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- From the DOS prompt you can start DOS Summary one of two ways:
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- d> DOSSUM or d> DOSSUM command
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- If you start without a command you will be presented with a menu from
- which you can choose to find a command alphabetically or grouped by
- function. From the menu you pick the command you wish to see
- summarized; from that command you can alphabetically sequence through
- all DOS commands or return to the page you last left. Pressing
- F9 or F10 at any screen exits the program.
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- If you start with a DOS command as a parameter DOS Summary will
- start and show you that command summary. You may then exit, move
- through screens, or go to a menu. If you only enter a partial
- command, DOS Summary will show you the first command which matches
- that partial command (e.g. DOSSUM SE will show you the first command
- which starts with the letters "SE").
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- There are other options (e.g. ability to make DOS Summary a resident
- program which can be called from other programs). Please see the
- detailed Program Help pages.
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- The tutorial text contains information in a format that allows you
- to jump from topic to topic as necessary. This type of presentation
- is called hypertext. Any item displayed in reverse video is a hypertext
- link you can jump to. Use the arrow keys, spacebar, or your mouse to
- highlight a link, then press Enter or your left mouse button to jump
- to that topic. When you jump to another topic, pressing ESCape,
- Backspace, or your right mouse button will return you to the
- previously-viewed page.
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- Press F1 for a summary of keystroke and mouse commands.
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- Support for DOS Summary is offered by our US/Canada agent:
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- Shareable Software International
- PO Box 59102
- Schaumburg, IL 60159 800-622-2793 (Orders Only)
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- 708-397-1221 (Voice)
- 708-397-0381 (Fax)
- 215-623-6203 (BBS, Join Conference 77)
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- Some common solutions...
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- Screen colors can be changed by any user. It's possible that you have
- a copy another user has changed but on your system the colors do not
- display well. Before contacting SSI or Computer Knowledge press F7 and
- experiment with colors if the screen does not display correctly.
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- Pressing F4 sends the current page to LPT1 and the printer attached to
- that port. If your printer is attached to a different port the F4 print
- function will not work for you.
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- The DOSSUM.EXE file and associated DOSSUM.H! manual file should be on
- a hard disk, in the same directory, and that directory should be the
- default directory for best operation. DOS Summary will run from a floppy
- disk however it will be slow and an error will occur if you remove the
- floppy disk from the drive when the program is running.