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+==============================================================+ | INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE SPELLBOUND! SPELLING TUTOR | +==============================================================+ SPECIAL NOTE: SPELLING TUTOR NOT DATE-LIMITED. NO "TIME WORMS"! This is the second release of version 2.10 as some persons mistook the phrase "time-worn device" (used as a joke in the previous versions of the Spelling Tutor) as "time-worm device" and thought that the Spelling Tutor would perform damage if used beyond the evaluation period. The text has now been removed. The shareware version of the Spelling Tutor will and ALWAYS HAS continued to work after the license period has expired while reminding you to please register. NEW IN VERSION 2.10!!! FILE MANAGER The ability of Teacher to Delete files has been added to the File Manager. LONGER WORD LENGTHS! Word lengths of up to 36 characters are now allowed which will enable tutoring on multiple word constructions such as those found in legal vocabularies. When the word length is set to greater than 15, however, the use of the "Smileys" are disabled as their movement would interfere with the display of long words. In addition, word search puzzle creation is disabled as well, when the maximum word length exceeds 15 characters, longer lengths could exceed puzzle dimensions. SHUFFLE THE ORDER OF WORDS WITHIN A SET! You can now shuffle the order of the words within a given set while the sets are displayed in the Spelling Tutor. This allows you to refresh the order in which the words are presented in cases where a set is used for tutoring multiple times. A SPECIAL GIFT FOR OUR REGISTERED USERS -- WORD SEARCH PUZZLES!!! To express our deep gratitude to those of you who have taken the time to register your copy of The Spelling Tutor, we wanted to give you something special that would in some measure, show our appreciation. For that reason, a wonderful new feature has been added to the Registered version of the Spelling Tutor. Now, each time you complete a word set, you can create and send to your printer a Word Search Puzzle consisting of each word from that set. This is a splendid way to reinforce the memory image of the word gained through working in the Tutor! In order to search for a word pattern in a grid of random letters, one must of necessity concentrate on the image of the word! Not only does it encourage the student to retain the image of the word, it does so in an entertaining and challenging way! If you register under Option 3, you will receive our new stand alone program, "The SPELLBOUND! Word Search Creator". (See SPELL.DOC for details.) This is in addition to the other premiums, The SPELLBOUND! Director, The BothSides Text Formatter, latest version of the Spelling Tutor, and the additional word lists. If you are only interested in ordering the Word Search Creator, it is available from SPELLBOUND! Software for the low price of just $15.00! AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION FOR PREVIOUS REGISTERED USERS! The INSTALL program will transfer your registration from your old version in the 2.xx series to the new copy when you install the new version over the old one. Do not delete your old installation as this will destroy your old registration. Be sure you have a backup of your registered version in case something should go wrong. The INSTALL program will make the transfer and delete all program files from the previous version. If you have modified your copies of SPELL.WDS, GRADE2.WDS, or GRADE3.WDS, be sure to make backups as the INSTALL program will overwrite these with the new versions. Your records, reports, default configuration etc. will all be preserved for use by the new version! We want you to possess a registered copy of the new Spelling Tutor without having to pay an additional upgrade fee! We REALLY appreciate your support! IMMEDIATE CONVERSION TO REGISTERED VERSION BY PHONE! Using MasterCard or Visa, you may have a single copy converted to the registered version immediately if you wish by calling SPELLBOUND! Software at (517) 828-6520 with the program running on your computer. This will remove all shareware screens and enable the special registration gift of the Word Search Puzzle creator in the Spelling Tutor. The cost is a minimum $15.00 registration fee for this service. +===========================+ | I N S T A L L A T I O N | +===========================+ PROBLEMS If you have any problems while installing the program, call SPELLBOUND! Software Customer Support at: (517) 828-6520. We will be happy to help you to evaluate our program! REQUIREMENTS FOR INSTALLATION The SPELLBOUND! Spelling Tutor requires 384k free memory, DOS 3.00 or above, CGA, EGA, or VGA monitor (or Hercules (R) card with a CGA simulation program), two floppy disk drives OR one of the following single drive systems: Hard drive, 720k floppy, 1.2meg floppy, 1.44meg floppy. PRINTING THE DOCUMENTATION To print out the documention for "The SPELLBOUND! Spelling Tutor", install the program according to the directions given in this documentation. Once you have started the program, press F1 to bring up context-sensitive help. Press F1 once again to bring up the documentation in the file viewer. Press F9 to print the file being displayed, in this case, SPELL.DOC. Enter your parallel printer port number when prompted. Make sure you have about 45 sheets of paper. To print this file now, enter the following command from the DOS prompt: COPY README.1ST PRN <Press ENTER> READING THE DOCUMENTATION FROM WITHIN THE SPELLING TUTOR To read the documentation online, Press F1 once to bring up context sensitive help. While the help box is displayed, press F1 once more. The file viewer will immediately display SPELL.DOC. SPELL.DOC must be in the PROGRAM or DATA directory. Press F9 to print it. PREPARING THE