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- echo HELP ... A QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE FOR PC-DOS
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- echo Copyright (C) 1985 Kendrick & Company
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- echo Version 1.1
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- echo HELP is a program written for the IBM PC and compatibles. It
- echo offers on-screen help for 20 common PC-DOS commands (PC-DOS Version
- echo 2.0 and higher). Written in plain English, it is for newer PC users.
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- echo HELP is written in BASICA. Your may run the program on an IBM PC
- echo or compatible using PC-DOS Version 2.0 or higher. HELP consists of a
- echo HELP.BAS program file plus approximately 30 text files. It is not
- echo copy protected, and you may use DISKCOPY to make duplicate floppies.
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- echo The program and text files MUST be kept in the same directory
- echo when you use the program. If you plan to use HELP on a floppy disk,
- echo please add BASICA or your version of advanced basic to the main (root)
- echo directory on this disk. Here's how: Place your original DOS system
- echo disk in Drive A, and Place the HELP disk in Drive B. Enter COPY
- echo A:BASIC*.* B: and press the RETURN key.
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- echo There is space on the diskette for DOS system files. You may add
- echo them with the SYS command. Here's how: Place your DOS system disk in
- echo Drive A, and place the HELP disk in Drive B. Enter SYS B: and press
- echo the RETURN key.
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- echo To copy this program to a floppy disk, type COPYTO-B and press the
- echo RETURN key. Be sure that the HELP disk is in Drive A and that a
- echo formatted disk with at least 90,000 bytes of free space (not counting
- echo the space for BASICA) is in Drive B.
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- echo To copy this program to a fixed disk on Drive C, type COPYTO-C
- echo and press the RETURN key. HELP will be placed in a subdirectory named
- echo \HELP, and you will also find HELP.BAT in your main (root) directory.
- echo Be sure that there is a PATH to your advanced BASIC (e.g., BASICA.COM).
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- echo To use HELP, type HELP and press the RETURN key.
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- echo Please give free copies of HELP Version 1.1 to other people.
- echo .
- echo .
- echo This is NOT a public domain program. It is (C) 1985 by Kendrick
- echo & Company, Washington, D.C. However, you are authorized to copy
- echo Version 1.1 of HELP and give free copies of it to other people. Sale
- echo or other commercial use of the program is prohibited.
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- echo The development, distribution, and further refinement of this
- echo program is made possible through user contributions. Users who find
- echo the program helpful are asked to send $15 (per user) to Kendrick &
- echo Company, Suite 500, 800 Eighteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006.
- echo Registered users (those who send the $15) will receive an upgraded
- echo version of the program.
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