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- INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE OF THE NEW EXECUTABLE PROGRAM MENU VIA CTRL-X
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- Use any text editor (QEDIT is recommended) to create PROGMENU.AM.
- This file must be formatted as described below. Note that in the
- examples provided, that upper and lower case are used for clarity
- and the actual file line data may be in either case.
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- Comments are denoted by the semicolin (";"). AM will ignore the
- semicolon and all following text in any line in which it appears.
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- Place each program name on the a separate line. The name may be as
- short as the program file name without an extension if the file exists
- on the DOS path, or may be the full DOS path specification for the file.
- Whatever is on that line is what AM will turn into a menu item that will
- be passed to DOS to execute. This means that you can place an internal
- or external DOS command is acceptable.
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- When Ctrl-X is pressed, AM will first look in the current directory
- (left window) for PROGMENU.AM and load it if found. If not found there,
- AM will search the DOS path and load it if found. If not found, nothing
- happens. This strategy permits maintaining numerous variants of
- PROGMENU.AM in different directories as well as maintaining one master
- copy in one directory in the DOS path.
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- Note that AM automatically uses its swap to EMS/Disk capability when
- executing programs in order to maximize the amount of RAM available to
- the target program.
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- You may elect to designate one of the characters in the program name
- as a "hot key" by preceding the character with an asteris (*). For
- example:
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- *MYMENU.EXE
- *EDIT.EXE
- C:\DATA\UTILS\*MASTER.COM
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- Int the menu above pressing the "M" key would launch MYMENU.EXE and
- pressing the key "E" would launch EDIT.EXE. Since MASTER.COM uses
- designates a hot key already in use, it will be ignored.
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