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- FC_READ.ME
- ==============================================================================
-
- A Microsoft Visual Basic Application
-
- Title: FORMAT CENTRAL 1.0
- Date: June 3, 1991
- Author: Wiley Miller
-
- This program is in the Public Domain. It's FREE...
- If you like it...that's nice. If you don't, remember, it didn't cost you a
- single nickel.
-
- 1. VBRUN100.DLL (The VISUAL BASIC engine)
- 2. VB_DO.BAT (The command launcher)
- 3. FORMCENT.EXE (The FORMAT CENTRAL application)
- 4. FC_READ.ME (The file you are reading)
-
-
- FORMAT CENTRAL is a simple launch pad for floppy disk formatting. The program
- assumes that you have a 1.2M 5.25" floppy drive that you call drive A:, and a
- 1.44M 3.5" floppy drive that you call drive B:. For other configurations, make
- some modifications to the command launcher VB_DO.BAT. Since the default set-up
- is pretty common, I don't anticipate many problems for most users.
-
- To install FORMAT CENTRAL:
-
- 1. Return to, or start WINDOWS. Click and hi-lite the group
- that will hold the new format central icon.
-
- 2. Click "FILE" on the Program Manager menu bar.
-
- 3. Click again on "NEW". Select "Program Item" and click "OK".
-
- 4. For PROGRAM DESCRIPTION, type: "FormatCentral" (Don't include
- the quotes!)
-
- 5. For COMMAND LINE, type: "FORMCENT.EXE" (No quotes!). Click "OK".
-
- 6. That's it!
-
-
- Using FORMAT CENTRAL
- --------------------
-
- * Click on the "Help" button, for a concise description of the controls.
-
- Note: FORMAT CENTRAL seems to work fine for 3.x to 5.0 of MS-DOS.
- If you have an earlier version of DOS, you're on your own.
- Gosh, does anyone not have at least "3.something" of DOS???
-
-
- A Word About Microsoft's Visual Basic Package.
- ----------------------------------------------
-
- This program was developed using the Beta release of Visual Basic. Even
- though the documentation was still full of the copy editor's hand written
- marks and remarks, the learning process was very easy. What a pleasure it
- is to be able to build simple but effective WINDOWS utilities...and not know
- a thing about the commonly required development language "c". Watch for an
- explosion of applications when VB hits the streets soon.
-