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- WINMENU v6.02 for Novell 3.x Networks.
- Copyright by Ricky Freyre, 1993 - 1995 / All rights reserved.
- Compuserve# 70154,2635
- Internet: 70154.2635@compuserve.com
-
- REQUIRES WINDOWS 3.1 or ABOVE RUNNING UNDER NOVELL 3.0 or above.
- (Note: A version of Winmenu is available for any network)
-
- Tested with Windows For Workgroups, Windows NT, Windows 3.x
- and Windows 95. Works with clients using VLM or NETX.
-
- Winmenu is a state-of-the-art menu program for Windows users designed
- to facilitate access to all aplications and provide authorized access
- for the users. Novell LAN sites that are contemplating to move to the
- Windows environment will find Winmenu a must. Winmenu provides easy
- and intuitive access without the complications of the Program Manager.
- The greatest advantages of Winmenu is its ability to ease the
- administration tasks and provides authorized access based on the group
- codes the user belongs to. Winmenu looks great and is cost effective!.
-
- Latest enhancements in 5.0:
- Enhanced online help for the administration staff as well as the
- regular users. The ability to dinamically attach/detach fileservers
- to execute an application. Very handy for CDROM fileservers!. The
- ability to restrict the amount of concurrent users for each application.
- Great to force software and hardware license agreements.
-
- Winmenu now executes the programs in the "Startup"
- group of Program Manager when running as the Windows shell. You may
- now optionally setup Winmenu to ask for confirmation at exit. Winmenu
- now displays the user's selected ICON to minimized DOS applications
- too. More drag-and-drop functionality was added to rearrange the menu
- items. All the menu section names are now shown in the main screen so
- that the user can more easily select the desired menu section. The pages
- names can now be renamed to further organize menu items.
-
- Other features:
- 1) A memory CACHE is used now to greatly improve the response time
- when loading and changing menu section in Winmenu.
- 2) An administration facility program was added to facilitate Winmenu's
- administration tasks.
- 3) Winmenu now supports IPX/SPX communications to accept remote commands.
- Network administrators can send a SHUTDOWN command using the
- aministration facility to close all network connections at each
- workstation. Other remote commands may be added in the future.
- 4) Winmenu may optionally display network news at startup. Administrators
- may setup the news from the administration facility and have it "popup"
- at each workstation automatically or allow each user to open the news
- from an icon.
- 5) Winmenu supports environment variables (i.e %USER%) to greatly enhance
- the flexibility when executing menu programs. For instance, a given
- application may require the USERID of the person as part of the
- command line or you may need to execute an application with a computed
- directory name. Winmenu may scan the workstation environment table
- and automatically replace the value in the command line before executing.
- 6) Winmenu organizes the menu items in menu sections which can then be
- linked to authorized NOVELL network groups. This effectively utilize
- the existing authorization resources to handle menu access for each user.
- Multiple menu sections may be defined under any given group name and
- each user may belong to multiple groups. Note: Novell 4.0 or above must
- have the bindery emulation turned ON.
- 7) Winmenu may optionally allow users to create and change menu items under
- a specific menu section. All other network menu sections are restricted
- and can not be changed or deleted by the regular users.
-
- Additional features:
- 1) The menu display can now show the associated ICON for each program. You
- can also change or setup the associated ICON online. Wimenu has the
- capability to extract the desired ICON from any file. You may optionally
- disable the ICON display feature. See 'changing menu lines' in the user's
- online help (WINMENU.HLP).
- 2) Event sound effects. You may optionally disable the sound.
- 3) The USERID and SERVERNAME are displayed at the botton of the screen.
- 4) Then Multiple Instance Verification (MIV) routine can now be enabled or
- disabled online. This notifies the user if the program is already
- running and allows easy recall.
- 5) The "blue Ribbon utilities" allow easy access to nine utility programs.
- Any of the blue ribbon utilities can also be accessed from the system
- menu while WinMenu is minimized for added convinience for the user.
- 7) WinMenu can replace the Program Manager for complete control.
- 8) Separate online help available for users and the administrator.
- 9) Person specific configuration and data may optionally be stored in a
- network drive. You may use a network mapped drive for better handling.
- Great for diskless workstations too. Read help under the Sections Menu.
- 10) An ICON of a "Screen" allow user to invoke their screen saver immediately.
