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This file contains information for installing QTEST and the Quarterdeck
White Papers. 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 (213)
392-9851.
The files included on the disk are:
QWHITE10.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
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:
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 QWHITE10.EXE to extract the Quarterdeck White Papers
> Delete the copy of QWHITE10.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 QWHITE10 using the /? parameter. This will list the parameters
QWHITE10.EXE recognizes. The two parameters that you will need are the
-t and the -e parameters. The -t will list all files that QWHITE10
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 QWHITE10 will create type:
QWHITE10 -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:QWHITE10 -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.