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ECHO OFF CLS ECHO DOS, Simply Said, Simply Done, Simply Easy! ECHO Copyright 1991 Kari Jackson ECHO ECHO INTRODUCTION ECHO ECHO Have you ever noticed that computer books and DOS books are written in a ECHO language that can only be understood by people who already know what the ECHO books are talking about? Well what good does that do for a Beginner? ECHO None. That's the reason for this "book". I think you'll be able to ECHO understand this one. ECHO ECHO This is not a real book, since it's not on paper, but it will serve the ECHO purpose. In fact, it ought to be a lot easier to read than a paper book, ECHO because it's in Hypertext form. That means that you read it on your ECHO computer screen, and when you run across a word that you don't under- ECHO stand, it's highlighted in a different color from the rest of the text. ECHO Well, if you use your arrow keys to put the cursor on that word, and hit ECHO the [Enter] key, you'll be immediately jumped to the section of the text ECHO which explains that word. Now when you finish reading about that sub- ECHO ject, you hold down one of the [Ctrl] keys while you hit [Enter], and ECHO you'll be zipped right back to where you were reading before you made ECHO that detour. ECHO PAUSE CLS ECHO Now isn't that easier than looking a word up in the Index, and writing ECHO down all the page numbers that have that word, and then finding all those ECHO pages, and then going back to find the place where you had been before ECHO that? Well the former description is what Hypertext is like, and this is ECHO a Hypertext DOS manual for Beginners. It covers MS-DOS and PC-DOS ver- ECHO versions through number 5.0, and it covers them thoroughly! ECHO ECHO Another way in which this program differs from a real "book" on paper, is ECHO that you don't especially want to read this one from cover to cover, ECHO since the subjects don't come in any particular order. Hypertext is just ECHO meant to be jumped around in, not read straight through. ECHO ECHO SHAREWARE ECHO ECHO I'm releasing this "book" as Shareware, which is a special marketing ECHO strategy for software, by which you get to try this out for free, and ECHO then you only pay for it if you like it, and feel that it's worth the ECHO price. Isn't that nice? That way you can't possibly get ripped off by ECHO buying a piece of software that turns out not to be what you had expected ECHO it to be. ECHO ECHO There is a chapter in this "book" about Shareware, if you want to know ECHO PAUSE CLS ECHO more about the concept and how it works. ECHO ECHO If you get the registered version of this "book", which is what you will ECHO receive if you pay the registration fee, then you will not only receive a ECHO TSR version of the HLPURSLF command, so that you can read the "book" even ECHO while you're inside another program, but you will also be able to change ECHO the screen colors that the program uses! You can change them to anything ECHO you want! ECHO ECHO Along with being able to receive the TSR and color-changeable version of ECHO the "book", another benefit of sending in the registration fee is that ECHO you will receive a copy of the whole book in a format without any of the ECHO control codes that tell the Hypertext compiler where the "hotspots" and ECHO "targets" should be, so that you can print it on your printer. You will ECHO also receive notice of the next upgraded version. And of course you will ECHO feel better about yourself, for not ripping off an author who worked ECHO really hard and got only five hours of sleep per night for five months, ECHO just so that you might have an easier time of learning DOS than I had. ECHO {grin} So if you like the "book" and find it useful, and think I should ECHO be compensated for all the work I put into it, or if you just want the ECHO color-changeable version and the printable version, just make sure you ECHO have your printer turned on and ready, and type REGISTER [Enter], and ECHO PAUSE CLS ECHO send in the registration fee ($25) with the form that will be printed. ECHO Your conscience and I will love you for it! ECHO ECHO REGISTERED VERSION ECHO TSR VERSION VS COMMAND-LINE VERSION ECHO ECHO The registered version of the "book" includes a TSR, which means ECHO Terminate-and-Stay-Resident program. Well that means that if you've ECHO entered the command that starts it, since the last time you rebooted the ECHO