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- | INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE SPELLBOUND! SPELLING TUTOR |
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- | S H A R E W A R E |
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- THE SPELLBOUND! SPELLING TUTOR IS SHAREWARE, NOT FREEWARE!
-
- The SPELLBOUND! Spelling Tutor is not free. You are granted
- a limited license of 7 days of free use so that you can evaluate
- the program fully. If you continue to make use of the program
- beyond the 7 days, you are required to purchase the program using
- one of the 3 options outlined in SPELL.DOC. If after the 7 days
- you decide not to purchase the program, you must remove all of
- its files from your system, while you may continue to distribute
- the original package to friends, BBSes, etcetera.
-
- THE SPELLBOUND! SOFTWARE SUPER DUPER, NEW AND IMPROVED, ALL
- PURPOSE SHAREWARE CURSE OR -- "WHO IS WELDON?"
-
- To discourage use of the program beyond the 7 day evaluation
- period, we been sadly (sigh), forced to employ the timeworn
- device of "cursing" dishonest users of our product. For further
- information, and for an answer to the burning question: "Who is
- this Weldon guy, and what is his name doing in the
- documentation?" see SPELL.DOC!
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- FULLY FUNCTIONAL, NOT DISABLED!
-
- This shareware or evaluation copy of The SPELLBOUND! Spelling
- Tutor has not been disabled in any way. All of the functions
- available in the Registered version are fully functional in this
- version. The only difference is the presence of the shareware
- screens in the shareware version to remind you of your obligation
- to register and not to use the program beyond the 7 day
- evaluation period without registering.
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- INVOICE AND MAILER AUTOMATICALLY TOTALED AND PRINTED
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- To make the task of purchase completely painless, you will
- be presented with a data entry screen as you exit the program
- into which you may type all of the ordering information. From
- this information, an invoice will be totaled and printed (or sent
- to a file for further editing if you prefer). In addition, a
- pre-addressed mailer containing your return address and the
- address of SPELLBOUND! Software will be printed. Just answer all
- of the questions from your keyboard, choose what printer port or
- file to which it should be sent, assemble the simple mailer,
- insert your check with the invoice, staple, stamp, and mail!
- MasterCard and Visa are accepted.
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- IMMEDIATE CONVERSION TO REGISTERED VERSION BY PHONE!
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- If you have a MasterCard or Visa, you may have your copy
- converted to the registered version immediately if you wish
- simply by calling SPELLBOUND! Software at (517) 828-6520 with the
- program running on your computer. We will give to you a special
- code which when entered into the program will make the
- conversion. Remote registration removes all of the shareware
- screens as well as the termination screens. The cost is a
- minimum $15.00 registration fee for this service. If you desire
- the additional word lists or the latest version the charge is
- slightly higher. See SPELL.DOC for further information on
- registration.
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- | I N S T A L L A T I O N |
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- PROBLEMS
- If you have any problems while installing the program,
- call SPELLBOUND! Software Customer Support at: (517) 828-6520.
- We will be happy to help you to evaluate our program!
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- REQUIREMENTS FOR INSTALLATION
- The SPELLBOUND! Spelling Tutor requires 384k free memory,
- DOS 3.00 or above, CGA, EGA, or VGA monitor (or Hercules (R) card
- with a CGA simulation program), 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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- PRINTING THE DOCUMENTATION
- To print out the documention for "The SPELLBOUND! Spelling
- Tutor", install the program according to the directions given in
- this documentation. Once you have started the program, press F1
- to bring up context-sensitive help. Press F1 once again to bring
- up the documentation in the file viewer. Press F9 to print the
- file being displayed, in this case, SPELL.DOC. Enter your
- parallel printer port number when prompted. Make sure you have
- about 40 sheets of paper.
- To print this file now, enter the following command from the
- DOS prompt: COPY README.1ST PRN <Press ENTER>
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- PRINTING WITH THE BOTHSIDES TEXT FORMATTER
- Even better, if you have SPELLBOUND! Software's "BothSides
- Text Formatter", Just type: BOTH SPELL.DOC FF. When the
- processing is finished, type: COPY SPELL.ONE PRN and when side
- one is finished, turn the paper over, reinsert it into the
- printer and type: COPY SPELL.TWO PRN. The documentation will
- print to both sides of the paper. Instead of 40 sheets of paper,
- you will only need 20!
