Magnum One/Magnum One (Mid-American Digital) (Disc Manufacturing).iso/d21/qw12.exe/READ.ME

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This file contains information for installing QTEST and the Quarterdeck
White Papers v1.20. The Quarterdeck White Papers requires DESQview 2.23 to
run. If you do not have DESQview, you can view the technical notes with a
word processor, editor, of file viewer.

Although the Quarterdeck White Papers and QTEST are copyrighted programs,
Quarterdeck grants to you a limited license which permits you to distribute
it to others, on disk or electronically, as long as the program and its
documentation are not modified in any way, proper credit is given to
Quarterdeck, and no fee is charged beyond the cost of materials.

The White Papers diskette is available direct from Quarterdeck for $25 and
can be ordered by credit card by calling our orders department at
[phone].  Registered users of Quarterdeck products may order a copy
of the White Papers for $10.

Revision Notes:

   All technotes that have been revised as well as new technical notes
   added since version 1.0 have a file time of 1.20.  Additionally,
   QWHITE.COM has four new features:

   1: The SEARCH option now provides two methods for continuing a search
      after a match has been found, "Continue this file" and "Continue
      Next File."  See the file QWHITE.TEC for more informatin.

   2: QWHITE now detects the value you specify for MAXIMUM HEIGHT in Change
      A Program to determine the number of lines to use for the file view
      window.  If you run DESQview in 43,50, or 60 line mode you can have
      QWHITE use the entire physical screen by specifing an appropriate
      starting HEIGHT.

   3: You now have the option of resizing the file view window.  QWHITE
      will adjust the number of lines it uses for PgDn or PgUp when
      you have used DESQview's Rearrange/Resize option.

   4: QWHITE Search routine keeps track of the last file that contained a
      match as well as the line number your were viewing.  This allows it
      to reload the previous file when either of the Continue Search
      options could not find another occurance of the search string.

The files included on the disk are:

   QWHITE12.EXE   A program that creates the Quarterdeck White Papers
                  technical notes (files with the extension ".TEC"),
                  QWHITE.COM, the DESQview-specific program for viewing the
                  technical notes, and QW-PIF.DVP, the DVP file for using
                  DESQview's Add A Program option.  The files with the
                  extension ".TEC" are normal ASCII files and can be viewed
                  using most word processors, editors, and file listing
                  utilities.  The program QWHITE.COM should be run from the
                  DESQview Open Window menu after using Add A Program.

   INSTALL.BAT    A batch file for installing the Quarterdeck White Papers
                  and QTEST.

   QTEST.COM      A utility for determining if QRAM would be useful for
                  your system.

   QTEST.TEC      A technical note describing how to use QTEST.

   READ.ME        This file.


Installing the programs using INSTALL.BAT:

   If you wish to use the automatic install, place the install diskette in
a floppy drive (usually A:) and make it the current drive.  For example, if
the install diskette is in drive A, at the DOS prompt type A: and press
ENTER. Install is started by typing INSTALL and the drive letter where you
want INSTALL to put its files.

For example:

   If the diskette is in the A drive and you wish to install to the C
   drive, switch to the A drive by typing A: and pressing ENTER. Then type

   INSTALL C  (Note: You do NOT type the COLON after the drive letter)

   and press ENTER to start the install.

You should not type a colon (:) after the drive letter. The install program
will create the directory QWHITE on the destination drive.

If INSTALL.BAT does not work correctly:

   If the INSTALL.BAT file cannot install the Quarterdeck White Papers
   refer to the notes below on installing the program manually.

Using DESQview's Add A Program for the Quarterdeck White Papers:

   If you are upgrading your version of the White Papers you will need to
   use the new QW-PIF.DVP file included with this installation.  You can
   use DESQview's Delete A Program option to remove the old entry and use
   'Other (Add Program Not in List)' to add the new entry.

   You should refer to 'Other (Add Program Not in List)' on pages 60-61 of
   your DESQview version 2 manual for help on adding the Quarterdeck White
   Papers to your DESQview Open Window menu.  There is also additional
   information in the file QWHITE.TEC.  This file will be created by the
   INSTALL.BAT file. In general you will select "Other" from "Add a
   Program" and then specify the QWHITE directory.  The next menu will have
   Quarterdeck White on it, if you select the item with either a mouse or
   by using the arrow keys and then pressing the space bar, then the
   program will be added for you when you press Enter.

Installing the files manually:

   If you wish to install the files to some other subdirectory or you wish
to perform the installation yourself then use the following steps:

   > create a subdirectory on a drive or use an existing subdirectory

   > copy the files from the install diskette to this subdirectory.

   > switch to the drive and subdirectory where you copied the files.

   > run QWHITE12.EXE to extract the Quarterdeck White Papers

   > Delete the copy of QWHITE12.EXE after running it.  You should NOT
     delete the original file from the install diskette if you wish to keep
     it as a backup.

Installing to a FLOPPY DRIVE:

   If you have a 720k, 1.2k, or 1.4k as a second drive you can install
the Quarterdeck White Papers to this drive using the install batch file.
If one of your floppy drives is a 360k drive, you should place the install
diskette in the 360k and install to the other drive.

   If you do not have access to a high density drive and do not have a
hard drive you can extract the files for the Quarterdeck White Papers
using three methods.

Method 1:

   Find a friend or associate and install to his/her hard drive or high
   density drive.  Place a copy of QWHITE.COM on two formatted 360k
   diskettes.  Copy half of the files with the extension .TEC on one of the
   360k diskettes and the other half of the files on the other 360k
   diskette.

Method 2:

   If you have 400k of extended memory or expanded memory available, create
   a ram disk 400k in size.  Install the Quarterdeck White Papers to the
   ram disk. Format two 360k floppy diskettes and copy QWHITE.COM to both
   of them. Place half of the .TEC files on one floppy diskette and half on
   the other.  Many versions of DOS include a ram disk program.  In most
   cases it will be called VDISK or RAMDRIVE. Refer to your DOS manual for
   information on using these programs.

Method 3:

   Run QWHITE12 using the /? parameter.  This will list the parameters
   QWHITE12.EXE recognizes.  The two parameters that you will need are the
   -t and the -e parameters.  The -t will list all files that QWHITE12
   needs to create.  The -e will allow you to extract individual files. You
   should format two 360k diskettes and extract QWHITE.COM to both of them.

For Example:

> To list to the printer all the files that QWHITE12 will create type:

   QWHITE12 -t >PRN

and press ENTER.

> To extract the QWHITE.COM to the B drive, place the install diskette in
  the A drive and switch to the B drive by typing B: and press ENTER.  At
  the DOS prompt type:

  A:QWHITE12 -e QWHITE.COM

and press ENTER.

> The -e parameter can be used to extract half of the .TEC files to the
  first floppy diskette and the rest to the second.  The -e parameter
  allows you to specify individual files to extract.