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**************************************** * * * THUMB PRINT SOFTWARE'S * * * * A.S.A.D. MEMBER * * * * TP-ET Ver. 2.0 * * * * COPYRIGHT (C) THUMB PRINT SOFTWARE * * * * 1989 - 1993 * * * * ALL RIGHTS RESERVED * * * * (SHAREWARE EVALUATION COPY) * * * **************************************** DISCLAIMER: These program/s are provided on an "AS IS BASIS". All risks are with you the "USER". At no time will Thumb Print Software or Duane J. Schnur be liable to you for any damages, including any lost profits, lost savings, or other incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use these programs. Even if Thumb Print Software or Duane J. Schnur have been advised of the possibility of such damage. You acknowledge that you have read this agreement, understand it, and agree to be bound by it's terms and conditions. Files on your Shareware disk: TP-ET.EXE ---- Electric Typewriter Program TPET.HLP ---- HyperText Help File TP-ET.DOC ---- This file. README.TXT ---- May or May not be on the disk. Will have any last minute updates. INSTALL.BAT ---- Batch file with instructions on installing TP-ET. PRINTDOC.BAT ---- Use this batch file to print out this Shareware Manual of TP-ET. TPPRN.DAT ---- List of drivers supported by TP-ET. TPPRN.DRV ---- Printer control codes. _______________________________________________________________ SUBJECT: PAGE What is TP-ET------------------------------------- 1 System Requirements------------------------------- 1 First Things First-------------------------------- 2 Features Of The Main Menu Screen------------------ 3 Features From The Edit Screen--------------------- 3 Opening A Menu------------------------------------ 4 Margins------------------------------------------- 4 Boxes - Date/Time Stamp--------------------------- 5 Word Wrap - Auto Save----------------------------- 5 Printer Drivers - Port Change--------------------- 5 Current Driver/Port------------------------------- 5 Start - Help-------------------------------------- 5 Edit Screen--------------------------------------- 5 Selecting A File---------------------------------- 6 Changing Drives/Directories--------------------- 6 Selecting The File------------------------------ 6 New File------------------------------------------ 7 Save File/Save As--------------------------------- 7 Convert To ASCII---------------------------------- 7 DOS Shell - Cut/Copy/Paste - UNDO----------------- 8 Center A Line - What Is A Clipboard--------------- 9 Find - Find/Replace------------------------------- 10 Codes - Boxes------------------------------------- 11 Inserts - Options - About TP-ET------------------- 12 Navigation Keys - Using The TAB Key--------------- 14 DOS Command Line Switches------------------------- 14 Why Register-------------------------------------- 15 (1) What is TP-ET? TP-ET is an electric typewriter program. If your wondering why not just use a word processor instead; the answer is TP-ET is just a lot easier to use and learn. In fact you could use it without ever even reading the manual. Most letters/correspondence we write are no larger than 1 to 4 pages. TP-ET will allow files as large as 30,000 bytes. A word processor allows files as large as memory. Not only is TP-ET an excellent way to write letters but; it is very useful as a simple text editor. In fact compared to EDIT.EXE that comes with DOS 5.0 TP-ET is far more powerful and just as easy to use. From writing batch files to long letters TP-ET will more than satisfy your needs. If you are familiar with Version 1.0 you will find no similarity between this version and 1.0. Version 2.0 is far superior to the first version. Since MicroSoft came out with Visual Basic for DOS things that were complicated problems such as Word Wrap - Find and Replace are now a snap to program. System Requirements: MS-DOS 3.1 or higher 512K of system ram MDA-CGA-EGA-VGA adaptor Printer (required for printout of documents) 286 16MHZ or higher recommended (8088 will work but screens take ore time to load.) (2) First Things First: Selecting Text: You will see many references to Select Text. Whenever you are told to select text there are 2 different ways to do this. KeyBoard: Place the cursor on the top left corner (character) where you want the selected text to begin. Press the SHIFT KEY DOWN AND HOLD IT DOWN while you move the cursor with the arrow keys to the bottom right corner (character) where the selected text is to end. Let up on the Shift Key. The selected text will be in reverse video (highlighted). This works whether you are selecting one character or multiple lines of text. Mouse: Place the mouse cursor on the top left corner (character) where you want the selected text to begin. PRESS AND HOLD THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON DOWN WHILE you move the Mouse cursor to the bottom right corner (character) where the selected text is to end. Let up on the Left Mouse Button. The selected text will be in reverse video (highlighted). This works whether you are selecting one character or multiple lines of text. WATCH OUT ---- WATCH OUT --- WATCH OUT Anytime you have any text highlighted DO NOT PRESS ANY KEY THAT WILL PRINT A CHARACTER ON THE SCREEN. If you do whatever