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Please read Journal.DOC. It is VERY important for you to get a full
understanding of what these programs do, and how they work.
This pair of programs has unbelieveable potential for Amiga demonstrations!
JOURNAL is, in MY personal opinion, one of the most important freely
distributable piece of Amigaware ever released.
I've included a Journal file which you can Playback to see an example of
what I'm talking about.
The Journal file is called HarvDemo and it makes the following assumptions:
1) that you have ED in your C: directory
2) that you know how to open a CLI window and type into it.
3) that you are using a Standard 80 column preferences setting, and not
"MoreRows" or Interlace or anything else other than a standard default
screen setting.
4) that your CLI window is stretched out to full screen size.
The HarvDemo will *NOT* write any files to your disk, so don't worry. The
demo will last about 3 minutes or so.
Since PLAYBACK requires that YOUR screen be set up the same way as was the
person's who created the JOURNAL entry to begin with, please make sure the
above conditions are met before you playback HarvDemo.
I have specifically left out any icon movement or disk openings and
closings because I have no way to know how you might have modified your
Workbench environment and PLAYBACK requires that everything be in the same
place on the computer playing back the demo as well as the computer that
recorded the demo (see JOURNAL.DOC for a deeper explanation of this) so
I've made this a very simple yet effective demo.
What you will see when you type RUN PLAYBACK HARVDEMO from your CLI prompt
is, in effect, what you would have seen had you been sitting next to me as
I created the demo! It will run in virtually REAL TIME, and, as JOURNAL's
author says, is "spooky."
So... as a last thought, I say to the programmers, software companies,
Amiga dealers, user group leaders, and telecomm users out there... THINK OF
THE POSSIBILITIES!
And Thank You to Davide P. Cervone for creating this incredibly useful
program!
Harv Laser
Chairman/Sysop, the People link AmigaZone Club
P.S. It has occurred to me that since PLAYBACK takes over your system (You
can abort it but you can't use your keyboard or mouse while the playback is
running except for the control-C abort), that evil people could use this
program for nefarious purposes, to erase other's disks and such.
Therefore, unless you know beforehand that the person who created the
Journal entry had no nasty intent in mind, you might want to write protect
your disks before running an untested Journal file!