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- How to Install The Desktop Internet Reference
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- - The Desktop Internet Reference is a Windows Help file and uses
- - the program winhelp.exe, supplied with Microsoft Windows
- - 3.x as a presentation utility. You NEED Windows 3.x to use
- - the Desktop Internet Reference.
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- * Quick Installation Directions:
- Copy the file DIR10.HLP to a directory where you want it to reside;
- most people copy it to C:\DIR10. Then, create an icon in Program
- Manager by choosing "File" - "New" - "Program Item" and filling
- in the "Program Item Properties" with the following information:
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- Description: Desktop Internet Reference
- Command Line: WINHELP C:\DIR10\DIR10.HLP
- Working directory: C:\DIR10
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- * Longer Installation Directions:
- - You first need to copy the Desktop Internet Reference file,
- DIR10.HLP, to a directory on your hard drive.
- - If you know how to use the File Manager, copy DIR10.HLP to
- a directory on your hard drive called "C:\DIR10"
- If you want to use DOS to copy the file: first type "C:", then
- type "MD C:\DIR10" and finally "COPY A:\DIR10.HLP C:\DIR10"
- - Load Windows up. The Program Manager is the first thing
- you see when windows starts up.
- - From the Program Manager, use your mouse to click on FILE
- from the pull down menu.
- - Click on NEW.
- - A dialog box titled "New Program Object" appears. Use your
- mouse to click on the OK button.
- - A new dialog box appears titled "Program Item Properties" and a
- cursor appears next to a label titled "Description"
- - Use the keyboard to type in "Desktop Internet Reference" - do not
- type the quotation marks!
- - Press the Tab key or use your mouse to move the cursor to
- the box which has the "Command Line" label to the left of it.
- - Use the keyboard to type in "WINHELP C:\DIR10\DIR10.HLP"
- - Press the Tab key or use your mouse to move the cursor to the
- box which has the "Working Directory" label to the left of it.
- - Use the keyboard to type in "C:\DIR10"
- - Press the Enter key or use your mouse to press the button
- labelled "OK"
- - A new icon titled "Desktop Internet Reference" appears. Press
- return or double click the icon to run it.
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- Enjoy!
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- John Buckman
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- email:
- jbuckman@aas.org
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- USPS mail:
- 3520 Connecticut Ave, #33
- Washington DC 20008
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