Category : Science and Education
Archive   : CALC-1.ZIP
Filename : INSTRUCT.DOC
Output of file : INSTRUCT.DOC contained in archive : CALC-1.ZIP
INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING SHAREWARE DISKS:
1. PUT YOUR DOS DISK IN THE A: DRIVE AND TURN ON YOUR COMPUTER.
2. AFTER BOOTING UP YOUR COMPUTER, PLACE YOUR PROGRAM DISK IN DRIVE A:
3. TYPE DIR/W TO LIST THE FILES ON YOUR SHAREWARE PROGRAM DISK.
4. IF THERE IS A FILE NAMED CONTENTS.DOC, ENTER COPY CONTENTS.DOC PRN.
5. IF YOU FIND A FILE CALLED README.DOC THEN 'TYPE' THAT FILE FOR
DISK OR PROGRAM INFORMATION. ALSO PRINT IT OUT AS WELL AS SHOWN BELOW.
6. PRINT ANY FILES WITH A DOC, TXT, ME, IST, EXTENSION OR THAT HAVE THE
WORDS "MANUAL" OR "README" IN THEM. IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU SEE FILENAMES
SUCH AS "README.DOC" OR "MANUAL" ETC., YOU WOULD PRINT THEM OUT
WITH THE FOLLOWING COMMAND: COPY FILENAME.EXT PRN
YOU WOULD, OF COURSE, SUBSTITUTE THE ACTUAL FILENAME (I.E. README)
FOR THE WORD "FILENAME". THE .EXT STANDS FOR THE 3 LETTER EXTENSION
USUALLY FOUND ON A FILE NAME SUCH AS THE .DOC IN "README.DOC". BE
SURE THAT YOU HAVE A SINGLE SPACE AFTER THE COMMAND "COPY" AND BEFORE
THE COMMAND "PRN". ONCE YOU HAVE THE INSTRUCTIONS AND DOCUMENTATION
PRINTED OUT, YOU MAY SEE HOW THE COM, EXE OR BAT FILES OPERATE.
7. IF A COM, EXE, OR BAT FILE DOESN'T HAVE A DOC FILE, TRY RUNNING IT.
8. TO RUN A BASIC PROGRAM (EXAMPLE: RUNTEST.BAS):
-PUT YOUR BASICA (OR GWBASIC OR WHATEVER) DISK IN DRIVE B: AND
THE PROGRAM DISK IN A:.
-AT THE A> PROMPT, ENTER B:BASICA RUNTEST OR
ENTER B:BASICA AND WHEN THE SCREEN SAYS 'OK', TYPE: RUN"RUNTEST
AT THE 'OK' PROMPT TO RETURN TO DOS SYSTEM TYPE: SYSTEM.
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Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!
This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.
But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/