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- ECHO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE LIBRARY
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- ECHO Winscombe House, Beacon Rd, Crowborough, Sussex TN6 IUL tel 08926 63298
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- ECHO This disk contains public domain and/or user supported software.
- ECHO This compilation of software is just one of 2000 plus disks available
- ECHO from the Public Domain Software Library. No charge or fee may be made
- ECHO for this disk, but you may give away copies to your friends providing
- ECHO you give them the whole thing including this file .
- ECHO Unlike commercial software, no printed documentation is supplied except
- ECHO in some cases from the authors of the programs.
- ECHO Most disks contain document files describing how to use the programs.
- ECHO These document files can usually be identified by the filename or
- ECHO filename extension type used. DOC, FRM, PRN, TXT, WS, MAN are the most
- ECHO common, files called READ.ME etc are also document files.
- ECHO You can view these files using the DOS 'TYPE' command. So to view a file
- ECHO called 'READ.ME' you would enter at the keyboard:-
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- ECHO "TYPE READ.ME"
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- ECHO ARCHIVE FILES
- ECHO Some disks contain files with a ARC or ZIP file extension. These
- ECHO are special PACKED files, usually containing a number of smaller files.
- ECHO They are used to save disk space. Before you can use 'Archived' programs
- ECHO they need unpacking; you will need ARC.EXE, PKXARC.COM, ARCE.COM
- ECHO or PKUNZIP.EXE for ZIP files. The procedure:- put new formatted disk in B,
- ECHO put disk with unpacker program and the archive file in drive A, then
- ECHO type as follows "B:<cr>" to log into drive B, then:-"A:ARC E A:XXXXXX<cr>"
- ECHO (for ARC.EXE) or "A:ARCX A:XXXXXX<cr>" (substitute PKXARC etc where it
- ECHO says ARCX if you have a different program), where XXXXXX is the name of
- ECHO the file to be unpacked. The files will be extracted and put on the disk
- ECHO in B:
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- ECHO USER SUPPORTED SOFTWARE.
- ECHO We urge you to support the authors of user supported software. This is
- ECHO not FREE software, but rather a 'try before you buy' system. It is
- ECHO expected that if you find a program of use, you will register with the
- ECHO author and send him a contribution. Your support will help to allow
- ECHO further and better software to be distributed in this way.
- ECHO Please also check the documentation of all programs for any special
- ECHO conditions of use given by the author.
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- ECHO NOTE
- ECHO This file is not specific to this particular disk - it exists on all
- ECHO PDSL volumes, and thus it may not display all documentation files on
- ECHO this disk if non-standard names have been used. Please check the
- ECHO directory of the disk for any other document files which may have been
- ECHO missed by this batch file.
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- IF NOT EXIST T.COM GOTO :END
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- ECHO PRESS ANY KEY TO START VIEWING TEXT/DOCUMENT FILES ON THIS DISK
- ECHO OR HIT CONTROL C TO EXIT. HIT ESC TO JUMP TO THE NEXT FILE WHEN VIEWING.
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- T -*.*
- T *.DOC
- T *.TXT
- T *.ME
- T *.ASC
- T *.MAN
- T *.FRM
- T *.WS
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