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- Design SHELL (tm) v5.0a
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- Copyright (c) 1993-94 by: jwh: SoftWare All Rights Reserved.
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- Member: Association of Shareware Authors and Distributors (ASAD)
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- A VGA color system and a MicroSoft (tm) compatible mouse is required
- to operate this application.
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- NOTE !! Do not attempt to run this program on 360k floppy drives.
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- Design SHELL is a complete and very user friendly Graphics User
- Interface (GUI) or Menuing system. It provides the user with
- colorful picture icons for selecting sub menus or executing
- applications or DOS commands. Allows creating up to 30 menus
- or applications on the opening page. Sub menus may be nested
- four levels deep. With this configuration, you could access
- up to 810,000 menu selections.
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- Design SHELL provides the user with options for selecting screen
- background color combinations, foreground colors, font types, and
- also includes a full featured Icon editor for creating sixteen color
- picture icons. A complete directory/file utility with drop down
- menus for working with ZIPed files and executing virus scan.
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- A utility for converting windows icon files (.ico) is also included
- with Design SHELL (ICO2ICN.EXE).
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- All options can be fully password protected against entry.
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- A library of 16 color icons (over 350) is available for downloading
- on most BBS's in a file named: DS_ICONS.ZIP
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- Registered users receive an Icon library with over 600 Icons
- upon registering.
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- To run Design SHELL: Copy all files to a directory on your hard drive,
- move to that drive and directory and type: DESIGN
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- Design SHELL will operate from a HD floppy drive
- with no problems except reading and writing
- to icon files would be very slow.
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- For smoother operation, you may also include this
- drive and directory in your AUTOEXEC.BAT files
- PATH statement. If you do this, you can start
- Design SHELL from any drive or directory on your
- system just by typing: DESIGN
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- Files needed to run Design SHELL:
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- DESIGN .EXE -- Main program module.
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- DS_ICON .EXE -- Icon Editor module.
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- DS_UTIL .EXE -- Directory/File Utility module.
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- DS_WORD .EXE -- Text Editor module.
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- DS_SHELL.EXE -- Shell runtime module.
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- DESIGN .HLP \
- DS_UTIL .HLP > Program help text
- ICONEDIT.HLP /
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- DESIGN1 .FNT \
- To > System Fonts
- DESIGN16.FNT /
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- DESIGN01.ICN \
- TO > System Icons
- DESIGN49.ICN /
- NOTE ! These icons may be edited or changed
- with the included icon editor but they
- must not be deleted.
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- NOTE !! On some versions, some of the above files may be compressed
- into self extracting archive files (DS_001.EXE, DS_002.EXE,
- DS_003.EXE). If you have one of these copies, the first time
- you run Design SHELL, it will automaticaly un-compress these
- files at run-time.
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- Additional files found on the shareware disk:
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- README .1ST - This doc file.
- SYSOP .DOC - Description of this application.
- DISCLAIM.DOC - Application disclaimer.
- REGISTER.DOC - Registration information and invoice.
- UPDATES .DOC - List of version updates.
- MANUAL .DOC - A printable manual for Design SHELL.
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