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- Welcome to Aporia version 1.4a!
-
- Aporia is a powerful object oriented user interface for Windows 2.x and
- 3.0. It lets you organize your work simply and clearly by providing a
- variety of advanced features that make its icon interface really work.
-
- The heart of Aporia is the concept of tools. A tool is not just a
- pretty picture, it also has enhanced abilities. It can be dropped onto
- another to be run, or chained together to form a new tool. A tool can
- store other tools letting you run multiple programs with one mouse
- click. A tool can size and position the programs it runs. And, tools
- are fully integrated into a powerful file management scheme.
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- Windows 3 is great and Aporia is a powerful enhancement to the Windows 3
- environment.
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- Aporia Can Do Things That The File And Program Manager Can't.
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- INSTALLING and RUNNING Aporia
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-
- To setup Aporia run the program SETUP_AP.EXE.
- When you run it you must specify the directory where Windows
- is installed on your system and the version of Windows you are
- using (either 2 or 3). To run setup:
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- 1. Insert the Aporia distribution disk in you A drive.
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- 2. Make the A drive the current drive, at the DOS prompt type:
- A:<Enter>
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- 3. Run the setup program, at the DOS prompt type:
- SETUP_AP <Windows directory> <version>
-
- Example: SETUP_AP C:\WINDOWS 3<Enter>
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- This program installs and sets up Aoria for first-time users
- and for those updating from earlier versions of Aporia.
- This program copies Aporia to your Windows directory, and
- for Windows 3 users installs a library of images and can
- make Aporia your shell (replacing the Program Manager).
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- To run Aporia under Windows:
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- If you choose to install Aporia as the Windows shell just run
- Windows as you normally do and Aporia will come up automatically.
-
- If you have not installed Aporia as the Windows shell at the
- DOS prompt type:
-
- WIN APORIA<Enter>
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- ORDERING INFORMATION
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-
- To registration your copy of Aporia or to order additional copies contact
- NewTools at:
-
- NewTools
- P.O. Box 3269
- Church Street Station
- New York, NY 10008-3269
- (800) 924-0018
-
- Complete ordering information is provided in the file ORDER.TXT.
-
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- TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
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-
- For technical assistance call: (718) 789-5980
-
- As always, we welcome your comments, criticisms, and your feedback
- regarding features you would like to see in future Aporia releases.
-
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- APORIA DISTRIBUTION FILES
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- SETUP_AP.EXE The Setup program for Aporia. This program copies Aporia
- to your Windows directory, and for Windows 3 users
- installs a library of images and can make Aporia your
- shell (replacing the Program Manager).
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- APORIA.EXE The Aporia executable program.
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- APLIB.EXE Aporia dynamic link library.
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- IMAGEMKR.EXE Create Aporia icons with this tool.
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- APORIA.MAN* This is the Aporia manual text. This file
- contains everything you need to use Aporia. The
- printed version, available with the $50 registration,
- is fully illustrated.
-
- APORIA.INT This is the tutorial section of the manual in
- Microsoft Write format. It takes you step by step
- through the basic operation of Aporia. It is available
- online when you double-click on the Help Tool, which is
- the icon with the question mark.
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- NOTES.TXT The default Aporia note file.
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- CHANGES.TXT* A list of changes in this release.
-
- AP_READ.ME* This important information text that you are currently
- reading. Always read this file first.
-
- ORDER.TXT The Order Form for Aporia. Please use this form when
- you order.
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- AIF_16.EXE Self extracting file containing Aporia image
- files for the basic Aporia tools and for
- programs supplied with Windows 3.0. This file
- contains image files for use systems running
- in 16 color EGA, VGA, and SuperVGA display
- modes under Windows 3.
-
- AIF_256.EXE This is a self extracting compressed file
- containing Aporia image files for the basic
- Aporia tools and for programs supplied with
- Windows 3.0. This file contains image files
- for use systems running in 256 color SuperVGA
- display modes under Windows 3.
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- APORIA.GRP A Program Manager group file for Aporia.
-
- AP_ICONS.EXE Self extracting file containing the icons for
- the basic Aporia tools in Windows 3.0 icon
- (ICO) format.
-
- Note that some of the above files (marked with *) are user manual and
- introductory text. If you are short on disk space, you might want to
- delete them, from your Windows directory after you have become
- acquainted with Aporia.
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- TO GET ON-LINE HELP FOR APORIA:
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-
- Put the mouse cursor on the question mark icon (the Help tool) and
- click twice quickly with the left mouse button. To get help on
- any of the Aporia tools (icons) drag them onto the Help tool.
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- LATE BREAKING PROGRAM INFORMATION
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- The following useful information in not included in the user manual.
-
- * Creating your own icons with Paintbrush:
- Here's an easy way to create your own icons using Paintbrush and the
- Image Maker program supplied with Aporia.
- 1. Run both Paintbrush and Image Maker.
- 2. From the Paintbrush Options menu select the Image Attributes
- command and set the image size to 33 by 33 PELS.
- 3. From the Paintbrush File menu select the New command.
- 4. Draw your icon in the Paintbrush window.
- 5. In Image Maker select the Capture Icon command and click the mouse
- over your the icon you drew in Paintbrush.
- 6. Your icon will appear in Image Maker and then can be saved to
- an Aporia image file.
-
- * Registered users can specify text to appear when the screen blanker
- is up in place of their registration name. To do this enter the
- following line in the Aporia section of your WIN.INI file:
- BlankName=<text>
- Where <text> is the text you want displayed. For example if you work
- for Acme Scrub Brush Ltd. you could add the line:
- BlankName=Acme Scrub Brush Ltd.
- This feature is NOT available for unregistered users.
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- LIST OF IMAGE FILES PROVIDED WITH APORIA:
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- Aporia Icons (14)
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- Desk Tool desk.aif
- Dir Tool dir.aif
- Copy Tool copy.aif
- Trash Tool trash.aif
- Tree Tool tree.aif
- Hide Tool hide.aif
- Notes Tool notes.aif
- Help Tool help.aif
- Size Tool size.aif
- Options Tool opt.aif
- Aporia aporia.aif
- Image Maker imagemkr.aif
- Tool tool.aif
- File file.aif
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- Windows 3.0 Bundled Apps (20)
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- File Manager winfile.aif
- Program Manager progman.aif
- Clipboard clipbrd.aif
- Control Panel control.aif
- Setup setup.aif
- Print Manager printman.aif
- DOS Prompt dos.aif
- Write write.aif
- Paintbrush pbrush.aif
- Terminal terminal.aif
- Notepad notepad.aif
- Recorder recorder.aif
- Cardfile cardfile.aif
- Calendar calendar.aif
- Calculator calc.aif
- Clock clock.aif
- PIF Editor pifedit.aif
- Windows Help winhelp.aif
- Solitaire sol.aif
- Reversi reversi.aif
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- Windows SDK Apps (8)
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- Font Editor fontedit.aif
- Dialog Editor dialog.aif
- SDK Paint sdkpaint.aif
- Zoom Utility zoomin.aif
- Heap Walker heapwalk.aif
- Shaker shaker.aif
- CodeView cvw.aif
- Spy spy.aif
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- Popular Windows Programs (10)
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- Excel excel.aif
- WinWord winword.aif
- Almanac almanac.aif
- SuperBase2 sb2w.aif
- SuperBase4 sb4w.aif
- MS Project winproj.aif
- Ami Pro amipro.aif
- IBM Current current.aif
- Corel Draw corel.aif
- ToolBook tbook.aif
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