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-
- DEMO VERSION OF
- APPLivations 1.0
- (c) STACK group, 1991.
-
-
- COPYRIGHT
- ---------
-
- You can distribute this demo package free of charge without any
- limitation provided the following three conditions are
- satisfied:
-
- 1. Demo version package is distributed as a whole in the form
- of self-extracting archive and no files excluded and no new
- files included in it.
-
- 2. No changes are made in the distribution files.
-
- 3. No fee is accepted by anybody for such a distribution.
-
-
- TRADEMARKS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- --------------------------
-
- IBM PC is the trademark of International Business Machines.
- MS DOS is the trademark of Microsoft Corp.
- Apple ][, Apple //+, Apple //e, Apple //gs, ProDOS, GS/OS
- are the trademarks of Apple Computers, Inc.
- AppleWorks is a trademark of Claris Corporation.
- WordPerfect is a trademark of WordPerfect Corp.
- dBase is the trademark of Ashton-Tate.
- Lotus 1-2-3 is a trademark of Lotus Development Corp.
- Teac is a trademark of Teac Corp.
- This program is written in Turbo C 2.0. Turbo C is the trademark
- of Borland International.
-
-
- DISTRIBUTION PACKAGE CONTENTS
- -----------------------------
-
- This demo version is distributed in the form of self-extracting
- archive APDEMO.EXE. The contents of the archive is:
-
- APPL.EXE ....... Demo program itself.
-
-
- AWP2TXT.COM ...... Converter from AppleWorks word processor to
- ASCII text files.
-
- TXT2AWP.COM ...... Converter from ASCII text file format to
- AppleWorks word processor.
-
- APDEMO.DOC ....... This file.
-
-
- QUESTIONS.DOC .... File with the answers to common questions.
-
-
- EXAMPLE1.AWP ...... File in AppleWorks word processor format
- for you to try converting it.
-
- EXAMPLE2.TXT ...... File in ASCII text format for your tests.
-
-
- HARDWARE & SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
- --------------------------------
-
- IBM PC or true compatible.
-
- MS DOS version 3.0 or higher.
-
- At least 128 Kbytes of free RAM.
-
- At least 1 floppy disk drive.
-
-
- INSTALLING & RUNNING
- --------------------
-
- You can install demo version on either hard or floppy disk.
- Hard disk installation is preferred for program runs smart.
-
- In order to install demo version on hard disk:
-
- 1. Create a directory on a hard disk ( with any name you like ).
-
- That is : if you hard disk is C type:
-
- C:
- MD \APDEMO
- CD \APDEMO
-
- If your hard disk is not C ( D for example ) type D: instead of C: .
-
- 2. Copy SFX archive APDEMO.EXE into this directory.
-
- That is : insert floppy with APDEMO in floppy drive ( assume it is A )
- and type:
-
- COPY A:APDEMO.EXE
- APDEMO
-
- If your floppy is not A ( B for example ) type B: instead of A: .
-
- 3. Run APDEMO.EXE.
-
- Type in the line:
- APDEMO
-
- Don't forget to press Enter after each line you type.
-
- 4. After archive is extracted run demo program.
-
- Type :
-
- APPL
-
- If you wish to install demo version on floppy disk:
-
- 1. Prepare a diskette with about 230 Kbytes free.
-
- 2. Copy demo archive to it.
-
- 3. Run self-extracting archive APDEMO.
-
- 4. After extracting is completed delete APDEMO.EXE to save
- diskette space.
-
- 5. Run APPL.EXE
-
-
- LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
- ------------------------
-
- STACK GROUP IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES CAUSED BY RUNNING
- DEMO VERSION UNDER NOT TRUE MS DOS OPERATING SYSTEM OR NOT
- IBM-COMPATIBLE HARDWARE. STACK GROUP WARRANTS APDEMO TO BE FREE
- OF TROJAN PROGRAMS O_N_L_Y IF THE COPY OF APDEMO IS OBTAINED
- DIRECTLY FROM STACK GROUP DEALER. STACK GROUP IS NOT RESPONSIBLE
- FOR ANY DAMAGES CAUSED BY TROJANS ATTACHED TO PROGRAM DURING THE
- DISTRIBUTION.
-
-
- USER FEEDBACK
- -------------
-
- Any questions, notes, advices, bug reports etc. please send via
- INTERNET email to the address
-
- vasya@stack.fian.msk.su ( preferred )
- or
- vasya%stack.fian.msk.su@fuug.fi
-
- with the words 'APPLications' in subject line.
