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- RunProg
- ---------
-
- Version 2.00
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-
- Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 by David A. Feinleib.
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-
- Introduction
- ------------
-
- RunProg allows you to run a program maximized, minimized,
- normal size, hidden, or at specified coordinates. In addition,
- RunProg can run up to fifteen programs, with or without parameters
- from your WIN.INI file at sizes you specify.
-
- Additions/Improvements in versions of RunProg
- ----------------------------------------------
-
- - Version 1.02 [December 18, 1990]
-
- Version 1.02 added the option to startup in a different directory
- than that in which the program being run is located.
-
- - Version 1.03 [December 24, 1990]
-
- Version 1.03 added the option to run up to ten programs from
- your WIN.INI file. (Please see below under: Using RunProg From
- The WIN.INI File.)
-
- - Version 1.04 [December 27, 1990]
-
- This version fixed a bug in version 1.03 which caused RunProg
- to cause Unrecoverable Application Errors when running certain
- programs.
-
- - Version 1.05 [December 29, 1990]
-
- This version fixed a bug in version 1.04 which caused RunProg
- to function incorrectly when coordinates and a start-up directory
- were specified. RunProg now functions correctly.
-
- (Please note that problems you may have experienced with previous
- versions were due to bugs in RunProg, not with any incompatibility
- with a specific program. But, just in case, RunProg has been
- tested with programs such as Excel, Word For Windows, Designer,
- Mulitpad, Paintbrush, Notepad, and many others.)
-
- - Version 1.06
-
- This version reduces the amount of memory needed by RunProg.
-
- This version allows you to run up to 25 programs at specified sizes
- from your WIN.INI file.
-
- - Version 2.00
-
- This version reduced the amount of memory required to run
- RunProg while speeding up the operation of the program.
-
- This version added compatibility with a new product that is soon to
- be released, which will allow the user to enter window sizes
- more easily.
-
- You may now load up to fifteen programs from your WIN.INI file
- (as opposed to the previous ten).
-
- This version added enhanced support for registered users.
-
- Using RunProg
- -------------
-
- To use RunProg:
-
- If you want to put a new program in the Program Manager, go to
- File... New..., select "Program Item", and type
-
- <directory>RUNPROG.EXE [xxx] <Program Name> <file_directory>
-
- Where: directory = directory in which RUNPROG is located
- xxx = size at which to run program
- Program Name = name of program to run
- file_directory = directory in which to start; the
- directory which will appear if you
- select File... Open...
- from the program you run
-
- For example, if RunProg is located in C:\WINDOWS and
- you want to add WORD.EXE which is located in D:\WORD,
- run it maximized and have it start in the directory
- C:\DOCS, you would type:
-
- C:\RUNPROG.EXE [Max] D:\WORD\WORD.EXE C:\DOCS
-
- It is not necessary to specify a file_directory.
-
- Click OK when you are done.
-
- To select the correct icon for the program you have entered, click
- File... Properties..., select "Change Icon" and in the edit box,
- type <Program Name>, where, continuing the example above,
- you would type:
-
- D:\WORD\WORD.EXE
-
- Click "view next" until you see the appropriate icon and then click
- OK.
-
- If you want to modify an old program in the Program Manager,
- go to File... Properties..., and follow the steps outlined
- above.
-
- If the program you want to run is in your PATH, you need not specify
- the entire path of the program to be run.
-
- Using RunProg From The WIN.INI File
- -----------------------------------
-
- RunProg can run up to ten files from your WIN.INI file at
- sizes you specify. Note that you can still use RunProg
- from the Program Manager if you run programs from the
- WIN.INI file. To use RunProg from your WIN.INI file
- you must place RUNPROG.EXE on either the
-
- load=
-
- or the
-
- run=
-
- line in your WIN.INI file. If you have other programs on the
- line, separate them by a space.
-
- If you have run RunProg before, find the section in your WIN.INI
- file shown as [RunProg]. If you have not run RunProg before,
- you can either run RunProg once from the Program Manager so that
- RunProg will create its section, or you can create a section.
- To create a section for RunProg, go to the bottom of the WIN.INI
- file and type:
-
- [RunProg]
-
- In this section, you must list the files that you want RunProg
- to run. You may list up to fifteen files in the form:
-
- ProgramX=[Size] PROGRAM
-
- For example, if you wanted to run three programs, you might type:
-
- Program1=[Max] C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE
- Program2=[Min] C:\WINDOWS\TERMINAL.EXE
- Program3=[Norm] C:\WINDOWS\PBRUSH.EXE
-
- Save the changes that you make to the WIN.INI file and re-start
- Windows; the programs you have entered will be run at the sizes
- specified.
-
- Options
- -------
-
- After RUNPROG.EXE, you must specify the way the program you want
- to be run should be displayed.
-
- The following options are available:
-
- [Max] Shows the program maximized
- [Min] Shows the program minimized
- [Norm] Shows the program in its normal size
- [Hide] Runs the program hidden
- [X Y Width Height] Shows the program at specified size
-
- The option must have brackets around it. It may be in upper, lower
- or any combination of case.
-
- If you run RunProg with no parameters, a screen will come up
- which describes RunProg's options and ShareWare.
