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- TCLI: The TOS Command Line Interpreter
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- Copyright (C) 1990-1993 By Robert Berry
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- SUMMARY
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- The TOS Command Line Interpreter is a program that simulates the
- MS-DOS command line shell. It enables the user to manipulate
- files much more efficiently than the desktop, and it provides
- several functions that the desktop doesn't directly support.
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- The files within TCLI are contained in the self-extracting
- archive TCLI.TOS. The files that comprise this distribution are
- as follows:
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- README.DOC - This README file.
- TCLI.DOC - The documentation for TCLI.
- COMMAND.PRG - The TCLI program.
- TCLIHELP.DAT - The data file for TCLI's built-in help system.
- VDISK.TTP - A RAMdisk program.
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- You may want to print this file and the TCLI.DOC file out. To do
- this, run TCLI, and enter "PRINT TCLI.DOC" at the prompt (the
- TCLI.DOC file must be in the current directory). Make sure your
- printer's print head is positioned over a perforation before you
- do this.
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- POLICIES
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- TCLI is Shareware, which means that, if you like the program and
- use it, you should register your copy. This program may not be
- redistributed in any form; the original TCLI.TOS file is the only
- file that may be distributed.
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- As a bonus for those who do register, I will provide the complete
- Personal Pascal source code for the project, as well as the Help
- Compiler and the original ST-Writer help text file.
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- Please note that the source code is for use ONLY by registered
- users, and that any modified programs MAY NOT be redistributed.
- It is for YOUR use only, so that you can customize the program
- and add any new commands that you'd like to add. However, if you
- happen to find a routine in the program that you'd like to use in
- one of your own programs, you are permitted to use the routine,
- as long as the program bears no resemblance in functionality to
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- TCLI, and it is stated in the program's documentation that the
- routine was borrowed from TCLI Ver. 1.0.
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- The Help Compiler will take the help text file and convert it
- into a format usable by the TCLI program. This will allow you to
- edit the help system to customize it to your system. For
- example, you can add reference information for any programs you
- use, by simply adding the information to the help text file,
- compiling it with the Help Compiler, and re-running TCLI. After
- that, you would simply enter HELP program to view the reference
- information for your program.
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- The help file for TCLI can grow as large as necessary, depending
- on the amount of free RAM you have, up to 2MB. So, you could
- store as much reference material as you can think of within the
- help file.
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- Programmers might like to try this: Enter descriptions of the
- library functions you use, keyed by function name. Enter a
- master list of functions (perhaps under the keyword "functions"),
- which contains names of all of the functions in the library.
- Then, to display the names of all functions in the library, enter
- "HELP FUNCTIONS" at the prompt. To get information on a
- particular function, enter "HELP function" at the prompt.
- Instant online reference material!
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- If you would like to register for TCLI and receive the source
- code, Help Compiler, and ST-Writer help text file, please send a
- check or money order for $20, made payable to Robert Berry, to
- the following address:
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- 7421 51st Ave. So.
- Tampa, FL 33619
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- You will then receive a disk containing all of the material
- described above, as well as documentation for the Help Compiler
- and the help text file's format.
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