computer, then it's staying right there in your computer's memory, just ECHO waiting for you to press the [Ctrl-/] keystroke combination, and if you ECHO do that, then this "book" will just pop right up on your screen, right ECHO over top of what you were doing. So it's available for use at all times, ECHO even when you're inside another program. (Although it won't work over ECHO top of most really graphic-intensive programs. But it will work fine ECHO over any plain-text program.) Then after you're done looking up whatever ECHO you wanted to know, you hit the [Esc] key and the "book" disappears, and ECHO the screen you were working on before, appears again so you can continue ECHO what you were doing. This TSR takes up 21.2K of RAM, by the way. ECHO ECHO The registered version of this program comes to you, ready to run the ECHO command-line (non-TSR) version of the Hypertext reader. It works the ECHO PAUSE CLS ECHO same way the TSR version works (the way all these instructions describe) ECHO except that it does not stay in your computer's memory when you're not ECHO using it. Once you hit the [Esc] key to exit the book, you can't get ECHO back into it again until you re-execute the entire command that you used ECHO to get into it the first time. Using the [Ctrl-/] keystroke combination ECHO only works for the TSR version of the Hypertext reader. ECHO ECHO The reason the registered version of this program starts out with the ECHO command-line version as the active one, is because that's the one used in ECHO the shareware version, and I don't want to confuse you by having the ECHO registered version working in a different way than the shareware version ECHO worked, without giving you warning first. So, if you want to use the TSR ECHO version instead of the command-line version, there are just a couple very ECHO simple commands you need to execute. ECHO ECHO First, make sure the drive that contains the program files is current. ECHO That means, if the files are on your A: drive you want your prompt to ECHO look sort of like A} and if the files are on your C: drive you want your ECHO prompt to look like C} or C:\} or something like that, with a C in it. ECHO The command to make that happen is just A: [Enter] or B: [Enter] or C: ECHO [Enter]. Next, if it's a hard drive, you want to be in the directory ECHO where the program files are located. For example, if you installed this ECHO PAUSE CLS ECHO program into a directory named SIMPLY, then execute the command CD ECHO \SIMPLY [Enter]. Then, do the command DIR [Enter] and you should see a ECHO bunch of filenames that have the word SIMPLY in them. That tells you ECHO that you are indeed in the right directory. Now, execute these two ECHO commands exactly like this: ECHO RENAME HLPURSLF.EXE HLPURSLF.NON [Enter] ECHO RENAME HLPURSLF.TSR HLPURSLF.EXE [Enter] ECHO From then on, when you start the program, you'll be using the TSR version ECHO rather than the command-line version. (To get out of the SIMPLY direc- ECHO tory, or whatever directory you have installed the files into, and back ECHO to the root directory, the command is CD\ [Enter].) ECHO ECHO If you ever want to go back to using the command-line version again, ECHO instead of the TSR version, then just do those commands in reverse, like ECHO this: ECHO RENAME HLPURSLF.EXE HLPURSLF.TSR [Enter] ECHO RENAME HLPURSLF.NON HLPURSLF.EXE [Enter] ECHO ECHO HOW TO USE THE HYPERTEXT READER ECHO ECHO The Hypertext reader that you'll be using to read this "book" with, is a ECHO separate Shareware program named HeLPyoURSeLF, and there's more informa- ECHO PAUSE CLS ECHO tion about that in the "About This Program" chapter of the "book". The ECHO command that starts this program is C:\SIMPLY\HLPURSLF C:\SIMPLY\SIMPLY1 ECHO [Enter]. This command assumes that you have installed the program onto ECHO your C: drive, and into a directory named SIMPLY. If that's not the ECHO case, you use a slightly different command. For example, if you ECHO installed the files into the BOOK directory of your D: drive, then the ECHO command would be D:\BOOK\HLPURSLF D:\BOOK\SIMPLY1 [Enter]. Or if you're ECHO using this program from the floppy disks instead of a hard drive, your ECHO command might be A:\HLPURSLF A:\SIMPLY1 [Enter]. Now that is all one ECHO command, all on one line, with a space between the two parts of it. ECHO Throughout these instructions, I am going to use C:\SIMPLY as the direc- ECHO tory name but if you've