text is highlighted will be replaced by whatever key you press. This is not just an anomolly of TP-ET this is common among MicroSoft word processing programs IE: MicroSoft Works. If this does happen to you and you did not intend for it to happen simply Open the Edit Menu and select Undo. This will put the text back the way it was. One thing to remember: DO NOT PRESS ANY MORE KEYS BEFORE YOU USE UNDO. If you press even one more key that places a character on the screen Undo will not help you. (3) Features: All margins are programmable Left-Right-Top-Bottom. Tabs are preset at 8 spaces (not programmable) Auto Insert keys: 10 available with up to 35 characters per key. Four different style boxes can be drawn in your letter. Auto Date stamp available in 4 variations. Auto Time stamp available in 3 variations. Word Wrap ON/OFF Auto Save every 10 mins. ON/OFF Over 40 printer drivers available Change output port LPT 1-2-3 These are settings available in the Main Menu: From the Edit Screen: Start a New File Open an Existing File Save a File (optionally as a .LET file) Save a File with a new name Save a selected block of text to a file Merge a file from disk into the current file DOS SHELL available from Main & Edit Screen Print a file Convert a file to pure ASCII (remove embedded printer controls) ---------------------- Cut a block of text from the letter and place it in the Clipboard Copy a block of text to the ClipBoard Delete a block of text (not placed in the Clipboard) Paste text from the ClipBoard anywhere in your letter Select the entire file as a block Undo last edit change Turn Word Wrap ON/OFF ---------------------- Find a word/phrase Find-Replace a word/phrase ---------------------- Embed Printer Controls for: Bold - Double Wide - Italic - Pica - Underline - Super/Sub Script NLQ - Proportional - Elite (4) Draw boxes by using Shift-FKey combinations ---------------------- Change all text to Upper/Lower Case Change a block of text to Upper/Lower Case Set/Goto a bookmark Expand/Contract the text input area Get a word/byte count ---------------------- Each Screen Main/Edit has a Hyper-Text Help system available. The help text is in TP-ET.HLP file which resides in the same Drive/Dir as TP-ET.EXE. If it cannot be found when TP-ET loads a message will appear on the screen informing you Help is not available. If Disk Space is a premium you can elect not to have TP-ET.HLP available as this file is over 60K in size. As TP-ET loads it will look for TP-ET.DRV, if it is not found you will see a message telling you so and that the Generic Driver is being used. What this means no Printer Control codes can be embedded within your letter. This is exactly what will happen the first time you use TP-ET. Once TP-ET loads open the Printer Menu and select a Printer driver that matches your printer or one that your printer can emulate. From the Printer Menu select whichever output port LPT 1-2-3 is connected to your printer. LPT 1 is the default port and probably will be the right one 90% of the time. Up And Running: Assuming you have run install.bat you should now have the Main Menu Screen on your Monitor. Using the Menus is very easy. They are just like any other Pull Down Menu System. Your Mouse is fully supported by TP-ET in fact it is by far the easiest way to use TP- ET. Opening a Menu: Mouse: just point and shoot: KeyBoard: Press ALT key and the Highlighted letter of the Pull Down Menu Item you want. You may also use the Left/Right arrow keys to move the bouncing light bar to the Pull Down Menu Item you want and press Enter. The Settings Menu has all the document settings that you can change and save to disk. Most all Settings require none to very little actual typing from the keyboard on your part. It has been made as goof proof as possible. You can select any item from a pull down menu by pressing the Highlighted Letter - moving the light bar and pressing Enter - or click the left mouse button on the item. Margins: The minimum/maximum values are programmed into TP-ET. You cannot enter an out of range amount. You use the scroll bars to select the margin settings. Use the mouse on the scroll bar ends or elevator button or use the Tab Key to select (Highlight) the margin control you want then press the left/right arrow keys to change the value. Click Accept/Cancel or use the Tab Key to (5) select the Accept/Cancel button then press Enter or Space Bar. Boxes - Date/Time Stamp: these have option buttons you select to get the desired effect. Simply click the option or use the Tab Key to enter a Frame and use the Up/Down arrow key to select the option. Click/Press the Accept/Cancel button. Word Wrap - Auto Save: these are simply ON/OFF switches. Click/Press the desired button. Printer Drivers: a list box will open showing you all the printer drivers available. There are several ways to scroll through the list. Us Page Up/Page Down - Up/Down arrow keys - Click on the Scroll Bar - Press Home/End keys - Press a letter of the alphabet to get to a section quickly, IE: to get to the Epson printers press E. Highlight the driver you want and press Accept/Cancel. Port Change: is like the Date/Time Stamp you click/select the option button you want. Current Driver/Port and Supported Codes are information screens only. They tell you which printer and what output port is active also which printer control codes the driver supports. Start: does just what is says, it sends you to the Edit Screen where you type in your letter. Help: the Help menu has a section on using help. See that selection to understand how to use Help. