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- THIS VERSION OF ACCESSES REQUIRES Microsofts's SHELL.DLL
-
- DISCLAIMER - AGREEMENT
-
- USERS OF ACCESSES MUST ACCEPT THIS DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY:
-
- "ACCESSES IS SUPPLIED 'AS IS'. THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL
- WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT
- LIMITATION,THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND OF FITNESS FOR
- ANY PURPOSE. THE AUTHOR ASSUMES NO LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES, DIRECT
- OR CONSEQUENTIAL, WHICH MAY RESULT FROM THE USE OF ACCESSES. IN
- ANY CASE THE MAXIMUM LIABILITY OF THE SELLER WILL BE LIMITED
- EXCLUSIVELY TO PRODUCT REPLACEMENT OR REFUND OF PURCHASE PRICE."
-
- The ACCESS.ZIP file contains the following program files:
-
- ACCESSES.EXE The main program. The normal version
- 152976 bytes in size whereas the
- dragdrop version is 153616 bytes.
- ACCESSES.HLP The help file in Windows
- HELP format.
- README.TXT This file.
- VENDOR.TXT Shareware and Vendor info.
- REGISTER.FRM Registration Information.
- ARCHIVES.TXT required reading for Archives
- users.
- NORTON.TXT An important note to Norton Desktop
- users and a caution about Accesses
- Version 1.0 incompatibility with
- Norton Desktop.
- CHANGES.TXT Required reading for previous
- Accesses version users.
-
- You MUST Place ACCESSES.EXE and ACCESSES.HLP in the same
- directory as the TASKMAN.EXE windows program. You must have
- ACCESSES.HLP installed for the installation to work properly.
-
- Accesses creates ACCESSES.INI when Accesses is 1st started if an
- ACCESSES.INI doesn't already exist. Accesses updates older version
- INI files with the new info when each newer version is 1st started.
-
- Please read at least until you see the asterisk separator. ie:
- ************ so the INI file is properly setup!
-
- REMEMBER TWO IMPORTANT ITEMS FOR ACCESSES:
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- 1. FILE EXTENSIONS ARE PREFERRED !!!!!
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- 2. You MUST go thru the TUTOR in ACCESSES.HLP
-
- You probably can get by by reading CHANGES.TXT if you have Read
- Tutor before. You must read Tutor if you haven't before!
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- To Norton Desktop USERS: READ NORTON.TXT and restore the minimized
- Norton "child" Windows that can be restored to save their window
- positions before starting Accesses.exe for the 1st time. You can
- update any windows anytime later if some of them are closed.
-
- Check out the mouse click functions that Accesses has very early
- in your testing procedure! Read TUTOR in ACCESSES.HLP for more...
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- Follow these steps BEFORE LAUNCHING ACCESSES for the 1st time...
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- During the installation process you will automatically be storing
- currently opened window positions to your ACCESSES.INI file. All
- of this can be easily edited by Accesses later but it helps to
- do some now.
-
- 1. Make a backup copy of your WIN.INI file and SYSTEM.INI
- files NOW. I do nothing to your WIN.INI file; but hopefully you
- will be prefixing most of your [extensions] section of your
- WIN.INI file using an Accesses extensions update dialog box
- later. I will ask you if I can add taskman.exe=accesses.exe to
- your SYSTEM.INI file during the installation. (This change is not
- required but speeds the Ctrl+Esc key call to Accesses. If you are
- using a remote drive, adding the taskman.exe=accesses.exe line to
- your SYSTEM.INI file speeds things up considerably.)
-
- 2. open one copy each of 5 or 6 of your most frequently
- used programs before running ACCESSES. Open Windows File Manager
- (or equivalent) and open the File Manager's 'About' Box (under the
- Help menu) and if your 'Free System Resources are greater than
- 30% open more windows until this number is between 20 to 30%, but
- not less than 20%. eg. Open one each of Notepad, Write, Excel,
- Winword, Amφ, calculator,..., etc If you're running windows in
- the Enhanced Mode, open a DOS window as well and place the DOS
- window where you want it to be placed.
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- If you are Beta testing Windows 3.1, don't open more than 30
- or 40 windows to avoid all of this taking too long.
-
- 3. Close any duplicate programs. For example, Run only one
- 'Notepad'. If you want to keep a duplicate program open,
- minimized the program whose position you do not want to store.
- (TUTOR will explain how to save both in a separate procedure
- after the installation.)
-
- 4. Move these programs to the window positions that you
- want them to normally be in when in the 'Restored' (not maximized
- and not minimized) positions. USE THE RESTORED POSITION for all
- of these WINDOWS.
-
- 3. Then launch ACCESSES for the 1st time.
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- READ TUTOR in Accesses.hlp. This takes 5 minutes...
-
- Do add accesses to your WIN.INI extensions using Accesses'
- Setup+Configure - Update WIN.INI extensions.
-
- ****************************************
-
- What's next for Accesses...
-
- I'm probably going to add an option to popup another window to
- display current available drive space. My current thoughts are
- that this will be a separate tiny-tiny program that is driven by
- Accesses. This way I'll be using only one timer for both
- programs... One of the major objectives of Off the WALL Software
- is to minimize usage of your system resources with Off-the-Wall
- programs.
-
- ****************************************
-
- Accesses does everything I could think of to help you access,
- run, and place your programs where you want them to be. Accesses
- can even do this from most other programs!!!! If you think of
- something that Accesses should access and don't know how to do
- it, call me. Accesses probably can do it now, if you knew how.
-
- ******************************************************
-
- I wish you the best computering,
-
- Ted
-
- PS, if you like Accesses, please register it.
-
- I can be contacted at the following:
-
- Address: T. F. Wall
- Off the WALL Software
- 7680 Cottonwood Ln.
- Pleasanton, CA 94588-4322 USA
-
- Phone: Charge Cards cannot yet be accepted.
-
- Registered users can call for product support, improvements and
- others can make inquiries at the following:
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- 510-484-4129 8am - 6pm (Pacific Time)
-
- Site License agreements can be negotiated.
-
- I can be contacted on CompuServe; although, I currently access
- this system on a weekly basis.
-
- COMPUSERVE ID 73747,1563
-
- The latest version of ACCESSES can be found on the:
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- CompuServ - WINADV board (slow to receive updates)
- CompuServ - PCMAG UTILFORUM board (fast updates)
- CompuServ - SYMFORUM NORUTL board (fast updates)
-
- and ARCHIVES is found on the:
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- CompuServ - WINADV board
-
- Search CompuServe using WALL as a keyword.
-