installed it somewhere else, you just replace the ECHO C:\SIMPLY in the instructions with whatever drive and directory name you ECHO have used for this program. ECHO ECHO As soon as you enter that command, the program will load into your ECHO computer's memory, and it will just sit there waiting for you to hit the ECHO [Ctrl-/] keystroke so that it knows you want it to "pop up" now. Or if ECHO you're not using the TSR version, it will just start up right then. And ECHO the second page of the "book" tells all about the keystrokes that you use ECHO inside the program. ECHO ECHO PAUSE CLS ECHO Now if you're using the TSR version and you want to completely remove the ECHO "book" from memory for a while, you type C:\SIMPLY\HLPURSLF -r [Enter] ECHO and it will unload itself. After that if you want to read the "book" ECHO some more, you have to enter the entire command again, C:\SIMPLY\HLPURSLF ECHO C:\SIMPLY\SIMPLY1 [Enter], just like when you first started the program. ECHO Until you do that, nothing at all will happen when you press the [Ctrl-/] ECHO keystroke combination. One thing though, you can't remove this TSR from ECHO memory if you have loaded any other TSRs into memory since the time you ECHO loaded this one. ECHO ECHO If you want to be able to "hotkey" into this "book" program with the ECHO [Ctrl-/] keystroke at any time at all, you can add the command that runs ECHO this program to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file so that the TSR will load into ECHO memory every time you reboot the computer. Don't do that unless you are ECHO using the TSR version though. That wouldn't work well at all. ECHO ECHO Every time you enter the HLPURSLF command, the file checks itself to see ECHO if it had been altered, perhaps by a virus. If it finds that something ECHO is wrong, it will tell you so, in which case you should copy the ECHO HLPURSLF.EXE file from this original disk, over the top of the corrupted ECHO file on your hard drive, using the command A:DOSIMP12 or B:DOSIMP12, and ECHO say no to all the questions except the HLPURSLF.EXE one. Or, if you are ECHO PAUSE CLS ECHO using the TSR version of the Hypertext reader, then you would want to ECHO execute the second set of RENAME commands above, then the DOSIMP12 com- ECHO and, saying no to all the questions except HLPURSLF.TSR, and then do the ECHO first set of RENAME commands one more time. Just make sure you are in ECHO the directory where the program files are when you do all that! ECHO ECHO If you run any anti-virus program that alters the executable file, the ECHO program is going to stop working. Because it does its own virus checking ECHO so when the anti-virus program makes the change to the HLPURSLF.EXE file, ECHO it won't know that it was an anti-virus program that did that---it will ECHO think it was a virus. Also if you use a program such as PKLITE to com- ECHO press the HLPURSLF.EXE file while leaving it in executable form, the pro- ECHO gram still won't work, because once again the file has been changed and ECHO it will think that a virus is what did that. ECHO ECHO The HLPURSLF program is compatible with Quarterdeck's QEMM386 program, ECHO and DOS version 5.0's LOADHIGH command, so that you can load it into the ECHO Upper Memory Area, if your machine can handle those programs, and if you ECHO have them. ECHO ECHO And remember, until you have executed those two RENAME commands mentioned ECHO earlier, you are using the command-line version of the Hypertext reader ECHO PAUSE CLS ECHO rather than the TSR version, so none of the instructions about the ECHO [Ctrl-/] keystroke or about loading high, or unloading from memory, apply ECHO to you yet. ECHO ECHO REGISTERED VERSION ECHO CHANGING THE SCREEN COLORS ECHO ECHO If you have the registered version of this "book", you can change all the ECHO screen colors that the program uses! You can change them to anything you ECHO want! Here's how: ECHO ECHO C:\SIMPLY\HLPURSLF C:\SIMPLY\SIMPLY1 -tr## -tc## -sp## -sc## -nm## -er## ECHO [Enter] would be the command to do that. The ## symbols stand for color ECHO codes from this list: ECHO 0 black 3 cyan 6 brown 9 lt blue C lt red F white ECHO 1 blue 4 red 7 lt grey A lt green D lt magenta ECHO 2 green 5 magenta 8 grey B lt cyan E yellow ECHO The first digit of ## means the background color, and the second digit is ECHO foreground color. So the number 49 would mean light blue letters on a ECHO red background. And F2 would