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Copyright 1992-'93 by Peter Turnquist.
All rights reserved.
MasterMind is a trademark of Peter Turnquist.
Please see the important LICENSE AGREEMENT below.


INTRODUCTION

It helps to print README.TXT (about ten pages), making the in-
structions visible while you install MasterMind Typing.  If DOS
has control, you may tap PrintScreen now to record just the
directions for printing.

We recommend printing via Notepad of the Windows Accessories,
because it will paginate.  In Notepad, select File|Open and
specify this file as, for example,
     A:\README.TXT
     or
     C:\MMTYPE\README.TXT
If neither A: nor C:\MMTYPE is the location of README.TXT,
substitute whatever <drive>:\<path> you have provided.

With this text on-screen in Notepad, the menu selections are
File|Print.  When you exit from Notepad or any editor, please
do NOT save changes.

If you want to print from DOS, a convenient command is, for
example,
     COPY  A:\README.TXT  PRN
     or
     COPY  C:\MMTYPE\README.TXT  PRN
Again, if neither A: nor C:\MMTYPE is the location of README-
.TXT, substitute whatever <drive>:\<path> you have provided.

Please protect your source file(s) before proceeding.  If you
acquired MasterMind Typing on floppy diskettes, write-protect
them.  If you acquired the MM*.EXE or MM*.ZIP archive(s) elec-
tronically, copy to a floppy (and write-protect it) or copy to
your usual backup medium.  To protect backup floppies from
magnetic fields, they should be in steel containers, not
plastic or aluminum.  A steel desk drawer or file cabinet is
fine.

MasterMind Typing cuts work to about a quarter of any alterna-
tive for learning to touch-type.  The magic is MasterMind's
sensitive way of adjusting repetition for your progress.  You
will think that it reads your mind.  In the advanced phase of
version 2.x, MasterMind enables you to learn memorable litera-
ture, while you practice typing or just for fun.

Prerequisite resources are:
          Windows 3.x in standard or enhanced mode
          80286 or better processor
          2 Mbytes RAM for Win3.1 or 1.5MB for Win3.0
          extended (XMS) memory manager such as HIMEM.SYS
          1.2 Mbytes free on the hard disk
          EGA or better display, color preferred
          mouse (or equivalent, e.g., trackball)

You can check your Windows mode from Program Manager by choos-
ing Help|AboutProgramManager.  Standard or enhanced mode is all
right for MasterMind Typing, but enhanced mode needs 2 Mbytes
RAM.  Real mode is incompatible.  Help|AboutProgramManager also
will disclose Free Memory (RAM).  With just Windows loaded
(before you start MasterMind Typing), Free Memory should be at
least 600 Kbytes.  For quickness, Windows 3.1 users should
install at least 4 Mbytes total RAM.

The distribution diskette(s) of MasterMind Typing may be any
of:
     720K (3.5-inch)
     1.44M (3.5-inch)
     1.2M (5.25-inch)
     two 360K (5.25-inch)
If you got a diskette that your system cannot read, please
contact the supplier.

MasterMind Typing takes several forms in distribution as share-
ware.  It also calls on ToolBook, which users may or may not
have installed previously.  Installation instructions cover the
various cases.  Please find the instructions that cover your
case and ignore the rest.


LICENSE AGREEMENT; MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE

By your authorized use of MasterMind Typing, you accept a
license for a single user on the following terms.  If you have
an unauthorized copy, you have no license and must destroy the
copy promptly to limit your liability for dealing with contra-
band.

Version 1.x is the shareware program distributed for free trial
to those who agree to register if the product is helpful.  For
such trial, you have a revocable license to copy and distribute
version 1.x in the manner described below.  After trying
version 1.x sufficiently to see whether it helps you, you must
either register or stop using it.

If you register and pay the fee, you get version 2.x including
additional features.  (Site licenses are available to organiza-
tions.)  Version 2.x comes with a 60-day guarantee of satisfac-
tion.  Version 2.x is not shareware.  Except for backup,
copying version 2.x would make you liable for infringement of
contract, patent and copy rights.

You do not own either version of the software, which embodies
novel designs and trade secrets.  You must not decode, alter or
reverse-engineer the software or aid another to do so.  Any
copy must be complete, including all legal notices.  Any effort
to imitate the software would breach the license and, besides,
probably would violate the copyright and/or the patent.