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Edit Screen: The Edit Screen is divided into 2 sections. The top section is where you enter your letter. The bottom section is an information area. There are 4 info frames. Word Count: Byte Count: Disk Space: Mins. remaining before Auto Save (if Auto Save has been turned on). The top bar is the Pull Down Menu Bar. The first Menu File takes care of all file Input/Output. If you are going to open an existing file a dialog box will open. As with most dialog boxes in TP-ET you don't have to type in any input; you can do it all with the keyboard or mouse. The default Drive and Directory will be displayed in two list boxes. The box on the left are all files in the current or default directory. The list box on the right are all Sub-directories of the current directory. Above this list box is a Drive selector. (6) Selecting a file: We will assume you want a file on Hard Drive D. The directory is TPET. The file is MYLET. We will also assume the default or current Drive/Dir is Drive C: - ASCII directory. The first thing you will see when you select Open Existing File is all the files in the directory ASCII on Drive C: Changing Drives: Mouse -- click the arrow on the Drive selector above the directory list box. A list of all available drives on your system will appear. In our case we will select Drive D by clicking on D: Keyboard -- Use the Tab key to highlight/select the Drive Selector then use the Down/Up arrow to cycle through the available drives. In this case when D appears we would press Enter. Changing Directories: When Drive D appears all files and directories from the root or main directory of drive D will appear in both list boxes. Mouse -- use the scroll bar to highlight the directory TPET and press Enter or just Double Click on TPET. Keyboard -- Use the Tab Key to select/highlight the Directory list box. Use the Up/Down arrow keys to highlight TPET and press Enter. Selecting the file: All available files in the subdirectory TPET on Drive D will now appear in the file list box (left side list box). Mouse -- Use the scroll bar to highlight MYLET then press Enter or just Double Click on it. KeyBoard -- Use the Tab Key to select/highlight the file list box. Use the Up/Down arrow keys to highlight MYLET then press Enter. TP-ET will now check the file size of MYLET if it is over 30,000 bytes you will not be able to load it into the Edit Screen. If it is less you will be asked if you want a backup copy created before you begin to work on MYLET. It is a prudent idea to always make a back up of an important file. All back up copies will have their first character changed to the % sign. Once MYLET appears in the Edit Screen you can do anything you wish to the file. (7) New File: If you have been working on a file and are finished and want to write another letter you can clear the Edit Screen by using New File. The first thing TP-ET does is see if this file already has a file name. If it does, it saves it to disk then clears the Edit Screen. If it does not have a file name a dialog box will open for you to type in a file name. You will be offered the option of saving the file as a .LET file. The only difference between a .LET file and any other file is your current settings will also be saved in the file such as margins date/time stamp etc. If you want a .LET file select the .LET file option. You may type in a Drive/Directory before the name of the file. ------------ Save File/Save As: Save File is used to do just what the name indicates Save the current file in the Edit Screen. If it already has a name, that is the name that will be used. Save As is handy when you have changed a file and want to save it as a different name yet retain the original file on disk unchanged. Such a circumstance is when writing a form letter where you need only to input the name and date but the text remains as is. When you save files in TP-ET you can name the drive and directory. It is up to you to make sure the Drive/Dir and File name are legal DOS entries.If you have loaded a file from the open existing selection then which ever drive/directory you loaded from will be the drive/directory it will be saved to. Of course it is up to you not to remove a disk from the drive that the file came from. If the drive is not ready you will receive an error message to correct the situation and try again. ------------- Convert to ASCII: Use this when you want to remove all embedded printer control characters and if it is a .LET file the settings line. This is the first line of a .LET file. What you end up with is a pure ASCII file that can be loaded into any word processor that will accept pure ASCII files. The file will have the same name except it will now carry the extension .ASC. You will still have the original file on disk. Another option is to remove embedded printer control characters and add CR/LF at the end of each screen