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- QAView 1.01
- Q&A4RA File Viewer Program
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- Written for and dedicated to the Q&A files
- Created, Maintained and Distributed by Eric
- Staufer of The Concession Stand BBS
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- (c)Copyright 1995, Rand Nowell - RaLin Enterprises
- -= Cowboy Software =-
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- - All Rights Reserved -
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- THIS IS A FREE PROGRAM!
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- QAView 1.01 Read/Print/Edit Q&A4RA Help Files Page 1
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- Legal Stuff
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- QAView is a FREE program for RemoteAccess Sysops who wish to view
- the Q&A4RA Help files. It will work for no other files, so it
- should not be used by anyone else anyway.
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- QAView may NOT be distributed seperatly, unless for the express purpose
- of providing another with this Reader, to read the Q&A files.
- After initial release, this program will be included with the
- Q&A4RA Help Files.
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- QAView is (c)Copyright 1995, Rand Nowell - RaLin Enterprises
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- Special Note!
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- This release, Version 1.01 is being distributed seperataly from Q&A4RA10,
- as it was developed after that files release. Future versions will
- be included with the Q&A4RA files.
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- This copy of QAV.EXE is compiled for support of the files found
- in release #10 of Q&A4RA ie: Q&A4RA10.???
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- What It Does
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- QAView will allow you to Read and or Print the Q&A4RA Help Files
- distributed by Eric Staufer of The Concession Stand BBS.
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- This is all accomplished in an easy to use menu driven interface,
- similar to that in RemoteAccess.
- Mouse Support is included.
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- Original visual interface concept designed by Joaquim Homrighausen.
- Used with permission.
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- Some differences, but the basics he gets credit for. <G>
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- Each QAV.EXE is DEDICATED to a particular release of Q&A4RA, and is
- hard coded to work with the specific files in the version it
- accompanies. So it will NOT work for previous and/or later versions
- where the Q&A filenames are different.
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- QAView has its own internal viewer and editor. NO external programs
- are required.
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- System Requirements
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- You must have 250k free memory available to run QAView
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- Color Monitor reccomended, no specific support for MONO
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- A Printer, if you wish to print the files from QAV
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- QAView supports Time Slice releases while waiting for keypresses,
- under DV, WIN, W4WG, OS/2
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- Files found in Q&A4RA should NOT be renamed.
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- Keys, Traversing the Menus - Dialog Boxes
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- Menus presented are either Horizontal or Vertical.
- The Menu Selection Highlight Bar, may be moved by several means.
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- Pressing the SPACEBAR, TAB, ARROW, keys will move the bar. Menus are
- wrapping type, ie: when you reach the end, it wraps to the beginning,
- and visa-versa.
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- Once an item is highlighted, pressing ENTER or the DOWN ARROW key will
- activate the item.
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- You may also press the Highlighted character key for any menu item
- to activate that menu. And last but not least, you can left click with
- your mouse to activate.
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- In the Main Menu, the ESC key will exit the program. When a SUBmenu is
- displayed, the ESC key will put that menu away, and return to the calling
- menu. The RIGHT mouse key also acts as ESCape, but to be used as such,
- the mouse cursor must be within the menu borders.
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- Error and Information messages are displayed in a dialog box,
- normaly they will tell you to press a key to continue. If you place
- the mouse cursor in the message box, the right key will also close it.
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- The Main Menu
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- When you fire up QAView, you are placed in the Main Menu screen.
- Across the top, you will have a horizontal menu, these are the
- QA&4RA Topics.
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- When a Topic is chosen, a sub menu will popup with Q&A subjects.
- Selecting one will call the internal viewer to display the proper file.
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- When a submenu is displayed, pressing a right or left arrow key will
- move to the next/previous menu, and display it, except for ABOUT and
- QUIT, the display action is automatic. These two require that you
- press ENTER or DOWN ARROW.
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- The Internal Q&A Viewer
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- The internal viewer has many capabilities. While you won't find
- any real wide screens in Q&A4RA, the viewer allows panning to right
- and left. It also has the normal HOME/END/PGDN/PGUP key commands.
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- The Up/Dn arrow keys will move a line at a time.
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- Pressing the 'F' key, will allow you to search for a keyword, or any
- text. Hitting 'A' will search again for that same text/word.
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- If you would like to print the text currently displayed in the window,
- you can press ALT-D to dump the text to your printer.
- To print the complete file, press ALT-F.
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- To print from the viewer, your printer must be connected/configured to
- LPT1. IF the printer is not ready, an error message will be displayed.
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- Pressing the ESC key will exit viewing the file.
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- The Internal Editor
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- The editor was provided to allow you to fill out Eric's SURVEY.Q&A
- And any future files that may require fill in, in any future release.
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- You can load another file into the editor, and modify it, or create a
- new file.... commands are available in the Help Screen (F1)
- But.... this particular editor is limited to 200 lines of text, to keep
- memory requirements down. Enough for the SURVEY.Q&A, but not much else.
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- Again, F1 will present a Help File menu, explainaing many of the
- functions available. This HELP is contained in the file EDITOR.HLP
- EDITOR.HLP should be kept in the same directory as QAV.EXE
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- Its a simple text file, specially formatted. My advice is, don't mess
- with it.
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- Here are the BASIC important key commands:
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- F1 - Display Help Menu
- ESC - Abort and Exit
- ALT-X - Save and Exit
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- Check out Help for others. (F1)
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- Simplicity....
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- QAView really is pretty simple. You should not have any problems
- with it. No setup, no configuration files, just run it!
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- If you have any suggestion for improvment of QAView, please feel free
- to contact the author.
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- In Closing
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- Once again, I think Eric Staufer deserves a BIG THANKS! for his
- efforts in providing RA Sysops with the multitude of information he
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- has gathered. Along with thanking him, all the folks who have
- contributed to the building of these help files deserve your praise
- too.
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- Support/Help questions for QAView must be directed to Rand Nowell
- at The RaLin Software BBS - Eric Staufer cannot help you with program
- problems.
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- The author of QAView can be contacted at any of the following:
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- Netmail: 1:215/710
- BBS : 1-510-226-7731
- Voice : 1-510-651-6177
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- Snail : Rand Nowell
- RaLin Enterprises
- 4641 Wheeler Dr.
- Fremont, Ca. 94538-1937
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- Echos : Rand Nowell @
- RA_SUPPORT, RA_UTIL, RA_MULTI and various others.
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- RemoteAccess, The ONLY Way To BBS
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