
- programs.
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- By simply changing The Program Wizard once, the user can
- run all of their software programs with a single key-
- stroke from a menu selection. The Program Wizard works
- equally well with software on your hard disk or floppies.
- Regardless of the start up complexity the Program Wizard
- can do all the work. It makes the multi-directory com-
- puter easy to use, even for the novice who is unfamiliar
- with the directory setup.
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- USING THE PROGRAM WIZARD
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- The Program Wizard organizes the programs on your hard
- disk by allowing you to create a Menu of up to 26 program
- selections. To use one of the listed programs, select
- its proper character on the Menu, there is no need to
- press <ENTER>. There is an optional password feature
- lets you restrict access to your software. In addition
- the DOS command option (F4) allows access to DOS from
- within The Program Wizard. The Program Wizard also
- displays the time and date and turns off your screen if
- the keyboard is idle for more than three minutes while on
- the menu. The Program Wizard restarts with any key-
- stroke.
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- GETTING AROUND
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- You only need a few keys to use The Program Wizard effec-
- tively:
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- ENTER Moves the cursor forward to the next item.
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- INS Puts a single space in the middle of a
- text. When you press INS everything will
- move over to the left one space and leave
- a blank.
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- DEL Deletes the character under the cursor.
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- ESC Returns you to The Program Wizard Menu and
- saves the instructions that were entered
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- RIGHT ARROW Moves the cursor one space to the right.
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- LEFT ARROW Moves the cursor on space to the left.
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- UP ARROW Moves the cursor to the field above
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- DOWN ARROW Moves the cursor to the field below.
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- RUNNING THE PROGRAM Wizard
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- The first time you run The Program Wizard, default selec-
- tion titles "NOT IN USE" will appear on the screen.
- These selections are only titles and will run nothing.
- You must first configure The Program Wizard as described
- below.
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- If you have installed The Program Wizard with the Setup
- program, run The Program Wizard by simply turning on your
- computer. In about a minute the menu appears.
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- THE PROGRAM WIZARD MENU
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- The Program Wizard Menu contains twenty six items (The
- unregistered version has access to twelve items). You
- can assign one program to each item on the Menu. At the
- bottom of the list of items is the Selection Letter
- prompt. To select a program type in the item letter you
- desire.
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- The program you selected will be run. When you leave the
- program selected, you will automatically be returned to
- The Program Wizard Menu.
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- At the bottom of the Menu screen is a list of function
- keys and their labels. Use these function keys to:
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- A. (F1) Format the selected drive with the system
- B. (F2) Format the selected drive without the system
- C. (F3) Print the manual
- D. (F4) Execute DOS commands
- E. (F5) Create and change a Menu selection
- F. (F6) Exit to DOS
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- Formatting a Blank Disk (F1 & F2)
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- F1 & F2 formats a blank diskette with or without the
- system program respectively. To format the disk simply
- place the blank diskette the selected drive an press
- either F1 or F2. F1 will format the disk and place the
- computer's disk operating system and the COMMAND.COM
- program on the newly formatted disk. F2 does the same
- thing without the system. At the close of the formatting
- the user will be given the option to format another.
- Responding with N will return the user to the Program
- Wizard again.
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- Print the Manual (F3)
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- Pressing F3 will automatically print the manual for the
- Program Wizard. Be sure that the printer is on and paper
- is properly positioned in the printer. There are some
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- print buffers that are not compatible with the use of
- the DOS PRINT command from a batch file mode. If this
- is the case with your machine the manual will have to
- be printed by exiting the program and going into DOS.
- Type PRINT DIRECT.PRN. When the prompt occurs merely
- press return.
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- DOS Commands (F4)
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- Use the DOS Command option to gain immediate access to
- DOS without exiting The Program Wizard. To access the
- DOS Command option, press F4 from The Program Wizard
- Menu. When you press F4, a DOS Command screen appears.
- It has thirteen command lines on it. Enter up to
- thirteen DOS commands you wish to execute, one per line,
- in standard DOS format, pressing ENTER after each
- command. When you finish entering DOS Commands, press
- ESC. After pressing ESC, the DOS commands are executed.
- When The Program Wizard finishes running the DOS commands,
- you are returned to The Program Wizard Menu screen. This
- option is not available to unregistered users.
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- Modifying a Menu Line (F5)
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- You are now ready to create your personalized Menu of
- programs with the Modify Menu option. To access Modify
- Menu, press F5.
