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- Design SHELL v5.0a
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- Icon based menuing system (GUI)
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- Copyright (c) 1993-94 by:
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- jwh: SoftWare
- 6947 Haggerty Road
- Hillsboro, Ohio 45133
- 1(513)393-2402
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- Design SHELL allows up to 30 menus or applications on each
- page. You are allowed to have Sub Menus and Applications
- mixed on any page. Menus can be four levels deep.
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- With this configuration, you can have up to 810,000 titles.
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- Sub Menus are titled as "Menu" and Applications are titled
- as "File".
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- If a title is password protected, a red bar will appear
- below the Hotkey prompt.
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- NOTE ! All references to "Click" means to click your left
- mouse button on the option.
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- Adding a Sub Menu or Application.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Click on the EDIT Icon.
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- Click on Add a new title.
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- At the data entry screen:
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- Title: Enter a title for this menu or application.
- ~~~~~~
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- HotKey: This hotkey can be used to access this menu
- ~~~~~~~ or application using the keyboard. Press
- PgDn to list active Hotkeys.
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- Drive: Enter the Drive letter. Press PgDn to list
- ~~~~~~ all drives in a pick list menu.
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- Directory: Enter the Directory that this application is
- ~~~~~~~~~~ located in. Press PgDn to list all
- Directories in a pick list menu.
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- Command: Enter any DOS or Batch file command or the
- ~~~~~~~~ filename that executes the application.
- Press PgDn to list files.
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- You may enter any number of commands you
- like as long as you separate each command
- with a carat character (^). Each command
- will be executed separately. Press PgDn to
- list all files in a pick list menu.
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- Always include the file extensions (.COM,
- .EXE,.BAT) when entering filenames.
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- You may also include a plus character (+)
- immediately following any command. Including
- a plus character will instruct Design SHELL
- to ask the user for a command line switch or
- parameter at run time. Any number of
- commands may include a plus character.
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- You may also include the word "DROP" as a
- command on this line. This DROP command
- will instruct Design SHELL to drop to DOS.
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- Prompt: Any text entered here will be displayed to
- ~~~~~~~ the user at runtime.
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- Pause: If you want Design SHELL to pause and wait
- ~~~~~~ for a keypress after displaying the above
- prompt, answer this with a "Y".
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- NOTE ! Read the Extended Pause information at
- the end if this help screen for more
- information on the use of this command
- with sub menu selections.
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- Password: Enter a password here, only if you want this
- ~~~~~~~~~ menu or application password protected.
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- CAUTION !
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- Even blank characters can be used as
- password characters so if you do not want
- password protection, make sure no characters
- or blank spaces are present here.
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- SHELL: Answering this with a "N" will instruct
- ~~~~~~ Design SHELL to totally drop out of system
- memory during executing an application (the
- preferred method).
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- Answering with a "Y" will instruct Design
- SHELL to execute this application through a
- shell to DOS. With this method, Design
- SHELL will use about 40kb of system memory
- during execution of an application.
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- NOTE ! The SHELL method is slightly
- faster. Also if you are running Design SHELL
- through another GUI or menu you may need to
- use this SHELL method to make sure Design
- SHELL returns after executing a command.
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- MENU: Answering this option with a "Y" will cause
- ~~~~~ this title to become a sub menu title. You
- are allowed to have sub menus three levels
- deep. If you use this title as a sub menu,
- you need not enter any text or information
- at the Drive, Directory, Command, or Prompt
- fields. The HotKey will be the only active
- field.
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- Answering with a "N" will instruct Design
- SHELL to treat this title as an application
- entry.
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- ICON: Enter the complete DOS Path and filename of
- the Icon you want displayed with this title.
- Press PgDn to list all Icons to a pick list
- screen. Icon files may be located on any
- drive or directory on your system.
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- Copy and Paste: At the upper left hand corner of this data
- entry screen you will see two icons new
- representing Copy and Paste. If you select
- the Copy icon, all of the information from
- this entry will be copied to a paste buffer
- in memory. You may then Paste this
- information to a new or existing entry, by
- selecting the Paste icon while at the new
- data entry screen.