be green letters on a white background. Do ECHO not use a number from 8 to F as a background color! Doing so will make ECHO your foreground blink quite irritatingly! Only use 0 through 7 as back- ECHO PAUSE CLS ECHO ground colors. ECHO ECHO Now the -tr switch is the color combination you want to use for the tar- ECHO gets that the cursor is not on. The -tc switch is the targets when the ECHO cursor is on them. The -sp switch is the hotspots when the cursor is not ECHO on them, and -sc is hotspots with the cursor on them. The -nm switch is ECHO for plain old text that is neither target nor hotspot, and -er is for ECHO program messages such as when the program has been removed from memory ECHO with the -r switch, or when the program thinks it has been infected with ECHO a virus, or if the program can't find the .HYP and .INX files. ECHO ECHO The default colors, meaning the colors that will be used if you don't use ECHO the command switches to change them, are -tr3F -tc0F -sp3B -sc0B -nm30 ECHO -er4F, basically white, cyan, and black. The switches that I always use ECHO are -tr76 -tc67 -sp71 -sc17 -nm75 -erf4. But you can use whatever colors ECHO your heart desires. Just one caution. For example, if you want to have ECHO a blue background instead of cyan, then change all, absolutely all, of ECHO the 3s in the default color switches to 1, and don't change any other ECHO numbers to 1s. If you want the normal text to be red instead of black, ECHO then change all of the 0s to 4s, and don't change anything else to 4s. ECHO (The pattern I use works also, even though it's different from the pat- ECHO tern of the default color switches.) Otherwise, it's really easy to goof ECHO PAUSE CLS ECHO up and get some color combination like yellow on white which would be ECHO really hard to see, or else to end up with the text-with-cursor color ECHO being the same as the text-without-cursor color, so that you can't tell ECHO where your cursor is at all. Of course you will want to create a batch ECHO file or a DOSKEY macro to enter that long horrible command for you, so ECHO you don't have to memorize it. ECHO ECHO REGISTERED VERSION ECHO CHANGING THE HOTKEY (TSR version only) ECHO ECHO Another thing that the registered version can do, is let you choose the ECHO keystroke combination that is used as the "hotkey" that gets you into the ECHO program. [Ctrl-/] is the default, but you can use just about whatever ECHO you want in case you have some other program that also uses the [Ctrl-/] ECHO keystroke. ECHO ECHO Well here's how you do it. You use LS or RS for left or right [Shift], ECHO LC or RC for left or right [Ctrl], or LA or RA for left or right [Alt]. ECHO Then you put the letter, number, or symbol you want to use. The symbols ECHO you can use other than plain letters or numbers, are [ ] ' . and / and ECHO then you stick your combination onto the end of a -hk switch. So, for a ECHO couple of examples, -hklc/ -hkrc/ is the default, because it means hotkey ECHO PAUSE CLS ECHO left ctrl / and hotkey right ctrl /. -hklsa would be [LeftShift-A], and ECHO -hkrab is [RightAlt-B]. ECHO ECHO Then you put the -hkXXX switch or switches between the filename and the ECHO color switches, as in: ECHO C:\SIMPLY\HLPURSLF C:\SIMPLY\SIMPLY1 -hkrab -hklsa -tr3F -tc0F -sp3B .... ECHO └- (program) └- (text files) └- (hotkeys) └- (colors) ECHO and that would be the command you would use to start the program with ECHO those hotkeys and those colors. ECHO ECHO DISCLAIMER ECHO ECHO To the best of my knowledge, and that of my proofreaders, and according ECHO to every DOS book I can get my hands on to double-check my work, and ECHO every book I can ever remember reading, every bit of information in this ECHO "book" is absolutely true and correct, but nevertheless, we cannot be ECHO held responsible for any damage, data loss, lost time, or anything else ECHO that may arise from your use of any information in this "book", or from ECHO the use of the Hypertext reader you're using to read the "book". We are ECHO not liable for anything other than a refund of the purchase price of this ECHO "book", no matter what the circumstances. You use this program at your ECHO own risk. ECHO PAUSE CLS ECHO MISCELLANEOUS ECHO ECHO If you know anything about BBSs and uploading, please do distribute the ECHO .ZIP file that came with this program, but not any other part of the ECHO program, to any BBS you want. And give copies to all your friends who