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- P.O. Box 25, Ben Lomond CA, 95005
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- WHAT IS SHAREWARE?.....................................1
- INSTALLING DEMO WORKSHOP...............................2
- INTRODUCTION...........................................4
- OVERVIEW..........................................4
- USING DEMO WORKSHOP...............................5
- Recording Scenes for Your Presentation .........5
- Editing Your Recorded Presentation .............5
- Special Effects ................................6
- Creating The Presentation program ..............6
- Monochrome Support .............................6
- RECORDING WITH SR......................................8
- INSTALLING AND REMOVING SR........................8
- Installing SR in Memory ........................8
- Removing SR from Memory ........................8
- THE SR COMMAND LINE...............................10
- Obtaining Help - the /? Switch .................10
- Setting the Record Hot Key - the /R Switch .....11
- Setting the Snapshot Hot Key - The /S Switch ...12
- The Recording File .............................12
- SCENES AND SNAPSHOTS..............................13
- How SR Records .................................13
- Snapshots ......................................13
- Scenes .........................................13
- EDITING YOUR PRESENTATION WITH DW......................14
- OVERVIEW..........................................14
- Scenes .........................................14
- Special Effects ................................14
- Timing .........................................15
- Color and Monochrome ...........................15
- INVOKING DW.......................................16
- THE INFORMATION WINDOW............................17
- THE DW ON-LINE HELP SYSTEM........................18
- THE DW MAIN MENU.......................................19
- Rewind .........................................19
- Play ...........................................19
- Hide Workshop Windows ..........................20
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- Scene Operations ...............................22
- Re-Number Scenes ...............................23
- ALTER OUTPUT DELAY .............................23
- File ...........................................23
- Monochrome and Color ...........................23
- Registration ...................................24
- DOS Shell ......................................24
- Help ...........................................25
- Exit ...........................................25
- DW SCENE OPERATIONS....................................26
- Add Text Window ................................26
- Add Menu .......................................26
- Name ...........................................26
- Skip or Don't Skip .............................27
- Delete .........................................27
- Merge With Next ................................27
- Set Next Scene .................................27
- Clone Scene ....................................27
- Set Scene Pause Time ...........................28
- Set Entry Style ................................28
- Keep/REMOVE Existing Text Windows ..............29
- Do Not Refresh Screen on Entry .................29
- Cancel [Esc] ...................................29
- WORKING WITH TEXT WINDOWS..............................30
- Edit ...........................................30
- Import Text File ...............................31
- Relocate .......................................31
- Re-size ........................................31
- Title ..........................................31
- Time-out .......................................32
- Border Type ....................................32
- Colors .........................................33
- Entry Style and Exit Style .....................33
- Erase/DO NOT ERASE Before Continuing ...........34
- Test TEXT WINDOW ...............................34
- Main Menu [Esc] ................................34
- WORKING WITH MENUS.....................................35
- SHORTCUT KEYS.....................................35
- THE MENU OPTIONS SUB-MENU.........................36
- Title ..........................................36
- Time-out .......................................36
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- THE DW FILE MENU.......................................41
- Save Changes ...................................41
- Create .EXE File ...............................41
- Add Monochrome Scenes to .EXE File .............42
- Presentation Program Arguments .................42
- Include Scenes From Another File ...............42
- TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS AND LIMITATIONS.................43
- MEMORY REQUIREMENTS...............................43
- SR - The Screen Recorder .......................43
- DW - The Presentation Editor ...................43
- MINIMUM DOS VERSION...............................43
- DESIGN LIMITS....................................44
- CPU REQUIREMENTS..................................44
- LICENSE, WARRANTY, REGISTRATION, AND SUPPORT...........45
- LICENSE...........................................45
- LIMITED WARRANTY..................................47
- U.S. GOVERNMENT RESTRICTED RIGHTS ..............47
- REGISTRATION......................................48
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- Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try
- software before buying it. If you try a shareware program
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- Individual programs differ on details -- some request
- registration while others require it, some specify a
- maximum trial period. With registration, you get anything
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- an updated program with printed manual.