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- After completing all fields, click on the "TAB" icon to
- save the field information.
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- After saving this title, Design SHELL will place your new
- entry on the display screen, normally at the lower right
- hand corner. You may then move or relocate this new entry
- by clicking on the Move Icon, then click on the new Icon,
- move it around the screen to the location you like, and
- then click your mouse to paste it down.
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- Editing or changeing a Sub Menu or Application.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Click on the Edit Icon.
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- Click on the Edit a title.
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- Click on the Menu or Application title you want to edit.
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- Make all the changes you like.
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- Click on the TAB Icon to save your changes.
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- Deleting a Sub Menu or Application.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Click on the Edit Icon.
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- Click on Delete a title.
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- Click on the Menu or Application you want deleted.
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- The "Setup" Icon.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This Setup Icon will take you to a sub menu that allows
- setting up password protection for the entire system and all
- options, turning the screen blanking option on or off and
- setting the time delay before going into screen blanking,
- allows editing the screen blanking logo, provides options
- for setting mouse rate, keyboard rate, and delay, an option
- for turning a screen grid on or off, selecting a default
- directory for the text editor, and also provides an option
- for selecting screen wallpaper images.
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- NOTE ! wallpaper screen image files are identical to icon
- files. Icons may be used as wallpaper files simply
- by including a underscore character (_) in the
- filenames.
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- The "NEW" Icon.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This option allows changing a picture icon that has
- currently been assigned to a menu or application title. To
- change a picture simply click on the change icon, click on
- the menu or application title you want to change, at this
- time you will be presented with a list of all icons click on
- the new icon you want to be displayed. Design SHELL will
- then change the picture icon for you.
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- The "MOVE" Icon.
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- This option allows moving a current title to a new location
- on your screen. To move a title, click on the move icon,
- click on the title you want to move, move the title to the
- new location, click your mouse to paste it down.
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- The "ICON" Icon.
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- This option takes you to the Icon editor. In this module
- you may also select font types, font colors, and screen
- background colors
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- For more help on the Icon editor, you may access a help
- screen from within the Icon editor.
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- The "UTIL" Icon.
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- This option takes you to the Disk utility module. In this
- module you may perform various Directory and File
- maintenance chores. This module also provides you with a
- complete front end menu system for the very popular PKZIP
- archiving utility application and the McAfee virus scan
- utility.
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- For more help on the Disk Utility module, you may access a
- help screen from with in the Disk Utility module.
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- Extended Pause.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This pause statement works slightly different when
- setting up a selection as a sub menu (Menu (Y/N) = Y).
- When a selection is setup as a sub menu, and the Pause
- is set to Yes (Pause (Y/N) = Y), all or any text that
- has been entered at the Command and Prompt fields will
- be displayed to the user at run time.
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- The Icon Editor Module.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This Icon editor should have no problems working with
- icon lists of up to around 700 icons depending on your
- system memory setup. The Icon limit is 700 Icons.
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- If you experience a slow down during the display of the
- Icons, you may need to increase the buffers statement in
- your CONFIG.SYS file.
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- A BUFFERS=60 seems to work best with large Icon libraries of
- over 250 icons.
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- Creating New Icons.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- To create a new Icon, click on the File Icon and then enter
- a new Icon filename. The editor window will be cleared and
- you may begin painting your new Icon.
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- Editing Existing Icons.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Click on the List icon, a list of all icons will be
- displayed, select an icon to edit by clicking on the icon.
- You may also select an icon through the file list accessed
- through the File icon.
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- Deleting Icons.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Click on the File icon. Select the icon you want to delete
- by highlighting it then click on the enter icon. You may
- also just click on the filename to delete it.
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- Moving Icons.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Click on the file Icon. From the Icon list, click on the
- Icon you want to move. From the Drive list, click on the
- drive you want this Icon moved to. From the Directory list,
- click on the directory you want this Icon in.
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- New Path.
- ~~~~~~~~~
- Click on the file Icon. From the Drive list, click on the
- drive you want to work from. From the Directory list, click
- on the directory you want to work from.
