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- V I S U A L B A S I C T O O L B O X
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- WARNING: Although this CD-ROM has been tested for viruses, you
- are strongly advised to test every program BEFORE
- installing it into your hard disk. P.I.E. and anyone
- involved in the distribution of this CD-ROM will not
- be responsible for any losses or damages as result
- of using this CD-ROM.
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- QUICK START: Log into your CD-ROM, then type VBTOOL and ENTER key.
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- THANK YOU FOR BUYING THIS CD-ROM.
-
- This CD-ROM includes the latest and best collections of utilities
- and tools for Visual Basic. Over 700Mb of programs with 18,000+ files
- in 2100+ directories are included in this CD.
-
- The viewers on this CD are custom-written for this CD-ROM.
- They are easy to use and powerful.
-
- P.I.E. viewer has "see-thr'" capability to view the inside contents
- of ZIP files without unzipping them. This is a very useful feature.
- The viewer can also launch any program by double-clicking any
- executable file (.EXE, .COM, or .BAT).
-
- The P.I.E. viewer has been tested under WINDOWS '95 and runs fine.
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- Depends on your system, you may need at least 600K RAM to run
- the P.I.E. viewer under the main menu. If you get "insufficient
- memory" message, simply get out of Windows and the main menu.
- Then type: VBTOOL <ENTER>
- To run the viewer directly from Windows. See TROUBLE-SHOOTING
- section for more help if you still have problems.
-
- No installation is needed if you use our P.I.E. program
- viewer. It also does not install any icon or program group in your
- Windows desktop either. Most people like this low profile feature.
-
- The P.I.E. program viewer lets you see any text file (.DOC, .TXT,
- or .ASC) and ZIP file. It lets you unzip file to the directory
- of your choice.
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- Some of the files on this CD-ROM are in Microsoft WORD format (.DOC)
- which requires either Microsoft WORD or a Mircrosoft WORD viewer
- to view these files. A copy of WORDVIEW is included in the VIEWER
- directory. Some files are in WINHELP format (.HLP) in which Windows will
- automatically activate WINHELP to display these files. Files with
- .PDF estension requires ADOBE ACROBAT reader to see. A copy is also
- included in the Viewer directory. Files with .HTM extensions require
- internet browsers like Netscape or IVIEW to see. A copy of IVIEW is
- included in the VIEWERS subdirectory. Simply click on the IVIEW.EXE
- file and run the program directory from the CD-ROM.
-
-
- To start browsing, simply click on any directory (such as DATABASE)
- will give you a long list of subdirectories. Click
- on the ones that you want to examine. Click on any text or
- document file for descriptions of the programs. A good place
- to start is to click on the .DIZ file if available. .DIZ
- file lists a concise description of the program. Click on
- any .EXE or .BAT file twice will test run the program.
- Click on any .ZIP file will let you "see" inside the content
- of the compressed file. You can also unzip the ZIP file to
- your hard drive by clicking on the "copy to hard disk" button.
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- Some programs may not run on your hard disk if it has an "R"
- attribute. ALL files on CD-ROM is flagged "R" to prevent your
- PC from writing on the CD-ROM. This "R" attribute will stay
- with the file even though you copy the file into your hard disk.
- To remove this attribute, simply
- type: ATTRIB *.* -r < ENTER >
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- INSTALLATION
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- We assume Windows is in your DOS path and that you will use our
- Windows-based language viewer.
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- Simply type GO after logging on your CD-ROM drive to launch
- the operating menu.
-
- If you want to by-pass the operating menu. Simply do the
- following:
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- 1. If you are outside WINDOWS, simply type:
- D:\VBTOOL <ENTER> for the P.I.E. program viewer
- -- where "D" is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive.
-
- 2. If you are inside WINDOWS, click on FILE, then RUN, then type:
- D:\VBT then click "OK"
- -- where "D" is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive.
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- 3. If you have logged in the CD-ROM drive and have NOT logged in
- WINDOWS, simply type:
- VBTOOL <ENTER>
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- HOW TO USE THE P.I.E. VIEWER
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- The following steps to use the viewer are suggestions only.
- You can develop your own ways.
-
- After loading the viewer, look for the directory tree window;
- click on any directory; you will see a long list of files or
- sub-directories. Click on any sub-directory, you may see another
- list of sub-directories. Click on any one of the directory will
- show you a list of file names.
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- To get an idea of the contents of the program, search for
- files with the following extensions:
- FILENAME.TXT
- FILENAME.DOC
- FILENAME.MAN
- FILE.DIZ (the first one to "click" if available)
- README.DOC
- README.1ST
- READ.ME
- MANUAL.DOC (some .DOC files may be in Microsoft WORD format)
- MANUAL.TXT
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- You should get information on how to use or launch the program.
- Our viewer also lets you to print out any text file on the screen.
- You may also click on the "FULL SCREEN VIEW" button if you want
- to read the text file in full page-mode.
-
- To launch or test-run a program, look for files with the
- following extensions and double-click the file.
- FILENAME.BAT (batch file)
- FILENAME.EXE (executable files)
- FILENAME.COM (compiled file, executable)
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- Running programs directly from the CD-ROM is convenient and saves
- hard disk space, but not every program will run from CD properly.
- Some programs, especially the ones that write temporary files,
- scores, or records, will not run from the CD-ROM (read-only media).
- Sometimes the program will simply give you an "error writing disk"
- message, exit, and no harm done to your system. You just do not get a
- record of your scores. Sometimes your computer may freeze, hangs,
- or gives out error messages like "path not found" or "I/O errors".
- Simply copy programs to your hard disk and re-run program. Refer
- to TROUBLE-SHOOTING section if you have more questions.
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- To look at the contents of a ZIP file (compressed file), simply
- click on it and a Windows of its file list pops up. You can
- view any text files with the viewer. But you cannot launch any
- programs since they have not yet been decompressed. You can
- copy the directory to hard disk and launch program from there.
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- To switch to different directory, simply click on any directory
- that you want to see on the directory tree. Then click on
- any files that you want to see or launch.
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- COMMAND SUMMARY FOR PIE VIEWER
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- Single-click any directory to get inside next level of directory
- or inside the subdirectory.
- Single-click on any NON-executable file (.doc, .txt, .asc, etc.)
- will display the contents of the file.
- Double-click any EXECUTABLE file (.EXE, .COM, .BAT) will run
- that particular program.
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- THIS CD-ROM IS TESTED WITH MCAFEE'S VIRUSES DETECTION PROGRAM
- "SCAN" AND HAS FOUND NO VIRUS.
-
- WARNING: MCAFFE's virus-scanning software ONLY scan uncompressed
- files and NOT zipped files. So make sure that you scan any
- zipped files after you have unzipped it.
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- P.I.E. PROGRAM VIEWER is copyrighted by P.I.E. and is NOT shareware.
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- (C) Copyright 1996 P.I.E.
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- All trademarks recognized and are the properties of the respective
- holders.
-
- VISUAL BASIC is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
- Some of the tools in this CD-ROM may NOT be supported by Microsoft
- Corporation, the publisher of Visual Basic
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