-
- You can reach INTERNET from CompuServe, AppleLink, GEnie and
- other email networks easily.
-
- It is the fastest way to connect with the author. I shall answer
- you messages as fast as I can.
-
-
- FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
- ----------------------
-
- This is the demo version of APPLications 1.0. APPLications 1.0
- is a software to file conversions between popular Apple and IBM
- PC application programs: word processors, spread sheets and data
- bases. The following data formats supported:
-
- O Word processors
- o AppleWorks word processor on Apple // side.
- o ASCII text on Apple // side.
- o Word Perfect on IBM PC side.
- o ASCII text on IBM PC side.
-
- O Spread sheets
- o AppleWorks spread sheet on Apple // side.
- o Lotus 1-2-3 on IBM PC side.
-
- O Data bases
- o AppleWorks data base on Apple // side.
- o dBase on IBM PC side.
- o .DTF format on IBM PC side.
-
- If your favorite application is not present in this list it
- doesn't mean APPLications cannot help you. Most of applications
- have a possibility to import files in other formats so if your
- favorite word processor is not WordPerfect it surely can import
- ASCII text file. In the user manual of your application you can
- find out details required.
-
- In this demo you can try working yourself. You can feel yourself
- exactly as inside the real APPLications.
-
- The only difference is advertisement information and not
- supported file conversion formats except for the two: from
- AppleWorks word processor to ASCII text file and vice versa.
- Other formats you can set as current formats but you can't
- perform file conversion itself.
-
-
- CONTROL DESCRIPTION
- -------------------
-
- BASIC INFO
- ----------
-
- There are two panels on the screen when you work. In the left
- one you can see files of Apple // applications, in the right one
- - of MS DOS applications. Each panel shows the contents of some
- directory. The name of the directory you can see on the top line
- of the panel. Directory in the left panel may be the same as in
- the right one, or they may be different.
-
- Files which you see in the panel are filtered by their
- extensions so if a panel is empty it doesn't mean the directory
- it shows is empty too. It just means there are no files which
- have the correspondent extensions.
-
- There are three columns on the left side of the column with file
- name. They have titles : SIZE, DATE and TIME and tell size, date
- and time of the file.
-
- Files are shown in the lower case. If current directory contain
- subdirectories their names are shown in UPPER CASE with the
- words SUB-DIR in the SIZE column. If current directory is a
- subdirectory the way out is shown as '..' with the words UP-DIR
- in the SIZE column.
-
- There is a SELECTOR in one of the panels. It is CYAN bar which
- you can move up or down list of files using Up, Down arrows,
- Home, End, PgUp and PgDn keys. Up and Down keys move selector
- one item up or down; PgUp or PgDn move selector one screenful up
- or down; Home and End move selector to the beginning or end of
- list. Pressing Tab key you can toggle selector between the
- panels.
-
- If you press Ins key when selector is on a file name this file
- is highlighted and selector moves one item down. If you press
- selector on a highlighted file it 'unhighlighted'. You can
- select a group of files using Ins key and then perform some
- actions with this group as a whole ( convert them, delete, etc
- ).
-
- Files which are highlighted we shall call SELECTED FILES. File
- of directory entry on which selector resides we shall call
- CURRENT ITEM.
-
- Other actions which can be performed by the APPLications you can
- made using Function keys ( their quick help you see in the
- bottom line ), and Upper menu bar.
-
-
- FUNCTION KEYS
- -------------
-
- F1 ( HELP ) Pressing this key will get you to the help system.
- You will see the help menu. Using arrows you can select item
- you wish and press Enter then. Help screen will appear which
- will tell you some information. After reading this screen
- you can either select INDEX to get back to help menu or
- select CANCEL to leave help system.
-
- F2 ( INFO ) This key is specific to demo version. It tells about
- APPLications. The same info you can see when entering the
- demo version. It takes you to the INFO INDEX menu where you
- can select the item you wish to read info about.
-
- F3 ( AUTO ) This is demo key too. It starts auto-demo mode. In
- this mode you can see all the info appearing on the screen
- when entering demo. To exit auto-demo mode, press Esc.
-
- F4 ( GERMAN ) Tells where you have to connect in Germany you
- decided to have some deal with APPLications or Liberty Disk.
-
- F5 ( CONVRT ) If there are selected files in the current panel
- all these files are converted and appear in the other panel.
