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Welcome!
This is the (so far) unofficial collection of Hitchhiker's
Guide Animated Cursors for Windows 3.11 and 95.
If you are reading this, you must have an unzip utility,
so you're almost all set.
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** INSTALLATION **
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To install the cursors, simply unzip the archive you found
this note in to a directory of your choice. Just for the sake
of consistency, let's call it C:\CURSORS
If you are using Windows95, go to the control panel
(it's either in My Computer or under Settings in the
Start button)and go into Mouse. Click oon the Pointers tab and
double-click on the cursor you want to customize. Now go to the
CURSORS directory and click on the cursor you want.
You will see the cursor in action on a little demo screen.
Simply click OPEN to select the cursor.
Repeat as necessary.
Click Apply and you're all set.
Included cursors (names abbreviated for the DOS-based user
in all of us):
hhbackgr.ani = Working in background
hhwait.ani = Busy
hhverticl.ani = Vertical resize
hhpointer.ani = Normal select
hhorizht.ani = Horizontal resize
hhmove2.ani = Move
hhdiag2.ani = Diagonal resize 2 (upper-right to lower-left)
hhdiag1.ani = Diagonal resize 1 (upper-left to lower-right)
hhwrite.ani = Text select
hhauaval.ani = Unavailable
/************************************************\
| DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND, THIS SECTION, HAS BEEN |
| ADDED. IT DESCRIBES Win 3.11 INSTALLATION |
\************************************************/
/*******************************************************************************\
In order to get the hitchhiker cursors to work under Win 3.11, you need to
prepare the following items: your working computer, running windows, a
prayer book for the religion of your choice and a small baseball bat
(slugger would do nicely). Now, go to the "control panel" window (usually in
the main window) and simultaneously begin reading from a random page in the
aforementioned prayer book until the window opens. Once it does, look around
for a "cursors" icon (usually it looks like an arrow with an hourglass next
to it, since that's what cursors look like on Microsoft systems most of the
time anyway). If you see one, you are in luck. Close the prayer book and
loudly say "AMEN" and then double-click on the "cursors" icon. From here,
you can follow the Win95 instructions that were included in the "readme"
file from the point where a win95 user would enter the "pointers" tab of the
"mouse" window.
If you do not see a "cursors" icon, close the prayer book and throw it over
your left shoulder for good luck. Take the aforementioned baseball bat and
feel free to bash the !@#$% out of your computer. This exercise has been
proven to decrease stress by at least 40% and to prevent both heart attacks
and injuries incurred during birth. After you are done, go ahead and upgrade
what's left of your computer to either Win NT (which DEFINITELY allows
moving cursors) or the latest version of MSoffice (at least I think that is
what allows the cursors to work in Win3.1 systems).
Note: some of the lower versions of Win do not allow moving cursors at all.
sorry.
Further note: I take no responsibility for any injuries or damages incurred
by either you or your computer due to the use of this e-mail or any acts of
God resulting form reading some of the more non-standard prayer books out there.
Enter at own risk.
Good luck
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Have fun!
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Max +: )
saltykov@cs.brandeis.edu
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~saltykov/home.html