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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. General Help ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- FamShell is easy to configure, and even easier to use!
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- It's intended as a simple OS/2 shell for members of your family, household
- etc. who don't really want to get involved with computers - or have just
- started out with them - but wish to use the pc for limited purposes such as
- homework, games and so on... FamShell provides an easy desktop for such users,
- where every button does more or less what it says. The shell sits on top of the
- WPS and allows access to it at any time. I suggest you put the icon created on
- your desktop during installation in your startup folder. That way, FamShell is
- evoked during the boot procedure, but you can easily click it away if you wish
- to use the WPS. Otherwise, leave the icon on your desktop or put it on the
- launchpad. But you'll have to tell your 'sub-users' to click it whenever they
- wish to use the pc.
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- FamShell's buttons are configurable...
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- The top row of items on the configuration panel allows the following:
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- 1. Registration - If you have registered type your password into the entry
- field and press OK.
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- 2. Enable access to drive a - Press this button to let your users access the
- floppy drive. You may wish to provide this or other features at a later date -
- no problem, you can always re-run Makefs.exe and add options.
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- 3. CD access - Enter the drive letter of your CD drive and press CD.
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- The next row has two items:
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- 1. Search for filenames - Evokes the PM search tool, if you need to find a
- path or filename during the configuration procedure.
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- 2. Access to games folder - If you keep your games in a folder of their own
- and wish to provide access to it, enter the path and folder name and press OK.
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- The third row allows you to view the readme file and specify users for
- FamShell.
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- Enter New User's name or an alias - just one word, please. Then press ADD. Do
- this as many times as neccessary to include everyone you wish to incorporate.
- Additions can be made by re-running the configuration program at a later date.
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- The bottom row of buttons and entry fields is for programs:
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- Press ADD and a number will appear in the appropriate box. This specifies the
- button automatically assigned to the program. Now give the application you wish
- to add a title (i.e. 'Phonebook'). Finally, enter it's full path and filename
- (not forgetting the extension to assign all the configurable program buttons.
- Press Done when you've finished configuring FamShell.
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- If you don't wish to specify all eight applications yet, you may add some
- later. Just one snag: once you've defined all eight, you cannot make any
- changes without a) deleting the file named 'fsconfig' in the FamShell folder
- (and recompiling it using this panel), or b) editing the file manually. But
- this is actually very easy. You'll recognize that the fsconfig file has two
- lines for each app:
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- nam1 = ddd (where 1 is a number from 1 to 8 and ddd the title) and app1 =
- xxxx.exe (where 1 is a number from 1 to 8, xxx the path and filename)
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- Don't forget the spaces before and after the '=' when making changes.
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- A word of warning...
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- This program is not intended as a foolproof safety system. It doesn't keep
- your kids out of newsgroups etc., if they already know their way around with a
- computer. Rather, it was designed for well-meaning people, who wish to use your
- pc without messing things up. The deal is that they stay off your Workplace
- Shell voluntarily and you provide them with a means of using your machine for
- their own purposes.
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- And finally...
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- FamShell is shareware. If you register, you'll get a password and never again
- see the sticky windows evoked when you start the program. Your password will
- work with any updates upto a full version number (which would be 2.0 at the
- present moment, as this is version 1.1). See the readme file for details.
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- Martin Farrent, CompuServe ID: 100045,1712