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- NOTE !! All Icons that are currently being used by Design
- SHELL (DESIGN01.ICN to DESIGN49.ICN), and the wallpaper icon
- files must reside in the same drive/directory that the
- Design SHELL program files are located in. All other Icons
- may be placed in an alternative drive/directory, and can be
- accessed with the Icon editor or used for Menu or File
- selection Icons.
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- Clicking on the Grid Button will toggle the drawing board
- grid On or Off.
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- Clicking on the Font Icon will present you with a pull down
- menu for selecting a new Font type.
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- Clicking on the Font Color Icon will present you with a
- pull down menu for selecting a new font color.
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- Clicking on the Screen Color Icon will present you with a
- pull down menu for selecting a new screen background color.
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- The Icon Editor Tools.
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- Clicking on the Save Tool will save any changes you have
- made to an icon.
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- Clicking on the Copy Tool will copy the currently loaded
- icon to a paste buffer.
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- Clicking on the Paste Tool will replace the current icon
- with the icon copied to the paste buffer.
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- Clicking on the Erase Tool will clear the icon editor to
- the current color.
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- Clicking on the Brush Tool will allow painting one pixel at
- a time.
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- Clicking on the Box Tool will allow drawing a box.
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- Clicking on the Circle Tool will allow drawing a circle or
- ellipse.
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- Clicking on the Move Tool, Up, Down, Left, or Right arrows
- will scroll the icon on the drawing board.
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- Clicking on the Flip Tool, Left, or Up arrow will flip the
- icon vertically or horizontally on the drawing board.
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- Clicking on the UnDo Tool will undo your last change.
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- Clicking on the Roller Tool will repaint the selected color
- with a new color.
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- Clicking on the Filled Box Tool will draw a filled box using
- the current color.
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- Clicking on the Filled Circle or Ellipse Tool will draw a
- filled circle or ellipse using the current color.
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- Clicking on a color selection in the palette will change the
- paint brush or roller color. You may also change the paint
- color by clicking your right mouse button on any color over
- the entire screen.
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- The Directory/File Utility Module.
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- Navigating the Drive and Directory list.
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- When you first enter the utility module, you will be located
- in the drive and directory that the Design SHELL program
- files are located in.
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- Clicking on the drive characters ([-A-], [-B-], etc) will
- switch you to that particular drive.
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- Clicking on a double dot (..) will move you backwards in a
- directory tree branch.
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- Clicking on a directory will move you into that directory.
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- Clicking on a file will tag that file for any file
- maintenance you want to perform.
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- NOTE !! All Directories are listed in uppercase characters
- and all Files are listed in lowercase characters.
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- Clicking on the Up/Dn Icons will scroll the directory/file
- list up or down, one line at a time.
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- Clicking on the PgUp/PgDn Icons will scroll the directory/
- file list up or down, one page at a time.
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- Clicking on the Enter Icon while a drive or directory is
- highlighted will take you to that drive or directory.
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- Clicking on the Enter Icon while a file is highlighted will
- will tag or un-tag that file.
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- Clicking on the Plus (+) Icon will tag all files.
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- Clicking on the Minus (-) Icon will un-tag all files.
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- Clicking on the Directory Icon will give you options to
- Create, Rename, or Erase directories.
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- Clicking on the PK-ZIP Icon will present you with options
- for ZIPing, Un-ZIPing, ZIP to EXE, View a ZIP, Test a ZIP,
- and Fix a corrupt ZIP file. An option for setting up default
- ZIP switches is also avalible. At least one file must be
- tagged before this option is active.
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- NOTE !! Before the above option will work, you must have
- the following files located in a directory that
- is included in your path statement.
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- PKZIP.EXE, PKUNZIP.EXE, ZIP2EXE.EXE, ZIPFIX.EXE
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Copyright by: PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- These files are available as shareware on most
- all BBS's and shareware mail order catalogs.
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- Clicking on the Sort Icon will present you with options for
- sorting the file lists by Name, Extension, File Size, or by
- File Date.
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- Clicking on the Copy Icon will present you with options to
- Copy or Move tagged files to any drive or directory you
- select.
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- Clicking on the Edit Icon will load a tagged text file into
- a text editor.
