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- ║ ───────────── A LITTLE VISUAL BASIC APPLICATION ──────────── ║
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- Hi, Steve Gibson here ...
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- Interest and activity has been overflowing in the Visual Basic
- section of the MSLANG forum on Compuserve ── several months
- before Visual Basic would probably be available to everyone at
- local retailers ── So I decided to upload the first little VB
- application which I wrote so that people who had not yet had the
- opportunity to play with Visual Basic might be able to see a
- somewhat modest example of what can be done by someone WITHOUT
- ANY PRIOR WINDOWS programming experiences **WHATSOEVER** during
- his first two days of experimentation...
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- This was the first app I wrote with VB, and you'll see evidence
- of my "messing around" with VB to see what and how to do the
- things I wanted to. I've since written several other apps which
- are substantially more mature in their internal organization.
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- I hope you enjoy playing with this.
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- ║ OPERATIONAL INSTRUCTIONS AND NOTES ║
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- I quickly converted the operating PES program, which operates
- over our network in a multi-user fashion, into one which would
- not require a network to operate. However, the programs's two
- .DAT files *MUST* be placed in a subdirectory named: \PES
- which branches off the system's root directory of the default
- (probably C: or D:) hard disk.
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- ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ REMEMBER!!! -- YOU MUST HAVE A COPY OF THE VISUAL BASIC │
- │ RUNTIME .DLL LIBRARY FILE (VBRUN100.DLL) ON YOUR HARD DISK │
- │ IN ORDER TO USE ANY VISUAL BASIC .EXE PROGRAMS. DOWNLOAD IT │
- │ FROM THE MSLANG FORUM IN DL6, UNZIP IT, AND PLACE IT IN YOUR │
- │ MAIN WINDOWS DIRECTORY (PROBABLY \WINDOWS). │
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- The files in this ZIP are:
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- PES.EXE - An MS-Windows EXE file written, developed, and
- compiled entirely within the new Visual Basic
- environment. It may be placed wherever is
- convenient, or it may reside with its two .DAT data
- files in a subdirectory named: \PES
- It has cute little ICON that was created with the
- ICONWRKS icon editor which is a sample app
- (including full source code) that's provided with
- Visual Basic. Place PES into a program manager
- group if you want to see its icon.
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- TS-PES.DAT - This file contains the Peer Evaluation "categories"
- and "attitudes" that are displayed under PES.
- (That'll make more sense to you when you run PES)
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- PES.DAT - This overly-large (but highly compressible <grin>!)
- file contains the user's password and current
- settings. If you forget your password after once
- setting it, simply unzip the original copy from the
- downloaded ZIP file to "un-register" your password.
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- That's about it. 5/29/91 - Steve Gibson.
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