[<<Previous Entry]
[^^Up^^]
[Next Entry>>]
[Menu]
[About The Guide]
Table of Contents
1. QUICK START . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
A. A Quick DROP to DOS Implementation . . . . . . . . . 1
B. A Quick DOORS Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2. FILES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
A. The INITIAL WELCOME File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
B. The APPLICATION PROGRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
C. The EXIT MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
D. The TRANSLATION TABLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3. INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
A. The Batch File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
B. Quick Switch Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
C. Detailed Switch Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
/A: Alarm (bell) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
/B: /B:X, /B:M, /B:MS, /B:Z . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
/C:DOS or /C:VIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
/CD Change Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
/D: Disable Disk writes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
/E: Name of the EXIT MESSAGE file . . . . . . . . . 10
/F: Fast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
/G: ANSI GRAPHICs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
/H: Halt shells to DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
/I: Name of the WELCOME MESSAGE file . . . . . . . 11
/J: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
/K: KEYBOARD TIMEOUT TIMER . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
/L: Add line feeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
/M: Maximum time allowed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
/N: NETWORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
/O: Override the DOORWAY title screen . . . . . . . 12
/P: The program name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
/Q: Quick Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
/R: RETURN (abort) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
/S: Where to look for .SYS file . . . . . . . . . . 13
/T: TRAP Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
/U: Get shadow buffer from multi-tasker . . . . . . 13
/V: Go into direct screen write mode . . . . . . . 14
/W: Pause at program termination . . . . . . . . . 14
/X: Load and use a translation table . . . . . . . 14
/Y: Printer trapping/redirection . . . . . . . . . 15
/Z: Use a custom exit message . . . . . . . . . . . 15
/19: Use the DOS interrupt 19 for rebooting . . . . 15
/80: Force 80 column mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4. RECOMMENDED STARTING SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5. MULTITASKING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6. EXTENDED KEYBOARD CODE SUPPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7. DROP TO DOS OR REMOTE CAPABILITY . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
8. USER ABORTS AND LOST CARRIERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
9. REGISTRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
10. ORDER BLANK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
11. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
APPENDIX A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
APPENDIX B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
APPENDIX C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
This page created by ng2html v1.05, the Norton guide to HTML conversion utility.
Written by Dave Pearson