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You should print this file using 4PRINT.EXE to display the graphic characters used properly. 4Shell Order Form Registration fee $20.00 each: $________ If current disk is desired add $5.00 $________ Florida Residents Add Tax $1.40 each: $________ Sub Total: $________ * Shipping and handling each: $________ ($5.00 in USA $10.00 Outside USA) * Only if disk from ZPAY is requested, leave blank if no disk is requested Total Due: $________ Media desired: 5.25 size disk _____ or 3.5 size disk _____ Upon registration you will receive the code to disable the shareware screen in 4Shell. If you'd like the latest version on disk from ZPAY add the appropriate amount as shown above. Fill out this form and return it along with your check payable to ZPAY Payroll Systems in US currency to: ZPAY Payroll Systems 2526 69th Avenue South St. Petersburg, FL 33712-5631 MasterCard or Visa orders accepted by CIS email to: 70040,645 Check enclosed _____ or charge my Visa _____ or Master Card _____ Name on card:____________________________________________________ Card number:______________________________ Expires:______________ Signature:_______________________________________________________ Name:________________________________________ Company:_____________________________________ Street Address:______________________________ City:________________________________________ State:_____________ Zip Code:________________ Telephone number:____________________________ Where did you receive your copy of 4Shell?:______________________ _________________________________________________________________ Version number:__________________________________________________ Comments:________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Users of 4Shell must accept this disclaimer of warranty: "4Shell is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of 4Shell." 4Shell is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of another system. The essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer users with quality software without high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products. If you find this program useful and find that you are using 4Shell and continue to use 4Shell after a reasonable trial period, you must make a registration payment of $20.00 to ZPAY Payroll Systems. The $20.00 registration fee will license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time. You must treat this software just like a book. An example is that this software may be used by any number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used at another. Just as a book cannot be read by two different persons at the same time. Commercial users of 4Shell must register and pay for their copies of 4Shell within 30 days of first use or their license is withdrawn. Site-License arrangements may be made by contacting ZPAY Payroll Systems. Anyone distributing 4Shell for any kind of remuneration must first contact ZPAY Payroll Systems at the address below for authorization. This authorization will be automatically granted to distributors recognized by the (ASP) as adhering to its guidelines for shareware distributors, and such distributors may begin offering 4Shell immediately (However ZPAY Payroll Systems must still be advised so that the distributor can be kept up-to-date with the latest version of 4Shell.). You are encouraged to pass a copy of 4Shell along to your friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to register their copy if they find that they can use it. All registered users will receive a code to remove the shareware registration screen. Member ASP (Association of Shareware Professionals) Paul Mayer is a Member of The Association of Shareware Pro- fessionals (ASP). ASP has established stringent standards for its members. ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a problem with an ASP member (other than technical support), ASP may be able to help. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MI 49442 or send a Compuserve message via easyplex to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536 4Shell a Windows 3.0 program for 4Print and 4Book 4Print and 4Book are trademarks of Korenthal Associates Contents 1 What is 4Shell? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 How To Install 4Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3 The 4Shell Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3.1 File Menu Selection . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.1.1 File to Print . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.1.2 Print Using 4Print . . . . . . . . . 3 3.1.3 Print Using 4Book . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.1.4 Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.2 Setup Menu Selection . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.2.1 4PRINT.EXE Location . . . . . . . . . 3 3.2.2 4BOOK.EXE Location . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2.3 Page Formatting, Printer Mechanics and Fonts and Controls . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2.4 4Book Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2.5 Change Background Color . . . . . . . 4 3.2.6 Change Text Color . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2.7 Save Setup as Default . . . . . . . . 4 3.2.8 Save Special Configuration . . . . . 4 3.2.9 Use Special Configuration . . . . . . 5 3.3 Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.3.1 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.3.2 Help on Help . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.3.3 4Print Switches . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.3.4 4Book Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.3.5 Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.3.6 About . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4 Important Things to Do . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 i 1 What is 4Shell? 4Shell is a Windows Application that will control and operate the popular 4Print and 4Book programs under Windows. 4Shell will allow you to set the different command line options of 4Print and 4Book and save them as your default selections. 4Shell will "shell" from Windows, call up 4Print or 4Book and return to Windows with no cumbersome dropping to DOS or other complicated methods. 4Shell will allow you to set the commands, pick the files to print from a pick list of files on your computer and then call 4Print or 4Book to perform the exciting task of printing multiple pages on one sheet of paper by your choice. 