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- **** README FILE FOR TRUEMENU ****
- (c)1993 Foyeh Systems Inc.
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- TRUEMENU is a Hard Disk menu system for running .EXE, .COM
- and .BAT program files. It is very easy to use, and has full
- mouse control. When running menu items, the memory overhead
- is only 6.5k. This is achieved by swapping to Extended Memory
- or Expanded Memory or Disk, in that order of preference.
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- TRUEMENU also features a FILE LINK routine, whereby data files
- are linked to the program that created them. Selecting such
- linked files automatically loads the program that created them.
-
- TRUEMENU requires a minimum of 384k installed conventional memory
- and will work on all types of display. It is supplied with a
- FILE MANAGER. This is for basic file operations, such as copy,
- delete, rename, etc. It also features a Text Editor and offers
- some directory services as well. To use the File Manager, at
- least 512k memory is required. Your DOS version must be 3.0 or
- higher.
-
- **** INSTALLATION ****
- TRUEMENU is supplied with an automatic installation routine
- (TRUEINST.EXE). You need to run this program before TRUEMENU
- can be used. The program files are in a compressed format and
- cannot be accessed without running the installation.
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- To install the program, just type "TRUEINST" at the DOS
- prompt. You are then asked to confirm the directory/drive
- from which you are installing and that to which you want the
- program to be installed.
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- The installation routine installs TRUEMENU the specified
- target directory, and then SCANS the DOS Path and all the
- hard disk drives for about 100 well known DOS and WINDOWS
- applications. If any of them is found, a Menu Item is
- created for it. NOTE that this process may take up to about
- 5 minutes or more if you have a big and/or slow hard disk.
-
- The installation program only scans the first sub-directory
- levels after searching the DOS path. So if any of the
- programs is contained in a directory that is not in the DOS
- path, and is not a first level directory of the root
- directory (e.g C:\MYDIR\MYAPPDIR) the user will have to
- create a menu item for it.
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- The installation routine also gives the option of updating
- the AUTOEXEC.BAT file to add the TRUEMENU directory to the
- PATH statement while saving the old autoexec.bat in
- AUTOEXEC.OLD. You are prompted before this is done and can
- decline the offer.
-
- *** KWIKMENU USERS ****
- For current users of KWIKMENU we have prodcued a conversion
- utility (CONVKWIK.EXE) to convert KWIKMENU menu items to
- TRUEMENU format.
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- If you are already a KWIKMENU user, after running the
- TRUEMENU installation routine, you can then run
- the conversion program afterwards. In this case, the
- converted KWIKMENU menu items will be added to the ones
- created by the installation routine. This may result in the
- DUPLICATION of some menu items (those created by the
- installation routine, but for which KWIKMENU items already
- existed). All you need do is to DELETE the duplicated menu
- items using the DELETE MENU ITEM option on the Main Menu.
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- The user can study the menu items created by the installation
- routine via the "EDIT" option in the Main Menu for examples of
- how to set up menu items. Documentation for TRUEMENU is supplied
- in the form of a self-displaying document file (TRUEDOC.COM). To
- read the documentation, just type "TRUEDOC"
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- ** NOTE for REGISTERED USERS **
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- Because REGISTERED users will most likely have been using
- TRUEMENU on a trial basis and would have created their own
- menu files, there may not be a need to go through all the
- processes of the installation routine. When the installation
- routine is about to install a file it first searches to see
- whether there is already another file with the same name. If
- so, you are prompted to confirm that you wish for the file to
- be overwritten with the new one.
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- **** HELP ****
- ** At the MAIN MENU, press "H" for Help. Doing this will
- load TRUEDOC.COM (self displaying document file for
- TRUEMENU).
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- TRUEMENU is a SHAREWARE program. If you like it, please give
- copies to your friends and please REGISTER your copy.
- Registration costs only £20, and apart from giving you the
- satisfaction of being a honest person, it also opens the
- door to a lot of goodies from us (we have written other
- shareware and Public Domain programs which we will then
- make available to you).
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- * Foyeh Systems Inc. *
- * 268 Horwood, *
- * Newcastle, *
- * Staffs ST5 5BQ. *
- * ENGLAND *
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