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- Copyright laws apply to both Shareware and commercial
- software, and the copyright holder retains all rights,
- with a few specific exceptions as stated below. Shareware
- authors are accomplished programmers, just like
- commercial authors, and the programs are of comparable
- quality. (In both cases, there are good programs and bad
- ones!) The main difference is in the method of
- distribution. The author specifically grants the right to
- copy and distribute the software, either to all and
- sundry or to a specific group. For example, some authors
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- software. You should find software that suits your needs
- and pocketbook, whether it's commercial or Shareware. The
- Shareware system makes fitting your needs easier, because
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- Demo Workshop is a tool for creating on-line
- presentations. The presentations you create with Demo
- Workshop are well suited for use as software product
- demonstrations and tutorials. Demo Workshop uses actual
- recorded screens from your software product combined with
- pop-up text windows, pop-up menus, and special effects to
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- which use no recorded screens, but instead consist of
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- RECORDING SCENES FOR YOUR PRESENTATION
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- The first step in creating your presentation is to record
- the screens presented by your program in actual use. You
- do this using the Demo Workshop screen recorder SR. SR
- is a TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) program provided
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- you can start and stop recording at any time using a hot
- key (by default Alt-R). SR records everything that
- appears on the screen along with timing information so
- that when the recording is played back it looks just as
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- particular screen both while you are recording and when
- you are not recording. You do this using another hot key
- (by default Alt-S). Snapshots produce markers in the
- recording that can be located easily later on when you
- are editing your presentation. You can add these
- markers, called "scene breaks," when you edit your
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- EDITING YOUR RECORDED PRESENTATION
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- you to play back your recording at high speed, normal
- speed, slow speed, and in "single-step" mode to make it
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- Once you have defined a number of scenes (you can add and
- remove scene breaks at any time), you can cut them out of
- the recording, "clone" them, and alter the order in which
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- You can place pop-up text windows and pop-up menus at
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- on which they are placed, thus appearing to be in front
- of the background scene. You can position the windows
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- complement the scene in the background. You can enter
- text into a text window directly from the keyboard, or
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- Each item in the pop-up menus is associated with a
- "destination scene" from which the presentation continues
- when the menu item is chosen. Menus allow viewers of
- your presentation to select the portion of your
- presentation they wish to view next. You can put time-
- outs on both menus and text windows so that your
- presentation can proceed automatically without user input
- and yet still respond to user input should they wish to
- interact with the presentation. Menus can be set to
- auto-increment to the next selection each time they are
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- You can add special entry and exit effects to your pop-up
- windows and special effects to scene transitions. The
- effects available include wipes, squeezes, dissolves, and
- zooms. These special effects help to keep the viewer's
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- OBTAINING HELP - THE /? SWITCH
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- /R sets the record toggle hot key. The default is ALT-R.
- /S sets the snapshot/scene mark hot key. The default is ALT-S.
- /? displays this text.
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- The /R switch allows you to set the record toggle hot key
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- ALT-I ALT-O ALT-P ALT-A
- ALT-S ALT-D ALT-F ALT-G
- ALT-H ALT-J ALT-K ALT-L
- ALT-Z ALT-X ALT-C ALT-V
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- PGDWN INSERT DELETE SHFT-F1
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- ALT-F10 CTRL-LEFT CTRL-RIGHT CTRL-END
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- Every 55 milliseconds SR examines the current screen
- contents and compares it to what it was the last time it
- looked. Any differences are recorded in the recording
- file. Thus, the amount of information stored is actually
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- saved every 55 milliseconds. In addition, SR uses a
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- When you press the snapshot hot key, SR places a scene
- break in the recording file and writes the complete
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- This occurs whether or not recording is in progress.
- Thus, even if you have never started recording with the
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- Scenes are segments of a recording. Whenever you press
- the snapshot hot key, you create a scene break in the
- recording file. The scene break is the boundary between
- scenes. While you can add scene breaks using DW, it is
- sometimes useful to create scene breaks while recording
- to make it easier during editing to locate a particular
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- DW works with "scenes". Scenes are segments of your SR
- recording. The boundaries between adjacent scenes are
- called scene breaks. You can insert a scene break at any
- point in your presentation at any time. (You can remove
- them too.) Scene breaks are also created by SR during
- recording whenever you press the snapshot hot key.
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- Scenes can be cut from the presentation, "cloned" or
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- and menus can only be inserted into your presentation at
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- when a window is removed (the exit effect). Instead of
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- Note that if the scene being entered is only slightly
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- DW gives you control over the timing of your
- presentation. You can alter delays present in your SR
- recording and specify time-outs for your text windows and
- menus. You can also specify an entry pause time for each
- scene in your presentation. These time-outs remain
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- however, the results may be unacceptable. DW allows you
- to view your presentation in monochrome mode so you can
- see how it will appear on monochrome systems. In
- addition, you can prepare a separate monochrome
- presentation if you wish and DW will combine it with the
- color presentation in the presentation program. The
- presentation program includes processing to determine the
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- DW, optionally supplying the presentation (or SR
- recording) file name. If you don't supply the name, DW
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- typing in a new entry, DW will automatically delete the
- default. You needn't delete the default first using
- the backspace or delete keys.
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- If you have never processed your presentation with DW
- before, DW processes the SR recording into a new format
- more suitable for editing. Two scenes are created
- automatically, one at the beginning of your recording and
- one at the end. In addition, a scene is created for each
- snapshot in the SR recording and each time you ended a
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- The Information window is located in the upper right
- corner of the screen whenever the DW Main Menu is
- displayed. The following information is displayed in the
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- Input File
- The input file is the presentation file currently
- being edited.
