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======================================================================== Documentation for PIK version 1.20 Copyright (C) 1990 by Kenneth R. Casey, Jr. All Rights Reserved ======================================================================== CONTENTS PART 0.0 CHANGES FROM 1.10 PART 1.0 THE PITCH PART 2.0 INSTALLATION PART 3.0 PURPOSE PART 4.0 USAGE PART 5.0 THE SPELLBOUND! SHAREWARE CURSE... PART 6.0 REGISTRATION FORM PART 7.0 SUPPORT PART 0.0 CHANGES FROM 1.10 A single change was made to allow PIK to recognize filenames not displayed with DOS' justified format, such as under 4DOS. Previously PIK only recognized filenames in DOS justified format. JUSTIFIED -- PIK EXE UNJUSTIFIED -- PIK.EXE PIK now recognizes either of these formats. PART 1.0 THE PITCH SPELLBOUND! Software is a small company which produces shareware in many forms. We require that if you continue to use PIK after 5 days, you must send the small amount of $7.00 for its use. This registers you for all future updates of the program. To get the most recent version of the program when you register, send $15.00 to: SPELLBOUND! Software P.O. Box 158 Shepherd, MI 48883 Those who send $15.00 will also receive preregistered versions of the following SPELLBOUND! Products: BothSides -- Prints text files of ANY pagination scheme to BothSides of printer paper and optionally prints title and page number to bottom of each page. Normal Fee: $10.00 Floormat -- Fake C: Format prank. Many unique features make this the cruelest prank around. Allows you to leave a message to your victim and traps CTRL-ALT-DEL, substituting a reboot sequence of its own. Normal Fee: $5.00 There may not be available, a version later than the one you have! If you have a modem, you can call the Mainstream Computers BBS at 1-517-463- 8474. They will always have the very latest versions of all SPELLBOUND! Software products, and registration for the board is free and friendly! PART 2.0 INSTALLATION Installation of PIK is very simple. For best results, just copy the file, PIK.EXE into a directory which has been included in your PATH environment variable. The PATH environment variable is usually set when you boot your computer. There should be a line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file in the root directory of your boot drive which says something like: PATH C:\UTIL;C:\DOS. This is your path statement. In this case, you could copy the two files into C:\UTIL. This way, you could run PIK from anywhere on your system by just typing "PIK". In addition, you must also have the PKWare utility PKZIP.EXE in your PATH as well. PIK calls upon PKZIP.EXE to create the ZIP file when you marked files to be "zipped". PKZIP.EXE is available on almost all Bulletin Boards and from nearly every shareware distribution service. The most recent version as of this writing is PKZ110.EXE, which is a self-extracting ZIP format file containing all of PKWare's ZIP file utilities. ZIP files are files ending with the extension ".ZIP" which have been compressed by the utility PKZIP.EXE. This utility compresses files to an average of half their original size for storage or for transfer my modem. PART 3.0 PURPOSE PIK is a very useful utility which allows you to pick files from the standard DOS "DIR" display to mark for Deleting, Copying, Moving or Zipping into a Zip format compressed file. How many times have you typed "DIR" to examine the contents of a directory and seen several files which should be moved, deleted, or stored for later use in ZIP format. The commands necessary to accomplish the task could take some time. By typing "PIK", you can select the files upon which to perform the necessary operation right from the display left behind by the "DIR" command. Once the files have been marked, you just press ENTER and you are on your way to finishing the task! PART 4.0 USAGE SYNTAX: PIK [Option] ...where "Option" can be any of: COPY, MOVE, DEL, ERASE, ZIP. If "Option" is not specified, you will be asked to select an option when the program starts. To use the program, just type DIR and a filespec to display the files from which you wish to pick. You MUST be in the directory which contains the files displayed on the screen. For best performance, put PIK.EXE into a directory which is in your PATH so that it may be run from anywhere. PIK recognizes filenames displayed in normal justified format (ie. "PIK EXE" as well as the 4DOS default format, (ie. "PIK.EXE"). It will only recognize files in the first column when displaying using the "/W" command, however. Once the files have been displayed on the screen, just type PIK and press ENTER. You will see 3 lines of information appear at the bottom of the screen. Use the arrow keys to highlight the desired operation and press ENTER when the desired operation is highlighted. Now move the highlight bar over the file names, pressing the spacebar to mark the files upon which you wish to perform the selected operation. The program first checks to see if the file exists in the current directory before marking. On a floppy disk, this can be quite slow, but on a hard disk this will be instantaneous. Once all of the desired files have been marked, press ENTER to perform the DEL, COPY, MOVE or ZIP. If