This applies to distribution of version 1.x shareware by both
professionals and amateurs.  Version 1.x shareware distribution
must be either free of charge or within the rules of the
Association of Shareware Professionals.  Distributable files
differ with the means of distribution:  archive for electronic
distribution or multi-file set for distribution on disks.
Contact Peter Turnquist to get the proper archive or file set
(no charge) for the distribution intended.  It is forbidden to
remake an archive or file set, because it probably would
violate the installation instructions.  Version 2.x is not
distributable.

A catalog of shareware, electronic or otherwise, must describe
version 1.x in terms approved by Peter Turnquist.  The latest
revision of CATALOG.TXT or FILE_ID.DIZ, issued by Peter Turn-
quist, is an approved description.

Subject to regular procedure, the licensor will accept the
return of unsatisfactory software within sixty days and will
refund the license fee.  The licensor has no other liability.
There is NO WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS for use and
no liability for consequential damages.

Breach of any of its provisions automatically cancels the
license.  Any dispute between parties is subject to binding
arbitration under the rules of the American Arbitration Associ-
ation.  The chosen law is that of the state of Delaware.  In
case of court action to enforce this agreement or an arbitra-
tion award hereunder, the prevailing party shall recover from
the other all costs including reasonable attorneys' fees.  If
you object to any license provision, your sole recourse is to
return the unused product immediately for refund.


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

MasterMind Typing incorporates runtime ToolBook under license
from Asymetrix Corp.  MM*.EXE incorporates file compression
licensed by Haruyasu Yoshizaki.  MM*.ZIP file format is compat-
ible with PKUNZIP of PKWare, Inc.


MEMORY CONFIGURATION, XMS REQUIRED

The Microsoft Windows User's Guide discusses memory configu-
ration in chapter 13 for version 3.0 or chapter 14 for version
3.1.  The version 3.0 Guide does not explain, though, that
about 384K of your total memory, the portion between 640K and 1
megabyte, is inaccessible to most programs.  The system design
reserves it for hardware support.

For Windows applications, most or all of your configurable
memory--that is, above 1 megabyte--must be extended (XMS), not
expanded (EMS).  XMS is a more efficient way to organize
memory.  If you have an EMS configuration to help older DOS
applications, now is the time to update.  MasterMind Typing
should have at least 500K of XMS memory to run under Windows
standard mode, that is, at least 1.5 Mbytes total memory.  To
use enhanced mode with a '386 or better processor, you need at
least a megabyte of XMS memory, that is, at least 2 Mbytes
total.  Without XMS memory, MasterMind Typing will not run at
all.

If you make all the configurable memory XMS, you need to adjust
older applications if they have setup parameters that rely on
EMS.  An older application may slow because only the conven-
tional 640K RAM will be accessible.  But the publisher now may
have an upgrade version that works with XMS memory and may be a
Windows application too.  If you have enough memory, it may be
possible to configure it as partly EMS and partly XMS to suit
all applications.  With '386 and better processors, MS-DOS 6.0
can reallocate memory between EMS and XMS dynamically.

The method to reconfigure memory varies among computer makers.
Typically, one starts a setup program by pressing some combina-
tion of keys during bootup.  If your hardware manual is un-
clear, you may need help from whomever set up your system
originally.  Because XMS memory is a Windows requirement
involving other applications and hardware, we cannot advise
about memory configuration.  For advice about Windows, Micro-
soft Product Support is [phone].

A disk cache such as SMARTDRV can improve speed, though it may
complicate system setup for mixed DOS and Windows applications.


UNINSTALLING AND REINSTALLING

The installed files and approximate sizes on your hard disk
will be as below.  Files marked "ToolBook" should be in your
MasterMind Typing directory if you otherwise lack ToolBook.  If
you have a separate ToolBook installation, "ToolBook" files
should be there and not in the MasterMind Typing directory.
     README.TXT, 23K (this file)
     MMBW.ICO, 2K
     MMTYPE.TBK, 140K or 200K
     TBKVIDEO.DLL, 21K
     TBKBASE.DLL, 354K   (ToolBook)
     TBKCOMP.DLL, 105K   (ToolBook)
     TBKUTIL.DLL, 60K    (ToolBook)
     TBOOK.EXE, 400K     (ToolBook)
     TBKNET.EXE, 6K      (ToolBook)
Also, the status of interrupted lessons becomes small files of
the form MM.x or x.MM, automatically erased on lesson comple-
tion.

