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- Dear Customer :
-
- Thank you very much for purchasing Story Book Weaver.
- The following information was to late to be included in the
- User's Guide. Please take the time to read it.
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- To run Storybook Weaver, you need an IBM(r)/Tandy(r) or compatible with
- DOS 3.3 or higher and 640K or RAM. You also need a VGA or MCGA graphics
- card, a 256-color monitor, and a hard disk. A mouse is highly recommended.
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- Storybook Weaver supports AdLib(r), Sound Blaster(r), and compatible sound
- boards.
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- For printing, Storybook Weaver supports Epson(r) Series, IBM Proprinter(r)
- Series, IBM Laserprinter(r) Series, Tandy DMP, HP LaserJet(tm) Series II and
- III, and most monochrome and color 9-pin and 24-pin dot matrix graphic
- printers, inkjet printers, and laser printers.
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- VGA Monitors:
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- If Storybook Weaver does not recognize your VGA card when you start the
- program, try restarting it by typing SBW VGA at the DOS prompt. This
- will force the program to run in color VGA mode.
-
- Storybook Read-Only Engine:
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- Storybook Weaver has an option to save a story in "Read-Only" mode to
- playback at a later time. This unique feature allows users to save
- their story onto a floppy disk and send it to a friend to read.
- The story can then be read by anyone who has the required hardware.
- No additional program is necessary. Format a blank diskette and insert
- it into the drive. Create your story and select the "Save As" option
- from the "File Menu", choose A: or B: for the destination drive, and
- click the "Read-Only" radio button, type a filename and click the "Save"
- button. Once the story is saved to disk a message will ask if you want
- to save the appropriate files to the same subdirectory.
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- Answer "Yes" to this question the first time. It is not necessary to
- copy the files every time you save a Read Only story. To read a story
- follow these steps. Boot your computer and get to a DOS prompt, switch
- to the appropriate drive (A: or B:) Type the following command
- READER filename.SBR. (i.e. READER MYSTORY.SBR). When reading "Read Only"
- stories, users can only turn to the "Next Page", the "Previous Page"
- or "Quit". No editing is available in this mode.
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- How to free-up RAM memory:
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- Storybook Weaver program needs approximately 520 KB of free RAM memory
- to run. If you recieve a message that you do not have enough RAM
- memory to run the software, try disabling some TSR's that load into
- your computer's memory at the start-up time. Device drivers,
- memory managers, screen savers are typical Terminate-and-Stay-Resident (TSR)
- programs that load into RAM memory from CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files
- in the root directory and run in the background.
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- Some program functions such as copying of greatly enlarged objects,
- printing large stories with lots of pictures may also require more
- RAM memory in order to execute the operation. In these cases freeing
- up some additonal RAM memory will resolve the problem.
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- Remember, to start the program you need to be in the SBW subdirectoy and
- type SBW at the DOS prompt.
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- We hope you will enjoy Storybook Weaver .
-
- Sincerely,
- MECC
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