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- WELCOME TO COMMAND POST 7.2!
-
- This disk contains Command Post 7.2D and Browser 3.94
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-
- *** LATE-BREAKING NEWS ***
-
-
- Command Post is still Command Post. A programmable, fast, effective,
- and very powerful shell for the Windows environment. It is text-based.
- It is designed to either replace or supplement both the Windows Program
- Manager and File Manager.
-
- Although the default menus supplied with Command Post are quite sufficient
- for many people, the real power of Command Post comes into play when you
- add your own menu items to it. To do this, you *got* to print out all
- the documentation, curl up in an easy chair, and spend some time reading
- it.
-
- For those who prefer a more GUI oriented shell, more like File Manager,
- we offer our new File Commander. With File Commander you can have most
- of the power of Command Post and your own menu items attached to the
- Windows File Manager menu.
-
- The big news for the 7.2 series of Command post is summarized simply as
- follows:
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- Network Support
- Multimedia support
- DDE Support
- SendKey capability
- Dialog Boxes
- Many more new functions
-
- All the new stuff is documented in the, appropriately, NEWSTUFF.TXT file.
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-
- PACKING LIST:
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- Most of the files will end in a $ until properly installed. Some
- files have been compressed and will be decompressed by the setup
- program.
-
- README TXT This File
- README2 TXT ...continued...
- NEWSTUFF MAN Blow by blow differences in recent versions.
- CMDPOST MAN The disk-based manual. Registered users get a
- typeset, illustrated one.
- TASKMANR TXT Instructions for installing TASKMANR.EXE
- CP__VER ??? A dummy file. ??? is the current version number.
-
- CMDPOST CPM MAIN menu file. Normally you will not have
- edit this file.
- CMDUSER CPM Sample USER menu file. Once installed you
- WILL have to edit thisfile to configure it for
- your system!
- CMDPOST EXE The main Command Post executable file.
- CP_DLLA DLL Required dynamic-link-library file.
- WWWDEALR DLL Another dynamic-link-library file.
- CP_TREE EXE The Command Post tree.
- TASKMANR EXE Optional replacement for the Windows 3.0 Task
- Manager. Brings up Command Post when you
- doubleclick on the screen background.
- CP_BLNK EXE Our Clock/Blanker for Windows 3.0
- WININFO EXE A utility to help determine window size and
- position.
- CP_VIRT BAT A BAT file for running DOS apps. Can change the PATH.
- CP_PAUSE BAT A BAT file that runs a DOS app and then pauses.
- CP_ATTR1 DLG A Dialog box used by the default menus.
- CP_ATTR2 DLG A Dialog box used by the default menus.
- BROWSER EXE File Browser Utility.
- WSETUP EXE The Windows-based setup program.
- WSETUP INF Information file for the setup program.
- WBINXZ EXE More of the Windows setup program.
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- HOW TO INSTALL COMMAND POST 7.2
-
- Command Post is installed automatically, via our WSETUP.EXE
- program, as detailed below:
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-
- 1) Close down >>>ALL<<< extraneous Windows applications.
- 2) Make sure you closed down >>>ALL<<< of OUR other Windows apps.
- 3) Double-Click on the WSETUP.EXE program
- 4) When the setup program asks for a directory, specify initial directory,
- or accept the given default (C:\WINDOWS).
-
- NOTE: If you are updating from a previous version, and made any of the
- Command Post files READ-ONLY, remove the read-only attribute from
- the files before running setup.
- (Or else the setup process will hang)
-
- UN-INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS
-
- If, for some reason you wish to un-install Command Post from your
- system, here is a checklist for doing so.
-
- 1) Examine the SYSTEM.INI file. If you manually installed Command Post
- as your primary shell (See Docs), you must edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
- Change
- shell=cmdpost.exe
- to
- shell=progman.exe
-
-
- 2) Examine the WIN.INI file. If Command Post starts automatically...
- Change
- run=cmdpost.exe
- to
- run=
- If there is other stuff on the run= line, you probably want to
- leave it there. Just delete the cmdpost.exe from the run= line.
-
- 3) Delete the following files from the directory that Command Post was
- installed into.
- cmdpost.exe
- cp_dlla.dll (From the Windows Directory)
- cp_tree.exe
- browser.exe
- wininfo.exe
- cp_blnk.exe
- cp_info.exe
- cp_virt.bat
- cmdpost.cpm
- taskmanr.exe NOT TASKMANG.EXE OR TASKMAN.EXE !!!
- cmduser.cpm (you may want to keep a copy around, esp. if you
- have put some work into this file.)
-
-
-
- 4) That should do it.
-