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- Available Memory
- This is the memory left which is available to store
- information required by DW for editing your
- presentation. Observe this value over time. If it
- sinks to too low a value, DW may not be able to save
- your presentation. The only solution to a low
- memory situation is to simplify your presentation
- (i.e., fewer scenes, text windows, and menus).
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- Defined Scenes
- This is the current number of scenes you have
- defined in your presentation.
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- Current Scene
- This is the scene number and name of the scene in
- which the current playback position is located.
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- Current Index
- This is the offset of the current playback position
- in the presentation file. Note that it may not be
- the position of a scene break.
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- Output Delay
- This is the delay recorded by SR at the current
- position in the playback file. It can be modified
- with the Alter Output Delay selection on the Main
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- This is the scene pause time assigned to the current
- scene. The pause time must pass before any text
- windows or menus assigned to the scene are
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- You can press the F1 key at any time while running DW to
- display help on the current menu selection or prompt.
- After the help window is displayed, pressing Esc will
- return you to DW at the point where you pressed F1. If
- you instead press Enter, the DW Help Menu is displayed,
- allowing you to access additional help topics.
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- REWIND
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- The Rewind main menu selection sets the current playback
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- The Play main menu selection displays the Playback sub-
- menu, which allows you to select one of the following
- Playback options:
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- This selection plays your presentation from the
- current position at high speed. Press any key to
- stop playback. To stop playback when it is paused
- at a text window or menu, press Esc.
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- This selection plays your presentation from the
- current position at the same speed at which viewers
- will experience it. Press any key to stop playback.
- To stop playback when it is paused at a text window
- or menu, press Esc.
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- This selection plays your presentation at slow speed
- to allow you to locate positions in your
- presentation (usually in preparation to insert a
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- menu, press Esc.
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- Single Step
- This selection plays the smallest segment of your
- presentation possible each time you press a key.
- The amount played may be as small as a single
- character or as large as several lines of text. The
- amount in each step is determined by the amount
- recorded as a block by SR. SR records in blocks to
- decrease the size of the recording file.
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- To End single-stepping, press the Esc key.
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- Cancel [Esc]
- This selection cancels your play request.
- Pressing the Esc key has the same effect as
- selecting this item -- you are returned to the
- main menu.
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- presentation. To view your presentation from the
- beginning, select Rewind from the main menu before
- selecting Play.
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- HIDE WORKSHOP WINDOWS
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- The Hide Workshop Windows selection removes the DW Main
- Menu and Information Window from the screen, allowing you
- to view the current scene uncluttered. To restore the
- workshop windows, press any key.
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- This selection inserts a scene break at the current
- playback position, terminating the current scene, and
- creating a new scene beginning at the current position.
- You will be prompted for a name for the new scene (i.e.,
- the scene beginning at the new scene break). You need
- not name the scene at this time if you wish. You can
- name it later with the Name selection of the Scene
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- The new scene is given the next available scene number.
- You can re-number scenes if you wish using the Re-Number
- Scenes selection from the Main Menu.
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- The Go To Scene selection displays the scene selection
- menu. Each line in the menu displays information about a
- scene. Select the scene to which you want to position
- your presentation using the up and down arrow keys and
- then press Enter. To cancel the Go To Scene operation,
- press the Esc key.
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- The opening screen of the selected scene is displayed
- when a scene is selected.
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- If more scenes have been defined than will fit on the
- screen, the scene selection menu will scroll when you
- attempt to move the highlighted selection off the top or
- bottom of the menu.
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- Information displayed about each scene in the scene
- selection menu includes:
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- No.
- This is a number assigned to each scene. When you
- create a new scene, it is given the next consecutive
- number. This usually results in the numbers
- appearing out of order in the scene selection menu.
- The Re-Number Scenes selection from the Main Menu
- re-assigns the scene numbers in order.
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- Start
- This is the index in the presentation file of the
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- This is the index in the presentation file of the
- end of the scene.
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- Status
- The status of a scene can be either ok or skip.
- Skip indicates that the scene will be skipped when
- it is encountered during playback. The Skip
- selection from the Scene Operations sub-menu is used
- to change a scene's status to skip.
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- Next
- This is the scene to which playback will transfer
- when this scene is complete. A value of 0 indicates
- that the next scene is the scene following this one
- in the scene selection menu. The next scene is set
- using the Set Next Scene selection from the Scene
- Operations sub-menu. The next scene is
- automatically updated correctly when the Re-Number
- Scenes selection from the Main Menu is executed.
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- Type
- The scene type is normal, text, menu, textmenu, or
- exit. A scene without an attached text window or
- menu is designated as type normal. A scene with
- both an attached text window and menu is designated
- as type textmenu. The special exit type is assigned
- to the scene that terminates playback. The exit
- scene is created automatically when your SR
- recording is processed by DW.
