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- READ ME FILE for D'BOSS! (tm) version 3.0
-
- You can print this file to your printer with the command:
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- COPY README.1ST PRN
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- For Information on our complete product line see the document:
- PROGRAMS.DOC. Please note the special offer on our BRANCHFLOWER
- SHAREWARE PAK at the end!
-
- ** D'BOSS! 3.0 is a unique hard disc manager, program launcher and
- utility system for IBM compatible PC's. The D'BOSS system allows
- you to EASILY navigate around your hard disc and launch ANY program
- on your system, even WINDOWS!
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- D'Boss uses NO MEMORY while your program is executing! Your
- application can access all the memory available just as if you
- had launched it from the DOS command line
-
- ** To INSTALL D'BOSS, do the following:
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- 1) Turn on computer and get to the DOS prompt.
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- 2) Place the D'BOSS program disc into the floppy drive and log onto
- that drive by entering the drive letter, a colon, and pressing ENTER.
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- Example: "A:" or "B:" <ENTER>
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- 3) Look to see if you have DB62.ZIP OR INSTALL.BAT & DBDISK1.EXE
- First make a new directory for holding this menu manager program.
- Type: MD DBOSS. Then change to that directory. Type: CD DBOSS.
- If you have DB62.ZIP, you need to use PKUNZIP to decompress the
- file. Once in the DBOSS directory type: PKUNZIP A:DB62.ZIP. This
- will decompress the DBDISK1.EXE file to your DBOSS directory. Now
- type: DBDISK1. The DBOSS program will decompress into this space.
- To Launch the program type:DBOSS.
-
- If the disk on the file contains INSTALL.BAT and DBDISK1.EXE, type
- DBINSTAL (floppy): (hard): and substitute the appropriate drive letter,
- after INSTALL, where (floppy) is your current floppy drive letter and
- (hard) is the drive where D'BOSS is to be installed onto. Separate
- these letter with a space, and press ENTER.
-
- Example: "INSTALL A: C:" <ENTER>
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- 4) You will be presented with the floppy and hard drives as entered
- in order to accept or abort the installation and try again.
- Abort by pressing CTRL-C (the "CTRL" and "c" keys at the same time).
- If the drive letters are correct, pressing any other key will accept
- the current drives and begin the installation.
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- 5) D'BOSS will be launched after the installation is complete when
- you run the installation program.
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- 6) If you want D'Boss to be launched automatically when your computer
- is started include the following as the last lines of your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file (if it exists, you'll find it on the root directory
- of your C: drive) :
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- X: (where X is the drive D'Boss is on)
- cd \DBOSS
- DBOSS
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- Feel free to use the D'Boss editor DBEDIT to change or create
- your Autoexec.bat or Config.sys files as you desire.
-
-
- ** To RUN D'Boss just enter DBOSS from the DBoss directory.
-
- ** For instructions on adding Main Menu or Sub Menu items
- see ABOUT D'Boss within the program.
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- D'Boss! 3.0 includes these features:
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- DIRECTORY UTILITIES - for viewing/copying/dating files
- (DBUTIL.EXE) for formatting diskettes
- for viewing the directory tree, and more.
- DBUTIL can be run from D'Boss or as
- a stand alone file / directory utility
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- TEXT EDITOR - a text editor which includes COLUMN BLOCK
- (DBEDIT.EXE) operations as well as LINE blocking.
- DBEDIT can be run from D'Boss or as
- a stand alone editor.
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- HELP WITH DOS - a popup menu of DOS commands thru Ver 5.0
- with complete syntax for each command.
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- CALCULATORS - both Decimal and Hexadecimal which allow sending
- a tape output to a printer and for temporary
- storage of results in different registers.
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- CALENDAR - a monthly calendar which includes holidays for
- 1992.
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- PASSWORD SECURITY - optional password to limit access to your system.
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- SCREEN SAVER - screen savers for both text and graphic video
- systems are included.
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- THANK YOU FOR USING D'BOSS!
-