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- Clicking on the Erase Icon will present you with options for
- erasing all tagged files.
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- Clicking on the Rename Icon will allow you to rename a
- tagged file.
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- Clicking on the View Icon will allow you to view a tagged
- text file.
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- Clicking on the Attribute Icon will allow you to edit the
- file attributes for a tagged file.
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- Clicking on the Volume label icon will allow you to edit the
- current disk volume label.
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- Clicking on the Run or Go Icon will allow you to execute or
- run a tagged executable file (.COM,.EXE,.BAT).
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- Clicking on the File Spec Icon will allow you to query the
- file list. DOS wildcards are legal here.
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- Clicking on the Format Icon will provide you with options
- for formating floppy disks.
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- Clicking on the Drives Icon will display disk size and free
- space for all drives on your system.
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- Clicking on the Virus Scan Icon will execute the McAfee
- virus scan utility (SCAN.EXE) and scan all tagged files for
- any viruses.
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- NOTE !! Before the above option will work, you must have
- the following file located in a directory that is
- included in your path statement.
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- SCAN.EXE
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- Copyright by: McAfee Associates. All Rights Reserved.
- This file is available as shareware on most all BBS's
- and shareware mail order catalogs.
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- The Text Editor Module.
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- This text editor should have no problems working with text
- files with up to 666 lines of text. Each text line may be up
- to 255 characters long.
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- An option for setting up the default path for this editor
- can be found at the Setup menu from the main screen of
- Design SHELL.
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- When leaving the editor, if you have made any changes to the
- loaded text file, you will be asked if you want to save the
- shanges.
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- F1............ Options menu.
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- Most options in this menu are pretty much self explainatory
- with the exception of the F10=Run Batch. This option was
- provided to give the user a way to test run batch files.
- Any Batch or DOS commands typed into the editor will be
- executed when this option is selected.
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- F2............ Help system.
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- Editor hot keys and commands.
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- Insert........ Toggles between insert and overtype mode.
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- Red cursor designates insert mode.
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- White cursor designates overtype mode.
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- Tab........... Moves the cursor right (tab spaces).
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- Shift+Tab..... Moves cursor left (tab spaces).
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- Delete........ Removes the character at the current
- cursor location.
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- Home.......... Moves cursor to the left side of editor.
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- Ctrl+Home..... Moves cursor to top of editor.
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- End........... Moves cursor to the right side of editor.
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- Ctrl+End...... Moves cursor to the bottom of the editor.
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- PgUp.......... Moves text up 25 lines each press.
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- Ctrl+PgUp..... Moves to top (beginning) of text file.
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- PgDn.......... Moves text down 25 lines each press.
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- Ctrl+PgDn..... Moves to bottom (end) of text file.
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- Up/Down Arrow. Moves cursor Up/Down one line each press.
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- Rt/Lt Arrow... Moves cursor Right/Left one space for
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- Ctrl+Y........ Deletes the text line at cursor location.
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- Ctrl+N........ Inserts a new blank text line at the
- cursor location.
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- BLOCK OPERATIONS.
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- Shift+Arrow keys.. Mark a block of text.
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- Shift+Delete...... Delete a block of text.
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- Shift+Insert...... Insert a block of text.
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- DISCLAIMER;
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- Users must accept this disclaimer of warranty:
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- This application supplied as is. The author disclaims all
- warranties, expressed or implied, including, without
- limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness
- for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages,
- direct or consequential, which may result from the use of
- this manual or the application it describes.
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- jwh: SoftWare
- 6947 Haggerty Road
- Hillsboro, Ohio 45133
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- Phone: (513)393-2402
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- This application was written and compiled using
- MicroSoft QuickBASIC v4.5
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- The main structure being made up of basic code, the
- remainder being about 70% assembly language modules.
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- Design SHELL is copyright (c) by:
- jwh: SoftWare. All rights reserved.
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- QuickBASIC is copyright (c) by:
- The MicroSoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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- PKZIP is copyright (c) by:
- PK Ware. All rights reserved.
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- SCAN is copyright (c) by:
- McAfee Associates. All rights resurved.
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