line. This way your letter will be exactly as it appears on the screen. This option is not available if Word Wrap is currently turned off. (8) DOS SHELL: Use this when you want to return to DOS. You may have to return to format a Disk or whatever. When you want to return to TP-ET simply type EXIT [ENTER} at the DOS prompt. You will be returned to the screen you left Main/Edit. -------------- Cut/Copy/Paste: These are very handy word processor functions. You highlight whatever text you want to CUT or COPY. Using a mouse place the mouse cursor on the first letter of the word/phrase you want to select. Press the left button down and hold it down. Now move the mouse to the diagonal right bottom corner and let up on the button. The text will be highlighted. With the KeyBoard place the cursor on the first letter of the word/phrase you want to select. Press a Shift Key down and hold it down while using the arrow keys to move to the diagonal right bottom corner. Let up on the Shift key. You now have the text highlighted. You can now Cut the text out of the file by selecting Cut from the Edit Menu. This will place the text in the ClipBoard. To paste the text back in the file (anywhere) place the cursor where you want the text and select Paste from the Edit Menu. To make a Copy of a word/phrase select the text as outlined above and select Copy from the Edit Menu. You now still have the text in the original position plus a copy of it in the ClipBoard. You can Paste it in the file anywhere you wish. Some word processors call this procedure Copy/Move instead of Cut/Copy/Paste. You may also select any text and press the Delete key. The text will be gone. No copy will be placed in the ClipBoard. UNDO: Our savior. Undo can save you from an unwanted delete. Suppose you select some text and press Delete when you meant to use the Cut feature. The text will not be placed in the ClipBoard. STOP BEFORE YOU TOUCH ANOTHER KEY: (9) Select Undo from the Edit Menu to restore the deleted text. The reason the stop before you touch another key is every time you press a key whatever was in undo will be replaced by whatever characters made up the file before the last key press. In other words if the file said: How are you doing. Now you press the letter W -- the file will now be How are you doing. W The Undo copy will be How are you doing. Now you press the letter e -- the text will now be How are you doing. We The Undo copy will be How are you doing. W As you can see the text before the last typed letter is always in Undo. Undo is not really to retrieve this type of text. What it really is for to retrieve a massive delete of a selected block of text. The reason for the example is to impress on you the importance of using Undo immediately and not to type a single character before you use it. Center A Line: You center a line by Selecting the line then selecting Center A Line from the Edit Menu. You select the line the same way you select any text. You must select the line before it can be centered. If nothing is selected you will receive an error message. If you select more than one line you will receive an error message. The only way you can defeat the function is to select only a couple words in a line. Doing this will cause unpredictable results. ---------------- What the Heck is this ClipBoard thing????? The ClipBoard is a area in memory that is used as a temporary storage area. Only one block of text can be held in this area at a time. When you select a block of text then Cut/Copy it, a copy of it is placed in the ClipBoard. Whenever you use the Paste feature a COPY of the text block is inserted in your letter. You can Paste as many copies as you want anywhere in the letter that you want. If you select a new block of text and use the Cut/Copy selections the new block of text will replace whatever is already in the ClipBoard. Keep this in mind when you use the Cut/Copy features. (10) Find Find/Replace: This is another very hand addition to TP-ET. By selecting Find from the Find Menu a dialog box will open up. Type in what you want to find a word/phrase. If you want the find to be case sensitive select the case sensitive option. The first match will appear highlighted. Pressing F3 will move you to the next match. The matching is cyclical in other words the match will go through the end of the file on to the beginning of the file. Find and Replace: This works similar to Find except the dialog box contains 2 input lines and two frames with option buttons. The first input line is the word/phrase you want to be found. The second input line is the word/phrase with which you want to replace the first line. The replace word/phrase can be shorter or longer than the find word/phrase. TP-ET will adjust all lines to fit within the left/right margins IF WORD WRAP IS ON. If it is off the replace word/phrase will be inserted on the line with no regard for the right margin. The 2 frames with option buttons are if you want the find to be case sensitive or not; and whether you want verification before a replace. This is probably a good idea in a very long letter where several finds of the find word/phrase are scattered throughout the letter. You may replace an instance that you do not want replaced. If you select