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- Name
- This is the name assigned to this scene. You first
- assign the name when you create the scene using the
- Insert Scene Break selection from the Main Menu. It
- can be changed at any time with the Name selection
- from the Scene Operations sub-menu.
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- The Scene Operations selection invokes the Scene
- Operations sub-menu. The Scene Operations sub-menu
- contains selections that operate on the current scene
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- The Re-Number Scenes selection re-numbers all the
- currently defined scenes starting with 1. Next scene
- numbers and menu item destinations are adjusted
- appropriately, so this selection may be executed safely
- at any time during the DW session.
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- ALTER OUTPUT DELAY
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- This selection allows you to alter the output delay in
- the recording as displayed in the Information Window as
- Output Delay. Note that when you change this value it is
- immediately written to the current file. You cannot undo
- changes in output delay times by simply not saving your
- changes as you can other changes made in a DW session.
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- The File selection invokes the File sub-menu. The File
- sub-menu contains selections related to saving the
- current presentation, creating .EXE files, and reading
- scenes from a different presentation file. The File sub-
- menu selections are described in the section on the DW
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- MONOCHROME AND COLOR
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- Either the Monochrome or Color selection is displayed in
- the Main Menu. This selection allows you to view your
- presentation in monochrome mode to see how users with
- monochrome monitors will experience your presentation.
- When in monochrome mode, the Color menu item is displayed
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- reserved for use by monochrome video cards. Switching
- to monochrome mode when this has been done may cause a
- system crash or other strange behavior. The best
- solution to this problem is to reconfigure the memory
- management utility to leave the monochrome video memory
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- This selection invokes the Registration sub-menu which
- contains the following selections:
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- Registration Information
- This selection describes the shareware terms under
- which Demo Workshop is distributed.
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- Enter Product Registration Key
- This selection allows you to enter the Product
- Registration Key that is supplied to you when you
- register Demo Workshop with P2 Enterprises. Once
- you have entered your PRK, the requests to register
- which are displayed when you start DW and SR are
- eliminated.
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- DOS Phantom
- This selection displays a description of the P2
- Enterprises product DOS Phantom, a program that
- works with keyboard input rather than screen output
- as does Demo Workshop.
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- Main Menu [Esc]
- This selection (or pressing the Esc key) returns you
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- This selection saves your DW context in extended memory
- if available, or in a swap file if extended memory is not
- available, and spawns a DOS shell. About 4K of memory is
- used by DW in this process. To return to DW, type EXIT
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- The Help selection displays the DW Help Menu, from which
- you can obtain information on all the DW commands. Note
- that as an alternative, pressing the F1 key causes help
- on the current menu selection to be displayed.
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- This selection exits DW. If changes have been made, you
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- This selection inserts a text window at the start of the
- current scene. For information about text windows, see
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- This selection inserts a menu at the start of the current
- scene, For information about menus, see the section on
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- This selection allows you to change the name of the
- current scene. The scene name is displayed in the scene
- selection sub-menu displayed when you select Go To Scene
- from the Main Menu. The scene name also provides the
- default title assigned to new text windows and menus
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- One of these selections is displayed depending on whether
- the current scene status is skip or ok. A scene whose
- status is skip is passed over when it is encountered
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- This selection removes the current scene permanently from
- the presentation. It is suggested that you use the Skip
- selection instead of delete until your presentation is
- complete, and then delete the skipped scenes.
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- This selection removes a scene break, merging the current
- scene with the one following. Note that any text windows
- and menus attached to the following scene are lost when
- this action is taken.
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- This selection allows you to specify the scene at which
- playback is to continue when this scene is complete. You
- can use this selection to re-order the scenes in your
- presentation and to create loops of scenes. (You can use
- a menu selection to break out of a loop.)
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- This selection creates a copy of the current scene and
- places it after the current scene. The name given to the
- new scene is the name of the current scene with "(clone)"
- appended. Any text windows or menus assigned to the
- scene are copied as well. Note that the cloned scene is
- always set to refresh on entry, even if the current scene
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- This selection allows you to specify a pause time to be
- attached to the current scene. The pause is applied on
- scene entry. This is especially useful for scenes which
- were created using the snapshot feature of SR, as these
- scenes have no intrinsic timing as do screen recordings.
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- The scene pause time is applied before any text windows
- or menus assigned to the scene are displayed.
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- The Set Entry Style allows you to apply a special effect
- to the scene's entry. Entry styles gradually replace the
- current screen image with the initial screen of the new
- scene using one of a number of special effects. Note
- that if the current scene's initial screen is similar to
- the screen contents displayed when the scene is
- encountered, the special effect may not be very
- noticeable. Thus, entry styles are most useful when the
- scene being entered is significantly different from what
- is currently displayed on the screen. Entry styles are
- especially effective when moving between SR snapshot
- scenes or moving to a new scene as the result of a menu
- selection.