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- 1. Selection Letter
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- When the Modify Menu screen appears, the cursor is
- flashing on the Selection Letter prompt. There are
- 26 selections, lettered A through Z, on The Program
- Wizard Menu. Each letter corresponds to running a
- single program or portion of that program. One pro-
- gram may have two or three ways to start that program
- such as an accounting package. These packages may
- have one command to start the general ledger and
- another to start the accounts receivable section.
- Each would require a separate line in the Program
- Wizard Menu. To assign a program to one of the sel-
- ections, or change an existing selection, type its
- letter next to the Selection Letter prompt.
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- If you specify a Selection Letter that is already
- assigned, the information previously allocated to
- that selection appears. To change the entries
- associated with that item, simply type your new
- instructions in the prompt line and press <ENTER>.
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- To erase a line simply enter a space for the first
- character followed by <ENTER>
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- 2. Selection Title
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- The Selection Title prompt is used to enter the name
- of the program as you want it to appear on The
- Program Wizard Menu. Type in the program name, and
- press ENTER. Selection titles are limited to 25
- characters. You may choose not to assign a program
- for a selection for extra security. In that event
- just leave the Selection Title blank, or leave the
- phrase "Not In Use", then press ENTER.
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- 3. Password
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- When you press ENTER, the cursor proceeds to the
- Password prompt. Use the Password prompt to assign a
- Program Password for this selection. If you want a
- Program Password, type in up to eight characters, and
- press ENTER. If you decide not to use a Program
- Password, be sure that the Password space remains
- empty, and press ENTER.
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- 4. Prompt for Diskette (Y/N)
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- When you press ENTER, the cursor proceeds to the
- Prompt for Diskette (Y/N) option. If the program
- associated with this Selection Letter is on a
- diskette or if the program system diskette needs to
- be in drive "A" for the program to run then enter Y,
- and press ENTER. If you enter Y, The Program Wizard
- will pause and prompt you to insert a diskette in
- diskette drive A each time you choose this Selection
- Letter.
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- 5. Run Commands
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- When you press ENTER, the cursor proceeds to the
- first of thirteen Run Command lines. Up to thirteen
- DOS commands can be entered for each menu selection.
- Type the DOS commands required to run the program
- associated with this selection, pressing the <ENTER>
- key between each line. The DOS Commands you enter
- for each menu selection should correspond with the
- commands you would enter if you were running the
- program directly from the DOS prompt. For example,
- to run the Program, WHOPPER.EXE, which resides in
- the sub-directory named BIGMAC on the hard disk, you
- would enter the following two Run Commands:
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- 1: CD\BIGMAC
- 2: WHOPPER
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- The last command in the sequence should run the
- selected program. Should you not wish to return to
- the Program Wizard and the completion of the Whopper
- program line 3 should contain an additional instruc-
- tion STOP. This is useful when using open start
- programs such as compilers, text editors, or the
- DOS library. Without the STOP Command on the last
- line the user will be returned to the Program Wizard
- automatically.
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- If the program is on a diskette in a drive other than
- C, start the Run Commands with the appropriate drive
- letter. For example, to run the program named
- WHOPPER.EXE on a diskette in drive B, the Run
- Commands would appear as follows:
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- 1: B:
- 2: WHOPPER
- 3:
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- PASSWORDS
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- The Program Wizard's optional password system permits
- you to moderately protect your programs from unauth-
- orized usage. Although this is far from any complete
- protection is does prohibit the individual who is not
- knowledgeable of the system any access to the pro-
- grams that are protected.
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- With a Program Password, users will not be able to
- access the programs that are protected nor will they
- be able to access the modification screen for that
- program line unless they know the Program Password.
- Once you establish a password write that password
- down on paper and place it in a secure place. If
- the password is forgotten there is no way to access
- the program using that program line.
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- RETURNING TO DOS
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- When you finish using The Program Wizard, press F6
- from the Menu screen to return to DOS.
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- ADDITIONAL BAT FILES
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- There are two additional batch files on the origi-
- nal disk. These are C.BAT and A.BAT. These batch
- files are used in the open start directories such
- as a Basic Compiler or Pascal Compiler where you
- choose not to return to the menu directly. By copy-
- A.BAT to these directoriess you can press A at the DOS
- prompt it will automatically return you to the menu
- if your boot drive is in "A". C.BAT does the same
- thing if your boot drive is "C"
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