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Date: 26 Feb 1994 RSMENU Ver 3.0 Time: 1:13 am.
Written by Richard E. Stroh
Support Bulletin Board: The Tropical Palace
Phone : 910-497-4982
Fidonet: 1:3634/14.0
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Legal Stuff:
This menu system can be freely distributed in its original form, this menu
system will not be altered in any way and sent out to other people. Sorry
for the harsh remarks folks, well that was quick and sweet, let me add one
item, this is Shareware...................................................
What is RSMENU:
RSMENU is a hard drive menu system designed for use on any IBM compatible
computer system with a VGA/EGA/CGA video board. This helps those of you
select programs quickly without having to drop to dos and run programs.
When you select an item on the menu the system will create a batch file
called SELECTED.BAT. This batch file will read your configuration batch
for each Menu item. There is a reason for this type of design. Alot of
menu systems out on the market today will remain in memory when you are
in the application, this could cause memory problems for some systems.
So I developed this system so when you select an item the menu will be
completly wiped from memory. Then when you exit your application you will
be returned to RSMENU.
FILES:
SELECTED.BAT - Directs you to your configuration batch file.
A THRU U.BAT - Configuration Batch Files.
MENU.TXT - Menu Items.
HEADER.TXT - Header saying.
MENU.BAT - Batch file to call up the menu.
REMENU.REG - Registration Form.
RSMENU.DOC - The file you are reading write now.
RSMENU.EXE - Menu Execute file.
INSTALLING:
1. Create a directory called menu on your C drive. Example: C:\MENU.
2. Place your c:\menu in your path statement of your Autoexec.bat file.
3. Using PKUNZIP, Unzip all files under rsmenu.zip into your c:\menu
directory.
(Setting Up the Menu):
This menu setup, uses MSDOS 5.0 EDIT.COM. If you have a different editor
you might have to rename it to EDIT... But if you like this program and
register it with me, let me know the name of your ASCII editor program and
I will change the code in this program to reflect your editor. And of course
I will send you both versions.
Header Text: (Header.txt)
The first item you need to do is type MENU. This will activate the menu.
Next step is to set up your header line, the Yellow header, Press 2 from the
menu. This will take you to another menu, select 1 from that menu. Now you
can type anything for the header line, a minimun of 3 lines. When you have
completed, press ALT-F select S(ave). Then select ALT-F select X.
Menu Text: (Menu.Txt)
This menu.txt file must be formatted a special way. Press 2 from the menu,
select 2. Each line must be 82 characters including spaces long. The best
way to keep it 82 spaces long, is to press insert once you are in the editor.
This way you will over type the menu items. This will make sure you keep the
menu lines 82 spaces long. If you get stuck just take your cursor to the end
of a menu line and keep pressing space until the lower right side of the
editor says 82. Do this for all the lines. The menu is designed so you can
have A thru U menu items. This will give you 21 menu items.
Configuration Batch Files: (A thru U.bat)
What you need to place in these files, is the path and name of your program.
Here is an example. (Program name is CATDISK)
@echo off
c:
cd\cat
catdisk
menu.bat
1. Echo off: will not show the batch file being worked.
2. C: Is your drive designation.
3. cd\cat: Is you path to the Cat directory.
4. catdisk: Is your program that you want to run in the Cat directory.
5. Menu.bat: When you exit your application the menu will re-run.
If you set it up like this you can not go wrong. Now to get to this setup
screen, just press 2 from the menu, then press 3. Now you have a listing
that looks just like the main menu, select the item that you want to change
or create. Complete your changes, then press ATL-F, select S(ave), ALT-F
select X. Now you should be back to your menu. Test the menu to make sure
you setup the batch file correctly. That is all there is to it.
==============================================================================
REGISTRATION:
Registering this program will entitle you to updates of the software. I am
currently working on a file manager system that will be part of this menu
system. Registration is only $15.00. This registration will also give you
full access on the Tropical Palace BBS. We have over 5000 files ready to be
downloaded from our CDROM. Please fill out the registration file called
RSMENU.REG and send it to the following address.. We do accept checks. Please
make them out to Richard E. Stroh.
Richard E. Stroh
11 Starlifter
Pope AFB, NC, 28307.
As always suggestions and comments are welcome.