ECHO might be interested. But it would be illegal for you to distribute any ECHO part of the registered version to an unregistered user. If you previous- ECHO ly had a copy of the shareware version of this program, and it included a ECHO .ZIP file also, then please only distribute the .ZIP copy that came with ECHO this registered copy, since it might have some slight updates since the ECHO time of the old .ZIP file that you already had. If you ordered a share- ECHO ware copy of version 1.2 direct from me, then all you have is the ECHO DOSIMP12.EXE file. Go right ahead and distribute that part to whomever ECHO you like until you get the .ZIP file with the registered version. But ECHO don't distribute any part that's been altered in any way since I sent it ECHO to you. Just the DOSIMP12.EXE file from the shareware version, or the ECHO DOSIMP12.ZIP file from the registered version. ECHO ECHO If you ever try to change any part of any of the .HYP or .INX files, you ECHO will most likely ruin the entire program, because the .INX files are ECHO indexed to the .HYP files the way they were before you made any changes! ECHO So the highlighted parts, meaning "hotspots" and "targets", will still be ECHO PAUSE CLS ECHO where they used to be before you made the changes, only the text under ECHO those highlighted spots has moved to where you moved it to. That's not ECHO good, so don't do it. Note that the date and time on the files named ECHO SIMPLY?.INX will change each time you use the program. I have no idea ECHO why. I didn't write the Hypertext reader, just the text. But those ECHO files' dates will change and that is ok. Don't worry about it. The ECHO archive attributes for those .INX files will also be turned on. ECHO ECHO FILES INCLUDED IN THIS PROGRAM ECHO ECHO HLPURSLF.EXE The non-TSR version of the Hypertext reader you'll be using ECHO to read the "book". ECHO ECHO HLPURSLF.TSR The TSR version of the Hypertext reader. In order to use ECHO it, you have to follow the instructions above, under the subject heading ECHO TSR VERSION VS COMMAND-LINE VERSION. Registered version only. ECHO ECHO SIMPLY1.HYP through SIMPLY7.HYP The actual text of the book. ECHO ECHO SIMPLY1.INX through SIMPLY7.INX The index files that tell the Hypertext ECHO reader where the "hotspots" and "targets" are. Without these files, ECHO you'll have none of the advantages of Hypertext. ECHO PAUSE CLS ECHO README.BAT This file you're reading right now. Contains all the ECHO instructions. ECHO ECHO REGISTER.BAT The command file that will print out a copy of the ECHO registration form for the this program, so you can get the benefits of ECHO the registered version, and also for the Hypertext creation program, in ECHO case you'd like to order your own copy of it. ECHO ECHO DOSIMP12.ZIP The PKZIPped shareware version of the program. This is the ECHO only part you may legally distribute to BBSs or to your friends. DO NOT ECHO UNZIP THIS FILE ON TOP OF YOUR REGISTERED COPIES! This file is not ECHO included in the shareware version--shareware users may distribute the ECHO unmodified DOSIMP12.EXE file instead. ECHO ECHO PRNTSIMP.EXE The self-extracting compressed file that contains the ECHO printable version of the text files. Registered version only. If you ECHO want to print them out, type CD \SIMPLY and make sure you are indeed in ECHO the directory that contains the program, and then type A:PRNTSIMP or ECHO B:PRNTSIMP, according to whether your original installation disk is in ECHO drive A: or drive B:. That will extract the printable files from the ECHO floppy to your hard drive. Then type PRINT *.PRT and when that's all ECHO done (a long long time and around 200 sheets of paper later), then delete ECHO PAUSE CLS ECHO the printable files by typing DEL *.PRT so that those files don't sit ECHO there forever taking up all that hard drive space, because the only thing ECHO they're for is for printing. ECHO ECHO USING THIS PROGRAM FROM A FLOPPY DRIVE RATHER THAN FROM A HARD DRIVE ECHO ECHO If you have a 1.2M or 1.44M floppy drive, then here's how to run this ECHO program. You just replace every reference to C:\SIMPLY\ in the instruc- ECHO tions with A:\ or B:\ instead. For example the command to start up the ECHO program, if you have the program disk in drive A:, would be A:\HLPURSLF ECHO A:\SIMPLY1 or if A: is your current drive, meaning that your prompt says ECHO A} then you can leave out the A:\ part on the command side, but leave