2 How To Install 4Shell You must have copies of 4Print and 4Book to use the 4Shell program. If you do not have these two programs contact your favorite shareware distributor or search out a copy on your favorite BBS system. o Copy the 4Shell Files Copy the two 4Shell files into the directory that you have 4Print and 4Book installed. The two files are 4SHELL.EXE and 4SHELL.HLP. 4SHELL.HLP is necessary if you want to be able to access the extensive help files of 4Shell. o Start Windows o Open the Program Manager Window Add a program item to a group you want to add the 4Shell icon. - Open the group window for the group you want to add the icon. This might be your word processing group or possibly your utilities group. - Choose "New" from the "File" menu. The 'New Program Object" dialog box appears. - Select "Program Item" and choose "OK". - Type the description you want to be displayed under the icon. Example: 4Shell - Type the path and file name of the 4Shell program. This is the path that you copied the 4Shell program files into above. Example: C:\4PRINT\4SHELL.EXE - Choose "OK" The dialog box disappears and your icon is displayed in the group box. **NOTE** Special note for Windows 3.0 and 3.1 users. We have provided the file COMMDLG.DLL for Windows 3.0 users. If you are using Windows 3.1, you can delete this files as you already have a copy in your WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ directory. 3 The 4Shell Screen Select the 4Shell icon. When you select the 4Shell icon the 4Shell screen appears in a small window. ┌─────────────────────────────────┐ │ = 4Shell │ ├─────────────────────────────────┤ │ File Setup Help │ ├─────────────────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └ Index │ │ Help on Help │ │ 4Print Switches │ │ 4Book Commands │ │ Keys │ │ About │ └ 4PRINT.EXE Location │ 4BOOK.EXE Location │ Page Formatting │ Printer Mechanics │ Fonts and Controls │ 4Book Setup │ Change Background Color │ Change Text Color │ Save Setup as Default │ Save Special Configuration │ Use Special Configuration └ File to Print Print Using 4Print Print Using 4Book Exit - 2 - Above is the menu structure for 4Shell. These are the commands available for picking files, setting defaults, and running the 4Print and 4Book programs. The 4Shell screen also displays a "command bar" of five buttons. These buttons are for selecting the five most often used functions of 4Shell. See the built in help screens in 4Shell under command bar to actually see the command bar along with the description. 3.1 File Menu Selection 3.1.1 File to Print This option will display a Windows directory pick list. This is what you use to find the files that you want to print. You may pick any text file or a number of files that you need to print. In order to pick multiple files you can do one of two things. If the files are in sequence that you want to pick, click the mouse on the first file and hold the button down while you drag to the last file you want to print. If the files are separated, hold down the Ctrl key while you click the files that you want to select. 3.1.2 Print Using 4Print This is the option that you select to "run" 4Print. You will be shown the "command line" before print begins. Experienced users of 4Print may modify the command line if they desire. 3.1.3 Print Using 4Book This is the option that you select to "run" 4Book. You will be shown the "command line" before print begins. Experienced users of 4Book may modify the command line if they desire. 3.1.4 Exit This is the menu selection to exit the 4Shell program and close the 4Shell Window. 3.2 Setup Menu Selection 3.2.1 4PRINT.EXE Location This menu option is used to enter the default location of the directory and 4Print program name. An example would be: C:\4PRINT\4PRINT.EXE There is also a checkbox that asks if you're using version 4.1 or newer of 4Print. This should be checked if you are using version 4.1 or newer of 4Print. If you are using version 4.0 you should not check this box. - 3 - 3.2.2 4BOOK.EXE Location This menu option is used to enter the default location of the directory and 4Book program name. An example would be: C:\4PRINT\4BOOK.EXE 3.2.3 Page Formatting, Printer Mechanics and Fonts and Controls These selections are to open dialog windows for selecting the various command line options of 4Print. The 4Shell help system has descriptions of all of the options as well as the 4Print manual. Please refer to the 4Print manual for this information. 3.2.4 4Book Setup This selection will allow you to build a command line for the 4Book program. Again as in the 4Print options, please refer to the 4Book manual or the 4Shell help system for particular explanations. 3.2.5 Change Background Color You can change the background colors of 4Shell to suit your taste. This selection should be used along with the change text colors selection to get a good balance between foreground and background colors. 3.2.6 Change Text Color This will allow you to change the text colors of the 4Shell screen. Use this to coordinate your colors along with the background color choice. 3.2.7 Save Setup as Default This menu selection will allow you to save all of the options that you have selected in the above menu selections. This will cause 4Shell to use these options the next time you call on 4Shell to print a document. This will be your "default" settings. 3.2.8 Save Special Configuration You may save more than one configuration as special files for use without having to change the configuration each time you need to use an old configuration. Using this selection, simply enter a descriptive file name (remember only use DOS 8 character file names) in the file save dialog box and click OK. Use the Use special configuration to load these special configuration files. The files will be stored in your 4Shell directory with the standard Windows INI file format and file extension. - 4 - 3.2.9 Use Special Configuration Use this selection to load special configuration files that you created and previously saved. This is used in conjunction with the Save special configuration menu selection. 3.3 Help 3.3.1 Index This selection will take you to the index of the help system. 3.3.2 Help on Help This selection will explain how to use the help system. 3.3.3 4Print Switches This selection will take you to the section that explains the different options available for 4Print. 3.3.4 4Book Commands This selection will take you to the section that explains the different options available for 4Book. 3.3.5 Keys This selection will take you to the help on the computer keys for use in this program and Windows. 3.3.6 About This selection will display information about this program such as the version number and who wrote the program. 4 Important Things to Do You must tell 4Shell where to find the 4PRINT.EXE and the 4BOOK.EXE programs as mentioned above. Failure to do so may result in 4Shell aborting the print process. If you want any configurations that you made to be your defaults, you must save the setup as described above in the setup menu. - 5 -