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- ║ STARTUP INSTRUCTIONS FOR "THE SPELLBOUND! SPELLING TUTOR", VERSION 1.10 ║
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- This program may be freely copied and distributed IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM to
- friends, uploaded to computer bulletin boards, or distributed by
- scrupulous shareware distributors as long as no more than $3.95 is charged
- for the service of duplication and distribution.
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- ATTENTION: If you received the program via BBS or Shareware distributor,
- you probably received it as a single compressed file. You can simply dump
- the files into a single directory on your hard drive, or for floppy systems,
- dump them onto a single floppy and follow the directions below, or if your
- floppy drive is either 720k or 1.44 meg, just dump the files onto the
- floppy and use as is.
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- SPELLBOUND! requires 384k memory, DOS 3.00 or above, CGA, EGA, or VGA
- monitor, two floppy disk drives OR one of the following single drive
- systems: Hard drive, 720k floppy, 1.2meg floppy, 1.44meg floppy.
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- To print out the documention for "The SPELLBOUND! Spelling Tutor", just
- place the disk into drive A:, turn your printer on, make sure you have
- about 15 sheets of paper loaded and type: "COPY SPELL.DOC PRN" press
- ENTER (Don't type quotes). If your printer is not connected to LPT1, see
- your DOS manual for information on using the "MODE" command to redirect
- your printer port. Substitute "README.1ST" for "SPELL.DOC" to print this.
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- ║ INSTALLATION FOR TWO FLOPPY SYSTEM ║
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- (1.) Format two blank floppy diskettes in the following manner.
- a. Place your DOS diskette containing FORMAT.COM into drive A: and a
- blank diskette into drive B:. Type "A:FORMAT B:" press
- ENTER. This will be your DATA diskette.
- b. Remove diskette from drive B:. Place another diskette into drive B:
- and type: "A:FORMAT B: /S" press ENTER, and when it is finished
- type: "COPY A:\COMMAND.COM B:" press ENTER. This will be your
- PROGRAM or "boot" diskette.
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- (2.) Place your SPELLBOUND! diskette into drive A: and with the blank
- formatted PROGRAM diskette still in drive B:, do the following:
- a. Type: "A:" Press ENTER. This will make A: your current
- drive.
- b. Type "FINSTALL" press ENTER, and follow the prompts.
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- (3.) If everything went okay, your program is now ready to run!
- Place the SPELLBOUND! diskette into drive A:, the DATA diskette
- now containing SPELL.WDS into drive B:, and boot the computer!
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- ******* ║ INSTALLATION FOR SYSTEM WITH HARD OR LARGE FLOPPY DRIVE ║ *******
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- (1.) Place the distribution diskette into drive A: and do the
- following:
- a: Type: "A:" (without quotes) press ENTER.
- b: Decide what you wish to name your directories. For this installation,
- we will assume that you wish to name the program directory "\SPELL",
- and the data directory "\CLASSONE" on drive "C:".
- c: Type: "HINSTALL C: \SPELL \CLASSONE
- d: When installation is finished, HINSTALL will modify the present
- path, change to the new data directory, and start SPELLBOUND!
- (2.) Add the program directory to your PATH environment variable in
- AUTOEXEC.BAT or at the DOS prompt. If you already have a PATH statement
- in AUTOEXEC.BAT, then append a semicolon before appending the directory.
- Example: PATH C:\DOS;C:\UTIL;C:\WP;C:\SPELL
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- If there is no PATH statement in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, then you must
- enter the following:
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- PATH C:\SPELL
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- The PATH environment variable tells DOS where to search for commands it
- cannot find in the current directory. When you type "SPELL" from the
- data directory, DOS will not be able to find SPELL.EXE in the current
- directory. It will look through the directories listed in the PATH
- statement.
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- ║ YOUR FIRST SESSION IN SPELLBOUND! ║
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- To start SPELLBOUND!, make the data directory your current
- directory. For example, if the data directory were C:\CLASSONE, you
- would type: "C:" press ENTER and then "CD \CLASSONE" press ENTER.
- When you have done this, type: "SPELL" press ENTER, and the program
- will begin.
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- In your first session you will be presented with a couple of
- questions. The first is whether students will have access to the
- operating system. The other is whether you would like password
- protection so that students may only view their own records. Once
- installation is finished, the only person who will be able to change
- these settings is the person who logs on as "TEACHER". TEACHER must
- always enter a password to gain entrance. If a student were allowed
- to log in as teacher, he would be able to view other students'
- passwords, print out reports of their progress etcetera, so you may
- not disable password protection for the TEACHER. To change these
- initial settings at any time:
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- (1.) Log in as TEACHER, and enter your password.
- (2.) Choose change name from the MAIN MENU
- (3.) Enter "DEFAULT", then enter your "TEACHER" password again.
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- At this time the questions will be presented to you again.
- Answer them as you wish. To create a global configuration which will
- be the default startup for all new students, create a configuration as
- "DEFAULT" even running the spelling tutor if you wish and changing its
- colors. When a new student logs in, he will receive the configuration
- you set as "DEFAULT".
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- To use the List a file feature, you must either have a copy of
- LIST.COM, or another file viewing utility renamed to LIST.COM or
- LIST.EXE or run from a batch file called LIST.BAT. This file must be
- in the PATH. If you have a two-floppy system, this file should be
- copied to drive B:, the data drive. There will be no room on drive A:
- for a 360k drive. The AUTOEXEC.BAT supplied with SPELLBOUND! sets the
- PATH to A:\ and B:\ (PATH A:\;B:\).
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