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- INTRODUCTION TO THE TURBO PASCAL OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING TUTOR.
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- This software has been prepared to help in the presentation of training
- courses in Turbo Pascal Object-oriented Programming and is now made
- available as shareware. Please freely distribute to friends and colleagues.
- If however you do use the programs to advantage, please send a donation
- of £5 to one of the following charities:
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- Imperial Cancer Research Fund.
- OXFAM.
- Guide Dogs for the Blind.
- Arthritis Research Council.
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- A letter, fully addressed to the selected charity, will be created
- directly on your printer from the DOS prompt by typing A:REGISTER and
- pressing the ENTER key. You will then be asked to provide your name,
- organisation name and address and to select the charity. Please send a
- copy to the author of the programs and any comments, both critical and
- favourable, in order that improvements can be made to the presentation.
- If requiring an acknowledgement or answers to qestions, please send a
- stamped addressed envelope.
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- The author's name and address are: R Shaw
- Shaw Software
- 56a Maidenhead Road
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- Warwickshire
- CV37 6XT (telephone 0789 295150)
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- The hardware requirements are any IBM PC compatible machine from XT
- upwards, with 640kb memory, a VGA colour monitor and DOS 3.3 onwards.
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- Most files are in the subdirectory \TP\OOPTUTOR and relate to the display
- of Turbo Pascal Object-oriented Programming notes and example programs
- using the object-oriented code of Turbo Vision.
- The example programs can also be run from the Run examples submenu.
- The screen display can be adjusted using the Windows submenu and mouse
- and colour options can be set using the Options submenu.
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- The Notes are in files with the extension name .TXT, whilst the examples
- are available as both source code (.PAS) and executable files (.EXE).
- The main program that controls the display is OOPTUTOR.EXE and so the
- command is just OOPTUTOR if the correct subdirectory has already been
- selected.
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- There are 5 files in the root directory of this diskette.
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- The README. file is this one being read, by the batch file INTRO.BAT
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- There are two other batch files RUN.BAT and INST.BAT
- The first allows operation directly from the diskette drive A: by typing
- RUN and pressing the ENTER key.
- The second transfers all the files in the A:\TP\OOPTUTOR subdirectory to
- the hard disk drive C: in the subdirectory C:\TP\OOPTUTOR which is first
- created by the batch file. The command is INST followed by the ENTER key.
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- The executable file REGISTER.EXE creates a letter to a selected charity.
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- The tutorial runs in Turbo Vision, which provides an environment similar
- to the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) of Turbo Pascal. Readers
- who are not familiar with the IDE should run the program TPTOUR.EXE which
- is provided by Borland on the Turbo Pascal diskettes.
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- The initial screen display shows a Menu Bar at the top of the screen and
- a Status Line at the bottom. The Status Line always provides essential
- advice, typically that the function key F10 will access the Menu. Then
- the arrow keys can be used to select the required menu item and the
- sub-menu pulled down by pressing the ENTER key. The arrow keys can again
- be used to select the required sub-menu option and that option activated
- by pressing the ENTER key. The function key F1 always provides context
- sensitive help, including any hot-key short cuts.
- The hot-key combination Alt-X will immediately cause an exit to DOS.
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- README.
- 28.11.92
- Modified 17.5.93
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