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- ECHO OFF
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- ECHO INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE
- ECHO IBM MUTUAL FUND DATA DISK
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- ECHO (C) Copyright 1996, American Association of Individual Investors
- ECHO .
- ECHO This disk contains a Lotus 1-2-3 worksheet of key cost, performance and
- ECHO risk measures on over 750 no- and low-load mutual funds. Data on this
- ECHO disk was gathered directly from company releases. Micropal Inc. supplied
- ECHO performance and share statistics. Factual material is not guaranteed
- ECHO but has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable.
- ECHO .
- ECHO The mutual fund data can be found in the file FUNDS95.WK1. The file
- ECHO will run in version 2.0 or higher of of 1-2-3 and can be used with
- ECHO other spreadsheet programs that are 1-2-3 compatible or can read
- ECHO 1-2-3 files.
- ECHO .
- PAUSE
- ECHO .
- ECHO A listing of all the data fields and a their descriptions can be found
- ECHO in the file FUNDS95.TXT. This is an ASCII text file. To view this
- ECHO file, at the DOS command prompt ("A>"), enter
- ECHO .
- ECHO TYPE FUNDS95.TXT
- ECHO .
- ECHO to output the file to the screen. As the text scrolls up the screen,
- ECHO you can "freeze" the display by holding down the Ctrl key then pressing
- ECHO the Num Lock key (For those with IBM enhanced keyboards, you may have to
- ECHO press the Pause key). Following that, you can "unfreeze" the display by
- ECHO pressing any key.
- ECHO .
- ECHO To output the file to the printer: First, make sure your printer is on;
- ECHO second, position the paper correctly at the top of the form; finally, at
- ECHO the DOS prompt, enter:
- ECHO .
- ECHO TYPE FUNDS95.TXT > PRN
- ECHO .
- ECHO You can print out this directions file (IBM3.BAT) using a similar
- ECHO procedure.
- ECHO .
- ECHO Good luck!
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