Usually, you need not uninstall an old MasterMind Typing before
installing a replacement.  Please remove the old MasterMind
Typing icon from your Windows desktop beforehand, though; or
reinstallation will leave duplicate icons and doubt about which
to remove.  Select the old icon with a single mouse-click, then
tap the DELete key.

If you wish to uninstall fully, also use File Manager to delete
the MasterMind Typing directory, normally C:\MMTYPE, and its
contents.  If you uninstall MasterMind Typing but wish to keep
using ToolBook, consider the .TBK extension, which SETUP
associated with the ToolBook files in the MasterMind Typing
directory if there was no prior ToolBook installation.  To
change the effect of .TBK, choose File|Associate from File
Manager, which produces a dialog box.  In the space for "Files
with Extension," enter
                               tbk
Then tab to the space for "Associate With."  You may clear the
.TBK association by clicking "(None)" or may edit it to read
                        \<path>\tbook.exe
<path> is the directory or path for the ToolBook files, for
example, TOOLBOOK.

If reinstalling, SETUP will overwrite the prior MasterMind
Typing files.  Version 2.x will overwrite version 1.x.  If you
have a version 1.x derived from the early distribution of
MasterMind Typing (before November '92), it has a file MMTBOOK-
.EXE.  Reinstallation does not overwrite MMTBOOK.EXE, because
the name of the replacement file is TBOOK.EXE.  Please check
your MasterMind Typing directory and delete MMTBOOK.EXE if it
is there, or it will waste space on your disk.

Beware, shareware copies can circulate for years after they are
obsolete.  While normally there is no need to uninstall before
reinstalling, uninstalling will quash anomalies including
MMTBOOK.EXE.


INSTALLATION FROM REMOVABLE DISK

This does not apply if you copied MasterMind Typing to your
hard disk by modem from an electronic information service or
BBS.

MasterMind Typing on the removable disk cannot execute because
of its compressed format.  For the same reason, you cannot
install MasterMind Typing with COPY or XCOPY commands.  Nor can
you run SETUP from DOS.  Please start Windows and select
File|Run from the menus so you can type a command.  If D is the
drive where you have MasterMind Typing's distribution disk (or
#1 of two disks), the command
     D:setup
will install MasterMind Typing fully.  SETUP will propose to
create directory C:\MMTYPE and write the files there.  You may
approve C:\MMTYPE or specify another destination.  SETUP will
check first and abort, with notice, if space available on the
destination disk is less than 1.2 Mbytes.

In place of the generic D, please substitute the true letter of
the source drive, usually A or B.  It is immaterial whether
D:SETUP be in capital or small letters.


INSTALLATION FROM ZIP ARCHIVES

This does not apply if you are installing MasterMind Typing
from a removable disk or from MM*.EXE.

*.ZIP archives are a common format on electronic bulletin
boards (BBS).  We divide MasterMind Typing into *A.ZIP and
*B.ZIP so either archive will transmit at 2400 baud within 30
minutes, which is a common limit on BBS connect time.  There is
a describer FILE_ID.DIZ in each ZIP archive, according to BBS
preference.  When you unzip the second archive, there may be a
warning about FILE_ID.DIZ overwrite, to which any reply is all
right.  (Soon you will discard FILE_ID.DIZ anyway.)

The unZIPped results are about eight or thirteen files, mostly
still in a compressed format.  Please put all in the same
directory, a temporary directory that we shall call \MMTEMP
though you may use any name.  Then proceed with phase 2 SETUP
as described below for de-archived files, substituting the true
directory's name if it is not \MMTEMP.


INSTALLATION FROM MM*.EXE OR MM*.ZIP ARCHIVES

This does not apply if you are installing MasterMind Typing
from a removable disk.

MM*.EXE and MM*.ZIP are archives that one normally receives via
modem.  Self-extracting MM*.EXE is easier and safer for end
users, but BBS operators often prefer .ZIP archives.  If you
want to put MasterMind Typing 1.x in a new BBS or library,
please advise Peter Turnquist, who will supply auxiliary files
and both forms of archive to the system operator.  We encourage
distribution of version 1.x (shareware) and forbid distributing
version 2.x.

