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- Quarto Software
- Study Guide
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- William Shakespeare's
- "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
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- Purpose of the program
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- This all-graphic (GUI) program is an electronic guide to William
- Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The guide includes the
- complete text of the play, extensive introductory and supplementary
- material, a thorough glossary, comments, variant readings, a quiz
- and over eighty illustrations. The program provides the capability
- to display the text of the play in several different fonts and
- formats, search for all occurrences of specified words, and append
- additional notes. Sections are included on the play, Elizabethan
- theaters, language, text, critical comments, possible sources,
- editors, dates, Shakespeare's times, a collection of famous
- Shakespearean quotes and an introduction to "The Tempest".
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- Requirements
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- IBM-compatible PC, 640K, an EGA or VGA monitor, MS-DOS or
- Windows, and approximately 1.6 megabytes of disk space.
- A mouse is optional.
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- Status of the Program
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- Freeware
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- Distribution Status
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- Freely distributed -- copying of the program is encouraged.
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- Author
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- Donald L. Stoneman,
- Quarto Software,
- P.O. Box 93,
- Bent Mountain, Va. 24059-0093
- USA
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- 105547.1450@compuserve.com
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- To Install
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- . Insert disk in drive A.
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- . If you received this program on a distribution disk from Quarto
- Software (or a copy thereof), simply do the following:
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- For MS-DOS...
- At the C\> prompt, type.. a:
- At the A\> prompt, type.. install
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- For Windows...
- From the Program Manager,
- Choose File (Alt-F)
- Choose Run (R)
- then type.. a:install
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- Either method will create a directory named "SG" on the hard drive
- (C:) and expand all files into that directory.
-
- . If you received this program as a PKZIP file (i.e. with a .ZIP
- extension on the file name), PKZIP 2.04 (or higher) will be required
- to unzip the file. It is recommended that the unzip be done into
- a directory named "SG".
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- To Run the Program under MS-DOS
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- At the C\> prompt, type.. cd\sg
- At the C\SG> prompt, type.. sg
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- To Add as an Icon under Windows
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- From the Program Manager, choose:
- File (Alt-F)
- New (N)
- Program Group (G)
- OK (Return)
- for the Description, type.. Study Guide
- for the Group File, type.. \sg\sg.grp
- OK (Return)
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- To Run the Program under Windows
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- Double click on the icon.
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- To Uninstall the Program
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- When you have finished using the program, you can remove it from
- your hard drive by doing the following...
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- If you added the icon under Windows, first single click on the
- Shakespeare icon. Once the program description is highlighted, press
- the delete key and respond "YES" (Y) to the deletion message. After
- this is done, press the delete key again to delete the program group
- and once again respond "YES" (Y) to the deletion message. If you did
- not install under Windows or did not add the icon to the Program
- Manager, omit this step.
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- To complete the uninstall, delete the directory "SG" and all its
- files from the hard drive. You can do this in one of two ways:
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- For MS-DOS...
- At the C\> prompt, type.. cd\sg
- At the C\SG> prompt, type.. del *.*
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- ** WARNING ** make certain you are in the "SG" directory.
- Respond "Y" to the warning message about deleting all the
- files in the directory, then...
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- At the C\SG> prompt, type.. cd\
- At the C\ prompt, type.. rd\sg
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- For Windows...
- From the Program Manager,
- Double click on the "File Manager" filing cabinet icon.
- Single click on the "SG" directory on the left side of
- the display.
- ** WARNING ** make certain you have the "SG" directory
- name highlighted then choose:
- File (Alt-F)
- Delete (D)
- OK (Return)
- Yes to All (A)
- Yes to All (A)
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