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- London Access Demo Manual
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- About The London Access Demo
- Welcome to the first guide to Central London for your PC, London Access!
- This demo version covers about 5% of the area of the complete product. Some features have
- been disabled; these are greyed out in the menus. We hope it will give you a taste of the real thing
- nonetheless, and show you how useful London Access can be.
- London Access Demo runs on Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 systems.
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- Installation
- This program will run straight from your CD-ROM. No installation is required.
- If you like, you can copy London Access to your hard drive. Simply copy the LONACDEM folder and
- all its contents.
- You can also copy London Access Demo to a floppy diskette and distribute it to your friends.
- IMPORTANT: Please make sure to copy all the files, including this manual, without making any
- alterations to the files or code. This would violate your licence agreement and possibly prevent the
- demo from running correctly.
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- Running London Access
- From File Manager, or the Run Menu, simply run the DEMO.EXE application in the LONACDEM
- directory.
- Use of this demo is governed by a licence agreement which you must accept before you can
- continue. Please read the terms of the licence carefully.
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- Features
- London Access is an electronic map that enables you to locate streets, tube stations, restaurants
- and tourist attractions. It is very simple to use.
- You can scroll the map view area using the normal scroll bar functions. This enables you to
- follow streets.
- You can also find streets and other important features using the different menus.
- The red arrow points to the last feature you found using the menu functions, or it can be set with
- the Set Arrow command.
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- The File Menu
- Most of these functions are disabled in this demo, but you will get an idea of how the full product
- works.
- Save View This stores a picture file of the area of the map at which you are looking. This
- function is disabled in the demo version.
- Load View This loads a picture file you previously created using Save View. This function is
- disabled in the demo version.
- Delete View This deletes a previously saved view. This function is disabled in the demo version.
- Print View This prints the selected view. This function is disabled in the demo version.
- Save Bitmap This saves a bitmap of the view you have selected which you can import into other
- applications. This function is disabled in the demo version.
- Printer Setup This function is disabled in the demo version.
- Print Allows you to print a bitmap. This function is disabled in the demo version.
- Exit Quits the program.
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- The Street Menu
- Find Street This enables you to find a street from the alphabetical list by typing in its name. As
- you type more letters the list of choices shrinks down. You can select a street by double-clicking
- its name with he mouse pointer. The red arrow will then point to the street.
- Set Arrow This enables you to set the red indicator arrow to a point on the map defined by the
- cross-hair cursor. This feature can be used to indicate precisely an interesting feature or meeting
- point.
- Go Back This returns the map to the position of the last found position.
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- The Tube Menu
- Find Tube This enables you to find a tube station from the alphabetical list by typing in its name.
- As you type more letters the list of choices shrinks down. You can select a station by double-
- clicking its name with the mouse pointer. The red arrow will then point to the station.
- Closest Tube This selects the Closest tube to your current position defined by the red arrow
- pointer.
- Planner This enables to select a pair of tube stations and find the easiest route between them.
- This feature has been disabled in the demo version.
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- The Attraction Menu
- This works in the same way as the Tube menu but points you to notable tourist attractions such as
- museums.
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- The Restaurant Menu
- Find Restaurant and Closest Restaurant allow you to look for different types of restaurants, either
- in the whole map or the closest to your current position.
- Either menu item brings up a dialog box with the following options; Cards Accepted, Price
- Range, and Type of Food.
- By selecting one or more of these options you can narrow your search for a very specific type of
- restaurant, or leave it wide to bring up a longer list of options. For instance you could select
- Chinese restaurants which take Access cards and are moderately expensive, or you could leave
- all the selections blank and select from all the restaurants.
- The Type of Food selection window includes not only nationalities but also general styles of food
- and venue, such as seafood or boat restaurants. You can select one or more types here just by
- clicking on them with your mouse pointer. This highlights your selections in light blue.
- If you make your search too narrow there may be no matches, in which case the resulting list
- will be blank.
- Once you have a list, you can send the red arrow to the restaurant of your choice by double-
- clicking on it. You can now use the Restaurant Info menu item to find out specific details about
- that establishment.
- Please note that the selection of restaurants listed in this demo is those that are providing
- special offers to purchasers of London Access. Details of the offers, and vouchers to claim them,
- can be found in the retail version of London Access.
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- The Help Menu
- Index This feature has not been implemented in the demo version.
- Using Help This feature has not been implemented in the demo version.
- Special This identifies the version as a demo and gives details of how o purchase the full
- version of London Access.
- About This gives copyright information on this product.
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- How to buy London Access
- The full version of London Access is on sale at all good software retailers from November 1995.
- For more information contact Instant Access on 0181 205 2596.
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- Copyright Information
- The London Access demo is copyright 1995 Instant Access International Ltd.
- Program code is copyright 1995 of Dynamical Systems Research Ltd.
- Mapping data is copyright 1995 of Bartholomew, a division of Harpers Collins Publishers Limited.
- Instant Access is a registered trademark of Instant Access International.
- London Access is a trademark of Instant Access International.
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