verify every time a find is made a verification window will open. In this window is Change Skip Cancel. If you select Change the find will be replaced. Skip will leave the find as is and search for the next find. Cancel will cancel the entire find/replace operation. The Find in Find - Replace works a little different than the one in Find. Once the bottom of the file is incurred the Find and Replace will stop. It will not cycle back to the beginning. If you are to begin a Find - Replace it would be wise to go to the top of the file (press CTRL-HOME). Once you are the top of the file now select Find-Replace. This way the entire file will be searched. ---------------- (11) Codes: Under the Codes menu you will find all the special printer control characters you can embed in your letter. Any controls that are greyed out are not supported by your printer and can not be selected. In fact if you are using the Generic Printer Driver the menu selection Codes will be grayed out. Most of the codes have an ON/OFF state. The ASCII characters to the right of the code represent what you will see on your screen. The first character is the ON character the second character is the OFF. Pica does not have an OFF character. It is your responsibility to turn a code off once you have turned it on. For instance if you turn on SuperScript for say one word and forget to turn it off it will remain in effect for the remainder of your letter. To turn on a control code simply select the code you want immediately before the first letter of the word/phrase. To turn it off select the control code again immediately after the last letter of the word/phrase. TP-ET keeps track of any control codes you have turned on and will insert the proper control character to shut the code off. As you embed codes you will notice that in the Code Menu that every time a printer code is inserted a bullet appears before it's name. When you embed the code to turn that printer code off the bullet disappears. It would be a good idea to check the menu before printing a letter to see if you left any codes turned on. You should be able to select multiple codes for the word/phrase. I was unable to test this because I do not have every one of these printers. On the printers that I have tested multiple codes have worked. --------------------- Boxes: It is very easy to draw boxes in your letter. The Shift F1-F6 keys do the drawing. Whatever style of box you have selected in the Main Menu under the Settings Menu will be the style of box you can draw. You cannot change styles from the Edit Screen. Drawing boxes is not like using a Paint Program. In other words the arrow keys will not draw the boxes. Another difference you must press the Enter key at the end of each line to get to the next line. Use the space bar to move over in line with the box to draw the next element. Once a box is drawn you can type inside the box by using the Overtype Mode. Press the INS key to toggle between the Insert and Overtype Mode. --------------------- (12) Inserts: There are 3 selections in the Insert Menu. You can insert the current Date - Time - or one of the Auto Insert Keys that have been programmed. The Date and Time format will be whatever you selected in the Settings Menu of the Main Menu. The Auto Insert keys all have Hot keys. ALT 0-9 will insert one of the ten AI keys. If Word Wrap is turned on the inserted text will cause the line and subsequent lines to word wrap as necessary. --------------------- Options: There are many options available. You can change the text of an entire file to Upper or Lower case. You can change the text in a selected block to Upper or Lower case. You can set a bookmark anywhere in your letter and return to it. You can blank the screen (same is available in the Main Menu under Settings Menu). A moving window will open saying the computer is in service and to press any key to unblank the screen. You can enlarge the size of the Edit Area. By pressing CTRL Down Arrow the Edit Area will increase by one line. Enlarging the Edit Area will cover up the message frames at the bottom of the screen. To shrink the Edit Area press CTRL Up Arrow. The Edit Area will shrink until it reaches it's normal default size. You can check to see where the Page Break will occur when you print the letter. This is very handy in a multiple page letter. If the break doesn't occur where you want,simply add/subtract blank lines until it does. --------------------- Help: The Help is the same as in the Main Menu Screen except it is geared towards the Edit Screen selections. To learn how to use the Hyper-Text Help System select Using Help from the Help Menu. About TP-ET: TP-ET was originally written in 1989. This is the second update. Version 1.5 was a bug fix of version 1.0. This version 2.0 is leaps and bounds past 1.5. An entirely new user interface and Edit Screen is in 2.0. Many features have been added to 2.0. (13) 1.0/1.5 was written using Microsoft's Quick Basic 4.5 and many 3rd party routines from Micro Help. Version 2.0 is written with Microsoft's new Visual Basic For DOS. This language is radically different from what was being used here at Thumb Print Software. VB/DOS has a look and feel of a Window's program. Things that would have