- They retain their names but get new extensions in accordance
- with the current file conversion formats. If there are no
- selected files and current item is the file this file is
- converted according to the current format. You can change
- the name of the file. If there are no selected files and
- current item is directory nothing happens.
-
- F6 ( MOVE ) The same as convert ( F5 ) but source file is
- deleted after the conversion.
-
- F7 ( MKDIR ) Asks for the directory name and creates a directory
- with this name.
-
- F8 ( DELETE ) If there are selected files in the current panel
- these files are deleted after you confirm this action. If
- there are no selected files and current item is a file the
- current item is deleted after you've confirmed this. If
- current item is empty subdirectory this subdirectory is
- deleted. Nothing happens otherwise.
-
- F9 ( PULLDN ) This is a way to the upper menu bar. To leave
- upper menu bar press Esc. Upper menu will be described
- further.
-
- F10 ( QUIT ) Quits APPLications.
-
-
- If you press Alt key the bottom line of the screen will change
- appearing and you'll see more functions.
-
- Alt-F1 ( LEFT ) Change drive for the left panel.
-
- Alt-F2 ( RIGHT ) Change drive for the right panel.
-
- Alt-F4 ( USA ) The same as F4 ( GERMAN ) but the info for USA is given.
-
- Alt-F6 ( RENAME ) Renames the current file or subdirectory.
-
-
- UPPER MENU BAR
- ----------------
-
- If you press F9 you get into the upper menu bar. There are four
- entries in it. One of the entries is highlighted. You can change
- highlighted entry by pressing left or right arrows. Press Enter
- to pull down the selected entry.
-
- In the pulled menu you can move highlighting to select some item
- with Up or Down arrows or change pulled menu by pressing Left or
- Right arrows. When you selected the entry you wish press enter.
- If you decided to leave upper menu press Esc.
-
-
- MENU ITEMS
- ----------
-
- APPLE ][ and MS DOS entries
- -----------------------------
-
- These entries are similar except for the first item.
-
- Apple -> MS DOS Here you can set the format you wish to use for
- or conversion from Apple to MS DOS or vice versa.
- MS DOS -> Apple When you select this item the dialog box appears.
- It shows two groups of files and an arrow. On
- the left hand you see SOURCE formats, on the
- right hand TARGET formats. One of source
- formats is highlighted. One or several of
- target formats are highlighted too. These are
- the formats you can select from.
-
- For example, if the source format is AppleWorks word
- processor there will be two target formats
- highlighted: Word Perfect and ASCII. It means
- that you can select either convert AppleWorks
- files to Word Perfect files or to ASCII text
- files. The arrow shows the current setting. To
- change it press Up or Down arrow.
-
- To select new source format press PgUp or PgDn.
-
- When you finished setting the formats desired
- press Enter. If want to quit and leave old
- settings press Esc.
-
- Change drive Changes the current drive for Apple ][ or MS DOS
- panel. It can be done without entering menu by
- pressing Alt-F1 or Alt-F2 for left or right
- panels, respectively.
-
- Re-read current Re-reads the current directory on the current
- drive. It can be useful if you work with
- floppies and have just inserted a new diskette
- in disk drive.
-
-
- FILES
- -----
-
- All you can do inside this entry can be done with function keys.
-
- Convert See F5 key description.
-
- Move See F6 key description.
-
- Select group You can select group of files using a mask with
- wildcards * and ? . Wildcards meaning is the same
- as in MS DOS. You can do it without entering upper
- menu by pressing + key. For example, if you want to
- delete all the files in the current directory you
- can press + , set mask *.* and press F8 then. It is
- more convenient then press F8 at each of the files
- in the directory or select them by pressing Ins.
-
- Unselect group Unselects group of files using a mask. Hot key for
- this action is -.
- For example, if there are a lot of files in directory and you
- want to delete them all except for .AWP files you
- can press +, set mask *.*, press -, set mask *.awp
- and press F8 then.
-
- Rename See Alt-F6 key description.
-
- Delete See F8 key description.
-
- Make directory See F7 key description.
-
- Quit See F10 key description.
-
-
- OPTIONS
- -------
-
- There is only one item there yet.
-
- Save setup Saves current setup. That is current directories and
- drives for both panels, current conversion
- formats. The next time APPLications will start it
- will read this file and start with these settings.
- The hot key for this action is Shift-F9.
-
-
-