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- Vertical and Horizontal Blinds,
- Left,Right, Top and Bottom Wipe,
- Vertical and Horizontal Expansion,
- Vertical and Horizontal Squeeze,
- Left Checkered and Right Checkered, and
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- on slow processors on which the time required to process
- the special effect wouldslow down the presentation
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- If the scene is set to Keep Existing Windows currently,
- the selection Remove Existing Windows is displayed in its
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- This selection determines whether text windows displayed
- on the screen when the current scene is entered will be
- erased before the current scene's initial screen is
- displayed. Keeping existing text windows allows you to
- accumulate text windows across scenes.
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- When a scene is created (with SR, Insert Scene Break, or
- Clone), the current screen image is saved. Normally,
- this saved screen is displayed when the screen is
- entered. This allows screens to be re-ordered without
- losing context. This may not be desirable in some
- circumstances, so this selection is provided to eliminate
- the saved screen.
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- Note that once removed, the saved screen data may not be
- restored.
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- Removing superfluous saved screens can significantly
- reduce the size of your presentation .EXE file.
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- mode. While you are in edit mode, you can enter text
- into the window, re-size the window with Shift-<arrow
- key>, and move the window with Ctrl-<arrow key>. Press
- the Esc key to leave edit mode.
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- overstrike mode.
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- displayed. The selections contained in this menu are
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- This selection returns you to edit mode. While you are
- in edit mode, you can enter text into the window, re-size
- the window with Shift-<arrow key>, and move the window
- with Ctrl-<arrow key>. Press Esc to return to the Text
- Window Options menu.
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- the right margin. Word-wrapped text is automatically
- reformatted when you change the window size. If you
- enter new-lines with the Enter key, re-formatting will
- not remove the new-line. You should start new paragraphs
- with one or more new-lines entered with the Enter key.
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- This selection allows you to insert text from a DOS text
- file into the window.
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- to be read. DW reads the entire file you specify. The
- text from the file is entered into the text window just
- as if you had typed it at the keyboard at the current
- cursor position. This allows you to prepare your window
- text with the editor of your choice, or to obtain window
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- The Relocate selection allows you to move the text window
- to a new location on the screen. After selecting this
- option, you can use the arrow keys to relocate the
- window. Press the Esc key when you are done.
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- using the Ctrl-<arrow-key> key combination.
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- This selection allows you to change the size of the text
- window. After selecting this option, you can re-size the
- window with the arrow keys. The up and down arrow keys
- will move the bottom border of the window, while the left
- and right arrows will move the right border. Any text
- within the window is automatically re-formatted to fit in
- the new size.
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- Note that you can also re-size the window while in Edit
- mode using the Shift-<arrow-key> key combination.
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- displayed in the top title bar of the text window. If
- the title is empty, the title bar is not displayed with
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- This selection allows you to enter the window time-out
- value. The window time-out is the number of seconds that
- the window will be displayed before the presentation
- continues. The viewer of your presentation can press any
- key to cause the presentation to continue even if the
- time-out period has not expired. A time-out value of
- zero causes the presentation to wait until a key is
- pressed with no time-out (i.e., it could wait forever.)
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- A time-out value of -1 causes the presentation to
- continue without pause after the window is displayed. If
- the text window is set to erase before continuing and the
- time-out is set to -1, the text window may appear and
- disappera so quickly that it will appear not to have been
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- This selection allows you to choose between the various
- window border types provided by DW. The border types you
- may choose from include:
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- Blank
- Single Line
- Double Line
- Double Horizontal & Single Vertical
- Double Vertical & Single Horizontal
- Frame
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- When you select a border type, it is immediately applied
- to the text window and you are returned to the border
- selection sub-menu. This makes it easy to try out
- several border types to find the one most appropriate for
- the screen background.
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- The Colors selection allows you to set the color scheme
- for your text window. A Text Window Colors sub-menu is
- displayed, from which you select the window component
- whose color you which to modify. The window components
- you may select include:
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- Background
- Border Foreground
- Border Background
- Title Text
- Title Background
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- Once you have selected the window component, a color
- selection menu is displayed. For text and foreground
- components you may select from 16 colors. For background
- components, you may select from eight colors. The colors
- are displayed in the color selection sub-menu along with
- their names.
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- Once a color is selected, the text window is immediately
- updated with the new color, and you are returned to the
- window component selection sub-menu. This allows you to
- try out multiple color schemes for your window easily.
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- The Entry Style and Exit Style selections allow you to
- select a special effect to be applied to the window when
- it is displayed and when it is removed from the screen,
- respectively. A sub-menu is displayed from which you may
- select the effect you wish to apply.