Installation from MM*.EXE has two phases as follows.  Phase 2
follows execution of MM*.EXE or unzipping of MM*.ZIP.

1.   Make current the drive containing both MM*.EXE and Win-
dows, usually drive C.  MM*.EXE may be in any directory.  Run
MM*.EXE from either Windows or DOS.  This will extract the
constituent files and write them in temporary directory \MMTEMP
of the same drive.  The extraction program automatically
creates directory \MMTEMP unless it already exists.  After
extraction, README.TXT is accessible in directory \MMTEMP; but
MasterMind programs still are compressed and cannot execute.

2.   From Windows (not DOS), run the program file--
     \MMTEMP\SETUP.EXE
SETUP will decompress and ask you where to write the files,
offering directory C:\MMTYPE as the default destination.  SETUP
will check first and abort, with notice, if space available on
the destination disk is less than 1.2 Mbytes.

If installation phase 2 fails because of insufficient disk
space, please try moving the results of de-archiving (directory
\MMTEMP contents) to a floppy diskette.  Also move the ar-
chive(s) MM*.EXE or MM*.ZIP to your backup medium.  Then delete
from your main disk both directory \MMTEMP and the archive(s).
(Use caution if files besides MasterMind Typing share \MMTEMP.)
From Windows, direct the SETUP command to the floppy diskette
for installation phase 2.


INSTALLATION FROM MMPART?.*

This applies only if you are installing without ToolBook files,
because your system has them already.

The prerequisite ToolBook files are:
     TBKBASE.DLL, 354K
     TBKCOMP.DLL, 105K
     TBKUTIL.DLL, 60K
     TBOOK.EXE, 400K
     TBKNET.EXE, 6K, if installed on a network

First, please follow the procedure above for installation from
an MM*.EXE or MM*.ZIP archive.  Depending on how you installed
ToolBook, MasterMind Typing installation may be complete after
SETUP execution.  Try double-clicking the MasterMind Typing
icon.  If installation is complete, MasterMind Typing will
start.

If Windows reports inability to find the entire application,
please use File Manager to "associate" ToolBook with MasterMind
Typing.  Choose File|Associate, which produces a dialog box.
In the space for "Files with Extension," enter
                               tbk
Then tab to the space for "Associate With," and edit it to read
                        \<path>\tbook.exe
<path> is the directory or path for the ToolBook files, for
example, TOOLBOOK.


TIDYING AFTER INSTALLATION

On the Windows desktop, SETUP leaves the MasterMind Typing
icon, overlapping M's, in a new window titled "Temporary
Group."  Please use your mouse to drag the icon to the group
window where you wish to keep it.  Before you start the move,
the destination window must be at least partly visible.

Place the mouse pointer on the icon.  Then, while holding down
the left mouse button, move the mouse to drag the icon.  When
the icon is within the destination window, release the button.

With a mouse click, please reactivate the Temporary Group
window, which now should be empty.  Remove the temporary window
with the DELete key.

You may start MasterMind Typing by double-clicking its icon.

This paragraph does not apply if you installed MasterMind
Typing from a removable disk.  File Manager is convenient for
this.  After copying MM*.EXE or MM*.ZIP to your usual backup
medium--a floppy, for example--please delete the original ar-
chive(s) from your hard disk.  Directory \MMTEMP and its files
have no more use, so please delete them too.  (Use caution if
files besides MasterMind Typing share \MMTEMP.)  Be sure to
keep everything that is in directory \MMTYPE.

This paragraph applies only if you did a MasterMind Typing
installation including ToolBook files that duplicate a ToolBook
installation elsewhere in your system.  If you have ToolBook
elsewhere and Windows "associates" ToolBook elsewhere with Mas-
terMind Typing, please erase the duplicate files from the Mas-
terMind Typing directory (normally \MMTYPE).  Do not erase
TBKVIDEO.DLL, which is not a ToolBook file.  "Installation from
MMPART?.*" above lists the relevant ToolBook files and explains
"association."