-
- Please note that if you run a program hidden, there is no way to
- make it visible. This option is useful for running programs
- that take no user input but perform a certain function and
- then close themselves. If you are using this option with a
- DOS application, make sure that in the applications PIF file,
- you specify that the application's window should be closed
- when the program terminates. If you run a DOS application hidden
- that does not close itself, you may have trouble exiting Windows.
-
- For the "specified size option," you must specify four numbers:
- the X coordinate, the Y coordinate, the Width, and the Height.
- If the coordinates are specified incorrectly, the program will be
- run at the default coordinates.
-
- The program to run should be specified after the option.
-
- Note about specifying coordinates of a program
- -----------------------------------------------
-
- The program 'POS.EXE' is available as a separate program, available
- from the same ShareWare library or BBS from which you got this program.
-
- Pos will tell you the coordinates of the mouse and the coordinates
- of a window, which is useful when specifying coordinates of a program.
-
- If you cannot find Pos, you can order it directly from me by sending:
-
- $2.75 for 5 1/4 inch disk
- $4.75 for 3 1/2 inch disk
-
- $5.00 if you would like to register Pos when ordering it
-
- Please allow four to six weeks for delivery. See below for address.
-
- How to contact me
- -----------------
- Comments and suggestions (with or without the registration
- fee) would be greatly appreciated. Please send them to:
-
- David Feinleib
- 1430 Mass. Ave. Suite 306-42
- Cambridge, MA 02138
-
-
- BIX: "pgm"
-
- CompuServe: 76516,20
-
- FidoNet: 1:101/310
- David Feinleib
-
- How to pay for/register RunProg
- -------------------------------
-
- RunProg is ShareWare.
-
- You may make copies of this program and give them to others as
- long as the documentation is provided with the program, both
- unaltered.
-
- Please send $10 to receive a registration number which will disable
- the ShareWare reminder message.
-
- If you would like to receive Runprog on disk, send an additional
- $3.00 for 5 1/4 inch, $4.50 for 3 1/2 inch. You will be able
- to receive support by BIX, CompuServe, FidoNet, or mail.
-
- Shipping to Canada is an additional $1.00.
- Shipping outside of North America is an additional $2.00.
-
- Please include your name, address, and current version number.
- See above for the address.
-
- Site licenses, LAN licenses, and substantial quantity discounts
- are available.
-
- Customization of RunProg is available but is not included in the
- ShareWare registration fee. The fee charged for customization
- will depend on the amount and significance of the customization.
-
- Please contact me for more information regarding the above two
- items.
-
- Thanks!
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-
- Thanks very much to Scott McIntosh who was a great help in creating
- and testing this program. Thanks also to
-
- Other products by the same author
- ---------------------------------
- For MS Windows 3.0:
-
- WinClock WinClock is a digital clock for Microsoft
- Windows 3.0 that has the following features:
-
- - Display of time and date in many different formats
- - Four alarms (which can be set for daily or only
- a specified date)
- - Run Program Timer (ability to run programs at
- specified times)
- - Optional hourly "beep"
- - Allows user to set date and time easily
- - Optionally stays in front of other applications
- - "Remembers" its position on the screen
- - Two stopwatches
- - Two countdown timers
- - Colon separating hours and minutes may be set
- to "blink"
- - Context sensitive help
- - Direct Screen saver compatibility
- (Auto detect active screen saver)
- - "Cascade" and "Tile" compatibility
-
- Pos Pos displays the mouse cursor position in relation
- to the screen (screen coordinates) and in relation
- to the window which has the input focus. Pos makes
- a good addition to the Windows Software Development
- Kit and is also useful when selecting monitor
- resolutions. It was originally developed to
- allow the user to move the mouse cursor to screen
- positions ahead of time.
-
- RunProg RunProg allows you to run a program at a preset
- size. This means that you could, for example,
- always run PaintBrush maximized.
-
- Lock Lock is a keyboard lock and screen saver. It will
- automatically lock the keyboard after a certain
- time.
-
- Click Click will produce a keyboard "click". This is
- especially useful to those users who have used
- a keyboard click for DOS but have been unable to
- find one for MS Windows. The duration and
- pitch of the click may be easily changed by the
- user.
-
- Hop The only computer Hop-Over puzzle. Hop is a short
- form of Chinese Checkers. (Hop can undo moves and
- solve the puzzle automatically, if you want it to.)
-
- Slide Slide is the Classic Sliding Block Puzzle.
- Features:
-
- - Saves and retrieves games
- - Can undo moves one at a time
- - Saves last game automatically
- - 3x3 to 9x9 puzzle size
-
-
- For DOS:
-
- DskNum DskNum estimates the number of disks needed for
- a DOS Backup. It estimates for 360Kb, 720Kb,
- 1.2Mb, and 1.44Mb disks.
-
- DlFile
- (with DirSrch) DlFile goes through your disk directories looking
- for the filespec you specify. If found, it prompts
- to delete it. This is very convenient for finding
- and deleting "*.BAK".
-
-
- Mem Mem displays the amount of conventional memory
- in your computer and the amount free. It displays
- information about extended memory if you have
- it in your computer.
-
- These programs are available on BIX, CompuServe, the Boston Computer
- Society's IBM BBS, and from other ShareWare libraries. If you would like
- more information, you may contact me as shown in the section "How to
- contact me".
-
- Disclaimer
- -------------------
-
- RunProg 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 conse-
- quential, which may result from the use of RunProg.
-
-