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- Zoom
- Vertical Blinds
- Horizontal Blinds
- Left, Right, Top, and Bottom Wipes
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- executed so you can evaluate its effectiveness at this
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- If Erase Before Continuing is presented in the menu, it
- indicates that the text window is currently set not to
- erase itself before continuing. That is, when the user
- hits a key or the window time-out period expires, the
- window will be not removed from the screen. If you
- select this option, the menu item will be replaced with
- Do Not Erase Before Continuing, and the window will be
- removed from the screen when your presentation proceeds
- beyond the window.
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- Note that if a menu is assigned to the scene, it is also
- displayed if the window is set not to erase before
- continuing, so that you can see how the screen will
- appear with them both present.
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- This option allows you to see how the text window will
- actually appear to viewers of your presentation. The DW
- windows are removed from the screen and any special
- effects are applied. The time-out period, if one was
- specified, is active, and DW will return its menu to the
- screen when the time-out period has expired or when you
- press a key.
- Note that if a menu is assigned to the scene, it will be
- displayed after the window timeout period, or when a key
- is pressed. Press any key when the menu is displayed to
- redisplay the DW menu.
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- menu, an empty menu is constructed, and the Menu Options
- sub-menu is displayed. The items on the Menu Options
- sub-menu are described below.
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- Menus allow the viewer of your presentation to select an
- item from those presented on the menu by highlighting the
- item they want using the arrow keys (or the tab and
- shift-tab keys) and pressing Enter. A destination scene
- is associated with each menu item. When a menu item is
- selected, the presentation continues from the destination
- scene associated with the selected item.
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- Menu items may also be selected using shortcut keys. A
- shortcut key is a single key that may be used by the
- viewer of a presentation to select a menu item. The use
- of shortcut keys reduces the number of keystrokes
- required to select a menu item. The shortcut key for
- each item is generally displayed in a different color
- from the rest of the menu item text. Shortcut keys are
- assigned automatically by DW, but you can override DW's
- choice of shortcut key using the Modify/Move Item
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- This selection allows you to specify a time-out value for
- the menu. The menu time-out is the number of seconds
- after which, if no selection is made from the menu by the
- user, a menu item is automatically selected. The item
- that is selected is determined by the selection options
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- This selection allows you to choose between the various
- window border types provided by DW. The border types you
- may choose from include:
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- Blank
- Single Line
- Double Line
- Double Horizontal & Single Vertical
- Double Vertical & Single Horizontal
- Frame
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- to the menu and you are returned to the border selection
- sub-menu. This makes it easy to try out several border
- types to find the one most appropriate for the screen
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- displayed using the zoom effect. The zoom effect is the
- only special effect that may be applied to menus.
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- The Colors selection allows you to set the color scheme
- for your menu. A Menu Colors sub-menu is displayed, from
- which you select the menu component whose color you which
- to modify. The menu components you may select include:
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- Text
- Background
- Border Foreground
- Border Background
- Title Text
- Title Background
- Shortcut Text
- Selected Item Text
- Selected Item Background
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- Once you have selected the menu component, a color
- selection menu is displayed. For text and foreground
- components you may select from 16 colors. For background
- components, you may select from eight colors. The colors
- are displayed in the color selection sub-menu along with
- their names.
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- Once a color is selected, the menu is immediately updated
- with the new color, and you are returned to the menu
- component selection sub-menu. This allows you to try out
- multiple color schemes for your menu easily.
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- The Relocate selection allows you to move the menu to a
- new location on the screen. After selecting this option,
- you can use the arrow keys to relocate the window. Press
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- This selection allows you to set the default item for the
- menu. This is the menu item that is highlighted when the
- menu is first displayed.
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- Note that whichever item is highlighted when you exit the
- Menu Options sub-menu becomes the default. This
- selection merely provides an easy way to highlight the
- item you wish to be the default. You should perform this
- action as the last step before you leave the Menu options
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- The Selection Options selection allows you to set the
- behavior of your menu when it is displayed multiple times
- during a presentation. You might, for example, have a
- "main menu" that the viewer uses to select from several
- possible sections of your presentation. After each
- section is complete, control is returned to the main
- menu, where the viewer can select another presentation
- section to view.
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- If the main menu in the above example has a time-out
- associated with it, the menu item highlighted when
- control returns to the main menu is selected when the
- time-out period has elapsed (assuming no user
- intervention).
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- Which menu item is highlighted when a menu is displayed
- is determined by which of the following selection options
- is applied to the menu.
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- Default
- The default selection is highlighted whenever the
- menu is displayed.
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- Sticky
- The last item selected in this execution of the
- presentation is selected.
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- Auto-Increment
- The item after the one last selected is highlighted.
- If the last item selected was the last menu item,
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- presentations, as it allows all selections to be
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- This selection allows you to add a new item to the menu.
