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- Release 1.00 - The Windows 3.0 Configuration Guide
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- Copyright ⌐ 1990 by Donald G. Roy. All rights reserved.
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- DESCRIPTION:
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- The Windows 3.0 Configuration Guide is an application developed
- with Asymetrix ToolBook. The Guide will ask questions about the
- hardware that you want to find a good Windows configuration for.
- It mimics the operation of an "expert system" in several regards.
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- 1) Only the needed answers are asked for. This is because the data
- has been deduced from other answers, or more simply, that the data is
- not required.
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- 2) There are "Why?" buttons throughout the pages of the book.
- Clicking on any of these will present a brief explanation of why
- the question is being asked, or why the particular conclusion has
- been made.
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- 3) The "intelligence" of the Guide is restricted, or domain-specific.
- In this version, the recommendations made apply only to appropriate
- configurations of the HIMEM.SYS, SMARTDRV.SYS and RAMDRIVE.SYS drivers
- which are included with Windows 3.0.
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- 4) The Guide will attempt to handle uncertainty, or lack of information.
- If, for example, the type of CPU is unknown, you can have the Guide
- attempt to "guess" the CPU type, based on other factors. In other
- instances, permission will be asked to "assume" common answers.
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- Some additional discussion of expert systems and this Guide can be
- found within the Guide itself.
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- REQUIREMENT:
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- In order to run W3CFG.TBK, you require Asymetrix ToolBook, either
- run-time version or the develoment version.
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- LOADING:
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- Run-time ToolBook: If ToolBook is already running, you can load this
- ----------------- Guide by using the File Open menu choices, locating
- the W3CFG.TBK file and opening it. If you used the ToolBook Install
- program, you can also load the Guide from Windows' File Manager by
- double clicking on the W3CFG.TBK entry in the disk/directory where you
- have stored it.
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- Development ToolBook: Access to Author level is password restricted. You
- --------------------- can load in Reader level using the approaches above.
- The required passwords for Author and File Save are mailed to you if you
- choose to register your copy. Additional information concerning the logic
- and implementation of the Guide is also provided to registered users.
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- NAVIGATION:
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- There are very few icons used for navigation in the Guide. Navigation is
- controlled by the information that you provide in response to the questions.
- Navigation is the standard sense of a ToolBook application is not required,
- nor desirable. Use the Help Icons menu choices in the Guide for more information.
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- If you Cancel the printing routine after it has started, you must use the
- Page First menu choices to leave the report page. You will then be taken back
- to the first page of the book.
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- REGISTRATION:
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- This Guide is not free software. If you find the Guide useful, or keep it
- beyond an evaluation period of seven (7) days, you are expected to register
- your copy. The registration fee is US$10.00/Cdn$12.00, which can be paid by
- money order, certified cheque or VISA.
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- Upon registration, you will receive additional, detailed documentation about
- the logic and decision trees that guide the program, as well as the passwords
- needed to access Author level with the full version of Asymetrix ToolBook.
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- You can print a Registration Form from within the Guide, as well as a Feedback
- Form if there are comments that you would like to make. Use the Page Register
- menu choices to do this.
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- Email feedback can be sent via CIS to Don Roy [76675,1272].
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- Thanks you for taking the time to look at the Windows 3.0 Configuration Guide.
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