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- READING THE DOCUMENTATION FROM WITHIN THE SPELLING TUTOR
- To read the documentation online, Press F1 once to bring up
- context sensitive help. While the help box is displayed, press
- F1 once more. The file viewer will immediately display
- SPELL.DOC. SPELL.DOC must be in the PROGRAM or DATA directory.
- Press F9 to print it.
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- PREPARING THE INSTALL DISKETTE FOR INSTALLATION TO FLOPPY DISKS
- The INSTALL program requires the availability of
- "COMMAND.COM" (your command interpreter). If you do not have a
- hard drive or you boot your computer from drive A:, you will need
- to copy "COMMAND.COM" from your DOS "System" disk to the Spelling
- Tutor installation diskette before proceeding with the
- installation.
- If installing to floppies, COMMAND.COM will be automatically
- copied to your program diskette by the INSTALL program as well,
- so that the transient portion of COMMAND.COM can be refreshed
- when terminating the Spelling Tutor. This prevents the message,
- "Insert disk with COMMAND.COM into drive A: and press any key".
- This will enable you to make use of an external editor in
- addition to allowing you to SHELL to Dos from within the program.
- If in rare circumstances you are not using COMMAND.COM,
- substitute the command interpreter for the operating system you
- are using. If you are unsure, type: "SET" at the Dos prompt and
- press ENTER. Look for the words: "COMSPEC=". The file name to
- the right of the equal sign is the name and path to your command
- interpreter.
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- | I N S T A L L A T I O N -- 2 F L O P P Y S Y S T E M |
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- (1.) Format two blank floppy diskettes in the following manner:
- 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 PROGRAM diskette. When it is
- finished, format another diskette in the same way. This
- will be your DATA diskette.
-
- (2.) Place the SPELLBOUND! diskette into drive A: and with the
- blank formatted PROGRAM diskette still in drive B:, do the
- following. Type: "A:INSTALL" press ENTER, read all of the
- instructions and follow the prompts. Both destination
- diskettes will be inserted into drive B: at the proper time.
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- (3.) If everything went okay, your program is now ready to run!
- Place the PROGRAM diskette into drive A:, the DATA diskette
- (containing SPELL.WDS, SPELL.DOC, etc. into drive B:, type:
- "B:" (this will change you to drive B:) and then type:
- "SPELL" and press ENTER.
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- | I N S T A L L A T I O N -- H A R D O R H D D R I V E |
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- (1.) Place the distribution diskette into drive A: and do the
- following:
- a: Type: "A:INSTALL" (without quotes) press ENTER.
- b: Read all of the instructions, and follow the prompts. The
- INSTALL program can make some very necessary changes to
- AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS for you, or you can make them
- yourself if you are leery of having installation programs
- mess with your system. If you choose to have the program do
- it for you, the original copies of your programs will be
- backed up first, so the changes are reversible. If you have
- the program make these changes for you, then skip step (2.).
-
- (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 If there is no PATH statement
- in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, then you must enter the
- following: (Assuming the PROGRAM files were installed in
- "C:\SPELL") PATH C:\SPELL 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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- IMPORTANT! If you have a hard drive system with a single
- High density drive, you will first have to install to a
- single directory on your hard drive, and then copy all the
- files from that directory to the diskette.
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- | Y O U R F I R S T S E S S I O N |
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- To start SPELLBOUND!, make the data directory your current
- directory. For example, if the data directory were
- C:\SPELL\CLASSONE, you would type: "C:" press ENTER and then "CD
- \SPELL\CLASSONE" press ENTER. When you have done this, type:
- "SPELL" press ENTER, and the program will begin.
- In your first session you will be presented with a couple of
- questions. The first is whether students will have access to
- functions which allow access to files or 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.) Press ESC while at the MAIN MENU
- (3.) Key in "DEFAULT", then enter your "TEACHER" password again.
- (4.) While logged in as "DEFAULT", set up the configuration as
- you wish each new student to be configured the first time
- on. You may even run the Spelling Tutor and change the
- colors there. (Just press F1 in Spelling Tutor to see how
- to do this.)
- (5.) When the configuration is complete, either press F10 to quit
- or return to the Login screen and log in under your own name
- or "Teacher".
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- The configuration you create as default is saved to
- DEFAULT.CFG in the program directory. This will be the initial
- configuration each student will receive the first time he logs
- in. If you have many classes (each class in its own directory),
- this configuration will affect all classes.
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