- The item is placed after the last item currently on the
- menu. You will be prompted for the menu item text, and
- then presented with the Scene Selection sub-menu. Select
- from this sub-menu the scene to which control is to be
- transferred when the new menu item is selected.
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- INSERT NEW ITEM
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- This selection allows you insert a new menu item in a
- location other than at the end of the menu. When you
- select this item, the following occurs:
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- 1.You are prompted for the text of the new menu item.
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- 2.You are placed in your menu. You select the item
- before which the new item is to be inserted in your
- menu by using the arrow keys and pressing Enter.
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- 3.You select the destination scene from the Scene
- Selection sub-menu.
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- This selection allows you to remove an item from your
- menu. After you make this selection, you choose the item
- to remove with the arrow keys and press Enter. To cancel
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- scene, or location of a menu item. When you make this
- selection, the following occurs:
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- 1. You are placed in your menu. Select the item to
- be modified using the arrow keys and press Enter.
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- 2. The Modify Menu Options sub-menu is displayed.
- From it you may elect to
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- change the item text,
- change the destination
- change the shortcut key, or
- move the item within the menu
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- 3. If you elect to move the item, you are again
- placed in your menu. Select the item before which
- you wish to place the item being modified and
- press Enter.
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- This selection allows you to test your menu. Each time
- you select an item from your menu, control is returned to
- DW rather than transferring to the destination scene.
- You can observe the auto-increment selection option and
- view the menu against the scene background using this
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- from the DW Main Menu. The File Menu contains selections
- for saving your work, including scenes from another DW
- presentation file, and creating .EXE files containing
- your presentation.
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- This selection allows you to save your work so that you
- can continue working on your presentation at a later
- time. Saving your work also protects you from losing
- your work should you experience a power failure or
- hardware problem.
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- When you select Save Changes, you will be prompted for
- the name of the file in which to save your work. The
- default file name is the name of your input file. If you
- wish to save your work by overwriting your input file,
- just press Enter. You may, alternatively, save your work
- in a different file, preserving the presentation as it
- was before the current changes were made.
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- executed, displays your presentation. You will be
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- This selection adds the current presentation's scenes to
- an existing .EXE file created with the preceding menu
- selection. The scenes added will be used instead of the
- scenes originally placed in the .EXE file if the
- presentation is executed on a monochrome system.
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- Note that you can force execution of the monochrome
- presentation by passing the argument M on the DOS command
- line when invoking the presentation. Similarly, C will
- force execution of the color presentation.
-
- The argument F will force execution of special effects
- even on systems which the presentation determines are too
- slow to adequately perform the functions. The S argument
- will disable special effects even on processors fast
- enough to support special effects processing.
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- For example, if your presentation program is DEMO.EXE,
- the following command will force display of the
- monochrome preeentation (if any), and disable special
- effects.
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- INCLUDE SCENES FROM ANOTHER FILE
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- This selection allows you to include scenes from another
- DW presentation file in your presentation. The included
- scenes are added at the end of the current presentation.
- You will be prompted for the DW presentation file from
- which the scenes are to be obtained. All scenes in the
- specified file are copied into the current presentation
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- SR - THE SCREEN RECORDER
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- SR, when installed, uses 28 KBytes of conventional
- memory. Note that SR need only be installed when you are
- actually recording screens. It is not required when
- using DW.
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- DW - THE PRESENTATION EDITOR
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- DW normally requires a minimum of 360 KBytes of free
- conventional memory in which to execute. Additional
- memory is used as scenes, text windows, and menus are
- defined.
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- The help text uses approximately 170 KBytes, and that
- memory can be recovered by renaming the DW help file
- DW.HLP to something else. DW, if it can't find the help
- file, simply disables the help system, thus not using the
- 170 KBytes which it would otherwise have.
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- MINIMUM DOS VERSION
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- Demo Workshop may not function reliably on DOS versions
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- A single text window and a single menu may be assigned to
- each scene. (If customers request it, multiple text
- windows may be supported for a single scene in a future
- release.)
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- A maximum of 100 scenes may be defined for a single
- presentation.
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- Screens larger than 80 X 25 are not supported in this
- release.
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- Graphics display is not supported.
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- While Demo Workshop may be hosted by Windows 3.1 in a DOS
- box, the recording of Windows program output is not
- supported.
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- CPU REQUIREMENTS
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- Demo Workshop performs best on a 80386 CPU at 25 MHz or
- better. Operation is possible on lesser CPU's, down to
- the 8086, but at significantly reduced performance.
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- On systems with slower CPU's or very slow video systems
- (such as early LCD displays), special effects may be
- automatically disabled.
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- DEMO WORKSHOP is not and has never been public domain
- software, nor is it free software.
