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- TUTOR DOS
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- Copyright (C) 1989
- Kevin L. Cummings
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- LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
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- This program is distributed 'as is' without warranty of any kind,
- either express or implied.
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- The author of this software shall not be liable to the user or
- any other person or entity with respect to any liability, loss,
- or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly
- by this software.
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- TRADEMARK ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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- MS-DOS and Microsoft are registered trademarks of Microsoft
- Corporation.
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- IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines.
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- Que is a registered trademark of Que Corporation.
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- McGraw-Hill is a registered trademark of McGraw-Hill Corporation.
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- Video Professor is a registered trademark of Video Professor
- Corporation.
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- WordPerfect is a registered trademark of WordPerfect Corporation.
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- Lotus and 1-2-3 are registered trademarks of Lotus Development
- Corporation.
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- LICENSE AGREEMENT
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- License to use this software is limited to private individuals in
- homes and use by public, non-profit, educational institutions
- (including, but not limited to; public elementary and secondary
- schools, public colleges and universities, and state and
- federally operated training facilities).
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- ANY OTHER USE WILL BE CONSIDERED TO CONSTITUTE WILLFUL COPYRIGHT
- VIOLATION.
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- Use of this program shall constitute agreement to these terms.
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- This program may be freely copied and distributed so long as no
- fee (expect for media costs, under $7.00 U.S. per disk) is
- charged, and the program is not modified in any way.
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- INTRODUCTION
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- Now that we have all of the legal stuff out of the way, I can get
- on with telling you about the program. TUTOR DOS is an
- interactive, beginner's DOS tutorial. It assumes that the user
- knows virtually nothing about MS-DOS.
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- The program consists of an introduction, twenty-one lessons, a
- final test, and a few closing remarks. The program is contained
- in twenty-six program files, three batch files, and one
- documentation file. (There is a complete list of the names of
- these files at the end of this document.)
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- TUTOR DOS offers several advantages over currently available
- commercial tutorials.
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- *TUTOR DOS was designed to talk 'to' you, rather than
- 'at' you.
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- *All of the lessons in TUTOR DOS are quite short and
- none of them should take more than twenty to twenty-
- five minutes to complete.
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- *You may use the [ESCAPE] key to exit any lesson at any
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- *TUTOR DOS has been programmed to accept several
- answers to each of its questions.
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- *If a you give the wrong answer to a question, TUTOR
- DOS will provide a hint.
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- *If a you can't seem to get the right answer to a
- question, keep trying. After you've tried three times,
- TUTOR DOS will type the right answer for you.
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- *Each lesson ends with a quiz. These quizzes will help
- you judge how well you've learned the material in each
- lesson.
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- *The course ends with a comprehensive examination.
- TUTOR DOS will analyze your answers and (if necessary)
- give you a list of lessons to review.
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- *If you score over eighty percent on the test, TUTOR
- DOS will print out a certificate of achievement with
- your name on it.
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- *TUTOR DOS is distributed as SHAREWARE. If you enjoy
- it, I ask that you send me a donation of ten dollars.
- This is far less expensive than commercial DOS
- tutorials which generally cost thirty to fifty dollars.
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- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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- TUTOR DOS has been designed with the average user in mind and,
- therefore, will work on virtually any PC. The specific
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- 256 K Random Access Memory
- DOS 2.1 or higher
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- There are no other requirements. TUTOR DOS will run from floppy
- disk drives (of any size) or from a hard disk drive. It will run
- equally well on color and monochrome monitors.
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- INSTALLING TUTOR DOS
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- If you do not have a hard disk drive, or do not want to put TUTOR
- DOS on your hard disk drive, no installation is necessary.
- However, if you want to install TUTOR DOS on your hard disk
- drive, all you have to do is follow these instructions:
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- 1) Turn on your PC.
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- 2) Wait for the prompt to appear on the monitor, it
- should look something like C:\>, and it will be
- followed by a small, blinking cursor.
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- 3) Put TUTOR DOS disk number 1 in your A: disk drive. (If
- you have more than one floppy disk drive, you'll have to
- figure out which one is the A: disk drive. If your disk
- drives are stacked on top of one another, this will be the
- top disk drive. If they are side by side, it will be on the
- left.)
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- 4) Type A:INSTALL A C and press the [ENTER] key.
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- 5) Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.
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- USING TUTORDOS
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- If you are using TUTOR DOS from a disk drive, make sure that
- TUTOR DOS disk number 1 is in the drive and the door is closed.
- Type TUTORDOS and press [ENTER].
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- If you have installed TUTOR DOS on your hard disk drive, wait for
- the C:\> and type TUTORDOS and press [ENTER].
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- In either case, after a moment, TUTOR DOS will begin to give you
- instructions on the screen. From this point on, all you have to
- do is follow these instructions.
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- AUTHOR'S NOTES
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- I have enjoyed putting this program together and I hope you have
- enjoyed using it. If you have comments, please feel free to
- write to me at the address given below:
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- Kevin L. Cummings
- 155 North Fort Lane "B"
- Layton, UT 84041
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- Thanks for taking the time to use this tutorial and the best of
- luck with your PC!
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- APPENDIX -- COMPLETE FILE LIST FOR TUTOR DOS
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- [Don't bother reading this unless you're a real computer junkie!]
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- Disk #1 Disk #2
- TUTORDOS.EXE MENUDOS.TBC
- MENUDOS.TBC DOS5.TBC
- INTRO.TBC DOS6.TBC
- DOS1.TBC DOS7.TBC
- DOS2.TBC DOS8.TBC
- DOS3.TBC DOS9.TBC
- DOS4.TBC DOS10.TBC
- INSTALL.BAT DOS11.TBC
- HARDSTRT.BAT INSTALL.BAT
- PRINTDOC.BAT
- TUTORDOS.DOC
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- Disk #3 Disk #4
- MENUDOS.TBC MENUDOS.TBC
- DOS12.TBC DOS19.TBC
- DOS13.TBC DOS20.TBC
- DOS14.TBC DOS21.TBC
- DOS15.TBC DOSTEST.TBC
- DOS16.TBC FINAL.TBC
- DOS17.TBC INSTALL.BAT
- DOS18.TBC
- INSTALL.BAT
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- The files called MENUDOS.TBC and INSTALL.BAT have been placed on
- all four disks to aid beginning users and reduce the amount of
- disk swapping.
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- TUTOR DOS was written using Borland International's TURBO BASIC
- version 1.1. Portions of the program make use of Rick
- Fothergill's public domain TBWINDO utilities.
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