INSTALL DISKETTE FOR INSTALLATION TO FLOPPY DISKS The INSTALL program requires the availability of "COMMAND.COM" (your command interpreter). If you do not have a hard drive or you boot your computer from drive A:, you will need to copy "COMMAND.COM" from your DOS "System" disk to the Spelling Tutor installation diskette before proceeding with the installation. If installing to floppies, COMMAND.COM will be automatically copied to your PROGRAM diskette by the INSTALL program as well, so that the transient portion of COMMAND.COM can be refreshed when terminating the Spelling Tutor. This prevents the message, "Insert disk with COMMAND.COM into drive A: and press any key". This will enable you to make use of an external editor in addition to allowing you to SHELL to Dos from within the program. If in rare circumstances you are not using COMMAND.COM, substitute the command interpreter for the operating system you are using. If you are unsure, type: "SET" at the Dos prompt and press ENTER. Look for the words: "COMSPEC=". The file name to the right of the equal sign is the name and path to your command interpreter. +============================================================+ | I N S T A L L A T I O N -- 2 F L O P P Y S Y S T E M | +============================================================+ (1.) Format two blank floppy diskettes in the following manner: Place your DOS diskette containing FORMAT.COM into drive A: and a blank diskette into drive B:. Type "A:FORMAT B:" press ENTER. This will be your PROGRAM diskette. When it is finished, format another diskette in the same way. This will be your DATA diskette. (2.) Place the SPELLBOUND! diskette into drive A: and with the blank formatted PROGRAM diskette still in drive B:, do the following. Type: "A:INSTALL" press ENTER, read all of the instructions and follow the prompts. Both destination diskettes will be inserted into drive B: at the proper time. (3.) If everything went okay, your program is now ready to run! Place the PROGRAM diskette into drive A:, the DATA diskette (containing SPELL.WDS, SPELL.DOC, etc. into drive B:, type: "B:" (this will change you to drive B:) and then type: "SPELL" and press ENTER. +===============================================================+ | I N S T A L L A T I O N -- H A R D O R H D D R I V E | +===============================================================+ (1.) Place the distribution diskette into drive A: and do the following: a: Type: "A:INSTALL" (without quotes) press ENTER. b: Read all of the instructions, and follow the prompts. The INSTALL program can make some very necessary changes to AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS for you, or you can make them yourself if you are leery of having installation programs mess with your system. If you choose to have the program do it for you, the original copies of your programs will be backed up first, so the changes are reversible. If you have the program make these changes for you, then skip step (2.). (2.) Add the program directory to your PATH environment variable in AUTOEXEC.BAT or at the DOS prompt. If you already have a PATH statement in AUTOEXEC.BAT, then append a semicolon before appending the directory. Example: PATH C:\DOS;C:\UTIL;C:\WP;C:\SPELL If there is no PATH statement in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, then you must enter the following: (Assuming the PROGRAM files were installed in "C:\SPELL") PATH C:\SPELL The PATH environment variable tells DOS where to search for commands it cannot find in the current directory. When you type "SPELL" from the DATA directory, DOS will not be able to find SPELL.EXE in the current directory. It will look through the directories listed in the PATH statement. IMPORTANT! If you have a hard drive system with a single High density drive, you will first have to install to a single directory on your hard drive, and then copy all the files from that directory to the diskette. +=====================================+ | Y O U R F I R S T S E S S I O N | +=====================================+ To start The Spelling Tutor, make the DATA directory your current directory. For example, if the DATA directory were C:\SPELL\CLASSONE, you would type: "C:" press ENTER and then "CD \SPELL\CLASSONE" press ENTER. When you have done this, type: "SPELL" press ENTER, and the program will begin. In your first session you will be presented with a couple of questions. The first is whether students will have access to functions which allow access to files or to the operating system. The other is whether you would like password protection so that students may only view their own records. Once installation is finished, the only person who will be able to change these settings is the person who logs on as "TEACHER". TEACHER must always enter a password to gain entrance. If a student were allowed to log in as teacher, he would be able to view other students' passwords, print out reports of their progress etcetera, so you may not disable password protection for the TEACHER. To change these initial settings at any time: (1.) Log in as TEACHER, and enter your password. (2.) Press ESC while at the MAIN MENU (3.) Key in "DEFAULT", then enter your "TEACHER" password again. (4.) While logged in as "DEFAULT", set up the configuration as you wish each new student to be configured the first time on. You may even run the Spelling Tutor and change the colors there. (Just press F1 in Spelling Tutor to see how to do this.) (5.) When the configuration is complete, either press F10 to quit or return to the Login screen and log in under your own name or "Teacher". The configuration you create as default is saved to DEFAULT.CFG in the PROGRAM directory. This will be the initial configuration each student will receive the first time he logs in. If you have many classes (each class in its own directory), this configuration will affect all classes.