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- Quick start information for Notes.prg v0.9 10/26/89
- ------------------------------------------------------
-
- ******************** ATTENTION! *****************************
-
- THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME CONFUSION REGARDING THE NOTES.DAT FILE.
-
- THIS FILE MUST!!!!! BE EDITED TO SHOW THE CORRECT
- PATH FOR YOUR NOTES DIRECTORY! IF YOU DO NOT DO THIS
- THE NOTES PROGRAM WILL NOT RUN CORRECTLY!
-
- If your NOTES directory is located on drive C:, edit the
- NOTES.DAT file to read as follows:
-
- C:\NOTES\
- HELP.NOT
- 0
-
- DO NOT PUT ANYTHING ELSE IN THIS FILE! I have resisted the
- temptation to make Notes install it's self, as this is only
- done infrequently. If I did this you would have to pay the
- price in memory all the time. This dosen't matter much on a
- program but could be critical in a DA. We have been advised
- that editing the NOTES.DAT file is a unforgivable burden on
- the user, therefore we are looking into coming up with a
- seperate install program. To those of us who were unable to
- get notes to run, I apologize for the inconvienence. However
- I doubt you will be reading this.
-
- ****************************************************************
-
- To use NOTES, you must place the file notes.dat on
- root directory of the boot disk. To change to path
- configuration, use a ascii text editor to change the
- drive specification on the first line in notes.dat.
- The first line is the path that points to the folder
- that contains the note data files. Notes can be
- used as either an accessory or a program, depending
- on the 3 digit file extender. Once you have Notes
- running, press help to learn the command key structure.
- More information is available in the file Notes.txt
- which accompanies these release files. There is also
- a similar set of information in the file Startup.not.
- With revision of Notes, the registration fee rises from
- $10 to $15. If interest indicates we may offer a
- printed manual in the future.
- ------------------------------------------------------
- Changes....
- ------------------------------------------------------
- There have been many changes since the last version
- of Notes was posted.
-
- 1. Mouse support has been added to both the index and
- the normal Note screen. It is now possible to move
- around in your notes without touching the keyboard.
-
- 2. The first level of hypertext support has now been
- implemented. This allows a direct change of
- subject files to a related file, using a click of
- the mouse.
-
- 3. The first level of external file support has been
- added. It is now possible to store related ascii file
- information on a note and directly view it.
-
- 4. A primitive import program is provided with this
- release. This is NOT the difinitive import program
- for Notes. To use this program, you must format
- an ascii text file with 64 character lines. Name
- the input file INPUT.TXT and run IMPORT.PRG. This
- will generate a file called OUTPUT.NOT which you can
- rename to whatever you want to call the note file.
- Be advised, you WILL have to do some editing cleanup
- of the file.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------
- When in doubt as to the documentation of new features
- of notes, you may refer to the Notes.txt file, but the
- most current information is in the Help.not.
- ------------------------------------------------------
- Enjoy the new version, and as always, remember your
- starving shareware author....
-
- Tom T.
- 10/26/89
-
-
- ------------------------------------------------------
- Quick start information for Notes.prg v0.9 10/26/89
- ------------------------------------------------------
-
- ******************** ATTENTION! *****************************
-
- THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME CONFUSION REGARDING THE NOTES.DAT FILE.
-
- THIS FILE MUST!!!!! BE EDITED TO SHOW THE CORRECT
- PATH FOR YOUR NOTES DIRECTORY! IF YOU DO NOT DO THIS
- THE NOTES PROGRAM WILL NOT RUN CORRECTLY!
-
- If your NOTES directory is located on drive C:, edit the
- NOTES.DAT file to read as follows:
-
- C:\NOTES\
- HELP.NOT
- 0
-
- DO NOT PUT ANYTHING ELSE IN THIS FILE! I have resisted the
- temptation to make Notes install it's self, as this is only
- done infrequently. If I did this you would have to pay the
- price in memory all the time. This dosen't matter much on a
- program but could be critical in a DA. We have been advised
- that editing the NOTES.DAT file is a unforgivable burden on
- the user, therefore we are looking into coming up with a
- seperate install program. To those of us who were unable to
- get notes to run, I apologize for the inconvienence. However
- I doubt you will be reading this.
-
- ****************************************************************
-
- To use NOTES, you must place the file notes.dat on
- root directory of the boot disk. To change to path
- configuration, use a ascii text editor to change the
- drive specification on the first line in notes.dat.
- The first line is the path that points to the folder
- that contains the note data files. Notes can be
- used as either an accessory or a program, depending
- on the 3 digit file extender. Once you have Notes
- running, press help to learn the command key structure.
- More information is available in the file Notes.txt
- which accompanies these release files. There is also
- a similar set of information in the file Startup.not.
- With revision of Notes, the registration fee rises from
- $10 to $15. If interest indicates we may offer a
- printed manual in the future.
- ------------------------------------------------------
- Changes....
- ------------------------------------------------------
- There have been many changes since the last version
- of Notes was posted.
-
- 1. Mouse support has been added to both the index and
- the normal Note screen. It is now possible to move
- around in your notes without touching the keyboard.
-
- 2. The first level of hypertext support has now been
- implemented. This allows a direct change of
- subject files to a related file, using a click of
- the mouse.
-
- 3. The first level of external file support has been
- added. It is now possible to store related ascii file
- information on a note and directly view it.
-
- 4. A primitive import program is provided with this
- release. This is NOT the difinitive import program
- for Notes. To use this program, you must format
- an ascii text file with 64 character lines. Name
- the input file INPUT.TXT and run IMPORT.PRG. This
- will generate a file called OUTPUT.NOT which you can
- rename to whatever you want to call the note file.
- Be advised, you WILL have to do some editing cleanup
- of the file.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------
- When in doubt as to the documentation of new features
- of notes, you may refer to the Notes.txt file, but the
- most current information is in the Help.not.
- ------------------------------------------------------
- Enjoy the new version, and as always, remember your
- starving shareware author....
-
- Tom T.
- 10/26/89
-