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- Non-licensed users are granted a limited license to use
- DEMO WORKSHOP on a 21-day trial basis for the purpose of
- determining whether DEMO WORKSHOP is suitable for their
- needs. The use of DEMO WORKSHOP, except for the initial
- 21-day trial, requires registration. The use of
- unlicensed copies of DEMO WORKSHOP by any person,
- business, corporation, government agency or any other
- entity is strictly prohibited. A single user license
- permits a user to use DEMO WORKSHOP only on a single
- computer. Licensed users may use the program on
- different computers, but may not use the program on more
- than one computer at the same time.
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- No one may modify or patch the DEMO WORKSHOP executable
- files in any way, including but not limited to
- decompiling, disassembling, or otherwise reverse
- engineering the program.
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- A limited license is granted to copy and distribute DEMO
- WORKSHOP only for the trial use of customers, subject to
- the above limitations, and also the following:
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- 1. DEMO WORKSHOP must be copied in unmodified form,
- complete with the provided license and registration
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- must be included with each copy.
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- 3. DEMO WORKSHOP may not be distributed in conjunction
- with any other product without a specific license to
- do so from P2 Enterprises.
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- 4. No fee, charge, or other compensation may be requested
- or accepted, except as authorized below:
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- Operators of electronic bulletin board systems
- (sysops) may make DEMO WORKSHOP available for
- downloading only as long as the above conditions
- are met. An overall or time-dependent charge for
- the use of the bulletin board system is permitted
- as long as there is not a specific charge for the
- download of DEMO WORKSHOP.
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- Vendors of user-supported or shareware software
- approved by the ASP may distribute DEMO WORKSHOP,
- subject to the above conditions, without specific
- permission. Non-approved vendors may distribute
- DEMO WORKSHOP only after obtaining written
- permission from P2 Enterprises. Such permission
- is usually granted. Please write for details
- (enclose your catalog). Vendors may charge a disk
- duplication and handling fee, which, when pro-
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- THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF
- ANY KIND INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES
- OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE,
- ALL OF WHICH ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED. SHOULD THE PROGRAM
- PROVE DEFECTIVE, THE PURCHASER ASSUMES THE RISK OF PAYING
- THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR, OR
- CORRECTION AND ANY INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.
- IN NO EVENT WILL P2 ENTERPRISES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES
- WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR LOSS
- OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF
- BUSINESS INFORMATION AND THE LIKE) ARISING OUT OF THE USE
- OR THE INABILITY TO USE THIS PRODUCT EVEN IF P2
- ENTERPRISES HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
- DAMAGES.
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- Use of this product for any period of time constitutes
- your acceptance of this agreement and subjects you to its
- contents.
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- U.S. GOVERNMENT RESTRICTED RIGHTS
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- Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is
- subject to restrictions as set forth in subdivision
- (b)(3)(ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer
- Software clause at 252.227-7013.
- Contractor/manufacturer is P2 Enterprises, P.O. Box 25,
- Ben Lomond, CA 95005-0025.
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- This program is shareware. It is not free. If, after an
- evaluation period of 21 days, you wish to continue using
- this program, you must register by sending US$65.00 by
- check or postal money order to
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- DOS Phantom
- P2 Enterprises
- P.O. Box 25
- Ben Lomond, CA 95005-0025
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- In response, P2 Enterprises will send you a personalized
- Product Registration Key (PRK) which you can use to
- register this program.
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- Registration suppresses the display of the statements
- requesting that you register.
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- Registration entitles you to three months of support from
- P2 Enterprises as described in the following section.
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- Your Product Registration Key can be used to register
- future versions of this program for a period of one year
- at no additional cost.
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- Enterprises. P2 Enterprises will answer questions and fix
- serious bugs during the three month support period. P2
- Enterprises may choose not to attempt a fix to a problem
- involving a specific hardware or software environment or
- feature. If this is the case, a full refund of the
- registration fee will be made upon your request. P2
- Enterprises may be reached via a VoiceMail system at 408
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- or by US Mail at PO Box 25, Ben Lomond CA 95005-0025 USA.
- The VoiceMail system is in operation during working hours
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- Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure
- that the shareware principle works for you. If you are
- unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP
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- to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute
- or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide
- technical support for members' products. Please write to
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- by mail a personalized Product Registration Key (PRK) which, used with
- the Register Main Menu option, will allow you to register your current
- copy of the software as well as future versions for a period of one
- year, without additional charge or paperwork.
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- A separate Product Registration Key is required for each copy of the
- software. (A single copy may be moved from computer to computer, but
- if it is executed at the same time on different computers, it is
- regarded as constituting multiple copies requiring multiple
- registrations.)
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- DISKETTES
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- of the product(s) along with your Product Registration Key(s). There
- is an additional charge of US$4.00 per product for diskettes. Be sure
- to specify whether you prefer 3-1/2 or 5-1/4 inch diskettes.
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- Payment must be by cash, check, or postal money order in U.S. dollars.
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