the files are to be deleted, you will be asked to confirm the deletion. If the files are to be MOVEd or COPYd, you will be asked to specify a destination directory. Do NOT specify the same directory, as while many precautions have been taken to prevent it, there is a chance that the original files will be corrupted. If ZIPping the files, you will be asked for a ZIP file name into which to compress the files, and then asked whether to [A]dd the files to the ZIP file or [M]ove them into it. (Moving deletes the files after successfully adding to the ZIP file. If the move was unsuccessful, the deletion will not occur.) As the files are processed, the right side of the screen will confirm the operation on each file. When deleting files, the first character of the filename will be changed to ASCII 229 "σ" which is the same character DOS uses to mark a file as deleted in the directory. This is a concession to a neurotic friend of SPELLBOUND! Software, Jim Olson, sysop of the Mainstream BBS. Neat huh? PART 5.0 THE SPELLBOUND! SHAREWARE CURSE... You are granted a limited license to use the program for 5 days. If after 5 days, you continue to use the program, you MUST register to continue to use it. If you do not register, you may give copies to friends and upload it to bulletin boards, but you must not continue to make use of the program. If you use the program and enjoy it, send the $5.00. If you fail to send the $5.00, you will fall into the snare of the SPELLBOUND! Software Super Duper New and Improved, All Purpose Shareware curse. When we at SPELLBOUND! decided to come up with our own curse, we looked in the yellow pages for a "medium". Although it seems like a contradiction in terms, they are very "rare", so we had to settle for a "Weldon". Weldon is not a medium -- but his rates were reasonable. (We think Weldon IS a little "Well done" due to forgetting to close the microwave door one too many times.) He agreed to do the job for mentioning his name in this documentation. This is what he was able to come up with... SPELLBOUND! Software's Super Duper, New and Improved, All Purpose Shareware Curse! by Weldon (He never said we had to mention his last name!) May... ...your pickup blow a head gasket, ...your toilet back up, ...your shrubbery turn brown, ...your boomerang not return ...your spouse become a Hare Krishna ...your dog mistake your leg for a hydrant ...your mother in law move in, permanently ...you develop the following maladies: prickly heat gingivitus the heartbreak of psoriasis halitosis irregularity painful warts And worst of all... May the most annoying man in America do a show from your livingroom on: "Users who secretly refuse to register shareware and the mothers who raised them. One person reveals the whole sordid story 'I refused to register PIK' -- next Geraldo" Can you imagine how cheaply we're letting you off? You could run up thousands of dollars in medical, psychiatric, plumbing, auto repair, dry cleaning, and dental costs, the legal costs of deprogramming your spouse... and BOOMERANG REPAIR! (Do you know how hard it is to find an HONEST boomerang repairman? Yet they keep getting return business?! I got so frustrated with ours I tried to throw it away. I gave up after 3 hours.) $5.00 can save you all this heartache! PART 6.0 REGISTRATION FORM Please complete and send the following form to register your purchase. No support can be offered unless you are registered with the author. Rates: 1 copy -- $7.00 2-10 copies $5.00 11-20 copies $4.00 20 and up $3.00 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Registration Form for PIK Version 1.20 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | Name:_________________________________________________________________ | | | | Address: _____________________________________________________________ | | | | City: _____________________________ State: ______ Zip: _____________ | | | | I am registering PIK for use on _____ computers. (See rate schedule above | | for pricing.) | | | | Please send the latest version available. (Enclose $15.00) | | Check: 3.5"_____ 5.25"_____ | | | | Michigan residents add 4% sales tax | | Total enclosed: ________ | | | | Send To: SPELLBOUND! Software | | P.O. Box 158 | | Shepherd, MI 48883 | | | | Your comments and suggestions are very much appreciated. | | | | Comments:______________________________________________________________ | | | | _______________________________________________________________________ | | | | _______________________________________________________________________ | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Send To: SPELLBOUND! Software P.O. Box 158 Shepherd, MI 48883 Do it BEFORE your spouse has to go to the airport, or Geraldo has another slow week! PART 7.0 SUPPORT Those who register PIK may receive telephone support. If you discover any undocumented "features" (bugs), please let us know. We may be contacted at: 1-(517)-828-6520 between the hours of 9:00 am and 5:00 pm. When you call, have the contents of AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, the names of any TSRs, (memory-resident programs) you may have in memory while running PIK. It would help if you had the program running and the phone near the computer so that we could talk through the problem.