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- JP Software
-
- 4DOS Shareware Disk Startup Documentation
-
- Version 4.01 -- June 8, 1992
-
-
- Copyright 1988 - 1992, JP Software Inc., All Rights Reserved. Published
- by JP Software Inc., P.O. Box 1470, E. Arlington, MA 02174 USA, (617)
- 646-3975.
-
-
- Greetings, and thanks for trying 4DOS!
-
- This file explains how to start the automated 4DOS installation process.
- You can print this file with the command:
-
- copy a:readme.1st prn
-
- (modify this command if your diskette is not in drive A:).
-
- This is a shareware copy of 4DOS. 4DOS is copyrighted software protect-
- ed by US law and international treaty provisions. Your use of 4DOS is
- subject to the terms of the 4DOS License Agreement and Limited Warranty
- included in the file LICENSE.DOC. This file will be visible once you
- have installed 4DOS. The license agreement allows you to use 4DOS for a
- trial period of up to 21 days before deciding whether to purchase it.
- Please read this agreement before using 4DOS.
-
- The 4DOS files are stored in compressed form on this disk in the file.
- They can only be extracted using the installation program INSTALL.EXE
- (they are not stored in an archive format such as ZIP or ARC).
-
- To install 4DOS automatically on your system, place this disk in any
- drive it fits in, and enter the command:
-
- x:install
-
- where "x" is the drive that the 4DOS disk is in, for example:
-
- a:install
-
- You can also change to the diskette drive and run INSTALL (you MUST use
- this approach if you are running DOS 2). For example:
-
- a:
- install
-
- INSTALL installs 4DOS automatically, but will not modify your system
- files such as CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT without your permission.
-
- PLEASE NOTE: If you have an earlier version of 4DOS on your system,
- do NOT install the 4DOS version 4.01 files in the directory in which
- your old 4DOS files are stored. Install them in a different direc-
- tory, and read the upgrade information in README.DOC and UPDAT401.DOC
- before beginning work with 4DOS 4.01.
-
- If you prefer to install 4DOS manually, start INSTALL as described
- above. Choose the "Tour Installation" option on the INSTALL main menu.
- This will copy all the 4DOS files to your disk and then stop. Once the
- files are copied, look through chapters 2 and 6 of the 4DOS manual (in
- the file 4DOS.DOC). These chapters contain instructions for manual
- installation. You can also copy files individually using the "Copy
- Individual Files" option on the INSTALL main menu.
-
- To view the manual or any of the other 4DOS documentation files
- (LICENSE.DOC, APPNOTES.DOC, README.DOC, or UPDATE40.DOC), use any file
- viewer (e.g. LIST.COM) or use the 4DOS LIST command once you have 4DOS
- installed. You can print the manual or any of the other documentation
- files by COPYing the file to your printer if you like, for example to
- print README.DOC:
-
- copy readme.doc prn
-
- These files contain headers, footers, and form feed (new page) char-
- acters so it is best to copy them directly to the printer. You can use
- a page formatting program designed to handle this type of file if you
- wish (for example the shareware product 4PRINT, which prints long docu-
- ments in a condensed format). However if the program you use can't
- handle pre-formatted pages your printout may not look right. The 4DOS
- manual is very long (over 350 pages!) so you may want to view it on-
- screen instead of printing it.
-
- INSTALL runs best with 475K or more of free memory available. If your
- system has less than about 475K of free memory there may be insufficient
- memory for INSTALL to perform the installation actions you select. If
- INSTALL runs out of memory and cannot continue it will exit with a
- "Memory allocation failure" error. If this occurs, remove some memory-
- resident programs or device drivers, then re-run INSTALL. If you have
- problems with memory allocation failures in INSTALL and cannot free up
- enough memory to avoid them, please contact our technical support de-
- partment for assistance.
-
- If you are installing on a system which has only floppy disks, you must
- perform some manual steps to get all the files extracted. First, use
- the "Full Installation" or "Tour Installation" option from the main
- INSTALL menu. During the installation process INSTALL will tell you
- that there is not enough room on your disk for all of the files, and
- give you the option to install only those files required to run 4DOS.
- These files will fit on a 360K floppy disk. Once you have these files,
- see README.DOC for a complete list of all 4DOS files. Then use the Copy
- Individual Files option on INSTALL's main menu to extract any additional
- files you want to a separate floppy disk.
-
- Note that the 4DOS ASCII manual, 4DOS.DOC, requires about 1 MB of disk
- space and can only be extracted to a hard disk, RAM disk, or high-densi-
- ty floppy disk. If you have only low-density floppy disks and need a
- copy of the manual split up into several files, please contact us and we
- will supply you with such a copy.
-
-
- You can contact JP Software at any of the addresses below.
-
- CompuServe JP Software section of the PC Vendor B forum (GO JPSOFT
- or GO PCVENB), or CompuServe Mail to 75020,244 (custom-
- er service), 75300,1215 (technical support), or
- 75300,210 (general)
- Bix Bixmail to "jpsoft"
- BBS Channel 1, Boston, 617-354-8873
- InterLink via the 4DOS Conference
- PCRelay via the 4DOS Conference
- FidoNet via the 4DOS Conference
- SmartNet via the 4DOS Conference
- Voice (617) 646-3975, days Eastern US time
- Fax (617) 646-0904
- MCI Mail 470-7811
- US Mail JP Software
- P.O. Box 1470
- E. Arlington, MA 02174, USA