been a monumental task IE: Cut/Copy/Paste and Find/Replace are now easily coded. The true winner is you the user. It is now possible for Thumb Print Software to make a total remake of TP-ET and still keep the registration cost the same $19.50. Quite a bit of thought was given to doubling the registration fee. Fortunately ShareWare was suppose to be a low cost alternative to shrink wrap products. Some of the ShareWare companies products are actually more expensive than their commercial counterparts. TP-ET is aimed almost exclusively at the home user and the small business and clubs. We at TPS feel everything in this world is to expensive; that is why the low cost of registration. TP-ET in the ShareWare Version is the exact same as the Registered version. There are no hidden or disabled features. So Why Register. Well; mainly because it is the right thing to do. Besides when you register you will receive TPLABEL. This is an excellent mailing label program. You can print mailing labels (pin fed). Print business envelopes by manual feeding envelopes to any HP compatible Laser Printer. Each label database can contain 1000 addresses. You can have up to 100 different databases, that is the same as having 100,000 addresses on disk. Another feature of TPLABEL is the ability to print reports of all the addresses in a database. These reports are printed in condensed elite (160 characters per line). Each address is on a single line. Each address consists of up to 32 characters per line (field) with 5 lines per label. ETPRN.EXE: The registered version of TP-ET contains this program. If no printer driver will work with your printer ETPRN.EXE will create a custom driver just for your printer. All you need to do is have your printer manual handy and then input the control codes directly into ETPRN as they appear in your manual. (14) Navigation Keys: When you are in the Edit Screen the following keys move you about the document: DEL --------------- deletes the character the cursor is on. BKSP -------------- deletes the character to the left of the cursor. Text moves left. PG-UP ------------- moves the text ahead 1 screen page. PG-DN ------------- moves the text back 1 screen page. Arrow Keys -------- moves cursor Left/Right 1 character. moves cursor Up/Down 1 line. CTRL-Left Arrow --- moves cursor 1 word left. CTRL-Right Arrow -- moves cursor 1 word right. CTRL-Home --------- moves cursor to beginning of the document. CTRL-End ---------- moves cursor to the end of the document. INS --------------- toggles between Overtype and Insert States. Overtype State cursor is full character cell. Insert State cursor is bottom of cell. Using The TAB Key: If you are not using a mouse the TAB key moves you from control to control in any of the Dialog Boxes. A control is any item that can get the focus IE: a text line/box -- a button (Cancel - Ok etc). Shift Tab will move you backward through the controls in the Dialog Box. DOS Command Line Switches: MONO: The Mono switch is mainly for LapTop/NoteBook computers and those using a CGA card with a composite B/W monitor IE: Tandy 1000 with a VM-4 monitor. If your adapter card is color but your monitor is not try this switch to force TP-ET into B/W. TP-ET MONO [ENTER] File: If you want to load a file to Edit as TP-ET is loading you may add the file to the DOS Command Line. You may use the MONO switch and a file name on the Command Line. It does not matter which order they are in: IE: TP-ET MONO C:\ASCII\LETTERS\MYLET [ENTER] IE: TP-ET D:\LETTERS\JOE.LET MONO [ENTER] (15) Why Register? If you find that you use TP-ET the Shareware Concept requests that you register the program with the author. By registering you encourage the author to continue to support the program. Without any feed back a program will soon become abandoned even if there are many users who don't feel they should register the program. Many a shareware program has fell by the wayside because of non- registration by the users. None of us authors will ever get rich from shareware (exceptions: PC-WRITE PROCOMM - BUTTONWARE etc:) but; we do appreciate receiving some compensation for our time and efforts. What does Registration get you: Besides a real warm and fuzzy feeling ---------- ------------------------------------- 1 year telephone support. A bound printed manual TPLABEL and ETPRN. Check the Readme file on your Shareware disk for any extra programs. The latest registered version of TP-ET. Defective Disk Replacement for 14 days after receipt. Que Card in a plastic container. ----------------------------------------- Each time you Exit TP-ET back to DOS you will be asked if you want to load the TP-ET Registration form. This form is provided so that you need only to fill in the blanks. To move from Field to Field use the Tab key or Shift Tab to move backwards. The form sends no codes to your printer and therefore should print out with no problems. Be sure to check which Shipping/Handling charges apply to you and the size disk/s you need. 5 1/4" disks are 360K format - 3 1/2" disks are 720K format. You may pay by personal check. So far I haven't been stung with a bad check. Until that happens there won't be any waiting time for the check to clear. Sorry I'm not big enough to have MC/VISA.