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- The following review appeared in the June 20, 1995 issue of Windows Magazine
- on page 106
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- Closing Arguments - Ron Bel Bruno
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- HAVE TROUBLE saying good-bye to Windows? It's easy to forget to log off your
- network or check your e-mail when you're closing up shop and clicking your way
- out of a long day's computing.
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- WrapUp, a flip side to Window's StartUp program group, provides a novel way to
- remember to shut things down in an orderly fashion. In fact, if you use
- Wrapup, you won't have to remember. The program works its wonders within
- ShutDown, a program group it asks you to create on your desktop. Once you've
- taken the tune to set up this domain, Wrapup takes over.
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- The program uses conventional icons representing DOS batch files to run
- command lines. Use it just before exiting Windows to retrieve your mail, back
- up your hard disk or, as the documentation suggests, phone home via your
- communications program and drop a note to tell your significant other that
- you're on the way.
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- If batch files and command lines make you nervous, relax. in fact, If you've
- ever written even a simple batch or just know what they are - WrapUp won't
- stress you out. You drag and drop a program's .EXE file into the ShutDown
- program group and WrapUp will run it for you. You can also drop batch files
- and macros into WrapUp's ShutDown group.
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- You can use Windows Write or Notepad to create these batch commands or any
- other text editor. I used WinBatch, a shareware program, to create the files
- to test WrapUp. With yet another virus scare in the air, I decided to test
- WrapUp by plopping a virus-scan program in my ShutDown program group. Now,
- when I exit Windows, WrapUp launches the program and runs a virus check on my
- hard disk before closing up for the day.
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- WrapUp is a thought provoking application. The more you use it, the more
- useful it seems. No doubt you'll come up with a list of "launchables" for
- WrapUp -those must-do, last-minute applications that you always seem to
- remember just as you hit the power switch.
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