IF THE INSTALLATION IS INOPERATIVE

First, be sure that the files listed under "Uninstalling and
Reinstalling" are present in \MMTYPE or the equivalent directo-
ry, except that the ToolBook files may be in a separate direc-
tory.  ("Association" via File Manager is irrelevant for the
manual setup that you are about to make.)  If all files are
present, probably automatic setup failed because of a nonstan-
dard Windows installation.  With Program Manager or an equiva-
lent shell, you can redo setup.  If your Windows shell is not
from Microsoft, you may need to translate the following direc-
tions.

If setup created a MasterMind Typing icon, please single-click
it; then select File|Properties for adjustment.  If setup
failed even to create an icon, please select
File|New|ProgramItem.  Either way, the following entries should
make MasterMind Typing work.

     Description:   Typing

     Command Line:  C:\<path>\tbook  mmtype.tbk

     Working Directory:  C:\mmtype

     Icon File Name:     C:\mmtype\mmbw.ico

If you have MasterMind Typing on a drive other than C, please
substitute the proper letter.  For the generic <path>, please
substitute the path to the ToolBook files, usually directory
MMTYPE, WINDOWS or TOOLBOOK.  Similarly, change the directory
\MMTYPE if you put MasterMind Typing elsewhere.  Please access
the icon file name via "Change Icon" from the Program Item
Properties dialog box.

MasterMind Typing calls the following Windows files that
normally are in directory \WINDOWS\SYSTEM.
     sound.drv
     user.exe
If either file is inaccessible, an error message will specify
it when you try to start MasterMind Typing.  You may add the
file(s) either to an accessible directory of Windows or to
directory \MMTYPE.


OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS

MasterMind Typing will put appropriate instructions on-screen
as you use it.  If you wish, a mouse click on a PRINT button
will send the instructions of interest to your printer.

You will use your mouse to set up a lesson.  Within a lesson,
though, the mouse is inoperative and you use keys only.  The
control to stop or interrupt a lesson is function key <F1>.

Before reading the instructions thoroughly, it helps to start
your first lesson and observe how MasterMind Typing works.
This will make the instructions easier to understand.  But
please run a lesson no more than a few minutes before reading
the instructions, or you will develop bad habits.


SHAREWARE DISTRIBUTION

Version 2.x is not shareware and not distributable.  The
following applies to distribution of version 1.x shareware by
both professionals and amateurs.  Version 1.x shareware distri-
bution must be either free of charge or within the rules of the
Association of Shareware Professionals.  Distributable files
differ with the means of distribution:  archive for electronic
distribution or multi-file set for distribution on diskettes.

Please contact Peter Turnquist to get the proper archive or
file set for the distribution intended.  No charge.  To remake
an archive or file set is improper, because the change would
breach the license and probably violate the installation
instructions.

A catalog of shareware, electronic or otherwise, must describe
version 1.x in terms approved by Peter Turnquist.  The latest
revision of CATALOG.TXT or FILE_ID.DIZ, issued by Peter Turn-
quist, is an approved description.


UPGRADE; SUPPORT; SITE LICENSING; ORDERS

If you have only shareware version 1.x, you need version 2.x
for advanced lessons.   Because version 1.x takes only about
six hours to teach you the keyboard, please order your 2.x
upgrade NOW!  So your advanced lessons will be here when you
want them.  For the order form, click the "upgrade" button
while running shareware version 1.x.

Upgrade 2.x adds two more phases of learning for dexterity and
speed.  Working with full words, phase 2 quickly makes you
adept on all the 2-letter and 3-letter sequences common in
English.  Then finish the course with sentence text in phase 3.
Besides perfecting your typing, phase 3 enables you to impress
friends with eloquent recitations.  As in phase 1, the Master-
Mind magic makes learning fast and easy in advanced phases too.

About MasterMind Typing, including orders if payment is by
check or money order, please contact

Peter Turnquist MSC 192
2400 Olympic Blvd., Suite 3
Walnut Creek, California  94595-1500
U.S.A.
[phone]

With payment by credit card, Public Software Library (PSL)
takes orders for MasterMind Typing 2.x (PSL program 10632) but
has no other information.  MasterCard, VISA, Amex and Discover
are welcome.  PSL takes oral orders at [phone] from the
U.S.A. or [phone] from other countries.  For other ways
to order, select "upgrade" when running version 1.x.

For advice about Windows, Microsoft support is [phone] in
Redmond, Washington.