the ECHO A:\ on the parameter side, and say HLPURSLF A:\SIMPLY1 [Enter]. ECHO ECHO If you only have a 360K or 720K drive and nothing else, no other drives ECHO at all on your system, then I'm very sorry to report that there is no way ECHO you'll be able to use this program. You need a hard drive, or a floppy ECHO drive or RAMdisk larger than 800K. ECHO ECHO IF YOU DON'T HAVE A HARD DRIVE ECHO ECHO This "book" is written mostly for people who have a hard drive. If you ECHO PAUSE CLS ECHO don't have one, well, life will be pretty difficult. Throughout this ECHO book and throughout your computer usage, you always have to remember that ECHO in order for DOS to execute an external command (that is, the commands ECHO other than the ones which are inside the COMMAND.COM file like COPY and ECHO DIR), it has to have access to the executable command file on the disk. ECHO Without a hard drive, it's not all that easy to give DOS this access to ECHO the command files. If you have two floppy drives, you can keep your DOS ECHO disk in one drive, have that drive on your PATH, and keep the files you ECHO are working with, in the other drive. If you only have one floppy drive ECHO and no hard drive, then remember that DOS always treats your drive as if ECHO it were two drives, A: and B:, so let's say that you wanted to use the ECHO COMP command to compare two files. Put your DOS disk into the drive, and ECHO give the command COMP B:FILE1 B:FILE2 and DOS will read the COMP command ECHO code into memory and ask you to put in the disk for drive B:. You put ECHO the disk that contains the files you want to compare, into drive A:, but ECHO DOS will be pretending that it's drive B: and it will compare the two ECHO files. Next time you try to access drive A: after that, remember that ECHO DOS is still pretending that the disk in drive A: is really B: instead, ECHO so it's going to say "Please insert disk for drive A:", and if the disk ECHO you wanted to access is already in there, then just hit any key on your ECHO keyboard and DOS will continue. ECHO ECHO PAUSE CLS ECHO If you have enough memory that you can spare some for a RAMdisk (even 64K ECHO would be a help!), then you should look up that subject in the "book" to ECHO see how to do it, and make yourself a RAMdisk and copy all of your most ECHO often-used DOS commands to it, and put the RAMdisk on your PATH, and that ECHO way you won't have to keep your DOS disk in your floppy drive so often, ECHO because DOS will be able to find and execute the commands from the RAM- ECHO disk instead of needing for them to be in your floppy drive. ECHO ECHO HOW TO REGISTER THIS PROGRAM ECHO ECHO To register the DOS, Simply Said, Simply Done, Simply Easy! program, send ECHO $25 plus $4 for postage and handling, to Kari Jackson ECHO (add $1.63 sales tax in Nebraska) 3201 Monroe Street ECHO Omaha NE 68107-4048 ECHO and tell me whether you want 360K, 720K, 1.2M, or 1.44M disks, and ECHO whether you would also like to have the printable version of the "book" ECHO files. (Price subject to change, current as of 01/92.) And if you have ECHO any suggestions as to how I might improve this program before the next ECHO update, please let me know! ECHO ECHO If you have a printer, just enter the command REGISTER [Enter] and it ECHO will print out a copy of the registration form for you. ECHO PAUSE CLS ECHO TO ORDER YOUR OWN COPY OF THE HYPERTEXT CREATION PROGRAM ECHO ECHO If you would like to purchase the complete HLPURSLF Hypertext compiler so ECHO that you could make your own Hypertext "book", you can send $20 plus ECHO $2.50 for shipping and handling, and $1.40 for sales tax if you live in ECHO California, to the author of that program at Sansaska Systems 3311 ECHO Concord Blvd Concord CA 94519. Also tell what size disk you want that ECHO program on, and please mention that you are ordering it through this ECHO "book" so he will know why you are only sending $20, since the regular ECHO price is $25 and the author is offering it for only $20 to users of my ECHO "book". (Price subject to change, current as of 01/92.) ECHO ECHO If you have a printer, just enter the command REGISTER [Enter] and it ECHO will print out a copy of the registration form for you. ECHO ECHO TO PRINT THESE INSTRUCTIONS ECHO ECHO Just type COPY README.BAT PRN [Enter]. The beginning of each line of the ECHO printout will say ECHO but that's ok, just ignore it. ECHO Kari Jackson ECHO Prodigy ID #DWDP74A ECHO