- 11) Winmenu does not 'mess' with your WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI nor requires
- copying any system files to the Windows directory. All files are
- kept in a single directory. KISS concept?.
-
- * Please, see the online help file ADMIN.HLP for installation and
- administration instructions.
-
- INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: (20 days trial)
- ___________________________________________
-
- Create a network directory to hold the WINMENU files with read only access
- for the general users.
-
- Example: N:\APPS\WINMENU
- Be sure to copy all the WINMENU files to this directory.
-
- WINMENU.EXE - Windows menu program / executable
- WINMENU.TXT - This document.
- WINMENU.HLP - User's Online help
- ADMIN.EXE - Administration facility / executable (optional)
- ADMIN.HLP - Administration Online help
- WINMNEWS.EXE - News dispatcher program.
- WCONVERT.EXE - Utility to convert file formats from INI to GRP
- and GRP to INI.
- WMENU.DLL - Winmenu specific SHELL funtions
- NETCOM.DLL - Winmenu specific IPX/SPX communication handler.
- ORDER.TXT - How to register online or by mail.
- .WAV files - Sound effects for users with sound cards or the
- speaker.drv. These files are optional.
- (Contact Winmenu's author to obtain a copy)
-
- You must have installed the Novell Client files for Windows.
- *NOTE: The different types of Windows (i.e, Windows 95) may require different
- Novell client files. Consult Novell tech support for more information.
-
- The following are Novell communication system files which you may
- already have in your LAN. Please, be sure you have the same or newer
- version dates for each one as shown here. Previous version were known
- to hang the Windows session.
- File name version date Must be found in the dir.:
- NWCALLS.DLL 11/02/93 \WINMENU
- NWIPXSPX.DLL 12/30/93 \WINMENU
-
- * For Windows 3.x users:
- NETWARE.DRV 10/27/92 \WINDOWS\SYSTEM
- VIPX.386 10/11/93 \WINDOWS\SYSTEM
- VNETWARE.386 11/19/93 \WINDOWS\SYSTEM
-
-
- You may download the latest Novell files from Compuserve forums
- (GO NOVFILES). Download the latest WINUPx.zip. Or contact Novell.
- The author of Winmenu is not allowed to distribute any of the Novell
- files.
-
- The following files are also required and must exist in your Windows system
- directory (\WINDOWS\SYSTEM). These files are part of the Microsoft Windows
- system files and should already exist in your current Windows system
- directory:
-
- COMMDLG.DLL
- SHELL.DLL
- TOOLHELP.DLL
- MMSYSTEM.DLL
-
-
- Winmenu.exe may now be executed but you should run the administration
- facility program to change the default configuration and create the
- menu items. Run Windows and execute ADMIN.EXE.
-
- Please, see ADMIN.HLP for installation and administration instructions.
- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
- HOW TO RUN WINMENU:
-
- From the DOS prompt:
-
- 1) Be sure you are in the WINMENU directory and type WIN WINMENU
- then press ENTER.
-
- To replace program manager:
- Make a backup of the file SYSTEM.INI found on your \WINDOWS directory.
- Use your favorite text editor to load the file SYSTEM.INI and modify
- the line that start with SHELL= to look like this:
-
- SHELL=N:\APPS\WINMENU\WINMENU.EXE
-
- Save the file!. The next time you run Windows, WINMENU will be
- displayed instead of the Program Manager. If you ever decide to
- restore the Program Manager, just modify the SHELL= line to look
- like SHELL=PROGMAN.EXE and save it. Or restore SYSTEM.INI with
- your backup copy.
-
- NOTE: Do not run winmenu.exe from the LOAD= or RUN= command in
- your WIN.INI file. Use the STARTUP group window instead.
-
- *************************************************************************
- Winmenu customers are amoung US and foreign companies as well as goverment
- agencies and universities. The product has gone through a number of version
- releases and has become a very stable and reliable program. Customer support
- is offered on a daily basis via Compuserve and Internet e-mail. Thanks for
- evaluating Winmenu!. Any ideas, comments, criticism and suggestions are
- welcomed and encouraged.
-
- You have license to test drive this program for 20 days. If you want
- to keep it, you must register. See ORDER.TXT for information.
-
- Note: A version with screens translated to GERMAN is available.
- A version for single computers (no network) is also available.
- Winmenu is constantly updated and upgrades are uploaded to
- Compuserve forums and FTPs. Please, send a note to the author
- to verify you have the latest version.
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