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- Wandoo Valley Software CommuniquÇ User Documentation
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- CommuniquÇ was designed with a user friendly interface for ease of
- use that both new computer users and professionals alike will enjoy
- to use, giving simplicity and at the same time many powerful and
- configurable features. This philosophy has not discluded the
- installation procedure for CommuniquÇ, which is just a simple matter
- of running CommuniquÇ and letting it do all the work.
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- When you run CommuniquÇ for the first time it will not find any of
- the data files it needs, so it will create new ones with it's own
- pre-programmed default settings. So when you run CommuniquÇ for the
- first time a little error window will pop up each time it cannot find
- the setup file it needs, telling you that it is creating a new setup
- file using it's default settings.
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- Before you begin to install CommuniquÇ you should know what your
- computer needs to run CommuniquÇ. The requirements are very moderate
- and any 100% IBM compatible computer can run CommuniquÇ.
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- Computer Requirements
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- o An IBM PC or 100% compatible computer
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- o A floppy disk drive (Hard disk drive recommended)
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- o Any modem
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- o 256kb of Random Access Memory (RAM) or more
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- o MS/PC-DOS 2.00 or higher
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- o Microsoft compatible mouse (optional)
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- Multitasker Support
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- CommuniquÇ supports a wide range of multi-tasking operating systems
- and DOS level mutlitaskers such as DesqView. CommuniquÇ supports
- MicroSoft Windows, IBM OS/2, PC-MOS/386, DesqView, MultiLink, TopView
- and DoubleDos. When CommuniquÇ is inactive, that is if there is no
- input from the keyboard or from the communications port, CommuniquÇ
- will give a few "slices" of the processors time to other tasks that
- may be running. This happens thousands of times per second and you
- will never notice. CommuniquÇ also uses special routines built into
- the multi-taskers every time it has to pause so that it does not hold
- up the computer. You can turn off multi-tasker support in the
- SETUP/GENERAL menu or you can force CommuniquÇ to work with a
- particular multi-tasker. CommuniquÇ will normally automatically
- detect which operating system or multitasker is in use and switch to
- support that system. For more information refer to the SETUP chapter
- later on in this manual.
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- Installing CommuniquÇ
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- As mentioned above, the installation process for CommuniquÇ has been
- designed for complete simplicity, the process will take only a few
- minutes from beginning to end.
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- If you are reading this document we can safely say that you have
- already unpacked the compressed archive file which this came in, so
- we will start from this point.
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- CommuniquÇ is best run from its own directory, although you can
- safely run CommuniquÇ from a directory containing other programs. For
- simplicity we will install CommuniquÇ in its own directory.
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- - Step 1:
- Create a directory into which to place CommuniquÇ, we will use
- the directory name "TERM":
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- Type: MD \Term
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- - Step 2:
- You now have to enter that directory:
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- Type: CD \Term
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- - Step 3:
- Now we can copy all the CommuniquÇ files into this directory
- from wherever they are now. We will assume that you have this
- file and all others on the floppy disk drive A:
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- Type: COPY A:*.*
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- - Step 4:
- Now that all the files have been copied into this directory, you
- are almost ready. If you do a lot of uploading and downloading
- from other computer systems you may want to create separate
- upload/download directories.
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- Type: MD Upload
- MD Download
-
- - Step 5:
- You are now ready to run CommuniquÇ, to do so simply type:
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- COMMUNIQ
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- If you have a monochrome monitor (Black & White) you can add a
- commandline parameter to make sure that CommuniquÇ uses
- monochrome colors, this is normally automatic, type:
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- COMMUNIQ /M
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- - Step 6:
- Each time CommuniquÇ cannot find a data file that it needs it
- will create a new one with it's own default settings. Files that
- it will look for when it starts up are: SETUP.CDF, IEMSI.CDF and
- PROTOCOL.CDF. Each time it creates one of these files it will
- display a window telling you what it is doing and when it has
- finished it will ask you to press a key to continue.
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- You are now up and running... please refer to the manualincluded
- with CommuniquÇ, to make full use of it's many features.