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FC_READ.ME
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A Microsoft Visual Basic Application
Title: FORMAT CENTRAL 1.0
Date: June 3, 1991
Author: Wiley Miller
This program is in the Public Domain. It's FREE...
If you like it...that's nice. If you don't, remember, it didn't cost you a
single nickel.
1. VBRUN100.DLL (The VISUAL BASIC engine)
2. VB_DO.BAT (The command launcher)
3. FORMCENT.EXE (The FORMAT CENTRAL application)
4. FC_READ.ME (The file you are reading)
FORMAT CENTRAL is a simple launch pad for floppy disk formatting. The program
assumes that you have a 1.2M 5.25" floppy drive that you call drive A:, and a
1.44M 3.5" floppy drive that you call drive B:. For other configurations, make
some modifications to the command launcher VB_DO.BAT. Since the default set-up
is pretty common, I don't anticipate many problems for most users.
To install FORMAT CENTRAL:
1. Return to, or start WINDOWS. Click and hi-lite the group
that will hold the new format central icon.
2. Click "FILE" on the Program Manager menu bar.
3. Click again on "NEW". Select "Program Item" and click "OK".
4. For PROGRAM DESCRIPTION, type: "FormatCentral" (Don't include
the quotes!)
5. For COMMAND LINE, type: "FORMCENT.EXE" (No quotes!). Click "OK".
6. That's it!
Using FORMAT CENTRAL
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* Click on the "Help" button, for a concise description of the controls.
Note: FORMAT CENTRAL seems to work fine for 3.x to 5.0 of MS-DOS.
If you have an earlier version of DOS, you're on your own.
Gosh, does anyone not have at least "3.something" of DOS???
A Word About Microsoft's Visual Basic Package.
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This program was developed using the Beta release of Visual Basic. Even
though the documentation was still full of the copy editor's hand written
marks and remarks, the learning process was very easy. What a pleasure it
is to be able to build simple but effective WINDOWS utilities...and not know
a thing about the commonly required development language "c". Watch for an
explosion of applications when VB hits the streets soon.